tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33072623904816076912024-03-05T00:08:07.553-08:00bobdylanrootsWelcome to my
Bob Dylan™ Musical Roots
and Influences Blog
(a previous incarnation was bobdylanroots.com)
of Manfred Helfert, Mainz, Germany.
Any copyrighted items are included here for "nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). Most audio recordings linked to (but not hosted) in this blog are believed to be either uncopyrighted or to have lapsed into Public Domain in the EU where this blog originates.fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-3453767079216686642012-04-25T13:24:00.001-07:002012-04-25T13:24:57.545-07:00Due to the recent seizure of megaupload.com by the FBI, most of my (legal) files (<span>under EU law where this blog originates and in accordance with the Copyright Act
of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107) are no longer accessible.</span><br />
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<span>I feel that the U.S. Government/the FBI is TOTALLY
ABUSING its powers by negating CITIZENS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES the right
to use a LEGAL SERVICE THEY HAVE PAID FOR!!!!</span><br />
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<span>I have heard that EF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation) is helping to get U.S. users to get their legally stored
Megaupload files back (if they're still on the servers) -- but what
about international users?</span><br />
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<span>Is there any way to sue the FBI for not allowing me to use a (legal) service I have paid for, with hard-earned money? </span>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-51760885234075447012011-11-25T17:56:00.000-08:002011-12-17T01:50:05.948-08:00Riverside Church, New York, NY, July 29, 1961 -- includes Robert Shelton review, New York Times, July 31, 1961, mentioning Bob Dylan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPWpO6nvpZAOAFUzvwSDlg-bsBZKcwNLF6VeJ3FYNuL8KKi3uoFyalP7NiP7BItBxD1ZdoETBl321FKE2NWPV86ONS6hTDZ5frbDAp7KePGx0eeS6p7uGnQ5FETo5oE37E4WVaOEv6rs/s1600/610731_rshelton_nyt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPWpO6nvpZAOAFUzvwSDlg-bsBZKcwNLF6VeJ3FYNuL8KKi3uoFyalP7NiP7BItBxD1ZdoETBl321FKE2NWPV86ONS6hTDZ5frbDAp7KePGx0eeS6p7uGnQ5FETo5oE37E4WVaOEv6rs/s320/610731_rshelton_nyt.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><b>Recently, I came across two CDs of amateur recordings from the July 29, 1961 "Saturday of Folk Music", broadcast on WRVR, New York, NY.</b><br />
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<b>Whoever had the foresight to record this for posterity, did it with amateur equipment off the air -- there is a fair amount of interference and the reel-to-reel recording was stopped, whenever the taper seemed not to be interested in an artist. Upon restarting, the beginning of songs are cut frequently, as the taper did not manage to push the button on time -- so, quite a few songs are fragments only.</b><br />
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<b>Moreover, this is from a tape labeled "Part 2" -- other tapes have not been located so far, although they might exist, based on the following clue from my detective bag:</b><br />
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<b>-- The performance of a yet unsigned Bob Dylan from that date (featuring <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kalb">Danny Kalb</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott">Ramblin' Jack Elliott</a>) is NOT part of the tape labeled "Part 2" (as Dylan's performance is in circulation for quite a long time, there could be other tapes including his performance and that of others somewhere). </b><br />
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<b>I have no idea, unfortunately, about the sequence of performers during this 12-hour marathon, but have included (unsigned) <a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LK8LVXV3">Bob Dylan's performance</a> for the sake of (temporary) completeness.</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0oIts1cZ0gc4Gb1kCnZRxpjaxRQHl0KZ78kfQOeiltQSLCPz_JhLwn88F9OJx32jJo9IKTXePOb-qLkzhxKpD51Lrew-EvUBfhntE-6AycLv7UB6nwRwhgjGxXQfzOG3I_c4JJyt4dU/s1600/10144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0oIts1cZ0gc4Gb1kCnZRxpjaxRQHl0KZ78kfQOeiltQSLCPz_JhLwn88F9OJx32jJo9IKTXePOb-qLkzhxKpD51Lrew-EvUBfhntE-6AycLv7UB6nwRwhgjGxXQfzOG3I_c4JJyt4dU/s1600/10144.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kick back, relax, and enjoy a certainly less-than-perfect historical audio document of an event half a century ago, where <a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/r-i-p-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html">Suze Rotolo</a> started flirting with Bob Dylan and where Bob might have first met <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Kunstadt">Len Kunstadt</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Spivey">Victoria Spivey</a>, leading to his recording session with Victoria and Big Joe Williams....</b></span><br />
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For your convenience, I have transcribed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_%28critic%29"><b>Robert Shelton</b></a>'s review of this event (<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>, July 31, 1961</b>):<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FOLK MUSIC HEARD ON 12-HOUR SHOW</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WRVR-FM Program Marks Start of 'Live' Project</b></span><br />
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A marathon program of folk music was run on Saturday to initiate the live music project of the city's newest FM radio outlet. Aside from a few pauses to identify station WRVR, the sound of ballads, blues, banjos and bouzoukis was heard from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.<br />
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From noon on, the "festival" was held in the theatre of Riverside Church before a vociferously appreciative audience. The co-producers, Israel G. Young and Bob Yellin, rounded up more than fifty volunteer performers, of whom only a handful fell below a general high level of competence. No one was paid for his efforts, but the success of the program may serve to remind commercial radio and television stations that there is a largely untapped reservoir of zealous city folk musicians ready, willing and able to perform.<br />
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Although there were enough lapsv [SIC] of broadcasting practices during the day to gray a studio official's hair, the musical proceedings moved along with pace and variety and relatively few arid patches.<br />
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<b>Commentary by Kunstadt</b><br />
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The segment on the blues, probably the day's best portion, was given shape by the commentary of Len Kunstadt, a jazz historian with a flair for aphorism and enthusiasm.<br />
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He introduced a series of singers—Bob Fox, Bruce Langhorne, Dave Van Ronk, the Rev. Gary Davis and Victoria Spivey —who touched on every aspect of the genre — traditional and commercial, sacred and profane, sad and even happy blues. Miss Spivey, whose recording career began in 1926, had as her accompanist on "St. Louis Blues" W, C. Handy Jr., son of the song's composer.<br />
An exotic interlude of music from the Middle East was provided by local Greek and Turkish performers organized by J. R. Goddard and introduced by Cynthia Gooding in a section on foreign music. The Turkish songs of Saliha Tekneci were sinuous and haunting. The oud-playing of George Mgrdichian was dancingly rhythmic and tonally beautiful. And a taxim, a free improvisation on the bouzouki by Thomas Athanasiou, was inventive and pulsing.<br />
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The more-familiar banjo had its moments, too. Paul Cadwell is an old-school florid technician with a bag of virtuoso tricks, and John Cohen demonstrated traditional country styles. The flashy pyrotechnics of Scruggs-picking were offered by Roger Sprung, Marshall Brickman and Mr. Yellin. <br />
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<b>Sandy Bull Performs</b><br />
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But it fell to a young music-J theory student, Sandy Bull, to really plumb the depths of creativity on the "primitive" folk instrument. Mr. Bull is equally at home in Southern mountain and blues styles, but his tonal richness, technical mastery and imagination excelled in his own explorative banjo transcriptions of a canon by William Byrd and Orff's"Carmina Burana," no less.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LK8LVXV3">Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year-old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling, country-steeped manner</a>; </b><br />
John Wynn, a polished, poised tenor whose art-song approach to balladry was impressive; Tom Paxton, a Western singer with' an obvious potential as a songwriter, and Buddy Pendleton, a country fiddler of rare vintage.<br />
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It would be impossible to list every high point during the day, but some old friends did<br />
have their innings. Among them were Logan English's tart topical song on the Washington Square ruckus and John Herald's alfalfa-flavored sacred, song, "We Need a Whole Lot, More of Jesus and a Lot Less Rock 'n' Roll."<br />
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The personable stage manner of Molly Scott, the hand-clapping gospel rousers of Brother John Sellers and Herman Stevens, and the antics of Rambling Jack Elliott were other pleasing moments.<br />
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There were few big-name performers to give glamour to the proceedings, but the talent<br />
and exuberance of so many dedicated musicians made the day one to remember.<br />
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<b>ROBERT SHELTON.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">CONTENTS OF TAPE LABELED "PART 2": </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SEMTU59P"><b>Ramblin' Jack Elliott</b></a><br />
01 San Francisco Bay Blues<br />
02 How Long Blues<br />
03 Hard Traveling<br />
04 Talking Fisherman<br />
ß5 -I Belong to Glasgow<br />
06 Cocaine</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I60VPJ88">07 unknown Turkish singer & 08 another unknown (??? - sounds like French) singer</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FHFL0PXB">John Wynn</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">09 Preamble<br />
10 Man Is For The Woman Made<br />
11 Let Me Go With You<br />
12 Little Boy How Old Are You?<br />
13 Low And Sweet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9XWE9WHQ">Herman Stevens of the Stevens Gospel Singers</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">14 He's Wonderful<br />
15 He's Got The Whole World In His Hands</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LP4JA2EU">16 Station break</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9QK1ERV">17 Bruce Langhorne </a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3SII0880">18 Anne Bird</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Anchored In Love<b><br />
Anne Bird & Logan English</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">19 Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday<br />
20 Storms Are On The Ocean<br />
21 Till I Return Again<br />
22 Knoxville Girl</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B3MXKAUT">Logan English</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">23 Barbara Allen<br />
24 Kitty Alone<br />
25 Washington Square Music Permit Blues</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XOCINUDP">John Herald & The Greenbriar Boys</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">26 Down The Road<br />
27 Stewball<br />
28 Instrumental<br />
29 We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus And A Lot Less Rock And Roll </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HAOM7JIK">Reverend Gary Davis</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">01 Salty Dog instrumental<br />
02 Iinstrumental<br />
03 Instrumental</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UI5U40UZ">Dave Van Ronk</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">04 Death Letter Blues<br />
05 Green Green Rocky Road<br />
06 Hoochie Coochie Man<br />
07 Poor Lazarus<b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=92HNC4OD">Victoria Spivey</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">08 Introduction by Len Kunstadt<br />
09 Satan Get Down Below<br />
10 My Man Caught Me Wrong<br />
11 Intro to Saint Louis Blues<br />
12 Saint Louis Blues<b> with W.C. Handy Jr.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=02MUSJGE">Tom Paxton</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">13 Springhill Mine Disaster<br />
14 Pepperfoot<br />
15 The Train for Auschwitz<br />
16 Sully's Pail<br />
17 Going To The Zoo<br />
18 John Birch Society<br />
19 Pastures Of Plenty<b> </b></span><br />
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</span>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-92079790327485147732011-11-05T21:05:00.000-07:002011-11-05T21:12:34.444-07:00Rosanne Cash on her father's list of "100 Essential Songs" and Bob Dylan's "Girl From The North Country" (2009)<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanne_Cash"><b>Rosanne Cash</b></a>, in conversation with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Levitin"><b>Daniel J. Levitin</b></a>, <b>WGBH, Boston, MA</b>, on her father's (Johnny Cash's) list of "100 Essential Songs" and Dylan's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country"><i><b>Girl From The North Country</b></i></a>" (Oct. 21, 2009):<br />
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<center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/30J9EYPQWRI" width="560"></iframe></center>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-7625717310694647362011-11-05T20:31:00.000-07:002011-11-05T20:31:47.671-07:00BDSM=Berlin Dylan Subway Massacre, early 1990sAn attempt at visualising what I perceive as a rather prevalent phenomenom -- <b>why do buskers ALMOST ALWAYS have to use <a href="http://bobdylan.com/">Bob Dylan</a> songs to extort money from innocent subway passengers?</b><br />
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Inspired by an all too recent experience of that kind and a <b>"<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">New Yorker</a></b>"<b> cartoon, October 2010.</b><br />
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<center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ivVgH5Q7yg" width="420"></iframe></center>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-9687187717917702712011-11-04T15:05:00.000-07:002011-11-04T15:17:47.011-07:00Tom Paxton on Bob Dylan (2000)Found this interesting passage about early Bob Dylan in <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paulson">Ken Paulson</a></b>'s<br />
