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Ben Stein's Diary
Bad Day in Rancho Mirage
An extremely bad day, and not just there.
(Page 2 of 2)
Fifty years ago this summer, my pal, Marvin Goldberg, put the car radio in his little blue Triumph sports car on a local Virginia station that played “folk songs.” The station was WAVA. “There’s this really great singer they play a lot,” he said. “Name’s Bob Dylan.”
As we sped through the Fairfax, Virginia night, on the then empty Dulles Access Highway, sure enough, the next song to come up was Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” an anti-love song that lit my brains on fire.
Dylan’s raspy voice said that he was not going to be totally devoted, that he was no one’s love slave, that he was his own man. And he was angry that the question even came up.
From then on, he was my hero. It wasn’t because he was the voice of my generation — anti-segregation, anti-war, questioning, mocking. It was that for the first time I had ever heard, a popular musician expressed the most basic of human emotions — anger, poetically and unsparingly. His song about the wrongful death of a poor black hotel worker, Hattie Carroll, because she was hit with a cane by a wealthy landowner’s son at a Baltimore hotel society gathering, has many of its facts wrong… but the emotions of outrage he expresses at what whites could do to blacks in my home state of Maryland fifty years ago were searingly on target.
He was not content to be a folk singer. He became an electric guitarist and rock star with the best rock song of all time, “Like a rolling stone.” I still don’t know what it means, but then I don’t know what a sunset means either and I love them both.
For more than fifty years, Bob Dylan has been giving us songs of genius that no one else even touches. This little boy from the Mesabi Range in Minnesota has come to be — to many of us — the greatest poet — by far — of the postwar era.
Now, he is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. He deserves it. No singer that I am aware of ever hit the notes of what life really is, what humans really are, better than Dylan. I have spent more hours listening to him than to all other human beings on the planet put together and it will never be enough. Well done, Mr. President. Well done, Bob. I have not spoken to Marvin in forty years. I don’t know why.
By the way, Mr. President, I caught your speech about Afghanistan tonight. It is EXACTLY the same as Nixon’s speeches about Vietnamizing the Vietnam war some forty years ago. I suspect it will work out about as well. Can Mr. Obama really be that ignorant of history and reality? Yes, he can.
About the Author
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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oldfart| 5.2.12 @ 7:30AM
Ben - the current President is a parrot. All he can do is chatter with no understanding of what comes out of his mouth.
Frank Drackman| 5.2.12 @ 8:24AM
umm Ben, "Bad" day?? in Ranch Mirage
YOU LIVE IN AN EFFIN DESSERT!!!!!!!!!
MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey-Zeuss, wasn't the name a clue??"Mirage"???
sorry, something just made me chanel Sam Kinninson..
But.....regarding your Loony Tunes Relation.
3 Letters, E-C-T.
Which is short for "Electroconvulsive Therapy" which starts with P, which rhymes with Pool...
You Lay-People probably know it as "Shock therapy" like Jack Nicholson got in "Cucoos Nest".
The reality isn't as interesting, its done under Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, and your paralyzed, except for one hand, y'see they put a tourniquet on, so one hand can still move, cause thats how you tell if the power's turned up enough.
Takes just a few minutes, and Son-Of Sam's Cerebrum is good for another 30,000 miles.
Sure, it wears off, but it beats taking nasty medications with even nastier side-effects(google "Tardive Dyskinesia" sometime)
Might take some lookin to find a Shrink with the Nad's to do it, Psychiatry's not the giggle it used to be, too many foreigners, you say, "Hows it hangin Shrink?" they don't even know what the eff your talkin about..
Frank
SeymourGlass| 5.2.12 @ 10:32AM
Sorry, Frank. You DON'T "chanel".
You stink.
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 4:28PM
Frank:
TD (tardive Dyskinesia) risk minimal with the atypical antipsychotics; metabolic risk minimal with Lurasidone and Ziprasidone, and, for the most part, Aripiprazole. (Latuda, Geodon, Abilify---Fanapt takes too long to titrate.) Seroquel is also useful, metabolic risks, like Invega below, midline.
