Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman (May 2000)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: L R Mole
Date: 26 May 00 - 12:22 PM

and don't go mistaking Paradise for that house across the road.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Mini Me
Date: 25 May 00 - 04:26 PM

Happy Birthday..................WE need you and your songs for centuries to come !!!!!!!!!!!

Probably the single most influential person on popular music as we know it since...........1960........well the Beatles.......Pete Seeger........ETC>>

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 25 May 00 - 08:25 AM

G'day,
I was listening to a Seekers concert earlier today & they referred to a song by a "young man" called Bob Dylan!!

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: zonahobo
Date: 25 May 00 - 02:26 AM

Happy Birthday Bob and Thanks for telling me that even a lonesome hobo deserves respect and can give good advise like

"stay free from petty jelousies and live by no man's code and hold your judgements to yourselves lest you wind up on this road"

Bob was the music poet and conscience of my generation. I think his music, wherever it came from, did much to make a whole lot of people a little more humane. Still a pretty honery bunch, but Bob gave us a desire to try to be a little better.

That's what I think..

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Terry K
Date: 25 May 00 - 01:47 AM

Happy Birthday Bob! (one my of two all-time favourite people - anyone know when Ali's birthday is?).

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Biskit
Date: 24 May 00 - 11:33 PM

Praise, Is suger dog feelin' better????I sure hope that knickers/pillow/whole lotta love/laps fer days/thing helped.Oh and by the way Happy birfdaze to Bob Dylan, when I started that other thread I woulda' swore there wasn't another Ah well first my memory now my eyes, at least getting older isn't boring...there's always something new.....or at least it seems new to me..................-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Spider Tom
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:41 PM

Happy birthday Bob you're an inspiration,I have a couple of inspirations born at this time ... funny that

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 May 00 - 06:04 PM

Haw! Poor barstard is older than me!

By 6 months!

Peter.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Amergin
Date: 24 May 00 - 05:48 PM

Huh, didn't know old folks like him were allowed to have birthdays.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: keltcgrasshoppper
Date: 24 May 00 - 05:24 PM

Happy Birthday Bob... The first time I saw him was in a little hall in Springfield Mass.. He" opened " for Peter, Paul and Mary.. Little guy with hair all over and long dirty finger nails.. WHO IS THAT....my friends and I spent the next month searching for his music...He was such a profound influence on all of us.. regardless of whether he can sing or play the guitar. Love you Bob keep it up we need 59 more....

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Giac
Date: 24 May 00 - 04:29 PM

Shortly after his first album was released,
I heard it on an AM radio station out of Dallas,
Texas. They had a "folk" program at 2 a.m. central
time - middle of the night because most of their
listeners only wanted country. That's also where I
first heard Joan Baez and many others. I can't begin
to assess the impact his music had on the direction
my music took. The Weavers and Kingston Trio had
started me down that road, but his songs locked it
in. Ever so grateful. Happy birthday is in order.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 May 00 - 03:58 PM

Maybe he would like to lay across the Sugar Dog Luhhv Bed, altho it is not brass, and Hardiman the Fiddler is in there too.

Birthy Happday, then.

~S~

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: GUEST,simon-pierre
Date: 24 May 00 - 01:57 PM

Happy birthday Bob!

To respond here to a thread I think I saw this or last week, it is, despite of whatever some could of his work, Bob dylan that lead me to folk music, (Guthrie, Seeger, John Hurt, all the others). I have many books about music, but I placed the book of Dylan's lyrics with my amrican literature.

SP

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 00 - 01:27 PM

Hippo Birdie to one of the best poets, and worst singers, I've ever had the pleasure of memorizing the works of... but I sang them à la Joan Baez -or anyone else's way-

until I (more or less) grew up. Now I can actually appreciate that some of his (especially early stuff almost NEEDS to be performed the way he does. I hesitate to say "sung" when referring to his vocalizations... but throughout, he has been one of the best lyricists, even if they weren't always HIS lyrics!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 May 00 - 01:13 PM

Only 59 is it? He's still got time to show us what he can really do.

If he'd only have the nerve to say "I'm not singing the old songs, you can listen to the records.Here's the stuff I'm writing today."

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 24 May 00 - 12:57 PM

Happy Birthday Bob! (like he's gonna read this!?!?!)

Ignore 'em... and keep playing!!

{~`

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: GUEST,James
Date: 24 May 00 - 12:54 PM

I wish Bob Dylan well and I must say that I think he has been the single biggest influence on popular music in the latter part of the 20th century. There is hardly an artist in recent years who has not benefitted from his creative process. Happy Birthday Bob.....

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:31 AM

He's an example to all of us who are vocally challenged not to let that stop them singing! I hope he hasn't read the reviews of his Stockholm concert in the British press. Mostly underwhelmed! OK he's no Pete Seeger or Sonny Terry but he has given us some songs within my range (you may not think that's a good thing either!) and has probably led a wider audience to discover folkish music, so I'll wish him a happy birthday!
RtS

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:20 AM

Knew I could count on you 'Spaw.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:10 AM

Happy Birthday Bob, you song stealing, bad voiced, pseudo-folkie jerk.

(But thanks for everything anyway)

Spaw

Subject: Happy Birthday Bobby Zimmerman
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:07 AM

Bob Dylan turned 59 today. Thanks for almost forty years of great music. Here's wishing many more.

Please let's not turn this into a Dylan is song thief, can't sing, it isn't folk thread.