Meandering about and came across a two-fer of Bob Dylan stuffs: one for the funny bone and one for the heart-strings.
I’ll let you figure out which is which …
And that ends your Dylan fix for the day. Selah.
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Thanks for sharing
Awesome!
Aw, thanks for posting.
When it comes to “cultural genius” there is
Dylan and then there is everyone else.
Oh dear – so sensitive!
You will see that I didn’t compare Dylan to Mr Zimmerman just alluded to the influnce that the Welsh poet had on him and, as it happens, your other idols The Beatles. Dylan Thomas was the only living person on the cover of Sergeant Pepper because of John Lennon’s admiration for his work.
The drunkard image came from a book by a sad American John Malcom Brinnin on Dylan’s Days in America.
Thomas like Lennon, and perhaps Oasis, he was a shy and sensitive person who couldn’t handle the media pressure. He was undoubtedly the media star of his day when radio was king.
Which one of his poem’s are you referring to – Do not go gentle, Death shall have no dominion, Fern Hill, Under Milk Wood. Oh, and he also wrote magnificent short stories, film scripts and radio broadcasts and is the second most quoted poet after another unknown Brit – William Shakespeare.
All this from a modest house in a beautiful seaside area of Wales. Come and see at http://www.dylanthomashouse.com or http://www.5cwmdonkindrive.com – there’s a lot to learn!
yo, this some rad stuff.
Aw that was cute. Thanks for the great post!
Bob Dylan is one of my favourite artists. Thanks for sharing@!
Bob Dylan is one of my favourite artists. Thanks for sharing!
I love! Thanks for sharing.
As one of your comments says – “There is Dylan and then there is everyone else”
Of course, they must be referring to the original Dylan – Dylan Thomas from whom Mr Zimmerman took his name. Pop along and have a look at http://www.dylanthomashouse.com for something different – do not go gently!
Bob Dylan’s influenced so many artists as
well as changing the platforms of how rock
music was written, performed and presented.
Start with the Byrds and “Mr. Tamborene Man”
Where did Tom Petty and R.E.M. get their sound
from.
Peter Paul and Mary “Blowin’ in the Wind”
was a Civil Rights Anthem. Dylan even
performed for the crowd prior to the
Martin Luther King, “I have a Dream” speech.
Jimmy Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower”
Supposedly Hendrix never went anywhere
without carrying Lyrics to Dylan songs
for inspiration.
“Like a Rolling Stone” single handedly changed
pop music from everything being 2-3 minutes
long with a hook about teeange angst to
5 minute plus expressions of something
deeper in the American psyche. Read
John Goodman’s “Mansion on the Hill”,
where he makes a brilliant case how this
song was the start of rock music being
played on FM stations. Remember prior
to the late sixties AM dominated everything.
I was lucky enough to get some CD’s
of the streamed version of his XM
radio show “Theme Time Radio Hour”.
It’s mind blowing how he seems to
know about every musical genre going
back to the thirties, including the musicians
songwriters, who they were influenced by
and who they would later influence.
The Vid of the him with the Beatles is
so cool because they have admitted how
he influenced them. Just look at their
pre meeting Dylan body of work and
after and see how much better their music
got in terms of substance and genre.
Lastly comparing a relatively unknown
drunken Welsh poet that hardly anyone
knows, and maybe had one good and
memorable poem to Robert Zimmerman
is like comparing Oasis to the Beatles.
Please.
Dylan Thomas is considered a great poet by every literate person, including Bob Dylan. Robert Zimmerman patterned his singing after Woody Guthrie and his lyricism after Dylan Thomas. The poet Dylan IS the source of of Zimmerman’s stage name, and that alone is proof of the great admiration he has for Dylan Thomas.
Very cool!
enjoyed it!
Oh, yes, Forever Young. What a good gesture! What a fine artist, all the way around. Thanks for the posting on Forever Young. Tears to me eyes.
Nice!
Video one reminds me of my trip to Amsterdam. The use of the word trip being quite appropriate. Unfortunately, subsequent ‘creative genius’ that it inspired hasn’t earned me a vast fortune or legendary status. But by hook or by crook I will get me a Me-themed museum opened in Liverpool. Just you wait.
Thanks for posting these!! The clips are great!!
Thanks for posting – really simple and effective!
Very cool stuff! Thanks for Posting!
Demais!
Bob Dylan, a great poet in his own right, went to school in a more literate era than the one that apparently educated Mr Harry Elliot. Dylan was a reader and admirer of Dylan Thomas – in the company of most of the literate world – and chose his stage name in homage to Thomas. See Bob Dylan’s very excellent autobiography, “Chronicles,” pp 78-79
It’s nothing like “comparing Oasis to the Beatles,” it’s more like comparing the Beatles to Dylan Thomas.