i can't help but make this confession yet once again: the first time i heard
a dylan song was during the last jonifest, barely a few weeks ago!!!! or was
it neil young all the time? the great authority on dylan is marian, so i
should talk to her and get really started on dylan. but his catalogue is SO
huge, i just don't have the energy or the inclination for another joni
mitchell in my life.
i devoted twenty years to the exclusive study of joni mitchell. when i think
about dylan, i feel like an 80-year-old engineer who is told all of a sudden
that he needs to get a degree in medicine too. call it narrow-mindedness,
but with joni, wagner, strauss, rickie, and the rest of the artists that
wrote and/or performed the music on my more than three thousand cd's i have
quite enough yet to discover and study. i believe that on the verge of my
forties, i'm already too late to change majors.
wallyk
