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Great post on Radio Silence Lefty. Thanks.
Well, tonight I’ll be listening only to Bob at the boat dock in Queenston, ON directly across the Niagara River in Lewiston, NY at Artpark.(ten minutes from my home)
The mainsage open air theatre has a capacity of 2,500 inside and an additional 2,000 on the lawn.
Tickets for the lawn were only $40.00 and the whole event sold out so fast in mid-July that I was too late.
The sound carrys extremely well across the river so it should be a nice tailgate party.
Saw my first Lu gig there for free back in ’07.
Tickets for Bob in Toronto in Nov. go on sale in a few days but are up to $140.00
A link to Artpark.
http://www.artpark.net/artpark-special-events-bob-dylanlwj
Bob gets something off his chest…excerpted from interview in Sept 14 issue of Rolling Stone:
Q: I want to ask about the controversy over your quotations in your songs from the works of other writers, such as Japanese author Junichi Saga’s Confessions of a Yakuza, and the Civil War poetry of Henry Timrod. In folk and jazz, quotation is a rich and enriching tradition, but some critics say that you didn’t cite your sources clearly. What’s your response to those kinds of charges?
A: Oh, yeah, in folk and jazz, quotation is a rich and enriching tradition. That certainly is true. It’s true for everybody, but me. There are different rules for me. And as far as Henry Timrod is concerned, have you even heard of him? Who’s been reading him lately? And who’s pushed him to the forefront? Who’s been making you read him? And ask his descendants what they think of the hoopla. And if you think it’s so easy to quote him and it can help your work, do it yourself and see how far you can get. Wussies and pussies complain about that stuff. It’s an old thing – it’s part of the tradition. It goes way back. These are the same people that tried to pin the name Judas on me. Judas, the most hated name in human history! If you think you’ve been called a bad name, try to work your way out from under that. Yeah, and for what? For playing an electric guitar? As if that is in some kind of way equitable to betraying our Lord and delivering him up to be crucified. All those evil motherfuckers can rot in hell.
Q: Seriously?
I’m working within my art form. It’s that simple. I work within the rules and limitations of it. There are authoritarian figures that can explain that kind of art form better to you than I can. It’s called songwriting. It has to do with melody and rhythm, and then after that, anything goes. You make everything yours. We all do it.
Me: I have not listened to “Tempest” in its entirety, yet. Truly hope I’m wrong, but I do not have a good feeling about Bob’s latest effort. With that said, he owes us nothing more.
Whoa. I just got my copy today. The reviews I have read say the songs are great and his voice has never been worse.
@tonyg wrote:
Whoa. I just got my copy today. The reviews I have read say the songs are great and his voice has never been worse.
You always make me 😆
http://www.kpfk.org/programs/88-four-oclock-wednesdays-with-jon-wiener/6422-jon-wiener-with-greil-marcus-talks-about-bob-dylans-new-album-qtempestq.html
Excellent interview with Greil Marcus, re: Bob & “Tempest”…
“He sounds like himself. He sounds sly, as he’s always sounded. He sounds as if there is a twinkle in his eye; as if there’s a joke that he’s letting you in on maybe about halfway, and you’ll have to find your way to the end of the joke by yourself.”
“…there’s been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan’s records — maybe except for the Christmas record — since 2001, since “Love and Theft. I wouldn’t speculate where this comes from, what it’s about, if it’s simply a theme that he’s pursuing in an utterly aesthetic way or what. But, it’s been there a long time.”
I do agree with GM that “Long and Wasted Years” is one of the better tracks on the album.
“Don’t let that scare you. It’s just Halloween. I have my Bob Dylan mask on…I’m masquerading!”
(Philharmonic Hall concert/October 31, 1964)In Halloween posts from prior years, I’ve stated that Bob said this at Carnegie Hall — wrong! 😳
http://www.examiner.com/article/time-out-of-mind-guitarist-duke-robillard-to-join-bob-dylan-s-touring-band
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-dylan-s-fiscal-cliff-and-the-50th-anniversary-copyright-extension-box-set
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears,” as Bob once wrote.
A lengthy and great article from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Forever Bob.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/188086421.htmllwj
40+ year photo of Bob Dylan by Harry Sandler [was Mellencamp’s tour manager for many years and a great photographer]. He’s rolling out an updated website/blog/gallery and this one was just posted a few days ago.
http://harrysandler.com/2013/02/802/
I did a little research Lafayette on the photo you just posted.
Bob and Dave Van Ronk at the Friends of Chile concert on May 9, 1974 at Madison Square Gardens.
http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.ca/2009/09/friends-of-chile-benefit-1974-05-09-new.htmlAnd let’s turn the clock back even further to Sep. 6, 1961 at the Gaslight Cafe in NYC with Bob and Dave Van Ronk performing Woody Guthrie’s “Car Car” This apparently was one of Bob’s earliest tapes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVUCZQyWwEM
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