Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview. By: Paul Zollo Date: 1991 Transcribed from GBS #3 booklet "I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot" from "I and I" By Bob Dylan Songwriting?
What do I know about songwriting? Bob Dylan asked, and then broke into laughter. He was wearing blue jeans and a white tank-top T-shirt, and drinking coffee out of a glass. "And the ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place. Pete Seeger said, "All songwriters are links in a chain," yet there are few artists in this evolutionary arc whose influence is as profound as that of Bob Dylan. Starting with the models made by his predecessors, such as the talking blues, Dylan quickly discarded old forms and began to fashion new ones. "Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
" Dylan:[Much laughter] 69 Things You Didn’t Know About Bob Dylan. On this day in 1941 at 9:05 p.m., little Bobby Zimmerman — a.k.a.
His Dylanness — was born. Earn your degree in Dylanology with our primer on unexpected Bobster trivia, featuring one fact for each of his 69 years, after the jump. Don’t think twice! 1. Before he renamed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly went by Elston Gunn. 2. 3. . , it was Dylan who first introduced the Fab Four to marijuana. 4. 5. When did bob dylan write his first song. PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: BOB DYLAN. PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: BOB DYLANa candid conversation with the visionary whose songs changed the times It was in March 1966 that PLAYBOY published the first full-length interview with Bob Dylan.
In the intervening years, he has talked to journalists only rarely, and, shortly before completing his first feature film, he agreed to talk with us. We asked writer Ron Rosenbaum, who grew up listening to Dylan songs, to check in with the elusive artist. His report: "Call it a simple twist of fate, to use a Dylan line, but perhaps psychic twist of fate is more accurate. PLAYBOY: Exactly 12 years ago, we published a long interview with you in this magazine, and there's a lot to catch up on. DYLAN: I had some amazing projections when I was a kid, but not since then. PLAYBOY: What were those visions like?
DYLAN: They were a feeling of wonder. PLAYBOY: Are you talking about Hibbing, Minnesota? DYLAN: It was all in upper Minnesota. PLAYBOY: What was the quality of those visionary experiences? Bob Dylan's Guitar Playing. I had a thought about Dylan's guitar work.
I'm sure it's nothing original, with all that's been written over the years. But hopefully it will amuse some of you who love the man and his music. And generate a reply or two. Despite having been a pretty huge fan of Dylan for about 35 years--ever since I was old enough to comprehend brilliant lyrics--I had never owned the very first Dylan album/CD, the one titled simply "Bob Dylan". Everything I knew about the man and his work suggested that it was not really worth the time and money. And then I discovered, thanks to that greatest of Internet side-benefits --youtube-- the "Live from the Gaslight Cafe" songs, which actually predate his first album. I think that, very early on, Dylan aspired to be a great guitar player. Bob Dylan NEVER would have been successful were he not also a GREAT guitar player...discuss..
How did bob dylan learn to play guitar.