If one can get involuntary medication order, recommend Invega Sustenna or Prolixin Decanoate as the 1st line injectable antipsychotics, as you know. ECT much better for psychotic depression than schizophrenia. Exact choice requires proper evaluation, of course.
But Tardive Dyskinesia problems have been so well minimized with the newer antipsychotics that many Psychiatric Residents and early career Psychiatrists don't know what to look for anymore.
Funny thing is that Ben has been on a screaming jag against psychiatric medications for many years now, as his own experience at Yale was not good. It is useful to see him come around a bit.
However, all that being said, ECT is not first line treatment for schizophrenia.
The best psychiatrists in Southern California are to be found at UCLA, Westwood. In schizophrenia, recommend Stephen Marder, Ben. Good luck and G-d Bless.
Frank Drackman| 5.3.12 @ 7:17AM
(Dr. Evil Voice)
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.....
Expecting someone who heres Martians in his TV to take expensive medications daily...
Its the same reason I stab my daughters with 50mg of Medroxyprogesterone every 3 months, they got enough trouble avoiding Peni withoug having to take a pill everyday.
And I know about Fluphenazine.
Not first hand.
But when I start arguing with Squirels, give me some good old fashioned Georgia Power AC to the Frontal Lobe...
Frank
PsychoDad| 5.6.12 @ 11:25AM
The very definition of "troll." Along with "psychopath" and "idiot."
Bobloblaw| 5.2.12 @ 8:33AM
boring.................
Martin| 5.2.12 @ 8:55AM
Ben-
Sincere sympathies- my mother, brother and I have been defendants in litigation brought by greedy, mean spirited family members for over a year. Horrible experience. I hope God will give you strength and understanding. Pray for love and compassion, pray for them that despitefully use you.
My son has schizophrenia, a horrible disease.
Peace to you! This life is but a small moment on our way to eternity.
You are an inspiration!
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 4:11PM
Well, Ben, it is good to see you change your mind about psychotropic medications. That's a good development; and my best to your relative. Fixing these hurting human beings is what I do each day.
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 4:17PM
By the way, thank the ACLU for the legal problem your relative is in; Riese versus St. Mary's, ACLU as the representative for the Plaintiff. This is a case that RCV and I agree on, absolute crap.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 9:04AM
If Bob Dylan is true to his youthful self, he either (1) won't show up for the award ceremony, or (2) will deliver a speech on the absurdity of it.
Herb| 5.2.12 @ 10:36AM
Hmm.....didn't Marlon Brando do the same thing back in '73?
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 10:53AM
Yeah, but he sent Sacheen Littlefeather to pick up the Oscar; he wasn't going to let that puppy pass him by!
Herb| 5.2.12 @ 2:12PM
Yeah, she gave a speech about the plight of American Indians (while clutching that Oscar) and later we learned that she was as much an Indian as Princess Summerfall Winterspring.
albert constantine jr.| 5.2.12 @ 9:49PM
After all, isn't the Oscar ceremony an award reception for excellence in "make believe"? Michael Moore's winning Best Documentary for "Bowlin for Columbine" more or less proved that.
Seek| 5.3.12 @ 2:57PM
Documentaries aren't feature films. It's comparing apples and oranges.
Cobalt| 5.2.12 @ 9:05AM
No is a perfectly good word, which can even be used with kindness. Sometimes, using no as an answer to a request for help, can be a great reliever of stress for the person using it.
Stormzeye| 5.2.12 @ 9:07AM
Dylan is the greatest troubadour this country has ever produced. His longevity can only be attributed to his connection to and ability to convey the most basic elements of the American condition. Too bad that the jug-eared Marxist currently occupying the White House will be the one to honor him. Bush should have done him the honor.
gearjammer| 5.2.12 @ 9:21AM
Dylan gets the cynical America and the mean and foolish America-but is that really all their is about America ? I guess he also gets some of the lying America. But, hell, he misses alot.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 10:56AM
Dylan is passing. Once he was celebrated as a great poet. It turns out that he wrote a few odd pieces that have some staying power, but most of his work has already been forgotten. The rest of it will pass with the Boomers or the generation that followed. A hundred years from now he'll be a footnote in some Norton college textbook on American literature, and the subject of many a master's thesis on popular music of the rock 'n' roll era.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 11:52AM
Bob Dylan's poetry always was secondary to his music, and Dylan himself many times has affirmed this. As for him being destined for the dustbin of history, let time show the wiser. The contempt that Dylan-haters show toward the man is exceeded only by their ignorance. If Bob Dylan is to be forgotten, then who, may I ask, will be remembered? Pat Boone?
scotchieguy| 5.2.12 @ 11:54AM
You are nuts. A 100 years from now he will be considered the greatest songwriter in history. The 1960's would not have happened without him. He literally taught Lennon how to write GOOD songs, not the silly "I want to Hold Your Hand" crap they were writing prior to 1966.
