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Post by pledm on Sept 20, 2005 16:15:21 GMT -5
Hi all,just watched the new Martin Scorsese documentary on Bob,one word `BRILLIANT`.I can`t say enough of this `doc`,its electrifying.It brings you through his career,beginnings to `66.The footege of concerts and other artists are amazing,the footage of him with the hawks(the band) in england are amazing a site I thought I would never see,I have the live album,but to see bob sing it,oh wow,its like when I watched the led zep DVD,it left me in awe.Hope there`s more dylan fans,even if your not,the `doc` show`s an time when things were changin`,,enjoy,I did and forever will. ;D  |
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Post by pledm on Sept 22, 2005 11:12:10 GMT -5
Hi all,I forgot to say that `PBS` will show it on the 26th & 27 around 9,check your area,it will be condensed but it will be great viewing,very enjoyable seeing alittle bit of history,rare footage,enjoy. ;D |
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Post by Bob on Oct 18, 2005 14:46:36 GMT -5
Mr. Dylan played Stockholm this past weekend and apparently it was a lousy gig. He is a moody bastard from what I've heard so if he is in a good mood he gives a great performance and if he is in a shitty mood the show sucks... Anyway I wasn't there.
However I must say that I recommend his book! it is VERY good - the man has an extremely detailed memory of things that happened several decades ago. Amazingly well written and so very enjoyable to read.
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Post by pledm on Oct 19, 2005 2:34:38 GMT -5
Hi,I`ve read some of it (chronicles right).Ya he is very moody,seems to always go at his own speed also for people who want to really see how amazing he is/was rent or buy the new DVD its an amazing documentary,showing some great footage that i new were out there but never saw before,plus some great interviews from others including bob himself,trully shows a great history of the time it was and the man up to `66.  |
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Post by iloverobertplant on Oct 21, 2005 9:56:54 GMT -5
i saw the new documentary,it was AWESOME!Bob has the most incredible lyrics,im totally amazed at the words that he can write.
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Post by pledm on May 24, 2006 12:51:14 GMT -5
Hi all, Bob Dylan is officially 65 today. There`s a movie or 2 in the making on him also.  |
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Post by woodstock on May 27, 2006 2:13:54 GMT -5
I hope the man had a good b-day and I am looking forward to those films!
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Post by pledm on May 27, 2006 15:48:58 GMT -5
Hi woodstock,i here one of the films traces his life at different stages each with different actors,,sounds interesting. |
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Post by rockandrollphotog on Aug 22, 2006 11:33:05 GMT -5
I never got to see Dylan in the 60s but an amazing show with him and the Band was at the L.A. Forum on Feb. 13, 1974. I describe the show in "Whole Lotta Led" www.wholelottaledthebook.com on p. 161. The music & energy was fantastic--and Dylan sang many of his best songs--from "Blowin' in the Wind" to "Like a Rolling Stone." I really liked how in "It's Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding" he sang "sometimes even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked"--he got quite a wild crowd reaction to the obvious reference to Pres. Nixon, who would soon be driven from office for the Watergate scandel. I saw him twice more in the 70s in '78 but that Forum show will always stand out for me! Fantastic musicianship from the Band and their songs too. The double live Asylum album "Before the Flood" captures that tour pretty well.Check out my Dylan pictures at www.rockretrospect.com |
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Post by pledm on Aug 22, 2006 12:40:31 GMT -5
Hi Rockandrollphotog.
Hope you are liking the forum,you have some nice and very interesting passages of rock,,I like Dylan alot,the M.Scorsese doc I thought was incredible,,anyways cheers. ;D
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Post by Bob on Aug 24, 2006 14:31:28 GMT -5
I love your photos!
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Post by pledm on Aug 31, 2006 13:07:53 GMT -5
Hi all, I had the chance to hear the new Bob Dylan album `Modern Times` and its just great he is aging well,the reviews so far are through the roof,give it a listen its my next buy. |
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Post by pledm on Sept 7, 2006 13:08:10 GMT -5
Hi all, Well Bob`s new album seems to be hitting alot of people under the Nielson SoundScan this wk he hit #1 in the U.S and Canada the 1st time in 30 yrs.Also the 1st video for his song `When the deal goes down` has been shown and it stars Scarlett Johannson,its a great album nice video,give it a try for Bob fans. |
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Post by pledm on Mar 9, 2007 11:52:46 GMT -5
I found this funny;
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the time of the concert in Bologna, Italy, makes the disclosure in a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, who died in 2005.
"There was reason to be skeptical, -- I was, and in a certain sense I still am, -- to doubt if it was really right to let these types of prophets intervene," Benedict writes, only mentioning Dylan among the stars who appeared.
At the 1997 concert, Dylan, the anti-conformist troubadour of the 1960s and one of the 20th century's greatest influences on popular music, sang three songs before the Pope as part of a concert that included a number of other, mostly Italian artists.
Dylan sang "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," his 1960s anti-war classic "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," and "Forever Young," a song of hope and courage.
In his new book, Pope Benedict does not explain why he does not like Bob Dylan or why he considers him a false "prophet."
Benedict is a lover of classical and sacred music, and an accomplished classical pianist. Last year, he canceled the Vatican's traditional fund-raising Christmas concert, which was a magnet for pop stars.
Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman into a middle-class Jewish family in Minnesota, has been at times agnostic, Jewish and a born-again Christian during his musical career.
At the 1997 concert, John Paul referred to what is perhaps Dylan's most famous song, "Blowing in the Wind," which became an anthem for young people seeking meaning in life in the 1960s.
John Paul told the crowd of some 300,000 young Italian Catholics that the answer was indeed "in the wind" -- but not in the wind that blew things away, rather "in the wind of the spirit" that would lead them to Christ.
After Dylan sang, he took off his beige cowboy hat and went up to a podium to greet John Paul.
Benedict's new book, called "John Paul II, My Beloved Predecessor," is mostly a reflection on John Paul's personality and his religious writings.
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Post by pledm on Aug 9, 2007 10:31:20 GMT -5
BERLIN - A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this year at a museum in the eastern Germany city of Chemnitz.
On display in the exhibition, called "The Drawn Blank Series" will be more than 200 colored versions of pictorial motifs from a book of drawings and sketches that Dylan produced between 1989 and 1992.
The book attracted the attention of Ingrid Moessinger, a curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum, who approached Dylan about the possibility of displaying his works.
"I was fascinated to learn of Ingrid's interest in my work, and it gave me the impetus to realize the vision I had for these drawings many years ago," Dylan said Wednesday in a statement released by the museum.
"If not for this interest, I don't knox if I even would have revisited them."
The show in Chemnitz, south of Berlin, is to open on Oct. 28 and run through Feb. 3.
Would be interested to see.
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