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Shades of Bob Dylan

By on 5.30.12 @ 6:07AM

Yesterday Bob Dylan was a lot more cool than the president who gave him a medal.

I think it is fairly safe to say that Bob Dylan became the first recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to accept the honor while wearing sunglasses.

Did Dylan wear dark spectacles so the world would not see him roll his eyes at President Obama’s words? Did he do so in homage to the Secret Service? Was he merely taking the advice he dispensed in “Rainy Day Women #12 & #35”? Or was it just Bob being Bob?

It has been more than fifty years since the man born in Duluth, Minnesota (but raised in nearby Hibbing) as Robert Zimmerman released his first album titled simply Bob Dylan. Like his shades, Dylan remains as mysterious and enigmatic as ever. His 35th studio album may be released in September and it is rumored to include a 14-minute song about the Titanic. Or maybe not.

Dylan has long been lauded for his lyrics and has frequently been hailed as the “voice of a generation” — a characterization he has long eschewed. Nevertheless, Dylan’s often maligned singing voice has fascinated me since childhood. In my formative years, Dylan albums were regularly spun on the family’s record player, most notably Blood on the Tracks and Nashville Skyline. For years, I could not get over the fact it was same man singing “Tangled Up in Blue” and “Lay Lady Lay.” I truly thought it was two different people. In a 1969 interview with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, shortly after the release of Nashville Skyline, Dylan said the change in his voice was a result of quitting cigarettes. However, people who knew Dylan when he was still playing coffeehouses in Minneapolis in the early 1960s said this particular “voice” wasn’t so new. But new or not, the voice heard on Nashville Skyline gave listeners, well, another side of Bob Dylan.

Needless to say, I very much wanted to see Dylan in concert. However, when I would mention this the consensus was that it wouldn’t be worth my time because he was terrible as a live performer. Most attributed his pitiful performances to his sobriety or lack thereof.

Dylan’s reputation was such that when he announced he was coming to Thunder Bay during a rare Canadian tour in the summer of 1992, instead of being booked at the state of the art Thunder Bay Community Auditorium (where the likes of Bob Hope, Tony Bennett, and Ray Charles had performed), he was booked at the Fort William Gardens, an antiquated hockey arena. Poor reputation or not, I was going to see Dylan come hell or high water. Not only did I buy one ticket, I bought two. I took the bold step of asking one my Dad’s graduate students to join me and, to my delight, she said yes. OK, I think she was more interested in seeing Dylan than in accompanying me, but I didn’t care.

The concert exceeded all expectations. Dylan’s singing was clear and crisp. After beginning the evening playing his songs in a country style he adapted to hard rock arrangements as the night wore on. Since Thunder Bay was only a few hours north of Hibbing, he perhaps assumed the audience would be more receptive to a country sound. But once he made that change I remember people dancing in the aisles. After the concert, we lingered around the arena and saw a long, white limousine emerge. Its horn honked not in agitation but in appreciation of our warm reception on a warm summer night.

A couple of days later there was an editorial in our local paper not only praising the concert but lamenting that it should have been held at the classier Community Auditorium. While the acoustics would have probably been better, I don’t think the spirit would have been.

I have not seen Dylan in concert since that night nearly twenty years ago. There are other artists I have seen perform on multiple occasions (i.e. Paul McCartney, Eric Burdon, Richie Havens, America, Three Dog Night, Gordon Lightfoot, the late Alex Chilton). So perhaps the time has come to see Dylan again — or perhaps not. Like a Presidential Medal of Freedom (or a Rolling Stone), some once in a lifetime experiences are best experienced once.

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Aaron Goldstein writes from Boston, Massachusetts.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (60) |

Appleby| 5.30.12 @ 6:46AM

I am sure Bob Dylan has seen a good many fawning politicians who have no idea what he's talking about. The sunglasses were probably an attention drawing device. I like his early songs but I think his voice is awful.

benny havens| 5.30.12 @ 7:11AM

Another drug-infested leftist gets a medal from a leftist politician, big deal.

