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Comment on For I is Someone Else: A Review of Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by conchita machado

conchita machado — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:50:18 +0000

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Comment on For I is Someone Else: A Review of Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:46:55 +0000

Great review – wonderful writing! Am just finishing Dalton’s book myself. (A note: Subterranean Homesick Blues appears in the film Don’t Look Back.)

Comment on For I is Someone Else: A Review of Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by mick

mick — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:38:30 +0000

Thanks Matt, for a very interesting review. My one cavil is I don’t think it’s right to dismiss the booing at Newport 1965 as a myth. Two people who had a good view of the event, Joe Boyd, who was in charge of the sound mix, and Murray Lerner, who filmed the event, have both stated there was booing. When Lerner released his footage of the festival as the DVD “The Other Side of the Mirror”, Mojo magazine asked him: “There’s been a lot of debate over the years as to who exactly was doing the booing and who were they booing? Dylan? The organisers? The shortness of the set?” Lerner replied: “It’s a good question. When we showed the film at The New York Film Festival [in October 2007] one kid gets up and says, ‘About this booing… I was sitting right in front of the stage, there was no booing in the audience whatsoever. There was booing from the performers’. So I said, Well, I don’t think you’re right. Then another kid gets up and says ‘I was a little further back and it was the press section that was booing, not the audience’, and I said, Well, I don’t think you’re right. A third guy gets up and says ‘I was there, and there was no question, it was the audience that was booing and there was no booing from the stage’. It was fascinating. People remember hearing what they thought they should hear. I think they were definitely booing Dylan and a little bit Pete Yarrow because he was so flustered. He was not expecting that audience’s reaction and he was concerned about Bob’s image, since they were part of the same family of artists through Al Grossman. But I absolutely think that they were booing Dylan going electric.” Boyd said in an interview with Richie Unterberger in 2007: “I think there were a lot of people who were upset about the rock band, but I think it was pretty split. I think probably more people liked it than didn’t. But there was certainly a lot of shouting and a lot of arguing, and a sound which, you can hear in a lot of ballparks. You used to get this confusion when Bill Skowron used to come up to the plate for the Yankees, ’cause his nickname was Moose. And everybody used to go, “MOOSE!” And it sounded like they were booing him. Because you don’t get the articulation of the consonant, so that a crowd shouting “more, more, more” at the end of Dylan’s three songs sounded very much like booing. I’ve heard recently a recording of that night, and it doesn’t sound to me like booing so much as a roar, just a kind of general hubbub between songs, and during Yarrow’s attempt to get Dylan back on stage… I really wouldn’t be prepared to say it was 50-50, or two thirds/one third, or whatever. But I think that there was a segment of the audience, somewhere between a quarter and a half, that was dismayed or horrified or varying degrees of unhappy about what he was doing.” In 1965, Dylan believed he’d been booed. At his famous press conference in San Francisco, on December 3, 1965, Dylan was asked whether he was “surprised the first time the boos came?” He responded: “That was at Newport. Well, I did this very crazy thing, I didn’t know what was going to happen, but they certainly booed, I’ll tell you that. You could hear it all over the place…. I mean, they must be pretty rich, to be able to go some place and boo. I couldn’t afford it if I was in their shoes.”

Comment on For I is Someone Else: A Review of Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by Conley

Conley — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:59:36 +0000

Really well written. Wonderful to see a review where the influence of poetry on Dylan is intelligently observed. The book sounds fantastic.

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Karen — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:53:43 +0000

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Comment on Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan: An Interview with David Dalton by John W. Whitehead by Dave Abramowitz

Dave Abramowitz — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:12:43 +0000

I knew him as Bobby Zimmerman. I was working in a law office with a black man named Bob Walters (he liked to be known as R. Archibald Walters). He was the man that introduced me to Bobby and he also played the saxophone. In 1957 we used to meet on Macdougal Street and Bobby and I were the only white guys among about 6 friends and we went by cabs to the Paladium (a Latin dance emporium)and I remember Bobby wondering if he would get in since they served liquor and he was too young. We also went to offices behind Carnegie Hall because there were parties happening.
I remember Bobby as very quiet and unassuming and I had no idea of talent he had as a musician despite the fact that the guys we were with were musicians. Needless to say I am very glad for his success.

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Comment on Blade Runner: What It Means to Be Human in the Cybernetic State by John W. Whitehead by Melissa R. Mendelson

Melissa R. Mendelson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:19:35 +0000

The one line that has always stuck with me after reading the book is that when we are long gone, all that would remain is garbage, but the pieces to me left behind speak of identity. And that is what Blade Runner is, the hunt to discover oneself, a brilliant masterpiece that fits perfectly with Sci-Fi movies such as The Thirteenth Floor, Imposter and Final Cut.

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Mckenziej — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:18:17 +0000

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