For some reason, people who are too lazy to study his lyrics think he is some freak who can't sing.
cuban pete| 5.2.12 @ 2:22PM
"the greatest songwriter in history...."
That would surprise the hell out of Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, the Gershwin brothers, Hammerstein, Sondheim, andPaul Simon.
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 4:12PM
Not to mention PG Wodehouse.
SusieQ| 5.3.12 @ 11:03AM
Hank Williams, anyone?
PsychoDad| 5.6.12 @ 11:27AM
Try Irving Berlin.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:42PM
I always liked his singing, at least most of the time.
Rock music is pop music. Folk/rock and folk music of the type Bob Dylan sang is pop music. It's like the pop music that people listened to between the Civil War and about 1954. Some of that music has lived, most of it is forgotten.
Bob Dylan in music is a bit like Jenny Lind or Sarah Bernhardt or Lillie Langtry. We remember their names, but it's all a bit hazy.
Pop music is pop music; it lives for a while, some of it is catchy enough to live longer than other stuff, but eventually it all joins the great muscial grist mill. Bob Dylan will be remembered to musical scholars and no one else in a hundred years.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:54PM
On John Lennon and the Beatles. In 1979, I worked with a girl in her early 20s and mentioned Paul McCartney, what was then the new Wings album, and the Beatles, and she looked at me and said with all seriousness "I didn't know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings."
Pop music. Everything passes, everything changes, just do what you think you must do, and someday maybe, who knows baby, I'll come and be crawling to you...
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 7:23PM
Funny, but most people today would associate Paul McCartney with the Beatles more than Wings. You think? And the Beatles began their recording career 50 years ago in 1962. We're already halfway to "oblivion." One anecdote does not a thesis make.
albert constantine jr.| 5.2.12 @ 9:55PM
In the mid-80's , a recall a spoof in National Lampoon regarding the yet un-christened Gen Xers asking in reference to Dylan :"Isn't he that old guy who sounds like the dude from Dire Straits?"
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.3.12 @ 9:14AM
: D
BodieInSD| 5.2.12 @ 6:16PM
A duo you might have heard of blows him out of the water as the best of the 60s, to say nothing of all time, Lennon and McCartney.
Q: If the 60s "would not have happened", would the 70s have followed the 50s?
albert constantine jr.| 5.2.12 @ 9:57PM
...and who gets the blame for Barry Manilow?
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.3.12 @ 9:15AM
The Beach Boys had as much to do with the 60s in America as the Beatles did.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 7:20PM
You nailed it. Even the Weekly Standard is down with Dylan; a decade ago, it published a long, admiring retrospective of his career.
Bob K.| 5.2.12 @ 9:17AM
"........... . No singer that I am aware of ever hit the notes of what life really is, what humans really are, better than Dylan. I have spent more hours listening to him than all other human beings on the planet and it will never be enough. Well done Mr. President. Well done Bob. I have not spoken to Marvin in forty years. I don't know why."
Ben,
You are either pulling our legs here, or you are off your own medications!
Alex Bensky| 5.2.12 @ 9:50AM
With respect, Mr. Stein (and by "with respect" I actually mean "with respect), that was the first time you'd ever heard a popular singer express deep anger? I assume, just to pick one name at random, that you had never heard Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit."
As to the genius, well, I never cared for the way he sang but that may just be a matter of taste. Do any of his lyrics, on paper and without the music, bear re-reading or even exposition? Again, just to pick a name out of a hat, I can't believe anyone who reads Phillip Levine and then Dylan's lyrics see much of any equation of the two?
