The Bob hits seventy thread!

[johncorrigan]

For those of you interested in the wonderful Mr Dylan, here's an affectionate piece from John Harris in the Guardian. Happy birthday Bob!

http://www.guardian.co.uk:80/music/2011/may/14/bob-dylan-mysterious-rocker-turns-70

[Paul Sherratt]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John ( and everyone who knows me ) ?

[Richard Tarleton]

=johncorrigan;55984]For those of you interested in the wonderful Mr Dylan, here's an affectionate piece from John Harris in the Guardian. Happy birthday Bob!
http://www.guardian.co.uk:80/music/2...ocker-turns-70

Happy birthday Bob indeed. One of the soundtracks of my life from "Freewheelin" onwards. Only saw him live once, on the 1983-4 tour - an amazing performance in which he went through the song book.

[Lateralthinking1]

The recorded version of Tangled Up in Blue.

[gurnemanz]

He's been with me ever since someone brought an LP to school which we somehow managed to play in the lunch break in the music classroom. It was the Mid-Sixties and we were mid-teens. I can't even remember which songs we heard but it hit me between the eyes.

[Mr Pee]

I must admit that I've never really "got" Bob Dylan. I always thought he sounded as though he had cotton wool stuffed up his nostrils.

[johncorrigan]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John ( and everyone who knows me ) ?

I've been really enjoying 'John Wesley Harding' of late and would probably go for the wonderful 'Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest'. I also think Love and Theft is terrific of the later records and would definitely plump for 'High Water Rising (for Charlie Patton)'. Of course, ask me next week and I'd tell you something different. Thanks for asking Paul...what about yourself? :cool2:

[antongould]

Interestingly, or not, Paul Simon also 70 this year - we are all getting old brothers and sisters - says in a recent interview...."One of my deficiencies is my voice sounds sincere," Simon says. "I've tried to sound ironic. I don't. I can't. Dylan, everything he sings has two meanings. He's telling you the truth and making fun of you at the same time. I sound sincere every time"

My Breakfast on 3 track - The Times They Are A'Changin'

[Paul Sherratt]

>>>what about yourself.


Well I'd be tempted by ' One More Cup Of Coffee ' for Breakfast but will go with ' John Brown '

Interesting that Paul Simon observation as I've been smiling/laughing at Dylan's songs for some years now
Perhaps it's because we almost share birthdays ..

[Lateralthinking1]

Quotable Quote

"I didn't come out of a cereal box."

— Bob Dylan

Restaurant Guide

"Every restaurant in Dharamshala holds its unique identity. Himalaya restaurant at Dharamshala offers best Tibetan food at an affordable price. If you would like to try some tasty special Muesli, then JJI's café is the best destination. It will give you the experience of food in the background music of Bob Dylan".

Breakfast with Bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqJtO9rwPM

Best Dylan line from Porridge

"What Bob Dylan?"
Fletch: "No the hippy rabbit from the magic roundabout".

(Yesterday's) Scrambled Eggs

"Dylan had a particular dislike of McCartney's "Yesterday", a song which originally had an opening verse of "Scrambled Eggs/Oh, my baby how I love your legs". According to Bob, "If you go into the Library of Congress, you can find a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like 'Michelle' and 'Yesterday' written in Tin Pan Alley". Ironically, he ultimately recorded his own version of "Yesterday" four years later, but it was never released".

Early Morning Zimmerman



Orange Juice Blues

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/orange-juice-blues-blues-breakfast

Marmalade Records

"Marmalade Records was a short-lived British independent record label (distributed by Polydor). Started by Swiss-resident Georgian pop impresario and ex-manager of both the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds Giorgio Gomelsky in 1967, it released records by artists including Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and The Trinity, who jointly reached No. 5 in the UK in 1968 with Dylan and Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire"."

Grapefruit Moon Gallery - Dylan on Von Schmidt

http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/finearts/440.shtml

Hard Boiled in the Highlands

"Well, it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
She studies me closely as I sit down
She got a pretty face, with long white shiny legs
I said, "Tell me what I want," she say, "You probably want hard boiled eggs."

One More Cup Of (Turkish) Coffee

http://video.mynet.com/waterangel/One-More-Cup-of-Coffee-Bob-Dylan-Joan-Baez/293597/

[barber olly]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John

Got to be 'Like a Rolling Stone' the Dylan song that changed everything, but the Traveling Wilbury's 'End of the Line' would be all right!
Interesting Paul Simon also 70, His 'Old Friends' ready and waiting for him!


Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears.

Whilst we mention ageing I can't believe that many of my Conductor idols from way back are now 80 or thereabouts!

[Lateralthinking1]

I love that song - "Old Friends". Neither hoped to die before they got old. Good on them. They got their wish.

(Have to say that just those two, among many, have given me more pleasure than the combination of all of the books I have ever read.)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

love em all really but the album that really does it for me is Planet Waves [yeh yeh i know all the others and love em]

i must go and listen to the albums ...

had a great road experience with my pal driving through the high desert in Arizona with The Rolling Thunder Tour blasting on the hifi and singing at the tops of our voices ....

[antongould]

Got to be 'Like a Rolling Stone' the Dylan song that changed everything, but the Traveling Wilbury's 'End of the Line' would be all right!
Interesting Paul Simon also 70, His 'Old Friends' ready and waiting for him!


Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears.

Or a later view


The human race walked the earth for 2.7 million
And we estimate the universe at 13-14 billion
When all these numbers tumble into your imagination
Consider that the lord was there before creation
God is old
We’re not old
God is old
He made the mold

Take your cloths off
Adam and eve

[Richard Tarleton]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John ( and everyone who knows me ) ?

Desolation Row - the pinnacle of Dylan's greatest album (IMV ). The phantasmagoria of images trooping past the mind and imagination of the listener never fails to astonish. And I love it also for the soaring guitar obbligato, played by Nashville sidesman Charlie McCoy who only called into the studio to pick up some theatre tickets from the producer but was invited to pick up an acoustic guitar and play along.

At over 8 minutes, though, it may be a bit on the long side for "Breakfast"