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offline Anus_Presley on 2005-09-26 13:49 [#01734442]
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Documentarry dirrected by Martin Scorsese, that's on
tonight... anyone watching it...

It looks rreally good.


 

offline Oddioblender from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2005-09-26 14:01 [#01734461]
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too bad i don't have your tv stations. wouldn't mind
watching it.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-09-26 14:02 [#01734462]
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I am going to watch it. Yes.


 

offline xceque on 2005-09-26 15:18 [#01734569]
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I listened to the Ghosts of Electricity docu on the radio
yesterday which was pretty interesting... about the
"infamous" 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall gig and the
heckler. I'm taping No Direction Home and I'll watch both
parts together.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-09-26 15:32 [#01734581]
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Watched a good bit of it, yeah.


 

offline optimus prime on 2005-09-26 18:22 [#01734697]
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it's on pbs.


 

offline Oddioblender from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2005-09-26 18:33 [#01734700]
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oh really? well then let's see if the tv is free.


 

offline optimus prime on 2005-09-26 18:45 [#01734703]
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err, umm, at least i *think* it is. it might've been a week
ago.

i just remember seeing ads for it.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-09-26 18:57 [#01734708]
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yep, it's on pbs right now.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-09-26 19:05 [#01734715]
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this sounds like an American sitcom.

"That Bob Dylan!"


 

offline ymenard on 2005-09-26 20:31 [#01734747]
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You can buy the documentary in stores since a week. It has
extensive footage not on PBS.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-09-26 20:34 [#01734748]
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"hey.. someone's been writing strange poetry all over the
toiletpaper.."
"ooooh.. That Bob Dylan!!"


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-09-26 21:23 [#01734762]
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I know a huge Dylan fan who watched Don't Look Back and saw
a Dylan that was so loathesome and douchey that he actually
started enjoying the music less. I'm stupid for things like
that too, so I dunno if I want to see this...


 

offline ymenard on 2005-09-26 22:19 [#01734777]
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Dylan in DLB isn't for me Loathesome. He's an act to start
with, we have to remember. He's Robert Zimmerman deep
inside him. He had to portray himself that way in 1965, he
had no choice.

It's obvious he was ahead of everybody else, how could
anybody else cope with that, when you know you're doing
stuff nobody has done before? I mean in DLB, how can you
just sing to Donovan without looking like that, when he's
singing "Its All Over Now, Baby Blue" in the hotel? He
fucking destroys the room, he was just *way* ahead of
everybody else, you can sense it, you can feel it also when
he's playing in those concert halls that he just wants to
rip those songs and pass out to the through stuff (the Thin
Wild Mercury sound of Blonde on Blonde/H61 Revisited)



 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2005-09-26 22:34 [#01734778]
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I really enjoyed this doc tonight.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2005-09-26 22:41 [#01734779]
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Alan Price seemed like a fun laid back cat. I'd'a hung hung
out with him, too. He'd did seem kinda mean in DLb. He was
totally ignoring baez who is a phenomenal talent, btw. It
didn't ruin my perception of him, though. Anyone in that
position with that much talent and attention could turn in
to an a'hole for a spell. He was remarkable at dealing with
the media and interviews. Especially in that time.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2005-09-26 22:42 [#01734780]
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good god. pardon my grammar


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-09-27 03:02 [#01734815]
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Excellent doc, looking forward to part 2. I've never liked
Dylan's music, mostly cause I had it forced on me by my
mother - I thought he was sloppy and out of tune. When the
doc started up with the UK tour I thought it was almost
unlistenable, by the time it had finished I was digging it
to fuck (smoking a bowl probably helped). Excellent
storytelling by Scorcese. *Goes off to download Muddy
Waters*


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-09-27 07:10 [#01734911]
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I didn't think Dylan came off as loathesome at all.
Definately socially detached, but not what I'd call
loathesome. I mean, they didn't give a whole lot of
personal background... he didn't talk a lot about his
friends or family. He came off as very focused on futhering
his musical career, but really that's ok for me. It wasn't
like he was going out of his way to be an asshole or
anything.

It did kinda strike me as odd that he was distancing himself
from the political nature of his songwriting though. I
mean, so many of his songs are hard hitting and poingnant
that it's hard for me to believe that he didn't purposefully
make them that way.


 

offline ymenard on 2005-09-27 18:32 [#01735478]
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I wonder how you guys are going to feel about him after Part
Deux. 'Cause he goes into a whole transformation, I mean
an incredible transformation thinking it was 1964 to 1966.
I mean the Beatles were still playing live... Psychadelic
was barely there.

I mean we have to understand the context. Think of music
back then, compared to now. What you had on the radio
was... either classical, blues/jazz, country, folk, r&b and
rock&roll. Vinyls. No TV. People not whistling or going
"whooooo!" at live shows. Hair cut over the ears.

and then you had Dylan.


 

offline loopychoon on 2005-09-27 18:34 [#01735479]
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"It did kinda strike me as odd that he was distancing
himself
from the political nature of his songwriting though.."

I think he was smart enough to realise if he wasted time
explaining it all away it would kill something of the art.
I also think he is in the majority of artists who rather not
do that for just that reason and more.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-09-27 19:26 [#01735484]
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his voice is easily as good as, say, liam gallaghers or even
shane mcgowans


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-09-27 20:52 [#01735517]
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i kinda feel like i know less about dylan after watching
that.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-09-27 20:55 [#01735519]
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lol


 

offline ymenard on 2005-09-27 21:32 [#01735523]
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He's always been in a "constant state of becoming". Still
is, with the Never-Ending Tour.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-09-27 22:23 [#01735534]
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yeah, actually i thought he was being quite douchey when he
was talking to that dude from Time (or whatever the magazine
was).


 


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