<b><a href="http://www.thefreepress.org/about.aspx?id=12806">Tom Paxton interview of November 29, 2000</a></b>:<br />
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<b>Paxton: </b>One night in Greenwich Village, there's a — there used to be a club called <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerde's_Folk_City">Gerde's Folk City</a></b>. So, one night, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk">Dave Van Ronk</a></b> and I — apparently, we had already done our three songs apiece. And we were sitting there drinking beer, and this scruffy kid in a black corduroy cap — what they called a Huck Finn cap — and a, and a harmonica rack and a — I think a Gibson guitar got up and sang three <b><a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/">Woody Guthrie</a></b> songs. And both Dave and I, who were not easy, said, "Yeah, not bad. Ooh, this guy's all right." So, in next to no time, Bob Dylan was the most talked about, argued about artist in the Village. I mean, they were accusing him of being a Woody Guthrie clone, which was nonsense. He didn't sound like Woody Guthrie. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin'_Jack_Elliott"><strong>Jack Elliott</strong></a>, in his early days, sounded much more like Woody than Bob ever did. But Bob had a tremendous repertoire of Woody Guthrie songs. He knew Woody Guthrie songs no one else knew. And perhaps Woody didn't write 'em. Perhaps Bob did, but who knows?<br />
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<b>Paulson:</b> Turned out to be a pretty fair writer. Do you recall your reaction to Dylan's first compositions?<br />
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<b>Paxton:</b> Oh, yeah. I liked his writing right from the beginning. And I have to tell you about one night. The <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaslight_Cafe">Gaslight Cafe</a></b>, where most of us worked, was on MacDougal Street. And it was down about eight steps. It was a cellar. It was a coffee house, no booze. And I — it was not a large place at all. Upstairs, on the first floor, in the back, there was a, a little apartment that the Gaslight rented or owned or something, just kind of a storage room. And we set up a table in there. We had this penny-ante poker game that was continuous. And my roommate at the time was a guy named <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Romney">Hugh Romney</a></b>, who became, later, widely known in — as Wavy Gravy. And he was a poet, a beat poet. And he had this portable typewriter, or what we would call now a laptop typewriter, that he had left in this room for general use. And so, one night, I came in early for work, and Bob was in there tap, tap, tapping and had just finished this long poem. And he said, "What do you think of this?" So, I looked at this thing, and I said, "Well, this, you know, wild imagery, you know, what are you going to do with it?" And he said, "Well, I, I, I — ." I said, "Are you gonna, you know, put music to it?" He said, "What? You think I should?" I says, "Yeah, I mean, 'cause otherwise it's just something to go in some literary quarterly or something, but this way, you know, you'll have a song out of it." So, the next night — Bob never worked at the Gaslight, but he was there a lot and would get up late at night and, and do a set. And he got up, and he sang this new song called "It's a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." And nowadays, when I hear him sing it, and it gets into, like, what seems like the 20th minute, I think, "Did I make the right decision in advising this?" No, I'm just kidding. It's a great, a great song. It's a —<br />
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<a href="http://www.thefreepress.org/flash/display_video.aspx?id=18941"><b>Completete interview (video)</b></a>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-53907884510258390632011-09-15T14:17:00.000-07:002011-09-15T15:02:11.312-07:00"Heartland" - 1990 song by Steve Gillette & Rex Benson<a href="http://mudcat.org/graphics/%21mudcat.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="33" src="http://mudcat.org/graphics/%21mudcat.gif" width="200" /></a><br />
Back in March of 1997, I was searching the <a href="http://mudcat.org/download.cfm"><b>Digital Tradition Folksong Database</b></a> at <a href="http://mudcat.org/"><b>The Mudcat Cafe</b></a>, trying to find the lyrics to the song "<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/heartland"><i><b>Heartland</b></i></a>" by <b>Bob Dylan</b> and <b>Willie Nelson</b> from Willie Nelson's 1993 album "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Borderline"><i><b>Across the Borderline</b></i></a>".<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://compassrosemusic.com/-steve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://compassrosemusic.com/-steve.jpg" width="216" /></a></div>To my astonishment, I found an identically titled song<br />
by <b><a href="http://www.compassrosemusic.com/gillette.html">Steve Gillette</a></b> and <b>Rex Benson</b>:<br />
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Here, in the heart of the nation.<br />
I'm just a man whose made a promise he can't keep<br />
I've been workin' every sunrise,<br />
But it's too late, I'm in too deep.<br />
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This farm is my home it's my birthright<br />
It's the only life I know.<br />
I've worked this land with all the love in these hands<br />
And I can't just let it go.<br />
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But in the heartland,<br />
There's a man who holds the paper on my soul.<br />
There's a circumstance that's out of my control.<br />
And the thunder and the winds begin to roll.<br />
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In the heartland,<br />
In the light before the darkness falls.<br />
Revelations in those marbled halls,<br />
Where they've traded away my home,<br />
Where they've taken away my home.<br />
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What does it profit a man,<br />
To gain the world and lose the seed?<br />
To see the innocent land<br />
Become the servant of their greed.<br />
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And I know I'm not alone,<br />
There's a woman who knew me when my prayers were younger.<br />
And children, ashamed of their hunger.<br />
And others, family farmers like my own,<br />
Up late tonight in the heartland.<br />
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And in the heartland,<br />
There's a man who holds the paper on my soul.<br />
There's a circumstance that's out of my control<br />
And the thunder and the winds begin to roll.<br />
In the heartland,<br />
In the light before the darkness falls.<br />
Recriminations in those distant halls<br />
Where they've traded away our home,<br />
Where they've taken away our home.<br />
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<b>Copyright 1990, Foreshadow Music, BMI / Jesse Erin Music, ASCAP<br />
Used by permission</b> <br />
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Back in 1997, I wrote:<br />
"<i>Somehow, I found the similarities (topic and lyrics) to the identically named Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson song to be rather striking -- mere coincidence? Somehow, I doubt it....</i><br />
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<i> To be fair, however, didn't Bob himself start the whole thing with "<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-of-hollis-brown">Ballad of Hollis Brown</a>" back in the 1960s?</i><br />
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<i>Or Woody Guthrie in "Tom Joad", his rendering of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"... </i><br />
<i>Or, for that matter, the anonymous authors lamenting the plight of peasants in medieval England?</i>"<br />
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Yesterday, I received an email from Steve Gillette who confirmed that at least <b>Willie Nelson knew Steve's and Rex's song prior to his collaboration with Bob Dylan</b>:<br />
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"<i>Rex and I were very gratified by your willingness to make that statement. It seemed to us that you were very perceptive, and also willing to point out that the emperor's new cloths might not be what they seem. Forgive the clumsy use of the old expression, but I was glad to have the article which I believe you wrote in 1997. </i><br />
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<i>When Rex and I wrote the song it seemed a natural fit with the Farm Aid concerts and we sent the song to Willie by way of his managers, his harmonica player, Micky Rafael who is an acquaintance, we even left a copy for him at his golf course, so <b>we know he had ample opportunity to hear our song</b>."</i><br />
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Steve added in a second email today:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laihd41QuU1qabwixo1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laihd41QuU1qabwixo1_500.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i>"I do have great respect for Willie Nelson and for Bob Dylan and wouldn't want to say anything hurtful or that might be interpreted as a cheap shot, but <b>what I said about their having access to our song is true. </b> And, honestly, <b>I don't think one could write their song without having heard ours</b>, but it wouldn't be the first time that I heard the echoes of my own words without knowing the full story.</i>"fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-19721938606916543752011-08-22T11:53:00.000-07:002011-08-22T15:30:21.734-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 11 - "Democracy Now!" Special<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><center><object width="640" height="506" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="high" name="quality"/><param value="true" name="cachebusting"/><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" /><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'dn2011-0524_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/dn2011-0524_vid/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming','showCaptions':true},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'},'captions':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.captions-3.2.0.swf','captionTarget':'content'},'content':{'display':'block','url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.content-3.2.0.swf','bottom':26,'left':0,'width':640,'height':50,'backgroundGradient':'none','backgroundColor':'transparent','textDecoration':'outline','border':0,'style':{'body':{'fontSize':'14','fontFamily':'Arial','textAlign':'center','fontWeight':'bold','color':'#ffffff'}}}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"/><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="506" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'dn2011-0524_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/dn2011-0524_vid/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming','showCaptions':true},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'},'captions':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.captions-3.2.0.swf','captionTarget':'content'},'content':{'display':'block','url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.content-3.2.0.swf','bottom':26,'left':0,'width':640,'height':50,'backgroundGradient':'none','backgroundColor':'transparent','textDecoration':'outline','border':0,'style':{'body':{'fontSize':'14','fontFamily':'Arial','textAlign':'center','fontWeight':'bold','color':'#ffffff'}}}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}"> </embed></object></center><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv94nCEC_hbdOOYzbCAlwX_OS014vVaadCp-2qyXfsm-nCUpSYSS_H-i0gIFQL51t2oPxAOT0ZuF7sEBJEY1nLr6MlsrQ-3w5h1GWNcjrqmeGtNKLL_1LQHDfCbEF547BbDQ_ZHgQNkKQ/s1600/dn_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv94nCEC_hbdOOYzbCAlwX_OS014vVaadCp-2qyXfsm-nCUpSYSS_H-i0gIFQL51t2oPxAOT0ZuF7sEBJEY1nLr6MlsrQ-3w5h1GWNcjrqmeGtNKLL_1LQHDfCbEF547BbDQ_ZHgQNkKQ/s1600/dn_logo.png" /></a></div><h1 class="segment"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/24/the_legendary_bob_dylan_turns_70"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Democracy Now!, May 24, 2011:</b></span></a></h1><h1 class="segment"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> T</b>he Legendary Bob Dylan Turns 70: Democracy Now! Airs Rare Interviews and Songs from Pacifica Radio Archives</span></h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today <a href="http://bobdylan.com/">Bob Dylan</a> turns 70 years old, and we air a special program on his life and music. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Raised in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibbing,_Minnesota">Hibbing, Minnesota</a>, he moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_village">Greenwich Village</a> in January of 1961.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Within a couple of years, Dylan would be viewed by many as the voice of a generation as he wrote some of the decade’s most famous songs, including “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blowin-in-the-wind">Blowin’ in the Wind</a>,” “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/the-times-they-are-a-changin">The Times They Are a-Changing</a>,” “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/like-a-rolling-stone">Like a Rolling Stone</a>,” “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/masters-of-war">Masters of War</a>,” “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/desolation-row">Desolation Row</a>” and “<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man">Mr. Tambourine Man</a>.” After emerging from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_New_York_City">New York City folk scene</a>, Dylan explored many other genres, from rock to country to the blues. He continues to tour to this day. In 2008, the <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat">Pulitzer Prize</a> jury awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But before Bob Dylan became a musical star, he was one of countless young musicians in New York City trying to get heard. Some of his earliest radio appearances were on <a href="http://wbai.org/">Pacifica radio station <span class="caps">WBAI</span>.</a> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We speak with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fass"><b>legendary <span class="caps">WBAI</span> broadcaster</b> <b>Bob Fass</b></a>, the host of <a href="http://wbai.org/index.php?Itemid=135&id=353&option=com_content&task=view">Radio Unnameable</a>, who interviewed Dylan several times. Fass’s show began in 1963 and became a leading outlet for the emerging counterculture of the 1960s. It still airs every Thursday night at midnight. We play excerpts from the Pacifica Radio Archives of a 1962 performance by Dylan on Fass’s show and an interview when he was only 20 years old. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTsQz3WLU4SDgSYEgimIs6qeCZJGvzvUxnY2r7gPBKkyJtQofoSb8Tow8uAl3t_2hafPXms-mn41E6lf7SHAjSDLxOz7Yy7PxPR7VlCzvICGBqhA6wqNA6hsdvfz_T8nvQ6vDorH7u3g/s1600/ethompson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTsQz3WLU4SDgSYEgimIs6qeCZJGvzvUxnY2r7gPBKkyJtQofoSb8Tow8uAl3t_2hafPXms-mn41E6lf7SHAjSDLxOz7Yy7PxPR7VlCzvICGBqhA6wqNA6hsdvfz_T8nvQ6vDorH7u3g/s1600/ethompson.