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:25AM
I'd say that "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands up without the music, although it's a lyrical work and is far better sung than merely read. Another one that works well enough if read without the music is "Desolation Row."
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:27AM
Another one is "Visions of Johanna." To me, that song contains the best literary line in all of rock 'n' roll: "The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face..."
rightasrain| 5.2.12 @ 1:00PM
Right song, wrong line. "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet" is the right line.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:50PM
Uh-huh.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:34AM
There's no doubt that most of his songs are doggerel, deliberately obscure, and obscure largely because Dylan was honest early in his career to admit that he wrote his lyrics in many instances right before he was scheduled to record, and he wrote a lot of crap. Still, much of his crap was superior to the earnest attempts of such contemporaries as Mimi and Richard Farina and Phil Ochs. Nevertheless, crap is crap and that will eventually become apparent.
The American Hitman| 5.2.12 @ 8:18PM
Eventually? He's been cranking out great songs for 50 years. When does "eventually" kick in?
scotchieguy| 5.2.12 @ 11:56AM
You have obviously never heard the song Positively 4th Street. Utube it. Then, maybe utube Idiot Wind, or Dirge. You can't get anymore pissed.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:44PM
When I was down you just stood there grinning...
Frank Drackman| 5.2.12 @ 10:06AM
Bob Dylan couldn't carry Stevie Nicks...
I was gonna say "ball sack"...
Frank
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:01AM
Good point; Dylan could never do a releasable version of Landslide or Gold Dust Woman.
On the other hand, Stevie Nicks probably couldn't do Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 or Subterranean Homesick Blues very well either.
Skippy| 5.2.12 @ 2:14PM
The mid-70's Fleetwood Mac was not a bad band...except for the totally unlistenable Stevie Nicks.
A 3-note range and a warble that would rival any electroshock patient getting their treatment.
Chewing gravel while standing next to a woodchipper is preferable to hearing her try to carry a melody.
As far as Dylan, he is among our best songwriters.
Like many authors, a lot of his stuff stinks on ice, but many are timeless and brilliant.
Long have I threatened to assemble a CD titled Boblessness.
It would have Chris Hillman singing
"To Ramona", The Quinaimes Band's "Visions of Johanna", Hendrix' "All along the Watchtower", etc.
Dylan's only listenable LP was Nashville skyline, where actual killer pickers apparently would not tolerate his squawking and insisted he sing instead.
rightasrain| 5.2.12 @ 2:30PM
...Richie Havens's version of Just Like A Woman.
Seek| 5.3.12 @ 2:58PM
Skippy, I'll make a wild guess: You didn't like "Edge of Seventeen."
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 4:14PM
"All Along the Watchtower"---written by Dylan and actually performed by him. But nobody remembers the Dylan version of his own song; it belongs, and always will belong, to Jimi.
skip| 5.2.12 @ 6:53PM
Not true. Dylan's, the Dead's, Dylan and the Dead's, and Clapton's versions all four beat Jimi's (excellent) verson, with serious competition from Neil Young, Dave Mason, Pearl Jam, and dark horse Jeff Healy, among others.
Shame on you, Doc, what with practically living in Mister Zimmerman's native neck of the woods and all.
Occam's Tool| 12.28.12 @ 7:45PM
I'm sorry, but I've listened to Bob and Jimi's "Watchtowers," and Hendrix is just better. Here's another point: which "Watchtower" gets played the most on radio stations, skip?
Great debate, though. Thanks.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:22AM
My favorite Bob Dylan quote is from the early to mid 60s, when he was asked what his songs were about, he replied, "Some of them are about five minutes, some are about fifteen minutes."
shipley130| 5.2.12 @ 11:23AM
Why is it that we always talk about about what white people do to blacks, but never the reverse? We need a television station that reports on every incident of white victims of black aggression.
cicero| 5.2.12 @ 11:38AM
Sounds to me like Ben has too much free time on his hands.
Paul McGrath| 5.2.12 @ 11:41AM
I believe "Like a Rolling Stone" is about an oblivious rich girl who fell on hard times and now has to hang around with the riff-raff.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 11:53AM
Like Edie Sedgwick?
scotchieguy| 5.2.12 @ 12:01PM
That is too obvious. He is deeper. I think it is a Fu-k You to the folk music he used and was about to toss into the garbage. Or, it could be a warning to the young people--you rich snobs don't know what it is like to live out on the streets. Good luck.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:47PM
Well you've gone to the finest school all right Miss Lonely but you know you only used to get juiced in it.
