Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:28:06 +0000, Norbert wrote:

Sounds like an intense (in a bad way) experience.
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My parents met in Cambridge, MA., in the 60s, and I grew up with them
playing stuff by Dylan, Donovan, and Cat Stevens.  My mother eventually
moved up to Gordon Lightfoot.
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Anyway, so I thought I liked Dylan.  Or perhaps I was merely used to his
stuff.  Then, in the mid-1970s, a live Dylan concert was broadcast from
Colorado.  Joan Baez joined him onstage.  I was eager to see it.  But
what Dylan proceeded to do was to make a mess.  The songs were sloppy
and barely recognizable.  His longtime collaborator Joan Baez was out of
sync with him,

Your opinion.
That's the Hard Rain concert,band it was some brilliant stuff.

And I began to suspect that Dylan was an emperor with no Clothes.
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The same thing happened at Dylan's Grammy awards "speech/performance" in
the early 90s.  He couldn't play, sing, or deliver a speech.  In that
case, he was probably out of his mind on substances.
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Still, I think he's an emperor with no clothes.  People deify him
because they think they're supposed to.

No, I suppose with Bob Dylan either you get it or you don't.
Sorry to see that you don't.