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September 26, 2005
Robert Zimmerman on TeeVee, Online, and in Your Head
One of the first things I found out about my boyfriend was that he thought Bob Dylan was the greatest artist of all time. I laughed at him and told him I hated Dylan. A little over a year later, I've accepted that Dylan is a great musician and lyricist. I'm intrigued by Slate's twin articles about the new Dylan movie "premiering" tonight on PBS (unless you've already bought the DVD version).
First, I had no idea he steals lines from other artists without crediting them.
Second, I didn't know most of the interviews and footage was collected by his manager before Scorcese was ever brought onto the project.
and Third, I'm intrigued by David Greenberg's critique of our cultural obsession with all things 60s, including Dylan during that time.
Go read for yourself:
"The '60s Trap: Why critics ignore the rest of Dylan's career." by David Greenberg in Slate
"The Last Temptation of Dylan: Watching the new documentary." by David Yaffe in Slate
The two cd releases related to this doc are available - one exclusively from Starbucks, and the other at all music outlets. I'm listening to the double album, No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7, on Rhapsody now. It's a really good cd - combines most of his best music from the 60s. Of course, I'll just wait for mi chavo to buy it to actually touch the cd version...
Posted by cj at September 26, 2005 08:16 AM