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To: frank ballenger

I could give you my whole theory about how Dylan inadvertently and unintentionally brought about the co-opting of rock and roll culture by the Left, who started out hating rock music in the late 50’s and early 60’s.

The Commie folkies, like Pete Seeger, hated the early rock of Chuck Berry and Elvis, because they correctly understood that rock and roll was a by product of American post war prosperity and the emerging suburban teenage culture. Chuck Berry wrote songs that celebrated this new culture, while Seeger mocked it with songs like “Little Boxes”.

Dylan got into folk music because he loved all forms of American music, and fancied himself as a poet, but he loved early rock music too. Once he became the king of the Commie folkie crowd, more pressure was put on him to be a political activist. He resented this, and after digging the Beatles and the Stones, he decided to go electric.

His electric stuff combined the earthy music of the American heartland with the intellectual lyrics of the Ivory tower. The Beatles and the Stones, and other rock songwriters were blown away and completely intimidated by his lyrical prowess. So they all started writing songs with “meaningful lyrics”, thus opening up the door for an electric version of Joan Baez’s scolding sermons about society’s ills.

In the mid 60’s, the kids who were getting a kick out of pissing off their parents by growing their hair long and listening to Get Off My Cloud were basically rebels without a cause. But once Dylan went electric, and other rock artists wanted to follow suit by writing songs with more serious subject matter, the Commie folkies saw an opportunity to turn these kids into committed Leftists.

And the end result was Dylan fleeing Woodstock to escape the hippies.

The biggest mistake Conservatives made was to assist the Commie folkies by turning their backs on rock and roll, because they didn’t like long haired, pot smoking hippies, and allowing the Left to claim it as their own.

I happen to believe that the main reason that Jann Wenner started Rolling Stone magazine was to rewrite rock and roll history, and convince people that the true spiritual home of rock and roll is not the Bible Belt, where it was invented by patriotic and religious performers, but rather, at the intersections of Haight/Ashbury in San Francisco, and Bleecker/MacDougal in New York’s Greenwich Village.

I’m a proud pot smoking, rock and rolling, hardcore Conservative.


67 posted on 11/02/2018 11:02:09 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: The Fop

Terrific fact-filled post on Bob Dylan. I can see we have a lot in common from your earlier posts including a form of humor in which we exaggerate while sounding serious and then say something like the Portland victim will be charged with breaking a new law for improperly calling the group a mob.

I wonder if you liked Terry Southern?

Anyway, you have some original thinking that patriotic and religious performers (Elvis....)started rock and roll. True, including BB King and others who had gospel and Bible reference songs before turning to the devil’s music of the blues as their parents warned them against. But BB King, Elvis and Pat Boone types were always pro-American and thankful for this country. Try looking for that with Katy Perry types.
Loved your post.


70 posted on 11/02/2018 4:10:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger ("End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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