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CALL OUT THE INSTIGATOR CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY HAIRRR



AND THEN SHE LOOKS ME IN THE EYEYEYEYEEEE SAYS WE GON LAST FOREVER MAN YOU KNOW I CAN'T BEGIN TO DOUBT IT

Bringin' it all back home though, you know we gotta stay on topic...

"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973)





Bob had a small role in the movie, and he wrote the soundtrack, which gave us Knockin' On Heaven's Door...



One of his best songs. Wish he'd had more screentime...

https://i.imgur.com/2IAfL1x.jpg

Cowboy Bob might have ended up being my favorite Bob.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKIN' ON KEVIN'S DOOR

Everybody's heard Bob Dylan's songs at one point or another in their lives, it's just a mega common thing. Of course I'd heard Bob Dylan before, but it wasn't til I was 15 or 16 that I started really diggin' what Bobby was puttin' down.

I was initially roped in by his good looks, and some of his most popular tunes in equal measure...







Eventually, I went so Bob crazy that I even made a Bob shrine.

It was a wooden keepsake box with a sailboat etched into the lid, kinda like this...

https://i.imgur.com/gFnDhb7.jpg

Mine was way prettier, but unfortunately it died in a fire. Anyway, I taped several printed out pictures of Bob inside the box and kept the "Greatest Hits" CD in it.

Over time, my Bob obsession waned. But about a year later, probably due to "I'm Not There" (2007) which was just coming out at the time, something incredible happened...



You'd be surprised how few Bob Dylan parodies are actually out there, at least at the time of writing. This one was made by The Post Show for the comedy website SuperDeluxe (Turner Broadcasting) in 2007.

It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen... in fact, it was the second best laugh I'd ever had in my life at that point.

The first best laugh I'd ever had was the "Elaine's Gold Medal Run to the Airport" scene from Seinfeld (S2 E12)...



I had seasons 1-3 on DVD and had seen this episode for the first time circa 2005.

These days, my Bob shrine is actually an army backpack in which I keep several CDs, books, as well as other bits and... bobs.

Before that time, I was more interested in The Beatles (particularly Sgt. Pepper and The White Album) and The Eagles. I actually slept with The Long Run under my pillow. It wasn't the first or last odd item I've slept with under my pillow, let me be very clear about that. Wasn't the first CD either. The first CD I ever kept under my pillow was one with a single song which had been recorded on our home studio equipment. The song had been made up on the fly by one of my biggest crushes of all time, a guy who was a very popular double bassist in my hometown. Sadly, the CD disappeared under unexplained circumstances that I'm still very perplexed by. But I still have the guitar he played it on... a headless Hohner G3T from the '80s. I digress.

I was big into The Beatles for a time... circa 2002 after Beatles 1 had been out for awhile, I got the CD from WalMart on sale. It was a strange time in my life and I needed a little comfort, so I kept the CD playing (at very low volume) on repeat while I slept. Not sure how long this went on, but I'm fairly certain that I was thoroughly brainwashed. However, I can honestly say... it cured whatever problem I was trying to fix.

Very strange...

0:37 "What the hell is this song about?" roflmfao.

1:22 lol, oops.

3:38 gotta love 17 year old shit-talkin' Bob.

God, those crowds were relentlessly fucking cruel. It's wild.

What's so odd about it is that they weren't wrong. He did need to go home.





2:02 "I don't wanna go nowhere no more. You end up crashing in a private airplane in the mountains of Tennessee, or Sicily. I don't know, I just wanna go home."

I guess this is why people claimed he faked his 1966 motorcycle crash for an excuse to take a break. It kind of makes sense, but I do think it actually happened.

One thing they're not wrong about is that the break saved his life, because he was totally going way overboard with the drugs during that '64-'66 era.

In his 2012 Rolling Stone interview, Bob talked about transfiguration...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus

A metamorphosis that goes soul deep.

Bottom line, Bob experienced some hardcore synchronicity and it lead him to believe that he's a "walk-in soul"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk-in_(concept)

The motorcycle accident that killed Hell's Angel Bobby Zimmerman in 1961 had a profound impact on his life after he read about it.

According to Bob, there were too many parallels between their lives for it to be coincidence.

I think we've all had these strange kind of experiences that lead us down these particularly 'woo-woo' avenues of thought. I don't think Bob's a walk-in, but I do think him believing that he could be one is totally relatable.

His changes to the lyrics in 1966 live performances of Ballad of a Thin Man are interesting...



5:19 in the studio version he says, "You should be made to wear earphones."



7:00 "You should be made to be carrying at all times a telephone."

It's pretty fucking weird that this is exactly what everyone does these days.

Constantly plugged into the matrix...

(01-27-2023, 12:26 AM)Chatwoman Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCrkOY5vDQ

@32 sec . ‘Visions of Johanna’ … that is so incredibly beautiful

Yeah, I thought so too. Can't honestly say I'd ever heard it before. It's crazy how many good songs he's made. It's just not typical at all. There are a lot I haven't heard.

The fact that he changes the lyrics in his live performances and basically never plays them the same way twice means that there are several versions of all these songs to listen to.

That's why there are so many "Bootleg" multi-disk collections...

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bootleg+bob+dylan

Seems like they started releasing their own bootleg catalogues as a response to all the concert recording that went on back in the day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan_...recordings

He's supposedly the most bootlegged artist of all time. There was one guy who became a "famous" bootlegger by going to all his concerts and recording them.

I guess the officially released versions are better quality or something. Not sure, I don't have any of those collections because most of it is available online.

