Bob Dylan is not a hippie, dammit

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just to clarify

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

sure he is

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

He's the ultimate punk rocker, is what he is.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't believe you!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

do we have to do this?

― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan is the original rave DJ.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

the original victoria's secret model

― TRG (TRG), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I always thought of him as a proto-yupster.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

aside from him saying he's not a hippie, how are we supposed to know he's not a hippie? He pretty much seems like a hippie.

― Some Guy, Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

who is this bob dylan guy - I see he's on the cover of the new uncut. is he worth checking out?

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

More like a sellout, folks. If you want his music nowadays, you have to buy a Hypermega Java from Starbucks (more like Bucks for Stars) as well. SELL OUT!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Pete Seeger, on the other hand, never sold out.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

pete seeger was only protecting his dad.

― moxalv, Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

With an ax!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Sell out? Last time I checked, Neil "This Note's for You" Young was charging somewhere in the vicinity of $80 for concert tix. Most people can still afford to see Dylan, however, and his catalog is the best deal around. He can sing for Starbucks or Victoria's Secret any time.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan's not a hippie, he's a DECEPTICON.

― megatron, I'm rollin' wit you, Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

He can sing for Starbucks or Victoria's Secret any time.

He can at least TRY.

― oh no he didn't, Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan will kill the hostages.

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hippieshop.com/cgi-bin/gold/category/21000BD

― Stephen C (ihope), Monday, 9 January 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

In fact, none of the hippies were hippies.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 9 January 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)

hippies are just goths who can't afford eyeliner

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 9 January 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't believe in hippie.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

real hippies don't wear black

― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Right on, Frank! "Freaks", they called themselves.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)

bob dylan doesn't blieve in Bob Dylan

― Quuen G-approximately, Monday, 9 January 2006 08:12 (twenty years ago)

he just believes in yoko and him

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:27 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

I had never heard the first Bob Dylan album until a few weeks ago. Dude must have been on some speed, some of these tunes are near folk punk in their speed and delivery. I really liked it.

― earlnash, Monday, 23 January 2017 04:11 (nine years ago)

it's great. i probably listen to it more than any of the next three.

― will, Monday, 23 January 2017 04:26 (nine years ago)

initially misread that as "than any of the other three" and imagined a truly magnificent purist stance that holds only four Dylan albums to actually count

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 23 January 2017 04:36 (nine years ago)

he's basically dead to me after he goes electric

― will, Monday, 23 January 2017 04:43 (nine years ago)

I don't believe you

― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2017 04:49 (nine years ago)

Listening to 'Masters of War' quite a bit lately too and the motorik groove it has makes me imagine a 70s Krautrock version. I'd love to hear the Bad Seeds do that one too as I hear how you could build it up with that big drum roll that they do on many of their tunes.

"And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead"

That is gangsta a fuk.

― earlnash, Monday, 23 January 2017 05:01 (nine years ago)

yeah the debut album is awesome, so fierce and wired and crazy. love how adorably young bob looks on the cover, too.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 23 January 2017 05:29 (nine years ago)

here's a kinda droney/stoney version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29mHb42k0KM

― niels, Monday, 23 January 2017 10:00 (nine years ago)

i'm very fond of anika's dubby version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pCLvfVMzEA

rabm/blackened crust band iskra has a song called "masters of war" but i have no idea if it's actually the dylan song. oh, and the roots' version of "masters of war" is all-time, of course.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 23 January 2017 12:35 (nine years ago)

And one of Wald’s key points is that before he was “discovered” as a folksinger, Dylan was a blues-rocker. “Listening to the unreleased ‘freewheelin’ sessions,” Wald says, of demos of Dylan’s second album, “I had no idea how much further he took the blues thing after the first album and before he made that left turn into being a singer-songwriter. I was impressed with the quality of the guitar playing and the singing. And some harmonica playing in the early days, straight up blues harp and the power of it.”

“He was playing with rock ‘n’ roll energy back then,” continues Wald. “I had bought the Woody Guthrie myth, the idea that he came to New York playing like Woody Guthrie. And that was one of the things that interested him, but what made people go wild for him in that moment was that he was bringing rock ‘n’ roll energy into the folk scene. So it was sort of not surprising that he got himself a band.”

http://www.wbur.org/artery/2015/07/15/dylan-goes-electric

― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:19 (nine years ago)

i love the hell out of "mixed up confusion"!

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 23 January 2017 21:29 (nine years ago)

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