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Posted on 05/13/2011 5:39:33 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde
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To: Mr. Blonde
Didn’t know that, thanks for telling me. Don’t quite see how it is relevant to a discussion about Dylan.
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posted on
05/13/2011 11:17:36 AM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Mr. Blonde
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posted on
05/13/2011 11:19:30 AM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
Dont quite see how it is relevant to a discussion about Dylan.
We are discussing what political icons Bob Dylan admires. You have said that he likes Che and Castro. To me that seems strange since he is on record saying his favorite politician was Barry Goldwater. That seems pretty relevant to a discussion about Dylan and his politics.
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posted on
05/13/2011 11:49:39 AM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Mr. Blonde
Sorry, misunderstood. I thought you were saying that there were statements from Goldwater admiring Castro.
What Dylan has said recently doesn't count for much against his career as one of the most prominent figures of counterculture. He has written so many songs against injustice, yet not one word for the enslaved nation that is our near neighbor. The silence is telling, in my opinion.
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posted on
05/13/2011 1:28:49 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
His career as a folk singer writing protest songs lasted all of about a year. Outside of Hurricane they are all on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 1963) and The Times They Are A’Changin’ (Jan. 1964). After that there was a marked turn away from political themes or songs about injustice within his music. I think that is often forgotten and it is strange since that work still overshadows his other work which is both much larger and much better.
His role as a countercultural icon wasn’t one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.
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posted on
05/13/2011 2:35:20 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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posted on
05/13/2011 2:57:40 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
To: Revolting cat!; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; ßuddaßudd; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; ...
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posted on
05/13/2011 2:58:10 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
To: Mr. Blonde
Tangled Up In Blue is the only song I can stomach from this guy.
But I give him credit for longevity.
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posted on
05/13/2011 3:09:48 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
To: kabumpo
So you are just making it up, we do know that Bob Dylan’s favorite politician in the 60s was Goldwater, but you, we don’t know anything about at all.
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posted on
05/13/2011 3:11:37 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
To: a fool in paradise
I guess the “Dylan can’t sing” line has worn off, and the latest is “Dylan is a blood thirsty Communist.”
To: Mr. Blonde
He was still an important counterculture icon, the way The Beatles were. Remember he did the Rolling Thunder tour with Baez in the late 1970s.
He may have stopped writing explicit protest songs, but he was still part of the Hollywood show business circuit.
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posted on
05/13/2011 4:03:52 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: ansel12
You can call me a liar all you want, but I was in the room on multiple occasions and I know what these people said and what they think. They are essentially permanent adolescents, high in reefer a lit of the time, and living in a fantasy world of being outlaw cowboys & Indians. From an uninformed, superficial, distant view, Castro fit(s) into that fantasy projection and they admire him, the way they admire Jesse James and Billy the Kid.
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posted on
05/13/2011 4:13:29 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
The vagueness of that childish post is very convincing that you are just making things up, which of course you are, you can’t just do that kind of thing here, go find a source that you can post.
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posted on
05/13/2011 5:55:37 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
To: ansel12
You seem bitter and envious that some jobs I have had have occasionally put me in the same room or within earshot of some well-known people. I guess next time I can secretly record their conversations on my cell phone to satisfy you.
All of those people are so far to the left, but none if them realize
it, just like fish don’t know they’re wet. Why is that so hard to believe?
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posted on
05/13/2011 6:27:57 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Mr. Blonde
“His role as a countercultural icon wasnt one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.”
Never at the anti-war marches, anyhow. I think he wanted to be Elvis, not Che. Some of that crappy folk crowd never forgave him for it, and at the time he was looked at as a traitor to the revolution when he embraced the rock.
Freegards
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posted on
05/13/2011 6:32:19 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: kabumpo
LOL, no I’m annoyed that a liar is trying to pass off fake information about a public figure on the internet.
Go get a source.
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posted on
05/13/2011 6:33:11 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
To: ansel12
I am the source.
Easy to prove me wrong: just show the denunciation, in speech, song, or deed, of the dictatorship in Cuba, ever, in the last 40 years.
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posted on
05/14/2011 10:50:37 AM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
You are worse off and more idiotic than you even appeared at first.
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posted on
05/14/2011 1:40:18 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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