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Thread #74153   Message #1294008
Posted By: Little Hawk
10-Oct-04 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Review: Dylan's Chronicles Vol 1
Subject: RE: Review: Dylan's Chronicles Vol 1
Well, I have been reading it. I like it. I like how he expresses himself, and it gives me a powerful feeling of what he was going through at the time. Never was so much false expectation heaped on top of one person as got dumped on Bob Dylan by his fans and the rest of society in the late 60's and early 70's (and to some extent, since then).

As he says, "you can sell your privacy, but you can never buy it back". No wonder there is so much hot rage and cold fury in many of the songs he wrote.

His description of Joan Baez and the incredible impact she had in the early 60's rings absolutely dead on. She was unforgettable and so was he.