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# Posted: 22 May 11 11:22 - Edited by: Martin de Rijk
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May 24th one of my alltime musical heroes, Bob Dylan, will reach the age of 70 years.
This occasion will be remembered world wide.
I'm sure several members have good meories of the songs and music of this legend.
Let's make a nice topic of pictures combined with one of the many songtitles Dylan wrote.
Forever Young
Beyond Here LIes Nothing
Saved
Caribbean Wind
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# Posted: 22 May 11 11:36
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Thanks Martin for this wonderful topic.....I have no images appropriate for this ocassion, so to speak but this song link that is my all time favourite......"Boots of Spanish Leather" by Bob Dylan & sung by my favourite singer Joan Baez.....enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBGB5s9pVAE
sawsengee
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# Posted: 22 May 11 14:14
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Martin thanks! I love this idea of our photos to represent songs of the great man. I'm going to look at mine for something relevant.
But........
70? That means that, like most geniuses, his finest work was done before he fell off his motorcycle in '66 (outside Woodstock!), aged 25!!!
Sawsengee, I agree, Joan & many others did brilliant covers, but nobody could ever substititute that gritty- drawly, unique voice as it was pre-motorbike fall, and was never again after his recovery & return.
grtz,
Stew
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# Posted: 22 May 11 15:03
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Watchin' the River Flow
She Belongs to Me
All Along the Watchtower
New Morning
Turn, Turn, Turn
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
I Shall Be Released
Rainy Day Women, #s 12 & 35 [they were waiting for buses, sheltering from "a hard rain"]
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# Posted: 22 May 11 15:50
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Blowin In The Wind
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# Posted: 22 May 11 20:48
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As I can't find a way of deleting a mistake in my entries above, this is now a quiz question:
One of the songs I chose is not by Bob Dylan. Which song?
As you told me, Martin, you are not eligible for the quiz  )
Stew
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# Posted: 22 May 11 21:34
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SJS: Turn Turn Turn is a Pete Seeger's song. The Byrds made a famous version of it.
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# Posted: 22 May 11 22:03
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@ Abílio, you're a winner!
My head obviously turn-turn-turned while I was looking for Mr Tambourine Man, My Back Pages & All I Really Wanna Do
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# Posted: 22 May 11 22:31
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Living the Blues (Self Portrait)
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# Posted: 22 May 11 23:00
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Tangled up in Blue
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# Posted: 22 May 11 23:17
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#spanishrevolution, Madrid, Puerta del Sol, Mayo 2011
The Times They A-Changin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_oJPnSaPlQ
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# Posted: 23 May 11 10:07
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She's a big girl now
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# Posted: 23 May 11 13:10
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Spirit on the Water (Oct.2006)
Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You (Nov.1975)
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# Posted: 24 May 11 05:22
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Positively 4th Street
Joan Baez, who had several great versions of Dylan's songs, also turns 70 this year, along with Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, David Crosby, Mike Love (Beach Boys), and Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones).
this came from my Sunday newspaper:
http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/201 1/05/22-bob-dylan-forever-young.html
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# Posted: 24 May 11 11:10
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@Rezz, thanks for the good article. And I think it was not easy for any of us outside the US to get a "4th St".
Paradox: seeing one 60s hero after another turning 70, 70+; weird feeling of "How did that happen?", remembering concerts, albums covers, etc;
And then waking up and remembering my own age! Am I the same kid as the one in the record store, flicking through the (vinyl) albums?
Or making sure I had every Beatles record on its first day on sale?
For better or worse, no I'm not.
Conclusion: I think it is almost a miracle that so many of them - and all of us - survived this long. It's a fact that we baby-boomers couldn't have been as strong & healthy as we thought.
Of my personal oldest friends, born in many different countries in the northern hemisphere, I think that every one of us - my wife & me included - has suffered a major, life-risking illness or disease not long after turning 50 years old. Or younger.
And the number who have died, just of natural causes, is difficult to believe.
How many of us could have imagined back in the 60s & 70s, when the future looked as long as our hair, that this would happen to us?
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
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# Posted: 24 May 11 15:17
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Desolation Row
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# Posted: 24 May 11 15:28
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With God On Our Side
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# Posted: 24 May 11 17:19
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Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
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# Posted: 24 May 11 17:24
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Death is not the End
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# Posted: 24 May 11 17:44
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You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
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