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We also speak with <b><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/47159-home-again-home-again-pw-talks-with-elizabeth-thomson.html">music writer Elizabeth Thomson</a></b>, co-editor of the newly reissued book, <b><a href="http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/392398_-No-Direction-Home--revisited.html">No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan</a></b>, written by the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_%28critic%29"><b>Robert Shelton</b></a>. And we feature part of Dylan’s 1963 performance at the March on Washington and hear why Dylan refused to sing out at protests against the Vietnam War.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/24/stream"><b>Listen to/watch program at democracynow.org</b></a><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N3H0U4AL">Edited version</a> (non-Dylan parts removed) </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Related link:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://authorsontourlive.com/no-direction-home/">Elizabeth Thomson Interview</a> (Podcast) </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-33711389427940560962011-06-22T16:44:00.000-07:002011-08-17T11:25:54.742-07:00From Bob Dylan's Private Record Collection - Blind Boy Fuller (1935-1940)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3KE7kSter9DDvPo7850vGUDmmjw5xWaOo0Ib1O038gZtHRFc7ju_1-9bHyB_rlJPmRozmQk6yn1wKt8duVYV0h-tXL2d70jX4qKIpVg-gSdQf63ETjiUh9JsP2TAfRslLO1ip5MFRco/s1600/bbfuller_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3KE7kSter9DDvPo7850vGUDmmjw5xWaOo0Ib1O038gZtHRFc7ju_1-9bHyB_rlJPmRozmQk6yn1wKt8duVYV0h-tXL2d70jX4qKIpVg-gSdQf63ETjiUh9JsP2TAfRslLO1ip5MFRco/s320/bbfuller_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In a <a href="http://recordmecca.blogspot.com/2011/02/bob-dylans-muse-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html">tribute</a> to <a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/r-i-p-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html"><b>Suze Rotolo</b></a> earlier this year, <b>Jeff Gold</b> (of <a href="http://recordmecca.com/"><b>recordmecca.com</b></a>) posted pictures/scans of <b>two items from Dylan's personal record collection</b> (folk blues on the European/Dutch Philips label, acquired from Suze) on <a href="http://recordmecca.blogspot.com/2011/02/bob-dylans-muse-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html"><b>his own (highly recommended)</b> <b>blog</b></a>.<br />
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Jeff commented:<br />
<i>"Both of these albums... are what collectors call 'well played'--far from mint condition; obviously frequently played by their original owners. </i><i> </i><br />
<i>These were records they listened to, loved, and in many cases were inspired by; some of the building blocks of their artistry. Part of their musical mojo. So thanks to Suze Rotolo, we have a bit more insight into what Bob was listening to at a most formative time....</i> <i>To me, these were talismanic objects, filled with the music we now know inspired Dylan so much. When I asked Rotolo by email why Dylan had written on his albums, she told me that it was similar to making notes in the margins of books for him. Later I realized at the point he annotated these, he had only been going by the name Bob Dylan for perhaps a year and a half--in fact, he had only legally changed his name in August, 1962--three months before buying these. It's almost as if he was seeing how his new name fit alongside those of these legendary artists.</i>"<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bI5YEh-CtChT4ojk9vGdezMhw3Md7IS8dsTtbkDs41e3SCPj2JbyEDrgPO18rlnHuRhP_OxRfloAiNwYd3sGpwLZvriLNR5mAwqdRUOIvv7d5s2HGSfrfPqZ7R2hXq-YD1Rp28WEs2U/s1600/dobellES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bI5YEh-CtChT4ojk9vGdezMhw3Md7IS8dsTtbkDs41e3SCPj2JbyEDrgPO18rlnHuRhP_OxRfloAiNwYd3sGpwLZvriLNR5mAwqdRUOIvv7d5s2HGSfrfPqZ7R2hXq-YD1Rp28WEs2U/s200/dobellES.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KC78XT0V"><b>I have tried to recreate one of these albums</b></a> from more recent sources/transfers in my own collection --<b> most tracks should be superior sound/quality than that of the original -- basically "bootleg" -- album</b>, which Bob Dylan acquired during his first trip to London, England, in late 1962 (possibly at <a href="http://vzone.virgin.net/davidh.taylor/dobell.htm"><b>Dobell's Record Shop</b></a> in <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross_Road">Charing Cross Road</a></b>, where he contributed to <a href="http://www.richardandmimi.com/dickanderic.html">an album</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fari%C3%B1a"><b>Richard Farina</b></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Von_Schmidt"><b>Eric Von Schmidt</b></a> providing back-up vocals and harmonica).<br />
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<b>"<i>Drinked up and let out by Bob Dylan</i>" </b><br />
and <b>"<i>Read Thoroughly and with full throttle by Bob Dylan</i>" </b>-- one song from this compilation<br />
("<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/step-it-and-go"><i><b>Step It Up And G</b>o</i></a>") was covered by Bob on his 1992 album "<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/good-as-i-been-to-you"><i><b>Good As I Been To You</b></i></a>".<br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KC78XT0V"><b>Full recording details in ID3 tags: </b></a><br />
01 She's a Truckin' Little Baby <br />
02 Screaming and Crying Blues<br />
03 Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay<br />
04 I Want Some of Your Pie<br />
05 Cat Man Blues<br />
06 Been Your Dog<br />
07 Hungry Calf Blues<br />
08 Mojo Hidin' Woman <br />
09 Piccolo Rag<br />
10 Lost Lover Blues<br />
11 Night Rambling Woman<br />
12 Step It Up and Go <br />
13 Keep Away from My Woman <b>NOTE:</b> <b>Since I'm not aware which take of this track has</b><br />
14 Keep Away from My Woman <b>been used for this compilation, I've included both.</b><br />
15 Little Woman You're So Sweet <br />
16 My Brownskin Sugar Plum <br />
17 Evil Hearted Woman fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-61373157445312949232011-06-08T15:16:00.000-07:002011-06-08T15:19:24.413-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 10 - even more German radio...<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_c8XaiWiylLjkPEYdhDmYAHG0cIVxMconRcIyNeXpwkLxOiEOkHlPRGtRMefegPCcgVKn7XZt4LG32kJrgeQN-lxECGNs4bIVy7fUCuJMzcCjzRB2fqPyYMh2k1TyI8EOFSY4Q98kmE/s1600/Ja%252C_Panik_-_Ja%252C_Panik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_c8XaiWiylLjkPEYdhDmYAHG0cIVxMconRcIyNeXpwkLxOiEOkHlPRGtRMefegPCcgVKn7XZt4LG32kJrgeQN-lxECGNs4bIVy7fUCuJMzcCjzRB2fqPyYMh2k1TyI8EOFSY4Q98kmE/s200/Ja%252C_Panik_-_Ja%252C_Panik.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OTMYDGHV">Bob Dylan als "kulturelle Konstante"</a>, </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><b>Broadcast: Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 24, 2011</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_384423623">Musiker der Band "</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_384423623"><b>Ja, Panik</b></a><a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/thema/1465547/">" schätzt den großen Musiker und sieht ihn auch kritisch.</a><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Moderation: <b>Ulrike Timm</b></span><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><span style="font-size: small;">Andreas Spechtl<b style="font-weight: normal;"> von der Gruppe "</b>Ja, Panik<b style="font-weight: normal;">" bezeichnet die genaue Arbeit an den Texten seiner Band als Einfluss von Bob Dylan. Seine Protestsongs aus den 60ern seien allerdings "Kitsch". </b></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><span style="font-size: small;">Broadcast: Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 24, 2011</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/interview/1465406/"><span style="font-size: small;">Wolfgang Niedecken im Gespräch mit Ute Welty</span> </a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wenn ihm als Teenager die Musik von Bob Dylan nicht begegnet wäre, dann hätte sein Leben einen völlig anderen Verlauf genommen, sagt der Sänger der Kölschrock-Gruppe "<a href="http://www.bap.de/start/"><b>BAP</b></a>", <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Niedecken"><b>Wolfgang Niedecken</b></a>. Der amerikanische Folk- und Rockmusiker sei sein musikalischer "Urknall" gewesen.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="color_dkultur"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-35295155325440409692011-06-05T02:20:00.000-07:002011-07-27T12:17:56.560-07:00No Nazis in Berlin 1964 either -- more of Clinton Heylin's uncalled-for anti-German "propaganda" and sloppy "research"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIYw5U4AdIHxD0Z1T8Ii7iapoIWZ3q3DABPfn4LKy0yQpMuU789DDNRcEKy-pfJQXhkz1JwtyleGlo6Rvq8dDWc333rceCDQSvMt2C34cDFdzHkXdAFg5cdkK-CuG39qLeorfihBFR0k/s1600/ABBUY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIYw5U4AdIHxD0Z1T8Ii7iapoIWZ3q3DABPfn4LKy0yQpMuU789DDNRcEKy-pfJQXhkz1JwtyleGlo6Rvq8dDWc333rceCDQSvMt2C34cDFdzHkXdAFg5cdkK-CuG39qLeorfihBFR0k/s320/ABBUY.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><b>As a German, I feel increasingly angered that Clinton Heylin (or his editor) seems to be somewhat "obsessed" with Germans being equal to "Nazis" or "neo-Nazis".</b><br />
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<a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-neo-nazis-noted-in-nuremberg-is.html"><b>Besides the definitely non-existing "neo-Nazis" at Dylan's 1978 Nuremberg concert</b></a>, <b>why does Heylin have to describe Dylan's hardly documented private trip to Berlin in 1964 in such a way?</b><br />
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"Availing himself of Hoffenburg's hospitality, Dylan spent a day looking for Nazis in West Berlin and, not finding any, concluded they'd all moved to Arlington"<br />
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<b>of </b><b><i><a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/work/behind-shades/9780571272402/">Behind the Shades</a></i> )</b><br />
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<b>There's nothing about Dylan "looking for Nazis in West Berlin" in the (rather few) sources documenting this trip</b>, like the one quoted at <b> </b><br />
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-- once again,<b> it seems to spring SOLELY from Heylin's or his editor's (more than a little twisted) imagination and amounts to outright racist and uncalled-for anti-German "propaganda" Clinton (or his editor) obviously added to make his book sell better with UK and US readers accustomed to the Nazi-image of Germans.</b><br />
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<b>"<i>Propaganda</i></b><i> is a form of communication that is aimed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_influence" title="Social influence">influencing</a> the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself.</i><br />
<i>As opposed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_%28journalism%29" title="Objectivity (journalism)">impartially</a> providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Lying_by_omission" title="Lie">lying by omission</a>) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.</i>"<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/26/schoolsworldwide.artsandhumanities">Related Link</a></b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-73071708227809594552011-06-04T13:00:00.000-07:002011-06-04T13:02:39.207-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 09 - more from the UK<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><br />
<b>Ann McElvoy, "<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=844SU67A">Night Waves</a>", BBC Radio 3, Broadcast May 24, 2011</b><br />
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As Bob Dylan turns 70, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/anne_mcelvoy.shtml"><b>Anne [McElvoy]</b></a> discovers why his recent work still has meaning from singer <a href="http://www.barbjungr.co.uk/"><b>Barb Jungr</b></a> and English academic, <b><a href="http://craigsavage.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/radio-3s-night-waves-interviews-daniel-karlin-as-dylan-turns-70/">Daniel Karlin</a></b>.<b></b><br />
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<b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=66M0XU5H">Bob Dylan's London</a>", BBC London, Broadcast May 18, 2011</b><br />
<b>Russell Clarke</b> talks to <b>Robert Elmes</b> about Dylan's visits to London through the years.<b></b><br />
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<b>Alan Thompson, "<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UBP6535R">The Evening Show</a>", BBC Radio Wales, Broadcast June 01, 2011</b><br />
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A look back at the career of Bob Dylan. <b>Alan Thompson</b> talks to biographer <a href="http://www.omnibuspress.com/News/11-03-03/FINEST_BOB_DYLAN_BIOGRAPHY_UPDATED.aspx"><b>Patrick Humphreys</b></a> [sic].fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-88786385023904707282011-06-04T02:37:00.000-07:002011-06-04T23:54:45.770-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 08 - from Scotland<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
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<b>"Another Country" with Ricky Ross, Broadcast: BBC Scotland, May 20, 2011</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7RGODGXE">PART 01</a> (first hour)</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KCCZLBWZ">PART 02</a> (second hour)</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.rosannecash.com/"><b>Rosanne Cash</b></a>, <a href="http://www.tomjones.com/"><b>Tom Jones</b></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Thompson"><b>Teddy Thompson</b></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Finn"><b>Craig Finn</b></a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hold_Steady"><b>The Hold Steady</b></a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesecretsisters"><b>The Secret Sisters</b></a> all choose their favourite Bob Dylan songs to celebrate his 70th birthday. Plus Ricky Ross takes a look at some of the many Americana and alternative country artists that have covered the Bob Dylan songbook over the years. Part 1/2.<br />
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<b>"Another Country" with Ricky Ross, Broadcast: BBC Scotland, May 27, 2011</b><br />
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Am Mikrofon: Michael Kleff<br />
Broadcast: DLF, May 25, 2011</b><br />
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Als Bob Dylan 1961 auf der Suche nach seinem Idol <a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/"><b>Woody Guthrie</b></a> nach New York kam, träumte er von einem Vertrag bei <a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/"><b>Folkways</b></a>, dem schon damals legendären Label von <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Asch"><b>Moses Asch</b></a>. <br />
