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Too bad Neil young is there. Total hippo

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I tried to edit him out but couldn't.

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🤣🤣🤣

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People change, not always for the better. Glad we HAVE to see the old Neil for comparison. :\

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LOL

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Sincere apologies from the Canadians here. We apologize a lot by nature, but we're REALLY, REALLY SORRY for Trudeau 'Pretty-Boy Fascist' Trudeau, Neil Young, Celine Dion, Mark Carney, and more I can't think of offhand. [Insert prayer-hands emoji here]

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Oh Zelda, you mustn't take it all on yourself, this thing has sliced right through society, artists, politicians, educated, laypeople, no one group resisted fully. But its mighty sweet of you to want to. I am of Canadian ancestry and these crisis of late have really re-invigorated my love for the peeps of Canada (blue peeps?) and such great minds of Canada I now know of....HHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKK

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HONK HONK HONK! THANK YOU, Jacquelyn for the pro-trucker love!

(Not quite 'blue' since overwhelming majority of our party Conservs folded like cheap Made-In-China lawn chairs. Exceptions: Roman Baber, Randy Hillier, Derek Sloane, and a couple others.)

Most important and principled guy was and IS ex-Conserv ex-Cabinet MP Maxime Bernier, who began his PURPLE party, PPC, which NEVER WAVERED from its fight for rights, freedoms, and our Constitution since Day 1 of this shitfest.

Freedom will win! :-)

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I just meant blue as in brrrr cccold....ref the marshmallow blue peeps......Easter candy...ps Dad from Quebec Mom from Saskatch, me from Detroit...

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Keep sending that ancestral Canadian love our way! :-D

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Howdy fellow Detroiter!

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You forgot Joni Mitchell. But cheer up - there's always Leonard Cohen!

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That's what I thought..... never liked his stuff and I'm Canadian!!

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Well, he was so much older then, and younger than that now...

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Oh was that ever needed today,

far too much misery for the thoughtless divisiveness sprouting up......your thoughts and music are indeed a needed balm......

thank you!

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Too bad young complained about Rogan

He’s on my shit list..

Good gathering tho !!!!

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On mine, too. But we trust the art not the artist, right?

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Thanks for this! Especially the O'Jays

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Be tough to listen to music or watch a movie if we had to trust the performers!

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Roger Mcquin played the coolest

Guitar

George Harrison favorite Beatle

Dylan Clapton Cream one of my first

Albums Disraeli Gears

Tom petty

All people I grew up with

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It's good to see that 19 comments in nobody has said anything silly about Bob dylan. I was having a conversation with some friends recently about influential artists and I said that Dylan has no equal and how he is influenced and shaped music both in the United States and around the world. one of the responses was " Doug will leave your personal tastes out of this."

So I wrote this...

As for Dylan, this idea that my personal tastes are what elevate him to the pinnacle, is a common tactic used to dismiss his influence on and importance to American Music and it's similar to how people dismiss Freud based on a snake in a dream. It diminishes his enormous and unequalled impact on not only music in the US and around the world but on society as well.

I don't particularly care for the Beatles, but I'm not going to deny that they might be (a distant) second to Bob Dylan. There's volumes written on Dylan's influence on the Beatles, very little in the other direction. When the Beatles were singing She loves you, Bob Dylan was singing the times they are a changin

I would say Tom Waits is perhaps his only equal but again my personal tastes are irrelevant placed next to the professional musicians who have covered, or gushed about him.

Look at who performed at Dylan's Birthday Celebration in MSG: Stevie Wonder, John Mellencamp, Booker T MGs, Lou Reed, Eddy Vedder (he spent all day just watching everyone else rehearse) and Mike McCready, Tracy Chapman, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Don Was, Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, ron Wood, Richie Havens, The Clancy Brothers (renowned Irish Folksingers) Roseanne Cash, Mary Chapin-Carpenter and Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, Chrissie Hynde, Paul Shaffer, Eric Clapton, Booker T Jones, The Ojay's, George Harrison (the best Beatle) Tom Petty, Roger Mcguinn,

What other Artist could even dream of that many people, of such varying genres to come and play their music. The answer is 0.