Just like a woman| 5.2.12 @ 11:00PM
"You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at.."
After he took from you everything he could steal ?
Love the music.
Love the voice.
Love the lyrics.
Always will.
Just like a woman| 5.2.12 @ 11:02PM
Dern screwed up on the quotation marks there.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.3.12 @ 9:16AM
Stee-yul.
Petronius| 5.2.12 @ 11:44AM
Lunch at the country club. Ben: If you want yours to remain standing next year then invite the President to play a round next week.
Paul McGrath| 5.2.12 @ 11:51AM
Tangled up in Blue is my favorite Dylan song. I used to be frustrated by that fact that it didn't make any sense. Is it past tense, present tense, or future tense. Did he leave her, or did she leave him? Was she married before or after she met him or was she even married at all? When he met her at the strip club, was this their first meeting?
But in the end it doesn't matter. All of us have been through the pain and joy and uncertainty and hope of affairs of the heart, and Tangled up in Blue always awakens those feelings in us.
It also has one of my favorite lines:
"I got a job in the great north woods,
working as a cook for a spell;
But I never did like it all that much,
and one day the axe just fell."
killerman| 5.2.12 @ 3:38PM
Ahhh..... Dylan's lyrics ... Isis
Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed,
I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes
Cursed her one time then I rode on ahead.
She said "Where you been?"
I said "No place special"
She said "You look different"
I said " Wellll, I guess"
She said " You been gone"
I said "That's only natural"
She said "You gonna stay?"
I said "If you want me to.... yes"
Isis, oh Isis, you're a mystical child,
What drives me to you is what drives me insane.
I still can remember the way that you smiled,
on the fifth day of May in the drizz-a-lin' rain.
Black Diamond Bay
As the island slowly sank,
the loser finally broke the bank
in the gambling room.
The dealer said, "Its too late now,
you can take your money but I don't know how
you'll spend it in the tomb...
killerman| 5.2.12 @ 3:41PM
Saw the old boy in concert in a few times in recent years and he, unfortunately, is becoming harder and harder to understand. I am never really sure what song he is singing.
Just like a woman| 5.2.12 @ 10:47PM
Saw him in '93 I think it was. Santana opened. What a fantastic concert. Dylan actually sang amazingly and I don't know who the musicians were that he had with him then but they were awesome.
Dylan wore tight black leather jeans.
And Santana? OMG they were unbelievable. I will never forget how great both of these guys were and all their musicians. Those congo or bongo players, were unreal. I'm an old fart and was on my feet boogying away.
It was marvelous, marvelous I tell you!
skip| 5.2.12 @ 6:34PM
An acquired taste. Once acquired there is much to savor.
Tasty lyrically. Tasty musically.
And tasty vocally too.
...if you don't believe there's a price
for this sweet paradise
just remind me to
show you the scars...
Kingofthenet| 5.2.12 @ 12:12PM
For a 'Happily' married man, Ben sure seems to 'know' a lot of women...interesting.
Pat Hickey | 5.2.12 @ 12:13PM
Shucks, Ben, ain't President Obama the limit?
Last night while watching him continue his year long Mexican hat dance around OBL's turban, I half expected this cracker-chested tub thumper to claim the 1943 kill on Yamamoto.
He is a caution.
Anthony| 5.2.12 @ 12:33PM
Litigation is exciting and exhilarating Ben, it's what real lawyers do.
You Yale lawyers should try it some time.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.2.12 @ 2:48PM
Thinking on your feet while somebody who's pretty smart is trying to trip you up. Can't beat it.
Occam's Tool| 5.2.12 @ 6:33PM
I agree that Litigation is nauseating, but Ben, YOU ARE THE PLAINTIFF! YOU STARTED THE CASE!
