[Rhodes22-list] Masters of War on KSLM

[Slim]

Saroj,

New Yorker Magazine has a nice article on Bob.  It's mostly about what it's
like to interview him.  He likes to talk about songs but on any other topic,
he's quite ordinary and unremarkable.  But still everyone tries to "get"
something out of every detail.  His son-in-law is a local Minneapolis
musician, Peter Himmelman, who once described a thanksgiving dinner where
Bob asked for the salt and gave his green beans 3 shakes.  Everyone stopped
and looked in silence--what does it mean?   8-)

The article mentions how many of his critics have referred to his many
"throw-away lines."  Dylan says that the words themselves aren't important
(!) but rather serve as bookmarks for a given moment that hold in place the
overall sound of the song.  Gotta love 'im.

Slim

On 9/15/06 8:28 AM, "Saroj Gilbert" <saroj at pathfind.net> wrote:

> That would be Dylan... he's even counter himself... whether he wants to own
> up to it or not... he touched a chord in the hearts of a generation or
> more... and it seems just by expressing himself authentically.
> 
> You wrote: "It made utterly no sense whatsoever!  Either he's just putting
> us on (likely) or he's off his rocker."
> 
> ... OR he's trying to articulate something that simply isn't a logical,
> rational process and so cannot be represented in language other than poetry.
> Some things are just not explainable... like many of his lyrics... when you
> try to analyze them rationally... they make no sense... but the poetry of
> them manages to convey something on an emotional level that you can "get".
> 
> I would like to read his book... I was surprised he actually wrote one.
> 
> Saroj
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> 
>> 
>>> Some day he will be considered THE "bard of the cultural revolution" in
>>> the
>>> U.S. (or is he already recognized as such?)
>>> 
>> Saroj,
>> 
>> Nothing bugs him more than to be called that.  Or so he wrote in his book,
>> "Chronicles".  He also said he wanted no part of the whole teen
>> rebellion/James Dean thing.  He says, "Even a lost cause is better than no
>> cause."
>> 
>> His book is pretty fun to read.  Nothing earth-shattering or scandalous
>> but
>> the guy knows how to turn a phrase.  Except there's one section where he
>> goes into his idea of music "theory" and tries to explain his process of
>> composition.  It made utterly no sense whatsoever!  Either he's just
>> putting
>> us on (likely) or he's off his rocker.
>> 
>> His new CD, Modern Times is pretty good.  There's a lot of ballads and a
>> couple good rockers but the title "Modern Times" is odd because all the
>> songs are quite retro.  I liked his previous CD, Love and Theft a lot
>> more.
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
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