Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

Subject: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: open mike
Date: 24 May 05 - 02:12 AM

a local d.j. played 2 1/2 hours of
Bob today..by bob and friends of Bob.

I think he is 63 years old today.

His contribution to musical culture
is HUGE. thank you Bob. (Zimmerman)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: open mike
Date: 24 May 05 - 02:21 AM

http://www.bobdylan.com/index.html

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 24 May 05 - 03:04 AM

Happy Birthday Bob!

He's one of my biggest influences, and I would never have started writing songs if I hadn't heard him.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Penguin Egg
Date: 24 May 05 - 03:35 AM

One of the greatest songwriters in the western world and one of the best recording artists-The Master, happy birthday Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:53 AM

There will be the annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash at the Melborne Hotel in Bradford [ West Yorkshire ] tonight May 24th.


eric

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: movingmountains
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:15 AM

yeah happy birthdy to bob long may he sing

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: bobad
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:18 AM

Yeah happy birthday Bob, by the way if you're reading this there's something I've always wanted to ask you - did you really swipe "Tambourine Man" from Bruce Murdoch ?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:28 AM

"I don't believe in Zimmerman - I just believe in me -and that's reality".Happy Birthday and if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme I wouldn't pay them any mind.

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Bob Dylan
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:44 AM

Yeah happy birthday Bob, by the way if you're reading this there's something I've always wanted to ask you - did you really swipe "Tambourine Man" from Bruce Murdoch ?

Yeah, the same day I swiped Blowin' in the Wind from a high school kid named Lorre Wyatt.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Peace
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:50 AM

Happy Birthday, Bob.

I did your song for years and loved it.

BM

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:18 AM

I didn't know Bob was a regular here at the Café. Wanna buy some Mandies, Bob?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Beer
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:53 AM

The Greatest. Happy Birthday Bob.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:57 AM

Happy birthday Bob. I really really hope that one of your presnts turns out to be a course of singing lessons!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: open mike
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:57 AM

BOB is everywhere!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:03 AM

Everywhere is Bob.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:05 PM

Actually, he's 64. Born '41. I'm only 63 1/2. HAW!

Peter.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Terry K
Date: 24 May 05 - 01:11 PM

Simply the best.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: alanabit
Date: 24 May 05 - 01:16 PM

He is, like all great artists, flawed and not every song he wrote is a classic. It is still true to say that most of us can only dream of writing one song as good as his two hundredth best. He has created new genres and taken songwriting into areas where it had never been before. Happy Birthday and many more to one of the greatest artists of our age.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 May 05 - 02:38 PM

Happy Birthday Bob,

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 24 May 05 - 03:29 PM

And many of them.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: open mike
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:03 PM

thank you for one of the greatest birthday songs ever:
May you stay forever young!!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Pauline L
Date: 24 May 05 - 06:04 PM

Open Mike, you beat me to it. I was going to say, "May you Stay Forever Young."

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: s6k
Date: 24 May 05 - 06:18 PM

a very fitting line for bob from me, from one of my favourite songs.

"i was so much older then, i'm younger than that now"

an absolute legend, and as i write this i am listening to "with god on our side" which reaffirms his legendary status even more.

the only man to ever come close to bob was bob marley.

whens the next album, bob!?

happy birthday

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Pat Cooksey.
Date: 24 May 05 - 06:53 PM

If indeed it is your birthday Robert, then thank you for all that you
have done.
Remember Jim McClean, Martin Carthy, and so many others who made the
Troudador your home in the sixties.
I spent my early performing days in Paris, singing your songs in the
streets, great times and great songs.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Lester
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:59 PM

A truly great musician influences others.

No doubt that he's done that.

If I had a dollar for every time I've hummed ones of his tunes...

Happy Birthday Bob

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:15 PM

... we'd all be rich!

The amazing thing is that he's STILL going!
people like McCartney are still going too, but people pay attention when Bob releases a new disc.

(sorry Sir Paul)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:06 AM

Next Sunday, I'm going to see Dylan perform for the first time.

I AM PUMPED.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:37 AM

Bob has the happy talent of being able to pick just the right tune.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:47 AM

Matt R,

Bob has been on his game for the last number of years, I'm sure that you will enjoy it. His band is outstanding. Is the tour with Willie Nelson?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 25 May 05 - 10:39 AM

Oh, what I've heard in the past few years doesn't seem so hot, and some really stinkers of reviews about him live.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 25 May 05 - 10:53 AM

Well, I saw him in the eighties and it was terrible, saw him again in 97 and 2000, they were great shows.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:40 PM

Yeah, Bob! I was in Ottawa (Canada's capital city) on his birthday, and they were playing his songs in the cafe where I ate with friends, an amazing place with about 50 different varieties of gourmet burgers, including 8 or 10 vegetarian types. Bob Dylan remains the single most remarkable and enduring influence among all modern songwriters.

And the tune for the song "Blowin' in the Wind" was based (loosely) on a spiritual liberation song from the days of slavery called "No More Auction Block". Bob can be heard singing "Auction Block" on some tapes from the early 60's. He made the tune a bit more sophisticated, wrote new lyrics around it, and there you have "Blowin' In The Wind".

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 May 05 - 01:05 PM

Yep, it's his tour with Willie Nelson of the nation's minor league ballparks.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Lanfranc
Date: 25 May 05 - 01:44 PM

Bow down to him on Sunday, salute him when his birthday comes!

Even a day late!

Thanks for the songs - and the autobiography (awaiting volume 2)

Alan

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 25 May 05 - 09:26 PM

That guy Nelson is no slouch either, you haven't heard Willie until you have heard him live. I wish that this tour came closer to Toronto. Enjoy Matt, it should be a great evening.

Little Hawk, No More Auction Block is on the Bootleg Series Volume 1-3. One of my favourites on a great collection. It is worth having if only for Blind Willie McTell.

Bootleg Series 1-3

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,cissco & sonny & ledbelly to.
Date: 26 May 05 - 05:23 AM

have you thought about guitar lessons ted.:

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 05 - 02:57 PM

Bob = Best Of the Best. For him I have Love Minus Zero/No Limit.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: frogprince
Date: 26 May 05 - 09:18 PM

Ah, Dylan and Nelson are both just a couple of pretty faces...

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 05 - 11:55 PM

ted plays the mandola what he need guitar lessons for

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Pauline L
Date: 27 May 05 - 06:06 PM

Reading this thread reminds me of how little my life has changed in the last 40 or so years.

I'm branded on my feet
I've got no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's
Too dead for dreaming.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,anwar sadat
Date: 27 May 05 - 07:23 PM

Zionist warmonger bastard!!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,the vault
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:34 AM

You're right from your side, I'm right from mine,
We're just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 28 May 05 - 11:24 AM

OOh yes, the EVIIIIIIl Robert Zimmerman trying to croak his way into world domination, Mr Tambourine Man is actualy secret code.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From:
Date: 28 May 05 - 11:56 AM

Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan and love to all the good people that travel wit him. He was a fiend of mine; he never done no wrong and he never harmed no-one. The very best thing that i want to do is to say i've been hittin' some hard travellin' to.