Seek| 5.30.12 @ 12:52PM

Wrong on both counts. Dylan isn't drug-infested and he's not a Leftist. A lot of conservatives, like Aaron Goldstein, dig him, too. Who are you? Richie Havens' long-lost nephew?

benny havens| 5.30.12 @ 2:28PM

I am a 67-year-old American citizen who is fed up with the culture celebrating the freaks while the country goes down the toilet. When this SFB was smoking dope at Woodstock, along with the other 100,000 freaks, the rest of us were working and raising a family.

Stuart Koehl| 5.30.12 @ 6:18PM

Who takes as his screen name a dissolute tavern that used to exist outside of West Point?

Occam's Tool| 5.30.12 @ 7:47PM

Stuart: Benny has been Blogging, quite nicely, for quite sometime. It has been the blare of horns from those departed that have made you ignore him.

Stuart Koehl| 5.31.12 @ 12:15PM

Oh, Benny Havens, oh!
Oh, Benny Havens, oh!
So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, oh!

Brooksifier | 5.30.12 @ 6:34PM

Funny, this author says Dylan was a Rightist:

http://www.amazon.com/RightWin.....1439256152

Brooksifier | 5.30.12 @ 6:37PM

(AJ Weberman was the guy who went through Dylan's garbage)

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.30.12 @ 8:31AM

No mention of "Knocking on Heaven's Door"? I suppose the answer, my friend is "Blowing in the Wind".

solidground| 5.30.12 @ 9:42AM

One small correction to the story: Dylan was born in Duluth, not Hibbing.

Herr Salat| 5.30.12 @ 9:55AM

I am a guitarist and have been a Bob Dylan fan for over 40 years. While I listen to and play his songs on a near daily basis, I had never seen a live performance. That opportunity came in August 2010, when my wife and I caught his show at the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena. Unfortunately, at that stage of his career, the excitement and anticipation of attending a Bob Dylan concert vastly exceeded the experience of attending a Bob Dylan concert. He was horrible, lyrics muddled, set performed without passion. Oh well, nothing stays the same forever.

Peppermint Tea | 5.30.12 @ 10:38AM

Too bad, Herr, but "when you got nothing you got nothing to lose."
What? You were expecting music? Passion?
"How does it feel?" (exit to harmonica riff.)

Stuart Koehl| 5.30.12 @ 10:42AM

Forget about cool. Consider clueless. In awarding the Medal of Freedom to the late Professor Jan Karski, Obama described him as "sneaking into Polish death camps" to bring out news of the Holocaust--thereby transferring blame for the Final Solution from Germany to Poland, insulting the memory of the most courageous and valiant man I ever knew, and one of the greatest Poles of the 20th century. This is the "most intelligent and best educated" president in American history?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.30.12 @ 11:12AM

The current POTUS’ lack of a sense of 20th century history is demonstrated once again. You may recall in 2008 his statement regarding his “uncle” liberating Auschwitz, until he was reminded that it was the Red Army that captured the series of concentration / death camps there (though perhaps he was referring to “Uncle Joe”, a fond honorific I’d venture he heard from Franklin Marshall Davis to describe the Commander in Chief of the Red Army at the time.).

Albertus Magnus| 5.30.12 @ 12:17PM

Of course, REAL History did not start until Barack Hussein Obama was borned in Hawai'i/Kenya and edjukated in Indonesia/Harvard.

Seriously, I witnessed college students submitting term papers in History classes claiming that the election of Bill Clinton was one of the THREE major turning points in World History, "defining an era" as it was put. Obama's corps of sycophants and boot lickers believe the same thing about him and no doubt he believes it himself. Sense of history? Obama has no sense at all!

Now ain't that somethin'? In our lifetime we have witnessed TWO of the three major turning points in all of recorded World History! This almost compares to Obama being awarded the Nobel Prize, in terms of World importance! (Or is that World impotence?)

TinaB| 6.1.12 @ 2:06AM

It is the Nobel that has become impotent.

Doctor Right| 5.30.12 @ 12:47PM

Interesting how you attempt to steer the discussion away from it's intended topic to one that's completely different, all so you can name-drop and insert yourself into the story.

...Then again, it wouldn't be the first time, right?