Oh, those are just a bunch of old guys from the 60s and 70s, you say: Look at the wiki page: "list of artists who've covered Bob Dylan songs"

The Black Crowes, Bad Religion, Band of Skulls, Beck, Dierks Bentley, James Blunt, Edie Brickell, Garth Brooks, Kelly Clarkson, Cold Play, Concrete Blond. Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Darius Rucker, Mumford, Chili Peppers

Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sisters of Mercy, Brian Ferry, Floggin Molly, Govt Mule, Guns and Roses, Buddy Guy, Sammy Hagar, Robyn Hitchcock, Hole, Maroon 5, Ministry, Morrisey

Wyclef Jean, K'naan, Kesha, Alicia Keys, Taj Mahal, Bob Marley,

Burl 'frickin' Ives man!

I'll stop at the M's... If you are not impressed by either of those lists, I submit that you have the blood of royals.

You simply could not find one other artist with that many covers of his/her songs from that diverse of a list. There's a reason why he plays 200 shows a year (at 81!) and has been doing so for 40 years - I've seen him in a high school gymnasium in Bristol, Tennessee with 300 people and I've seen him in an arena with 5000 and somehow in 2022 he still drew 3500 people in North Charleston and it's not because I pulled out the phone book, called people and convinced them of his greatness based on my personal tastes.

The guy was so misunderstood by the general population that by the time they got around to awarding him a Lifetime Achievement award at the Grammy's they realized they had never actually awarded him a Grammy. No other singer songwriter has ever won a Nobel Prize - dismiss it if you like I'm sure there are reasons to suspect it's all a scam - but the fact remains.

This is not the first time I've had to show just how influential Dylan has been and invariably, like the vaxaddicts and corona crazies who respond to mountains of evidence with, "ya, but COVID!", invariably there's some sort of retort along the lines of "ya but his voice!" and to that I say, "YES! HIS VOICE! IT IS AMAZING."

One last tidbit. Daniel Lanois had just finished producing U2s most successful and signature album The Joshua Tree in 1987. He was the most sought after producer in the world and could have worked with anyone he wanted to and named his price. Take a guess at who he worked with next.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7sFHsw8-_w

Jack Nicholson presents him with the award. Perhaps the greatest acceptance speech in history. No hyperbole. Try to fit defiled into your acceptance speech?!

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRu66l3QI_U

the artist formerly known for his support of the homeless, war veterans and the american worker but now a vax pusher unfortunately, really sums it all up here inducting him into the hall of Fame

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httpa://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LLoyNxjhTzc

Bob Dylan wrote this song and I submit that it is one of the greatest love songs ever written. I learned it on piano when my daughter was born and played it to her nonstop much to my wife's chagrin and listening to it now let's just say it's a little dusty in here

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Great post.

I'm 47 and have been a huge Grateful Dead fan since college (currently listening to every show they played straight through from their beginning). The Dead, and in particular Jerry Garcia in his own band, loved to cover Dylan songs. Here's one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aw7FW1Frjs

Dylan had some high praise for Garcia and his ability to cover Dylan's songs (can't find the quote now). The Dead and Dylan even did a tour together in 1987 and released a live album from it. Here's the second set of their show together on 7/4/1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5MznpSW-wg&t=1465s

From that, I knew Dylan was a great songwriter, but it wasn't until this year that I really started to dive into his complete catalog. WOW!!! The lyrics are just astounding. Taking on so many social issues in a powerful way with such depth of understanding of the human condition and soul. I've listened to a lot of gospel music, and Dylan's three gospel albums are some of the greatest gospel songs I've ever heard.

Dylan is easily, far and away, hands down, the greatest American songwriter ever and the greatest popular music songwriter ever.

