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Mon 5 Apr, 2010 01:36 pm
Bob Dylan canceled a leg of his Asia tour after the Chinese government refused him permission to play scheduled gigs in Shanghai and Beijing later this month, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
Wow! Considering how Chinese opera sounds to Western ears, this is amazing.
@dyslexia,
****, hes too fuckin old for a gig in China where the 3rd quartile age is still under 35. The only people who even give a **** about this guy are in state homes for the insane and elderly (a fine distinction between the two)
@farmerman,
Dylan is definately not for old people. He's for their parents.
Chinese society seems easily threatened, no?
@roger,
Or the Minister of Culture was put off by that "Free Tibet" t shirt he was wearing.
@Irishk,
Oh, that. Well, aren't they touchy?
Dylan really did that?
@roger,
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door....
banned at the garden gate..
@roger,
roger wrote:Dylan really did that?
Probably not LOL. I'm just-blowin'-in-the-wind
Back in the 1960s, the Chinese official newspaper published the words of Dylan's Masters of War on the front page. The times they be a changing.
@Irishk,
Ah, thanks, that 'splains the bjork ref.
I was thinking, of course, of
hmm, oops.
Poor guy. He took a walk before a concert recently on a foggy, misty evening, wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Neighbors saw this hooded figure and complained to the police, who sent a cruiser to pick up this old guy walking around.
He had no identification on him. After all, he was just walking in a suburban neighborhood. The police asked him who he was and he answered, "Bob Dylan."
They probably thought he was a smart ass . . . can I write that here? Surprised they didn't recognize him.
@plainoldme,
I read about that, it was a few years ago, or by now maybe more than a few years.
@ossobuco,
I only learned about as an anecdote in an article about walking.
@ossobuco,
I love those best and worst dressed columns after big events like the Academy Awards. Some actress wore a white feathered dress to either the AA or the Golden Globes. I suggested it was the daughter of Bjork's swan dress which Bjork has said she wore as a joke.
@farmerman,
Quote:****, hes too fuckin old for a gig in China where the 3rd quartile age is still under 35. The only people who even give a **** about this guy are in state homes for the insane and elderly (a fine distinction between the two)
Here's the scientific evidence for farmerman's definitive statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiGKQYc7bM4
It's from 1999.
How does one qualify to get into a state home?
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