Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone

Subject: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Nov 01 - 03:25 PM

A very interesting interview with Dylan in this month's Rolling Stone, long and insightful. Makes reference (Among other things) to some mysteries taught him by Lonnie Johnson. Quote: "Folk music is where it all starts and in many ways ends. IF you don't have that foundation or you're not knowledgeable about it, and you don't know how to control that, and you don't feel historically tied to it, then what you're doing is not going to be as strong as it could be."

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 02 Nov 01 - 08:59 AM

There is an excerpt here:

Rolling Stone Interview

I guess I'll have to get the Magazine to read the whole thing.

Subject: RE: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: Peter T.
Date: 02 Nov 01 - 09:41 AM

It is worth getting, he wanders around a bit, but also has some fine things to say (quotes Kipling for heaven's sake). There is another article on Aids in Africa which is worth the price of the issue. On the other hand, there is a full page ad for Britney Spears in Las Vegas which is enough to prompt retching.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Nov 01 - 02:54 PM

Hey, thanks for the tip, Peter! Great quote about folk music.

- LH

Subject: RE: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 05 Nov 01 - 11:37 PM

This is probably worth refreshing.

Subject: RE: Dylan in This Month's Rolling Stone
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 01 - 07:34 AM

Well, if you are a diehard Dylan fan, it is worth a read. I found the interviewer to be awful, and it appears as though Dylan's opinion of him might not have been much better than mine. I get sooooo tired of interviewers trying to be profound with Dylan. So I found Dylan's response to his idiotic comparisons of the current release to his early recordings refreshing. Why do people do that? and always try and say "this is Dylan's closest work to Blood on the Tracks, or Hwy 61"? I guess because so little of what he has done in the last 20 years has been worth listening to for anyone except the diehard fans.

There were some comments from Dylan about his artistic process I found interesting. One, that he doesn't seem to be particularly enamoured of the recording process, despite having released 40+ albums. Says once the thing is in the can, he never listens to it again. And that he is more interested in performance now.

The story about his Grammy Lifetime Achievement award was funny, wasn't it?