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"Tell Tale Signs" volume 8 Bootleg Series was just released today, and it's probably the best music I've heard from him in a long time. It's amazing how high the quality of this unreleased stuff is. If you go to this NPR site: Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music
Thank you Mike! Dylan has to be one of the most prolific performers of our time. There's still a lot that I haven't heard. He's truly a one of a kind. Just listened to 32-20 Blues. It says here that it was scheduled to be on World Gone Wrong. I can't figure out what drives the decisions that artists and record companies make sometimes. Right now I'm really enjoying God Knows.
Thanks again and BIG reps to ya, man - this is great stuff!
Thanks for sharing this, Mike. I am listening now. I went to Amazon to put it on my wishlist. In the reviews there, people were slamming it. Not because of the music.
Because it was well over $100 for the 3 disc set! I think I will wait a few months and get it at Costco.
Thank you Mike! Dylan has to be one of the most prolific performers of our time. There's still a lot that I haven't heard. He's truly a one of a kind. Just listened to 32-20 Blues. It says here that it was scheduled to be on World Gone Wrong. I can't figure out what drives the decisions that artists and record companies make sometimes. Right now I'm really enjoying God Knows.
Thanks again and BIG reps to ya, man - this is great stuff!
Right now, I can't figure out how Daniel Lanois was able to convince Dylan that the version of "Born In Time" that wound up on 'Under the Red Sky' was the one that made it onto that record. IMO, the one that I am listening to now should have been the lead track on "Oh Mercy", instead of omitted from the album completely. This is staggering to me, for this version of "Born In Time" is one of the very best songs Dylan ever made IMO.
When you mention giants in the music industry, like the Beatles, Elvis, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan is right up there with them. Square Peg is absolutely right regarding Dylan. He IS one of the most prolific artists of our time. He has put out an incredible amount of product over 45 plus years. When I think of Columbia Records recording artists, folk music in general, singer songwriters, '60's icons, the 60's counter culture movement, there is one man who does not take a back seat to anybody-Bob Dylan.
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Wasn't the biggest fan of his until recently. But discovering Dylan's music is like wandering into a multi-textured brilliant colored, winding network of caves, yeah, you could probably find your way back to where you started if you really wanted to, but the journey is so rewarding and the jet streams of bending sunlight so misleading that you continue on, unmindfully, hopefully, happily...
Just read his book, "Chronicles," and I don't know why I would be surprised that Dylan could write a good book, but I was, and he did. Written like a novel, it's as unpredictable and stream of consciousness as the song lyrics he's so famous for:
you used to laugh about, everybody that was hangin' out.
now you don't talk so loud, now you don't feel so proud, about
having to be scrounging, your next meal...
Not one of his best lyrics, I know, but even his mediocre words were better than the best others had to offer. You remember, she breaks just like a woman, yes she does and she aches just like a woman, yes she does and she makes love just like a woman... but she breaks just like a little girl...
OR, Well you look so pretty in it, honey can I jump on it sometime?
I just wanna see if, it's really the expensive kind... that's your brand new, leopard-skin pill-box hat...
Lyrics, music, new genres, this guy reinvented himself twelve times before there was a term for that. In my mind, a true artist, as honest an artist as you'll ever find...
You like him? Talk about his music, his life, his unwillingness to speak for his generation or any generation since. Just a troubadour, more of the likes of a Woody Guthrie than a John Lennon, you wanna talk about a guy who's always had courage of his convictions? Musical convictions that is, the other kind of the social or political ilk, your guess is as good as mine...
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Reason: what, you again? i still don't know why i gotta tell you.
Saw him in '95. It was bad. Saw him again last week. It was worse. Never said Hello. Never said a word. Never said Good Bye or Thank You. Mumbled his way through the entire show. What a waste of time. And money. Again.
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I think I will wait a few months and get it at Costco.
