Bob Dylan-dynamic, mysterious, electric
From Hugh Tancred:
Hi Mary,
Love your page. I recently came across an old copy of a book written by Sam Shepard called the Rolling Thunder Logbook in my dads book shelf. It is a great read if you haven’t come across it, but my question to you is do you know where all the footage he speaks about went to?
It would be an amazing insight if someone made a documentary on that tour, it sounds like it was all documented on film but all I have seen of it is a few the live songs where Bob is wearing a big hat and make up. I’d love to see the back stage stuff he speaks about. As I was typing across this I just came across this recount of the tour from one of the lighting roadies, it’s great: http://vimeo.com/4746539
Keep up the good work and please let me know if you have any insight on the whereabouts of the film footage.
Warm regards,
Hugh
Can anyone shed some light on the film footage Hugh mentioned?
From Prospect magazine: Imagine an Old Testament prophet come down from the mountains of the desert. Imagine he has 70 years’ worth of visions to impart in rich and vivid verse—visions comprised for the most part of searing and timeless human truth about love and god and man. But imagine that he has neither heard nor spoken a single word during his many decades alone—that his voice is therefore as cracked as the tablets he bears and as croaky as the rocks among which he has lived, and that furthermore he has no sense of the speed, nor the sound, nor the stresses, nor the syntax of conventional speech.
Thanks to James Cartwright for the heads up on this article.
Bob and Mark Knopfler at the Hammersmith Apollo 21/11/2011 playing Forever Young. Watch out the for nod to Dylan from Knopfler when they get to ‘May Your Song Always Be Sung’
‘I’m only Bob Dylan when I have to be’, said the singer once. Asked who he was the rest of the time, he answered ‘myself’.
Article on Bob Dylan’s Cork gig this year from Liam Carson in Poetry Ireland. Source
Expecting rain Bob Dylan on Twitter
