this guy has been pulling the football of his authenticated identity away from his fans over and over and over again since 1965 and every time it happens they make a face like it's the first time
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 24 November 2022 11:00 (one year ago) link
And then there's his "signature" bourbon, Heaven's Door...
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 24 November 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
bourbob
― StanM, Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
Official Statement:
To my fans and followers, I’ve been made aware that there’s some controversy about signatures on some of my recent artwork prints and on a limited-edition of Philosophy Of Modern Song. I’ve hand-signed each and every art print over the years, and there’s never been a problem. However, in 2019 I had a bad case of vertigo and it continued into the pandemic years. It takes a crew of five working in close quarters with me to help enable these signing sessions, and we could not find a safe and workable way to complete what I needed to do while the virus was raging. So, during the pandemic, it was impossible to sign anything and the vertigo didn’t help. With contractual deadlines looming, the idea of using an auto-pen was suggested to me, along with the assurance that this kind of thing is done ‘all the time’ in the art and literary worlds. Using a machine was an error in judgment and I want to rectify it immediately. I’m working with Simon & Schuster and my gallery partners to do just that. With my deepest regrets,Bob Dylan
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
Fair enough, he is 81 years old. They shouldn’t have sold these as “signed” obviously but I don’t think it’s a huge scandal.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
Yeah, me neither. More than one person really f-ed up by claiming this was okay, but regardless of who that may be, at least Dylan is admitting the mistake and working on fixing it.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 26 November 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
very much a statement written by Bob Dylan, has all the hallmarks of his voice
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 26 November 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhjokermaaaaan
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
he needs a crew of 5 to sign books?
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 November 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
don't worry they all dress up like bob dylan
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
He is elderly. If someone shipped my arthritic mother 900 books to sign, she’d definitively need help, and if it was just me, the labor would be a lot (especially the re-packing and shipping back).
― birdistheword, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
obv he has to apologize cuz it was fraud but as the useless item advertised was materially identical to the useless item delivered one sort of wants to suggest to anyone willing to pay $600 for the assurance that this 9000-year-old man really does spend part of his days sitting in a room writing the same thing over and over like bart simpson that they consider taking this experience as an opportunity to reflect on what exactly it is they are trying to possess here
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
I would pay $600 for that signed apology note.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
i wish i was there to sign 'embut i'm not there; i'm gone
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
booming post dlh
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
Vertigo?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uFbte9G.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
The vertigo probably explains why on his recent tour he was mostly perched at the keyboard and would get up and sort of dance in place for just a minute or so at a time.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
(stewart there gazing down at his collection of signed bob dylan paraphernalia xp)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
very much a statement written by Bob Dylan, has all the hallmarks of his voiceirl lol
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
just for a moment "to my fans and followers" has it, in consonance if not in sentiment
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
The vertigo probably explains why on his recent tour he was mostly perched at the keyboard and would get up and sort of dance in place for just a minute or so at a time
Maybe he heard the hidden Balearic beats in "Blowin' in the Wind."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
Honestly, he was doing this almost every time I saw him a bunch in early '00s.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
It takes a crew of five working in close quarters with me to help enable these signing sessions
Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 26 November 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
dlh otm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
Thought the dancing was a tribute to Thelonious Monk, just like the cover of The Basement Tapes.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
What
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
I don't get it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
this?http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/thelonious-monk-underground-parodies/
― StanM, Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
I only gotAaaa shirt to go---Vertigo.
― dow, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
Dan Chiasson's New Yorker reviews turned me on to some good poetry (better than most New Yorker poetry), and his review there of a Joni Mitchell bio was also astute---this Philosophy of Modern Song coverage starts great, makes me want to subscribe and read whole thing:https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/road-maps-for-the-soul-philosophy-of-modern-song-bob-dylan/
― dow, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
It is surprising to find the bratty sneer of “My Generation” (“I hope I die before I get old”) moved to an assisted-living facility. Dylan, though, is “being wheeled around” not by nurses but by buses, as he moves from town to town and continent to continent on his Never Ending Tour...
