Are You Ready? Can You Take It? THE BOB DYLAN THREAD

I got that Tangled Up video on a DVD with his album.
His studio albums are all gone. You can find some live performances. But I have so many album favorites, now I have to listen to my own collection. Some of which was purchased as far back as 1964.

Cripes ed!! I hadn't noticed you are quoting Flaubert. Have you read Salammbo?

I saw Dylan do Senor (aka Tales of Yankee Power) in that black "smock" he wore in 1984. Wierd man. It was in the encores with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton and Chrissie Hynde helping.

My car was stolen that night from Wembley Stadium car park but it must have been by a fan because it was easy found the next day and not only undamaged but with a thank-you note and a couple of items of clothing reward.

Senor had been running through my head all week. I had to 'exorcise' it to this thread.
I only recently became interested in Flaubert. I have not gotten to that one yet.

It runs through my head quite a bit too.

It took Flaubert 5 years of sweat and blood to write Salammbo. Frances Steegmuller, an American, tells the tale well.

I have Salammbo bookmarked to read on line.

It's on Ignore ed.

It works well in Texas. The big problem with Dylan videos, none is allowed to stay up very long, as near as I can figure. Well, you likely know how it goes anyway.

PBS had a show called American Masters: Bob Dylan last night. It was top notch and I was impressed with the way Dylan discussed his song selection and writing.
Worth watching.
Here's some great writing he did on his early career.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/bob-dylan/chronicle-excerpts-of-chapter-5-river-of-ice/575/

Thanks for that. I have read almost half of it. Will come back to it after dinner.

I couldn't have resisted--"She'd been in the kitchen rattling the pots and pans".

It's an honest admission to have owned up to admiring Barry Goldwater. I did too long before I ever heard Dylan sing. I missed out all the early stuff.

To Ramona was the song. It blew me just like Dylan describes that procession of madmen and women blowing him up the escalator. I'd never heard anything like that before.

His staying clear of the "ideological heart" of Pirate Jenny surprised me when I read Chronicles. There's another example of that sort of stepping back from a collaboration with another writer.

Any priest hearing the confession would say--" Hey my son- you're not coming clean--where's the pussy? This is hardly worth three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys."

What paranoia there is in "twenty-four-hour news coverage would have been a living hell." It was a wonderful time to be 21. None better in the whole history of the human race or in any station or class. Probably never will be again.

But it's a great chapter and shows what enthusiasm can do.

I read all pan's link. It really is great writing. I'll get the book off my shelves and re-read it. Thanks pan.

One thing we've always shared , spendius, is a deep appreciation of this brilliant poet.

Is Vol 2 out yet. I must admit I expected a lot more of Vol 1 even though there is a lot of really good stuff in it. What a memory Dylan has.

Have you seen any of the bootleg videos of the 1981 gigs? Or the 1984 Newcastle. I was at Newcastle and Wembley in 1984 and Earl's Court in '81.

I was only pulling your chain pan with the NFL game.

I bought Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan. Have not heard all of the first disc as yet. Here is a sample from it.

Hopeless.