[HenryLeeII]

I've known this about Dylan for a long time. The guy never protested the Vietnam War -- all his so-called "protest" albums were released pre '64. At about that time he saw that he was being adopted by the folksy hippie-dippy types and abruptly changed course with Bring it all Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited (1965). .....all-time rockers. He's always been a rebel.

Exactly! I was getting ready to ping you, then I read your reply above, agreed with it wholeheartedly, and started my response before seeing your name at the end of it.

His protest music was basically aimed at civil rights issues, and "Blowin' in the Wind" was recorded two years before the Gulf of Tonkin incident, so it could hardly be called an anti-Vietnam song. I love his response to a reporter who asked him what he's protesting against: "Whaddya got?"

[don-o]

The real kick in the tail was "Nashville Skyline."

Just boggled the fanatics who were expecting Dylan (and the Beatles) to be sending them messages via album.

[Tribune7]

Like A Rolling Stone is very much anti-hippie.

[Revolting cat!]

I love his response to a reporter who asked him what he's protesting against: "Whaddya got?"

Yowza! This quote is becoming like the claim by many that they let somebody else have a seat on Buddy Holly's ill fated airplane. It's been attributed to James Dean, Elvis Presley and now Bob Dylan? Actually it originated in the 1954 film The Wild One with Marlon Brando:

In perhaps the film's most memorable exchange, a girl asks the gang leader, "Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" Replies Brando with a world-weary sigh, "What've you got?" ... continued