Comments on: Don’t Think Twice

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:40:00 +0000

Larry,

I do believe this documentary is out on DVD now. Truly great great stuff.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:46:00 +0000

Hey, Monty – Of all the eight million members of Blogger, you’re the only one who lists “We Five” as a favorite musical artist. That and your visits here place you among the Precious Few.

…well I woke up this morning…

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:30:00 +0000

Monty – Welcome! Glad you decided to uncloak.

He got a little baritone-y, didn’t he, on “Lay Lady Lay” and “John Wesley Harding?”

New York in ‘63. God, I’ve missed so much…

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:35:00 +0000

We must have been posting simultaneously Larry. Can you imagine Dylan singing the line “ah but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now” and sounding like a smooth baritone?

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:20:00 +0000

Hi Larry, this is my first post here, but I have been here many times before. How could I not say something about Bob Dylan, the soaring genius.

I actually was in New York, several times in 1963, including Labor Day in Greenwich Villiage.

Erin, you hit it perfectly as far as I am concerned.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:01:00 +0000

Erin – I have been one of those who criticized Dylan’s singing, although I always understood that he wasn’t trying to present himself as a “singer” per se. One of the interesting aspects of the documentary is hearing his many voices along the way to what we hear today and during his commercial peak. He changed drastically and often, and there are scenes in which he sings quite nicely, thank you. In the section about him getting signed to Columbia they show a little bit of a Johnny Mathis recording session (also on Columbia), just to remind us of what the vocal fashion was at the time. Yikes.

“Don’t Think Twice” is one of the songs I choke on. I have too much baggage with it to actually sing it.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:32:00 +0000

Don’t Think Twice is my favorite Dylan song, by the way. Larry, I think we should get married.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:30:00 +0000

I feel like people in my generation are always harpin about what a bad singer Bob Dylan was, but to me that’s part of his magnetism. There was something he wanted to communicate so badly, he wasn’t going to let a minor detail like having a gravely voice stop him. He wasn’t some slick, cotton-candy pretty boy crooning about his predictable definition of sex. I missed the documentary — I’ll have to check it out on dvd, I guess.

And yes, there are days when “All Things Considered” surfaces as the only good reason not to renounce my citizenship and move to Belize.