Posted on 09/27/2004 5:38:26 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
It's not easy being a counterculture icon - just ask Bob Dylan.
The unwitting voice of the Make Love, Not War Generation has written a memoir chronicling the agonies of fame, which include a plague of peaceniks so intrusive that he kept guns in his house and "wanted to set fire to these people."
In an excerpt from "Chronicles, Volume I" published in the current Newsweek, Dylan bemoans the consequences of writing "songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities."
"I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of," Dylan writes.
In fact, Dylan says he had two pistols and a rifle in his upstate Woodstock home to protect his family from his rowdiest fans.
His home was once a quiet refuge, but after his success, "road maps to our homestead must have been posted in all fifty states for gangs of dropouts."
"At first, it was merely the nomadic homeless making illegal entry - seemed harmless enough, but then rogue radicals looking for the Prince of Protest began to arrive - unaccountable-looking characters, gargoyle-looking gals, scarecrows, stragglers looking to party, raid the pantry," he writes.
"Not only that, but creeps thumping their boots across our roof could even take me to court if any of them fell off. This was so unsettling. I wanted to set fire to these people."
All he ever wanted was "a nine-to-five existence" - not to be some "Big Bubba of Rebellion."
"In my real life I got to do the things that I loved the best and that was all that mattered - the Little League games, birthday parties, taking my kids to school, camping trips, boating, rafting, canoeing, fishing," he writes.
But his genius for penning songs that spoke to a generation torn apart by the Vietnam War apparently turned him into "a scapegoat - someone to lead the charge against the Roman Empire."
For Dylan, 63, the soon-to-be-published book seems to mark the recovery from what he describes in Newsweek as a 25-year "downward spiral."
He spent three years writing this first installment, but says he didn't enjoy the process.
"I'm used to writing songs," he tells Newsweek, "and songs - I can fill 'em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book like this, you gotta tell the truth and it can't be misinterpreted."
hahaaa! :^D
I will bow to your expertise in literary criticism.
He's a Sufi. A bit different than what we typically think of when we hear "muslim," but muslim nonetheless.
LOL
The most underrated musician in the country.
woodie guthries daughter told of a young bob dylan showing up at her father's door like so many young dreamers did...
funny how dylan forgets he was in their shoes at one time...
could never get into him cause he was so hard to understand... figuratively and literally...
give me johnny cash's boy named sue or cocaine blues any day...
oh and my favorite...
delia... oh, delia...
delia all my life.
if i hadn't shot poor delia, i'd a had her for my wife.
delia's gone, one more round, delia's gone.
teeman
NEVER HAPPENED
I like his song the Mighty Quinn.
That's a Dylan song isn't it?
Listen to "Like a Rolling Stone", that sounds pretty anti-hippy to me, too.
I'm kind of a new fan. His new CD is very good. Looking forward to seeing him perform live this Friday.
The Dead would have had to be more libertarian though -- they were definitely into the freedom to choose drugs. I saw them in Louisville in 88 or 89 (?) and you could buy anything you wanted on the parking lot. The size of the bogey that went down the row I was sitting in woulda made Willie Nelson's eyes bug out. It's a whole different world. I'm glad I went and saw what it was like, just so I know, but man was it odd!!
As much as I love his own stuff, his true genius comes out when he is playing for other folks. You really should check out his work with Emmylou Harris. I would suggest the live record, Spyboy, for a good overview of what he can do with his various instruments.
Also, the "duet" record with Julie is very good.
I didn't like Dylan but then I worked on his CD-Rom...Highway 61 and realized he's one of the best songwriters of all time. For you to say his songs were devoid of meaning, you best look at them again...I think you will change your mind.
A Fool Such as I
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
A Satisfied Mind
Abandoned Love
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Ain't A-Gonna Grieve
Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One)
Ain't No More Cane
Alberta #1
Alberta #2
All Along the Watchtower
All I Really Want to Do
All Over You
All the Tired Horses
Angelina
Apple Suckling Tree
Are You Ready?
Arthur McBride
As I Went Out One Morning
B
Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Baby, Stop Crying
Ballad For A Friend
Ballad in Plain D
Ballad of a Thin Man
Ballad Of Donald White
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Band Of The Hand (It's Hell Time Man!)
