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Ian McCulloch is 62 year young today and because I can't unsee this picture of him dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, neither can the rest of you



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bobby turns 80 today

a 50 year old cartoon

Well it’s kind of depressing in ways but in other ways it’s fantastic…

Mixed feelings..I guess 80 means you’re close to checking out so that’s sad… it also makes one feel old themselves.. on the other hand he had a serious medical issue in early 1997… imagine if he had died then? Less than two years after Jerry Garcia…that would have been a body blow… instead we got nearly another quarter century of Bob Dylan…

It’s crazy for sure…


He is such a fantastic musician, poet etc

In 500 years I think only Bob Dylan and the Beatles will be remembered from this period.. George Harrison I believe  famously said only Bob would be

I think the depressing thing was in reference to 'you can't trust anyone over 30'

Starsky wrote:
In 500 years I think only Bob Dylan and the Beatles will be remembered from this period.. George Harrison I believe  famously said only Bob would be

Klosterman wrote an interesting article on this. He thinks it will be Dylan or Elvis and more likely Dylan.

Bamboo-Hatch wrote:
I think the depressing thing was in reference to 'you can't trust anyone over 30'

How exactly did you deduce "you can't trust anyone over 30" from that cartoon?

I took it as more, once you're 30, you're old… something that a 10 year old would think.

I took it more to mean Charles Shultz agrees with me that no rock artist puts out their best work after 30 so Dylan's peak was already behind him.

Julian, wrote:
I took it more to mean Charles Shultz agrees with me that no rock artist puts out their best work after 30 so Dylan's peak was already behind him.

But that would be incorrect as Blood on the Tracks was recorded in 1974…

Great artists can stretch their peak

Bob Dylan was still bringing the songs for decades after turning 30

I think the problem is it gets harder to dress them up or produce them

And of course the context within which the songs are delivered changes

What Dylan lost wasn’t the ability to write great songs as much as the ability to connect with his surrounding context…with the times..to remain socially relevant.. from 1962-1966 the guy was just amazing reflecting back to society what was happening in ways people could process.. he had like an antenna and the songs just came to him from the world… I think he has said this himself.. after the accident if it happened or the break or getting married he became more insular.. the songs on BOTT come from within him..a completely different approach

That ability to reflect the context of the times through song probably does have a shelf life of about 30

Blood on the Tracks is not his peak nor his best work. I didn't say everything an artist puts out past thirty is total dreck.

I know I know it’s cool


Well I guess personally I think Dylan has many peaks that are hard to compare because they represent different ways of writing songs

The real folk…
The thin wild mercury music (65-66)
Americana (basement tapes)
Religious 1(JWH)
Country Bob (Nashville)
Domesticated Bob (New Morning)
Lovelorn Bob (BOTT/Desire)
Religious 2 (1979-1981)
Mystic Bob (1989-1998)

Now it is true his peak of relevancy is 1962-1966 and we all wish it could have gone on longer but the analogy I like to use is if he was an antenna absorbing everything around him ..well by the time he drops out he had just gotten too fried from all the incoming stimuli.. the antenna just got burnt out

Julian, wrote:

Starsky wrote:
In 500 years I think only Bob Dylan and the Beatles will be remembered from this period.. George Harrison I believe  famously said only Bob would be

Klosterman wrote an interesting article on this. He thinks it will be Dylan or Elvis and more likely Dylan.

I'm no Klosterman, just a Spaceman, but my money is on Ween and GBV.

today's notable birthdays include stevie nicks and lenny kravitz. 

pam Grier…she just got hotter as she aged

sweetcell wrote:
today's notable birthdays include stevie nicks and lenny kravitz.

”Lenny Kravitz” and “notable” in the same sentence. Woof.

You’ve got to let love rule!!

Bamboo-Hatch wrote:
pam Grier…she just got hotter as she aged

Also Lauryn Hill and Octavia Spencer

Draco Malfoy

Peter Dinklage