― dow, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
I thought that ended some time ago
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
NFT embedded in splinter of the true cross of Blonde on BLonde
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
ok, I know Dylan imitations are typically shit but this is pretty great
James Austin Johnson sings “Jingle Bells” as Bob Dylan through the decades. #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/kuPegi5Dhw— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) November 29, 2022
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
LMAO that guy really knows his Dylan. He even wisely avoids Dylan circa 1978-1988 - the voice of that era is too easy and parodied too many times already.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
Aw... that's the voice I always do (to no one in the family's amusement)!
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
"I think Calvin Coolidge said that"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
My favorite is Before the Flood Dylan, when he admittedly was so exhausted by the end of the tour that the singing lost all "sensitivity" and became "full out power" (i.e. just yelling the words out). Almost every track came from the very last day and it shows. Every word is enunciated with clarity, but it's the most random and bizarre phrasing he's ever done.
Which reminds me, Johnson gets one thing wrong - the 1975 tour wasn't incomprehensible, if anything that was the very last tour where Dylan was able to enunciate every single word clearly (until the current one where having the lyrics in front of him have done wonders).
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
sounds like a recipe for a good album
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
Lay Lady Lay sounds more like a command on this album
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
The Guardian actually did an article looking into signed books: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/29/do-the-write-thing-do-authors-use-autopen
Crime author Louise Candlish once signed 6,000 books in one day, which “involved a team of five people each doing different jobs” such as “opening the book to the title page, sliding the book towards me, taking the signed book and stacking” and so on. The endeavour was “exhausting” and Candlish burned through eight to 10 pens. She says she had to take regular breaks “to do hand exercises, stretching and squeezing and waggling”.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
The Roots really nailed it in that sketch, too
― Indexed, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
god, Jimmy Fallon is so repulsive. loved the impressions but it was hard to watch
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
why would someone want an autograph taht was performed so mechanically and with no personal touch - may was well have farted into a ziploc bag and tied that to the book
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
xxxpost Before The Flood is one of my faves too, and agree about force x clarity---glarity, even, at times---but always heard it as plenty expressive too, and never "random and bizarre," though can be startling, esp. somewhut reggae-ish realignment of "It Ain't Me Babe"---but the goin'-away-struttin', and "ha-ha-heart" in particular, soar and zing 'way past the guilt-tripping, pouty, passive-aggressive original---and overall, I quickly came to think of almost all these as the definitive versions, so far (hoping he would keep going with the realignments, as he did, of course). It's one of those great examples of relative geezers getting on the Arena Rock gravy train, like Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Now (original double-LP, that is; the expanded reissue might be too much), and Rock & Roll Animal, though it's maybe a tad too close to the Arena Rock usual, in its way (Peter Laughner's Creem take: "Reed has Johnny Winterized his classics...")
― dow, Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Still haven't heard D.'s Real Live and Budokan, but am told they have their moments. Agree about the '75 tour, as heard on ye olde Hard Rain LP and Renaldo and Clara inclusions, though some of that is a little too bombastic (the live "Isis" from this era, sometimes on YouTube, is strong as hell/can't touch this).
― dow, Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
I think I know what you mean. Looking up Christgau's original review, I think he picked up on the same: "his voice settles in at a rich bellow, running over his old songs like a truck. I agree that a few of them will never walk again, but I treasure the sacrilege; Uncle Bob purveying to the sports arena masses."
I was actually surprised when I found out how much the press loved Before the Flood when it came out (though Greil Marcus has since walked back his initial rave) but it made more sense when I heard Dylan's prior tours to see where people were coming from.
Re: Real Live I haven't done a deep dive into that tour, but IIRC Dylan fans typically say that 1) he should've kept the trio he had on Letterman rather than hiring big-name accompanists and 2) regardless, the album they compiled was poorly chosen and ignored better performances. I think "Tangled Up in Blue" is supposed to be THE highlight, and Rob Sheffield has singled it out. It was definitely the highlight when I put on the album, but it stands out in a good way only in that context - I once played six different versions of that song from six different tours just for the hell of it, and the Real Live version seemed to be the least enjoyable.
Budokan has passionate fans but I'm definitely not one of them. Thoroughly awful to me without a single performance I ever want to hear again.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Budokan is the one Dylan album I have a hard time getting through. The arrangements are just…. ugh. Way too much flute for a Dylan record.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 2 December 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
What do yall think about the Isle of Wight set?
― dow, Friday, 2 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link