When Bob Dylan dies

shit is gonna suck

everybody will get stoned

He not busy bein born

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/10/MileyKeshaBob.jpg

The word poet will be used way too much, and the phrase "funny son of a bitch" not nearly enough.

^^ the real life game of marry-fuck-kill that bob dylan will die from (xpost)

Does bob ever rock a neckerchief these days? It'd go well with his current look.

'now bob dylan, too, is blowin' in the wind...'

I'll see his grave is kept clean.

i think about this every three or four weeks.

a sense of foreboding.

the last physical records get sold

"And Judas appears and says "Believe me now""

so many thinkpieces to come :-(
poor bob.

There might be a Mojo special issue.

But what would they put in it?

Uncut will call his passing "a stunning return to form."

shit is gonna suck

Cause everyone is going to start playing his stuff all the time again.

For a whole day or two.

I'll never make it through!

"These are the same people that tried to pin the name Judas on me. Judas, the most hated name in human history!" he continued, referring to the controversy over his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.

um, no it wasn't,..

Surprised he still gives a shit about it, although I suppose it's inevitable when you get asked about it in every interview for 40 years.

a whole bunch of people will say, whoah his real name was Zimmerman?

death is not the end

I have thought about this--what I would play during student entry that morning. The entirety of "Desolation Row" if I could, but I'll have to settle for something much shorter. (This is very morbid, I know.)

Thinking of the subject to the tune of ABC's "When Smokey Sings."

I know a teacher who played Donna Summer for his students and almost cried. A hero.

the saddest part about bob dylan dying is he won't be able to say anything about it

Oh, my guess is his posthumous album is already in the can.

shit is gonna suck

Cause everyone is going to start playing his stuff all the time again.

For a whole day or two.

I'll never make it through!

I made it through Houston, Whitney.

WFMU has a Bob Dylan Advance Obit Death Tape encased in glass on the wall of the studio, with a little hammer for breaking it on the day. No joke; inspired by the station mgr always getting "Did he die?" calls when he plays B.D.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2204/2248706063_ae46eb8dc5.jpg
haha, was just coming in to post that

damn, I couldn't find the pic!

OK, I guess there's a key, not a hammer? Wimps.

seeing it always makes laugh.
anyway, it'll be sad, but hey, people die. the coverage of it will be excruciating for the most part i'm sure. then the floodgates will open -- dude has had his archive raided plenty of times, but I'm sure there'll be a bunch of miles davis-like box sets containing every note played during the pat garrett and billy the kid sessions or whatever. and i'll probably buy it all goddammit!

hahahahaha, that is so great

I know a teacher who played Donna Summer for his students and almost cried. A hero.

Eric's withering sarcasm...for what it's worth, I actually did play "I Feel Love" the morning after Donna Summer's death. No one cried, but it sounded great.

that box is so amazing

what I would play during student entry that morning

"All the Tired Horses"?

Wondering what song Bob should do like Johnny Cash's "Hurt".

Thinking "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes.

something by the Bravery

That wasn't sarcasm. That was fact.

"When Bob Dylan Dies" sounds like the name of a song that would be on a late Bob Dylan album

When Bob Dylan dies
You're gonna hear those bells
The Wussies, the Pussies, the Evil Motherfuckers
They're gonna rot in hell

bob dylan's 299th funeral

Tombstone Blues

if bob dylan covers the black crowes i will disown him

Was about to make a Crowes/Faces joke and thought, hey, it'd actually be really cool if Bob covered "Debris."

Jealous Again is such a jam

real talk

What is on the wfmu tape?

Babies crying.

Ken and Andy taped this very special episode of Seven Second Delay, to be aired immediately upon the passing of music legend Bob Dylan.

Dylan cover of "When Smokey Sings"

i'll be sad when dylan dies

for some reason I think about this a lot. maybe because he's just a bit older than my parents :-/

pre-emptive rip bob dylan. you ruled.

RIP

Geez, I thought this was polar-vortex related for a second.

haha please no one update this thread when it happens

putting on Desolation Row right now

Blowin' in the Vortex

http://idontlikefun.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bob-dylan-in-bangor-maine-during-the-rolling-thunder-revue-1975.jpg%3Fw%3D420

that's a great coat-and-hat combo Bob's got going there...

