The Last Temptation of Dylan- Watching the new documentary.

slate ^ | Posted Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 | David Yaffe

[mysterio]

I was a 20 something who listened to Dylan until I turned 30 this year. My friends range generally from about 19 to 35. Almost all of them listen to Dylan. I even got my band to cover a Dylan tune. Young people still know it and love it. So WCF's comment about it only being relevent to aging baby boomers is false.

Ps. Please don't turn me in to ASCAP for covering the tune. Thanks.

[StockAyatollah]

Dylan: Mediocre talent, Unknown to anyone but aging hippies

[texasbluebell]

I saw this documentary and developed a STRANGE NEW RESPECT for Bob Dylan.

Same here. I had not known previously that he was so apolitical, just assumed he was a leftist like all the others, because for all those years I was pretty apolitical myself and paid no attention to the left-wingnuts.

An interesting tidbit that came out in this documentary was that BD said he wanted to go to a military school (he said West Point, but that he could never have gotten in) and maybe die in a far-off land as a soldier. What a shocker coming from someone who I thought was a leftist revolutionary.

Good for Bob that he refused to be a pawn in the left's game.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Slow Train" is a classic.

Check out the live performance of that tune from the 1980 tour.

And here's Saved for an encore.