1. "I looked at my waaaatch, I looked at my wriiiist/I punched myself in the faaaace with my fiiist."
2. "I'm gonna save all my money and rip it up."
3. "She says, 'You can't repeat the past'/I say, 'You can't? What do you mean, you can't? Of course you can.'"
(YMMV, obv.)
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
4. The way he sings on "Lay Lady Lay"
― I make poll (james k polk), Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
that took less time than I expected, good job everyone
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
5. "Whoever it is, I wish they'd cut it out quick/But when they will I can only guuessss."
― no pomo (G00blar), Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
6. PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?
DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?
DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
goddammit I still haven't come up with a better screen name? *sigh* xp
7. "They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants."
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:42 (eleven years ago) link
When he auditioned to play with Bobby Vee as an organist (despite lack of any sort of mastery of the instrument), Vee asked the scrawny Minnesotan what his name was. "Elston Gunn," replied the then-Bobby Zimmerman. Laughing at the absurdity of it, Vee asked him, "Is that "Gun" with one "n" or "Gunn" with two "ns?"
"Three," replied Elston.
― deedeedeextrovert, Sunday, 26 April 2009 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
9. It ain't that I'm wantin'Anything you never gave before.It's just that I'll be sleepin' soon,It'll be too dark for you to find the door.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 April 2009 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
10.
― velko, Sunday, 26 April 2009 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
11. "Pack up your money, pull up your tent, McGuinn, you ain't going nowhere,"
― velko, Sunday, 26 April 2009 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
12. [mumble mumble mumble] ". . . If only you just wouldn't clap so hard."
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
13. angle dupin looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo -- austin city limits festival 2007
― one thousand BIG HOOS raging and pounding (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 April 2009 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
― 100,000 strawberries (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 26 April 2009 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
15. The part in the Halloween 1964 Philharmonic Hall concert where he has a member of the audience prompt the first words of I Don't Believe You for him
― Duke, Sunday, 26 April 2009 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
16. I said "They refused Jesus too." "you're not him!"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 26 April 2009 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
17. The cover of Empire Burlesque
― Duke, Sunday, 26 April 2009 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
18. Well, my telephone rang it would not stop,It's President Kennedy callin' me up.He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,Anita Ekberg,Sophia Loren."(Put 'em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!)
― \m/ anger on stick \m/ (Ioannis), Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
please come crawl out your windowuse your hands and kegs it won't ruin youhow can you say he will haunt youwhen you can go back to him any time that you want to
― nashville - spiritual home of the cougar (will), Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
legs
20. "I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time."
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
21. "Well, I saw him makin' love to you, you forgot to close the garage door"
such a lewd song but this line is so overt that I bust out laughing everytime
― Euler, Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
22.
Well, she's got jet pilot eyes from her hips on downAll the bombardiers are trying to force her out of townShe's five feet nine and she carries a monkey wrenchShe weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch
She got all the downtown boys, all at her commandBut you've got to watch her closely, 'cause she ain't no woman, she's a man.
― WmC, Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
23. What he's wearing for the Empire Burlesque sleeve
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/615ptwSwJpL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
24. "I like Fidel Castro and his beard!"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
25. I'm in Boston town in some restaurantI got no idea what I wantor maybe I do but I'm just really not sureWaitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her
Well it must be a holiday, there's nobody aroundShe studies me closely as I sit downShe got a pretty face and long white shiny legsI said "Tell me what I want"She say "You probably want hard boiled eggs"
I said "That's right, bring me some"She says "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come"then she says "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me"I said "I would if I could butI don't do sketches from memory"
Well she's?? near she says "I'm right here in front of you or haven't you looked"I say "All right I know but I don't have my drawin' book"She gives me a napkin, she say "You can do it on that"I say "Yes I could but I don't know where my pencil is at"
She pulls one out from behind her earShe says "Alright now go ahead draw me I'm stayin' right here"I make a few lines and I show it for her to seeWell she takes the napkin and throws it back and says"That don't look a thing like me"
I said "Oh kind miss, it most certainly does"She say "You must be joking", I said "I wish I was"She says "You don't read women authors do ya?"at least that's what I think I hear her sayWell I say "How would you know, and what would it matter anyway"
Well she says "Ya just don't seem like ya do", I said "You're way wrong"She says "Which ones have you read then?", I say "Read Erica Jong"She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chairI step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's goin' anywhere
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
26. You know it balances on your headJust like a mattress balancesOn a bottle of wineYour brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Such an arresting image.
