The RIAA Armageddon has begun

The really good news is, I see at least three links that will teach me how to play "Mr. Tambourine Man" on a guitar, so who needs Blonde on Blonde?

I bet with Dylan it's less direction than some proxy operating independently. Like, he hires a lawyer and tells him to do whatever he sees fit, and then the lawyer makes the call. And then 10 years later Dylan sues the lawyer for wasting his money.

xpost Folk music, for the folks!

Probably because no one in the group even knows how to use email.

surely there is a Mike Love song about e-mail and the internet just waiting to be written

"Spirit of America Online"

lol

Had to Text Ya

I bet with Dylan it's less direction than some proxy operating independently. Like, he hires a lawyer and tells him to do whatever he sees fit, and then the lawyer makes the call.

yeah I strongly doubt any of this has crossed Dylan's desk in at least thirty years

I wouldn't be surprised if Bob's never seen YouTube.

Not to go all A.J. Weberman, but that's something I'd like to see: Bob Dylan's desk. I'd like to think something like this, but he probably just picked it up from Walmart.

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/4/7/0/8/9/7/webimg/638025486_o.jpg

Bob Dylan's 115th Desk.

Bet he stole his desk from Dave Van Ronk.

I know he had a very folky looking desk in 1964, then he bought one of those fancy Carnaby St. desks in 1965. Got booed and heckled by his housekeeper.

fwiw yeah I doubt Dylan even knows what Youtube is BUT I bet he gave some angry "no one gets my music for free maaan" rant to a lawyer a few times and the resultant policy was promptly put in place

It's a little known fact that Bob Dylan doesn't even have working electricity.

on the bonus cuts from some recent album - together through life? - which are taken from an episode of his radio show, dylan's talking up, i forget, whatsername the singer, and he instructs the listener, 'go on to YOU tube…'

Yeah, I was thinking about that on the way home. Sometimes Dylan seems to want to present himself as an ascetic monk, oblivious to whatever the rest of the world's interested in, and I'm sure in some regards he is. But when I read his memoirs, I was often surprised/amused when he'd make reference to some pop-culture name you wouldn't think in a million years he'd have been aware of (the first one that comes to mind is Gorgeous George, the wrestler, but there were others).

well shit the man's been on tour for forty years, reading saint augustine can't be the only thing he does in his downtime

lol @ the idea that dylan wouldn't know what youtube was

I feel like there's probably a more apt thread for this, but someone tell me what it is:
http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/47019871450/so-people-ask-me-this-sometimes-and-i-appreciate

Dude didn't know what overdubbing was (or that it was possible) until 1970 or 1971. Not knowing about YouTube would be totally in character for him.

xp

Dylan dropped booty call &Alicia Keys refs so I'm sure he knows youtube

i'm sure after he dies there'll be some big reveal about dylan avidly posting on yahoo groups about the civil war.

Dude didn't know what overdubbing was (or that it was possible) until 1970 or 1971.

really? where'd you hear that?

I think it's impossible that somebody who recorded and released an album on a major label as recently as last year wouldn't know what YT is. I mean, maybe if he really was a retired recluse that might be conceivable but not for a working professional! unless he just really never talks to anyone else and everyone around him is afraid to ever speak to him?

plus j. quoted him up there referencing youtube so...

really? where'd you hear that?

this is in his bio iirc

he didn't *do* any overdubbing until 1970 or thereabouts, he probably knew it was possible....

found the quote ""When I started making records, you sat in a room and sang your songs and what it sounded like on your side of the glass is what it sounded like on the other side of the glass. Somewhere along the line that changed, and I'm not sure why. I honestly didn't know you could do an overdub until like 1975."

sounds like bs or exaggeration possibly

well yeah. but he did say it.

Yeah, I was thinking about that on the way home. Sometimes Dylan seems to want to present himself as an ascetic monk, oblivious to whatever the rest of the world's interested in, and I'm sure in some regards he is. But when I read his memoirs, I was often surprised/amused when he'd make reference to some pop-culture name you wouldn't think in a million years he'd have been aware of (the first one that comes to mind is Gorgeous George, the wrestler, but there were others).

Hearing a Paula Abdul song on a windswept day in New Orleans. I love the Oh Mercy chapter.

Looking at the book "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994" on google books, it says The Boxer is the first track where he doubled his vocals. so '69 or '70.

xp haha, yeah he said it. but you'd have to have some serious blinders on to be a world famous recording artist and not know about that stuff. his vocals are doubletracked on "the boxer," recorded in 1970.

oh there you go. of course, that might be the producer just taking two vocal takes, not like it's an amazing overdub job. i like the idea of dylan hearing it with the two vocals and thinking: "who is that other dude singing with me"

this is interesting...

Dylan and producer Tom Wilson were soon experimenting with their own fusion of rock and folk music. The first unsuccessful test involved overdubbing a "Fats Domino early rock & roll thing" over Dylan's earlier, acoustic recording of "House of the Rising Sun," according to Wilson. This took place in the Columbia 30th Street Studio in December 1964.[1] It was quickly discarded, though Wilson would more famously use the same technique of overdubbing an electric backing track to an existing acoustic recording with Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". I

never knew that but now I want to hear it.

sometimes I think I really need to hear Self Portrait. Dylan doing Paul Simon lol

I wonder if dylan was actually there though or ever heard it, or if wilson just did it on his own like he did with SoS
xp

i'm sure after he dies there'll be some big reveal about dylan avidly posting on yahoo groups about the civil war.

he went on rec.music.dylan o/w a few times in the 90s

i am bob dylan

How big is your penis

Have you been to Manhattan, and if so, what was it like

i mean, i usually don't like to talk about "being bob dylan"; it feels tacky, like i'm bragging.

It's ain't braggin' if it's true.

I think I know what's going on here. 1) Pat Finn started out on burgundy. 2) He soon hit the harder stuff. 3) Weird, off-the-wall posting on a message board.

yeah i thought i would be able to follow up the "i am bob dylan" comment with some funny posts. but i've got nothing.

Just confess that you--Bob Dylan--are addicted to youtube videos of celebrities falling off stages, and you'll be okay.

that Juan Gabriel fall remains one of the funniest things ever

i like this video, i think it was posted here at some point, where nickleback walk onstage at a music festival and the lead singer tries to pump up the crowd saying "are you ready to rock?" or something, and it is just dead silent, no response from the audience. after a few minutes the band storms offstage, giving the middle finger to the crowd. i, bob dylan, watch that video every morning in order to laugh and "jolt" myself out of my morning depression.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/1533205/former-demonoid-members-receive-email-claiming-resurrection-get-malware-instead?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

I got said email, luckily i didn't open it.

same here.

How worried should I be if I got a copyright infringement notice from my internet provider (A+and+)?
I've never gotten anything like that and I must say I'm feeling kind of distraught.