Bob has granted an interview on 60 minutes this Sunday. I encourage everyone to watch to hear what our modern day Mozart has to say. He has not granted a televised interview in almost 20 years. With his new book out and so many interesting things to talk about, I for one can't wait to hear the master speak.

Love him or hate him, anyone with an ounce of musical taste can not deny his ability to write some of the most romantic, profound and meaningful lyrics of our time.

wow, not even one response?? Nobody gives a shit about a master musician? I guess this doesn't really surprise me seeing that so many people on this site only care about crappy hip/hop and people like Janet and Kylie. Oh well!

kisscamille said:

I love Dylan and hate Kylie. Have you read "Chronicles" yet, kc? If not. Do. It's wonderful.

Shapeshifter said:

I haven't read it yet, but it's on my christmas list so hopefully I will get it then. Glad to hear you liked it.

I'll try to watch this.

I guess it's not too surprising that not too many Prince fans are Dylan fans, though they should be!

There is a direct line of influence--Prince from Jimi from Dylan. They're not that far removed. And Joni Mitchell is one of Dylan's peers, too.

andyman91 said:

Unfortunately (for them) many people on this site only like pop music. I like my fair share, but I like some meaningful and more profound music too.

kisscamille said:

There is a heavy leaning towards pop/pop r&b on this site, but there is a great diversity as well that reflects the diversity of Prince's music.

andyman91 said:

Yes, you have a valid point.

kisscamille said:

Thanks for the heads-up on this. I'll certainly watch it.

I agree with you regarding the interests of some of our colleagues. But then again, what the hell do I know - I'm a crabby, wrinkled old fart.

On an related matter, how great would it be if Prince's career track emulated Dylan's with respect to:

knock off the preaching,
see your true calling to be a guarantor of American roots music (of a certain kind), and
remain a traveling troubador for the rest of your life.

My ex asked me to tape this for him.

He recently wrote some articles about Bob Dylan. Check them out over here:
http://www.sdcitybeat.com...hp?id=2509

HE'S YOUNGER THAN THAT NOW

by R.L. Buss

Bob Dylan achieved immortality before he was 25. That was almost 40 years ago.

Granted, he has as much to do with cloaking himself in myth as anyone. People need stories, he provides them. Go figure.

Dylan introduced rock to folk, poetry to rock and weed to the Beatles. He is a rambler with antagonizing precision, a blind man who sees lightning, an aristocrat in beggar’s boots. Never about following orders or amassing hit records, he defines contradiction, humility and vision—all marks of mastery.

Chronicles: Volume 1 christens a trilogy of upcoming memoirs. You know immediately it’s Dylan, the way you knew Miles Davis’ voice in his autobiography. Unmistakable.

Other biographers reported Dylan into myth—Chronicles brings it all back home, as if Mona Lisa herself came to life and stopped smiling.

Chronicles enlivens drab, overdrawn facts as if to say, “Yeah, this is what ya’ll missed” with a knowing smile. You see Grandpa Bob rocking in his chair, doing what he does best, telling stories about telling stories, all rolling and flowing into and through the others.

What makes Dylan unique is how he expresses himself. A gloriously meandering navigator through his own history, Dylan writes like an asexual Henry Miller minus the exclamation points. Filled with candor, metaphysics and joie de vive, Chronicles is an historical jambalaya of proper nouns, colloquial aphorisms and legendary hows and whys. The only thing missing is the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

A self-admitted anachronism, Dylan’s creativity rests in the years surrounding the Civil War:

“Back there, America was put on the cross, died and was resurrected. There was nothing synthetic about it. The godawful truth of that would be the all-encompassing template behind everything that I would write.”

In hindsight, watching him transform his myth and music is as enlightening as watching the world follow. He makes it all matter.

When you speak of Dylan, don’t use inaccurate crutches like “enigma” or “messiah.” He owes you nothing, least of all an explanation.

When you see him walking down the street, don’t expect, praise or think twice—it’s alright. Thank him with a nod or wink. Then go home and crank up Blonde On Blonde, loud, until your ears bleed.

Forty years ago Bob Dylan built himself a myth. Chronicles brings him back to humanity. B

Bob Dylan plays at Cox Arena, 8 p.m. on Oct. 22. $29.50-$38.50. 619-220-8497.

Bob Dylan: Lyrics: 1962-2002

by Bob Dylan

Simon & Schuster, 2004

Michael Jackson has fans. Bob Dylan has lyrics.

You don’t just listen to Dylan’s lyrics—you feel them. They are announcements of conviction and rascally celebration, reviewing the past and foretelling the future. They are restless and audacious, daring the listener to participate. They’re all there, whimsical romps to wise ballads.

There is a Dylan lyric for every mood, day, fool or relationship, from the ultimate kiss-off “Like A Rolling Stone” to the frank indictment “Masters Of War” to the unsentimental rumination “Not Dark Yet.”

Dylan succeeds in expressing himself lyrically from topical and self-revelatory to evangelical Christian and straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll.

Like love or mathematics, they seem to work even when translated into another language, as heard on the recent soundtrack to Masked and Anonymous. Turkish, Jamaican patois or Italian rap, they clock in.

They jive because his lyrics adapt, like Shakespeare’s sonnets or Whitman’s verse, to the mode and situation. Electric words never burn out.

They twist and dive through history, myth and religion, human longing, deceit and conceit, the need for more love and sometimes less. They suck the vanity from our blood and the starch from our shirts.

We listen and live forever.

—R.L. Buss

kisscamille said:

I knew the fans were out there, it just took a minute for the hippies to motivate enough to post.

andyman91 said:

Yes; those of us who were hippies in the pre purple-hippie days.

jackflash said:

Wow, that would be amazing. I try to overlook Prince's religious babble and concentrate on the music, but your suggestions are great and yes I would love to see Prince do all of the above. Now that he's no longer cursing and writing about sex, incest and such, it will be interesting to see where he goes with his music as the years go by. I am very curious to hear some new music from him.

kisscamille said:

Dylan was reborn, though. I guess he doesn't talk about it anymore.

For years I have wanted him to do something raw like what Dylan does. Not to put down the Truth, but it's hardly Blood on the Tracks. I guess it's just not Prince, though, to be raw anymore.

andyman91 said:

I agree completely, but let's not lose faith. We never know what the future may bring when it comes to Prince.

kisscamille said:

I'm not putting him down, but I hated the album when it came out. That was a year when rock was good, and I wished Prince could do something raw again. But I doubt Dylan could do either.

I was into Dylan long before I was into Prince. Have about 10 of his albums plus the Bootleg Series Vols. 1-5 (now that's what Prince should really do!).

I much prefer Prince's music but I still have enormous respect for Dylan. I even saw him play in Dublin a few months ago. He was hidden behind his piano for the entire show except for odd time he got up to "conduct" his band.

Not the greatest show I ever saw (saw Prince play the same venue a year earlier - there's really no comparison) but considering his age it was pretty good.

And unfortunately I don't have CBS.
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