Posted on 05/13/2011 5:39:33 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde
You have the Dylan ping list correct?
I’m surprised Bob bothered to comment on this non-story. Also surprised he used the word “gazillion”. I really enjoyed Love and Theft. And more recently I was addicted (and remain latently so) to “If You Ever Go to Houston”, co-written with Robert Hunter. Not sure he’s right about his audience not knowing his older material, though.
The only ones who really know his recent albums are all hard core older Dylan fans.
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I wouldn’t think he was a fan of Che’s. I assume it was all a 60’s revolutionary type deal, which Dylan never got in on to begin with.
Sadly, no. He loves Castro, too.
Mmm, he used them up till he squeezed them dry, then he moved on. His career was built by Communists, who ran the folk music morphing unto pop music movement/industry.
Can you show me any quote by Dylan that he loves Castro?
“The Chinese press did tout me as a sixties icon, however, and posted my picture all over the place with Joan Baez, Che Guevara, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The concert attendees probably wouldn’t have known about any of those people. Regardless, they responded enthusiastically to the songs on my last 4 or 5 records.”
That doesn’t come of like Dylan digs being lumped in with those people.
“They were young and my feeling was that they wouldn’t have known my early songs anyway.”
In other words, he didn’t want to play stuff that catered to the whole “down with authoritarian communism, up with kinder gentler communism”. As far as what the youth in China know as far as Dylan songs go, I guess it could be true. I am always amazed at how different musical trends go overseas as compared to the US.
Freegards
Ditto “If You ever go to Houston.” By far my favorite song on the album. For a while, I would listen to that, “High Water Rising” and Josh Turner’s version of “When I Paint my Masterpiece” repeatedly.
I have worked on a documentary he was in, I know members of his band. It’s how they all think. Except I wouldn’t call it thinking.
So no actual quote.
“Except I wouldn’t call it thinking.”
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Right.
It is not an intellectual exercise, or a careful consideration of facts based on personal reading of history.
It is called being “hip” and “cool”, man.
The Left consists largely of lazy practitioners of GroupThink. Step out of line and you will suffer the usual fascistic backlash.
Is that old, unreformed commie still around?
Don’t forget about Barry Goldwater, who there is an actual on the record quote of him liking.
You mean all of those people he wrote Positively 4th Street about?
So you were making it all up.
No, I was at the rehearsal, I was backstage with the musicians, I was at a dinner at someone’s house. Conversations were going on. They all love the “Cuban revolution”.
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