Bob Dylan's Christmas Album: He'll Sleigh You

Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2009 | Chris Richards

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Dylan was very much a war protester before his motocycle accident in the summer of 1966. That event and his long recuperation changed a lot of things about Dylan.

[scott says]

If Bob was protesting the war its not something that I have ever read in the many books about him.
Some of his early songs could be viewed as against the Viet Nam war but none are specifically about the war-—to my knowledge.
Masters of War perhaps, but I think that is about war in general......

Check out this article—you may or may not agree with it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/727xwxao.asp?pg=2

Heres another interetesting look at Dylan and Viet Nam—
worth a look.

http://www.rightwingbob.com/item/reason586.htm

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Before his accident Dylan was the face and voice of the counter culture, and at that time he didn't mind the title. Don't believe all the revisionism. His songs fueled the '60's and he liked his position of balladeer to the dawning rebellion. He cultivated it.

After his accident in 1966 and his year-long recuperation he drew inward and became more reclusive, eventually resenting the role of moral arbiter for his generation and the next one.

[P-Marlowe]

I just listened to that track and I have to agree with the reviewer.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This kind of revisionism is rampant. The other day I heard that "Harvard-educated" fool, Rachel Maddow, call the 1968 protests in Daley's Chicago "the student riots."

lol. What an idiot. There were student riots in France. In Chicago in 1968 it was a "police riot" where the Chicago cops over-reacted and beat the heck out of dozens of students. A government commission found the city, police force and Mayor Daley were responsible for the violence, and so dubbed the disturbances "The Chicago Police Riots."

History is written (and rewritten) by the the last man standing.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Lol. But the reviewer loved the album. I’m anxious to read his next autobiography. At least we won’t have to hear it.

[Citizen Soldier]

Oh, the old “I know you are but what am I?” argument response, Geez....... BTW Thank your son from me for his sacrifice in service to our country under trying times. God bless him and keep him safe from harm.

[don-o]

What I am is a appreciative listener of Dylan’s music who has made the effort to learn a bit about the man - as much as he deigns to reveal, both through the spoken word and his music.

What you are - your comments on the thread speak clearly to that.

[SoDak]

Messianic Jew, according to my understanding. He’s spoken at my wife’s old synagogue.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Just in time for Halloween!

[Tweeker]

Please tell me exactly what anti-war statements or demonstrations Dylan made or attended in the 60s?