― Mark, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
27. Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
28. Per Roger Ebert on "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973: "Bob Dylan plays a character named Alias, and should have used one. His screen presence makes him look as if he's the victim of a practical jokes involving itching powder."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
29. You promise to love me, but what do I see? Just you comin' in and spilling juice over me.
30. Hell's my wife's home town.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I run right down ’n’ bought a ticketTo this bear mountain picnic.But little did I realizeI was in for a picnic surprise.Had nothin’ to do with mountains.I didn’t even come close to a bear.
― 100,000 strawberries (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 26 April 2009 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
31^
I wrote this a couple years back for the AV Club:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IgB0JLKO15Q/RqDvomie9UI/AAAAAAAACBo/EjOWWXUB9fg/s1600-h/den+feat+2+4329.jpg
― tylerw, Sunday, 26 April 2009 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
oops, did that not work? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IgB0JLKO15Q/RqDvomie9UI/AAAAAAAACBo/EjOWWXUB9fg/s1600-h/den+feat+2+4329.jpg
Just noticed what I quickly c&p got the punchline wrong.
― 100,000 strawberries (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 26 April 2009 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
32. I took my potatoes down to be mashed
― ian, Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
33. I was shadow-boxing earlier in the dayI figured I was ready for Cassius ClayI said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay, here I come26, 27, 28, 29, I'm gonna make your face look just like mineFive, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run99, 100, 101, 102, your ma won't even recognize you14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen."
― The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
34. Now, I'm liberal, but to a degreeI want ev'rybody to be freeBut if you think that I'll let Barry GoldwaterMove in next door and marry my daughterYou must think I'm crazy!I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba.
35. Well, I set my monkey on the logAnd ordered him to do the DogHe wagged his tail and shook his headAnd he went and did the Cat insteadHe's a weird monkey, very funky.
I sat with my high-heeled sneakers onWaiting to play tennis in the noonday sunI had my white shorts rolled up past my waistAnd my wig-hat was falling in my faceBut they wouldn't let me on the tennis court.
― The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
God said "No"Abe say "What??"
― one thousand BIG HOOS raging and pounding (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
matos's PLAYBOY quote sounds very funny read in a Terry Tibbs voice.
― piscesx, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
creepy orange skin and black eyeliner:
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
number them plz!
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
39. "Ladies and gentlemen please welcome the poet laureate of rock 'n' roll. The voice of the promise of the '60s counterculture. The guy who forced folk into bed with rock. Who donned makeup in the '70s and disappeared into a haze of substance abuse. Who emerged to find Jesus. Who was written off as a has-been by the end of the '80s, and who suddenly shifted gears releasing some of the strongest music of his career beginning in the late '90s. Ladies and gentlemen - Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan!"
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
40.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
41.
42.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
43. He love your sexy body, he loves your dirty mind He loves when you hold him when you grab him from behind Oh baby, you're such a pretty thing I can't wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang You don't need no wax job, you're smooth enough for me If you need you oil changed I'll do it for you free Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the sun don't shine Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend Oh baby, you're such a tasty treat But I'm under doctor's orders, I'm afraid to overeat He love your sense of humor, your disposition too There's absolutely nothing that he don't love about you Oh baby, I'm on my hands and knees Life would be so simple if I only had you to please Oh baby, turn around and say goodbye You go to the airport now and I'm going home to cry (Chorus) He loves your... Electric dumplings Red bell peppers Fuel injection Service charge Five-speed gearbox Long indurance Quest for junk food Big refrigerator Trembling wilbury Marble earrings Porky curtains Power steering Bottled water Parts and services (Bridge) Dirty world, a dirty world, it's a ...ing dirty world
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, I forgot "Dirty World," well played
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
(Also I love the theory that the snake is the one who subsequently shows up at the end of "Wiggle Wiggle," ten years later.)