Stuart Koehl| 5.30.12 @ 2:11PM

Well, to be honest, I don't think the matter of "cool" is of any real importance--ephemeral, like Obama himself. On the other hand, denigrating a great man whose shoes Obama isn't fit to lick, and the nation for which he fought and suffered so much, is a matter of much greater import.

Doctor Right| 5.30.12 @ 4:02PM

Well if you don't think "cool" is important, then why bother commenting at all?

As I already said, this article is about Obama and Dylan, NOT Obama and his idiotic comment about "Polish death camps." Therefore, as I also already said, attempting to divert attention from that fact and insert yourself into the story is silly, to say the least...

...but definitely revealing.

Stuart Koehl| 5.30.12 @ 6:20PM

Well, one might ask what Dylan has done to deserve a Medal of Freedom? Wrote some songs? Proved that people who can't sing can be recording artists?

Karski, on the other hand, was a moral giant, whose life is an inspiration to everyone, and who deserved the recognition he never received in life.

satan| 5.30.12 @ 10:33PM

Are we frightened, Stuart? Would "Nazi death camps in Poland" have been OK with you? Sometimes a slip of the tongue is just a slip of the tongue. While it is true the Nazi death camps were not set up by Poles, the fact remains they were enthusiastically run by Poles, who were notorious for their anti-semitism, and that mistake of Obama did not insult anyone's memory. You just made that up for dramatic effect. I don't recall anyone suggesting that POTUS is the most intelligent in history, but I can assure you this. If you stack this POTUS verbal goofs next to the last twenty presidents verbal goofs I don't think a comparison could be made.

Stuart Koehl| 5.31.12 @ 3:19PM

Nazi death camps in Poland would have been accurate. But "run by Poles" most definitively is not. In fact, Poles comprised a very high proportion of the inmates.

Considering that half my family perished in the Shoah, you can kiss my hairy butt

Occam's Tool| 6.5.12 @ 3:40PM

Satan: you are correct. I can't think of any president so lame that when running he couldn't remeber the number of states in the country at the time. Obama is non-pareil.

One Mediator 1 Tim. 2:5. | 5.30.12 @ 12:21PM

In my former manner of living, before God saw fit to rescue me from my sinful lifestyle and make me His own, I worshipped and loved Bob Dylan.
After I came to the knowledge of the truth, I began praying for him to be saved by the Grace of God and brought into a loving relationship with Him, as I was.
Sometime in the early 80's my prayers were answered. Bob Dylan had experienced the love and Grace of God through the only Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, the Lord.
Needless to say, I was overjoyed!! God does truly answer prayer, and I am sure that thousands of others prayed for him, too.
I know that since that time he seems to have turned his back on Jesus, but everything is not always as it seems, and my prayers for him continue to this day.

To be cont'd. below.

1prophetspeaks.com | 5.31.12 @ 3:25PM

Thanks for sharing this. I am sure all the old rockers have had Christians praying for them - which is why some of them have NOT died young. Some of the have remarked how amazing it is they didn't given their drugging lifestyle.
I prayed for RINGO on his 70th birthday, that he would wake up filled with the Holy Spirit, talking & singing in tongues, which I do (and all Christians need to & can once they have the Holy Spirit inside). A couple days later I had a vision of him speaking to me, saying "your prayer was answered". he kept saying all he wanted for his b'day was Peace & love, and that comes from Jesus Christ, as you know.
I'd love your feedback on my articles
"Message to musicians who have sold their souls"
"WHat kind of musician are you going to be"
(Musicians are called to be prophets, intercessors & healers - which I am too).
"Praying & Singing in tongues is of God & is for all Christians"
at http://www.1prophetspeaks.com
I'd love to talk with you if you want to email or call me.

1prophetspeaks.com | 5.31.12 @ 3:39PM

Another story: God told me that John Lennon was also saved before he died. Yoko was into the occult & didn't like it.
On Lennon's 70th b'day, I asked God whether I should pray for him to come back from Heaven, just so he could testify to it's being real & his song "imagine" being total error (it says imagine there is no heaven or hell - which is wrong). God said back to me, "They'll worship him"'. Made total sense to me. The catholics do that with Mary, even though she tells them to look to jesus,not her.
One time at a Catholic prayer meeting God said to me, "Talk to my children". I said "What should I say?" & HE said "look not to Mary, but to me."
1prophetspeaks.com

One Mediator 1 Tim. 2:5. | 5.30.12 @ 12:21PM

Saw him for the 1st time since '74 again in '93.

