Someone in the LJ Bob Dylan community posted a link to this clip of Bob Dylan and John Lennon just chilling in the back of a car in the sixties…
I love how substance abuse can turn the conversation of two legends into something you’d hear on the couch of a college house party.
The best part? When Lennon mentions that “Bobby” is touring with the Mamas and the Papas, and Dylan says of Mama Cass:
“You’re just interested in the big chick, right? She’s gotta hold-a you, too!”
November 18th, 2005 at 3:03 am
I love how awkward it is. Everyone’s just humoring Dylan because he’s so fucked up. Or maybe that’s how he is normally?
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November 18th, 2005 at 5:35 am
i didn’t read all your post before i watched that video, so i was TOTALLY going to comment on the mamas and the papas thing. ca-RAZY!
the more i see of young bob dylan, the more i’m convinced he was a total douchebag. i kind of like that.
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November 18th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
Roger Ebert was a Bob Dylan fan until he saw Don’t Look Back in 1968. he thought that dylan came off as such a douchebag that he wrote him off all together. in his 2003 review of Masked and Anonymous he went so far as to profess confusion at what he called the dylan “idoltry” where “every enigmatic syllable of the great poet is cherished and analyzed as if somehow he conceals profound truths in his lyrics.”
well duh. right?
anyway, for Ebert at least, the new Martin Scorsese Dylan movie was a revelation wherein we see that maybe the reason dylan became so combative with reporters is that they were relentlessly hounding him with questions like: ” do your songs have a deeper meaning?” or “what are you trying to say with this?” like right there infront of the flashbulbs and microphones hes going to say: “okay, okay, i might as well tell you, if you take every 17th word in all of my lyrics it will tell you were the buried treasure is.”
i mean when you compare the way actors, for instance, allow themselves to go on a show like inside the actor’s studio and be made endlessly mystifying, i think ifs refreshing to see someone so idolized simply refuse to go along with the whole scam of it.
my brother: “so it took the genius of Martin Scorsese to reveal to the genius of Roger Ebert that Bob Dylan was a genius.”
me: “genius.”
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