Doch nur wenige Tage nach einem von <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_%28critic%29"><b>Robert Shelton</b></a> in der New York Times im September 1961 veröffentlichten Konzertbericht stand Dylan bei Columbia unter Vertrag. <br />
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Dennoch gab es wenig später Aufnahmen von ihm bei Folkways. Aus rechtlichen Gründen erschien er auf den Alben "Broadside Ballads" und "Broadside Reunion" unter dem Namen <b>Blind Boy Grunt</b>. Auch auf einer <a href="http://www.farinacd.com/">1963 in London aufgenommenen Platte</a> von <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fari%C3%B1a"><b>Richard Farina</b></a> und <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Von_Schmidt"><b>Eric von Schmidt</b></a> ist Bob Dylan unter diesem Pseudonym als Sänger und Mundharmonikaspieler zu hören. <br />
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Zum 70. Geburtstag des Musikers am 24. Mai gibt es im "Lieder-Laden" Songs von Blind Boy Grunt sowie Musik- und Interviewausschnitte von Dylans frühen Radioauftritten im Oktober 1961 in <a href="http://www.oscarbrand.com/"><b>Oscar Brand</b></a>s Sendung "Folk Festival" und <a href="http://www.elektra60.com/member/i/1864530/"><b>Cynthia Gooding</b></a>s Show "Folksinger's Choice" Anfang 1962, zu Zeiten, als er noch für einen Dollar und einen Cheeseburger auftrat. (dradio.de)<br />
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<b>Broadcast: NDR Kultur, May 24, 2011</b><br />
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<div>Kaum ein Künstler hat die Popmusik so beeinflusst wie er. Selbst Stars haben ihn zitiert - Jimi Hendrix etwa. Nun ist Dylan 70 - ein famoser Bildband gewährt den Blick zurück.<br />
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<b>Broadcast: Nordwestradio, Radio Bremen, May 24, 2011</b><br />
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Der Göttinger Germanistik-Professor, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Detering"><b>Heinrich Detering</b></a>, ist einer von elf Preisträgern, die am 30. März 2009 den Leibniz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) bekamen. Außerdem ist Heinrich Detering ein Bob Dylan Kenner. Anläßlich des 70. Geburtstages von Bob Dylan sprach Nordwestradio-Moderator <b>Wolfgang Rumpf</b> mit ihm.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">BR-alpha, Broadcast date: May 22, 2011 (45 minutes)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">(German language)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">(Divx as multi-part zip-file, all parts and a program like 7Zip are needed </span><span style="font-size: small;">to extract/combine parts) - </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J8OETZL0">Part 01</a> - <a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EDMO22BC">Part 02</a> - <a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HZXOIV5">Part 03</a></b> <br />
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With the (by now) "usual suspects" like <a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/mainz-dylan-symposium-may-26-2011-part_26.html"><b>Prof. Dr. Knut Wenzel</b></a>, <a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/mainz-dylan-symposium-may-26-2011-part.html"><b>Prof. Dr. Dieter Lamping</b></a>, etc.<br />
Taped mainly at the <b><a href="http://www.kath-akademie-bayern.de/aktuelle_mitteilungen.html">Katholische Akademie in Bayern</a>, during a <a href="http://www.kath-akademie-bayern.de/archiv-detail/events/bob-dylan.html?file=tl_files/Kath_Akademie_Bayern/Veranstaltungen/pdf/2011/BobDylan.pdf">March 18-19, 2011 Bob Dylan symposium</a> </b>with additional footage (once again, from "the usual suspects", like No Direction Home, etc.)<br />
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<b>Schweizer Radio DRS</b>:<br />
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<div class="longtext hasbox"><div>Mit knapp 25 Jahren wird Bob Dylan zur Symbolfigur des politischen Aufbruchs in den USA der 1960er Jahre. Doch die Rolle des Protestpropheten behagt ihm ebenso wenig wie später die des Rockpropheten, des predigenden Fundamentalisten oder hoffnungslosen Alkoholikers. <br />
<div class=" lastchild">Obwohl er die Populärkultur eines halben Jahrhunderts massgeblich mitprägt, entzieht er sich jeglicher Vereinnahmung und erfindet sich dauernd neu. Über den Verweigerungskünstler Dylan im Umfeld seiner Zeit redet <b>Lislot Frei</b> mit dem Journalisten <a href="http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/stichwort/autor/jean-martin-buettner/s.html"><b>Jean-Martin Büttner</b></a>. </div><div class="linkgalerie"><h3 class="zwischentitel"><span style="font-size: small;">Download zum Beitrag:</span></h3><ul class="link_list download_link_list"><li class="last"><b><a alt="http://modules.drs.ch/data/attachments/2011/110518_buettner_dylan.pdf" class="attachment_link" href="http://modules.drs.ch/data/attachments/2011/110518_buettner_dylan.pdf" target="_blank">Essay von Jean-Martin Büttner: «Dylans Verweigerungen» (2006) (222.7KB, PDF)</a></b></li>
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</div><div class=" lastchild"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=207219JO">Bob Dylan, der Poet</a>", Reflexe, Broadcast date: May 24, 2011</b></div><div class=" lastchild"><b>(German language) </b></div><div class=" lastchild"><b>Andrew Shields</b> von der Universität Basel und der Dylankenner <b><a href="https://cms.drs.ch:8444/www/de/drs/ueber-uns/team/12538.martin-schaefer.html">Martin Schäfer</a></b> diskutieren mit <b><a href="https://cms.drs.ch:8444/www/de/drs/ueber-uns/team/12379.eric-facon.html">Eric Facon</a></b> über die Texte Dylans anhand von vier Beispielen aus verschiedenen Schaffensperioden. </div><div class=" lastchild"><br />
</div><div class="longtext hasbox"><div class="lastchild"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3IYZP77E">Blick auf die vielseitige Welt von Bob Dylan</a>", Kultur-Stammtisch, </b></div><div class="lastchild"><b>Broadcast date: May 21, 2011</b></div><div class="lastchild"><b>(German language) </b></div><div class="lastchild">Am 24. Mai feiert Bob Dylan seinen 70. Geburtstag, Dylan, der grösste Songschreiber der Pop- und Rockgeschichte. Im Kulturstammtisch diskutiert Eric Facon mit der Filmwissenschaftlerin <b>Marcy Goldberg</b> und dem Musiker <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balts_Nill"><b>Balts Nill</b></a> über ein Seitengleis seiner Tätigkeit: über Bob Dylan und den Film, im Dokumentarfilm, als Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur.</div></div></div></div><b> </b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-66863800712394980762011-06-02T02:15:00.000-07:002011-11-04T15:43:36.840-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 05 - German TV and Radio<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><br />
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<b>"aspekte", ZDF, Broadcast date: May 20, 2011 </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0CD7SWUU">Kampf mit der eigenen Legende. Bob Dylan wird 70</a></b><br />
(Struggling with his own legend: Bob Dylan turns 70)<br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTSL0OJQ"><b>15 Minuten Popkultur: heute mit Bob Dylan</b></a>,<br />
Kreuzberg und PopLyrik<br />
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<b>German Public Radio:</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GWYJT26G">welche Bedeutung hat Bob Dylan?</a>", Broadcast date: May 24, 2011</b><br />
<b>(German language)</b><br />
Gast: Peter Rüchel, WDR-Redakteur der früheren WDR-Produktion Rockpalast,<br />
Moderation: Sabine Brandi © WDR 2011<b></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EFLwjg63kyKbiZ60o_c9_DjNowS_drpZBSx-wHL9KevjfaqpobsZWYtvVDMZayCgZyIdQEO_Dh566fFvTt3gzM93-o6wLmeQXHfyXbVLkvdeA_y67pdX2HbFRuyqyro8DDqNqmRCBh4/s1600/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EFLwjg63kyKbiZ60o_c9_DjNowS_drpZBSx-wHL9KevjfaqpobsZWYtvVDMZayCgZyIdQEO_Dh566fFvTt3gzM93-o6wLmeQXHfyXbVLkvdeA_y67pdX2HbFRuyqyro8DDqNqmRCBh4/s200/index.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>SWR2 "<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OP7GK989">Forum - Bob Dylan wird 70</a>", </b><br />
<b>Broadcast date: May 19, 2011</b><br />
<b>(German language)</b><br />
Immer wieder Gegen-Kultur?<br />
Gesprächsleitung: <a href="http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/moderatoren/rbisz/-/id=3317570/nid=3317570/did=3239574/14g05on/index.html"><b>Karsten Umlauf</b></a><br />
Es diskutieren: <a href="http://www.freitag.de/2006/36/06361501.php"><b>Dr. Richard Klein</b></a> - Musikwissenschaftler, Freiburg, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Neiman"><b>Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman</b></a> - Philosophin, Einstein-Forum Potsdam, <a href="http://www.kaththeol.uni-frankfurt.de/funda_dogmatik/mitarbeiter/wenzel/"><b>Prof. Dr. Knut Wenzel</b></a> - Theologe, Uni Frankfurt<br />
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Er ist Wanderprediger, Folksänger, Friedensaktivist, Rocker, Maler, Pulitzer-Preisträger und immer wieder: ein Kandidat für den Literaturnobelpreis. Bob Dylan hat wie kaum ein anderer Pop-Musik zu einer intellektuell ernst zu nehmenden Kunstform gemacht. Sein Einfluss auf andere Musikerkollegen ist Legion, aber unter seinen größten Fans finden sich auch viele Künstler und Wissenschaftler. Am 24. Mai wird er 70 Jahre alt. Ist er immer noch die andere oder nur noch die abgewrackte Stimme Amerikas? Er spielt für Papst und Präsident, witzelt als Radio-Moderator und spricht bei seinen Konzerten kaum ein Wort mit seinem Publikum: Was fasziniert Philosophen, Theologen oder Musikwissenschaftler in Deutschland an Bob Dylan? <br />
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<b>Buch-Tipps:</b><br />
Richard Klein: <a href="http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/index.php?id=26&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12145&cHash=1e7a86e4de">My Name It Is Nothin' : Bob Dylan. Nicht Pop. Nicht Kunst</a>. Lukas Verlag 2006,<br />
24,90 €; <br />
Knut Wenzel: <a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/36328.html">HoboPilgrim – Bob Dylans Reise durch die Nacht</a>. Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag 2011,<br />
19,90 €fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-65025528903265686392011-05-30T01:46:00.000-07:002011-06-04T13:59:04.319-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 04 - German TV (and some radio)<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><br />
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<b>German language</b><br />
Contains excerpts from interviews with <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1111288"><b>Prof. (?) Josef Cressotti</b></a>, <b></b><b> </b><br />
<a href="http://www.kaththeol.uni-frankfurt.de/funda_dogmatik/mitarbeiter/wenzel/"><b>Prof. Dr. Knut Wenzel</b></a> (<a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/mainz-dylan-symposium-may-26-2011-part_26.html">see related blog post</a>), <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bruckmaier"><b>Karl Bruckmaier</b></a>.<br />
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<b>German language</b><br />
with SWR's "resident expert" <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Schneidewind"><b>Günter Schneidewind</b></a>. <br />
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<b>German language </b><br />
Mostly about Bob Dylan's first and only GDR concert, Berlin, 1987. <b><br />
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Persons interviewed: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Dieckmann_%28Journalist%29"><b>Christoph Dieckmann</b></a>, <a href="http://www.superillu.de/musik/Joerg_Stempel_250819.html"><b>Jörg Stempel</b></a><br />
(former head of GDR's state-run VEB Deutsche Schallplatten<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_%28Plattenlabel%29"><b>Amiga</b></a> record label).<br />
,<br />
<b><a href="http://www.amiga-musik.de/neu/index.php?id=7">AMIGA</a> (Sony Music)</b><br />
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<b>German language</b><br />
Mostly about "Birthday Greetings from Cologne" <a href="http://www.dylan-koeln.de/">Dylan Festival</a><b>:</b><br />
<b>"</b>Warum eigentlich Köln? Man weiß nicht, warum sich ausgerechnet hier so eingefleischte Fans von Bob Dylan finden. Sicher ist nur, dass sich rund um Rhein und Dom Kulturschaffende von Literatur bis Kunst zusammentun, um den Poeten der 68er mit einem Festival zu ehren. Rund um den Geburtstag des 70-Jährigen, mit Konzerten, Ausstellungen und Lesungen, von Meret Becker bis Erdmöbel."<br />
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<b>Related radio program: </b><br />
<b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D836WAGL">Birthday Greetings</a>", Scala, WDR, May 11, 2011</b><br />
<b>German language</b><br />
<b>Die Kölner Kunstszene feiert den 70. Geburtstag von Bob Dylan</b><br />
<div class="moderation">Moderation: <a href="http://www.wdr5.de/team/sebastian-wellendorf.html">Sebastian Wellendorf</a>:</div><div class="moderation"></div><div class="bodytext">Er ist eine lebende Legende, die nicht nur die Musikwelt nachhaltig beeinflusst hat: Am 24. Mai feiert Bob Dylan seinen 70. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass veranstaltet die Kölner Kunstszene ein Festival mit Konzerten, Lesungen, Filmen, Gesprächen und Vorträgen. Nicht dabei sind die üblichen Verdächtigen wie BAP-Chef Wolfgang Niedecken. Stattdessen treten Künstler auf, die man nicht unbedingt mit Bob Dylan assoziiert.</div><div class="autoren"><div class="bodytext"><b>Autor/in: </b>Jürgen Salm</div></div><div class="redaktion"><div class="bodytext"><b>Redaktion: </b>Nora Schattauer</div></div>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-63749243116026502532011-05-29T14:13:00.000-07:002011-06-03T12:28:04.254-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 03<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><br />
<b>More BBC...</b><br />
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<b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OJISH0AI">Nashville Cats</a>" Broadcast BBC Radio 2, May 16th 2011</b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXV7vnyG6QJmH7ejdWGekLac90RaoA2HScjTOKk0bxIZRDfSm4guLwGyjhaU0WBYcYxARmb55mQ8n199i46iB6vHiT-uDJywmUNTSJCelQC8GZNkFO7iBZXaCX4GygdoMPLMx76cprygw/s1600/billexpexc16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXV7vnyG6QJmH7ejdWGekLac90RaoA2HScjTOKk0bxIZRDfSm4guLwGyjhaU0WBYcYxARmb55mQ8n199i46iB6vHiT-uDJywmUNTSJCelQC8GZNkFO7iBZXaCX4GygdoMPLMx76cprygw/s200/billexpexc16.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>Bill Nighy</b> presents the definitive story of what really went down on tape, and in the studio, during the recording of Bob Dylan's classic album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/blonde-blonde">Blonde on Blonde</a>.<br />