Santana also played that night, and they were fantastic as well.

And this time Mr. Dylan did not disappoint. It was the performance of a lifetime. He sang like he meant it, did NOT sound awful but fantastic, (he must have forgotten about himself and his troubles of the day behind him), and I don't know who the band was that played with him that night but they were absolutely fantastic as well.

It was impossible to remain seated.

I watched the tape of Bob Dylan receiving the medal, on Glen Beck's website.

Did anybody else notice how he did NOT shake the Obamination's hand???
I sure did!
Good going, Bobby.
God bless America.
Vote Romney 2012 in order to oust the Communist party from the people's House.
We gotta do it, people.
And always remember, there is only ONE Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.

1prophetspeaks.com | 5.31.12 @ 3:31PM

I'd like your feedback on my article "RON pAUL & THE REBIRTH OF AMERICA- REMEMBER THE CONSTITUTION, REMEMBER GOD, BE BORN AGAIN" at 1prophetspeaks.com
Paul is snagging delegates all of which are NOT b ound to ROMNEY due to RNC rules, so there could be a big surprise at the RNC convention.
I think God is using RON PAUL symbolically, being that he is an 0bstetrician, to tell the country to be reborn spiritually both individually & collectively. The constiution is our birth manual for the US, and the bible is the manual for our spiritual birthdays individually. We need both. Ron Paul is the only candidate who has not taken money from big pharma, which is the biggest lobby in the world and is killing everyone worldwide - mass genocide. He has been a prophet in congress for 20 years saying "remember the constitution" which everyone else has ignored.

cicero| 5.30.12 @ 12:23PM

Oh, great. The Presidential Medal of Freedon presented to jugglers, clowns, and tumblers. What ever happened to Heroes, or people who have contributed to the betterment of American society, rather than people who just entertain the masses and keep their focus off of the thieves who have invaded the towers of the Republic?

One Mediator 1 Tim. 2:5. | 5.30.12 @ 12:29PM

That's cuz we got the ET Prez. (Entertainment Tonight).

ANYBODY (REPUBLICAN) BUT OBAMA 2012!

Stuart Koehl| 5.31.12 @ 3:20PM

Karski was a hero. I knew him. I wish a better man were available to confer an award richly deserved and long denied.

Doctor Right| 5.30.12 @ 12:50PM

Another over-rated and over-the-hill leftist entertainer propped-up by the 60's generation oh-so rosy view of their glory days...

Who's next?

That old fart Springsteen?

Seek| 5.30.12 @ 12:54PM

Actually, Bruce Springsteen released his first album in January 1973. So how is he a "Sixties" symbol? As for Dylan, he's got more talent in his dreams than you do wide awake. I doubt you've listened to anything more than two or three of his songs.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.30.12 @ 1:47PM

Actually, I believe it was at Roy Orbison's induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 that the presenter Springsteen said his goal was to write songs like Dylan and sing like Roy Orbison, but that nobody could sing like Roy Orbison.

Doctor Right| 5.30.12 @ 4:07PM

Springsteen is a man whose entire world-view was shaped by, and mirrors the 60's counter-culture.

I guess you were unaware of that fact? Not surprising, you're a Lib.

As for Dylan's "talent"...you like him? Swell. Here's a cookie.

I think he's over-rated and over-the-hill. His last good album was "John Wesley Harding." He's more of a symbol than he is a performer, and the 60's hold-overs and retreads will NEVER surrender their image of Saint Bob.

FYI, I saw Dylan in 1986 with Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead at RFK Stadium in DC. Petty was great, the Dead were the Dead, and Dylan was a bore.

But I will agree with one thing ole' Bob said:

The times, they ARE a changin'.

Unfortunately for you Libs, they're changin' back.

