Berlin, 10/25/2005 ...9:21 am
Set list from Pagel:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3. Watching The River Flow
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
(Donny on violin, Tony on standup bass)
6. Under The Red Sky
7. Cold Irons Bound
8. Just Like A Woman
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
10. John Brown (acoustic) (Donny on banjo, Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass)
11. Down Along The Cove
12. Floater (Too Much To Ask) (Donny on violin, Tony on standup bass)
13. Masters Of War
14. Highway 61 Revisited(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Like So Many Others ...7:11 pm
On the day the Iraqi constitution has been ratified, many anti-war commentators and activists are trumpeting our arrival at a figure of 2000 American deaths – from various causes connected with the war in Iraq. The confluence of these two events is food for thought, indeed. And many will no doubt “kneel down and gladly say a prayer” for those whose sacrifice has allowed this day to come.
So, from November 19th 2001 (about 9 weeks after September 11th) here is Bob Dylan, singing in New York City: Searching For A Soldier’s Grave (mp3 sample here for a little while).
Beside each crossmark there all around me
I’ll kneel down and gladly say a prayer
For all the dear loved ones home across the ocean
Whose hearts like mine lie buried over here.
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Hamburg, 10/24/2005 ...3:17 pm
Set list from Pagel:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
3. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Bob on harp)
6. Blind Willie McTell (Donny on banjo)
7. Watching The River Flow (Bob on harp)
8. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob on harp)
9. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
(Stu on acoustic guitar)
10. Tears Of Rage (Stu on acoustic guitar)
11. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Donny on violin)
12. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
13. Simple Twist Of Fate
14. Highway 61 Revisited(encore)
15. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (acoustic)
(Bob on harp, Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass)
16. All Along The Watchtower
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Ratified ...12:51 pm
The Iraqi people become the first Islamic people in the Middle East to adopt a constitution which guarantees democracy, and includes a passage like this:
Article (14): Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination because of sex, ethnicity, nationality, origin, color, religion, sect, belief, opinion or social or economic status.
… and a quick scan of the headlines on Google News tells us how the usual suspects are reacting.
Reuters: Sunni Leaders Reject Iraq Charter
BBC: Milestone Not Destination
Khaleej Times (UAE): Bombs hit Baghdad hotels; Sunni provinces vote no to charter
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The Senator from Minnesota ...11:36 am
British MP, and defender of dictators, George Galloway, “gave false and misleading testimony under oath to Senate sub-committe about his involvement in oil-for-food transactions,” according to this report by Senator Norm Coleman (R-Mn).
Specifically, evidence gathered by the Subcommittee reveals:
Galloway personally solicited and was granted eight oil allocations totaling 23 million barrels from the Hussein government from 1999 through 2003;
Galloway’s wife, Dr. Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received approximately $150,000 in connection with one allocation of oil;
Galloway’s political campaign, the Mariam Appeal, received at least $446,000 in connection with several allocations granted under the Oil-for-Food Program;
Illegal “surcharge” payments in excess of $1.6 million were paid to the Hussein regime in connection with the oil allocations granted to Galloway and the Mariam Appeal; and
Galloway knowingly made false or misleading statements under oath before the Subcommittee at its hearing on May 17, 2005.
The report is being furnished to the U.S. Department of Justice.
…
By the way, did you know that Senator Coleman helped a Swedish rock band with some visa trouble, when they wanted to come to Hibbing, Minnesota, for that town’s “Dylan Days” festival? He did, back in May of this year.
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Joyce Carol Oates ...11:08 am
It’s amazing how people can sometimes think so little before writing so much, and even more amazing when the person doing it is a professional author. From her essay, Dylan at 60, here’s Joyce Carol Oates:
“Dylan” was a self-chosen name in homage to the great, legendarily self-destructive Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, whose lush, lyric, over-the-top poetry presumably influenced many of Bob Dylan’s songs. At the time it might have seemed an act of extraordinary chutzpah for a Jewish kid from Duluth, Minnesota, named Bob Zimmerman to anoint himself with the poet’s internationally famous name; now, forty years later, Dylan is an American classic whose fame far surpasses that of his namesake, who seems to have entered an eclipse. And even admirers of Dylan Thomas must concede that the brash American Dylan has taken on a far wider range of subjects, idioms, and aesthetic styles than the poet.
