Originally posted by shavixmirI also saw it. I might do a bit of rhymin' in my new capacity as tha BWA RHymin' Consultant in his honour.
Did anyone catch the Scorsese film on Bob Dylan these last two days on BBC2?
Wasn't that fcuking terrific!!
To come out on stage; every show for an entire tour; to be boo'd at each show...
And to just carry on!
That, my friends, is balls.
To constantly renew yourself with a total disregard for everyone else's opinion? Hell yeah! An inspira ...[text shortened]... ctional character you can imagine.
But this man is real.
All hail Bob Dylan!
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I saw dylan in concert for the 4th time just a few months ago.
There he was; one day after his 64th birthday playing like a mad-man; sweat hanging, dangling and dripping from his nose in the florida heat with his wild hair in full bloom.
Unfortunately, he no longer plays the guitar; he sticks to the keyboards nowadays.
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Originally posted by invigorateI think the first half was really solid, but I was disappointed with the second half. I couldn't quite understand why Scorsese felt the need to limit a 210 minute film to just the first 25 years of Dylan's life?
The first hour was brilliant but it went on a bit.
Bob's always been an enigma, but I get the feeling he has begun the process of selling out
Seemed a shame not focus on some of his better albums after the shock of going electric, great stuff like "Blood on the Tracks" was totally unrepresented. Odd. 😕
Originally posted by ExyI think Scorsese was focusing on the time of the greatest angst
I think the first half was really solid, but I was disappointed with the second half. I couldn't quite understand why Scorsese felt the need to limit a 210 minute film to just the first 25 years of Dylan's life?
Seemed a shame not focus on some of his better albums after the shock of going electric, great stuff like "Blood on the Tracks" was totally unrepresented. Odd. 😕
going on in the country over Dylan's conversion from acoustic
to electric. After that furor died down there wasn't much controversy
about it.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageAgreed, Dylan was short lived. He was certainly an interesting character when he was younger, but look at the man later. Appearances in things like The Victoria's Secrets ad are poor form. (which by the way features my perfect woman, Adriana Lima, and Shav, how can you say she is not absolutely gorgeous!!???!?!?!?! You are clearly mad.) http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html/popup/dylan/videoHigh.html
Maybe Martin Scores Easy found it easier to work with a myth than a man.
And who could forget the awful Hearts of Fire?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093163/
I mean come on, this is the guy meant to be the voice of freedom and civil rights in America? 'Integrity my friends, is blowin in the wind, integrity's blowin in the wind.'
But Scorsese had a chance to show people that there is more than the myth and that many of Dylan's songs from the 70s were his best work. 1975's "Blood on the Tracks" is widely recognised as a masterpiece of song-writing. 1976's "Desire" has great songs like "Hurricane" and "Isis" on it. Just seems odd to me that Scorsese who has always been a big fan of Robbie Robertson and The Band, avoided the period in which they collaborated most with Dylan.