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In February 1966, Bob rolled in to Nashville to work on his seventh studio album. Following only partially successful sessions in New York, the decision had been taken to relocate to the Columbia label's Music Row studios. Nashville Cats looks at the music that resulted from the unlikely alliance between seasoned country music veterans, accustomed to fixed time studio sessions, and the more erratic modus operandi favoured by the wiry hipster poet.<br />
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Generally regarded as the high watermark of Dylan's most creatively intense period, Blonde on Blonde was recalled by the songwriter himself as being "the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind... it's that thin wild mercury sound". Bill Nighy narrates a tale of in-studio composition, musicians by turns bemused, exasperated and inspired, and an artist operating at the very zenith of his talent.<br />
<br />
Nashville Cats features newly sourced interviews with the key participants on these historic studio recording dates including musicians <a href="http://www.alkooper.com/"><b>Al Kooper</b></a>, <a href="http://www.charliemccoy.com/"><b>Charlie McCoy</b></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hargus_%22Pig%22_Robbins"><b>Hargus "Pig" Robbins</b></a>, <a href="http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/2009/04/10/nashville-cats-interview-series-with-wayne-moss-at-hall-of-fame-may-2/"><b>Wayne Moss</b></a>, <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-strzelecki-country-artist"><b>Henry Strzelecki</b></a> and <a href="http://www.joesouth.com/"><b>Joe South</b></a>. The documentary also features the perspective of Producer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Johnston"><b>Bob Johnston</b></a>, the man responsible for convincing Dylan to record in Nashville, and reveals the real story behind the supposed symbolism of its famous cover shot care of <a href="http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/home.html"><b>Jerry Schatzberg</b></a>, the man behind the lens.<br />
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<b>From "Down Under":</b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid38dJW_LS9dbi3kP9o02RUtw9Ua5jQkXz4_x957ux_Yo4Qnon5qq4YGz3wqmdEKtAwuaUfHEprqjflCIi3WgKei68fBuk_ewpwfRkp5N76q-QdaVs5RaGoJEyiZyHGjkTK7_2KLxHtEs/s1600/bob_dylan_m1981804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid38dJW_LS9dbi3kP9o02RUtw9Ua5jQkXz4_x957ux_Yo4Qnon5qq4YGz3wqmdEKtAwuaUfHEprqjflCIi3WgKei68fBuk_ewpwfRkp5N76q-QdaVs5RaGoJEyiZyHGjkTK7_2KLxHtEs/s200/bob_dylan_m1981804.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><b>"<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VVOBTA8H">Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan at 70</a>" </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Broadcast ABC Australia, April 23rd, 2011</span></b><br />
Bob Dylan, one of the most influential and famous musicians of his day, is turning seventy in May. Into the Music marks that milestone, and Dylan's current Australian tour, with a new documentary feature on his life and music. Produced by Robert de Young, the program includes interviews with Dylan scholar and biographer <b>Clinton Heylin</b>, critic <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ricks">Christopher Rick</a>s</b> and journalists <b>Stuart Coupe</b> and <a href="http://bobdylanencyclopedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-birthday-craig-mcgregor.html"><b>Craig McGregor</b></a>, as well as some rare archival material.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">From Minnesota: </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Jim Bickal, Minnesota Public Radio:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XMTVUSI1">Boy From The North Country: Bob Dylan in Minnesota</a>"</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Broadcast Minnesota Public Radio, May 21st, 2011</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Dylan spent his formative years in Minnesota; he was born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing.<br />
He became a folksinger in Minneapolis. A new documentary from Minnesota Public Radio News explores Dylan's Minnesota roots and how they influenced the evolution of his music. <br />
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In the documentary, you will hear from <a href="http://www.n-b-u.de/backpages_stories_hoikkala_interview.htm"><b>Leroy Hoikkala</b></a> who played the drums in Dylan's high school band, the Golden Chords. Long-time friend <b>Dick Cohn</b> describes Dylan playing risqué rhythm and blues in St. Paul basements when he was a teenager.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artisopusgallery.com/mtm/index.html"><b>Marilyn Matheny</b></a> talks about Dylan finding his voice as a folksinger in the Minneapolis<br />
community of Dinkytown. Plus you'll hear the story of St. Paul native <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12446983"><b>Larry Kegan</b></a> who was<br />
one of Dylan's closest friends. </span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-59735344161095711262011-05-28T14:25:00.000-07:002011-06-05T09:34:19.770-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 02<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><br />
<br />
<b>More from the BBC:</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E1PX3BT7">The Culture Café</a>" Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, 1:15PM Tue, 24 May 2011</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On Bob Dylans' 70th Birthday, <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/presenters/clare_english/">Clare English</a></b> revisits one of the the most controversial eras of his career: The Gospel Years. His evangelical Christian compositions were a critical disaster at the time of release, causing anger and confusion amongst critics, fans and peers, but did they get it wrong? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">With historical insights and reflections on Dylan's gospel period provided by Bob Dylan's musicians, biographers, critics and friends, we re-examine this baffling but beguiling episode in rock history.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>From New Zealand:<br />
"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SF6FEEC8">Dylan's early Mentor: Izzy Young</a>" Broadcast on Radio New Zealand, 27/28 May 2011</b></span></span></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1i5sLyI4F0GTX4v1ebAUW8i6N2txkXstXjLmv1Tnzknf28zHvccURGWErcbLQIwi3RLH37NlgtqU48H8YUGJMEnLCYLyya-04KKcyGXutcvPNIas3mT4DHcrFSQymAO8RlHJ0Wv9J-E/s1600/simon_mercep_271108_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1i5sLyI4F0GTX4v1ebAUW8i6N2txkXstXjLmv1Tnzknf28zHvccURGWErcbLQIwi3RLH37NlgtqU48H8YUGJMEnLCYLyya-04KKcyGXutcvPNIas3mT4DHcrFSQymAO8RlHJ0Wv9J-E/s1600/simon_mercep_271108_2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bob Dylan, America's most celebrated musician, turned 70 on 24 May 2011. It's now 50 years since the young Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing, Minnesota, hitch-hiked to New York with his guitar and a dream to make it as a singer. He landed in the Greenwich Village folk music scene and thanks largely to an astonishing ability to churn out songs that captured the feeling of the times - which as he told us were a-changin' - quickly became a star. His career has continued unabated - his most recent album two years ago topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and in April 2011 he wound up an Asian tour with a concert in Auckland. One of the first to take the young Dylan under his wing was Izzy Young, who ran the Folklore Centre in Greenwich Village. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy_Young"><b>Izzy Young</b></a>, who now lives in Sweden, told Morning Report's <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/simon-mercep-joins-morning-report-3875726"><b>Simon Mercep</b></a> how Bob Dylan made the store his second home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>From U.S. National Public Radio (npr.org): </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBIADJ6S">World Cafe: Suze Rotolo</a>" Broadcast on NPR, 24 May 2011</b></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFfpoS5dTz1vlM5cTIYiwyG52e6RPTt1kzq5yPrp25RqHR5z0G-GyT0Z2dFPdlIHGSoTkr8qVXy9EzvxIHAh6s4SVUEjFUPxfyiCreLIOhT2H5vK-sm3M7i6C4Lmto-9msqQfITb07sI/s1600/freewheelin_wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFfpoS5dTz1vlM5cTIYiwyG52e6RPTt1kzq5yPrp25RqHR5z0G-GyT0Z2dFPdlIHGSoTkr8qVXy9EzvxIHAh6s4SVUEjFUPxfyiCreLIOhT2H5vK-sm3M7i6C4Lmto-9msqQfITb07sI/s200/freewheelin_wide.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>Suze Rotolo</b> has been described as the '60s muse of <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15193203/bob-dylan" target="_self">Bob Dylan</a>, the girl behind some of his most moving love songs and rousing political statements. The two met in the early 1960s in New York, and fell in love. She was a "red diaper baby," born to Communist sympathizers in the McCarthy era. She was living a politically active life in bohemian Greenwich Village when she met Dylan at a concert. Dylan described it as love at first sight, and the two soon became romantically involved. Though the relationship didn't last, it inspired song after legendary song from the folk icon.<br />
<a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/r-i-p-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html">Rotolo died just this past February from lung cancer.</a> In this interview with Rotolo, recorded in 2008, she and <i>World Cafe</i> host <b>David Dye</b> discuss her book, <i>A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties</i>. She describes what it was like to be that girl on the cover of <i>The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</i> — the pressures, the mutual inspirations, the forces that pushed them apart, and her life afterwards as an author, artist and activist. Rotolo remained passionately involved in politics throughout her life, and there's little doubt that this passion deeply influenced Dylan in their time together. Her admirable passion lives on in songs known the world over.<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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</span></span>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-7360414930284900652011-05-27T17:08:00.000-07:002011-05-28T17:32:32.474-07:0070th Birthday "Dylanthology", Part 01<div style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to the <b>first part of my "70th Birthday Dylanthology"</b>, featuring <b>links to a variety of programs aired by radio and TV stations</b> worldwide.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This is by no means complete or comprehensive -- feel free to add links that might have escaped my attention.</b> Please also check <a href="http://www.expectingrain.com/"><b>Expecting Rain</b></a> for additional coverage of Dylan's 70th birthday.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>NOTE:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>All of these radio and TV programmes (and their descriptions) are © by the stations who produced and aired them. Links to streams and/or downloads and descriptions are provided solely for </b>"<b>nonprofit educational purposes" (one of the criteria of "fair use", Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Presentation (hyperlinks, etc.) </b><b>© by the author of this blog.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P1IAJOL8">Bob's Ballad Bases</a>" </b><b>Broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 10:00PM Tue, 24 May 2011 </b></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExvpyLfIeBSm9IRwkkaePqCZZrIRUHHJ5TbuCm3Qceot7dy9zNIkQtknphyjjp65KCSkL4KYf_WhcDolyf8o9ZR8xqoijniPMXAoKV2Cf4rsE7EcbZ8yRk9D63VLZqmFdglEyK12jXgQ/s1600/julie-live-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExvpyLfIeBSm9IRwkkaePqCZZrIRUHHJ5TbuCm3Qceot7dy9zNIkQtknphyjjp65KCSkL4KYf_WhcDolyf8o9ZR8xqoijniPMXAoKV2Cf4rsE7EcbZ8yRk9D63VLZqmFdglEyK12jXgQ/s320/julie-live-banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">From <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pretty-peggy-o">Pretty Peggy-O</a> on his <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/bob-dylan">first album</a>, to <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/highlands">Highlands</a> in the 90s and beyond, folk songs and folk music have informed the melodic, thematic and structural roots of much of his work. As Radio 2's Dylan Season continues, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Fowlis"><b>Julie Fowlis</b></a> examines and celebrates this British and Irish influence.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">We hear from people involved in folk song who knew Dylan. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Clancy"><b>Liam Clancy</b></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Redpath"><b>Jean Redpath</b></a> met him in New York's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and we hear Bob himself acknowledge a debt to Liam as he performs a Scottish folksong, Lang A-Growing, at his first major New York concert in 1961.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Bob's visit to London in 1962 is recalled by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"><b>Martin Carthy</b></a>, who introduced Bob to a number of variants of English songs. We now also have the publisher demos, recorded soon after his return to the USA, among which are the earliest recordings of landmark songs such as <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/girl-from-the-north-country">Girl from the North Country</a> and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bob-dylans-dream">Bob Dylan's Dream</a>, which were informed by his UK visit. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Other contributors include singers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Moore"><b>Christy Moore</b></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thompson_%28singer%29"><b>Linda Thompson</b></a>; the author<b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Heylin">Clinton Heylin</a></b>, who has written many books on Dylan and his songs; while <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_Noakes"><b>Rab Noakes</b></a>, a singer-songwriter and this documentary's producer, demonstrates how the famous <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/the-times-they-are-a-changin">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a> was possibly informed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Henderson"><b>Hamish Henderson</b></a>'s 51st Farewell to Sicily.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">We hear how Dylan's songs exist in a long line, as we go behind the immediate influence to reveal the layers of the traditional sources and oral transmission. This all goes to underline Dylan's description of himself as a "link in the chain".</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1392A5DM">Dylan's Women</a>" Broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 10:00PM Mon, 23 May 2011</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">As Radio 2's Bob Dylan season continues, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Harris_%28radio%29"><b>Bob Harris</b></a> takes a look at the women behind the songs and discovers how they influenced Dylan as an artist and songwriter. