May 16, 2005

Visions of Johanna

Simpsons_dylan Dylan Art by Brian West

The Guinness Book Of World Records has officially given credit for the world’s shortest Dylan interview to CREEM regular Jeffrey Morgan for the following exchange. (From ”And Plus”)

Dylan's Gigging Bands, for all but five of the musicians who’ve toured with Dylan from Newport ‘til now

Bookstore owner Izzy Young met Bob Dylan in 1960 in the midst of the budding Greenwich Village folk scene. Izzy Young tells how the surprising young Dylan took folk music to new heights. (From KEXP’s Dylan archives. Thank you, Paul K. for the last three items)

Recording 'Like a Rolling Stone', 16 June 1965, Studio A / Columbia Records, New York City

“Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town”. 103 additional Dylan’s Mondegreens. (“Mondegreens" are mishearings of the lyrics of popular songs. From Bergsj ö’s Dylan site)

Old concert B&W photos, Massey Hall, Toronto, April 4, 1980. (By Jlacpo's flickr photosets)

How Long Has It Been Since Dylan Played... A list of the date/location of the most recent performance of each Dylan song

Dylan stones at the Duluth armory: Everybody must get some stones

Dylan Freak: One stop for up-to-the-minute Bob Dylan news, sports & weather

The BBC's Dylan Thomas website

Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

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March 06, 2005

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters

Blowing_in_the_wind_1 May 8, 2005 - Welcome to all visitors of Expecting Rain today. Please visit the rest of this enormous site. Thank you, H.L.

But it's allright, ma, I'm only blinking

The Times They Are A-Changin', from Howie Green: The Album Covers

Happy 64th Birthday Bob Dylan Art Project: Send your Bob Dylan mailart to: Ed Giecek, 4222 - 176th PL NE, Arlington WA 98223, USA now till May 24, 2005

Re-post: Typo Dylan Flash of “Don’t think twice”

Paperdolls of the young Bob Dylan. (From ”Presurfer”)

Recording from The Cynthia Gooding Radio Show (New York, NY); February 1962

Thirty years ago, playwright Sam Shepard travelled with Bob Dylan and friends across America on the Rolling Thunder Revue. Here are exclusive extracts from his road diary

Christmas With Dylan. A true-life pilgrimage, by Bland Simpson. (From “Expecting Rain”)

Tracks that Inspired Bob Dylan

Mike Hobo’s single list of all Dylan’s original album releases with cover artwork, track listings and extended information

All bootleg DVD list

TV Talkin'. Celebrating Dylan’s film and television recordings

"With God On our Side" (RealAudio by Buddy Miller)

Sean Carman’s Dylanland Lost Rambling. (From “Desultory Turgescence”)

Graphic above from Dave Henniker. Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Mikel, from Plateau Mont-Royal, Canada. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish.

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December 02, 2004

Johnny's in the basement / Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement / Thinking about the government

Subterranean_homesick Weird Al Yankovic’s Bob parody with an Alan Ginsberg lookalike in the background and where very single lyric in the entire song is a palindrome, including the title:
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfish as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?
(From “Particles”. By the way, most people think Weird Al is sophomoric at best)

Other wordplays and parodies on Dylan songs, including the recent Don't Think Rice Will Make Things Right

Text of the original Subterranean Homesick Blues

A Reggae tribute by Sizzla, with a little bit of Jah flava

Photos of Dead/Dylan scaffolding accident in Chicago, August 2, 2003. From “Roadie”, which has many other shoots of scaffolding accidents

Christopher Ricks is The Dylanist

Background for "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"

Dylan Bootleg mp3s

Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Odin Soli’s“ The Mexican Year”, a fictional blog about a chance encounter in Tijuana. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.

Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

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October 20, 2004

“Well, I can sail a boat & fly a plane”...

 Dylan_1965You’ve known all about the July 25, 1965 concert when Dylan played electric guitar in public for the first time, singing Maggie’s Farm at the Newport Folk Festival, but have you actually heard it before? (From Hard travelin’). Photo here.

A year earlier, it was all Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues:

Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue,
I didn't know what in the world I was gonna do,
Them Communists they wus comin' around,
They wus in the air,
They wus on the ground.
They wouldn't gimme no peace. . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society,
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road.
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!
(Complete text)

Dylan lyrics in Hebrew ! (From ”YudelLine”, One Jew's News and Views)

One of my precious rare books is Dylan's Tarantula. It’s hard to find any of its surrealist, crazy text, 'album notes gone mad' on the net. Anybody know of a sample link to it?

“When We Honored Allen Ginsberg in Cambridge.” By Elsa Dorfman

All the Members of “The Band”

Dylan's Nobel Nomination Sparks Debate

My first time with Dylan - Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Cher, Allen Ginsberg, Jimmy Buffett, Andy Warhol and others on their initial meetings with Bob. (Salon registration required)

Excerpts from The Book of Bob. Listen to Sean Penn reading excerpts, and NPR recent interview

Photo above by Elsa Dorfman. Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

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August 26, 2004

May you stay forever young

dylan_ticket The Bob Dylan Ticket Stub Archive! (Thank you Mark. Also there: The Van Morrison Ticket Stubs )

Dylan lyrics or poorly-translated English on Japanese food packages?

