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Weird Old America

May 24, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Dylan Fox

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!

3:01 PM		The Besnard Lakes Raindrops The Besnard Lakes N The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Full Time Hobby 2020
3:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:13 PM		Bob Dylan Love Sick Bob Dylan The Complete Album Collection: The 90's-00's Columbia/Legacy 1990
3:19 PM		Calexico and Iron & Wine Dark Eyes Bob Dylan I'm Not There (Music From The Motion Picture - Original Soundtrack)
3:23 PM		Ted Lennon & Brett Dennen Don't Think Twice It's All Right Bob Dylan Single
3:27 PM		Nico I'll Keep It With Mine Bob Dylan Chelsea Girl Verve 1967
3:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:38 PM		Dr. Lonnie Smith Epistrophy Dr. Lonnie Smith N Breathe Blue Note Records 2021
3:42 PM		Odetta Mr. Tambourine Man Odetta Odetta Sings Dylan Revolver Records 1965
3:53 PM		Bryan Ferry A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music (Platinum Collection) EMI Marketing 2004
3:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:05 PM		Bob Dylan & The Band I'm Not There Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes - Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (Deluxe Edition) 2007
4:10 PM		The Chieftains & The Decemberists When The Ship Comes In Bob Dylan Voice of Ages Hear Music 2012
4:13 PM		Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash It Ain't Me Babe Bob Dylan Carryin' On with Johnny Cash & June Carter
4:16 PM		Lou Reed Foot of Pride Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] Columbia/Legacy 1993
4:25 PM		Sam Cooke Blowin' In the Wind Bob Dylan A Change Is Gonna Come - EP
4:28 PM		Joan Baez Tears of Rage Bob Dylan Baez Sings Dylan Vanguard Records 2006
4:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:35 PM		Neil Young & Crazy Horse Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan Weld (Live)
4:43 PM		Bob Dylan Desolation Row Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (2010 Mono Version) Columbia/Legacy 2010
4:53 PM		Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection Legacy Recordings 2009
4:58 PM		Toshiyuki Hiraoka Disappering Soul Toshiyuki Hiraoka N Waterphone II

Chat is archived.

Hey everybody!

HeyOoo!

Bob’s Your Uncle!

hello!

Morning!

Happy birthday, Dylan! I hear you turn 80 today.

Been around for awhile

I’ve eaten 1000 cicadas over the last two days.

WHUT?!? Summer break!?!

Boo. Hiss.

refresh the batteries Dylan. We'll miss ya but understood. Have a great summer

Ya prb kept me sane for past year. Thank YOU

It's also Harold Budd's birthday.

Happy Birthday Harold

Harold’s Your Budd!

Yeah. I LOVE that run from Time out of Mind, Love and Theft and Modern Times. Gold

Also John C Reilly

Brule's Rules... for your health!

And i love the live shows he did from 1999 and 2000. Especially autumn of 99. And summer 2000.

That band he had at the time was so good.

Only one I ever saw was in 2018 at the Beacon, really liked it. He did a little old man dance.

DJ DylanFox, do you have a version of “One More Cup Of Coffee” planned for today?? ☕️

Don't currently but maybe

Have to see about time

That version by Sertab Erener is great. But i like Bob's just fine

Saw a band do a great version of Black Diamond Bay couple years ago. Outdoors. House party w tons of bands. I like the way that whole story unfolds

Bob is such a natural storyteller

Nice selections to start the show!

Patti Smith and Dylan did Dark Eyes when i saw him in 1995. She and her great band opened up (Lenny Kaye and Tom Verlaine in the band rhen) . Bob's band at the time was great too

Lively shows. That's when i thought ok he's really playing well live now, i better see him more often now...

this new Lonnie Smith is really good

It is!

BRYAN FERRY ❤️

Thats him

Hahaha

Up-ISS-tro-fee

Still no

The capital letters Dylan mean say that syllable LOUDER

That's like phonetic pronunciation 101

Do better, Brian D

Iss rhymes with miss

C'mon you can do it! I know you can!

O well

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hahajaj

Look up stressed syllables

He just called you honey!

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Accent

Dylan you had me laughing hard

Yeah all in good fun in chat. Good try

You should have seen me in Spanish class

Brian D and dylan fox world tour the people demand it

Brian come on the show and analyze me accent

Spanish is easier than English! Almost perfect pronunciation rules in Spanish. English is HARD to pronounce yes

Not that meaning of the word accent

Different connotation

Three years of me in Spanish disagree

Accent meaning the stressed syllable of the word

What are interesting things about the way I speak.

The main thing is speaking and not reading . The printed word is a cue. It has to come out of the mouth like natural speech. That can be hard to get past that barrier yes

For Spanish and other foreign language classes it was like play acting. Step inside a room and leave English behind for a bit. Different character.

Great selections today on top of the phonetics lesson 🔥🎶

I like Johnny Cash in his Mariachi phase!