I wonder of the effects on the Beatles, in particular John Lennon. Lennon was very much a Dylan fan, and would become the counter culture bard during his own solo career. In the void left by Dylan, Lennon filling that void may be easier. Or, perhaps it would lead Lennon to seek to fill that void earlier, leading to stress which breaks the Beatles and leads Lennon to go solo earlier. I would think Lennon would be rather heart broken over Dylan's death.

rip (but hated ur fans)

scary and suspicious bump..

I told my wife I had a new life goal - to see Bob Dylan before he died (since I've never seen him live)

tix purchased for June

i think this was the first thread i ever started on ilx

I saw him in a strip mall on the wrong side of the interstate at a place called "Joe's Big Bamboo," which usually hosted all-ages "foam" parties when Bob Dylan wasn't in town.

One of the best shows I've ever seen, and you know, I'm not really even that huge of a fan of the man.

I've been telling myself this kind of thing for a bunch of long-running artists I've never seen live ever since Leonard Cohen died (who I really could have seen in a really good venue if I hadn't balked at the expensive ticket price).

I definitely thought of seeing Dylan even though I've never really considered myself that much of a fan. Also thinking about this for King Crimson (who are coming here in July but are very expensive).

Heart skips a beat whenever this thread is revived :/

how many aging rock stars are we going to lose to covid-19?

bump

I've seen p much all of my other boomer heroes who are/were still interesting in old age (I'm not interested in Macca's schtick, for ex.) - Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard. Saw George Clinton a lot in the 90s when he still had a decent crop of OG musicians w him. But have never seen Bob, who is a huge figure for me, and still seems capable of surprises. So feels like something I should do.

corona, corona

I actually did see Dylan just a few months after I made this thread, for the same reason Shakey wants to. It was awful. I'm glad I went.

ooh Shakes that’s exciting! i’ve seen him twice, on the Time Out of Mind (?) tour in aus in 1998, and then a friend gave me a free ticket for the Modern Times tour in 2006. Great both times. Absolutely worth seeing.

that Rolling Thunder doc really reactivated my fandom, it had been a kinda dormant in the past few years

I saw my first Dylan show in 1997 a month or two before Time Out of Mind came out. At some point in 1998 I became worried Bob was going to die and lifted heaven and earth to go see he and Joni Mitchell at Madison Square Garden. I then saw him six or seven more times, lol, but I haven't seen him since 2010. His tickets have gotten very expensive, but I should go again.

I saw him in 1978 at Maple Leaf Gardens, a few months before a Neil Young pre-Rust show at the same venue. I drank and drugged and remember nothing except that he opened with "Mr. Tambourine Man" and I almost passed out--getting your money's worth.

I've been telling myself this kind of thing for a bunch of long-running artists I've never seen live ever since Leonard Cohen died (who I really could have seen in a really good venue if I hadn't balked at the expensive ticket price).

I definitely thought of seeing Dylan even though I've never really considered myself that much of a fan. Also thinking about this for King Crimson (who are coming here in July but are very expensive).

Not a Dylan fan at all, but I've been trying to catch old-ass jazz artists whenever possible. I saw Ahmad Jamal (who'll be 90 this year) last year and he was amazing. I saw Pharoah Sanders - who I first saw back in the mid 90s - in December. I really wish I'd gotten to see McCoy Tyner at least once before he died.

I did get to see Ornette, that was great. Kinda kicking myself for not seeing Pharaoh recently.

I saw Pharaoh a couple of years ago, and I was really disappointed, sadly. Maybe it was an off night; he didn't look that good, either. I've seen Dylan a bunch. He was great for a couple of them, he was absolutely boring for a couple of them. Once I fell asleep and later said "never again." That was years ago, and every time he comes through town he's, as usual, preceded by praise. "Dylan's engaged again! His band is killer!" And of course I consider going but haven't for many, many years, because it's pricey and because I assume the "Dylan's back!" hype is just that. On the other hand, it's Dylan, and his band is indeed usually killer.

