Posted on 03/28/2020 8:07:09 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...As the clock struck midnight on the east coast Friday morning, Dylan released a new song, “Murder Most Foul,” that has a 16:57 running time — and it’s an epic free association on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy...In the song’s view, the killing of JFK, “right there in front of everyone’s eyes,” is the “greatest magic trick” — and one he presumably thinks has some relevance in 2020.
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Yep. That was in 2018.
“The president said he was ordering agencies to “re-review each of the redactions over the next three years,” and set a deadline for further release of documents of October 26, 2021.”
https://www.history.com/news/final-jfk-files-assassination-documents-release
On December 13, 1963, Bob Dylan received the Tom Paine award at a Bill of Rights dinner held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in New York. At this dinner he held a very uptight and confused speech saying things like
"... I got to admit that the man who shot President Kennedy, Lee Oswald,
... I got to admit that I, too - saw something of myself in him ... "
This was less than a month after the assassination.
Dylan has always been a folkie - he just added electric instruments to “change” the sound. He never grew musically.
Joni Mitchell, while starting in folk like Dylan, evolved with more complex structured writings - from pop/rock, avantgarde pop, jazz and a touch of blues .
She recorded with some VERY highly acclaimed musicians - Larry Carlton, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Charles Mingus, etc which is something Dylan never could do - and that speaks to how highly respected/revered JM was received in the industry.
“Weird timing.”
Kennedy’s assassination was the “where were you?” moment
for the Boomers as 9/11 was for the Millenials.
CV epidemic will replace all that spectator
participation. This won’t be a tv only affair.
I've been listening a lot to the cover album of BOTT by a group called Mary Lee's Corvette.
I will eventually give the new 16-minute song a listen.
Communist or socialist? Or both.
Agree
The only 17 minute song I would listen to involves Officer Obie and twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of
each one explainin’ what each one was.
I’m pretty sure that was a “Camelot” reference.
Meanwhile the lie that America killed Kennedy and that we each of us should bear a share of blame for his death, was planted like a tree within a day or two from the day of the shooting. This of course eventually morphed into “racist southern conservatives” killed Kennedy. Thus was completed the “switcheroo”.
The Kennedy assassination was performed by a guy who’d fallen as hard as one can fall for the siren song of Soviet-style international socialism. The latter has always deserved heavy critical scrutiny. Never received it.
I’m sooooo ashamed. Master Blaster came out five years after Mozambique- both all the same shite— the Soviet “Africa Plan”, managed from Detroitistan and the Dylan march to utter irrelevance. Fact is... do. not. care- none of this has anything to do with real music, and everything to do about loser politics that cost the US a generation, and is trying to cost us another one! Stevie lost it a long time ago, is now doing the same thing every other “who the hell is that?” generationally forgotten dem front/entertainer nobodies do— gone left politics for a living. Absolutely appalling the Nobel Prize for “Literature” awarded to Bob Zimmerman— the People’s Poet of irrelevance. And now this 17 minute pablum for Biden... yes, Biden the credit card hustling loan shark, coke head and thief— right up there with Dylan’s superbowl Chrysler “ad”.
Come to think of it- Would rather listen to 3 hours of Fidel Castro’s speeches- you know, helping the “black man” to remain on his communist plantation the Hollywood Left.... loves. Sheltering Chesimard, excuse me Assata Shakur,. See: obamaumao’s “wave dance” with Raul Castro at a baseball game, and his attendance (and don’t leave out Christiane Amanpour, the rockn’roll Leftie groupie coke whore of CNN) at the highly relevant Rolling Stones concert in Havana—— talk about irrelevance! A concert for the foreign legations in Havana since not one Cuban “worker” could afford a ticket which the US taxpayers subsidized (white english a@@clowns pretending to be “blues men” w/ white powder on hand for obi-wan and company). Sitting near by— Penny Pritzker (bammy’s sec. of commercere and graft) and her brother “J.B.” (chi-town’s current mayor) salivating over the real estate they might have been able to steal from Communist victim Cuban refugee families, if only hitlery had made it in! Haiti, part 2.
It’s all of a same skein, FRiend— all of it corrupting people making a liar of a formerly great musician, and propping up a liar who always was a irrelevant greedy fraud.
Lily,Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts is a classic.
I love the Animals album...4 songs all great.
Ha! You didn’t say Bob Dylan. That’s dismissive of him and displays your coolness.
Go cultural ignorance!
I can’t ignore it either. Maybe later.
That is a laughable post.
Based on the facts I posted, your post is pure lunacy.
I agree..the passing of America and a eulogy to the music that was popular at the time. The music sparks memories.
I was never a Dylan fan, but I did like this one. Th e timing was perfect. Yes, he sounds like the old man that he is. Reminded me of Leonard Cohen.
I met and knew him as Bobby Zimmerman, in 1961-62, in Chicago, as a session/studio musician in Old Town, selling us oz’s of pot for $8.
One of my friends had an apt in Old Town, and a few of us would cut classes for the day at Mt Prospect HS, next to Arlington Heights, where I lived with my family, go there and drink and do some smoke. He’d stop by w/ his guitar case and some pot. We were bad back then. LOL.
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