Belle Isle
Bessie Smith
Big Yellow Taxi
Billy 1
Billy 4
Billy 7
Billy (Main Title Theme)
Black Crow Blues
Black Diamond Bay
Blackjack Davey
Blind Willie McTell
Blood in My Eyes
Blowin' in the Wind
Blue Moon
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Bob Dylan's Blues
Bob Dylan's Dream
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
Boots of Spanish Leather
Born in Time
Broke Down Engine
Brownsville Girl
Buckets of Rain
Bunkhouse Theme
Bye and Bye
C
California
Call Letter Blues
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Wait
Canadee-i-o
Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)
Caribbean Wind
Cat's in the Well
Catfish
Changing of the Guards
Chimes of Freedom
Clean-Cut Kid
Clothes Line Saga
Cold Irons Bound
Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)
Copper Kettle
Corrina, Corrina
Country Pie
Covenant Woman
Cry A While
D
Dark Eyes
Day of the Locusts
Days of 49
Dead Man, Dead Man
Dear Landlord
Death is Not the End
Delia
Denise
Desolation Row
Diamond Joe
Dignity
Dirge
Dirt Road Blues
Disease of Conceit
Do Right to Me Baby
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Don't Ya Tell Henry
Down Along the Cove
Down in the Flood
Down the Highway
Drifter's Escape
Driftin' Too Far from Shore
Dusty Old Fairgrounds
E
Early Mornin' Rain
Emotionally Yours
Endless Highway
Eternal Circle
Every Grain of Sand
Everything is Broken
F
Farewell
Farewell Angelina
Father of Night
Final Theme
Fixin' to Die
Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Foot of Pride
Forever Young
Frankie & Albert
Freight Train Blues
Froggie Went a Courtin'
From a Buick 6
G
Gates of Eden
George Jackson
Get Your Rocks Off!
Girl of the North Country
Go 'Way Little Boy
God Knows
Goin' to Acapulco
Going, Going, Gone
Golden Loom
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Gospel Plow
Got My Mind Made Up
Gotta Serve Somebody
Gotta Travel On
Guess I'm Doin' Fine
Gypsy Lou
H
Had a Dream About You, Baby
Handy Dandy
Hard Times
Hard Times in New York Town
Hazel
He Was a Friend of Mine
Heart of Mine
Heartland
Hero Blues
High Water (for Charley Patton)
Highlands
Highway 51 Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
Honest With Me
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
House Carpenter
House of the Rising Sun
Hurricane
I
I Am a Lonesome Hobo
I and I
I Believe in You
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Shall Be Free
I Shall Be Free No.10
I Shall Be Released
I Threw It All Away
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Want You
I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
I'd Have You Any Time
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Remember You
Idiot Wind
If Dogs Run Free
If I Don't Be There By Morning
If Not for You
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
If You See Her, Say Hello
In My Time of Dyin'
In Search of Little Sadie
In the Garden
In the Summertime
Introduction by Kris Kristofferson
Is Your Love in Vain?
Isis
It Ain't Me, Babe
It Hurts Me Too
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
J
Jack-A-Roe
Jet Pilot
Jim Jones
Joey
John Brown
John Wesley Harding
Jokerman
Just Like a Woman
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
K
Katie's Been Gone
Kingsport Town
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
L
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay, Lady, Lay
Legionnaire's Disease
Lenny Bruce
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Let It Be Me
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Let's Keep It Between Us
Let's Stick Together
License to Kill
Like a Rolling Stone
Lily of the West
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Little Maggie
Little Sadie
Living the Blues
Lo and Behold!
