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    While I can't be characterized as a fan of the highest ardor, I recognize his remarkable skills as a lyricist. Certainly he's worthy of his own thread!

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    I really like some of Dylan's stuff. Especially "Highway 61 Revisited".

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    Thanks Soda. Now where do I start? I just didn't want to start a thread for Bob for the sake of it; like the Dire Straits thread while it may be a passion of mine others may not agree.

    I always do these Top 10 things. So off the top of my head my Top 10 Dylan songs are as follows:

    1. Like A Rolling Stone
    2. Tangled Up In Blue
    3. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
    4. Lay Lady Lay
    5. Hurricane
    6. Just Like A Woman
    7. Positively 4th Steet
    8. Lily, Rosemary & the Jack Of Hearts
    9. Visions Of Johanna
    10. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

    And I could have included so much else in there; I would say those songs are the ones which mean most to me at the moment.

    What I might do later is include some snippets of my favourite Dylan lyrics. I did that in the Led Zeppelin thread.

    My Top 10 albums are:

    1. Blood On The Tracks
    2. Highway 61 Revisited
    3. Blonde On Blonde
    4. Desire
    5. Bringing It All Back Home
    6. Time Out Of Mind
    7. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
    8. Nashville Skyline
    9. John Wesley Harding
    10. Modern Times

    But other more recent albums like Oh Mercy & Love & Theft which I am still getting to know are also excellent. Ironically I don't have the earliest, folk influenced albums although I have many of the songs on Biograph & on the Manchester Free Trades Hall discs.

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    Well - I'm pretty much in agreement with Soda here. While I recognize and appreciate Dylan's skills as a poetic lyricist, I've never been much of a fan of his vocals. I love a lot of the songs he wrote, but honestly, the only song I like hearing him sing is "Like a Rolling Stone".

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    Bob's been in Asia; Vietnam last night our time.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13029109

    I hope that the setlist for Australia includes two songs mentioned here; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall & Highway 61 Revisited, although I did see Hard Rain in 2007.

    He had to play an 'approved set' in China:

    http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...05118752.story

    But Like A Rolling Stone?! Yes please, Bob! In 2007 the setlist was mainly newer material.

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    I saw Bob last night. My review of the 2007 show is here:

    https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/...?t=310&page=18

    Last night's setlist:

    Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
    Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
    Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    Tangled Up In Blue
    Jolene
    Forgetful Heart
    Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
    A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
    Cold Irons Bound
    When The Deal Goes Down
    The Levee's Gonna Break
    Simple Twist Of Fate
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Ballad Of A Thin Man

    Like A Rolling Stone
    All Along The Watchtower
    Forever Young

    The most disconcerting aspect of the show was watching Bob just stand at the mic with no guitar clutching his harmonica which was attached to a hand mic. You expect him to play guitar! It wasn't right; even if he's pushing 70 you would have thought some acoustic guitar wouldn't be beyond him. Otherwise he played organ or electric guitar.

    The famous nasal whine is now a guttaral growl. This did songs like Senor (which I absolutely love) & Tom Thumb's Blues no favours at all. He used to sneer 'I'm going back to New York City/I do believe I've had enough', not gargle it. He cut out half of Tangled Up In Blue & slowed it to a crawl; he should not have played it (fortunately I have seen it done properly). And yet the growl worked surprisingly well on the delicate Simple Twist of Fate & less surprisingly on the venomous Ballad Of A Thin Man. But again it made Like A Rolling Stone (minus the 'jugglers & the clowns' verse) nowhere near as transcendent as it should have been.

    Ironically the more recent songs probably worked better (the setlist was nowhere near as heavy with recent songs as 2007); Cold Irons Bound & The Levee's Gonna Break were superb & Forgetful Heart was poignant. Highway 61 Revisted rocked, as it should. All Along The Watchtower & Forever Young seemed to say 'farewell Australia'.

    The guitarist, Charlie Sexton, was uncannily similar to Robbie Robertson during the Last Waltz period (I'm sure Troub will see what I mean by that...



    That isn't last night, but it gives you an idea!
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    Fifty years ago today, Dylan released his first album. This is from a local DC TV station.

    http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/03...day-73939.html
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