I wanted to avoid most the famous covers or ones that were way more popular than the original.

I remember watching Lou do this on tv when the 30th anniv special aired

Rocking performance

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Is-It-Rolling-Bob-A-Reggae-Tribute-To-Bob-Dylan/release/2917530

I think I still out in space at that point.

1992

Yeah I was still on Jupiter

Lp came out in 93. Concert was fall 92 or late summer?

Crazy that they convinced Bob to do it.

TV broadcast, radio broadcast and audio and video releases were all different

The 1990s were crazy

I like when Bob himself did It's Alright Ma... solo acoustic. Great job on that

This was the perfect song for Lou to do. That delivery

Such a similarity between Bob and son Jakob on the cover photo for the Basement Tapes box @ 4:05 pm.

Such a crazy song, very Lou

That line about the Suisse bank ha

Basement Tapes Bob was the hottest Bob

Blowing in the Wind was the song that led Sam Cooke to write A Change Is Gonna Come

They had a ball recording at the pink house it sounded like.

There was a hot Bob?

He's pretty hot

That Basement Tapes box has some funny stoner goofy moments. The See You Later Alligator jokey version. And the one about the dog.... fun stuff

Was he a good romantic partner, no?

Full stop

Had to sing blowing in the wind as a class for my eighth grade graduation

See You Later Allen Ginsberg is a song you can smell the weed on

Yes!

I thought the same

SelectaJerry ❤️‍🔥

I think we sung Blowin in the Wind for music class in Elementary School

Like schoolkids goofin around

Must be an elementary school standard

We had no idea what was going on. They also had "If I Had a Hammer" and I thought it was about carpentry

Trini Lopez version of "Hammer". Like that

Tears of Rage is one of the best songs about the Vietnam Era

Yeah. Just watched the Band/Robbie docu.

Shakespeare meets Bob meets Nixon

There's that dog again.... (dog dog dog....)

And then there's that one about the locusts!

EhPisStrohFee

animal kingdom well represented

What do you think of that one, Brian D???

Strohs? They still make Strohs?

Oh what did I do?!?

A piss trophy

Jus bein silly

Oh RUM! 🍹

Ya usually I'd begin the syllables with a consonant not a vowel . But your show. You can type piss if ya want

Yeah, INAPPROPRIATE DylanFox SMDH

This was a great Neil Crazy Horse tour. Giant Yellow ribbon draped on the giant microphone prop for this. 1991. Gulf War era

Great version. Those chords....

Crazy Horse could do some fine harmonies.

I remember Bob played Masters of War at the beginning of the Gulf War when getting a life time achievement award and when asked why, he replied, "The war."

I forget who does the high harmony Billy or Ralph

He talked about that in the book. Did not name names but he mentioned how people were afraid to come to the event

Jack Nicholson got props for showing up and introducing him (i think it was Jack)

"Chronicles Vol 1". Interesting read. Strange the way it's layed out but it makes sense in that it's Bob

Desolation Row is what I'd probably call his greatest song in a literary sense.

Love the lead gtr fills on this

Such a great portrait of a moment in his imagination.

Yeah it is up there. Johanna too

Would i have seen that 91 neil tour at the camden water front venue brian d ?

Johanna is more in Bob's mind while I feel like Desolation Row is how Bob views the world. Like it feels like one long tracking shot through the Greenwich Village right before the Soviet Missiles arrive.

No indoors show that year/ tour Jerry

Hershey hockey arena.... maybe the Philly Civic Center that tour?

Didnt think i missed any neil shows back then but dont remember the ribbon

He purposely avoided the usual arenas. Said he wanted to play the dive s---hole arenas. Neil

Final Ten Mins?!? This is madness!!!

The 1991 tour was First time w the Horse since 1986

In Phila that is

Saw the 86 gig! In the garage stage set up

DJ DylanFox! Job well done! Very nice penultimate show! Looking forward to next week!

No place like the spectrum !

Yep looked it up. Feb 5th & 6th 1991 Phila Civic Center.

Cheers Dears especially those with Big Ears!

Ya i loved the Neil/Horse show Spectrum 1986. First time i saw him/rhem

them

Too much rhum!

Hiccup!

Crazy Horse Live From a Rusted Out Garage

Mr. Skeleton, the Rum bit isn't going anywhere

As jerry g would say this is a softball all along fhe watchtower

I’m enjoying it. That’s what matters.

Dave Mason on 12string acoustic gtr

Neil would sound weird if he sounded great

Check him singing to his chickens on pandemic edition of farm aid dylan

Like I love the Bob Dylan original on John Wesley Harding, but the Hendrix one is just so great as a thing in itself. Like The process to get from the original to this is just astounding.

Fabulous afternoon of tunes D thanks!

Good time Dylan!

80 more! Dylan and prb (yeah 81 for prb)

Good night all

Night everybody!