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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
24. "I like Fidel Castro and his beard!"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:05 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
32. I took my potatoes down to be mashed
― ian, Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:13 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
matos's PLAYBOY quote sounds very funny read in a Terry Tibbs voice.
― piscesx, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
creepy orange skin and black eyeliner:
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
number them plz!
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:00 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
40.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
41.
42.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:09 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man, I forgot "Dirty World," well played
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
haha awesome. Cosign.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"big refrigerator"
Does he really say "porky curtains"? That's disgusting!
― tits akimbo (kenan), Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
44. John Wesley Harding was a friend to the poor, he traveled with a gun in every hand
― Alias (Gudrun Brangwen), Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
45. http://blog.kir.com/archives/images/dylan_newport_2002.jpg
― tylerw, Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
46. Dylan says today's recordings sound "atrocious"Legend fine with illegal downloads because "it ain’t worth nothing anyway"
(moreso for the sub-header)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
John Wesley Harding was a friend to the poor, he traveled with a gun in every hand
Ha, I'd forgotten that one.
― The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
His Buckwheat impersonation on "We Are The World"
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
48. No mention of SOY BOMB?
(maybe this doesn't fit the thread, since it wasn't a moment that was actually instigated by Dylan)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
49. Sorry about the terrible video quality:
"Well, my daddy he didn't leave me too much, he was a very simple man, and he didn't leave me a lot but he did say this he did say SON ... he said, ...
...
he said so many things you know ..."
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 April 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
50. And a personal favourite of mine ... Dylan inducting Gordon Lightfoot into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/topics/743-4679/http://www.lightfoot.ca/dylangl.htm
We could make a whole separate thread of ridiculousness based on just that clip, with everything from Anne Murray's hairdo, to Dylan missing his cues, to the spotlights furiously circling the auditorium waiting for Dylan to appear, to Dylan's sequined jacket and black leather gloves, to Dylan being too distracted to speak because he was watching himself on the video monitors behind him, to Lightfoot's rambling speech, to ...
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 April 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 27 April 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
52. After a while we took in the clothes,Nobody said very much.Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pantsWhich nobody really wanted to touch.Mama come in and picked up a bookAn' Papa asked her what it was.Someone else asked, "What do you care?"Papa said, "Well, just because."Then they started to take back their clothes,Hang 'em on the line.It was January the thirtiethAnd everybody was feelin' fine.
The next day everybody got upSeein' if the clothes were dry.The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed,Mama, of course, she said, "Hi!""Have you heard the news?" he said, with a grin,"The Vice-President's gone mad!""Where?" "Downtown." "When?" "Last night.""Hmm, say, that's too bad!""Well, there's nothin' we can do about it," said the neighbor,"It's just somethin' we're gonna have to forget.""Yes, I guess so," said Ma,Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet.
I reached up, touched my shirt,And the neighbor said, "Are those clothes yours?"I said, "Some of 'em, not all of 'em."He said, "Ya always help out around here with the chores?"I said, "Sometime, not all the time."Then my neighbor, he blew his noseJust as papa yelled outside,"Mama wants you t' come back in the house and bring them clothes."Well, I just do what I'm told,So, I did it, of course.I went back in the house and Mama met meAnd then I shut all the doors.
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Monday, 27 April 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
53:
BF: Who are some of your favorite songwriters?
BD: Buffett I guess. Lightfoot. Warren Zevon. Randy. John Prine. Guy Clark. Those kinds of writers.
BF: What songs do you like of Buffett's?
BD: "Death of an Unpopular Poet." There's another one called "He Went to Paris."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/bob-dylan-exclusive-inter_n_187216.html
― edb, Monday, 27 April 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
54.
― clotpoll, Monday, 27 April 2009 05:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm a better singer than Caruso"
and lot's of DLB, of course.
"Give the Anarchist a cigarette", etc...
― Mark G, Monday, 27 April 2009 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
also, "I'm glad I'm not me!"
There's 100 just in that film!
"Have you heard the news?" he said, with a grin,"The Vice-President's gone mad!""Where?" "Downtown." "When?" "Last night.""Hmm, say, that's too bad!"
cosign!
― sleeve, Monday, 27 April 2009 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
58. "I never could learn to drink that blood and to call it wine/I never could learn to hold you, love, and to call you mine"
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2009 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The bit at 0.50 especially :
― Matt #2, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
59, sorry
― Matt #2, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
60. Hearts of Fire
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Also the Modern Lovers
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 19 July 2021 18:03 (two 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, May 13, 2009 4:09 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
- 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, May 13, 2009 4:09 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Dylan clearly channeling Groucho Marx there.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
...or maybe George in A Hard Day's Night. something in that vein.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
it's all in the mind
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-RDQ-2AaE
― mahb, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Pet Shop Bob
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
"Doesn't sound a bit like cagney!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
finally got around to this new yorker piece and I nearly spit out my coffee laughing at this little scene between Mavis and Dylan in 2016. truly the one who got away. pic.twitter.com/OG0DDU3i7O— Allison Rapp (@allisonrapp22) July 11, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 July 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
More of a Dylan-adjacent moment, but when David Lynch and Peter Wolf were roomies in Boston in the late-60's, both wound up at a Dylan show. Halfway through Wolf notices Lynch getting up and leaving, and angrily confronts him in the apartment later that evening. "Nobody walks out on Bob Dylan!" "Fuck you, I walk out of Bob Dylan!"
