Opinions on Bob Dylan

he's always had a bitchin' 'fro

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a 'fro by any other name is still as bitchin' .... alright, its more like a mullet/afro hybrid, but whatever, I think Dylan and I'm like 'johnny's in the basement lookin' at my afro...' or 'the answer is 'fro-ing in the wind...'

He's okay.

Well his blues faze a decade ago was not bad. When he sang his words were intelligible unlike the 70's and 80's. Nevertheless I prefer pre electric Dylan.

His protest stuff was always pretty good, though his heroes were better... less poetic but even more direct. I like John Wesley Harding and just generally some of the stuff he did with The Band behind him, but really, being a musician first and a lyricist second I prefer The Band on their own. I don't really know the words to a lot of songs and never will, but if you hum a few bars of something I will recognize it, get an instrument and learn it from memory.... but if you wanna play name that tune with me you better be prepared to sing because I want know the words! and that's Dylan's thing, he's a word guy. I'm not. I struggle writing lyrics because as much as I like the English language I just can't put poetry ahead of the music and I feel that way as a listener too. Musically The Band was just stronger without Dylan. Even if his lyrics were great, that just doesn't cut it with me. Dylan's a sketchy musician and either a great lyricist or a mediocre poet.

In that photo he looks like 3 of my Aunts!

He's pretty good but not really my cup of tea. He's got some awesome songs but I prefer Cash.

I prefer Cash.

me too., though I hesitate to compare them... Dylan's more like Pete Seeger and later on he' like Seeger as revised by Jack Kerouack

I prefer Cash.

me too., though I hesitate to compare them... Dylan's more like Pete Seeger and later on he' like Seeger as revised by Jack Kerouack

I feel like that's a great analogy to use. Bravo.

I don't like comparing them much either but it's hard not too considering they influenced nearly everyone and their mamas, grandmas, etc. (keyword nearly)

I feel like that's a great analogy to use. Bravo.

hahaha, when iw as an engineer I think I spent way too much time trying to describe sounds and styles (or decode from dumbass-musician-ese) with people with little formal training, limited taste and no acoustics or electronic knowledge... not to say they were all crappy musicians, just hard to talk to, so you start building a universal musical vocab so you can streamline discussions with these folks and get making records instead of going back and forth for ages just trying to get on the same page so you can make a plan

I like his songs pretty much. But most of them when they're sung by other artists.

I like his songs pretty much. But most of them when they're sung by other artists.

Yeah, that sums it up better.