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUphTNdhG2-Z_4iqfyTMEDbtfUBY31kXfHbvec1I86S-RdkVuF1YxYpomf8Nsuo_xVdKfmstinw1551cr-kynsCsAedIh5jLtITRSM4_29jBbWQ7UucvOj9AZ1ipwaelMUfd99bxCXghk/s1600/subROTOLO2-obit-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUphTNdhG2-Z_4iqfyTMEDbtfUBY31kXfHbvec1I86S-RdkVuF1YxYpomf8Nsuo_xVdKfmstinw1551cr-kynsCsAedIh5jLtITRSM4_29jBbWQ7UucvOj9AZ1ipwaelMUfd99bxCXghk/s200/subROTOLO2-obit-popup.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Focusing largely on the music, tracks include <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/boots-of-spanish-leather">Boots of Spanish Leather</a>, which was written for <a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/r-i-p-suze-rotolo-1943-2011.html"><b>Suze Rotolo</b></a>; <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/like-a-rolling-stone">Like a Rolling Stone</a>, which is said to be inspired by the model and socialite <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edie_Sedgwick"><b>Edie Sedgwick</b></a>; and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sara">Sara</a>, Dylan's homage to his first wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Dylan"><b>Sara Lownds</b></a>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Folk singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Hester"><b>Carolyn Hester</b></a> remembers how Dylan was signed to Columbia after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Hammond"><b>John Hammond</b></a> saw him playing harmonica at one of her recording sessions. Bob was mesmerised by her singing: "You should have seen this little rough and scuffle little guy, with all this curly hair in the world, pulled his chair right up in front of me... he says, 'you wanna play that again?'" </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Suze Rotolo</b> met Dylan in the summer of 1961 and went on to inspire some of his most famous songs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williams_%28journalist%29"><b>Richard Williams</b></a>, a journalist from the Guardian, explains how she also introduced him to theatre and artists he'd never heard of: "It wouldn't be exaggerating to say she opened up a new world to him." Richard also remembers the importance of the album cover for <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/the-freewheelin-bob-dylan">The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</a> which pictured Bob and Suze walking down a snowy Manhattan street. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Singer <b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez">Joan Baez</a></b> features, who describes how she opened him up to a wider audience: "I adored his music and I adored him... I would present him during my concert so certain credit is offered to me because of that." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Name"><b>Billy Name</b></a>, the archivist at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol"><b>Andy Warhol</b></a>'s Factory, explains the link between Dylan and <b>Edie Sedgwick</b>, who is said to have inspired the song Like a Rolling Stone. And photographer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Landy"><b>Elliott Landy</b></a> remembers the time he spent with Bob and his first wife Sara Dylan at their home in Woodstock: "she had a calming effect and she bought him into a wonderful domestic family life".</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Other contributors include film-maker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._A._Pennebaker"><b>DA Pennebaker</b></a>; actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sienna_Miller"><b>Sienna Miller</b></a>; photographer and film director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Schatzberg"><b>Jerry Schatzberg</b></a>; Dylan's backing singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronee_Blakley"><b>Ronee Blakley</b></a>; and Dylan's first manager, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Terri-Thal/1298421144"><b>Terri Thal</b></a>, who remembers how hard it was to get Dylan booked for shows.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Who are the women behind some of Dylan's most revered songs? And how have they impacted on his music? We'll find out as we explore another side of Bob through the eyes of "Dylan's Women".</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P332XV3F">Blowing in the Wind: Dylan's Spiritual Journey</a>" </b></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 11:30AM Tue, 24 May 2011</b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH03uSzlYWdyKsL1fH3azWJ5Tcz_sMfo7-kDxZpcD6GmzRbC_u6ERVdExLvEeGze2WaBVdDaUkAjEVaB2nktlxTfFbeLY3VY8YdWGQy3FFP6nnB-mwDdTu4SK95EGYXYku60Iv-0tTQBA/s1600/tumblr_krpxrm8D8F1qz9onjo1_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH03uSzlYWdyKsL1fH3azWJ5Tcz_sMfo7-kDxZpcD6GmzRbC_u6ERVdExLvEeGze2WaBVdDaUkAjEVaB2nktlxTfFbeLY3VY8YdWGQy3FFP6nnB-mwDdTu4SK95EGYXYku60Iv-0tTQBA/s200/tumblr_krpxrm8D8F1qz9onjo1_400.jpg" width="135" /></a></div>To coincide with Dylan's birthday (24th May 2011) presenter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Freud"><b>Emma Freud</b></a> explores the singers spiritual journey revealing a side to the performer often over looked.<br />
The programme opens with how Dylan grew up a small-town Jew in Hibbing, Minnesota. We hear from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Cantor-Neil-Schwartz/761542377"><b>Cantor Neil Schwartz</b></a> he also grew up in the same town and his mother was Bob's Sunday school teacher. <br />
Author of 'Prophet, Mystic, Poet' <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/rogovoy">Seth Rogovoy</a></b> reflects on Dylan's early years and his Barmitzvah. We explore early Dylan music and author <b>Clinton Heylin</b> believes Dylan not only drew on early negro spirituals but the Old testament for his more engaging material. Helping makes sense of some of the more complex theological messages is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Baines_%28bishop%29"><b>Nick Baines</b></a> The Bishop of Bradford and a life long admirer of Bob Dylan.<br />
It was in the late 1970s, Dylan became a born again Christian and 1979 album '<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/slow-train-coming">Slow Train Coming</a>' championed Jesus. Author of 'Down The Highway' <a href="http://www.howardsounes.com/"><b>Howard Sounes</b></a> finds Dylan's three Christian albums a "difficult listen". Whether they meant something significant to his audience is another matter, but <a href="http://www.highway61ent.com/thegospelyears.htm"><b>Al Kasha</b></a> who helped Dylan with his understanding of the scriptures is convinced you can't doubt the depth of Dylan's religious conversion. <br />
Dylan's embrace of Christianity was unpopular with some of his fans and his album "<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/shot-of-love">Shot Of Love</a>" recorded the spring 1981, featured Dylan's first secular compositions in more than two years, mixed with explicitly Christian songs. Essentially Dylan's venture into Christianity seemed to be coming to an end. <br />
As we discover with all things Dylan, its tricky to work out what is going on inside the singer's mind but 'Blowing In The Wind - Dylan's Spiritual Journey" will go someway to exploring his thoughts and spiritual beliefs through his songs and these revealing interviews.<br />
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<b>The Bob Dylan Story at 70, BBC Radio 2 </b></div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block; font-family: inherit;"></div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H0DPSF9E"><b>Episode 01</b></a></div><div class="synopsis long-synopsis" style="display: block;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG3cR6JvlOmWcfiksoBxJah6F9ku4C9FS6OgG0dBkR_toZND82QCXRUisk7iqJeWe39P3eo9L8m_xEzzljfywTUtv_6uw59NOpkZUqGru3ZrJ2OqJvyylriLx06825X2wLq494ipiHfk/s1600/Kris_Kristofferson_SXSW_2006_crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG3cR6JvlOmWcfiksoBxJah6F9ku4C9FS6OgG0dBkR_toZND82QCXRUisk7iqJeWe39P3eo9L8m_xEzzljfywTUtv_6uw59NOpkZUqGru3ZrJ2OqJvyylriLx06825X2wLq494ipiHfk/s200/Kris_Kristofferson_SXSW_2006_crop.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.kriskristofferson.com/">Kris Kristofferson</a></b> begins the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the first of a six part series marking the 70th birthday of the legendary singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">It's 1961 and Bob moves from Minnesota to New York, hoping to perform there and to visit his idol <a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/"><b>Woody Guthrie</b></a>. Soon, he becomes the most talked about artist on the Greenwich Village folk scene and begins to write the songs that came to define the 1960s such as <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blowin-in-the-wind">Blowin' In The Wind</a> and The Times They Are A-Changin'.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features interviews with Dylan's contemporaries <b><a href="http://www.tompaxton.com/">Tom Paxton</a></b>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kweskin"><b>Jim Kweskin</b></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"><b>Dave Van Ronk</b></a>, who remember his earliest songs and performances. Plus <b>John Hammond</b>, the man who signed Bob to Columbia Records, recalls the making of the 21 year old's debut record. Also, <a href="http://www.paulsimon.com/"><b>Paul Simon</b></a> admits the time was right for a folk revival and <b>Joan Baez</b> gives a rare insight into her contribution to Dylan's success.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Bob himself talks about the music that influenced him as a young man, first hearing <b>Woody Guthrie</b>, meeting <a href="http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/"><b>Peter, Paul & Mary</b></a> and walking out of the influential <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show"><b>Ed Sullivan TV Show</b></a> in 1963.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Featured tracks include <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/song-to-woody">Song To Woody</a> from Dylan's 1962 eponymous debut, Blowin' In The Wind from his landmark follow up The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and title track from his third album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/times-they-are-changin">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EIAB67K1"><b>Episode 02</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b0gHQUlFloyk95fpYVVpFh82mxatYOKwJ6hB06lulZbbzkffTWP27AKWdU1upWIZdLxcY4heMjNxrq3wYA10FKMivtGoRaihtADsk5uE956Gv6zCtt1zLyE3UK7OJdAf3-aLrmA1YD4/s1600/6a00d834515ce669e200e54f45ee208834-640wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b0gHQUlFloyk95fpYVVpFh82mxatYOKwJ6hB06lulZbbzkffTWP27AKWdU1upWIZdLxcY4heMjNxrq3wYA10FKMivtGoRaihtADsk5uE956Gv6zCtt1zLyE3UK7OJdAf3-aLrmA1YD4/s200/6a00d834515ce669e200e54f45ee208834-640wi.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Kris Kristofferson continues the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the second of a six part series marking the 70th birthday of the iconic singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">In the winter of 62/63 Bob makes his first trip to the UK - the British folk tradition would have a profound influence on his subsequent writing. In 1965 he releases the landmark album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/bringing-it-all-back-home">Bringing It All back Home</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Byrds"><b>The Byrds</b></a> have a worldwide hit with his song <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man">Mr Tambourine Man</a> and Dylan is seen performing in an early music video to <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/subterranean-homesick-blues">Subterranean Homesick Blues</a> in <b>D A Pennebaker</b>'s seminal film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_Look_Back">Don't Look Back</a>. He is still only 24 years of age. His sixth studio album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/highway-61-revisited">Highway 61 Revisited</a> is released and Like A Rolling Stone, the opening track, is a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. His electric performance at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Folk_Festival">Newport Folk Festival</a> gets a hostile response from the folk establishment.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features an interview with <b>Martin Carthy</b>, who talks about the influence traditional British folk music had on Dylan's work, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Asher"><b>Peter Asher</b></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Robinson"><b>Tom Robinson</b></a> describe the importance of Dylan's arrival in the British pop charts. Also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon"><b>John Lennon</b></a> and <a href="http://carlysimon.com/"><b>Carly Simon</b></a> realise Dylan's lyrics mean so much more than anyone else's, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof"><b>Bob Geldof</b></a> remembers the first time he heard Like A Rolling Stone and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Boyd"><b>Joe Boyd</b></a>, stage manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival recalls Dylan's controversial performance.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LMMXJ1GC"><b>Episode 03</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIZ2hbOFz21ZmD8zvwiuHFiWjZpvZo9BHmhSMz-alboeeKNA2AIr9vs72zCPjsggWdqktFrtfmhyi73cCYbaFJmGwI6aVK1TxubkBt8jpQgeMsL5L84J_HBBQxjJA5S6VE9hktowWls2Q/s1600/dylan_limo449.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIZ2hbOFz21ZmD8zvwiuHFiWjZpvZo9BHmhSMz-alboeeKNA2AIr9vs72zCPjsggWdqktFrtfmhyi73cCYbaFJmGwI6aVK1TxubkBt8jpQgeMsL5L84J_HBBQxjJA5S6VE9hktowWls2Q/s200/dylan_limo449.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Kris Kristofferson continues the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the third of a six part series marking the 70th birthday of the iconic singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">It's February 1966, and Bob Dylan travels to Nashville to shake up the town and make the best use of musicians <a href="http://www.robbie-robertson.com/"><b>Robbie Robertson</b></a>, <a href="http://www.charliemccoy.com/"><b>Charlie McCoy</b></a>, <a href="http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/2009/04/10/nashville-cats-interview-series-with-wayne-moss-at-hall-of-fame-may-2/"><b>Wayne Moss</b></a> and <a href="http://www.alkooper.com/"><b>Al Kooper</b></a> on one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/blonde-blonde">Blonde On Blonde</a>. Kris Kristofferson remembers the recording sessions that went on through the night - he was working as a janitor in studio where the album was recorded. Bob undertakes a world tour with The Band taking in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with The Beatles in attendance, and a legendary confrontation between Dylan and the audience at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features interviews with producer <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Johnston">Bob Johnsto</a>n</b> and musicians <b>Charlie McCoy</b> and <b>Robbie Robertson</b>. Plus, <b>Bob Geldof</b> and <a href="http://www.paulmccartney.com/mccartney/eur.php"><b>Paul McCartney</b></a> describe the excitement of Dylan's new electric sound and <a href="http://www.cplee.co.uk/"><b>C P Lee</b></a>, an audience member at the Free Trade Hall recalls the historic Manchester concert.