For The Bob Dylan Fans Out There

[brian64]

Priceless clips of old Dylan interviews, along with some current commentary from the man himself reflecting on those “press conferences”. Quite amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guOaI6_cF10

 

[JimInks]

Thanks for posting this.

 

[locopony]

I have a whole stack of Bob's albums including the first album he recorded.

 

[joeahearn]

"I've always just thought of myself as a song-and-dance man."

 

[trailspike48]

I enjoyed the interviews and his answers. He put into his lyrics what many of us wished we could say half as well.

 

[cavendish]

Very nice! Thank you for passing this along. I'm young but I love classic rock from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin and everything thing in between.

 

[ssjones]

I bought the Rolling Stone booklet of all of his interviews and discography. Bob is a fascinating musical genius and American treasure.

 

[mso489]

That's a fascinating clip, both the historical interview footage and the

more recent comments by Bob Dylan. It's not a good interface between journalism

and music, to say the least; what a terrible culture gap. Music fans and musicians

themselves still try to plug in musicians in place of all kinds of other thinkers and

artists. Music has supplanted, for generations now, all kinds of discussions and

thoughts -- theologians, philosophers, political philosophers, sociologists, poets

who work on the page without musical instruments, novelists, essayists, on and on.

All these roles are loaded on musicians, and that isn't what they do, and that isn't what

music does. Dylan explains this quite succinctly, but people still don't understand.

He himself is a prolific scholarly reader of challenging material. But never mind.

 

[brian64]

Bob is a fascinating musical genius and American treasure.

+1

That's a fascinating clip, both the historical interview footage and the

more recent comments by Bob Dylan. It's not a good interface between journalism

and music, to say the least; what a terrible culture gap. Music fans and musicians

themselves still try to plug in musicians in place of all kinds of other thinkers and

artists. Music has supplanted, for generations now, all kinds of discussions and

thoughts -- theologians, philosophers, political philosophers, sociologists, poets

who work on the page without musical instruments, novelists, essayists, on and on.

All these roles are loaded on musicians, and that isn't what they do, and that isn't what

music does. Dylan explains this quite succinctly, but people still don't understand.

He himself is a prolific scholarly reader of challenging material. But never mind.

Well said...very true. But I can also see the other side of the coin...there have been many musicians writing and performing popular music who were/are at the same time poets, philosophers and social commentators who have expressed some very profound things at times. Dylan is certainly at the top of that list...and really was responsible for opening the door to using that medium in that way.