Joan Baez was part of the white political conscience in the civil rights movement supporting Dr. Martin Luther King. Maybe it was wrong, that she put so much energy into Bob Dylan. He was not loyal to her or to a political concept, even not continuously loyal to an unplugged acoustic guitar style. He liked surrealism – and that means the maniac escape from everything. He was selfish, robbed some songs (The House of the Rising Sun), utilized fully the people around him: But nevertheless, the film document “NO DIRECTION HOME” by Martin Scorsese (2005) featured him unforgettable cool. Maybe cooler than Joan Baez or Buffy Saint-Marie, John Lennon or Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Andy Warhol and all the others, who crossed his path to the top of fame. He was adorable strong with his capability to ignore press or pop music fans. And he gives me hope and optimism: that my own fingerstyle blues guitar is not the worst method to treat a guitar.
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P.S.:
When I wrote today about Bob Dylan, I remembered, that the anti-war song UNIVERSAL SOLDIER at first was performed not by Donovan or Bob Dylan but by the female Canadian singer / songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie!!! I sat down in my garden and fingered it out on my Dobro guitar …
“Buffy was blacklisted by the Johnson and Nixon administrations for her involvement in the Vietnam anti-war movement and her fight for native people’s rights, which continues to this day…”: more about Buffy Sainte-Marie, a native Canadian Cree Indian, at Buffy_Sainte-Marie
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Interesting!
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Indeed, I have to say that you got a great guitar style. Very expressive. As far as Dylan, I can say that I liked the movie and his compositions and style. May be he was cooler than many…As the time went on, as it goes by to me Leonard Cohen is a much more accomplished model of artistry and phylosophy of life. Nice reading your thoughts, and listening to your playing the guitar. Thanks.
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I learned a lot.I didn’t know that.
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Bob is and always has been deeply flawed. I am much closer (in empathy) to Baez, Buffy, and Cohen, however, Bob’s muse has no second and together with Bob the two will be remembered and cherished in the same light as Gershwin, Ellington, Porter, Sinatra,Holiday, …etc For the creator of lyrics like the one’s below how could it not be that way!
“Take me disappear-in
down the smoke rings of my mind,
through the foggy ruins of time,
down past the frightened leaves
and the lifeless frozen trees,
way down to the windy beach,
far from the twisted reach
of crazy sorrow.”–Mr. Tambourine Man
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yes, I’ll have to grab my guitar and sing the TAMBOURINE MAN again, thanks for inspiring!
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related:
Subterranean Homesick Blues – von Bob Dylan
Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten
Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin’ that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone’s tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don’t matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don’t try “No Doz”
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin’ to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You’re gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin’ for a new fool
Don’t follow leaders
Watch the parkin’ meters
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don’t steal, don’t lift
Twenty years of schoolin’
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don’t wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don’t wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don’t work
‘Cause the vandals took the handles
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You gotta love that muse!
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I think one of the best comments on Dylan was made by David Bowie
“his words of truthful vengeance
They could pin us to the floor
Brought a few more people on
And put the fear in a whole lot more”
In his “song for bob dylan”
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