I’d be interested in seeing Joyce’s list of Bob Dylan songs that appear to reflect a Dylan Thomas influence. It makes one think she’s never attentively read the work of either Dylan. And resurrecting that old canard about why he picked the name shows a notable thoughtlessness. Anyone thinking about this subject for more than 5 minutes would likely arrive at the truth – as also explained in Chronicles – he picked the name because it sounded good.
And she does no justice to the poet Thomas either with her inanely sloppy statement that he “seems to have entered an eclipse,” (pretty good to be doing anything at all, if you ask me, when you’ve been dead since 1953) and her utterly juvenile way of trying to say that Bob Dylan is qualitatively better than Thomas, because he has “taken on” more “subjects, idioms and asethetic styles.” You would think a writer would see the inherent weaknesses in comparing the work of other writers to each other in this way, but then, you would think, whereas she apparently does not.
Ms. Oates isn’t done with shameless ignorance, however.
Dylan has continued in his long, ambitious, ever-evolving public career, through permutations of the self that have left many of his original admirers behind, or unaffected. (Evangelical Christianity? Bob Dylan? Count me out.)
I think that Ms. Oates can consider herself counted out.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Sing While You Slave ...5:05 pm
And staying with the New York Post, this is just an outrage-of-the-day type thing to stir the blood: Tom Morello, of the “rock supergroup” Audioslave, is interviewed in today’s paper and is asked about a recent trip to Cuba.
Q: What surprised you about Cuba?
A: I think most Americans view Cuba as a hostile police state, which we did not find to be the case at all. To shed some light on it, we played a free show in front of 70,000 Cubans for 2 1/2 hours. It went on without a hitch, an arrest, an incidence of violence or any police interaction with the crowd. Everybody had a good time.
A week later, we played a free show in our hometown on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of 10,000 fans – part of it was shown on the “Jimmy Kimmel” show – for about 45 minutes. There were 30 arrests, a riot, police were beating kids down.
It was very ironic that Hollywood Boulevard would be a more autocratic police state than Havana. Yet, both events are documented on video, so we have the proof. You can see the police smackdown in the video for “Your Time Has Come.”
Q: Did you as a band intend to make a political statement with the show?
A: The trip was billed as a cultural exchange, [but] certainly there are political implications. There is no longer a rock ‘n’ roll embargo against Cuba. The second we hit the stage that was over.
It was such a tremendous relief to be in a place where you do not have to see a Starbucks on every corner, a Paris Hilton billboard looming overhead or a grinning, pasty Col. Sanders leering down in every minimall.
Aside from the occasional Che Guevara billboard and graffiti extolling how well-immunized the people of Cuba are, there was very little of what you’re so used to when you’re touring in other countries. Were those experiences political? Of course they were.
Nice, huh?
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It’s Time for Us to Quit ...4:53 pm
The New York Post has a story on the plans to make a film called “Factory Girl,” which purports to be the story of Edie Sedgwick, a young woman who was closely associated with Andy Warhol and died young of a drug overdose. Some months ago it was first reported that agents of Bob Dylan had threatened to sue the film makers, based on a script that purportedly portrayed a romantic relationship between Dylan and Sedgwick. The Post today says:
Bob Dylan reportedly threatened a lawsuit after reading the script.
In an early version obtained by the Post, Dylan, who, like Edie, lived at the Chelsea Hotel, serenades Edie from a fire escape with a bouquet of flowers in his mouth.
In one heated scene, they make love while “pleasure spasms take hold.” Dylan writes the song “Just Like a Woman” for her, and then drops her and marries aspiring model Sara Lowndes.
Sedgwick was said to have inspired much of Dylan’s work at that time – including the album title “Blonde on Blonde” and the song “Lay Lady Lay.”
