Anyone else getting excited about the Bob Dylan film being trailed on BBC2 for next week?

[Tinker]

I'm guessing this may be a one post thread.

Perversity, has to be. Enjoys being awkward. Must just get bored with the adulation. Still thinking about the bloke asking about his t shirt and the motorbike in teh album cover shot.

LIked Suzy Rotolo's comment (was going to say 'post' Good grief! Descending into a murky twilight world of fact/fantasy confusing Dylan internet bores now!) about him taking different roads....like we all do in fact.
Reminds me of my mother's comments when she expresses an opinion which differs from one we knew her to hold when we were kids. Then we all round on her furiously saying 'But you said you didn't like X/Y/Z' to which her response is 'Aren't I allowed to change my mind?'
She then reminds us that as she was so young when she had us all,of course her views change over time and from day to day.
As her children I suppose we want her to represent a permanent unchanging state.

It's pretty naff and unintelligent to paste a definitive meaning onto a song in any case.A song's specialness is due entirely to its myriad meaning to different people.
I know that i can't articulate what my most cherished songs are 'saying' to me to anyone-it cheapens them.

Wise words Ms Dog. Wise words indeed.

Apparently he does need the money Moondog, according to my dad who incidently as a young man was dylans double, and if he was thinner would still look like him now. That is also why he still tours and apparently the motivation behind the film, can't see it myself, he must make thousands in royalties, unless he doesn't own the rights to his songs. I found him to be totally captivating and felt desperate for a wee on a couple of occasions throughout the prog but just didn't want to miss anything. I loved the way he handled the media in his youth just feel so many 'rock stars' today could so take a leaf out of his book. And why in these desperate awful times that we live in now isn't there anyone doing the same as all those musicians did then

My dh loves Bob Dylan

I say he's a brilliant songwriter but he can't sing and I don't fancy him

My dh was glued to the programme and was drivelling on about him to the extent that I said I don't want to hear the words Bob and Dylan again tonight then I turned over to Love Soup and there was someone pretending to be Bob Dylan

And isn't there a second part tonight

rofl Cam!

Thanks scummy
Is it too late for me to become aspokeswoman for my generation do you think

Shocked that Bob needs more dough.Lay in bed last night wondering where he was and what he was up too...
Didn't a marriage about 15 years ago only recently come to light? Anyone know where he is,what he does day to day?
Do any hardcore folk know???

(MD this has got to stop.)

Cam,'second' part was actually the first part night before last!

No, it's all over now Baby Cam Blue.
After all the fanaticism on this thread dh and I decided to watch the Arena two-parter and were just enthralled. Scorsese does documentaries so well, it was such a fluid and watchable piece of film-making.
I really can see why Dylan is so loved now, and appreciate his song-writing skills. And I thought the footage of the concerts with the band was just stunning - sound quality too. He was FANTASTIC.
There will now be a squabble in Marina Towers as to which of us buys the other Highway 61 Revisited for their Christmas...
And to think if I hadn't come on here to have a good jibe I might not have watched it...

ahhhhhh....here you all are....i was so alone last night....

Didn't see that one last night sophable!
I'm a massive The Band fan.Kids run to hide when I crank up 'Cripple Creek' pour myself another glass of wine and start wailing!

Marina,whaT JIBE GOT YOU HERE? (Ooops!)

He had two children through the latest marriage apparently and
4 with
Sarah. There are rumours he has about 8 or 9. Am waiting for a Cat Stevens biography now.

Including conversion to Islam bit fsmail?

He's touring at the mo moondog

Which one!?

Bob, or bobby, didn't know so many people called him that

Is he really? In the UK?
Seen him once.

I love my dance music but I love, love love Dylan, have done since I was 15.

I saw an advert recently for a concert, think it was birmingham. I saw him about 6 years ago in Bournemouth and managed to stand right at the front, it was amazing being so close to him, wasn't the greatest gig I have ever been too but was very memorable. I can't swoon over him though he's far too like my dad

18th November in Birmingham I believe, probably at the NEC

Moondog, I thought I'd kick off by reminding La Tinker of a particularly dreadful film with Bob in, Hearts of Fire. But instead I got sucked in to wondering if he really was that dire etc...
funny really because I like Woody Guthrie and many other artists featured in the film, just had a Bob Block until now...

Bob block-!!! lol!!

Hope it is released.

(HoF unbelievably shite I agree.Unanimous I reckon. What was he thinking??!)

I love to have one of his kids. Been thinking about him a lot today.

md = did you catch The Last Waltz on Friday? Always great

Tinker,you shameless groupie!
Eh? Didn't know Last Waltz was on?! Don't watch much tv,but would have watched that. Have done many times. Love Van the Man high kicking in his purple velvet bellbottoms.

I got up in the middle of the night in my boarding school when I was 13 to watch 'Woodstock',dragging a few other hapless souls down to huddle round the three bar fire and pick it out on the b/w tv.
My mother often chortles about the letter i sent home afterwards..

'Mummy and Daddy,have you ever heard of something called 'Woodstock'? Well.....'

(Not as it happened ,hasten to add.Not that ancient!)