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spike jones

(1,777 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 10:35 AM Aug 2023

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan released August 30, 1965

The greatest RnR album that will ever be produced. As Bruce Springsteen said of the song Like A Rolling Stone, the drum hit that starts the song is the sound of the door of your mind being kicked open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_61_Revisited_(song)

And LARS is the greatest song that will ever be written. Released as a single Jult 20, 1965.

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Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan released August 30, 1965 (Original Post) spike jones Aug 2023 OP
Aye. "Like A Rolling Stone" has my vote for Best Song Ever. n/t Mister Ed Aug 2023 #1
When my oldest son was about nine years old he had heard me play my Bob Dylan record collection spike jones Aug 2023 #2
Ha! Good one. I sure woulda been proud of the kid. n/t Mister Ed Aug 2023 #3
Dylan described the song this way: SCantiGOP Aug 2023 #4
More Bob being Bob. In 1965 he was ask what it would take for him to "sell out." spike jones Aug 2023 #5
I'm from the Midlands SCantiGOP Aug 2023 #6

spike jones

(1,777 posts)
2. When my oldest son was about nine years old he had heard me play my Bob Dylan record collection
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 11:03 AM
Aug 2023

many, many times. One morning at the breakfast table I asked him to pass the cereal. As he handed the box to me he said, “ You know Dad, you shouldn’t let other people get your Kix for you.” I was so proud.

SCantiGOP

(14,247 posts)
4. Dylan described the song this way:
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 12:26 PM
Aug 2023

“Like a long piece of vomit”
That was Bob being Bob. He seemed to resent a song getting huge commercial success.

spike jones

(1,777 posts)
5. More Bob being Bob. In 1965 he was ask what it would take for him to "sell out."
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 08:08 PM
Aug 2023

He responded, women’s underwear. Forty years later, 2004, he was in an ad for Victoria’s Secret lingerie singing Love Sick. He knew exactly what he was doing, and I immediately got the joke.
Hey, I was raised in Pickens County and left in 1966 and never been back except for short visits. I admire you for being antiGOP in that part of the country. Do you know if Trump ever paid the town of Pickens for its expenses for his visit several weeks ago? And was there anybody protesting. I saw none on the internet coverage.
BTW you do not have to respond. Peace.

SCantiGOP

(14,247 posts)
6. I'm from the Midlands
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 09:14 PM
Aug 2023

Not much of a protest when he went to Pickens. He’s been to SC a few times.
It’s not campaign strategy, he only likes to go where people will sell their souls for him.

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