Is It Rolling Bob?...the Zimmerman Poll

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: Is It Rolling Bob?...the Zimmerman Poll

[Bennyboy]

1. According to Bob Dylan himself.....

Nobody did Dylan like the Grateful Dead. From Rolling Stone)


I've always wanted to ask: When a song suddenly appears on a given evening's set list, retrieved from among the hundreds in his back catalog, is it because Dylan's been listening to his old records? "I don't listen to any of my records. When you're inside of it, all you're listening to is a replica. I don't know why somebody would look at the movies they make -- you don't read your books, do you?" Point taken. He expands on the explanation he offered for "Blind Willie McTell": "Strangely enough, sometimes we'll hear a cover of a song and figure we can do it just as well. If somebody else thought so highly of it, why don't I? Some of these arrangements I just take. The Dead did a lot of my songs, and we'd just take the whole arrangement, because they did it better than me. Jerry Garcia could hear the song in all my bad recordings, the song that was buried there. So if I want to sing something different, I just bring out one of them Dead records and see which one I wanna do. I never do that with my records." Speaking of which: "I've heard it said, you've probably heard it said, that all the arrangements change night after night. Well, that's a bunch of bullshit, they don't know what they're talkin' about. The arrangements don't change night after night. The rhythmic structures are different, that's all. You can't change the arrangement night after night -- it's impossible."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Jerry and Bob and Jimi. You're right.

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

5. All Along The Watchtower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN0gHJ4JEQk&feature=related

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. No other word for it...that was SWEET. n/t/

[Bennyboy]

11. It's All Over Now...Baby Blue.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-I6aEh6RM&feature=related

take what you have gathered from coincidence.....

[Bennyboy]

12. Dylan and the Dead...Stuck Inside of Mobile

With the Memphis Blues Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmrJ90kvlBU

[Bennyboy]

13. Dylan and the Dead...Chimes of Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56QdZZ-pK4&feature=related

[Capn Sunshine]

3. No "Other" ???

I love Dylans versions of his own work, but I also like the fully fleshed out versions done my others.

Like It Ain't Me Babe

[RainDog]

6. no no no it ain't them babe

his version is like an elegy. his version is about memory. why is that guy smiling while he sings those lyrics? they sound good on the chorus, but....okay, have your own opinion then.

do agree that Hendrix owns Watchtower.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. You're right...

...there have been notable Dylan covers, but I don't think that any cover...with the exception of Jimi...should replace the original.

There's an interesting segment in the "Jimi Hendrix Movie" in which it's made known that Jimi would pull anyone and everyone aside to sing the praises of Bob.

Jimi didn't write a single word or note of "All Along The Watchtower," but I will always view it as a "Hendrix song."

Beyond that, it's a matter of taste, but I will always appreciate Bob as a songwriter AND performer.

:toast:

[mitchum]

20. I'm with you; I appreciate Dylan as both a songwriter and performer...

hell, I also really appreciate him s a master manipulator of other's perceptions and modern celebrity. I think that the fact that he is associated with "rustic tools" such as the acoustic guitar and harmonica leads many people to overlook this aspect of Dylan. Andy Warhol and David Bowie learned it from Dylan.

[RainDog]

4. Have you heard the I'm Not There soundtrack?

I really like Cat Power's cover of Stuck Inside of Memphis.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. No, but I will check it out. Thanks! n/t

[Guava Jelly]

7. Big Bob fan Here..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSxaC3aXRjA
Oh Sister
IMHO If you don't get Dylan you haven't actually listened to him

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. I agree completely...

...I also agree with Ringo Starr in a recent Rolling Stone interview, in which he said that when you go to a Bob Dylan concert, you get the Bob he wants to give you on that particular night.

I've heard Bob mumble and stumble his way through a performance, and I've also heard greatness.

"IT'S ALL BOB."

:-)

[Bennyboy]

15. Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel etal...

Chimes of Freedom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56QdZZ-pK4&feature=related

[Highway61]

16. Hummmm, let me see...

If your a Dylan fan...30th anniversary concert is a must...All Along the Watchtower....Neil Young...Good Lord, the guitar alone....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5kI

My favorite Dylan song.... For Ramona

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=To+Ramona+III+Dylan+1965&search=Search

Thank you Benny for posting earlier on Phish...I LOVE Dylan. Thanks to you I have taken a closer look at Phish....they are growing on me.
Happy New Year!

[Bennyboy]

17. Right on....Here is something.....

you might dig....part of Phish's Big Cypress show from 12-31-99 thru 1-01-00

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mp8i0j
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3zp6pu

[KitchenWitch]

18. Bob, Jimi, and Jerry!

:woohoo:

[hisownpetard]

19. After going to his last concert in Boston, I can honestly say that even Dylan doesn't

sing a Bob Dylan song like Dylan.

[RainDog]

21. did you see him recently

while he's touring with :loveya: Elvis Costello :loveya: and Amos Lee?

[hisownpetard]

22. Saw him about 8 months ago (?). And, no, neither Elvis Costello nor Amos Lee was with him.

And Dylan didn't "sing" a single song - he just "talked" them, saying the words.
It was pretty disappointing for people who know every word and are trying to sing along.

;( :mad: :wtf: :thumbsdown: :nuke:

[speedoo]

23. Yes. Saw him, Elvis and Amos in Bridgeport, CT last fall.

Great show!