My newfound respect for Bob Dylan

[Mark Rippetoe]

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/23/bo...rnments-not-go

[Drewcar]

Do you like his music Rip? His 80s albums and recent live shoes notwithstanding.

[VNV]

Bunch more on Dylan, from a non-Left angle, much in his own words:

http://www.firstthings.com/search?q=bob+dylan

[vanslix]

Society has a confusing love/hate relationship of an authentic man, one who refuses to be put into boxes or categories and lives life on their terms. Cash was another such character.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Do you like his music Rip? His 80s albums and recent live shoes notwithstanding.

Can't stand it. My least favorite thing about Sirius XM Deep Tracks 27. Especially when he attempts the play the harmonica. You could give a chimpanzee a harmonica and just show him which side to blow on, and within 30 seconds he sounds better than Dylan.

[ColoWayno]

The last time I did an interview, the guy wanted to know about everything except the music. People have been doing that to me since the '60s — they ask questions like they would ask a medical doctor or a psychiatrist or a professor or a politician. Why? Why are you asking me these things?

That had to resonate, Rip.

I always liked Dylan's music, something in it resonates with me.

[John Watson]

Can't stand it. My least favorite thing about Sirius XM Deep Tracks 27. Especially when he attempts the play the harmonica. You could give a chimpanzee a harmonica and just show him which side to blow on, and within 30 seconds he sounds better than Dylan.

I did several tours with the man during the mid 90's as a lighting tech. His solo electric guitar skills were similar, his house sound engineer at the time demonstrated to me what he claimed was for the audience's benefit; pull the faders down during his guitar solos.
The bleat of a sheep might be more sonorous than his voice some nights.

To the point; billionaires or corporations don't want to create jobs either. They're the antithesis of profit; an expense.

To his credit Bob is quite an interesting and provocative thinker.

[Mark E. Hurling]

I dunno. I'll leave his music to one side.

Dylan was one of the main voices of the 60's left and dissolution and renouncement of the status quo and tiresome shit like religion. Later he found Nashville and rediscovered religion. The Old Time Shall We Gather At the River kind. Them he rediscovered his Jewishness and the Kabbalah. Now, in his latter years he discovers how he wants to hold on to his money.

Just what exactly was convenient for him to believe at any one particular time?

[Paul1]

Visions of Johanna = best song ever written by anyone.

In his latter years he's made some damn good albums, Modern Times in particular is great.

[kidcolin]

Dylan has always been a contrarian. Whatever is mainstream, or mainstream within his base, is what dictates his next course of action. It just so happens he can turn a pretty nice phrase.

To the point; billionaires or corporations don't want to create jobs either. They're the antithesis of profit; an expense.

No one wants to create jobs. It's a dumb concept. People want to do stuff. Sometimes to do what they want to do, it necessitates paying people to help out.