― Douglas, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
I seriously don't know how much he's kidding about "pre-Raphaelite" Dylan.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
91.He went to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' judge was drunkAs the leading actor hurried by the costume of a monk
91.I went to the wedding of Mary-Lou She said "I don't want nobody see me talkin' to you" Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew About dignity ...[some unfunny verses]...
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used He wanted money up front, said he was abused By dignity
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
(er, 91. and 92.)
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
(Too late to be typing."As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk")
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues HOUSE OF BLUES
Then had burgers at the Hard Rock Cafe nearby.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
So House of blues does bad burgers?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
93. the "World's Greatest Grandpa" bumper sticker he purchases in Chronicles Volume One
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
(less ha-ha funny than endearing-funny, if that makes sense)
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
94. Handy dandy, if every bone in his body was broken he would never admit itHe got an all girl orchestra and when he says strike up the band, they hit it
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
96. PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Good one, though #96 = #6.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
haha, my bad ... here's another good one from the same interview
DYLAN: The thing that most people don't realize is that it's warmer to have long hair. Everybody wants to be warm. People with short hair freeze easily. Then they try to hide their coldness, and they get jealous of everybody that's warm. Then they become either barbers or Congressmen. A lot of prison wardens have short hair. Have you ever noticed that Abraham Lincoln's hair was much longer than John Wilkes Booth's?
PLAYBOY: Do you think Lincoln wore his hair long to keep his head warm?
DYLAN: Actually, I think it was for medical reasons, which are none of my business.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
97. "See the primitive wallflower freezeWhen the jelly-faced women all sneezeHear the one with the mustache say, "JeezeI can't find my knees""
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
come on ppl, just three more
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
j/k
― just being playful and friendly (some dude), Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
98. Weberman interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/weberman.htmDYLAN: (breath) **Le** those two sentences, man. I don't get them at all. I don't understand them, even --
WEBERMAN: -- why, if you do, I might gain a soul --
DYLAN: Yeah, well, that's shit -- those last two sentences. I don't think I said that.
WEBERMAN: Yes, you did. That's just what you said, man. You said, You re not gonna get into my life -- I said, 'Why?' -- * then you said, 'If you do, I might gain a soul.'
DYLAN: I don't understand that, do you?
WEBERMAN: (pause) Uhh -- I don't know -- I don't know -- it could be looked at in a number of ways, man -- you could *** --
DYLAN: Yeah, why don't you -- d'why don t you take it out of your article and look at it in a number of ways -- and let s d'uh -- you know, and -- and roll it around awhile -- and then when you -- when we know what it means -- why don't you tell me, and then -- ah, let's see if it's worth putting in an article --
WEBERMAN: (pause) Uh** --
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
99.
― Moreno, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
100. Three decades later, A.J., now fifty-five, his once-wildmane receded to silver fringe (but still talking very fast),recalls the incident, one of the more colorful in the oftendrearily hagiographic Dylanological chronicles: "I'd agreednot to hassle Dylan anymore, but I was a publicity-hungrymotherfucker. . . . I went to MacDougal Street, and Dylan'swife comes out and starts screaming about me going throughthe garbage. Dylan said if I ever fucked with his wife, he'dbeat the shit out of me. A couple of days later, I'm onElizabeth Street and someone jumps me, starts punching me.
"I turn around and it's like -- Dylan. I'm thinking, 'Canyou believe this? I'm getting the crap beat out of me by BobDylan!' I said, 'Hey, man, how you doin'?' But he keepsknocking my head against the sidewalk. He's little, but he'sstrong. He works out. I wouldn't fight back, you know,because I knew I was wrong. He gets up, rips off my 'FreeBob Dylan' button and walks away. Never says a word.
