Well, I guess I'm in the minority (with George for company); I thought Dylan was honest, direct, and as interesting as ever. Bradley could have come up with some more interesting questions, but I guess we have to reconize that the show was aimed at a broad 60 Minutes audience, so the tired stuff about Dylan being the "Voice of a Generation" kind of had to be in there.

I thought Dylan's comments about no longer being able to write songs like the early ones (It's Alright Ma, Hard Rain, etc.) were fascinating, and completely honest. He could have made all sorts of claims about his new songs being the same, or just as significant, or whatever, like you might expect a guy in his position to do. Instead, he was honest and said he can't write songs like that any more, and that he's somewhat mystified by how those songs came to be. As another long-time songwriter (not claiming to be in the same league as Dylan) who has gone through writing cycles of my own, I thought his comments were amazingly insightful, and the weariness with which he made them showed how this is an issue he has wrestled with over time ("I can't write like that any more, but I can do other things," said with as much hope as he could muster). In fact, there was a lot of weariness in his remarks, and his delivery; I don't think this was done for effect, I think that's just who he is these days. And given the life he has led, I can understand why he would be pretty roadworn by now.

I'm not sure what other people were expecting that left them disappointed, but I was glad for a chance to hear him talking directly about who he is, what he does, and what it means to him. I also eagerly devoured his book, and hope he follows through on writing the next volumes.