Beach Boys, fwiw, absolutely everything is online somewhere.
Probably because no one in the group even knows how to use email.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
The really good news is, I see at least three links that will teach me how to play "Mr. Tambourine Man" on a guitar, so who needs Blonde on Blonde?
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
I bet with Dylan it's less direction than some proxy operating independently. Like, he hires a lawyer and tells him to do whatever he sees fit, and then the lawyer makes the call. And then 10 years later Dylan sues the lawyer for wasting his money.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Folk music, for the folks!
surely there is a Mike Love song about e-mail and the internet just waiting to be written
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Spirit of America Online"
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Had to Text Ya
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
I bet with Dylan it's less direction than some proxy operating independently. Like, he hires a lawyer and tells him to do whatever he sees fit, and then the lawyer makes the call.
yeah I strongly doubt any of this has crossed Dylan's desk in at least thirty years
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if Bob's never seen YouTube.
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Not to go all A.J. Weberman, but that's something I'd like to see: Bob Dylan's desk. I'd like to think something like this, but he probably just picked it up from Walmart.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/4/7/0/8/9/7/webimg/638025486_o.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Bob Dylan's 115th Desk.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Bet he stole his desk from Dave Van Ronk.
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I know he had a very folky looking desk in 1964, then he bought one of those fancy Carnaby St. desks in 1965. Got booed and heckled by his housekeeper.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw yeah I doubt Dylan even knows what Youtube is BUT I bet he gave some angry "no one gets my music for free maaan" rant to a lawyer a few times and the resultant policy was promptly put in place
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
It's a little known fact that Bob Dylan doesn't even have working electricity.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
on the bonus cuts from some recent album - together through life? - which are taken from an episode of his radio show, dylan's talking up, i forget, whatsername the singer, and he instructs the listener, 'go on to YOU tubeā¦'
― j., Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I was thinking about that on the way home. Sometimes Dylan seems to want to present himself as an ascetic monk, oblivious to whatever the rest of the world's interested in, and I'm sure in some regards he is. But when I read his memoirs, I was often surprised/amused when he'd make reference to some pop-culture name you wouldn't think in a million years he'd have been aware of (the first one that comes to mind is Gorgeous George, the wrestler, but there were others).
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
well shit the man's been on tour for forty years, reading saint augustine can't be the only thing he does in his downtime
― j., Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the idea that dylan wouldn't know what youtube was
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like there's probably a more apt thread for this, but someone tell me what it is:http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/47019871450/so-people-ask-me-this-sometimes-and-i-appreciate
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Dude didn't know what overdubbing was (or that it was possible) until 1970 or 1971. Not knowing about YouTube would be totally in character for him.
xp
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
Dylan dropped booty call &Alicia Keys refs so I'm sure he knows youtube
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure after he dies there'll be some big reveal about dylan avidly posting on yahoo groups about the civil war.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Dude didn't know what overdubbing was (or that it was possible) until 1970 or 1971.
really? where'd you hear that?
I think it's impossible that somebody who recorded and released an album on a major label as recently as last year wouldn't know what YT is. I mean, maybe if he really was a retired recluse that might be conceivable but not for a working professional! unless he just really never talks to anyone else and everyone around him is afraid to ever speak to him?
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
plus j. quoted him up there referencing youtube so...
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
this is in his bio iirc
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
he didn't *do* any overdubbing until 1970 or thereabouts, he probably knew it was possible....
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
found the quote ""When I started making records, you sat in a room and sang your songs and what it sounded like on your side of the glass is what it sounded like on the other side of the glass. Somewhere along the line that changed, and I'm not sure why. I honestly didn't know you could do an overdub until like 1975."
sounds like bs or exaggeration possibly
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah. but he did say it.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hearing a Paula Abdul song on a windswept day in New Orleans. I love the Oh Mercy chapter.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Looking at the book "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994" on google books, it says The Boxer is the first track where he doubled his vocals. so '69 or '70.
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
xp haha, yeah he said it. but you'd have to have some serious blinders on to be a world famous recording artist and not know about that stuff. his vocals are doubletracked on "the boxer," recorded in 1970.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh there you go. of course, that might be the producer just taking two vocal takes, not like it's an amazing overdub job. i like the idea of dylan hearing it with the two vocals and thinking: "who is that other dude singing with me"
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
this is interesting...
Dylan and producer Tom Wilson were soon experimenting with their own fusion of rock and folk music. The first unsuccessful test involved overdubbing a "Fats Domino early rock & roll thing" over Dylan's earlier, acoustic recording of "House of the Rising Sun," according to Wilson. This took place in the Columbia 30th Street Studio in December 1964.[1] It was quickly discarded, though Wilson would more famously use the same technique of overdubbing an electric backing track to an existing acoustic recording with Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". I
never knew that but now I want to hear it.
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes I think I really need to hear Self Portrait. Dylan doing Paul Simon lol
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if dylan was actually there though or ever heard it, or if wilson just did it on his own like he did with SoSxp
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
he went on rec.music.dylan o/w a few times in the 90s
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Friday, 12 April 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
i am bob dylan
― severely depressed robots are "twee" (Pat Finn), Friday, 12 April 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
How big is your penis
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 12 April 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Have you been to Manhattan, and if so, what was it like
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 12 April 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i usually don't like to talk about "being bob dylan"; it feels tacky, like i'm bragging.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
It's ain't braggin' if it's true.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 12 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I think I know what's going on here. 1) Pat Finn started out on burgundy. 2) He soon hit the harder stuff. 3) Weird, off-the-wall posting on a message board.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i thought i would be able to follow up the "i am bob dylan" comment with some funny posts. but i've got nothing.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Just confess that you--Bob Dylan--are addicted to youtube videos of celebrities falling off stages, and you'll be okay.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
that Juan Gabriel fall remains one of the funniest things ever
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
i like this video, i think it was posted here at some point, where nickleback walk onstage at a music festival and the lead singer tries to pump up the crowd saying "are you ready to rock?" or something, and it is just dead silent, no response from the audience. after a few minutes the band storms offstage, giving the middle finger to the crowd. i, bob dylan, watch that video every morning in order to laugh and "jolt" myself out of my morning depression.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/1533205/former-demonoid-members-receive-email-claiming-resurrection-get-malware-instead?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I got said email, luckily i didn't open it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
same here.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 May 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link