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    Post Bob Dylan Uncut - The legendary singer-songwriter opens up...

    "... The words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there’s little sense in performing it." ~ Bob Dylan

    “I’ve always been drawn to spiritual songs,” Bob Dylan tells me. “In ‘Amazing Grace,’ that line — ‘that saved a wretch like me ’— isn’t that something we could all say if we were honest enough?” At 73, Dylan is still in the game, still brutally honest and authentically himself, as you will see in this extended version of the exclusive interview that appeared in the February/March issue of AARP The Magazine and can be found online here.

    In the 9,000 or so words that follow, Dylan goes where he has rarely gone before in public conversation: He explores his creative process and offers his insights on songwriting, performing, recording, and the creative destruction unleashed by rock and roll. For fun, perhaps, he tosses us a few pointed asides on contemporaries like Elton John, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton, but reserves his undiluted praise for Chuck Berry’s poetry and Billy Graham’s soul-searing hellfire. You may be struck, as I was time and again, at just how powerful a force music has played in Dylan’s life. At various times he was hypnotized, spellbound, lifted, knocked out by what he’d heard. Listening to the Staple Singers for the first time at 14, he said, he couldn’t sleep that night. “It just went through me like my body was invisible.” From the moment he stumbled upon blues, country and gospel at the nether end of the radio dial, he never stopped listening closely, absorbing the best. A student and professor of America’s truest music, he begins our conversation by explaining his decision to record ten beloved standards for Shadows in the Night.


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    We’ve Been Talking About Bob Dylan’s Singing Voice Wrong All This Time


    I think his 80th birthday is coming up so you see a lot (relatively) about him popping up here and there.
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    First they called the music I liked, blasts from the past.
    Then they became classics.
    Then they called them oldies.
    Now I get to read about it in AARP magazine? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    First they called the music I liked, blasts from the past.
    Then they became classics.
    Then they called them oldies.
    Now I get to read about it in AARP magazine? LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
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    I have his Essential Set on my phone, right next to Black Sabbath and George Strait. I went through too many phases.

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    We were the 2nd and 3rd generation of WW2, Korea and Nam and we were reaping the higher standard of living those wars brought so the kids got rebellious . In some ways I was lucky as I was born in NY City and the Cafe Wha on MacDougal St in the Village was the spot Dylan ,Hendrix,and Peter Paul and Mary started . At 14 - 15 you didn't get overcome by what these guys were going to be, because they were still local and unknown when they hung out there and played their tunes , I guess we only remember the good things and shut out the bad .

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    At one time going to see Dylan in concert was high on my bucket list. After seeing clips of his more recent live performances - "recent" in the sense of the last twenty-five years or so - and hearing tracks from some of his more recent albums...well, let's just say seeing Dylan is not on my list any more.
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    Dylan isn't too coherent anymore . His voice and the way he blends his words can't be understood any longer . When he was young and we were more alert to his poetry ,we could figure it out but even than it was tough

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    There's no real feeling in the lyrics any more; it sounds like a kid reciting the alphabet - just saying all the words so he can be done with it. And his backup bands...sometimes I have to wonder if they even know what song they're playing.
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    I've seen Dylan a few times, with The Grateful Dead backing him. Never super impressed (The Grateful Dead probably covered Dylan more than any band ever, and I always liked their cover versions better than the originals), until Highgate Vermont 95 when Dylan opened for the Dead (sadly my last show with Jerry at the helm) with his own band backing him, I remember thinking "holy sheep $#@!, he's annunciating!! It was great...at least until the porta-potties got upended LOL

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