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How a Bob Dylan Anthem Made Frank Zappa Want to Quit Music (Criticizes Counterculture)
Far Out Magazine ^ | THU 28TH APR 2022 | Tom Taylor

Posted on 04/29/2022 1:34:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/29/2022 1:34:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Nice. Thanks.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 1:43:21 PM PDT by moonhawk (Biden: Not my President. Fauci: not my doctor. Me: not their bitch. You:???)
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Interesting tidbit

But be wary of today’s rock mags — typically replete with Leftist tripe.


3 posted on 04/29/2022 1:45:26 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

I never found Bob Dylan to be all that great. I guess I just don’t get it.


4 posted on 04/29/2022 1:46:13 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: nickcarraway
when it was released in July 1965 Zappa was yet to release an official studio album and he would go on to unleash 62 of his own.

He may not have released an official studio album, but he had been recording. He had waxed some discs in a studio in Cucamonga, Calif., at the time a wide spot along Rte. 66 in the middle of the San Bernardino Valley's wine country.

The World's Greatest Sinner--Baby Ray & the Ferns (1963)

5 posted on 04/29/2022 1:47:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: nickcarraway

Dynamo hum bump.

5.56mm


6 posted on 04/29/2022 1:51:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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7 posted on 04/29/2022 1:55:39 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Such horrendous writing. My favorite is “achilleas heal.”


8 posted on 04/29/2022 1:55:46 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

It helps if your name is also Bob.


9 posted on 04/29/2022 1:57:36 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance)gg g)
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To: Bigg Red

Yes. That stopped me right there. I couldn’t read any more.

I don’t “get” Bob Dylan either.


10 posted on 04/29/2022 2:00:18 PM PDT by susannah59 ( )
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To: Bigg Red

I have never owned a record, album or a cassette of Dylan or Zappa. They were just not listenable. The same goes for the Greatful Dead. There was a lot of great music over the entire length of the the 20th Century. It was not by them. The best thing that Dylan ever accomplished was touring with others who were better.


11 posted on 04/29/2022 2:01:14 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: nickcarraway

The writer talks like he and Dylan and Zappa are members of a secret club which we can’t enter because we don’t know the code.

That song continues to irritate me to this day and I hope I never have to hear it again.


12 posted on 04/29/2022 2:03:18 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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While the track is revered as a masterpiece and is rightfully recognised as one of it not the greatest song of all time, it somehow only wound up only reaching 41 on the US Billboard end of year charts

There is music that is art, and there is music that sells. Very rarely have the two ever found a conjunction in the Venn diagram.

As Hermann Hesse put it, "Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."

13 posted on 04/29/2022 2:08:13 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

1962


14 posted on 04/29/2022 2:09:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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That song is a self-pitying adolescent whine. So lame. Why is it embraced? I can only guess that there are millions who think it represents something authentic, which they are too inarticulate to define and too feckless to pursue, which they sense is absent from their pointless existences. The song fairly begs for parody — as does its author.


15 posted on 04/29/2022 2:10:53 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Bigg Red

LOL. 🙂


16 posted on 04/29/2022 2:13:36 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: nickcarraway

Best version of the song is Hendrix’s at Monterey Pop IMO. He forgot the lyrics and skipped a verse but his R&B flavored rhythm guitar totally makes the song.


17 posted on 04/29/2022 2:14:06 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Jim Noble

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This one for killin
This one for fun

1968

8^)

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18 posted on 04/29/2022 2:15:31 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Bigg Red

Exactly.

crucifies the crux

Huh?


19 posted on 04/29/2022 2:16:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Got a chuckle from this:

As sinner he’s a winner
Honey, he’s no beginner


20 posted on 04/29/2022 2:16:56 PM PDT by Yardstick
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