Happy 80th Bob Dylan!

Subject: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 May 21 - 01:23 PM

Saw lots of Dylan threads but not this one.

Nice article in the Guardian.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 24 May 21 - 10:20 AM

Delighted to see that Dylan is 80 and still at it. I saw a picture of him a few years ago carrying a walking stick. This surprised me. I always thought of him as more of a Zimmer man. (Never get tired of that gag).

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 21 - 10:29 AM

Ooh, baaaad.

More nice stuff here.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 21 - 05:35 PM

And more:

From Ireland.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 21 - 09:19 PM

Finally something [frivolous] in the US papers...

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Hagman
Date: 24 May 21 - 09:50 PM

Bow down to him on Sunday....

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: meself
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:44 AM

Six posts - and only ONE with some snark?? Come on, Mudcatters, you're slipping! Hello? This is DYLAN we're talking about!

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: gillymor
Date: 25 May 21 - 10:10 AM

Happy birthday, Bob, I hate you.
Will that do?

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 May 21 - 10:36 AM

Happy birthday Bob.

Many thanks for going electric...

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Colin Randall
Date: 25 May 21 - 11:34 AM

I loved this cartoon from the New Yorker ... https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/monday-may-24th-dylan-electric?

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: meself
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:07 PM

@Gillymor: Hmmm - is that snark? I would have called it outright hostility - but I suppose it will have to do - thus bringing the proportion of snark up to one-quarter, which I believe approaches the usual measure. The cosmos may yet come back into balance.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Colin Randall
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:12 PM

My own thoughts on Dylan are that while I mostly like only what he did in the first decade of his career, maybe less, it hasn't much to do with 'going electric' as I loved Blonde and Blonde.

But Dylan's pulling power was brought home to me after I decided to run a few items at my tinpot music site Salut! Live in the build-up to, and on the day of, his 80th. I've just totted up the hits and they total 3,300 since the start of last week. No great shakes but double or treble the readership in a similar period at almost any other time.

I'm grateful that several hundred of them are accounted for by a piece on Martin Carthy's similar milestone birthday.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: gillymor
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:23 PM

What can I say, I'm a people pleaser.
Actually I'm a big Zimmerman fan all the way through Blood on the Tracks and a few individual songs after that and I hope he had a very happy birthday.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 May 21 - 02:53 PM

And *I* think he richly deserved his Nobel.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 May 21 - 08:57 AM

And another interesting take:

Dylan and Queerness

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Felipa
Date: 26 May 21 - 04:33 PM

Folk programme on BBC radio 2 tonight (21.00-22.00 BST) is all Dylan songs, sung by various people including Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Daniel Kelly
Date: 27 May 21 - 05:49 AM

Bob Dylan is the reason I'm a folkie, learned guitar, like Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell and Dave Van Ronk and also the reason I am mildly interested in social justice issues and have written over 100 of my own songs.

He has a lot to answer for, and the album he released last year (39th studio album), at 78, was brilliant.

He did make me read Moby Dick, so no thanks for that Bob.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 21 - 04:25 PM

well, it says something to me that
many Mudcat members
are staying away, in droves, from this thread.

Me, I could no more ignore Bob Dylan
than I could ignore Lennon or McCartney --
essential to my early formative years.

Along with
Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Jesse Fuller, Cynthia Gooding, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Susan Reed, Theodore Bikel . . .

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 21 - 08:04 AM

Happy birthday Bob, I got you a Siamese cat.

Subject: RE: Happy 80th Bob Dylan!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 30 May 21 - 08:23 AM

Bit late. Donuel.


Dave