Continue reading March 16: Bob Dylan playing in Santa Cruz, California in 2000 – Classic concert!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Most of the time
I’m clear focused all around
Most of the time
I can keep both feet on the ground
I can follow the path, I can read the signs
Stay right with it when the road unwinds
I can handle whatever I stumble upon
I don’t even notice she’s gone
Most of the time[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”].. Sony wanted him to record a promo video of the song to help their ongoing attempts to promote an album that had been (correctly) received as a real return to form. And Dylan, being Dylan, duly obliged by re-recording the song with the musicians destined to feature on his next album, under the red sky, and letting his son Jesse film the results. The resultant thudding threnody was as unambient as it gets. Yet Dylan dug it enough to allow promo CDs of this new version to be released, even though after a month off the road his voice was not in great shape, and the song suffers accordingly
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008
Continue reading March 16: Bob Dylan making Most Of The Time promo video – 1990
Continue reading March 7: Bob Dylan @ Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington – 2005
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Continue reading February 17: Bob Dylan & “Swiss Liz” – The Times They Are A-Changin’ 1993
Bob Dylan’s film Renaldo And Clara was released January 25, 1978
This nearly four-hour surrealist odyssey (232 m.) is written, directed and starring Bob Dylan himself.
| Directed by | Bob Dylan |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Mel Howard |
| Written by | Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard |
| Starring | Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez |
| Music by | Various artists |
| Cinematography | Howard Alk, David Meyers, Paul Goldsmith |
| Editing by | Bob Dylan, Howard Alk |
| Distributed by | Circuit Films |
| Release date(s) | January 25, 1978 |
| Running time | 232 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
There is a myth about this film, it is considered to be incoherent and confusing, well, it isn’t. Every time I see it, it strikes me as a unified vision, one man’s vision, where he puts different kind of film stocks and styles together to create an entertaining and, yes, demanding movie. The film is a mixture of fantastic concert footage, documentary style film (dealing with the Hurricane Carter case), and fictional, seemingly improvised footage.
Never let me go:
Drawing structural and thematic influences from the classic film Les Enfants du Paradis, Dylan infuses Renaldo and Clara with lots of shifting styles, tones, and narrative ideas. Similarities between the two films include the use of whiteface , the recurring flower, the woman in white (Baez), the on-stage and backstage scenes, and the dialogue of both films’ climactic scenes.
Also evident is the Cubist approach of the two films, allowing us to see the main characters from the different perspectives of various lovers. This also echoes some of the songs from this Dylan period (Simple twist of faith and Tangled up in blue coming to mind). Running time is also relatively similar.
It’s a free associating epic that feels pulled straight from Bob Dylan’s brain, Renaldo and Clara is a work of misunderstood genius.
Continue reading Jan 25: Bob Dylan’s film Renaldo And Clara was released in 1978