But Dylan balked at the script’s version of events and sent screenwriter Captain Mauzner (“Wonderland”) back to his keyboard.
Trying to avert controversy, the filmmakers reshaped the love interest as a hybrid of different musicians Edie was linked to, including Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison. The part was given to Hayden Christensen.
Hmm. A hybrid of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison. That should be interesting.
Some members of Sedgwick’s family apparently continue to oppose what they feel is purely an exploitative film. It sure sounds like a big waste of time to yours truly. And, in another sense, I always find it boring when people talk about a particular Dylan song being about this or that “real” person. (I mean, other than when it’s clearly true, e.g., Joey is obviously about Joey Gallo. Though, on the other hand, is it, really? Well, that’s for some other time …) The idea of dragging down Just Like A Woman to being about any one particular woman in Dylan’s life just seems silly to me, and completely misses the poetry of the song.
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A Song on Sunday, Volume 4 ...3:31 pm
Today, someone who went to church (and depending on which church) may have heard the following readings from scripture:
Leviticus, Chapter 19, verse 4: “Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.” In another way: You must love God above all other things.
Leviticus, Chapter 19, verse 18: “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
Matthew, Chapter 22, verses 37-39: “And he said to him (the lawyer sent to test him) ‘You shall love the Lord you God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
The kind of love these Biblical passages talk about is not any kind of watered-down love. It’s not the kind of love the search for which is “no more than vanity.”
To love an unseen God with all of your heart, soul and mind; this is a love that is not easy to conceive, let alone maintain, and might well overwhelm a poor human vessel, who, in showing such love, could easily be considered insane by the standards of an earthly society.
And to love one’s neighbor as oneself; that duplicitous, faithless and treacherous neighbor on whom there is no depending, because you know his heart is as weak and desperate as the one which beats within your own breast – this is a kind of love that stretches human capacity to its limit, and, even if practiced, might make you seem more fit for psychological study than admiration, in this flawed world in which we live.
The Bible, then, talks about this difficult kind of love. A pure, hoping, believing kind of love. Love that’s overwhelming in its potential and overwhelming in its strength. Love that is of God and not of this world. Love that can challenge the equilibrium of a fallen creation, and can fill a poor human being with a longing for a Lord who might seem forever out of reach. It’s a kind of love that can save you, and maybe in some sense make you a little crazy. A love that can cure all your ills, and maybe in another sense make you feel sick.
Here, for a little while, is an mp3 sample of Dylan, from March 16th, 2000, in Santa Cruz, California … performing Love Sick.
(See also Ronnie Keohane’s Time Out Of Mind With New Eyes)
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Aalborg, 10/22/2005 ...8:46 am
Set list from Pagel’s site:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You (Bob on harp)
3. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on harp)
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Cold Irons Bound
6. The Times They Are A-Changin’
7. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Donny on banjo)
8. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
9. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (acoustic) (Donny on banjo)
10. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
11. Boots Of Spanish Leather (Donny on violin)
12. Down Along The Cove
13. Positively 4th Street
14. Highway 61 Revisited(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
Talking New York ...1:25 pm
It’s a story that both is and isn’t news (and that itself is a sign of the times): The New York City Fire Department is preparing for a nuclear attack.
“It’s the training we do that’ll make the difference between who gets saved and who doesn’t get saved,” (Chief Joseph) Pfeifer said at the Council on Foreign Relations on E.68thSt.
The FDNY is particularly concerned about terrorists developing a crude nuclear bomb and detonating it among the skyscrapers in lower Manhattan.
Such an attack would likely result in nearly 225,000 casualties, Pfeifer said.
…
“If an improvised nuclear device goes off … it will be horrific, but we can survive,” said Pfeifer.
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Friday, October 21, 2005
Gothenberg, 10/21/2005 ...9:39 pm
Set list of tonight’s gig in Sweden, from Pagel:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
3. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6. Just Like A Woman
7. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
8. Cry A While
9. Make You Feel My Love
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Love Sick
12. I Don’t Believe You
(She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
13. Desolation Row
14. Summer Days(encore)
15. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
16. All Along The Watchtower
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