Dylan wanted to set fire to dropouts

Herald Sun ^ | 27th September 2004

[AmericanVictory]

I guess this means that he's going to vote for Dubya, since they've both left all that behind.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Sounds like a Republican to me.

[fat city]

Looks like Bob is still dishing out horses**t to the press.

[Liberty Valance]

"The big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece, spokesman, or even conscience of a generation. I felt like a piece of meat that someone had thrown to the dogs.

"I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of."

His LP "Infidels" is still one of my fav's. He apparently has as much praise for the press as we do here :o)

[cicero's_son]

This really shouldn't surprise anyone who has actually listened to his lyrics. I've always suspected that Dylan was a conservative--if not politically then at least culturally.

[fish hawk]

A lot of my friends were crazy about Dylan. Personally he can't sing a note. I always call him , "oh, you mean that singer that talks his songs?" The guy cant sing as good as Kris Kristofferson and Kris cant sing at all.

[dr_who_2]

Obviously he's doing it to fight the power and advance the course of the whole human race.

[kansas_goat_roper]

Larry Norman a voice of the 60's-70's on the Christian front also dreamed of house on a quite street too.

[bad company]

"I wanted to set fire to these people."

Howling laughter!

[elli1]

A lot of my friends were crazy about Dylan. Personally he can't sing a note.

For that matter, neither could Johnny Cash, but that didn't stop me from liking him either.

[Khurkris]

For many years Dylan drove a beat-up station wagon. He had a big mansion in Beverly Hills and used this to schlep around in and not draw attention to himself and his kids. When people noticed him and thought that just maybe this might be 'Bob Dylan' he would tell them that "No...I'm just a gardener here."

FWIW (for what its worth)...I think "Tangled Up in Blue" is one of the greatest songs ever written...and the Bela Fleck cover is my favorite...not that I don't like Dylans.

[fish hawk]

Cash had personality and charisma!

[orangelobster]

Soy Bomb

[Ichneumon]

He blames his anointment as "the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent" largely on the press who labelled him as the spokesman for a generation. "The big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece, spokesman, or even conscience of a generation. I felt like a piece of meat that someone had thrown to the dogs.

Delicious irony -- a major icon of the "counterculture revolution" was mostly just a big marketing gimmick.

[fat city]

""Roadmaps to our homestead must have been posted in all 50 states for gangs of dropouts and druggies."

Uh, Bob, you were a droput and a druggie. One thing you can bet on is that Dylan speaks not one word of truth to the press, who he despises.

[boop]

Dylan is NO conservative. How many songs has he written about criminals being "unjustly" incarcerated?

[Steely Tom]

He blames his anointment as "the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent..."

Those words make me hear his voice.

(steely)

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Hey, Mr. Tamborine Man-if you felt that way, then why didn't you say anything about it back then?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"SAVED" -- Bob Dylan

I was blinded by the devil
Born already ruined
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb
By His grace I have been touched
By His word I have been healed
By His hand I have been delivered
By His spirit I Have been sealed.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
Saved
And I'm so glad
Yes, I'm so glad
I'm so glad
So glad
I want to thank you, Lord
I just want to thank You Lord
Thank You Lord.


By his truth I can be upright
By his strength I do endure
By His power I've been lifted
In His love I am secure
He bought me with a price
Freed me from the pit
Full of emptiness and wrath
And the fire that burns in it.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
Saved
And I'm so glad
Yes, I'm so glad
I'm so glad
So glad
I want to thank you, Lord
I just want to thank You Lord
Thank You, Lord.
Nobody to rescue me
Nobody would dare
I was going down for the last time


But by His Mercy I've been spared
Not by works
But by faith in Him who called
For so long I've been hindered
For so long I've been stalled.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
By the blood of the lamb
Saved
Saved
And I'm so glad
Yes, I'm so glad
I'm so glad
So glad
I want to thank you, Lord
I just want to thank You Lord
Thank You, Lord.