From: The Pantomime Horse <Y79@ucc.uwindsor.ca>
Subject: Re: Highway61 Digest #123
Reply-To: Y79@ucc.uwindsor.ca
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:25:01 GMT

|From: m1d4783@tamsun.tamu.edu (michael denison)
|Subject: Results: "Most Annoying Dylan" Poll

|Final notes: This project is 99.5% accurate;
|

Perhaps, but of course it's a very small sample of people on this
list.  Still, quite interesting and thanks for all the work you
put into it.  Maybe you should send Bob a copy.

|From: georger@utoday.com (George Rothe)
|Subject: Re: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
|Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 12:57:03 GMT
|
|In article <1992Sep4.070606.27660@ulrik.uio.no> oml@sirius.sds.no (Ola Martin
| Lykkja) writes:
|>
|>I looked through my records yesterday and I played 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35'.
|>Does anyone have an explanation for the title?   It is very hard to
|>guess the title for the lyrics.
|>

I recall reading that some people at the time (I think the people
who banned it, wasn't it banned somewhere?) thought it referred to
a joint or something, y'know, one you'd save for a rainy day,
i.e., a rainy day woman.  Of course "everybody must get stoned"
tended to lend credence to that analysis.  Whether that's the case
or whether that's just those same people who see drugs in every
song, I haven't the foggiest.  Personally, I always liked to hear
the song (when I *did* play it) as a pun, i.e., getting "stoned"
as in being criticized or castigated as aldulterers were in the
old days, and looking at Bob's abandonment of the folk scene and
the new left, and his taking up with that harlot Rock 'n' Roll
in this way.

|
|From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
|Subject: bob's son takes the mike
|Date: 9 Sep 92 04:00:39 EST
|Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
|
|Has anyone else heard Bob's son's soon-to-be-released album?
|
|Vin Scelsa played some tracks from it a couple weeks ago... sounds a lot
|like his old man, with better pipes.

I heard a track from the Wallflowers last night for the first time.
I didn't know it was them until it was over, and didn't think it
sounded like Bob at all. Maybe if I were to hear it again I could
look for similarities.  Sounded quite good though on first listen.
Nothing amazing but it sounded alright.  So does Dylan the Younger
play drums *and* sing?  What about the writing chores?  Anybody know?

|
|From: ziskin@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Daniel C. Ziskin)
|Subject: BOOK REVIEW?
|Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:46:01 GMT
|
|Hi fellow DYLANISTS,
|
|A couple of years ago I read a book called "TELL ME WHY" by Tim Riley.
|He is a musicologist.  In the book he went through EVERY Beatles song
|and discussed its musical and lyrical signifcance.  (Such as unique
|instrumentation and the explication of PLEASE PLEASE ME as a
|song written about oral sex, etc.)  In any case,  I loved this book
|and I highly recommend it.
|

I think musicologists should stay away from rock 'n' roll.
Of course I haven't read the book so maybe this guy is an exception.

|
|Date: Wed,  9 Sep 1992 20:05:42 -0400
|From: "Christopher W. Graefe" <cg2u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
|Subject: West Point Concert
|
|Dear Dylan Fans,
|
|     Was it just me or did it seem a bit strange when Bob Dylan, writer
|of "MASTERS OF WAR" could do a concert in the most por-military
|establishment next ot the Pentagon?  I was extremely turned off by this
|and lost a lot of faith in a man whose music I love.  I went to see him
|last summer and was pretty disappointed with his inaudible and
|incomprehesible style now. WHAT HAPPENED? Am I alone in this? I still
|like the guy but I wonder if he's sold out. Or maybe just blowin in the
|wind....

What better place to sing anti-war songs? At least he wasn't
preaching to the converted.

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