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Rockman
If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important. I don’t have to know what a song means
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swiss
Anyone have any idea whose piano accompaniment is undergirding Dylan's speech? As well as an backstory of how that came about -- Dylan's idea? someone else's notion?
This may be sacrilege but I wish I could hear this without the piano meander. I was happy to read the whole thing first, but even so, upon listening found it harder to follow than if it were simply the music of his voice.
What think - or know - about dis?
-swiss
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swiss
Anyone have any idea whose piano accompaniment is undergirding Dylan's speech? As well as an backstory of how that came about -- Dylan's idea? someone else's notion?
This may be sacrilege but I wish I could hear this without the piano meander. I was happy to read the whole thing first, but even so, upon listening found it harder to follow than if it were simply the music of his voice.
What think - or know - about dis?
-swiss
yeah he has four hands – you can hear him handling the sheets of paper he's reading from. Thus he can't play the piano at the same time – either his words or his piano playing must have been pre-recorded
I read in the news reports earlier this morning on this that it's Bob who's accompanying himself here.
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"...In a lot of ways, some of these same things have happened to you. You too have had drugs dropped into your wine. You too have shared a bed with the wrong woman. You too have been spellbound by magical voices, sweet voices with strange melodies. You too have come so far and have been so far blown back. And you’ve had close calls as well. You have angered people you should not have. And you too have rambled this country all around. And you’ve also felt that ill wind, the one that blows you no good. And that’s still not all of it..."
Thank you for posting ComeOn. Ever fascinating guy.
It got me smiling at near the very end when he says the songs shouldn't be read on the page but rather meant to be sung; almost turning the Award on it's head in a gentle way, even as he finally crosses the finish line for them with the delivered speech...
....accepting so gracefully and with reamarkable prose and spoken delivery; it's all sorta music to me when it comes from him; and lit too i guess in it's way because i DO read lyrics and enjoy them.
I particularly liked lyric sheets in the albums I bought, understanding intuitively even as a child that the meter and feel and projection of a song had all these other dynamics you could bend, wrap or rush words around...and that reading great lit, or even favorite stories to your kids from endless books you bought for them, had dynamic and tonal expression you'd naturally dramatize to make the kids laugh or listen or be intrigued...or get them involvd in the story a bit and maybe distracated from their cares or troubles, growing pains...
...but one more time he got a little wry smile out of me at the end of this cool speech...saying what a lot of fans have said and acknowledged here...that the muse is singing through him and that songs are meant to be sung.
Two opposing thoughts hold true at once for me w him, cause i have since forever really enjoyed reading his lyrics on the page, and have bought big hard cover books of these lyric compilations going back decades as they came out.
Dylan is an evergreen; the gift that keeps on giving; a precious resource.
I feel safer in the world while he's in it. Masked and Anonymous whatever; he's the real deal man that puts it right out there with perspective, irony, grace and intelligence...he is ancient yet ahead of the curve and in touch with eternal truths Plato & Socrates worked out and wonders how we still could be so stupid and blind and unaware of the illusion...Plato's 'the cave' deals with perception and illusion and social engineering & Bob seems a bit the reader haha...
...yet his connection to Buddy Holly, Little Richard, even soulful pop boy crooner Bobby Vee inspired him to High School performance debut banging on a piano shouting Little Richard songs in the 50's when Minnesota school kids maybe hearing that blessed racket for the first time and not even knowing how to handle it other than maybe laughing and leaving...
...then that Leadbelly story kills me...how he listened a hundred times and got inside of it and how it got inside of him...
i just love so much about that guy. He is the most precious human in so many ways. He would laugh derisively and make fun of me or anyone who tried to nail w him this descrition but I find a moral authority and dignity in a lot of what he's about and I'm actually pretty grateful for him in this world.
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I really thought Bob'd deliver sth in the vein of the 1991 "Grammy" speech, mainly : "it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways."
But no... Bob's speech for the Nobel committee is rational, straight, almost scholarly. Bob's found some inner peace at 76!
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Dylan's speech for the Nobel folks is probably the coolest "recording" he's done in years. It doesn't clear up anything regarding who Bob Dylan really is, but, what a listen. Surrealistic and totally, IMHO, in line with the whatever you wanna make of it story telling in the movie "I'm Not There".