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Paste Magazine's 50 Best Dylan Covers:

We chose only one song from each of the artists, though some are mentioned multiple times in the alternate takes. We disqualified any songs that were duets with Dylan, but we didn't limit it to official releases or studio versions. There are several rumored songs we wish we could have heard and considered (like Gillian Welch and David Rawling's "Idiot Wind"), and I'm sure there are songs you love that we just didn't know about.

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Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 4:35am
geordiezimmerman wrote: William Zantzinger Is Dead Huh. I never imagined he and Dylan were contemporaries. The story sounds like something out of the 1800s. Good riddance anyway.

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Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 4:16am
William Zantzinger Is Dead

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 10:30am
there is a very interesting and HUGE collection of Dylan rarities available here for download, should you be so inclined.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 7:24am

ed wrote:

Oh, we are not going to tell stories out of class.

Saw Dylan and the Band do a version of the Rolling Thunder Review concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The air was so thick with smoke you could hardly see the stage. If you weren't inhaling you weren't breathing.

The music was amazing, the people more so.

Of course we were spoiled in Toronto. Ronnie Hawkins trained and played with some great groups, including The Band. Dylan came up to see them a couple of times and the rest is, as they say, history.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 7:22am
lily34 wrote: first song i ever loved by dylan. Me too. I still remember a freshman in my high school telling me - a music loving sophomore - about this guy Dylan and me starting with Before the Flood and listening to It's Alright Ma and the scales fell from my eyes...

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 7:17am
meower wrote: the acoustic versions of it's alright ma, just like a woman and don't think twice it's alright are AMAZING on that album. AND a storming version of ballad of a thin man, the hammon organ screams in that version, love it !

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 7:10am

ed wrote:

When I was in jr. high my english teacher would take us to the school library once a week and I would check out a record player and headphones so I could listen to Dylan. The other kids in the class would ask, How come he gets to listen to music, why can't I check out a record player? The teacher would tell them, "because he is listening to Dylan."

Thank you Miss. Mensch

Ha ha, I once actually bunked school with my teacher to go see Dylan play at St James' park In Newcastle. No one ever did find out

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 7:02am
Oh heck, why not. I've got a little glory scattered here and there after all... What can I say, except that I was there,6 weeks before turning 23. I'm old enough now to almost not believe some of my own memories, and have to pull this stuff out of the archives to prove it to myself. My view of the crowd, stage was to the SW of my viewfinder...

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:59am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: You and General Custer! damn pre-coffee typing. 1974!

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:57am

JrzyTmata wrote:

nuggler wrote:

Or the brilliant double live Before the Flood with The Band as backup where he comes close but doesn't quite succeed in reclaiming All Along the Watchtower back from Hendrix.

I wouldn't recommend any greatest hits compilations because once you get bit you'll want to hear it all & you'll be missing out on hidden gems such as Man In A Long Black Coat to name but one of dozens. Be patient & start your collection album by album is my suggestion.

I agree about the compilations except for one - Biograph is excellent and is a great starting set for someone just getting into Dylan.

My first concert experience was Dylan and The Band in 1874. it was the tour that became the Before The Flood album.

You and General Custer!

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:55am

nuggler wrote:

I agree about the compilations except for one - Biograph is excellent and is a great starting set for someone just getting into Dylan.

My first concert experience was Dylan and The Band in 1974. it was the tour that became the Before The Flood album.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:54am

owld_skipper wrote:

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

I'm not so sure he always meant that....

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

~Masters of War

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:51am
meower wrote: while even the president of the united states sometimes might have to stand NAKED. first song i ever loved by dylan.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:49am

owld_skipper wrote:

Surely it is available on CD?

Highway 61 Revisited was the first Dylan vinyl that I purchased. Loved it then and still do.

(Yeah, if you're owld you can remember buying vinyl.

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Yes it is & thank the gods for that since I've probably replaced my LP about 5 or 6 times through honest wear....on a Rega III turn-table (which I still have).....with Boothroyd Stuart Meridian Pre- & Power amps & Infinity RS 6000 speakers.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:47am

nuggler wrote:

YES ! Blistering social commentry as relevant today as ever. My all time favorite Dylan

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

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Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 6:46am
nuggler wrote: YES ! Blistering social commentry as relevant today as ever. My all time favorite Dylan While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in. while even the president of the united states sometimes might have to stand NAKED.

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