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">With classic tracks from Blonde On Blonde including <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stuck-inside-of-mobile-with-the-memphis-blues-again">Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sad-eyed-lady-of-the-lowlands">Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands</a> and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/just-like-a-woman">Just Like A Woman</a>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVSVRZ40"><b>Episode 04</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GbqaMmeHURxm_PBea-7wuULfr8YSW4KFrZiy0epZ2RzNr_SiVB4qjN9O5u_z8WZse1iSaWiHeNUGX29m1e-kv9wpPlP5Ko51l5ZtwJcLcUPzlRtQj9iZIsswah2oRKeUWNTj6Gj7kes/s1600/tumblr_li2uuay0Nb1qeq1k3o1_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GbqaMmeHURxm_PBea-7wuULfr8YSW4KFrZiy0epZ2RzNr_SiVB4qjN9O5u_z8WZse1iSaWiHeNUGX29m1e-kv9wpPlP5Ko51l5ZtwJcLcUPzlRtQj9iZIsswah2oRKeUWNTj6Gj7kes/s200/tumblr_li2uuay0Nb1qeq1k3o1_400.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Kris Kristofferson continues the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the fourth of a six part series marking the 70th birthday of the iconic singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">During 1967, while <a href="http://www.thebeatles.com/"><b>The Beatles</b></a> release <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band">Sgt Pepper</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground"><b>The Velvet Underground</b></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd"><b>Pink Floyd</b></a> and <a href="http://www.thedoors.com/"><b>The Doors</b></a> are making their album debuts, Dylan rests at home in Woodstock as he recovers from his motorcycle crash of the previous summer. He records 150 songs at nearby Big Pink, a house rented by <a href="http://theband.hiof.no/"><b>The Band</b></a>, a handful of which would become the first bootleg recordings in rock history - <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/basement-tapes">The Basement Tapes</a>. In 1968 he releases the country-tinged <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/john-wesley-harding">John Wesley Harding</a>, his first studio album in almost 2 years, then he returns to Nashville to make <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/nashville-skyline">an album</a> with <a href="http://www.johnnycash.com/"><b> Johnny Cash</b></a>. He performs alongside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison"><b>George Harrison</b></a> and <a href="http://www.ringostarr.com/"><b>Ringo Starr</b></a> at the <a href="http://www.concertforbangladesh.com/">Concert For Bangladesh</a>. His 1973 album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/planet-waves">Planet Waves</a> pleases the critics, but next <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/blood-on-the-tracks">Blood On The Tracks</a> would send them into ecstasies and introduce Dylan to a whole new audience.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features interviews with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McGuinness_%28musician%29"><b>Tom McGuinness</b></a>, <a href="http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html"><b>Bruce Springsteen</b></a>, <b>Tom Robinson</b> and <b>Bob Geldof</b>. Plus, narrator Kris Kristofferson remembers the time he spent with Dylan in Durango, Mexico making the film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Garrett_and_Billy_the_Kid">Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid</a>, for which Dylan wrote the classic <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/knockin-on-heavens-door">Knocking On Heaven's Door</a>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V16TRCSK"><b>Episode 05</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbV2giL1lL1xS4OH47H3ISBjuulSy-vXr49g3HXQgY1AGdnzFZmrx1kjUUzSFMRHYVUKT5NqiZ9LvSSeIV4xqEk3mvDThh8_XlhCzjNUVuVmkrE5YdT7RsNHYUEVOdTWMxoEQ83S2pCI/s1600/Dylan+-+21+-+Rolling+Thunder+Revue.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbV2giL1lL1xS4OH47H3ISBjuulSy-vXr49g3HXQgY1AGdnzFZmrx1kjUUzSFMRHYVUKT5NqiZ9LvSSeIV4xqEk3mvDThh8_XlhCzjNUVuVmkrE5YdT7RsNHYUEVOdTWMxoEQ83S2pCI/s200/Dylan+-+21+-+Rolling+Thunder+Revue.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Kris Kristofferson continues the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the fifth of a six part series marking the 70th birthday of the iconic singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">It's 1976 and as the USA braces itself for the Bicentennial, Bob Dylan sets off in search of America - with a travelling band of musicians called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_Revue"><b>The Rolling Thunder Revue</b></a>. He and <b>The Band</b> call time on performing together and hold a star-studded farewell concert in San Francisco called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz">The Last Waltz</a>. In an unexpected twist he is reborn as an evangelical Christian later that year resulting in three albums of inspirational material he released between 1979 and 1981. Bob performs at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid">Live Aid</a>, joins <b>George Harrison</b> and <a href="http://www.royorbison.com/"><b>Roy Orbison</b></a> in <b>The Traveling Wilburys</b> and finishes the decade on a critical high note with his 25th album Oh Mercy. Things Have Changed - Bob's first song of the 21st Century - is used in the film Wonder Boys and wins him a well-deserved Oscar.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features the thoughts of <b>George Harrison</b> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lynne"><b>Jeff Lynne</b></a>, Live Aid organiser <b>Bob Geldof</b>, Dylan biographer <a href="http://www.whistledown.net/talent.asp?ID=26"><b>Patrick Humphries</b></a> and folk musician <b>Tom Paxton</b>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V669O51X"><b>Episode 06</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicosaBo2oz93EEfKH4GJ9W1lNYDTK7ebRec4uQgqTqVND86AS3woGpz30IbpOcHJksRwP4VALVITFLYViLiJ_paIZG_a-6pbUCGd2JPwY9HkyxPmVmPLq66Nt1NpAG_3FLLZSaHPTfYFY/s1600/bob-dylan-chronicles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicosaBo2oz93EEfKH4GJ9W1lNYDTK7ebRec4uQgqTqVND86AS3woGpz30IbpOcHJksRwP4VALVITFLYViLiJ_paIZG_a-6pbUCGd2JPwY9HkyxPmVmPLq66Nt1NpAG_3FLLZSaHPTfYFY/s320/bob-dylan-chronicles.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Kris Kristofferson concludes the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the final part of a series marking the 70th birthday of the iconic singer songwriter.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Bob Dylan enters the new millenium on a critical high with his 30th studio album <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/love-and-theft">Love & Theft</a>. He wins universal acclaim with the first volume of his autobiography, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles:_Volume_One">Chronicles</a>, and collaborates with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese"><b>Martin Scorsese</b></a> on the film biography <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Direction_Home">No Direction Home</a>. In 2006 he makes his debut as a DJ with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Time_Radio_Hour">Theme Time Radio Hour</a>, which runs to100 episodes, and delights listeners with his idiosyncratic observations linking records. Just when you think he has no more surprises up his sleeve, in 2009 he cements himself into the festive season with the release of <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/christmas-in-the-heart">Christmas In The Heart</a>.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The programme features interviews with broadcaster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gambaccini"><b>Paul Gambaccini</b></a>, musician and Dylan biographer <a href="http://www.sidgriffin.com/"><b>Sid Griffin</b></a> and journalist <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alan-jackson/9/5b3/436"><b>Alan Jackson</b></a>, who recalls interviewing Bob for a 2008 exhibition of his artwork.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">With music from the <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/no-direction-home">No Direction Home</a> soundtrack, Bob's first No. 1 album in 30 years <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/modern-times">Modern Times</a>, and the latest volume of his Bootleg Series <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/music/bootleg-series-volume-9-witmark-demos-1962-1964">The Witmark Demos</a>.</div></div></div></div>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-73644129965499913482011-05-26T17:46:00.000-07:002011-05-27T00:28:29.541-07:00Mainz Dylan Symposium, May 26, 2011 (Part 3 of 3 attended and taped)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1hllkMcZiGa8kZv6kokZOsQdg3un8c6MjhpEqfG3UdWiJX0MM6xZiwtr0yX9OGPFYSHTOfODz9EQcZoBkrxOVt-zUnbAesKZ18Fb4fg0_-NvSFFDRGki1PHjvFgC_ciP1upApmyj4Uo/s1600/manfred_siebald_liesst_pitti_laechelt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1hllkMcZiGa8kZv6kokZOsQdg3un8c6MjhpEqfG3UdWiJX0MM6xZiwtr0yX9OGPFYSHTOfODz9EQcZoBkrxOVt-zUnbAesKZ18Fb4fg0_-NvSFFDRGki1PHjvFgC_ciP1upApmyj4Uo/s320/manfred_siebald_liesst_pitti_laechelt1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The third presentation,"<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZFXYLMTX"><b>Bob Dylan und die Bibel</b></a>" (Bob Dylan and The Bible) by <b><a href="http://www.siebald.org/">Prof. Dr. Manfred Siebald</a> (American Studies), Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany</b>, was the most interesting of all.<br />
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<b>Prof. Manfred Siebald</b>,<b> also a Christian singer-songwriter</b> in Germany (comparable, for example, to <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cockburn">Bruce Cockburn</a></b>), rather convincingly attributed Dylan's use of Biblical images/themes NOT only to his Jewish background, but rather to the WASP (in particular, Puritan) tradition/concepts of "<a href="http://public.wsu.edu/%7Ecampbelld/amlit/jeremiad.htm">Jeremiad</a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_%28theology%29">Typology</a>".<br />
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<b>This was the most convincing presentation (and the only one providing real "food for thought"), whereas the presentations scheduled for tomorrow to me hold no excitement whatsover and do not promise any new insights.</b><br />
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<b>NOTE: </b><br />
<b>© by Prof. Dr. Manfred Siebald, 2011 </b><br />
<b>Presented for the purpose of study and research only (in accordance with "fair use" criteria). </b><b><br />
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</b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-88928860102092035332011-05-26T16:31:00.000-07:002011-05-27T11:03:12.982-07:00Mainz Dylan Symposium, May 26, 2011 (Part 2 of 3 attended and taped)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqjPE12Y-bjpxZcabcfVdTwWhsYGMOAQi112J4rC6NAAqeAg1FRpAajcrnelwS5bk1RNNht_AGE5Sm2cnGOPwOEV46xA7VoMJeVfxAfW09lUSW3qvjzV__Y1qAXf_ay2fUgk6qSoG4Qk/s1600/kwenzel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqjPE12Y-bjpxZcabcfVdTwWhsYGMOAQi112J4rC6NAAqeAg1FRpAajcrnelwS5bk1RNNht_AGE5Sm2cnGOPwOEV46xA7VoMJeVfxAfW09lUSW3qvjzV__Y1qAXf_ay2fUgk6qSoG4Qk/s1600/kwenzel.jpg" /></a></div>The second presentation was by <b><a href="http://www.kaththeol.uni-frankfurt.de/funda_dogmatik/mitarbeiter/wenzel/">Prof. Dr. Knut Wenzel</a> (Frankfurt)</b>, entitled "<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BNAAMSNS"><b>Bob Dylan, die Stimme und die Zeit</b></a>" (<b>Bob Dylan - the Voice and the Time</b>).<br />
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Actually, this was rather good. <b>Prof. Dr. Kurt Wenzel (Catholic Theology/German Literature) of Frankfurt University </b>tried to present Dylan (and his changing voice -- on released recordings) within a historical context, with Dylan's voice changing as the "times were a-changin'".<br />
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After the presentation, during a coffee break, <b>I had an interesting conversation</b> (I disagreed on a few points) with him, <b>mainly emphasising that Dylan's released recordings are entirely inadequate for an analysis of that kind</b> (for example, the controversy about the authenticity of the <b>Karen Wallace Tape</b> because of Dylan's voice on this early Pre-Columbian recording sounding rather similar to that of Nashville Skyline).<br />
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<b>All in all, quite enjoyable and interesting (with a few minor inaccuracies due to the inadequacy of having to use Dylan's released "canon" only).</b><br />
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<b>NOTE: </b><br />
<b>© by Prof. Dr. Knut Wenzel, 2011 </b><br />
<b>Presented for the purpose of study and research only (in accordance with "fair use" criteria). </b><b><br />
</b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-68187640375865224392011-05-26T15:50:00.000-07:002011-08-22T15:39:05.398-07:00Mainz Dylan Symposium, May 26, 2011 (Part 1 of 3 attended and taped)Today, I attended the first three presentations of the <b>Bob Dylan Symposium "Bob Dylan und die Revolution der populären Musik" (Bob Dylan & The Revolution in Popular Music)</b> at Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany (I left and will not attend tomorrow's presentations, because I "had enough").<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOGGzK44Nk3oPqijlg9e2rq54Sun99q_iRqe9jJvxUwkcxxsSZidNhjWT3oVCFLt0R7fhob0jpD65mpYhEas6uI3WEGzLuug2c5f0Q6wpTWenIeC8yFy4el7-RxcCKdBO2v2Smd0Aq9E/s1600/Lamping_neu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOGGzK44Nk3oPqijlg9e2rq54Sun99q_iRqe9jJvxUwkcxxsSZidNhjWT3oVCFLt0R7fhob0jpD65mpYhEas6uI3WEGzLuug2c5f0Q6wpTWenIeC8yFy4el7-RxcCKdBO2v2Smd0Aq9E/s1600/Lamping_neu.jpg" /></a></div><b><a href="http://www.avl.uni-mainz.de/124.php">Prof. Dr. Dieter Lamping</a> (Mainz)</b> opened the symposium with an introductory presentation "<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G7N83F3U"><b>Zwischen moderner Lyrik und Pop - Bob Dylan</b></a>" (Bob Dylan - Between Modern Poetry and Pop) which only served to show what results are achieved when academics in their ivory tower try to "tackle" the phenomenon of Bob Dylan.<br />
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On a positive note, Prof. Dr. Lamping NEVER even mentioned Clinton Heylin once, but stressed <b>the importance of what he called "fan culture" for serious scholarship</b>, and voiced <b>a certain (rather academically-biased) astonishment at the quality of research to be found, for example, on internet "fan" sites</b>.<br />
