― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Donovan plays him the saccharine To Sing for You
as:
Donovan plays him the Saccharine Trust.
that would have been more interesting.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
yes. dylan's not humorless but a lot of his "followers" are.
― simian (dymaxia), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
people are definitely better looking today
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
TS: Hurdy Gurdy Man vs. Tambourine Man
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
It's irrelevant in terms of the two's quality, but not in terms of their legacy, of which I think Donovan has fairly little.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link
So I will.
And I like Donovan's music. A "Best Of" suffices, though.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
haven't heard "honest with me," have you?
anyways, anybody who could come up with "first there is a mountain" needs no one to defend him
― pus bop, Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
otm.
― piscesboy, Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Although I will allow I had a thought about Dylan this past week when I heard him in a CD shop - "why do so many people seem to hate Dylan? I mean he's not my preferred thing to listen to, but the hate is hard to understand"
― There's a Tipsy Ghost on the edge of my couch (Bimble...), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― bah, Monday, 12 September 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Giles Hattersley, eh? Any relation? Should we blame the parents, or instead blame the sham media meritocracy which continues to ensure that you can only earn a living as a broadsheet writer if you had the correct parents?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I can see them. We're both rather soft-spoken Scots with a line in whimsy and a certain kind of Aquarian starry-eyed quality, as well as a tendency to mock same. I sat in a hotel lobby in Paris with Donovan in April. It was just the two of us, and I was tempted to tell him "My records are often compared with yours!", but I thought it would have been a bit twattish, and I didn't want to disturb him as he read "Uriel's History: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization".
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― simian (dymaxia), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey, guess what Giles, these days people from Donovan's background still don't have "gap years"
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
----I am so sick of reading about the Don't look back scene. Donovan requested he play It's all Over now Baby Blue. The thick headed Dylan fans will never see this because they don't want to see it. Donovan hands him the guitar and says "I want to hear It's all over now Baby Blue." Then Dylan asks, "You wanna hear that." and he asks what tuning his guitar is in. Donovan tells him its in a D tuning. People really need to watch this movie more closely. Donovan wasn't embarrassed at the song he friggan requested, how could he be? Enough ranting.
― hurdy gurdy man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
You shouldn't be laughing, you should have been in awe that the greatest singer songwriter was performing right in front of your eyes. You should have been praising him, and by the way, Beat Cafe is an amazing album. Better then anything the old 60's artist are doing these days, including Dylan's recent album and McCartney's.
― hurdy gurdy man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― hurdy gurdy man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Still though, I don't see how anyone could say Donovan's in the same class as Dylan, that's just insane, on many levels, beginning with volume alone. For every transcendend moment Donovan has, Dylan's got 20.
Also, I've read large portions of his book (which no one has mentioned), and it's unintentionally hilarious, evidence of massive self-involvement and an ego spun far out of proportion to actual ability.
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― hurdy gurdy man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Donovan can carry a vocal melody better (or at least more accurately) than Bob.
I'm not a huge fan of either, but have records by both. I can understand Bob's "importance", but I prefer to listen to Donovan. As others have pointed out, it's the journalist that's the real idiot here...
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
agreed, the only people who should interview artists are their #1 fans
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm a long time Donovan fan, but lately been hearing stories like this. So not fitting with is image. Bit of an old fart to be playing these games. Ah modern medicine.
― earthsign man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
-----Maybe she meant Donovan's son Donovan Jr, and who is Issac Brock?
― hurdy gurdy man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Brock is the singer with Modern Mouse. Saw them and Donovan at Bumbershoot Festival a couple of years ago.
― eathsign man, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
If I may say so, that's awesome.
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Good thing it wasn't Don McLean.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
nb by "'get' to hear" I probably mean "are forced to endure"
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I was feeling pretty groovy when the radiator burst So I ran across a meadow a magical antelope saw me first And then Jennifer Juniper and then a floating merman from Atlantis
― nabisco, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I loved my shirt so much I gave it to a very friendly praying mantis
― nabisco, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't worry, I'm done now
http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2007/m04/x82137689653212655.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
and then a floating merman from Atlantis
dude you know I could seriously sell this line on that beat
― J0hn D., Thursday, 7 February 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=73158&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=
― jim, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh hey, that didn't work.
The gist was that Donovan is opening the "Invincible Donovan University". But this youtube link it better. He sings about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AldJWJk34ag
― jim, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Listen to the cunts whooping.
― jim, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
lowl
― am0n, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny how when hippy dudes talk (brag) about how at peace and in tune with the universe they are, the more insecure and fucked up they sound.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link