Said Bob Dylan, quoted in an interview the Wall Street Journal's Jeff Slate published at bobdylan.com.
His favorite genre of music these days is "a combination of genres; an abundance of them. Slow ballads, fast ballads, anything that moves. Western Swing, Hillbilly, Jump Blues, Country Blues, everything. Doo-wop, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Lowland ballads, Bill Monroe, Bluegrass, Boogie-Woogie. Music historians would say when you mix it all up it’s called Rock and Roll."
And here's a song he just recently stumbled into:
Posts
14 comments:
Um ... I guess so, though how anonymous can you be if you are a rock or pop star?
I'm just glad he didn't use the word "grueling" which only seems to appear in articles about road tours.
When you reach a certain age, you can say what you really think, and not worry about the consequences.
“ The reason to stay out the road....”
Did he miss a preposition there, or is this just the usual Dylan gibberish?
Prediction. In 2023, Ann meets Bob and she interviews him for the blog.
So at the start of the paragraph, you're the master of your fate. Three sentences later, destiny put you there. Same old word salad.
I don't much explore new music. I like to explore old music. Gilbert & Sullivan wrote a lot of operettas that I never heard back in the day when you had to buy albums. Now I occasionally play one as background music, and there's always a song or two that catches my attention.....I read the article. He doesn't mention Gilbert & Sullivan. I don't think they had much influence on his music.
I joined a frat house in 1974. There was a touring rock band loosely centered around the frat house. I thought my guitar would fit in nicely with them, and hung around.
What I found is that 90% of touring is loading, and unloading the gear from the truck.
I stuck to calculus class.
One of the best Dylan interview's I've read. Intelligent questions that Dylan either answers more or less directly or goes off on interesting tangents.
This exchange with his young granddaughter gave me a good belly laugh:
One of my granddaughters, some years back, who was about 8 at the time, asked me if I’d ever met the Andrew Sisters, and if I’d ever heard the song “Rum and Coca Cola.” Where she heard it, I have no idea. When I said I’d never met them, she wanted to know why. I said because I just didn’t, they weren’t here. She asked, “Where did they go?” I didn’t know what to say, so I said Cincinnati. She asked me if I would take her there to meet them.
His pulling "Cincinnati" out of the air to avoid telling his granddaughter that the Andrew Sisters are long dead made think of all the humorous lines in the Basement Tapes. It's absurd, but serves the purpose of keeping the mythological power of the song alive for his granddaughter
Is he staying out OF the road or out ON the road? The quote kind of works with either.
Hmmmm ... his listening tastes are very similar to mine.
Western Swing, Hillbilly, Jump Blues, Country Blues, Doo-wop, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers.
He doesn't mention Gilbert & Sullivan. I don't think they had much influence on his music.
Dylan wrote a song called "Angelina" in which he rhymes the title with "subpoena". That struck me as a pretty original rhyme when I first heard it. Turns out he got it from G & S's Trial by Jury, which has a character named Angeline.
@amexpat. Wow. Who knew. Bob Dylan was a G & S fan. He's very discreet about it. If word leaks out, they might rescind his Nobel.
We jumped into the mainstream, the big river, with all the industrial waste, chemical debris, rocks, and mudflow, along with Brian Wilson and his brothers, Soupy Sales, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. The earth could vomit up its dead, and it could be raining blood, and we’d shrug it off, cool as cucumbers. Everything’s too easy.
Yeah, it'd make sense that Dylan would hate the Beach Boys. has he taken shots at the Beatles?
Post a Comment