Is Bob Dylan overrated?

Hey look it's TylerW in the post Shadow Kingdom livestream!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxL7xKQ7VyM

One of the two EPs is named "Max Ice"... I'm gonna assume that's a Dylan pseudonym (like "Jack Frost").

(EPs = Executive Producers. watchin' the credits roll)

watching it now, he makes a lot of significant lyric changes to "When I Paint My Masterpiece"

Still going toward his masterpiece!
completely seriously B-but can we be completely sure of that, or anything? Bob Dylan the Original Andy Kaufman

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8.0: Tall Boy Cans
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"All the cold beer cans in the sun...

Wonder if this is not unlike Paul Simon’s last album, re-recording songs for posterity and to fix details (like lyrics).

Part 1 of the livestream is on youtube now but I can't imagine it will stay up for long, part 2 has already been pulled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJXDZyITIog

he sounds good!

is the audience vaccinated

this is good as hell

xp I raised that q to my dad (why is only the band masked?) – he thinks it’s for Dylan-y artistic reasons, not safety.

watching again, "Forever Young" is so gorgeous, goosebumps

video unavailable, ugh

My hope is that there is indeed another tranche of these songs (as theorized above), and that the whole thing is released as an album.

Yes, I hope this is going to be properly released at some point, like Nick Cave's "streaming only" Alexandra Palace solo show that ended up as a regular release after a few months.

stay tuned

Just like the Nick Cave thing, so much obvious effort and expense went into to producing it that I would be shocked* if it wasn't released as an able

*at this point I would like to invoke the Bob Dylan Caveat Clause being that I would in no way shape or form be shocked if it was never released because Dylan is going to Dylan

"album"

They've extended Shadow Kingdom for a week.

What's the limit on streaming? If I buy a ticket, can I stream it only once, or do I have a window (like 24 hours) and an IP address limit where I can stream it multiple times?

I've streamed it several times, using login/pw that originated on my dad's computer.

Got it. Thanks morrisp

Dylan has just announced ... 4 years' worth of touring the USA?

why so short?

It's a "World Tour" – the first batch of dates (this fall) are US shows.

(sorry – "World Wide Tour")

RS subscription "offer" blocking page for me, but here's the hed & sub:
Bob Dylan Launches New Era of Never Ending Tour at Captivating Milwaukee Opener
Dylan dedicated the show to Milwaukee native Les Paul, and played nearly every song from 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'
But also saw a glimpse of first show without Charlie Sexton since 2013!

detailed review in the star tribune

https://www.startribune.com/after-2-year-concert-hiatus-ever-surprising-bob-dylan-returns-to-embrace-his-rough-and-rowdy-ways/600112633/

nice, he played "key west"! i've never seen dylan live and i would love to hear him sing that song

So bummed to miss his Chicago show tonight. I've never seen him and really wanted to go, but not quite ready for an indoor show. Maybe in another month or two would have been better.

Pretty interesting, it's kind of rare for him to do so much stuff off the new album

I saw him the day that Modern Times hit #1 on the album chart and he did....zero songs off the album lol

Fantastic setlist

not a great recording, but here are the rough and rowdy ways tunes from last night:
https://archive.org/details/rarw-live

V. edutaining discussion of "Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double E(es?)": http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/double_ees.html
Also, Flaggin' Down The Double E's is an enewsletter with good commentaries on and downloads of BD shows old and new: twice a month free, more paid: https://dylanlive.substack.com/
Also: I saw Stevie Wonder performing on the Kennedy Center Honors a few nights ago (First Couple doing their best to rock out to "Superstition," awrite). Since then, I've been listening to several 2021 Sun Ra reissues on Bandcamp, and this evening, as I went walking, I saw Dylan at the Kennedy Center Honors, playing some of the vintage portable keyboards Mr. Ra favored, and it all turned into an intro for "I Shall Be Released," which he followed, seamlessly, with "Sometimes I think this whole world, is one big prison yard, some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards, Ma take these guns off of me," then I turned the corner, saw the maskless masses, turned around and came home, just thinking of the cars whizzing by, but that was an ok daydream in the dark. Merry Christmass yall!