Jokerman visuals list

Big-Screen Bob

A list of Bob Dylan mentions in non-Bob-Dylan songs. (From “J-Walk”)

Look into this face - who do you see?

The "Blonde On Blonde" Missing Pictures and Duets with Bob. (These and much more from The Directory of Bob Dylan’s Unreleased Songs )

When Dylan was king. About the May 1969 taping of 'The Johnny Cash Show' at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville

Why Baltimore House Music Is The New Dylan. By Scott Seward

'Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One’ to be published October 12

Many Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

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May 04, 2004

His Bobness

dylan_cartoon Dylan Magazine Covers

Rock N Roll Comics - Revolutionary Comics featuring Bob Dylan. Otherwise, childish Grateful Bob Cartoons

A horrible rendition of Mr. Tambourine Man (From William Shatner Sings , which also features him singing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” - Simply awful!)

A profile by LA-Times’s Robert Hilburn “Rock's enigmatic poet opens a long-private door”, from last weekend’s Calendar section

Dylan T-shirts (From “Information Junk”)

Dylan: The Victoria Secret Commercial

Tangled Up In Jews: This web page is devoted to studying and collecting trivia relating to the Jewish religious/cultural odyssey of Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham v'Rachel Riva, a.k.a Bob Dylan.

Which Bob Dylan song are you?

More Robert Zimmerman Links Here. The other Robert Zimmerman’s latest book is called "Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel"…

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April 03, 2004

If you're travelin' in the north country fair

Bob.gifThis is a list of all the appearances of Bob Dylan With “The Grateful Dead”. Here is a Dylan and Grateful Dead Ticket from July 19, 1987 at Autzen Stadium, Eugene, Oregon. "Ticket is unused and near mint."

Dylan’s Small Jokes made on stage: "David Kemper is playing on the drums. One of David's first jobs was here in Chicago. He had a job as a waiter but he never took any tips. He was a dumb waiter." (From “Consumptive”)

Comments on Dylan and the new Victoria's Secret ads

“Dirty World”, an old site about The Traveling Wilburys…. I can’t get this song out my head, "I asked her to marry me - she smiled and pulled out a knife"… Is there any rock n roll song that sounds better?

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3

Planet Waves from “Everything2”

Plus: "Olá !!! Eu sou o Bob Dylan, sou macho, tenho 4 anos e sou muitíssimo educado" - Bob Dylan the Beagle

More Eclectic Bob Dylan Links here

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February 23, 2004

denm602.jpg Bob Dylan Bingo .

“Rebel With a Cause” - Thumbnail images of Dylan 7" picture sleeves. (From “Incoming Signals” ).

Here are the old Bob Dylan links.

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January 31, 2004

The 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Bob Dylan Links

Dylan_pope AJ Weberman VS Dylan . What does he do today? The best psychedelic site on the internet .

"Blonde on Blonde": The Missing Pictures , The Record That Can't Be Set Straight and Part II - The Versions in Detail

Book of Bob Lyrics

Dylan Chords

Expecting Rain

Forget the Dylai Lama . A review of "Visions of Sin"

Four decades of interviews

Gotta Serve Somebody (Includes a "Dylan & Chaplin" Page)

In the summer of 1984, the day before her concert with Bob Dylan, I met Joan Baez wondering in the streets of Copenhagen and she kissed me on the lips. Now she has a new CD, called "Dark Chords on a Big Guitar" , which I'm going to get... - 10/8/03

Johnny 'n' Bob (From "Ethel The Blog" )

Judson Huss's art cover (From "The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were" )

Kata (KAY - Tuh) Billups paints icons of pop cultures in unusal settings. Like "Bob Dylan, directionally challanged" ... She also has an Elvis room - 1/7/04

Links from Bill Pagel

Masked & Anonymous

"May you stay forever young"

Music from Big Pink and other Albums with The Band

Mystery Bob's "Dylan Space Monkey" (From "Presurfer" )

Poetry and the Popular Song - Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan

Set lists & Sessionography from "Ballad of A Thin Man"

Simon & Garfunkel

Spanish Leather - Translated Cover albums

Spirits in the Rock Chillin - Chillin like Dylan (From "Love And The Happy Cynic" ) - 12/14/03

dylanTangled Up in Bob - About Dylanology

The Humor Of Bob Dylan

The website

"Turning 60" by Jay Lincoln's - 12/13/03

Unofficial Bob Dylan Free Library

You Know You're A Dylan Fan If... .... Everytime you see a Cadillac go down the street, you reflect that it's a good car to drive, after a war...

Zimmy's Resturant in Hibbing, MN

Photo above from Great Duos. Many Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here

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