Cobalt| 5.30.12 @ 4:41PM

Springsteen and "America's most successful Communist", Pete Seeger, sang Woodie Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" at Obama's inauguration.

The version of "This Land Is Your Land" they performed, included two of the original, controversial verses, about "private property" and a relief office. Wasn't that clever.

I will be amazed if Obama doesn't award Pete Seeger the Presidential Medal of Freedom, before he leaves office.

satan| 5.30.12 @ 10:47PM

He certainly deserves it.

satan| 5.30.12 @ 10:43PM

Like me Dylan is 71, and of course he is over the hill. All 71 Y/O people are over the hill. So? The purpose of the medal awards is not to recognize future greats, or even present greats it is to reward past greats before the die as we all must. Even you, good doctor, will one day pass.

Occam's Tool| 5.30.12 @ 12:54PM

Dylan. Interesting. Not as good a singer as Mark Mothersbaugh.

From Gershwin to Dylan. Sigh.

John Navratil| 5.30.12 @ 5:46PM

I never was a big Dylan fan, but hearing Dave Mason, live, cover "All Along the Watchtower" was memorable.

Occam's Tool| 5.30.12 @ 7:51PM

Yes, but we know who OWNS "All Along the Watchtower," right?

I remeber watching a show once in which the panelists were discussing the world's best covers. I mean, no one listens to Dylan's version of "Watchtower," right? It's Jimi. "Pinball Wizard" belongs to Sir Elton more than "The Who," as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" belongs more to Sir Elton again rather than the Beatles. But the true Godzilla meets Bambi moment is on "Watchtower."

Occam's Tool| 5.30.12 @ 7:57PM

I can't get no "Satisfaction." I mean, I have "Freedom of Choice," in recording artists, as do you, but you guys are sitting around here like a bunch of "Mongoloid"s. What's the matter, did you folks get hit in the head with "Space Junk"?

Well, now I know what it's like "Working in a Coal Mine."

Well, I guess my jokes have fallen flat. Got to start over again. "I will never live it down, until I whip it." "Whip it, whip it Good!"

The Obama administration is a great example of DEVOlution.

wolf| 5.30.12 @ 1:32PM

dylan honored by obama...dont follow leaders..watch the parking meters..

somewhere around 1967 bob appeared on a local TV show in NYC..the audience was a very "in" crowd and knew who bob was..the host..les crane..ask bob questions in a wry tongue in cheek way..and bob gave answers that were vauge as the meanings of his songs...he performed "its all over now baby blue" and "its alright ma".. in pure dylan fashion-a young looking 20-something with wild uncombed hair-singing songs in a "old mans" voice-and playing guitar & harmonica at the same time-that did not seem to go with the lyrics-but it did..my life changed-for the better..bring it all back home bobby

TinaB| 6.1.12 @ 2:19AM

I am so there with you, Wolf. I dug up an old copy of that album recently and listened, just to feel that vibe one more time. May God continue to bless him.

Cobalt| 5.30.12 @ 2:22PM

Is Bob Dylan a Phony?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....phony.html

Hardcard| 5.30.12 @ 3:29PM

not to mention the two commie activist females also given the medals by the one.

LiveFreeOrDie| 5.30.12 @ 7:32PM

Exactly, Dylan is the distraction.

Skippy| 5.30.12 @ 3:46PM

Bob Dylan is at the front of the line of contemporary songwriters.
His singing has annoyed me over the years but(some of) his songs are timeless and beautiful.
Listen to The Quinaimes Band's version of "Visions of Johanna" or the Burrito Bros. "To Ramona".
A great American artist for sure.

Petronius| 5.30.12 @ 7:35PM

Not the front of the line, but close. Bob isn't a singer at all, but a great performer. My pick for best contemporary song writer and composer is the late Stan Rogers. The stories he sang were real. His stuff is still available at Fogarty's Cove Music.

Johnimo| 5.30.12 @ 9:53PM

Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" has been labeled by some as the greatest rock song of all time. Sung in his still young, strong and clear voice it stands right next to "City of New Orleans" as a truly beautiful song. Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" may be the prettiest of all time. Let's celebrate great music and not get twisted over the politics of it all. Chill.

