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seen him 7 times in the past 6 years...nothing better than seeing a live version of Cold Irons Bound
Mark
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Man I wish I could get my hands on one of thouse t-shirts
Life need a little Triumph!
2008 Triumph Speedmaster, Single baffle drag pipes, lots of black powder coatin,K&N pods, AI removed, TBS needles and a procom cdi.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I saw the title and thought he died.
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we saw him a few years ago in ottawa. a great show and (to my surprise) the guy is a heck of a guitar player.
Quite a few of the arrangements were updated and I was thinking "well, he wrote this stuff, he can play it however he likes". Then I was thinking "Hey. HE WROTE this stuff!".
Sometimes I'll hear something like "The times they are a changing" and I'll think about how threatening that must have been to the power structure of the day. Imagine, you've got these kids rioting in the streets and here's Dylan on the radio
"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
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Must see movie  My brother took his then 10 year old budding guitarist / songwriter son to see Dylan at a general admission outdoor show near Albany, NY. They managed to get up front. After the show, father asked son: "How did you like the show Luke?" Luke replied, "It was great." "I was wondering though, does he always sound like that?" 
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Quote:
I saw the title and thought he died.
ditto
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Saddle Sore
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As Stephen Colbert would ask, "do you think he is great or the greatest" I'll put you down for the greatest. 
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one of my favorite, musician quotes, of all time --
the first time i saw Ray LaMontagne(who rides a T100
btw,) someone called out from the audience, "who's
better than you, Ray?" and ever so quietly, barely
picking his head up toward the microphone, Ray uttered,
"Bob Dylan."
then of course there is Phil Ochs' commentary
on the man. but i would have to dig back into
my archives for a direct quote -- and i'm just
not up for that right now.
allhailthefrenchpress
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Guess I kinda lost track of the young singer the last 30 years. I really like his Nashville Skyline album, featuring a duet with Johnny Cash. Then I bought an album in about 1980 that featured a poster of Dylan wearing a pink jumpsuit. Must have been one of those "phases"  jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Bobby... I'm covering a couple o' his songs at a gig in Nelson next week. Doing 'I Shall Be Released' and 'Times They Are a Changing.' Then of course there is my own interpretation of Mr. Zimmerman through a pic I posted in another thread and which I re-post here. Ya see, Bobby used to ride a Triumph which is why I expect that Bonnie ended up in the back of a t-shirt at that concert Scott mentioned at the start of this thread. 
Live to love, love to live.
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Check Pants
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A friend of mine does "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" as part of his show, one of my favorite Dylan tunes. I've never seen Bob in person, and almost don't want to know for fear of being disappointed. My brother saw him with Willie and he said his lyrics were so unintelligible that a bunch of folks just walked out. He's an American musical genious, that is for certain.
Al
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