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Dylan fans?
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Ron Nasty said
I have the feeling ET may have been listening to pretty much what you may have been listening to. I have the feeling you might have both got hold of the same material from the same source, @sir walter raleigh.

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CD2, Track 5 looks interesting “As I Write this letter…”a-hard-days-night-paul-8

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Fascinating interview with Bob by Bill Flanagan published on Bob’s website yesterday. Obviously done to promote the release of Triplicate, it is a wide-ranging conversation about the history of music across the 20th Century, alongside Bob’s approach to recording and performing.

Here, for instance, he responds to Flanagan’s question, “As a kid, did rock and roll feel like a new thing to you or an extension of what was already going on?” with this fascinating, and beautifully phrased, analysis:

Rock and roll was indeed an extension of what was going on – the big swinging bands – Ray Noble, Will Bradley, Glenn Miller, I listened to that music before I heard Elvis Presley. But rock and roll was high energy, explosive and cut down. It was skeleton music, came out of the darkness and rode in on the atom bomb and the artists were star headed like mystical Gods. Rhythm and blues, country and western, bluegrass and gospel were always there – but it was compartmentalized – it was great but it wasn’t dangerous. Rock and roll was a dangerous weapon, chrome plated, it exploded like the speed of light, it reflected the times, especially the presence of the atomic bomb which had preceded it by several years. Back then people feared the end of time. The big showdown between capitalism and communism was on the horizon. Rock and roll made you oblivious to the fear, busted down the barriers that race and religion, ideologies put up. We lived under a death cloud; the air was radioactive. There was no tomorrow, any day it could all be over, life was cheap. That was the feeling at the time and I’m not exaggerating. Doo-wop was the counterpart to rock and roll. Songs like In the Still of the Night, Earth Angel, Thousand Miles Away, those songs balanced things out, they were heartfelt and melancholy for a world that didn’t seem to have a heart. The doo-wop groups might have been an extension, too, of the Ink Spots and gospel music, but it didn’t matter; that was brand new too. Groups like the Five Satins and the Meadowlarks seemed to be singing from some imaginary street corner down the block. Jerry Lee Lewis came in like a streaking comet from some far away galaxy. Rock and roll was atomic powered, all zoom and doom. It didn’t seem like an extension of anything but it probably was.

A great interview from someone who rarely gives them.

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Elvis was a big Ink Spots fan.

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This new Dylan triple CD is really good. It’s relaxing.

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I’ve had two listen throughs so far. Incredible sympathetic and knowing vocals.

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The album has a magical quality. I love the resonance of his voice. I think I’ll be playing it often.

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I can only hear the sampler on Spotify, but I like what I hear. I may even buy the vinyl. Dylan has really settiled into this new musical phase, and I really like it. 

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-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues

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Much to my mom’s chagrin, I’m digging Dylan. I don’t particularly like his voice, a taste I’ve yet to aquire. But I hope to aquire that taste quickly. (I’m working on it!)

Currently, I really like Positively 4th Street, I Want You, and Subterranean Homesick Blues. I’m going to listen to all his albums after I’m finished with Genesis’s catalogue.

Kinda excited about this new musical adventure.

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His style of singing will be acquired quickly the more you listen. You’re on the right track with I Want You. I love the expressiveness in his voice during that song. 

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Regarding Dylan’s voice, I think what bothers people is that they are expecting a pleasant tone and a nice tune. His vocal style is often a kind of talk-singing where it is mainly talking but a little singing thrown in.

He actually CAN sing, but he doesn’t always do it. Nashville Skyline is a good album that shows Dylan can sing if he wants to.

I think to appreciate Dylan you have to listen to the words and appreciate them the way you would a poem or a story. And then when you do that, you miraculously start appreciating his voice and stop wishing it would sound different.

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I saw this book in the Milano Centrale railway station and thought of @Ron Nasty and the other Dylan fans on the forum.

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I got a gift card on my birthday, which started me off on some impulse spending that has just now finished today. 

I had purchased the Dylan “complete albums” box before, and the next step was to purchase all of the standard 2-disc versions of the Bootleg series. I have just completed ordering that series. I also have No Direction Home and Don’t Look Back on Blu-ray, and I have also ordered the 30th anniversary concert album and Blu-ray.

So, I am looking forward to experiencing some more Bob.

I don’t think I will be buying any of the huge deluxe box sets. 

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Regarding Dylan’s voice, I think what bothers people is that they are expecting a pleasant tone and a nice tune. His vocal style is often a kind of talk-singing where it is mainly talking but a little singing thrown in.

He actually CAN sing, but he doesn’t always do it. Nashville Skyline is a good album that shows Dylan can sing if he wants to.

I think to appreciate Dylan you have to listen to the words and appreciate them the way you would a poem or a story. And then when you do that, you miraculously start appreciating his voice and stop wishing it would sound different.  

I think his singing can be absolutely sublime. I love his voice on New Morning, Planet Waves and Before the Flood

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For years, all I knew what was on the radio.  I did however purchase the box set of the mono vinyl.  It’s an awesome set.

 

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For years, all I knew what was on the radio.  I did however purchase the box set of the mono vinyl.  It’s an awesome set.

 

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You’ve got some good albums there.

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Really really good. If those albums don’t et you absolutely hooked on Dylan I don’t know what will. 

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I said I was done but I sold some books to make space this weekend and was able to trade for the CD version of that mono box.

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Bob Dylan finally delivers his Nobel Prize lecture

A statement from the article

In the speech, sent to the Academy with an audio link in which Dylan reads it aloud, the enigmatic rock star reflects on the possible links between his lyrics and literature.

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I have a couple Bob Dylan albums on hold right now at the library, and one of them is his Christmas album, so I’m pretty stoked to go pick those up later. I’ll def be listening to his Christmas album all night.

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