In a message dated 5/14/01 10:39:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I think in my case it's not so much "devotion to Joni"
but perhaps failure to appreciate Bob Dylan. What is
it precisely about him that's supposed to be so
innovative? I don't find his music particularly "new"
- his music IMO is pretty predictable. Is it the
lyrics? I agree that Joni does pay him tribute, and
I'm not trying to be sarcastic, or a pain in the ass -
I just don't get it! Somebody please enlighten me! >>
I agree it's difficult to see it or understand it in retrospect. Once you
are awash in the lake, you cannot appreciate the raindrops.
You have to look at what most songs were being written about in the early to
mid '60s,
then listen to songs like Positively 4th Street, Like A Rolling Stone, A Hard
Rain's Gonna Fall or some of his others from that period.
Paul I
