Some more on the Dylan / Flanagan / Christmas interview ...1:57 pm
TweetYesterday I just felt like letting Bob’s comments regarding belief and the sincerity of Christmas In The Heart speak for themselves, because they do speak for themselves. Today I’ll allow myself this small and arguably innocent bit of gloating because it’s something that’s almost freaky: About six days ago, writing about the Daily News article where Bob Dylan was described as “a devout Christian,” I demurred to the extent of saying that I would choose to use a softer term, like “believer.” Then this interview comes out and that’s exactly the term used — specifically, “true believer” — albeit that the phrase originates with Bill Flanagan and Bob reiterates it. We’re told the interview was (… continue reading …)
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Odds and Ends ...9:29 pm
TweetIf you haven’t seen it, the complete text of the Douglas Brinkley / Bob Dylan interview, as originally published in the print version of Rolling Stone and later in the U.K. Sunday Times, is available at this link. I have to assume that website has permission to publish it.
One quote we haven’t already covered here: (… continue reading …)
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
On bootlegging and on critics: Bob Dylan talking to Douglas Brinkley in Rolling Stone ...2:02 pm
TweetSome of these bootleggers make some pretty bad stuff. From the online (but now offline) outtakes of Douglas Brinkley’s interview with Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone magazine, here’s Bob Dylan in an exchange about the recording of his live shows: (… continue reading …)
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Bob Dylan and John Ford: More on the Douglas Brinkley / Rolling Stone interview ...12:15 pm
TweetI want to continue looking at some noteworthy things that came out of the Douglas Brinkley/Bob Dylan Rolling Stone interview, both the print version and the online outtakes (which are now gone but not forgotten).
There is this from the print article on Bob Dylan’s taste in movies: (… continue reading …)
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Douglas Brinkley on interviewing Bob Dylan: details that didn’t make the Rolling Stone article ...12:47 pm
TweetDouglas Brinkley, the author and historian, has been out and about doing interviews of his own to promote his interview with Bob Dylan in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. (It’s certainly a measure of the degree of fascination in our culture with Dylan that such a thing is occurring, i.e., media outlets having someone on just to talk about talking to Bob Dylan.)
On Friday last, he spoke for some time to radio host Don Imus (… continue reading …)
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Bob Dylan meets President Sarkozy: More notes on the 2009 Rolling Stone interview ...6:08 pm
TweetI think it’s actually too much to look at every interesting bit of Bob Dylan’s 2009 Rolling Stone interview all at once, so let’s do it piecemeal. One of the most amusing parts is what may go down in Dylan-lore (whatever that is) as “The Sarkozy Incident.” Bob Dylan was performing in Paris on April 7th while Douglas Brinkley was tagging along to conduct his interview, and so we get a glimpse at something that may happen much more often than we know, i.e., a political leader heading backstage at a Dylan show for an audience with the man himself. The story of what went down when President Nicolas Sarkozy (the conservative French leader) and his wife Carla Bruni met Dylan is conveyed in different parts in the print interview and the online outtakes. And here’s the gist: (… continue reading …)
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Dylan’s own word on “Theme Time Radio Hour” ...12:01 pm
TweetIt’s in the new print issue of Rolling Stone magazine. It obviously came out of the Douglas Brinkley interview, but it’s printed in another section, under “In The News.”
After three years and 100 episodes, Bob Dylan’s Sirius XM program “Theme Time Radio Hour” may be leaving the airwaves. “I stopped doing those shows a while ago, and then XM Radio was combined with another one,” Dylan tells Rolling Stone. “They want to renew. They’d like more shows. But I’m not so sure.”
So, he’s not sure. At RWB we say: Go ahead and renew, Bob. So many themes not yet covered, so much good music still to play. But que sera, sera.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone: on being an honorary Texan and on George W. Bush ...4:27 pm
TweetThe new Rolling Stone interview with Bob Dylan conducted by author Douglas Brinkley — which consists of varying content in the print magazine versus the online “outtakes” — has a whole bunch of funny and delightful and interesting bits. So much so, that it calls for a mega-post to deal with it, which I’m not up to doing at this moment. But from where we sit at RWB HQ, we would be remiss if we did not immediately highlight the passage in the print interview where the name of former president George W. Bush comes up. (… continue reading …)
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Final installment of Dylan and Flanagan; and a note on the review in the Guardian ...11:50 am
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The sixth and final installment of Bill Flanagan’s recent interview with Bob Dylan (promoting the release of Dylan’s new album Together Through Life
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Catching up on Bob Dylan, Bill Flanagan, Adolf Hitler, Bill Wyman and more ...9:22 pm
TweetWoah, a whole lot of Bobs & Ends indeed to catch up with this week. The last few days have been rather taxing for Yours Truly, due in part, to — you guessed it — taxes. (Who was the candidate in last year’s primaries who promised to simplify the tax code so that every American could file on a postcard? I didn’t vote for him, but clearly I made a terrible mistake, along with almost everyone else.)
So, two more installments of Bob Dylan’s big interview with Bill Flanagan (… continue reading …)
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Bob Dylan and Bill Flanagan: other notes ...7:50 pm
TweetPart Three of the Bob Dylan/Bill Flanagan interview may have attracted most attention, including in this space, for the remarks about Barack Obama, but the real meat of this part of the conversation was in what came afterward. Some of that: (… continue reading …)
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama: the real story (at last) ...3:30 pm
TweetIt was in the UK Times last June where the whole “Bob Dylan endorses Barack Obama” story got started, so it is appropriately ironic (if indeed it is not purposeful) that it is in the UK Times today that that whole canard gets put finally to rest. (D’ya think?!) (… continue reading …)
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