By the way, why hasn't Obama released the film on shooting Osama if he's gonna brag all the time?
albert constantine jr.| 5.2.12 @ 10:03PM
He's saving it for October when the Hollywood release on the mission comes out.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 5.2.12 @ 2:37PM
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Just when you thought listening to Ben Stein was boring, you read one of his diary entries...
Frank Drackman| 5.2.12 @ 3:05PM
Now don't be hatin' but......
whatever happened to that Edie Brickell chick???
Frank
rightasrain| 5.2.12 @ 3:27PM
She married Paul Simon and still records.
bobobson| 5.2.12 @ 5:35PM
In before neocon....
john| 5.2.12 @ 6:25PM
Ben Stein; Big Al Franken supporter, 'nuff said?
beebop2| 5.2.12 @ 7:16PM
It's all over now, baby blue. Sound familiar, Ben?
Betina| 5.2.12 @ 8:49PM
Ben? How can any day be a bad day in lala land? You. Sir. Are a dork. And most of your "musings" are infantile and so far removed from life as most of us know it. Bob Dylan is your hero? Seriously? You sound like the alta caca version of a Valley Girl. Positively cringeworthy. Ever listen to yourself?
Johnimo| 5.2.12 @ 9:48PM
While Rolling Stone is a fine, fine song, it's hard to argue with the many who believe "Mr. Tamborine Man" to be the greatest rock song of all time. It's got my vote. "Before the sky there are no fences facing" ... what could better sum up the essence of freedom, longing, and the spirit of wonder?
somnolence| 5.2.12 @ 10:09PM
Dylan could not have pulled off the songs "In A Metal Mood" as effectively as Pat "White Bucks" Boone(a far greater singer) did. So yes, Mr. White Bucks will be just as remembered 100 years from now as either Dylan or Elvis. Sometimes you people are just too much.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.3.12 @ 9:18AM
Yeah, well what about Ferlin Husky?
somnolence| 5.2.12 @ 10:14PM
BTW I do like Dylan's overall musical catalogue, and have over 9 hours of music by him. But if it hadn't been for Elvis or Pat Boone, Fats, Chuck, and Little Richard would not have made mainstream American radio, and all of them had a profound influence upon young Bobby Zimmerman, who played piano in Bobby Vee's band the night after Buddy, Ritchie, and Big Bopper flew into eternity.
Russell | 5.3.12 @ 12:20AM
Ben might persuade G of his doctors good intentions by partaking of their proffered medications himself, surely a win-win proposition for readers of his anodyne diary.
somnolence| 5.3.12 @ 9:55AM
Ferlin Husky sang better, truer ROCK AND ROLL(there IS a difference between R&B, Rock&Roll;, and ROCK, the latter of which Dylan IS a definite forerunner), so yes, ole Simon Crum along with Pat will be just as remembered as the Hibbing Schubert 100 years from now, lol.
Seek| 5.3.12 @ 11:30AM
For the best of modern country/rockabilly, I'll take brothers Dave and Phil Alvin.
somnolence| 5.3.12 @ 3:42PM
I'll go with High Noon, Asleep At The Wheel, or Marti Brom.
Not Special Ops Bill| 5.3.12 @ 4:47PM
...And then there's Rancho Notorious: "hate, murder and REVENGE!"
Hugh Phillips| 5.3.12 @ 7:08PM
I'm sorry, Ben. You see, money just won't buy..........ad infinitum. But it does have it's perks. At least no one calls me for help and so I have peace of mind knowing I only have to worry about me and mine. And, of course, no, he can't. It's just that we're damned if he can and damned if he can't.
Colin Foy| 5.4.12 @ 11:35AM
Beverly Hills 9021 Oh, who gives a shit?
zamoracarl| 5.4.12 @ 7:52PM
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The Morrigan's Pet| 5.5.12 @ 12:09AM
Rhetorical question, eh? But is it ignorance or something less benign? Methinks we're dealing with a psychopath.
PsychoDad| 5.6.12 @ 11:32AM
I dunno, Dylan just doesn't do that much for me. Obscure lyrics are fine if they actually mean something somewhere - I don't believe most of his do. Well, "Everybody must get stoned," maybe. I can listen to a song or two and that's enough. Personally, I think The Band was far more compelling in every way. Hey, many songs of ANY kind commemorate the French & Indian/Seven Years War?