Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy bench
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
Brother Brian knew early on that Bob had the gift. I bought the first albums with my $20 a day (cash) from Rod's motorcycle shop. Had to leave them in Carmichaels when I went off to the war. I appreciate this acknowledgment by the Nobel committee. Add your thoughts and lyrics if you will.
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Hey, Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me....
For me it was 1964 and it was all Joan Baez and Peter Paul and Mary (all great stuff). By 1967 we had Sargent Peppers, the Who, Jefferson Airplane etc. (the world had changed). In 1965 Dylan went electric, Pete Seeger was mad.
Who knows what our parents thought!
Again in 1965 Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone" (the world had changed). I have not kept up with him but there for a while he was just an "old blues man".
Did anyone listen to his Sinatra album?
--Brian
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
My view of Dylan is different because I have no memory before Dylan.
I actually played "The Times are a Changing" for my high school graduation court in 1980.
Dylan is arguably the most important singer songwriter ever.
I have been revisiting many songs since the Nobel award.
So everyone put on your best shower voice and let go!!!
Man you're missing it if you've never heard Kevin singing "It Ain't me Babe". The man can blast!.
It kind of reminds me though of one night I was watching Kevin playing basketball ( I think it was the JV game at the high school gym ) but anyway Kev was driving hard, made it through the defense but had so much momentum that when he got to that lay-up the ball hit the backboard with about the same speed and intensity that Kevin was running. I pretty sure no one was hurt!. So be careful when you're letting it go.
What I was trying to get at is that you sing with enthusiasm, you played ball with enthusiasm, your live with enthusiasm. I think we all recognize enthusiam and most of us enjoy having and seeing it but what really makes it great is to be able to temper that drive so that we're able to put it up softly and somehow make that basket. We all have stumbled upon it at some time in our lives buy it's so much harder to do it on demand!