Me And Bobby

[poliphilo]

Scorsese's documentary about Dylan's youth has taken me back to my own "bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" moment. It's 1968, there are mountains outside the window and me and Graham Leader and Marc de May are going to change the world tomorrow, but today, in preparation, we're about to lean back, shut our eyes and listen to John Wesley Hardin just one more time...

Mind you, I didn't get it. Still don't. John Wesley Harding, I mean.

I have a rocky relationship with Dylan. I've always wanted to like him more than I actually do. I think the early stuff is dated and the "poetry" often facile- and yet scattered throughout his career, right up to the present, are songs I love. My very favourite is a thing called Dark Eyes which comes off a mid-80s album which many of the critics rate as his worst ever....

The second part of Scorsese's film is showing tonight. I'll be there.

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[slatts.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was very current w/ Dylan when Blood came and Desire.... then the 80's came!

I almost daily have been listening to LOVE AND THEFT. In my opinion, they gave him the Grammy an album too early. TIME is good. But LOVE smokes! The band is red hot and Dylan as "the new Howlin' Wolf" is at his best lyrically and vocally....

But if I could only have 3 of his albums, I'd have to go with BLONDE, 61 and HOME

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Love and Theft intrigues me. I've listened to it a few times, but I don't feel I've got inside it yet.

Wonder what he'll do next......

[slatts.livejournal.com]

Wonder what he'll do next......

I know! His book. This documentary. His touring....

I guess we just gotta stay tuned.....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean to read the book.

But what I really want are some new songs.....