Lone Pilgrim
Lonesome Day Blues
Long Ago, Far Away
Long Time Gone
Long-Distance Operator
Lord Protect My Child
Love Henry
Love Is Just A Four-letter Word
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Love Sick
M
Maggie's Farm
Make You Feel My Love
Mama, You Been on My Mind
Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Man in the Long Black Coat
Man of Constant Sorrow
Man of Peace
Man on the Street
Mary Ann
Masters of War
Maybe Someday
Meet Me in the Morning
Million Dollar Bash
Million Miles
Minstrel Boy
Mississippi
Mixed Up Confusion
Money Blues
Moonlight
Moonshiner
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Most of the Time
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Mozambique
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Tambourine Man
My Back Pages
N
Nashville Skyline Rag
Need a Woman
Neighborhood Bully
Never Gonna Be the Same Again
Never Say Goodbye
New Morning
New Pony
Night After Night
Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
No More Auction Block
No Time to Think
Nobody 'Cept You
North Country Blues
Not Dark Yet
Nothing was Delivered
O
Obviously Five Believers
Odds and Ends
Oh, Sister
On a Night Like This
On the Road Again
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
One More Night
One More Weekend
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
One Too Many Mornings
Only a Hobo
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Open the Door, Homer
Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
Outlaw Blues
Oxford Town
P
Paths of Victory
Peggy Day
Percy's Song
Playboys and Playgirls
Please, Mrs. Henry
Pledging My Time
Po' Boy
Political World
Poor Boy Blues
Positively 4th Street
Precious Angel
Precious Memories
Pressing On
Pretty Peggy-O
Property of Jesus
Q
Queen Jane Approximately
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Quit Your Low Down Ways
R
Ragged & Dirty
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Rambling, Gambling Willie
Rank Strangers to Me
Restless Farewell
Ring Them Bells
Rita May
River Theme
Rocks and Gravel
Romance in Durango
Ruben Remus
S
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Sally Sue Brown
Santa Fe
Sara
Sarah Jane
Saved
Saving Grace
See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Seeing the Real You at Last
Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Series of Dreams
Seven Curses
Seven Days
She Belongs to Me
She's Your Lover Now
Shelter from the Storm
Shenandoah
Shooting Star
Shot of Love
Sign Language
Sign On The Cross
Sign on the Window
Silent Weekend
Silvio
Simple Twist of Fate
Sittin' on Top of the World
Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence
Slow Train
Solid Rock
Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart
Something There is About You
Something's Burning, Baby
Song to Woody
Spanish Harlem Incident
Spanish is the Loving Tongue
Stack A Lee
Stage Fright
Standing In The Doorway
Standing On The Highway
Steel Bars
Step It Up And Go
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Sugar Baby
Summer Days
Suze (The Cough Song)
Sweetheart Like You
T
T.V. Talkin' Song
Take a Message to Mary
Take Me as I Am
Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Talkin' World War III Blues
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Talking New York
Tangled Up in Blue
Tears of Rage
Tell Me
Tell Me, Momma
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Temporary Like Achilles
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
The Boxer
The Death Of Emmett Till
The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Man in Me
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Shape I'm In
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Wandering Kind
The Weight
The Wicked Messenger
They Killed Him
Things Have Changed
This Wheel's on Fire
Three Angels
Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Til I Fell In Love With You
Time Passes Slowly
Tiny Montgomery
To Be Alone with You
To Ramona
Tombstone Blues
Tomorrow is a Long Time
Tomorrow Night
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Too Much of Nothing
Tough Mama
Train A-Travelin'
Trouble
Trouble In Mind
True Love Tends to Forget
Trust Yourself
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Turkey Chase
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Two Soldiers
U
Ugliest Girl in the World
Unbelievable
Under the Red Sky
Under Your Spell
Union Sundown
Up on Cripple Creek
Up to Me
V
Visions of Johanna
W
Walk Out In The Rain
Walkin' Down the Line
Wallflower
Walls of Red Wing
Wanted Man
Watching the River Flow
Watered Down Love
We Better Talk This Over
Wedding Song
Went to See the Gypsy
What Can I Do For You?
What Good Am I?
What Was It You Wanted?
Whatcha Gonna Do
When Did You Leave Heaven?
When He Returns
When I Paint My Masterpiece
When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
When the Ship Comes In
When You Awake
When You Gonna Wake Up?
Where Are You Tonight?
Where Teardrops Fall
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Wiggle Wiggle
Wigwam
Winterlude
With God on Our Side
Woogie Boogie
World Gone Wrong
Worried Blues
Y
Yazoo Street Scandal
Ye Shall Be Changed
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
You Angel You
You Changed My Life
You Wanna Ramble
You're a Big Girl Now
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You're Gonna Quit Me
You're No Good
My Buddy collection consists of his new one, Cruel Moon and the duet CD with Julie, which is one of my favorite CDs.
Uh, what is your point in posting all the song titles?
Many songs Dylan wrote were made famous by other artists covering him. I thought I'd list them for everyone. Got a problem with that?
Who covered Wiggle Wiggle?
Got to see him this summer with the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. Very sweet to see him playing with Emmylou, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and Patty Griffin. It was really a shame Julie didn't make it out with him. She frequently makes it to his appearances here, since it is relatively close to home.
He makes everyone he plays behind sound better.
the teletubbies.
HA
One more off topic bit - for some reason, whenever I am trying to describe his sound to those who haven't heard him, the word "gutbucket" keeps coming to mind.
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