At the very least, I am psyched that I cannot in any way predict what material he will do

Don't look at recent setlists before you go then. While his setlists are never exactly the same, ime he usually has a core songs he plays every show or three on a tour, with other things rotating in and out. Usually every show is good for one unusual number to pop up that he hasn't played in years. He played Joey the first time I saw him.

I did get to see Ornette, that was great. Kinda kicking myself for not seeing Pharaoh recently.

At the very least, I am psyched that I cannot in any way predict what material he will do

Typically not even while he's doing it!

yeah that’s the best part

Haha

dylan was fantastic when i saw him last fall. mostly great arrangements, band was killer, dylan slinking across the stage, lots of harmonica. probably the best show of his I've seen since the early 00s.

yeah absolutely the best time I'd seen him, really seemed invigorated. obv still does radical rearrangements of songs but did some fairly straightforward including a beautiful Girl From the North Country with just piano and violin (almost felt a bit like the Rolling Thunder era)

thanks thread for inspiring me to pick up my bob dylan listening project again, after topping out at desire/rolling thunder

bob dylan rules

just saw this incredible piece of merch — this should be the inspiration for the art for the inevitable Street Legal era bootleg series.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESwF_0LXQAYvbtk?format=png&name=small

lol i'm listening to street legal right now. "where are you tonight? (journey through dark heat)" is a great song

he took dead-center aim but he missed just the same
she was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf
she could feel my despair as i climbed up her hair
and discovered her invisible self

yeahhhh that's the stuff

They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil

Brad.... welcome to #TeamStreetLegal

how much for that jacket?? amazing

Street team

Street-Legal rules

RENEGADE PRIESTS

Street-Legal is okay to good imo

Its bad imo

you are banished to 20 years in a mag-uh-net-ic field

It felt out of place
My foot in his face
But he should have stayed where his money was green

son, this ain't no dream no more
it's the real thing

You've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity
For pleasure you must now resist.
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They're not even sure you exist.

another weird 78 tour jacket
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESsRK9pU4AALs2-?format=jpg&name=900x900

Bob Dylan's 115th Tour Jacket

My guess is ... Dylan drew that one himself.

at budokan is very very funny and fascinating

slow train coming is a fucking awesome album

it is, front to back

agreed, but also agree w consensus take that the box set outtakes are generally far superior

yup

were these outtakes part of the bootleg series volume covering Saved? I didnt realize STC songs were also part of it. I might need to cull those

discs three and four of trouble no more are outtakes. which, my impression was that it was a live box so i'm learning things!

btw saved fuckin rocks

the box set has outtakes, live takes, and rehearsal takes

I was annoyed they weren't arranged chronologically though, spent some time editing MP3 ID tags...

Brad, if you haven't gotten to Trouble No More, I think you are going to lose your shit to the live stuff, which blows away the studio takes.

i'm gonna dig into it after i listen to shot of love! i'm so excited!

I even enjoy the "musical film" DVD - live footage is hot shit, and Michael Shannon's preacher character monologues are great

it's also got this amazing thing (which annoyingly doesn't show up on the audio discs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbveLDvePDQ

As I posted on some other Dylan thread, my biggest disappointment from Trouble No More is they chopped off some of the between song sermons which are hilarious. Definitely look up Solid Rock Dylan Sermon and When You Gonna Wake Up Sermon Tempe 1979.

tyler otm that duet is great

duetting with Dylan seems to be a really difficult and thankless task lol

yeah, totally. clydie king is great on that duet, though, totally anticipating bob's weirdo slides, finding the right pitch to match him.

fired up Blonde on Blonde to keep me company while i wfh

yeah, that is a good one to get lost in.

also, i am tired of seeing this thread title lol.

i mean, as if things aren't depressing enough.

watch Dylan singing with almost anyone (Johnny Cash, Clydie King, even Joan Baez) and it's like you can see the wheels are turning in Bob's head "oh you're just gonna sing the melody? well watch THIS"

oddly he even does this when he's harmonizing with himself lol (cf "The Boxer")

xps

lol sorry for updating this thread more tyler

When he's at the piano, it's another side of Bob Dylan