Bob Dylan Salutes Warren Zevon
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Master vocalist Bob Dylan covers Warren's fine little ode to symbiotic love to pretty good effect. I know that some do not see him as a great vocalist, and he himself has served up plenty of evidence for an indictment......and yet.......He has & does to this day, turned in some truly sparkling performances as a vocalist. His voice my be a rusted old grumble now, but he uses it to such incredible advantage sometimes.
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Don't leave us hanging. How was your day, and the wieners? Did you both avoid "the" topic?
What topic, Rex? Dylans voice? No, it never came up.
I can't think of a clever quip.
You're both still standing, so I guess it didn't. Hope you had a fine time discussing "other" things.
We both felt like we got somehing done so we agreed to a photo-op.
Easy to imagine dylan relating to the line "I was born to rock the boat / some may sink but we will float". Reminds me of his own line "Well, it's always been my nature to take chances / My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances".
Good observation AndoDoug. I think Dylan saw alot of himself in the lyric.
Gorgeous rendition. This is one of my favorite covers that Bob does.
Do you know which concert that it is from?
Yes, Bob is an extrordinary vocalist- even with his voice shot- though I happen to be one that loves his voice even now- in some ways even more now with the gruffness- maybe because I'm older now too. Seems appropriate that his voice has changed so much with age- (and smoking!)
I always have a hard time with people who say contemptuously things like "who told him he could sing?" (how about all those who bought his records) You may not enjoy/appreciate/like his voice but the man has always been able to sing. His phrasing was incredible and often still is- maybe I don't always appreciate a particular rendition but I almost often catch some phrases that are just perfect, mind bending expressions of the feeling of the song.
I just was listening to a performance of Visions of johanna that I hadn't heard before- it isn't my favorite version but damn of some of the phraseing and note bending were exquisite.
Geeze, do I sound like a fan or what?
Well...you sound like someone who attempts to step back and offer an honest assessment & offer an opinion on a very thorny topic.........
......I agree with every word you write here. From the very beginning when folk/pop was spoon feeding mainstream America the harmonized & pasturized warbles of the Kingston Trio & such....Bobby was using his voice to personify & inhabit the songs he sang in ways the others were just not capable of. At each stage of his career, each voice he's had, he's used it as a maestro.
Thanks deadmandeadman
I don't think of myself as a "fan" actually- whenever I write or say "fan" it feels very inadequate.
I agree with you and the use of his voice and I think his abilities have grown in many ways, even as his voice and sometimes enunciation has "deteriorated."
I've been doing a lot of thinking about Dylan as an artist recently- (and over the years) and how his journey resonates with so many not only because of his lyrics and performance but because something in us responds to not him personally - after all, he's not there!-
-but to an archtypal presence- someone doing. being born, publically, in the world. I think, for me anyway, it touches the anorphous, shadowy longing we feel inside. Something that calls us to individuation, integration, connected to something that we think is outside ourselves but is really some unrealized aspect of ourselves.
I'm moving slowly toward creating a blog about Bob, trying to tackle and understand something from this point of view.
I'm almost there- actually I set it up but I've been hanging back as I was trying to articulate what the point of the blog was/is. (and of course trying to find the perfect name. LOL)
I think I'm just about ready.
A little scared though.
We Brave Bee Stings And All.....We don't dive We canon-ball.
...........Thao Nguyen
Bob gives us sounds from another world. Some people can hear them - some can't.
DianaWolf touched on in...Bob is ....larger than Bob.....more than a singer.......more than a songwriter..neither priest nor prophet....not a spokesman...he's all of those but more....Something of Bob belongs to us all in spite of his best efforts....He's a shape-shifting song-n-dance man who's stages are alleyways & palaces. A reluctant icon of the ineffabe nature of creativity & craft.
and he's one hell of a singer