"The Bowery bums were coming over, asking, 'How much heget?' Like I got rolled. . . . I guess you got to hand it toDylan, coming over himself, not sending some fucking lawyer.That was the last time I ever saw him, except once with oneof his kids, maybe Jakob, and he said, 'A.J. is so ashamedof his Jewishness, he got a nose job,' which was true -- atleast in the fact that I got a nose job. . . ."
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
"The sun's not yellow/it's chicken"
― deusner, Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
101. http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/05/13/bob-dylan-makes-surprise-appearance-on-beatles-tour/
― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^Apparently he also visited Neil Young's boyhood home when he was in Canada recently.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Peter Grant: Mr. Dylan, my name is Peter Grant. I'm Led Zeppelin's manager.Dylan: I don't come to you with MY problems, do I?
- at a party or backstage or somewhere, mid-'70s
― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
103. "Mona tried to tell meTo stay away from the train line.She said that all the railroad menJust drink up your blood like wine.An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that,But then again, there's only one I've metAn' he just smoked my eyelidsAn' punched my cigarette."'
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.expectingrain.com/jokes.html
― posi riot (some dude), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:45 (six years ago) link
I think about the Elston Gunnn anecdote once a week
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPkJeziNyI&feature=kp
'i sucked the milk out of a thousand cows'
(onscreen, dylan, cow)
― j., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:12 (six years ago) link
Roseanne (Barr) is onstage at the end of Frank Sinatra 80th birthday TV special, and Dylan comes up to her and says "I really liked the way you sang the National Anthem."
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:46 (six years ago) link
bob dylan crisps
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUdAL0_X0AA3GeK.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 26 January 2018 15:57 (three years ago) link
"Professor Longhair—I got nothin’ to say about him. We told you about him before, and you know how to look him up in Wikipedia. That’s where he lives – Wikipedia, Louisiana."
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 2 February 2018 04:20 (two years ago) link
"The Three Wise Men–Caspar, Balthazar, and Melchior...three names you don’t hear much any more…well, except for Balthazar."
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 2 February 2018 04:23 (two years ago) link
"Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote no shortage of good songs. Here's one you might not know. It's performed by that archetypical New York group that kept Atlantic records afloat for many a year, a group that had a number of famous lead singers, and easily made the transition from 50's R&B to 60's soul...of course, I'm talking about Yes. Naw, I'm talking about the Drifters!"
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:43 (two years ago) link
For The New Basement Tapes, T Bone Burnett put together a group with Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Jim James, Marcus Mumford and Taylor Goldsmith, to finish songs based on old lyrics of yours. Did you hear any of those songs and say, “I don’t remember writing that?”
Did you say Taylor Swift?
Taylor Goldsmith.
Yeah, OK. No, I don’t remember writing any of those songs.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:01 (two years ago) link
“How about Ratt?”
https://youtu.be/cntGcbU3nM8
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:34 (two years ago) link
"Fan of Bobby's for a long time...."
"All wrestlers are."
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:47 (two years ago) link
"My wife and I were happy for thirty years. And then we met."
― mahb, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:11 (two years ago) link
I wrote this awhile back, playing off some things in the newz at the time (posting it here on a quiet Saturday night, to minimize claims of self-promotion): http://kimgordonsrealage.tumblr.com/post/5810288062/bob-dylan-ive-battled-25-a-day-addictions-all
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 13 May 2018 03:05 (two years ago) link
haha those TTRH quotes are hilarious, wish I had the patience to listen through all those episodes
51. Some old David Letterman anniversary show from Radio City Music Hall, where they gave him a tremendous build up and recruited a huge all-star band, and he came out and sang the laziest, slurriest "Like a Rolling Stone" ever. I'm pretty sure he just sang the vowels.
