The Bob hits seventy thread!

[Lateralthinking1]

Joan Baez is pretty cool.

[Lateralthinking1]

.......This is quite a decent pastiche:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQwBBqmL-s

[Lateralthinking1]

.....and, of course, Pete in a Medway Delta way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFrKjHF2GVA

[Lateralthinking1]

Sorry Global but its a crazy question man. Bob is Bob. Van is Van. They are what they are and do what they do.

You can though look for the spirit and find it in performers who are not very similar. Van is easier to do. These two slightly say Van to me on the spirit level:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuY7SPc6_OU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0TF...eature=related

[gurnemanz]

I might well have enough books about Dylan already (about 20) but I decided this one was indispensable and it has just arrived on cue on his birthday.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bob-Dylan-19...6241856&sr=8-1

[johncorrigan]

I might well have enough books about Dylan already (about 20) but I decided this one was indispensable and it has just arrived on cue on his birthday.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bob-Dylan-19...6241856&sr=8-1

gurnemanz - I think it was Greil Marcus who was offering the very interesting take on John Wesley Harding on that rather good 'Archive on 4' on R$ Saturday night.

[gurnemanz]

It was an interesting programme - as was "Dylan's Spiritual Journey", broadcast on Tuesday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0s2
Greil Marcus wrote a 300-page book about one song Like a Rolling Stone. It was not that well received.
http://www.faber.co.uk/work/like-rol...9780571223862/

[johncorrigan]

It was an interesting programme - as was "Dylan's Spiritual Journey", broadcast on Tuesday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0s2
Greil Marcus wrote a 300-page book about one song Like a Rolling Stone. It was not that well received.
http://www.faber.co.uk/work/like-rol...9780571223862/

300 pages about Like a Rolling Stone seems a bit over the top, but I love the language of marketing used: 'the definitive biography of the song......' Puts me in mind of Groucho Marx (even if he didn't actually say it) - 'I love my cigar but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!'

I missed Bob's Spiritual journey - I'll catch up on that - thanks gurnemanz.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks gurnemanz - that was interesting.

There was this poem in the Guardian at the weekend from a book of poems called 'the Captain's Tower' to correspond with Bob hitting 70. The poem relates to the doctorate he was awarded in 1970 when a speech was 'drowned out by Cicadas' and he later wrote the song 'Day of the locusts' about the experience.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...m-paul-muldoon

The poem seems to refer to him going back to play at Princeton in the Dillon Gym in November 2000. Have to say that I rather enjoyed the poem - it was kinda dylanish.