Bob's Birthday

Subject: Bob's Birthday
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 24 May 01 - 03:33 AM

Can't believe I'm the first to wish Bob Dylan happy 60th.
Free Bob Dylan CD with Saturday's Daily Telegraph.

Mike

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 24 May 01 - 03:35 AM

Happy birthday, Bob. Thanks for all the songs.

Steve

(Does he read this?)

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 24 May 01 - 03:57 AM

Of course he reads this. Happy Birthday Bob.

Brian

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 24 May 01 - 04:05 AM

happy birthday

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: clansfolk
Date: 24 May 01 - 05:33 AM

This can't be right - in 1961 he was twice my age - now you say he's only one fifth of my age older than me - most confusing!

(date and years changed to protect the aged!)

Pete

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 May 01 - 07:53 AM

Happy Birthday Bob. Thanks for almost 40 years of great music. Here's to many, many more.

But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:54 AM

Hey where you been man, we been boring people with Dylan now for weeks.

Happy Birthday, Bob. I would especially like to thank you for "Tomorrow is a Long Time" which is always associated in my mind with a morning in an empty railway car, the sun flickering through the North woods as we went along, and my thoughts of a woman far away, in my 18th year.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST,djh
Date: 24 May 01 - 09:04 AM

Happy birthday Bob.
The local radio station Wfuv is playing Dylan all day, but their internet broadcast appears to be down. Dagnamit, I can't listen.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 01 - 10:11 AM

Happy birthday, Dylan baby, happy birthday to you! Bang! (oops, wrong artist, but you get the idea).

Love Minus Zero/No Limit!

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: bflat
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:17 PM

The broadcast from WFUV 90.7FM NYC,NY,USA has been Dylan all day. It is and has been wonderful. I liked him before but after the analysis and commentary I am in awe.

Happy Birthday,Bob!

Ellen

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:24 PM

"Ah, if there's an original thought out there, I sure could use one now!"

I recall the Peanuts comic strip showing Charlie Brown looking depressed. Someone asked him what was wrong and he sighed, saying, "Bob Dylan turns thirty today." My God, has it been so long! It's "Unbelievable".

Happy Birthday, Bob, and may you stay forever young!

khandu

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:14 PM

a little 'review' from the Washington Post

click

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Gypsy
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:20 PM

Ahhh...thankee for the lovely lyrics. Happy, happy, to you!

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 25 May 01 - 07:57 AM

Bill D,

Thanks for the link to the review. I enjoyed it.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:06 AM

Free Bob Dylan CD??? With the Daily Telegraph???? Ye gods man, what is this world coming to? What's next Sibelius with the Sun? Maggies memoirs in the Mirror?

Belated birthday greetings anyway, Bob. Just because the establisment have accepted you doesn't mean you have accepted the establishment.

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:15 AM

That is an excellent short piece, the best I have read. Perfect, apt, quote: "What Bob Dylan does best, what he has always done best, is write Bob Dylan music".

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST,djh
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:25 AM

thanks that was a good article.Best I have read too. "BOB DYLAN" is the quintessential Dylan album, you can find elements of most of what he would go on to do and most of what drives him on that great little album. It didn't focus on his shortcomings like so many other articles either. Why do so many folks even writing positive stuff on Dylan always take shots at him.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: LR Mole
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:56 AM

Thanks for the air around Tom Paine.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: BobP
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:16 PM

Khandu,

Comparisons between Charlie Brown / Charles Shulz & Bob Zimmerman / Bob Dylan are really interesting.

CB/CS used a rather unusual forum / medium to get our attention so he could tell us stuff about ourselves - stuff he needed to say and therefore needed for us to listen; I mean really listen.

BZ/BD did exactly the same thing except, of course, the forum and delivery medium were of his choosing.

I'm referring, of course, or the early years of CB. The last few years were, well actually quite alot like Bob's last few years (more pop / less intense) of course the times and issues changed too.

College level physcology texts of the early sixties had scads of material describing the personalities of Lucy, Linus, Charlie and that lunatic hound. A kid's strip on one level, perched atop deeper stuff just beneath, stuff you had to dig down throughy to appreciate.

Dylanish, or what?

Captivate, by whatever method is necessary - hold your listener's attention - then communicate as a prosecutor would to a jury so each thinks the wordflow is directed at them personally. Would describe either - take your pick.

Shulz didn't worry about being a great artist; he just figured out how to get people to listen - pure Dylan.

Shulz work went from paper to TV - a watered down message for a larger audience. Bob similarly went from acoustic to electric - absolutely identical.

Using Shulz to explain Zimmerman . . . just brilliant.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:25 PM

A very wise man once said "I've got nothing more, to live up to".

Keep 'em coming Bob.

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 25 May 01 - 10:51 PM

Good, BobP. Very interesting.

khandu

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 01 - 11:26 AM

Khandu,

A bit more on this because it's fascinating.

When CB visits Lucy's "lemonade gone psychology" stand he allowed us to analyze him via his alerego. I E. he could explored very persoanl aspects of himself under the guise of CB. Bob did precisely the same thing spilling his guts on subjects no Como or Crosby would have ventured into. Of course Bob had chemical assistance, but then Schulz had religion - hey whatever works.

Fascinating stuff!

Subject: RE: Bob's Birthday
From: Stevangelist
Date: 26 May 01 - 02:01 PM

I was too busy to get online the other day... Kudos on 60, Bob. I have so far seen but one live show and it was fantastic. You have been a great influence on me, not just of your own doing, but by turning me on to Lefty Frizell and Hank Snow and all the guys you said you listened to as a kid in your interviews. God bless you, Mr. Dylan. I know He is pleased with you.

May The Road Rise To Meet You,

Stevangelist