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Thread #142469 Message #3284703
Posted By: The Sandman
04-Jan-12 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: Why didn't MacColl like Dylan?
Subject: RE: Why didn't MacColl like Dylan?
ubject: RE: Why didn't MacColl like Dylan?
From: greg stephens - PM
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 07:54 AM
Quite simple really: jealousy and ignorance. I have a couple of pix of Dylan singing in the Pindar of Wakefield with McColl and Bert Lloyd and co listening, in late 1962 or Jan 63. There are young sixties folkies there gazing enraptured at the juvenile Dylan, and so they should. They'd just had their first experience of Blowing in the Wind, live, acoustic and right in front of them. They were blown away. McColl, sadly for him, was too old and set in his Stalinist ways to have his ears open to what was happening in front of him, philosophically or musically. His loss
I believe M THE G M is in one of those photos