Bob Dylan

You aren't awkward. Didn't get im either.

 

He’s not bad..

 

Blood on the Tracks works well for me, I’m a big fan but still don’t think he’s fit to lace the boots of Leonard Cohen.

 

Lay lady lay lay across my big brass bed.

 

Great album - except for side 4, "sad eyed lady of the lowlands" a bit of a dirge. If he'd cut it to a single album it would have been stupendous.

 

Ah my favourite artiste to listen to whilst slitting my wrists.

 

It wasn't too bad on his earlier stuff but yes latterly awful. Heard a song on the radio on his birthday, I had to turn it off.

 

Voice like sand & glue

 

I've always liked his voice. I think it complements his music. If he sang like Alan Carr I'd think differently.

 

Same here and The Beatles were ***** too

 

I actually like that song.

Referred to in ‘Sarah’ I think, ...staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you.

 

There is an argument that he writes great songs that end up being performed better by others.

 

Me neither. I also agree with Durkar's comment that he may be a great writer and poet but didn't like his voice. Saw him at Wembley. Didn't rate him live but loved Santana & UB40.

 

I went to this event two years ago. Neil Young went on first - said it was many years since he had performed in daylight but as the review says he was in an almost jovial mood and LOUD. I have seen Bob Dylan a few times in recent years and his concerts really are just a upmarket version of Spot that Tune. This Hyde Park concert took that to a new level. Also as is usual with Bob no real contact with the audience.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...d-neil-young-review-age-has-not-withered-them

 

Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde, The Freewheelin', Desire, Street Legal, Infidels...
I got into him in my early 20s. Once you start digging in it's hard to stop and know where to start. For any Dylan newby the above albums is where I'd start. And some are really for fans only. But even obscure albums have hidden gems such as those made famous by The Big Lebowski, and covered by others.
Bryan Ferry did a great Dylan covers album 'Dylanesque'.

Getting into Dylan usually leads you down many paths into other things too - Watching The Hurricane, and Inside Llewyn Davies are examples.

 

My favourite live rendition of a Bob Dylan song was hearing John Paul Jones sing Maggie's Farm with The Blues Band. This was still during the Thatcher years and boy, was it sung with venom!

 

The Blues Band are exceptional and one of the tightest bands you’ll ever come across.

However, the singer is Paul Jones - John Paul Jones is the bass player with Zeppelin.

A mildly amusing story connecting Dylan and Paul Jones: when Manfred Mann (for whom Jones was vocalist and harmonica player) first made it big in 64/65 and were in the States, they were taken to hear a new Dylan song their record company had earmarked for their next single. The band said they loved the song but didn’t like the singer and asked why Dylan always had a crap vocalist on his songs.

Of course, that vocalist was Dylan himself.

 

Mighty Quinn that song was. The Dylan version is actually OK. from the Self Portrait album which most people hate.

 

If that’s the right song, my dates are out - it was first recorded in 1967.

Whilst it was a number one hit for the Manfreds, personally can’t stand it as it’s a Wednesday song.