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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That actually would explain some things. Ive seen him being interviewed where he said he didn’t know how he came to be the voice of a generation. He also says hes sure he didnt mean most of the thoughts attributed to him by commentators on the meanings of his lyrics. He also says he doesnt know what he was thinking about but hes sure it wasnt that.
“Looks like he’s pushing that ridiculous claim that one of the Secret Service agents shot him from within the car.”
What line are you referring to?
A long, long time ago Don McLean had a hit,
which brought him fame I did not get.
Now I think I'm going to try that for a while...
PS: Your epic was "Tangled up in Blue", Bob Dylan. I still love it.
He was just starting out when JFK was assassinated. He released his second album in 1963. He has been around nearly 60 years as a person performer.
Personally I like a lot of folk, rock and singer-Songwriters who came after Dylan including John Prine, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Van Morrison, Roger McGuinn and his 60s-70s band The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, John Haitt, Paul Simon and Townes Van Zandt among many others.
I believe there was a conspiracy, after the fact, to hide all the intelligence failures that allowed Communist Oswald to pull it off. He telegraphed his crime in many ways.
I appreciate thoughtful, detailed and rational discourse with anyone who disagrees with me.
Unfortunately, you fell far short of this.
I agree. Years ago I went to a training class in Richardson and one afternoon I went to see Dealey Plaza. I was very shocked to see how close up and compact the whole scenario actually was. Oswald could have popped a mite off of a flea with a peashooter. I stood there on the sidewalk and it looked like I could reach out and touch the window glass on the sixth floor.
Now zoom out to the sniper in Las Vegas who fired from the thirty second floor.
Even the controversy of Jack Ruby is not at all difficult to understand. He had policemen in his businesses constantly and they were his friends. He knew that he would be idolized and lauded by his friends and the nation if he killed the evil b_st_rd that murdered our President.
Oswald's motivation was textbook human nature too. He was enamored with Communism but was humiliated and rejected by the Soviets, so in a classic "I'll show them move" he killed the leader of the Free World Capitalists.
Showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.
Was there anything left that hadn’t ‘disappeared’.
I LOVE IT!
Never too late. You’d be surprised at how long people will wait to find out the truth.
Timing is everything.
You didn't used to tell the story. You used to emote the story in our mind's eye, in snapshot vignettes that wrenched our souls.
You might as well have pulled an Elton John and rewrote "Tangled up in Blue" with JFK swapped for Blue and called it "Tangled up in JFK" because that's what you have done to yourself with this drek.
Sorry, but the insane worship of the drug addicted whore monger just because he had good hair is bit much for my stomach. 19 minutes of it would have me doing a Linda Blair imitation.
“They cannot accept it.”
People can not accept a LIE no matter who is telling it. People that told it and kept perpetuating it need to be cut down.
TIMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me.
Me, especially one with such interesting lyrics.
It’s 17 minutes long.
Well I expect that extra minute to be well worth it.
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