Thoughts on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Peace Prize
Hey all, sorry
for the late response. I thought I had
posted something up about this.
Full disclosure
at the top of I this, I am nuts for Bob Dylan.
I want to say ‘early Bob Dylan’, but need clarify. When I say
“early Bob Dylan”… that is not code for ‘acoustic only, before he sold out
and went electric!’. No, I LOVE LOVE
LOVE the early electric stuff. Not just ‘Blonde
on Blonde (the first double album EVER)… but ‘Bringing it all back home’ was
half electric.
There was a simply GONZO
two year period where Bob was just shitting out masterpieces at a near fatal
rate. Look at ‘Positively 4th
st’, a masterpiece of a song… and possibly my favorite Dylan song. That song didn’t even make the cut on an
album release.
This is
basically 1964 to 1966, he just went on a recording bender.
But I
digressed. A musician won a literature
award. Is that right? Yes. I
feel I am also qualified to opine. I am
nuts about music, a musician, and I have a literature degree. Why should a musician get a literature
award? Because his music and words
impact me almost daily. Think of the
greatest book you ever read. Maybe you
re-read it. Maybe you read it a bunch. You don’t read it daily, though, do you? I listen to Bob Dylan almost daily. I am also much more likely to quote Dylan than
any book I have read (maybe with the exception of Alice in Wonderland, the
greatest book ever!)
If I am stuck on
a desert island… would I rather have a great book, or a bunch of early Dylan? Early Dylan.
Oh, and don’t say the book so you can start fires and build
shelters. Its an e book, you pyro!
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