Ha, nice: the Waifs get called to the stage by Himself:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/28/the-waifs-wed-stripped-to-our-undies-and-started-on-the-vodka-when-bob-dylan-called-us-onstage Still got a good Waifs CD from them days---

And here's how Patti Smith finally got him to sing "Dark Eyes" with her---he'd fumbled a solo attempt earlier, says Ray Padgett of this Dylan shows chronicle x download enewsletter: https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/dark-eyes

'I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying
But she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line
I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee'Hugging faceBottle with popping corkBalloon❤Birthday cake
#aliciakeys #BobDylan
Alicia Keys
@aliciakeys
It’s My BIRTHDAY!!!! Bottle with popping corkBottle with popping corkBottle with popping corkBottle with popping corkConfetti ballConfetti ballConfetti ballConfetti ballParty popperParty popperParty popperParty popperPartying facePartying facePartying facePartying face

I’m so grateful to be alive!! Folded handsFolded handsFolded hands

Thank you to every single person who surprised me last night plotting along with the masterful surpriser my KING
@THEREALSWIZZZ
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Sorry, the song quote was tweeted by KG Miles Smiling face with sunglasses
@barberville

"I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee'Hugging faceBottle with popping corkBalloon❤Birthday cake"

top ten Dylan lyrics

"The Ballad of Hugging Face Bottle and Popping Cork Balloon" was a good Rolling Thunder era outtake

Good recent interview w Benmont Tench---1986 Wellington is the date of show download, link for that at end (several live vids are linked in here too, also pic of Dylan and Bacall):

The Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench Talks Touring and Recording with Bob Dylan
1986-02-05, Athletic Park, Wellington, New Zealand
Ray Padgett
Flagging Down the Double E’s is an email newsletter exploring Bob Dylan shows of yesteryear. Some installments are free, some are for paid subscribers only. Sign up for either option here/https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/the-heartbreakers-benmont-tench-talks?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTI4NTEwMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDcxMjUyNDIsIl8iOiJZZ2gvSSIsImlhdCI6MTY0NDA4NDc2NCwiZXhwIjoxNjQ0MDg4MzY0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ5ODEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.CXJAX4zuQk_swHwyKtM-YCzA0qclu84IcIefoAgQD4U

Goldmine magazine
@Goldmine_mag
Joy Harjo, the artist-in-residence for the new Bob Dylan Center, is the guest on the Goldmine Podcast. Harjo explains the importance of the May opening of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. https://bit.ly/3HJzUtQ

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNA4yHVX0AUnWKa?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Should have put the sleazy Vietnam vet/cult leader Dylan from the cover of Trouble No More box on the side of the building.

new book coming, interesting
https://www.bobdylan.com/news/the-philosophy-of-modern-song/

Tim Easton
@Tim_Easton
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Powerful & historic day listening to the confirmation hearings of Justice Jackson as I drive North through Alabama. Last night I watched Bob Dylan perform right down the street from where Rosa Parks was arrested. #Alabama #History
@bobdylan
#equality #USA

pic part of tweet

"I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee'Hugging faceBottle with popping corkBalloon❤Birthday cake"

top ten Dylan lyrics

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:09 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Reminds me of
post your made-up tom waits lyric

Yeah that's a good 'un.
Just now catching with this:

Tim Easton
@Tim_Easton
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JP Olsen at Hank Williams’s grave in Montgomery, Alabama. We’re here to see
@bobdylan
perform tonight. His first record came out 60 years ago this week. On a radio show that same year he covered Hank’s “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” #hankwilliams #bobdylan #alabama

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOfFnoBWYAgxjY8?format=jpg&name=360x360

In fall of 1965, Bob Dylan told Nat Hentoff of Playboy:

Last spring I guess I was going to quit singing. I was very drained and the way things were going it was a very draggy situation… I was playing a lot of songs I didn’t want to play. I was singing words I didn’t really want to sing. I don’t mean words like “God” and “mother” and “president” and “suicide” and “meat cleaver”. I mean simple little words like “if” and “hope” and “you”.