Mr. Tambourine Man w/ Maple on the Tambourine ? Today’s Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday! pic.twitter.com/drauUaJQVM
— Trench (@AcousticTrench) May 24, 2021
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Mr. Tambourine Man w/ Maple on the Tambourine ? Today’s Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday! pic.twitter.com/drauUaJQVM
— Trench (@AcousticTrench) May 24, 2021
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Elizabelle
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Old School
Happy Birthday, Bob!
Elizabelle
Garrison Keillor’s parody of a Dylan song, from Mr. Zimmerman’s 60th birthday. Kind of remembered it. “Like a rolling stone. In a nursing home.”
From Prairie Home Companion. Times They Are A-Changing.
Bob Dylan. 80 is the new 60. For him.
lowtechcyclist
Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters’ wives
don’t know how it all got started, don’t know what they do with their lives
SiubhanDuinne
I know not everyone here is a fan of Charlie Pierce, but his tribute to Dylan today is really worth reading.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36517062/bob-dylan-80th-birthday/
trollhattan
Our dog does that very thing, grabs your hand when it’s time for petting. Really, dude.
Happy birthday Bob! Watched Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder” a few weeks ago. Interesting piece and gobs of historical footage I was not familiar with. So many artists rolled through that it makes a compelling time capsule.
ETA “Rolling Thunder” is a sneaky melange of actual footage and fictional stagecraft. Very tongue in cheek.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, I look forward to reading that later. (Watch out though, jackals, it is behind the paywall. Seems like Esquire might allow you two free clicks on Charlie Pierce articles a month??)
I know you all will have some good links.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Thanks and sorry, should have mentioned the paywall. I forget it’s there because I subscribe solely for the pleasure of reading CPP.
Elizabelle
http://www.bobdylan.com
No touring dates listed. Yet. The Never Ending Tour [But for Covid].
Has a few links to his songs.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: No apologies needed.
Another jackal put that link up on Facebook, and I noted the paywall (but still have one article left, thank dog).
I like Charles Pierce, but I pay for enough subscriptions already. Alas.
NotMax
Parody remains amusing 49 years later.
Another Scott
J and I saw Bob with the Grateful Dead at RFK in DC in 1995. It was the first and only time she saw them play Box of Rain live. Good show! :-)
HBD Bob!
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
This is good. BBC.
Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday
17 homes (allegedly). Never a number one single in the US or UK. Played the Isle of Wight festival, instead of Woodstock (which was 40 miles from his home at the time).
Alison Rose
@Another Scott: Ooh, and they opened with Shakedown Street and Wang Dang Doodle! Fun pairing :)
Another Scott
OpenThread?
Example #819204 that there is no such thing as a reasonable Republican: JuanitaJean:
P == George P. Bush
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
Oh, I thought this was going to be Richard Belzer’s hilarious imitation of old Bob Dylan. I’ll have to try to find that.
Steve in the ATL
@Another Scott: let’s be more honest that he is: it’s George P G Bush
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think that Charlie likes Bob Dylan because he is so very honest about all of humanities faults and is amazed that for 60 yrs he’s been telling them to all of us, with so many not actually recognizing that.
Bob Dylan is the truthful story teller, and has been for 60 yrs. That’s not an easy job nor is it something that many can do and even fewer can do it as well as Bob Dylan.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: another generation takes a run at publicly working out the Bush family Oedipal/entitlement complex.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Whatever other Dylanesque links, it can always be worse.
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia:
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQdzXCj1eo
This is even better, my husband thought it was really him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJdQg6Qv_k
BC in Illinois
Dylan is the songbook of my life.
High School, I played Like a Rolling Stone on acoustic guitar. I was slow to warm up to English Rock.
1970, my first concert with the future Mrs BC — when she was in college in Chicago and I was on a weekend pass from Hospital Corps School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center — was to see The Band (without Dylan). 1974 (?), our first concert after I got out of the Navy was to see Dylan AND The Band in Bloomington IN.
Quarter-century later, late 90s, early 2000s, saw him with my son and daughter at SIU-Carbondale and at the Illinois State Fair, Springfield. “Train up a child in the way they should go . . .”
2002, I practiced for a father-daughter waltz for the eldest daughter’s wedding, to a tape of The Times, They are a’Changing. “Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land.” I can still get chills and inner resolve from that song.
I don’t care how old he gets; that’s still his song for me.
[ Though I can also always listen to Gotta Serve Somebody. (Not everybody’s cup of tea.) ]
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
I lasted about 10 seconds.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
The Dylan tribute is very well done. Thanks for the link.
zhena gogolia
Here’s a great Dylan cover by my favorite singer-songwriter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVckcIJ-G8A
Mike in NC
Dylan: American treasure
Trump: American turd
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
PalateAural canal cleanser: Oh Brother.;)
Elizabelle
For open thread: good article on Biden’s day to day life in the White House. WaPost. Good photo of Biden with Champ and Major. And this blurb.
Weightlifting, Gatorade, birthday calls: Inside Biden’s day
Light schedule? What critics?? (Do you hear that in Jen Psaki’s voice? Good.)
Worth a click, though, because it’s a sweet story, overall. Given that it is about a decent man, who works very, very hard.
I put the direct quotes in italics.
Depending on the viewpoint, Biden has restored routine and order to the White House — or removed the freewheeling passion. [Journalist-speak for “crazy train.”]
… Unlike [TFG] — an avid TV watcher, Fox News enthusiast and self-proclaimed master of TiVo — Biden is not a voracious consumer of TV, but he does watch the morning shows when he’s working out, usually CNN’s “New Day” or MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Morning Joe could get you to pedal faster.
