Bob Dylan isn't all that but his son Jakob Dylan sure is.
BOB DYLAN I mean c'mon, is he really all that?
by nicolaou 34 Replies latest social entertainment
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nicolaou
Just had to bump this in response to lepermessiah's topic . . .
Marley was the better Bob!
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keyser soze
I actually liked the cover version of his songs better than when he did them, with the exception of "Like a Rolling Stone". No one could do that song like Dylan. There's no denying he was a great songwriter, though.
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BurnTheShips
BOB DYLAN I mean c'mon, is he really all that?
Yup. He sure as hell is.
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undercover
Dylan is all that...even though he didn't want all the labels that got attached to him during the 60s.
He can sing (or could)...if you listen to some of his early folk and early rock, you can hear him sustain a note that most pop/rock singers couldn't. I think he chose to sound the way he did early because it wasn't about his voice, it was about the words. By the time he went electric he was just trying to shake the labels and expectations.
I can't remember if I read this in his autobiography or if it was in the Scorcese film, but when Dylan was young he wanted to be a seasoned troubadour. He worshipped types like Woody Guthrie and that sound...the sound of hardship and a long life lived. The only problem was that he was a fresh faced kid from Minnesota with no real background. He used to fib and tell people that he rode the rails though there is no real evidence that he ever did. He worshipped Guthrie so much he made a pilgramage to New York to visit him in the hospital. Now that he's an old man and his voice is going, he is now actually what he always wanted to be when he was young...the experienced, gravelly voice troubadour with songs of love, hate, hope and woe.
Someone from the first page of this thread put Dylan and Janis Joplin in the same category of not being able to sing. While I can understand why people think Dylan isn't an accomplished singer, Joplin was absolutely wonderful. She didn't just sing a song, she felt it through her entire body and gave every thing she had in her performance of a song. Her voice may have been a bit gravelly, but for the bluesy sound she was doing, it was perfect. Had she lived, I think she could have gone on to train her voice to be even better and could have branched off from the pop/rock/blues into standards. Her talent was enormous. Too bad we didn't get to see its full potential.