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Monday, June 17. 2013

48 years ago, yesterday


Bob Dylan recorded “Like A Rolling stone” in 1965 – 48 years ago.


Bob has said that it's his best song, but I don't think so at all. Not by a long shot. It was his watershed song, though.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Song and Dance Man at 12:42 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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What's with all the infatuation for Zimmerman? He's just a song and dance man.
#1 tennesseered on 2013-06-17 13:02 (Reply)
It's because, he says the same thing you said.
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-06-17 19:01 (Reply)
#1- you had to be there.

Yes, I think Like A Rolling Stone is pretty dang good.
#2 New Yorker on 2013-06-17 13:58 (Reply)
Great, now I have Like a Rolling Stone ear worm crawling around my head...no really, thanks a bunch!
#3 phil g on 2013-06-17 14:28 (Reply)
"What's with all the infatuation for Zimmerman? He's just a song and dance man."

You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man ?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand
Just what you'll say
When you get home.

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones ?
#4 vanderleun on 2013-06-17 14:31 (Reply)
His best song might be "Wigwam". Man, he nailed the lyrics on that one!
#5 Ed on 2013-06-17 20:38 (Reply)
Well Duh
#5.1 Stu on 2013-06-18 00:04 (Reply)
--well i hate to repeat myself but for the third time i will anyway, and then i'll shuddup. There's some kind of joke going on here, in the subtext. The backwards hat is the pointer. Maybe it's just the camera right in front and never moving, and Dylan staring right at you from about the diameter of a card table. The song is a rock & roller, the band is phenominal (wish the lead guitar's fretboard wasn't juuuust out of sight behing BD's right shoulder, but small taters), and when it ends, the singer looks around at the band as if he's surprised to find himself where he is.

That single fixed close-up POV is weirdly familiar, tho i've never seen it before. Then it dawns, it's the distance and body-language/facial expression of a conversation, a guy telling you a story in a bar with a live act going on behind the two of you. That's why he looks around behind him after the song --like the guy telling you the story would do when the music stopped.

Always something new with this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hO-83CIVKM
#6 buddy larsen on 2013-06-18 00:46 (Reply)
buddy,

There's some kind of joke going on here, in the subtext,

U're playin' Us...right...?

TC
#6.1 Garry on 2013-06-18 19:35 (Reply)
His best song? Not Rolling Stone. I'd say either Tangled Up in Blue or Isis.
#7 Animal (Link) on 2013-06-18 22:13 (Reply)
People still listen to his stuff?
#8 Larry Geiger on 2013-07-02 13:52 (Reply)

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