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rickl:
From Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media: Dylan in China: Maureen Dowd and Others are the Real Idiots, not Dylan
--- Quote ---The idiot wind is blowing again, and this time it is comprised of all the pundits going after Bob Dylan for singing in China, and agreeing to abide by an approved list of songs submitted to him by Chinese censors.
First, here is a report about Dylan in China. As Keith Richburg writes, his set list was “devoid of any numbers that might carry even the whiff of anti-government overtones.” Richburg notes that it did not include “Desolation Row” or “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which he did sing in Taiwan. Nor, he comments, did Dylan sing “Chimes of Freedom.” Dylan’s appearance coincided with reports of increasing government repression and arrests of Chinese artists such as Ai Weiwei, and the imprisonment of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo.
The ignorance the media has about Dylan is most apparent in this AP dispatch appearing this morning in The Washington Post. Take the very first sentence about a forthcoming concert Dylan is to give in Vietnam: “After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace.” The writer, obviously a very young person without any familiarity at all with Dylan’s work, does not realize that Dylan never sang about the war in Vietnam, and never joined one single protest against it.
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From my comment at #46:
--- Quote ---I didn’t read the Maureen Dowd piece, but I saw an article yesterday about the “censorship”. Curious, I went to http://www.bobdylan.com/tour to look at the set lists. I try to see him whenever he’s in my area (southeastern PA), and I’ve seen several shows in the last few years. The sets he performed in China and Viet Nam are absolutely typical of the shows I’ve seen. I see nothing at all unusual about them, and no evidence of censorship.
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charlesoakwood:
Something they don't understand, Dylan works for a living. Bob Dylan is a performer and is paid for such. If his employer does not want to hear certain songs, if he expects to be paid, he will not sing them. Conversely if there are songs they want to hear he will perform them.
Surely they have been to a piano bar.
John Florida:
--- Quote from: Charles Oakwood on April 12, 2011, 09:32:23 PM ---
Something they don't understand, Dylan works for a living. Bob Dylan is a performer and is paid for such. If his employer does not want to hear certain songs, if he expects to be paid, he will not sing them. Conversely if there are songs they want to hear he will perform them.
Surely they have been to a piano bar.
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Have you heard him sing lately?? He's stealing money from those people.
rickl:
The last time I saw him, back in November, "Spirit on the Water" was the highlight of the show. They played the living daylights out of that song.
--- Quote ---Spirit on the water
Darkness on the face of the deep
I keep thinking about you baby
I can't hardly sleep
I'm traveling by land
Traveling through the dawn of day
You're always on my mind
I can't stay away
I'd forgotten about you
Then you turned up again
I always knew
That we were meant to be more than friends
When you are near
It's just as plain as it can be
I'm wild about you, gal
You ought to be a fool about me
Can't explain
The sources of this hidden pain
You burned your way into my heart
You got the key to my brain
I've been trampling through mud
Praying to the powers above
I'm sweating blood
You got a face that begs for love
Life without you
Doesn't mean a thing to me
If I can't have you,
I'll throw my love into the deep blue sea
Sometimes I wonder
Why you can't treat me right
You do good all day
Then you do wrong all night
When you're with me
I'm a thousand times happier than I could ever say
What does it matter
What price I pay
They brag about your sugar
Brag about it all over town
Put some sugar in my bowl
I feel like laying down
I'm pale as a ghost
Holding a blossom on a stem
You ever seen a ghost? No
But you have heard of them
I see you there
I'm blinded by the colors I see
I take good care
Of what belongs to me
I hear your name
Ringing up and down the line
I'm saying it plain
These ties are strong enough to bind
Your sweet voice
Calls out from some old familiar shrine
I got no choice
Can't believe these things would ever fade from your mind
I could live forever
With you perfectly
You don't ever
Have to make a fuss over me
From East to West
Ever since the world began
I only mean it for the best
I want to be with you any way I can
I been in a brawl
Now I'm feeling the wall
I'm going away baby
I won't be back ‘til fall
High on the hill
You can carry all my thoughts with you
You've numbed my will
This love could tear me in two
I wanna be with you in paradise
And it seems so unfair
I can't go to paradise no more
I killed a man back there
You think I'm over the hill
You think I'm past my prime
Let me see what you got
We can have a whoppin' good time
Copyright © 2006 by Special Rider Music
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Pandora:
Dylan's not the greatest of singers, but he can manage okay when he wants to. He did well enough on "Lay, Lady, Lay" that it's one of my favs.
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