― henry s, Monday, 11 July 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
Would've been the 1964-1965 school year...probably would've been a solo acoustic show, and to be fair, except for the few new songs released on Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan generally would have sounded bored with the old material that formed the bulk of his sets around this time.
― birdistheword, Monday, 11 July 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
LOL at that Dylan-Staples story.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
meeting Archibald MacLeish (from Chronicles):
He reiterates a few things he said in his letter. (In his letter, he made mention of some lines in a song of mine that places T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound symbolically fighting in a captain’s tower.) “Pound and Eliot were too scholastic, weren’t they?” he says. What I know about Pound is that he was a Nazi sympathizer in World War II and did anti-American broadcasts from Italy. I never did read him. I liked T. S. Eliot. He was worth reading. Archie says, “I knew them both. Hard men. We have to go through them. But I know what you mean when you say they are fighting in a captain’s tower.”
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
I'll tell you this one funny story about them in the Warfield Theatre in 1995. We were getting ready to do the show. I'm getting my clothes on. I see my wife in the green room, and I don't see my daughter. I said, "Deb where's Marcella?" She looks at me, the color drains from her face. She's like, "Isn't she with you?" I go into a panic. At one point, one of our guys sees me and I said, "I'm looking for my kid. Have you seen her?" They're like, "No, man, we'll help you look."Everybody helped. At one point, I'd looked everywhere except Bob’s dressing room. I go up and knock on the door real quick. His assistant opens it or whatever and there she is.We were already five minutes late going onstage, and the two of them were holding the show up. I said, "Babe, come on. Bob's got to go to work now." She says, 'Oh, okay." He says, "I want to talk a little more about that later, okay?" She's like, "Okay, Bob." And she grabs her drink and comes out and meets my wife.At that point, I go to stand with the band and wait for him. They bring the house lights down. Bob stops me with his arm. He says, "We got to do something about that girl."I said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, she just loves you. I didn't want her to disturb your show." He goes. "No, that girl in art class. She's real mean. We got to do something about her."We’d gotten Marcella these cowboy boots and there was this mean little girl in her art class who splashed paint on them. Bob asked her, "How'd you get that paint on your cowboy boots?" So while I'm looking for my daughter, she's telling Bob that story, and they're holding the show up. He stops me and says, "Hey, we got to do something about that girl." [laughs]
Everybody helped. At one point, I'd looked everywhere except Bob’s dressing room. I go up and knock on the door real quick. His assistant opens it or whatever and there she is.
We were already five minutes late going onstage, and the two of them were holding the show up. I said, "Babe, come on. Bob's got to go to work now." She says, 'Oh, okay." He says, "I want to talk a little more about that later, okay?" She's like, "Okay, Bob." And she grabs her drink and comes out and meets my wife.
At that point, I go to stand with the band and wait for him. They bring the house lights down. Bob stops me with his arm. He says, "We got to do something about that girl."
I said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, she just loves you. I didn't want her to disturb your show." He goes. "No, that girl in art class. She's real mean. We got to do something about her."
We’d gotten Marcella these cowboy boots and there was this mean little girl in her art class who splashed paint on them. Bob asked her, "How'd you get that paint on your cowboy boots?" So while I'm looking for my daughter, she's telling Bob that story, and they're holding the show up. He stops me and says, "Hey, we got to do something about that girl." [laughs]
From: https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/winston-watson-talks-drumming-for?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 August 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
picturing an ill-conceived 90s family comedy... well-meaning, but bumbling dads (inexplicably led by Bob Dylan), try to solve their daughters' problems at school.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 August 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
the Mike Love diss in his rrhof acceptance speech is hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyqFL9m2odg
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:08 (eleven months ago) link
the mike love speech was pretty insane so v good idea to take the piss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:11 (eleven months ago) link
Love apparently likes to take off his shoes when he performs, and during that night’s all-star jam, Mick Jagger stole his shoes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 10:51 (eleven months ago) link
cracking up this morning hearing "sign language," a song Dylan donated to Eric Clapton ...
’Twas there by the bakery
Surrounded by fakery
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
HBD Bob!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
haha that's a gorgeous lyric
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 26 May 2023 11:39 (eleven months ago) link