Clearly Bob's people know how to cash the fuck in on pretty much every aspect of anything he's ever created... it's pretty damn brilliant.

I must say that there are many live versions of his songs which I find preferable to the studio recordings. I love the spontaneity and "imperfections" that can happen in live performances, gives it a lot more soul. Sometimes studio recordings are better though... for example, I'd never prefer a live version of Like a Rolling Stone to the album version.

Still not sure why his paintings aren't more widely available in coffee table book format. The only place to get them seems to be through one site... https://www.castlefineart.com/art/bob-dy...-book-2022

I think they should be discoverable and available for purchase on Amazon and his official website. It's linked on his website, but the link just goes to Castle Fine Art. I guess he has an exclusive deal with them.

Seems like he spends a lot of time painting these days, he's released a bunch of paintings in the past like 6 years.

I read somewhere that some of the paintings are from photos he's taken when he's traveling around, and he paints over them Andy Warhol style. Others are obviously hand drawn and painted.

This one is my favorite for obvious reasons...

https://www.castlefineart.com/art/bob-dy...tel-eureka

https://i.imgur.com/1suMRVq.jpg

*wink, nod*

https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/restless-farewell

3:32.

Quote:"One day we went to get something to eat before the show. Bob had left what I referred to as his 'vomit jacket' hanging on the coat rack in the dressing room. I had been trying to get him to wear something other than that revolting jacket which he loved with all his heart. I must have temporarily won because when we went for hamburgers, he was wearing something else.

When we got back, the jacket was gone. I felt terrible. Bob turned to me, screaming. His face was distorted and the veins were popping out and his eyes were brimmed with red.

Bob was fine at the rehearsal, and his part of the concert was stupendous. I made the remark that he ought to get mad more often because his performance had been even better than usual."

- Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With (paraphrased)

I'm gonna keep it 100% real... her controlling ass would have been the fuck out of my life right then. This was before they ever went on the legendary "Don't Look Back" tour. I think Bob was 23 at the time... I bet after that, he learned something about compromising his own style for another person.

I have articles of clothing and other items that I'm sure most people would consider in the same disfavorable way Joan saw Bob's jacket. Thing is, I like those items more than I like most people, so there's that.

Quote:When Britta is invited to join Dylan for a 1987 tour without their significant others, the inevitable starts to happen. Dylan seems more concerned with waiting until Jewish High Holy Days are over to make a move than with hurting his friend/employee's feelings.

"Without even entering me, Bob Dylan is the best lover in the world. Just feeling him rising and lowering on top of me, I can come a thousand times," she writes. "We wrestle ardently on his bed. His eyes embrace me. Even his earring softly strokes my cheek."

Yet, when it comes time to actually consummate, it's not clear when they do decide to commit. She talks of them being naked in bed together, and that they 'technically' did not consummate their relationship.

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/bizar...an-8364826
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Real-You-L...B0BNXG8RP7

TBH, I think this lady is kinda full of shit, but at the same time it's sort of a relatable scenario. Like, who hasn't been in a situation like that??

Regardless, this was how I felt reading the excerpt...



Don't get me wrong, I'd get it on with hotass '80s Bob too. But I generally hate intimate scenes, whether it's on screen or in the written word.

The Amazon reviews are hilarious...

Quote:If you ever want to find out what Dylan is like, check out his shopping habits. Every time he and Britta are out together, they stumble upon a shoe shop and they stop to gaze at what BOOTS are on offer. "Aww maaan," Dylan enthuses over a pair of women's white and silver boots, "Ya gotta get those, and get me a pair too." Or they might be ladies' crocodile boots, "AWW MAAAN, you gotta get,"... repeat ad infinitum. So Bob's got a thing about ladies' boots. Okay.

Honestly, Bob, fucking same. Only I'm kinda into men's boots. I mean, if the shoe fits, why not wear it?

So I wonder what Bob's gonna do when he gets too old to tour, but he's still alive?

By "too old" to tour, I just mean, what if he gets unsteady on his feet the older he gets and he has to use a walker??

Is Bob really gonna come out on stage with a walker?? I mean, hey, more power to him if he does. He can do what he wants.

But I just dunno... I feel like, at a certain point, you gotta weigh the benefits against the risks of it all.

If his voice gets weak over the years, you'd think he'd dial back and focus on something else as long as his mind is in working order and he's got another breath left in his body.

If he wanted to speak instead of sing, he could record things in the style of Theme Time Radio Hour.

At the end of the day, Bob Dylan is a writer. He's a poet who put his poems into song form...

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collect...-and-music

It's an ancient approach.

His writing is excellent, and I'd like to see more from him that isn't in poem/song form.

I mean, I'll settle for whatever he wants to put out. But his writing is very engaging...

Reading "Chronicles: Vol. 1" is engrossing, the way he shares memories and paints these scenes makes you feel like it's YOUR memory.

As long as he's at least able to write, there's no reason for him to ever stop creating.

If time permits, I'm sure he's got at least one or two more albums up his sleeve.

And that's all good...

But when it's not practical anymore, he should just focus on writing and releasing more books.

You know he's been sitting on a bunch of random writings over the years anyway, may as well release them.

If he doesn't write anything new (as in books or even just Q&As) then he could at least do that.

I mean, he's given us enough over the years, it's not like he owes anyone. He's been really generous.

But I can't imagine it'd be a good thing for somebody like Bob Dylan to retire, cuz as soon as you retire, you start dying.

The older you already are, the truer it is.