Who is Bob Dylan and why should I buy an album of his? (1 Viewer)

[Bonzai]

There's a Netflix documentary dropping later this month about Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, a legendary tour that Dylan began shortly after the release of Blood on the Tracks.  Martin Scorsese directed it

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 from that tour is incredible.  If anyone doubts Dylan's live prowess check it out.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Curious as to what makes this likely trolling. I'm obtuse, so much of this kinda thing goes over my head anyway, but as @wikkidpissah says, it's a fun discussion regardless the intent.

Looking at the original post, if the real idea is to get a record player so that you can hear old school records in the way it was heard at the time, don't bother with Dylan. Buy Powerage by AC/DC -- now THAT's an album that is only enhanced by the pops, hisses, and scratchiness of vinyl. Raw rock n roll thrown back just the way Stompin' Tom discovered it in his brother's basement room.

it followed on the heels of @rockaction's thread requesting the optimum Dylan album to buy in vinyl. we've had so much simultaneity in music threads lately that trolls of them for joke effect have not been uncommon

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

it followed on the heels of @rockaction's thread requesting the optimum Dylan album to buy in vinyl. we've had so much simultaneity in music threads lately that trolls of them for joke effect have not been uncommon

Ah, missed that thread, regrettably.

 

[Ilov80s]

Curious as to what makes this likely trolling. I'm obtuse, so much of this kinda thing goes over my head anyway, but as @wikkidpissah says, it's a fun discussion regardless the intent.

Looking at the original post, if the real idea is to get a record player so that you can hear old school records in the way it was heard at the time, don't bother with Dylan. Buy Powerage by AC/DC -- now THAT's an album that is only enhanced by the pops, hisses, and scratchiness of vinyl. Raw rock n roll thrown back just the way Stompin' Tom discovered it in his brother's basement room.

Because it was posted about 8 hours after this thread 

https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/776301-which-bob-dylan-album-should-i-buy-and-why/

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Because it was posted about 8 hours after this thread 

https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/776301-which-bob-dylan-album-should-i-buy-and-why/

Definitely should have saw it and been posting thoughts there. Great discussion and depth, and @rockaction's one of my fave posters about music, so apologies GB.

 

[Mister CIA]

I will probably be the minority, but i think he's possibly one of the most overrated musicians I've ever heard.  Others covering his songs are always better.

Something, something about people who stand on the shoulders of giants.

 

[Mister CIA]

I am not sure he still has live concerts, but that is my one piece of enduring advice -- he just doesn't translate live, and he can often be surly and disconnected to the audience, which is one thing I hold against him as a musician.

couldn't disagree more

I've seen tons of B, C, D, and E-listers play live. The only A-lister  I've caught live was Dylan in Lubbock, circa 1991.  He and his band tore it up.  It's fuzzy now, but I recall All Along the Watchtower was his closer. A great time was had.  

Always strikes me as the consummate professional.  Paraphrasing, in an interview he was once asked to share advice to aspiring songwriters/musicians, and his terse response was, practice.

 

[rockaction]

Definitely should have saw it and been posting thoughts there. Great discussion and depth, and @rockaction's one of my fave posters about music, so apologies GB.

Thanks to all, and thanks Stompin' Tom, but the discussion need not be confined. It's cool. Points were made, taken, rebutted, etc. And the real talk or discussion is happening in both, in different ways. wikkid, in my estimation, is actually correct in the literal sense: asking who Dylan was and why he was important (in an open-ended way) is what I only hoped to discuss with the thread I took out. I just tried to personalize it to gauge interest and maybe prompt discussion in a different way. 

Either way, it's cool. I thought the OP was a little harsh in parodizing my request, but that's already been addressed now by me and several others, I think. No need to dwell. Peace.