… Along with Vice President Harris, Biden receives the President’s Daily Brief, a top secret intelligence update on global hot spots. At least once a week, he also meets with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin or Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and he regularly checks in with Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
… To critics (!!!), Biden’s public schedule can seem notably light compared to his predecessors — often with just one or two brief public appearances a day, only sporadic travel (partly due to the pandemic) and weekends at his family home in Wilmington. A “lid,” meaning no further public activities, is often called early in the day.
Again — what critics? Biden is coming off a pandemic and a predecessor who fomented an insurrection and sabotaged a national pandemic response. “Notably light.” Uh huh.
Ah. Next up is a quote from Kevin McCarthy to Fox viewers about Biden’s lack of stamina vs. Trump’s light sleep schedule. I will spare you. Reporter Ashley Parker’s got the details.
… Once a week, Biden eats lunch with Harris, following a pattern he established when he was vice president to Barack Obama. The White House photo office pulls together a slide show of images from their recent travel and events that the two watch on a monitor as they eat, allowing them to reflect on their week.
Biden’s preferred lunch is a soup and a salad — usually a chopped salad with grilled chicken — and he is partial to orange Gatorade and Coke Zero. Offsetting the low-calorie diet, he has a well-known penchant for sweets, including chocolate chip ice cream.
… Biden has also been known to sneak out to the South Lawn or Rose Garden for fresh air, often with his German shepherds, Champ and Major.
… Obama received a folder each night containing 10 letters that individual Americans had written him. Biden has continued the tradition, but where Obama would often pen return missives, Biden’s aides have arranged for him to meet some of the writers in person.
… In 2018, in the middle of the [crazy train] era, Biden — who favors biographies and volumes on comparative religion — became obsessed with two books: “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, and “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America,” by Joan C. Williams. He carried both everywhere, scrawling notes on the pages and pulling out well-worn copies to share passages.
Elizabelle
Last paragraphs of the WaPost story. I love that he calls Hunter every night. You know he does. [He also picks up telephone calls from his family immediately; does not let them go to voicemail. He will just take the call and walk away, briefly, from the meeting it interrupted.]
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: Obviously, not enough “Executive Time”.
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
What? Not enough golf?
Elizabelle
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Distinct lack of it. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Elizabelle
WaPost breaking news. A good start.
Europe agrees to impose sanctions on Belarus
MattF
Here is Dylan’s (very short) speech on receiving a lifetime Grammy award,
lowtechcyclist
In the darkness by the riverbed, they waited on the ground
for one more member who had business back in town
but they couldn’t go no further without the Jack of Hearts
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: Weren’t people mad last night that nothing had happened yet and it was proof the Europe and the US weren’t going to do anything? Whatever happened to having a little patience?
Splitting Image
As of next year, Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert will cover only the first half of his career.
Time for Bobfest II, you think?
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: we’re doing Dylan today, not Guns n Roses. Jeez.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Well played. I actually heard more whistling in my head than usual as I posted that comment.
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. And: they’re considering other targeted sanctions.
But: not fast enough! Losers! Amateurs.
The WaPost:
Just One More Canuck
@BC in Illinois: my wife’s dad picked The Times They are a Changin as the father daughter dance at our wedding – he’s seen Dylan well over 100 times
BC in Illinois
@Just One More Canuck:
I look forward to future generations wondering where the “Times They Are a’Changing Father-Daughter Waltz” tradition came from.
Calouste
@Elizabelle: “Not fast enough” was especially stupid because there was already an EU council (I.e. meeting of Prime Ministers) scheduled for today, and that was reported in Belarus context as well yesterday. I’m actually surprised they got Poland and Hungary on board with the sanctions.
karen marie
@Elizabelle: Pffft. At least one airline (I can’t remember which one, though I read it this morning) announced they were going to reroute their flights to avoid Belarussian airspace. Is the EU playing catchup to the airlines?
Elizabelle
@karen marie: I know. Props to the EU. They’ve seen this movie before.
citizen dave
@Splitting Image: Great observation! Make it a 24 hour worldwide celebration.
Big Bob fan but try not to foist him on others, and can laugh at him as well. One fan review I’ve always remembered is someone pointing out the face Bob would make when he started blowing on a harp that is in the wrong key for the song.
Looking forward for the circus coming to town again.
J R in WV
@BC in Illinois:
BC, I was in school at Great Lakes in 1970… we may have actually seen one another. Went to concerts at Ravinia and down town, Saw Janis, Procol Harum, Frank Zappa at Ravinia, Jethro Tull and lots of blues masters down town. We would buy a round-trip train ticket, put the return ticket away, be penny-less at the end of the weekend.
Saw the Fifth Dimension after their show at a restaurant downtown, didn’t bother them. They were trying to calm down after the show. Saw a police car burning riot at I guess it was Grant Park after a free blues concert by the lake side. Was a great town to be 20 y o in.
We have seen Dylan several times, once with Tom Petty and the G Dead in Akron, probably the same summer you saw them. A great showman. Happy Birthday Bob!
Graham
HBD Bob!
He stands alone, no one even comes close. And the closest ones were heavily influenced by him and would not have been nearly as good. He created the ocean that others swim in, to borrow a phrase.
JAFD
Also the 80th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hood, with the loss of 1,415 of her 1,418-man crew. RIP
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
In lighter vein, I heard somewhere-or-other that three-quarters of the chocolate chip ice cream made in America is consumed within 50 miles of Independence Hall. Way to go, President Biden !
(Yrs truly grew up on both sides of the Twelve-Mile Arc, how didya guess ? ;-) )