RAM| 5.31.12 @ 12:30PM

He's a lot of things, but a great voice?? The best interpretations of his songs were by others.

Corgitoy| 5.31.12 @ 12:07AM

I do remember reading a funny, and interesting story awhile back involving Bob Dylan and awards ceremonies. Until the late 1980's, there was a better chance of Dylan letting himself be shot out of a cannon than going to any kind of award event. Word is that his Aunt took him aside at a family gathering and told him that while he may have no interest in attending such things, his Mother might like to attend them. From that point on, he dutifuly attended any and all ceremonies that he was to recieve an honor at, with his Mother as his defacto date, until she died.

Nina in MA| 5.31.12 @ 10:46AM

Am I missing something about this article? I used to listen to Dylan all the time. But, why is he getting a Medal of Freedom? What has he done to earn this medal? I've been away for a few days and just wondering, did he settle a peace treaty or smuggle someone out of a country who was held as a political prisoner? Serously...I really don't know....Or...Is Obama using this opportunity to cull favor with all the old pot smoking hippies? I don't blame Dylan for keeping the shades on, he probably IS rolling his eyes!

TinaB| 6.1.12 @ 2:21AM

Exacto Mundo.

Tom| 5.31.12 @ 12:37PM

I'll always remember Dylan as the first singer to use rock & roll to bitch. He effectively planted the seed for Rap. I never found either enticing though I did love Bob's "Lay Lady Lay". My 2 cents.

1prophetspeaks.com | 5.31.12 @ 3:13PM

Bob Dylan is a prophet. All musicians are called to be prophets, intercessors & healers. In the old testament musicians were prophets, travelling around in groups. This is why Dylan perpetually tours.
See article "What kind of musician are you going to be? - prophets, intercessors & healers. Lyrics, drugs & mental illness.
Dylan has said that psychiatry is all lies. He is right. I am also a musician/prophet. God made me a witness to atheistic psychiatry & their genocide by toxic drugs, which are deadly, by design. He had me write a book FREE on my website which also tells how to heal mental & physical illness thru prayer/worship in Jesus' name. Manual for Transformational Healing-God's Answer to Psychiatry.
The mental health system is a FRONT for nazi genocide. The nazis killed mental patients with drugs and have continued this genocide worldwide since, also targetting jews, Christians (who they falsely call mentally ill-schizophrenic), blacks, the poor & mentally ill.
Atheistic psychiatry falsely calls Christians schizophrenic . Freud, the atheistic founder of psychiatry, said "I consider myself to be the greatest danger to religion".
Psychiatry has killed millions & their drugs destroy creativity & spirituality.
http://www.1prophetspeaks.com

1prophetspeaks.com | 5.31.12 @ 3:18PM

Re; Dylan being a prophet - he also has the same witness about Jewish Stars - HE calls it the "egyptian star". He is right - it is occult, & comes from Egypt. One 0f the old testament prophets (AMOS) rebuked the jews for using it - saying 'you have made a star unto your god chiu-." (I don't print whole names of demons- one can invoke them. Same with all diseases, which are caused by demonic spirits whose assignments are the names of those diseases. Jesus rebuked them & gave his followers authority to do it too. I have done it - rebuked canc-, asthm-, depress-. The bible is true. Dylan became a Christian due to the VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, a church whose music is powerful in invoking the presence of God. Their music is used in many churches and has revolutionized worship in the past 25 years. I also got saved thru that church. Check them out on youtube. Try "Holy & annointed one" by Brian Doerksen, a vineyard writer. Also check out Dylan's song "KNOCKIN' on Heaven's DOOR" - there is a really powerful heartful version on youtube.
1prophetspeaks.com

Abu Nudnik| 6.1.12 @ 11:04AM

Saw Bob in Seattle in the late 70s... His Don't Think Twice was unbelievably intense. Much better live.

Saw him a few years back in Toronto with two drummers (???)... my buddy insisted I go. To his question, "So? How did you like it?" I replied, "My favorite part was when he very nearly burst into song."

So maybe a once-in-a-lifetime experience is best.

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