"The session began with "Maggie's Farm": only one take was recorded, and it was the only one they'd ever need:"
Bob Dylan performs "Maggie's Farm" & "Like A Rolling Stone" from this historic electric set at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965.
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” was, in fact, an extraordinary three-way amalgam of Jack Kerouac, the Guthrie/Pete Seeger song “Taking It Easy” ('mom was in the kitchen preparing to eat/sis was in the pantry looking for some yeast') and the riffed-up rock'n'roll poetry of Berry's “Too Much Monkey Business”. - - Bob Dylan - Uncut
Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
By the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Well, the last I heard of Arab
He was stuck on a whale
That was married to the deputy
Sheriff of the jail
But the funniest thing was
When I was leavin’ the bay
I saw three ships a-sailin’
They were all heading my way
I asked the captain what his name was
And how come he didn’t drive a truck
He said his name was Columbus
I just said, “Good luck”
Just put it on for another listen.
Posted by: Mike at March 22, 2014 1:10 PMAlso one of great album covers...
Posted by: Estoy Listo at March 22, 2014 5:24 PMAfter 49 years, it's about time to get over this guy. I listened to him for about six months in high school, until I realized that he can't sing, and his "poetry" is gibberish.
Posted by: Voton at March 22, 2014 6:38 PMDylan was one of the game-changers in American music. influenced more folks in the 60s than the British Invasion and all the psychedelic crap. Motown a close second. I suppose Presley was in there too. The thing with Dylan was, you either got it or you didn't.
"You know something is happening but you don't know what it is ... do you, Mr. Jones?"
Posted by: chasmatic at March 22, 2014 8:19 PMI had this record in monaural. Wore it out on a Sears portable record player. It's still one of my favorite albums.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at March 22, 2014 9:46 PMWell, JWM, it has been remastered and reissued..... in MONO.
HERE YOU GO
Amazon.com: Bringing It All Back Home (2010 Mono Version): Bob Dylan: MP3 Downloads
Posted by: vanderleun at March 22, 2014 9:54 PMInteractive Bob Dylan video.
Read the screen directions to interact.
Kinda cool
http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html
On Maggie's Farm Bloomfield was just killing it.
Take that Lomax!
Posted by: ThomasD at March 23, 2014 5:41 AMThe constant regurgitation of the ephemera of the 60's. As if it was the most important decade in the history of the world.
Posted by: Eric Blair at March 23, 2014 8:33 AMWhatever else you say about Dylan — his association with commies like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger come to mind — I am forever grateful for his electric performance at Newport. He tolled the bell of death for all those warbling folkies wondering where the flowers went and rowing that boat to shore.
Bluegrass is where it belongs, Country too. Folk Music has not been missed.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 23, 2014 8:37 AMThe 60s were not the most important decade in the history of the world, Eric. They were the most important decade in the history of your world. For better or worse you live in the 1960s Cave of Echoes.
And you deal with, as do we all, the postmortem effects. Bob Dylan is just your Virgil in your journey.
Posted by: vanderleun at March 23, 2014 9:25 AMThe 60s were not the most important decade in the history of the world, Eric. They were the most important decade in the history of your world. For better or worse you live in the 1960s Cave of Echoes.
And you deal with, as do we all, the postmortem effects. Bob Dylan is just your Virgil in your journey.
Posted by: vanderleun at March 23, 2014 9:25 AMSomebody peed in voton and Eric's cheerios this morning. Lighten up fellows. It's part of the music in the background of our lives and we like it. If you don't, get your groove to the Archies or Pink Floyd or Don Ho or some ho like Beyonce or whoever you're rolling with.
Bob made enduring music over decades, a truly great accomplishment.As the Greek philosopher said, "in matters of taste, there's no dispute". Change the station critics.
Somebody peed in voton and Eric's cheerios this morning. Lighten up fellows. It's part of the music in the background of our lives and we like it. If you don't, get your groove to the Archies or Pink Floyd or Don Ho or some ho like Beyonce or whoever you're rolling with.
Bob made enduring music over decades, a truly great accomplishment.As the Greek philosopher said, "in matters of taste, there's no dispute". Change the station critics.
I wrote a short piece on BIABH a few years ago and I think it is worth posting a link here. http://thesethingstoo.blogspot.com/search?q=bringing
Posted by: Stan Denski at March 23, 2014 12:36 PMWell, you are certainly right about that, Gerard. It is a goddam echo chamber.
Not that I've heard Dylan on the radio lately. Come to think of it, I never heard Dylan on the radio. Even when I was in college 30 years ago it was either the Grateful Dead or 'classic rock' or some punk/post-punk/new-wave band.
And "de gustibus non est disputandum" is Latin, not Greek, but that phrase gets used to justify any sort of thing.
So yeah. Echo chamber. Just remember where you are.
Posted by: Eric Blair at March 23, 2014 1:12 PMThats a good article Stan. Thanks for the link.
As for the Echo Chamber, we don't get to choose who the major poets of the age are. Nor do we get to dictate their career paths even ones as protean as Dylans. We don't and can't do anything about the major poets of the era.
They just arrive.
Why? Because they are sent.
Posted by: vanderleun at March 23, 2014 1:48 PMThanks for the tip, Gerard. So now I can get all my old monaural records digitally remastered to monaural, and digitized into a download. Amazing. Now all I need is the $1800. gadget that utilizes an actual vacuum tube amplifier to better recapture the "mellowness" of the original one channel vinyl disc. That's progress. Maybe someday they'll be able to recreate the sound of a Philco radio from a '63 Ford Falcon. Heck they could even throw in a vibrasonic from Pep Boys.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at March 23, 2014 5:05 PMEric Blair: Always quick to shoot from the lip. Easy enough to diss anybody you don't like and you are seemingly unaware of the dynamics that drive you.
From what I read in your comments there is envy, and chagrin that nothing your decade has put up lasts longer than a sunset.
Like it or not, admit it or not the 60s, that of the famous Baby Boomers, has influenced, nay, changed the course of American society for all time. I don't say it is all good but it is powerful. How 'bout this: if it wasn't for us you wouldn't be here?
Nothing is not a belief system, it is a lack of imagination and a dearth of substance.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 23, 2014 5:30 PMSorry Chas, it wasn't boomers that begat me. And depending on which year you care to slice the generations at, I could even be called a boomer.
Like I said, just remember where you are.
Eric: Yeah, I see what you mean. "Boomers" refers loosely to the kids born between 1946 and 1964. There is more in the consideration of mindset or "come from" than calendar years. My wife was born in 1939, I call her an Eisenhower kid, referring to the fifties as her formative years. I was born I 1946 and my decade, the 60s, is what folks mostly think of when they say Boomers.
Generalities only go so far; they lose traction when comparisons kick in. My remark "if it wasn't for us you wouldn't be here" didn't mean any begetting, only that the state of our nation, its economy, its political ruling class, guys like Alinsky, they all came out of those 60s. We are reaping the harvest of the turn on tune in drop out claptrap that was oh so popular back in the day. What you see now is not the product of 1950s conservative governance.
Like, man, we could all live on this huge commune and we'd all love each other and it would be so cool and there would never be heard a discouraging word and the skies, man, were not cloudy all day. Far out. All we need now is Robert Crumb. yeah ... and, oh yeah, Dylan on the box.
At ease ghost, that was sarcasm.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 24, 2014 9:23 PMHmph. Attention span fifteen minutes. Just like dog.
"Oh, wait. What's that? Didja see that rabbit?"
Posted by: chasmatic at March 25, 2014 6:59 AM
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