Those words, the words of my blessed wife, describe what she hears when we listen to Bob Dylan. Today it was when she heard “Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance” (“The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”. Well, that’s HER opinion. What’s yours?
My opinion is, of course, different from my wife’s. This album is one of the best his early career although it does not outshine
my favourite, the seldom mentioned self-titled debut.
I’m the first to admit I think old Bob’s lost a step or two through the years to the point where I pick up new albums now and wonder why he still puts them out. And then there’s the concert I went to a few months back. I won’t be doing that again.
I wish I had been alive in 1962 to watch him as a 20-year-old groundbreaker. Yeah, he stumbles and mumbles and always has (well, there was “Nashville Skyline”) but at least there used to be more narrative arc to his songs and albums and that’s what made it interesting to me.
Anne Marie and I agree on a lot of music and she often impress
es me with her ability to name artists when we listen all 3800 songs on the iPod on shuffle. But there are a few artists (Dylan, Yoakam, Sexsmith) I always end up having to skip when they come on.
Of course, I make her identify them first.
I used to make Mrs. Geezer guess the artist on some songs.
I could always fool her with “Firefall”. They were a good band but underrated.
She actually bought the new Dylan because of the song “When the Deal goes Down”.
A friend had extra tickets to see Bob Dyland & Willie Nelson a couple of summers ago when they played all the baseball parks. What should have been a 45 minute drive to the ballpark turned into 3 hours due to traffic, causing me to miss most of Willie’s set. After Dylan came on, I wished their lineup had been reversed and of course, that I had been able to see him 40 years previously! Thanks for the mp3.
As Bob himself said:
Some people FEEL the rain, others just get wet.
your wife is hearing the sound, not listening to it, just hearing it.
hahaha, oh anne marie. i love her so!
and agreed in a BIG way on yoakam… *shudders*
;-)
I also saw the Nelson & Dylan ballpark show a couple of summers ago, but I have to confess I had the opposite reaction as the other commenters.
The show was one of the best I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen quite a few). Nelson and Dylan both had a terrific night. Dylan even played a lot of his early 60’s hits. In a form the audience could actually recognize.
To be fair to our other commenters, howerever, there was a pair of gentlemen standing near me who had seen the tour several nights running in different cities who said the Little Rock performance was easily the best of the series they had taken in.