I think it's more kind of lol but mostly sad territory...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedNVVw8LD0
― niels, Sunday, 13 May 2018 12:36 (two years ago) link
^ Bob probably had some bad sushi before the show. (What a band, btw!)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 13 May 2018 16:57 (two years ago) link
i saw bob dylan in the mid-2000s and that was pretty much how he sang all his songs
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 13 May 2018 17:37 (two years ago) link
1987:
At one of the first rehearsals, Dylan showed up late. The band was only able to rehearse some ninety minutes before Stan Lynch let Petty know he had to leave. "Tom was like, 'Fuck. Where do you need to be?'" says Lynch. "And I told him, 'I'm going to see Frank and Sammy tonight at the Greek.' The whole band just starts backing away from me. I mean, literally, it was like 'we don't know him'. This might have even been the first rehearsal. Bob's got his shades on, kind of noticing the conversation but not a part of it. Two minutes later Bob says, "Frank and Sammy?' The room's still dead quiet. 'I love those guys,' he says. I go, 'Well, I have two tickets. Fourth row. And I don't have a date.'" Lynch and Dylan left in the drummer's Jaguar XJS, a twelve-cylinder two-seater. There wasn't room for Dylan to bring security. "I thought Stan was getting brownie points with the new boss," says Mike Campbell. "I was kind of jealous."
Lynch continues: "Then we get to the Greek Theatre, and he tightens his sweatshirt hood around his face. We make our way down to the fourth row. He looks like the Unabomber. But by that point, a few people are realizing that Bob Dylan is there. You can sort of feel the energy. The show starts, and its fucking great. But I kinda got one eye on Bob, one eye on Sammy. Like, 'How's Bob reacting to this? How's Bob reacting to me loving Sammy so much? What's happening here?' The whole thing is odd, with the people around us reacting to how Bob is reacting to Sammy."
At the end of the set, after a standing ovation, Dylan made to leave. Perhaps all the talk about Sammy Davis Jr. had confused things. Lynch, not knowing what to do, grabbed Dylan by the back of his sweatshirt as he started heading toward the aisle, reminding him that Frank was still due to perform. "But now its the intermission," says Lynch, "and I'm pressed for more conversation. Then Cheryl Tiegs, the supermodel, walks by, and its a perfect opener. She's hot! Musicians can only talk about a few things, right? I go 'Cheryl Tiegs, man.' He goes 'Huh? Who?' I say, 'Right there in front of you.' ... And this is where I knew we were going to be friends. He says 'That's way after my time.' I go, 'What?' He says to me, 'I like Ann Margret, Elizabeth Taylor.' He starts naming chicks like that. I say 'Really?' He looks at me, takes his sunglasses off, and says 'Really'".
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:10 (nine months ago) link
when bob dylan looks at you and takes off his sunglasses, get ready for a moment
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:51 (nine months ago) link
Larry Charles' telling the story of the HBO slapstick comedy series he and Dylan wrote is the best, so many funny parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDTSu8v8QI
I say "I want a hot beverage" in Bob's voice to my wife about once a week.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Thursday, 9 April 2020 12:33 (nine months ago) link
And she says "You ain't him..."
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 April 2020 14:20 (nine months ago) link
More like rolls her eyelids and punches my cigarette.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:01 (nine months ago) link
In the same category, there's Carrie Fisher's story about how she met Dylan: he calls her up out of the blue and she assumes it's to ask her out, but no, it's because a company has asked him to endorse a cologne and he thinks she might have some good ideas for cologne names. "Do I look like somebody who would be walking around with a bunch of cologne names rattling around in my head? Well, tragically, I did." He also tells her he's thinking about opening a beauty salon.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:49 (nine months ago) link
That's a great story
― morrisp, Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:55 (nine months ago) link
That Letterman performance upthread is pretty bad, but it's absolutely hamstrung by the shitty video recording. Here's a far better version without the flutter on the audio ("like a bee singing into a fan" as one comment put it):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LaNXwqLFnc
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 10 April 2020 00:09 (nine months ago) link
I guarantee you won’t see this one coming pic.twitter.com/wygC15Qcpy— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) January 13, 2021
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:16 (two weeks ago) link