The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31083   Message #402626
Posted By: catspaw49
20-Feb-01 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: MUDCAT DYLANOMANIA STRIKES!
Subject: RE: MUDCAT DYLANOMANIA STRIKES!
Matt, there is something so familiar in that "intimacy" to most of us. Folkies don't start out jamming with a group generally. Its an intimate and personal music. Dylan comes across as one of us more on that album than almost any other.

I have talked about the 30th Anniversary thing before, but when Dylan came on, he could have done his set anyway in the world, but it was Bob and the Martin and a dark stage, spot on Bob. the songs were from a later period, but the style took me back to that first album, a symbolic thing that was hard to miss. I wonder if that symbolic thing was intentional on anyone's part? What I do know is that for me, it tied the 30 years together.

Of course to offset that, Dylan sang songs I know well and I couldn't understand one word in ten..........just "Another Side of Bob Dylan" I guess.

Spaw