Hurricane has been become on of my favorite Dylan songs and songs in general period.

How can the life of such a man

Be in the palm of some fool's hand?

To see him obviously framed

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land

Where justice is a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voH11xV4AKI

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Since we’re talking musical greats of our generation, the one who does it for me like no other happens to be Sir George Ivan Morrison better known as simply Van the Man who probably would have added an Oscar to his hat trick this year if he wasn’t such a damn anti-Vaxxer and freedom fighter. As much as Hollywood loves to honor underrated aging stars with extraordinary chops, with Pfizer calling the shots Van was nowhere to be found. They didn’t even play his nominated song Down to Joy from Belfast, the film he also scored. But for you and other Bob fans, here’s a treat you may have missed where he and Van do a number together overlooking the Acropolis a while back. https://youtu.be/NtqB6JSiHNg

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Ty sir I've always loved Van ... Into the mystic I remember listening too many years ago saying "Who is THIS???"

But you are also right that I've probably not given him the credit deserved... Off to listen

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You’re most welcome. I enjoy sharing this clip with Dylan fans many who are not familiar with it. Foreign Window is perhaps my favorite Van song. Words, music, voice, and spirit all come together in it. Here is another obscure song that’s really a meditation that someone on YouTube did a great job on. https://youtu.be/ZuKHzh4zkMM

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Wow. Thanks for that! You reminded me of Daniel Lanois, who I had LOVED and forgot about. Saw his old vids and club dates AND a fantastic 2016 (!) live performance of Jolie Louise by FANTASTIC longtime French songwriter Francis Cabrel et al!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JBI15LRoo

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Francis Cabrel...first french musician I got into when I moved there for a year abroad that turned into 8

Legend for sure, plain old Brel is the one who eventually got me.

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Loved your post on Vinay Prasad, MD. How has he been in the months since then in terms of public positions?

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My husband, John Diaz produced this 30th Anniversary Show of Dylan. It was his favorite show. Brilliant!

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Wow! Kudos to him!

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I was was a fan of Young

Buffalo Springfield was one of my favorite

Bands still is.

Young’s songs

Expecting to fly

I am a child

Are brilliant

Loved CSNY

LIKED cinnamon girl

But when he whined about Rogan

That was it damn

Love those songs

But black eye to Neil Young for

Not paying attention to real science.

Funny Clapton and he on same stage

Both got shots poor Clapton loses

Dexterity in fingers

Young in the loss of thinkers

Too bad hate to put anyone on

Thrown to find out he is a chump!

True love their art not necessarily the

Artist

We want our old heroes to be Heroes

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Lovely stuff. Thank you Mark!

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The Byrds My Back Pages one of the greatest songs ever!!!

Thanks

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"My Back Pages"... Nice!! So much talent on one stage. (Though, honestly, I don't look at Neil Young the same way since the Joe Rogan/Spotify incident. Anyone who doesn't believe in free speech... can't go that, no matter how much talent!)

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Ahhhh the O’Jays… thank you- I grew up in Cleveland and went to school with

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… their kids 😂. Gerald and Sean Levert were part of a talent show when I was in 4th grade. We were all excited because we thought the actual O’Jays were going to perform, and it was their boys - who ended up having stellar music careers as well. I still remember sitting cross legged on the gym floor but trying to tilt my head around to see Eddie Levert so proud I thought his heart was going to jump out of his chest. His boys sang Ship Ahoy.

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Sandy Denny's, "Who knows where the time goes?". Puts your life and eventual death into the front and center of now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqztvHIB9Y

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Thank you very much. It's a luxury gift. I love all of them and they are from my time. A big hug ❤👏👏👏👏

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Yep, music and American history. Thanks.

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"The horror, the horror..."

(Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.)

Oh God, yes, the horror. Beyond imagination.

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When lyrics and words mattered.

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Thank you for "My Back Pages." It made my day.

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