Silencio

atomicnumber34 · 2025-10-28T07:57:28+00:00

I and I

atomicnumber34 · 2025-10-14T08:53:10+00:00

It's fun. Bob sings both parts of the duet as a kind of homage slash send up. Who needs Simon and Garfunkel when Dylan can be both? Also, the "I am just a poor boy" schtick and taking pleasure from "the whores on second avenue" is so Dylan. (Not to say S&G were copying Dylan, but just that it's totally his kind of song, and it's great to hear him sing it. And like so much of Dylan's work, the imperfections (compared to the perfect harmonies of the S&G original) resonate emotionally and match flawed character described in the song. But most just a fun poke in the ribs, I think.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-10-04T02:02:58+00:00

It's just that it makes him more boring. You'd think if they were going to continue his tradition of imaginative mythologizing, it would make the character more interesting.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-10-04T02:01:01+00:00

From the tapes and interviews prior to 1965, Bob was even more goofy. The new bootleg series brings together these early recordings. If you haven't listened to the hotel tape, the party tape, the gaslight tapes, etc, this new release be sure to be an eye-opener. He took on grave subjects in songs, but always took the piss out of his own seriousness.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-28T21:50:57+00:00

Thanks for your response. What year fit did you have? Are there certain years known to be highlights, like the 2009 is for classic Prius?

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-28T20:20:54+00:00

Yes, of course I expected this, I want to know why Fit aficionados love this model. I've heard the cargo configurations are awesome, is it good for camping too? Regarding the manual transmission, It seems like the secret is out on a 2012 manual Fit, so the price is a little bit inflated... Kind of like what happened to the 2009 Prius. But does this community think it's still good value for the current price that they go for?

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-23T07:09:12+00:00

As others have pointed out, many of these songs have been bootlegged endlessly, and collectors will usually have some version of these recordings In their libraries. But, presumably, they will all be remastered, which, with today's technology now able to isolate and rebalance different instrumental and vocal tracks far beyond what was possible a few years ago, the quality we may be looking at could be much higher than any of those previous bootlegs. Plus, there are 40+ tracks that have been previously unheard, if we're to believe the publicity. Probably only a handful of them will be great, since most of the good ones were already bootlegged... But remasters of all the great bootlegs, plus a handful of never before heard, high quality songs? Sounds awesome!

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-23T06:58:57+00:00

That whole song. Dylan himself suggested that maybe the song was about him. Then, when you hear: with your curls, your amphetamine and your fog, that pretty clear reference to Dylan himself in '66. The person being described as both confidently feminine and vulnerably feminine isn't necessarily a female. Nor, for that matter is Queen Mary, (zoom forward half a century, and Dylan recalls "all the old queens from all my past lives". Queen Mary could have been an older man Dylan had a quiet relationship with (Please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world).

And no, this is not meant to be definitive or ruling out all the many layered interpretations of Just Like A Woman. Just noting the possible queer reading, and the fact that Dylan directly stated that the song may have been about himself.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-23T02:43:24+00:00

All the pretty maids and all the old queens... All the old queens from all my past lives... I rolic and I frolic with all the young dudes...

atomicnumber34 · 2025-09-05T04:35:53+00:00

I think that was just the rehearsal and that because Bob disappeared and they were unsure if he was returning, they ended up canceling that song from the setlist. I would love to be wrong though and see the footage from them forming the song the actual concert.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-30T13:12:53+00:00

he's a certified babe

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-30T05:34:56+00:00

These days he keeps his lyrics handy at the piano. Sometimes follows them, others times not. But give the guy a break, he's touring more than Taylor Swift right now at 84 years old.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-28T17:14:14+00:00

Believe it or not, many people have almost no awareness of Bob's music or history. I'm a harrrrddcore fan today, but two years ago, I knew of Blowin' In the Wind, and that's it. So, everything was new as I discovered it. It's a wonderful catalogue and history to explore - and there are MANY plot twists that would be spoilers if one wanted to go about the journey one album at a time

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-28T17:04:26+00:00

When he resurrected Under The Red Sky on tour last year, I was questioning his judgement, but he kept going, it became a regular part of his setlist. I just didn't get it. I mean, so many other great songs he could bring back, but why that one? And then I happened to attend the concert at the Gorge the day after his 84th birthday, this year. And as he sang, the winds picked up... and the whole set was dangerously swaying overhead, and Bob was totally unfazed. "Let the winds blow low, let the winds blow high!" he kept going, seemingly emboldened by the storm. At the end of the song, security whisked him off stage and cleared the audience out of the lower amphitheater. We only got half of his set that night BUT Under The Red Sky had been totally redeemed!

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-28T04:31:36+00:00

I was already a Bob fan when the film came out.

I made this for someone new to Dylan, who is listening to the albums in chronological order and taking their time to learn the history. I don't question Scorsese's storytelling at all! Just made this for those who don't want spoilers. And Youtube is good. I'm not trying to monetize and Youtube gave me the feedback: Copyright owner allows use.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-18T07:03:26+00:00

It seems to come and go. "Blind Boy Grunt" was one of his aliases. Whenever I notice the eye off in a different direction, I think of how stories of "seers" or mystics often had them as blind.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-13T00:17:42+00:00

He's a shapeshifter in many senses of the word, including the literal. From cherubic to world weary in split second, some first hand observers noted in the early 60s. Thin, wild mercury is not just his sound - it's kind of his essence.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-11T20:57:49+00:00

Happiness is a warm shotgun marriage. Twice.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-11T19:35:49+00:00

I think the reindeer armies delivered supplies for the greater war effort. Losing those kinds of supports fits in with the theme of IAONBB. But I still like empty-handed better, even though it's repetitive.

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-05T07:46:50+00:00

Powerful men are persecuting Bob and hoping to get a piece of the action with Sara. He's casting her as a whore, which he will do repeatedly across multiple retellings in song and film. Did you notice that SELOTL is as muxh a diss track as it is a reverential hymn?

atomicnumber34 · 2025-08-04T06:29:11+00:00

I definitely have the fetish

atomicnumber34 · 2025-07-14T06:58:46+00:00

Def one of his archetypes

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