--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the neil young version at Bob-Fest. > > I agree with most of what you say, and my life mirrors yours in many > respects -- though I was in high school when highway 61 blaseted > onto > the scene, and in jr high when the earlier acoustic albums hit (and > they were revolutionary too). And Blonde on Blonde ..whew .. So many > great albums. And some of his mid stuff -- like the album with > Emmy-Lou Harris -- is incredibly moving. "oh sister, sister ... > > And I download dylan lyrics on occaision and revel in them -- as you > do. But I always hear them with the music. > > But today, I read them as words, as poetry, sans music. And you know > what? As a pure, words only poet, Dylan is a bit sophmoric and > trite, IMO. Even Dylan hates a lot of his earlier stuff. (though I > still love it, just not as isolated words -- cast as great poetry.) > > Its the combo of music and his words that are "transcendent" -- as > in facilitating transcendence from fixed current "views".
Yup. It's the music that captures the in-the-momentness of it. One of the things that I missed for many years, until I started seeing Dylan live again, is that every one of the songs on the albums that we think of as the "definitive version" of the song is just the way he happened to sing it at one moment in time. Live, Dylan has never performed the same song the same way twice. And he probably will. THAT may be what makes the combination of the words and the music so potent. > As pure poets I will still take Pablo Neruda (even in english > translation he rocks, which is amazing) and TS Elliot. > > I know: > "Ezra Pound and TS Elliot, fighting in the captain's tower. > While calypso singers laugh at them. And fishermen hold flowers." Not to mention that he quoted lines from each of them earlier in the verse. :-) > But, ol' TS: > > "April is the cruelest month > Breeding lilacs out of the dead land, > Mixing memory and desire, stirring > Dull roots with spring rain." > > He captures the whole cycle of samskara in four lovely lines. Yeah, but could he play guitar and harmonica and sing badly? It's the whole package, dude. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