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Nevertheless, his remarks about Dylan's nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature (which Lamping feels he will never get and does not really deserve) made it all too clear, that academia, especially in Germany, has problems "justifying" Dylan research -- too many of his "laudatory" remarks had an almost apologetic undertone.<br />
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<b>NOTE: </b><br />
<b>© by Prof. Dr. Dieter Lamping, 2011 </b><br />
<b>Presented for the purpose of study and research only (in accordance with "fair use" criteria). </b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-37842130386485243032011-05-22T17:14:00.000-07:002011-05-22T23:48:17.994-07:00"He's still an icon, always will be" -- a message from Eric Burdon<b>Back in 2006, <a href="http://ericburdon.ning.com/">Eric Burdon</a> had this to say when I asked him for a message for Bob's birthday:</b><br />
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<i>I'm just... <b>I'm just as happy that he's around, and that he's still gigging</b>,</i><br />
<i>and that he's still... you know... is... you know....</i><br />
<i><b>The only thing that I could say about Bob is</b>... you know...</i><br />
<i><b>'Come on, let's have a song about Iraq'</b>, </i><br />
<i>you know... </i><br />
<i>I mean, 'Let's get down... <b>let's get down to it'</b>, </i><br />
<i>you know....</i><br />
<i>Aahh... you know... but... you know... no, </i><br />
<b><i>he's done his work, and he did it well,</i></b><br />
<i>and <b>he's still an icon, always will be</b>... </i><br />
<i>and... <b>he stands for a lot</b>....</i><br />
<i><b>Over the years,</b> <b>I've loved his variable bands</b></i><br />
<i><b>and the way he's approached his material in a different way, without caring what people think</b>,</i><br />
<i>you know... </i><br />
<i>You know... but it's pretty hard... <b>it must be pretty difficult to be Bob Dylan</b>, you know...</i>!"<br />
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<b>Fritz Rau had this to say (German language, translation by myself):</b><br />
<b>"</b><i>This is great -- we've done some nice tours together, starting in 1978, and </i><b><i> </i></b><br />
<b><i>I wish Bob Dylan a nice and quiet birthday. </i></b><br />
<b><i>I cherish him and am indebted to him for many great songs, many lyrics, poems, and music -- ALL THE BEST. </i></b><br />
<b><i>I can only say: Keep doing what you're doing -- we need you!</i></b>"<br />
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<center><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" height="28" id="divplaylist" width="335"><param name="movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=14908319-ff9" /><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=14908319-ff9" width="335" height="28" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><b> </b></center><center><b>© Manfred Helfert 2006</b></center><center><b> </b></center>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3307262390481607691.post-24758034395292176942011-05-19T09:05:00.000-07:002011-05-22T23:46:00.776-07:00Nuremberg 1978 -- My Own (and Alex Conti's) Personal Recollections<b>I'm still rather infuriated over <a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/work/behind-shades/9780571272402/">Clinton Heylin's sensationalist perpetuation of anti-German prejudices and his distortion of the truth for the sake of a "better story"</a> ("<i>anything involving Nuremberg just HAS to have Nazis in it -- my British and American readers, who are used to Hogan's Heroes stereotypes expect this</i>") that I dug up (and partially rewrote) my personal recollections of that day.</b><br />
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<a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-neo-nazis-noted-in-nuremberg-is.html"><b>Once again -- there were no neo-Nazis throwing things on stage.</b> </a><br />
There were threats by a neo-Nazi group (<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrsportgruppe_Hoffmann">Wehrsportgruppe Hofmann</a>) <b>PRIOR</b> to the concert which had to be taken rather seriously by both the city of Nuremberg and Dylan's tour management (<b><a href="http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com/2011/05/bob-dylans-1978-german-tour-impressario.html">excerpts from a 2006 interview I did with Fritz Rau can be found in this related blog post</a></b>), resulting in highly increased (and at times rather intimidating) security measures.<br />
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Neither <b>Fritz Rau</b> nor Alex Conti (lead guitarist of Lake, one of the groups opening for Dylan), whom I interviewed in 2006, can recall any incident involving Neo Nazis throwing objects on stage, nor does anyone else I know who attended the concert.<br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q42940TB"><b>Alex Conti remembers Dylan in Nuremberg, 1978 (mp3) </b></a><br />
<b>(German language, from 2006 interview) </b><br />
<b>© Manfred Helfert 2006</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MK3VM5YL"><b>Alex Conti remembers Reichsparteitagsgelände (mp3)</b></a><br />
<b>(German language, from 2006 interview)</b><br />
<b>© Manfred Helfert 2006</b><br />
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<b>Here are my own (highly personal) recollections of that concert:</b><br />
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The morning of July 1, 1978 -- a Saturday, if I recall correctly. The sky's overcast and it looks like a hard rain's a-gonna fall. After one more cup of coffee two student friends of mine and I board a beat-up <br />
Buick 6 (Volkswagen Beetle, that is...) and we are on the road (again).... <br />
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It's eight in the morning -- we're late getting through the suburbs of Mainz, Germany onto Route 66 (A-66 that is...), heading east into the uncharted wilderness of the German Free State of Bavaria to <br />
that place called "Zeppelinfeld" ("blimp [air]field"), the euphemistic, conveniently politically "incorrect" name by which the former "Reichsparteitagsgelaende" (the Nazi Party's rallying ground of <br />
the 1930s) in <b style="background-color: #ffff66; color: black;"></b>Nuremberg is known these days -- sweep the past under the carpet; all the graves are by now covered by grass, and the pastoral countryside through which we're driving is peaceful and serene....<br />
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"Street Legal" (which I had just purchased a week ago, or so) blasting from the car stereo -- "Baby, Stop Crying", "Is Your Love In Vain", "Senor"... -- nice, relaxing music, perfectly suited for driving at maximum Beetle's speed on the autobahn....<br />
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We're past Frankfurt -- traffic is congesting. We hadn't realized that this is the first day of school holidays in several German states -- everybody and their family is heading in our direction, east to <br />
southeast, in every type of jalopies (mostly spotlessly clean...as is expected of the typical German car-fetishist), on this highway leading to the gardens of eden of pre-civil-war Yugoslavia and <br />
Italy....<br />
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Past Wuerzburg -- stop and go -- we're stuck inside of the biggest traffic jam, bumper to bumper, I have ever encountered. Two kilometers in one hour -- where's the next exit from the autobahn? <br />
Otherwise, we won't make it in time for the 2 p.m. opening of the concert, admission to the festival grounds starting at noon....<br />
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Finally, an exit. We get off the congested highway and proceed (rather steadily and without any further obstructions) on narrow country roads towards our destination....<br />
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Nuremberg, at last -- we get lost in the city; finally, at 11:30, we see a direction marker for "Zeppelinfeld". All the parking spaces near the festival area are already taken; we find one about a mile away, grab our stuff, and head towards the arena. <br />
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My first impression: Huge grey concrete walls looming behind the merciful camouflage of trees... Gigantic. Rolled out barbed wire coils everywhere (to block unauthorized access to the festival grounds), viciously looking security guards in black leather garb with even more viciously looking German shepherd dogs (who can probably trace their ancestry back to "Blondie" or another dog owned by the "Fuehrer"...) with muzzles, behind the barbed wire -- bad vibes, "are we entering a <br />
concentration camp?" <br />
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The main entrance -- myriads of people being herded through about five "cattle chutes", frisked for weapons and glass bottles, but the atmosphere changes -- the "bad vibes" are gone; people are joking, you make new acquaintances while waiting in the long lines in front of the entrance... <br />
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Finally, we're inside. The sight is amazing. In front of us are already about 30,000 to 50,000 people settled on their blankets, air mattresses, etc. on the level area in front of the stage which looks <br />
tiny from the far end of what is only half of the huge area with its gigantomaniac architecture <br />
(picture the chariot racing arena in the "Ben Hur" movie "times two" or even "three"... or watch Leni Riefenstahl's "<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TriumphOfTheWillgermanTriumphDesWillens">Triumph of the Will</a>").<br />
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The other half of the area (behind the stage) is converted into an American type sportsfield -- bleachers in the sun of the early July afternoon, standard baseball fields (used by the American troops stationed in <br />
Nuremberg and therefore "Off-limits" for concert purposes). <br />
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We find some space to sit down at the foot of this concrete monster building, slightly higher than the level area in front of us so that our view towards the stage is not obstructed (we've got binoculars <br />
hanging from our necks... but no jewels) -- not too far from the row of portable toilets (to our right), rather convenient in view of our supply of red wine in plastic bottles. The throng of people entering the area still seems endless....<br />
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The concert starts. We've made friends with the people near us, exchanged tobacco (and "wacky tobaccy") with them... <br />
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"Lake" -- a German/English group opens, followed by "Chicken Shack," a British blues-oriented group -- the stage is a rotating one, so while one act plays, the equipment for the next act is already being set up in the back -- then the rear part of the stage is then rotated to the front -- so the breaks between the <br />
different acts are minimal -- very good planning, IMHO. <br />
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The first real "highlight" -- Eric Clapton with (most likely) Yvonne Elliman (Mary Magdalene of "Jesus Christ Superstar" movie fame) as background singer, who is featured as solo artist on a truly excellent "Can't Find My Way Back Home." <br />
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By now, I'm on one of the "towers" and have a unobstructed view over the whole area, as well as the area outside Zeppelinfeld -- there's an (obviously) man-made pond about 500 meters away and on the other side of this pond I see another gigantic (definitely Nazi-architecture) building....<br />
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The lines of people waiting to be admitted to the festival area are still long -- I've never seen that many people in my life. Clapton plays J.J. Cale's "Cocaine".... <br />
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Instead of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Champion Jack Dupree follows Clapton -- he is great, but as one critic later remarked (I'm quoting this from memory) it was somehow "like playing with marbles in a bull-fight arena." A great act, but somewhat out of place in front of this huge audience (70,000 or 80,000 by now) -- his intimate heart-felt blues more suited for a club atmosphere... <br />
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Finally, the moment I've anticipated for so long:<br />
I'll be able to watch Bob Dylan perform in concert for the first time!<br />
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He opens with Tampa Red's "She's Love Crazy" -- a song I'm not familiar with at all. Then "Baby, Stop Crying" (by now, I know that one). "Mr. Tambourine Man" -- sounding rather strange in its 1978 arrangement --, "Shelter From The Storm" --- etc. <br />
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After "Going, Going, Gone" (song #12), Carolyn Dennis sings Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come", Helena Springs follows with "Love Minus Zero/No Limits", Steven Soles with "Laissez-Faire"....<br />
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In retrospect (almost 33 years ago), and re-listening to my CD-R copy of that concert last night, I <br />
find Dylan's performance very spirited, very "exciting", as if the strange mood of this historical place had made him give his "utmost."<br />
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Instead of the "average" 26 to 27 songs on other 1978 European concerts, he performs 28 in his "main set" -- and he even makes a remark about the significance of this place when introducing "Masters of War".<br />
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Halfway through Dylan's set, I have finally made my way through the crowds to right in front of the stage, the barricades and "cattle chutes" at the entrance are removed -- everybody can come in for free now to watch the finale... <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3LQFt9PHHmmiHJ7b8x-bAVsenekKNndKazGdxx86qd4WxO19N4sbcjlogGjSBnIC2VcUZivKSP4WfUG59Bs0Wgwm-NzX8kVdsOsYiylcjL5DTGo9jxsi2GdsKMTA_-XSVRR4V3AeADks/s1600/dynu2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3LQFt9PHHmmiHJ7b8x-bAVsenekKNndKazGdxx86qd4WxO19N4sbcjlogGjSBnIC2VcUZivKSP4WfUG59Bs0Wgwm-NzX8kVdsOsYiylcjL5DTGo9jxsi2GdsKMTA_-XSVRR4V3AeADks/s320/dynu2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky: <br />
The two encores -- Eric Clapton joins Dylan onstage for "I'll Be your Baby Tonight" and "The <br />
Times They Are A-Changin'" -- during the last song, "professional" fireworks go off behind the stage, the area in front of the stage is further illuminated by thousands of lights from flashlights, lighters, most likely U.S. Army issued "illumination grenades" in different colors (there are quite a few G.I.'s in the crowd...) etc. -- PURE MAGIC which lingers on for quite a while, even during the long trek back to our car!!!<br />
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<b>Thank you, Bob, for the first of many unforgettable concert experiences! </b>fred_at_workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004598093650898815noreply@blogger.com4