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Books, Music
Knock, Knock, Knocking on Neil Young’s Door
11.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Imagine you’ve just arrived at home from the supermarket, you’re unpacking the shopping and you look out of the window to see two old geezers arrive in a taxi and start staring at your house. Cause for concern perhaps? Before you hover near the phone, anticipating calling the cops you peer closer through the curtains [...]
Movies, You Tube Videos
“I’m Gonna Pull Your Head Off ‘Cause I Don’t Like Your Head”
10.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?
Movies, Music
REVIEW: I’m Not There
09.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’m Not There
Bob Dylan, past Brian Wilson and Prince, is the most significant influence on my life– creatively or otherwise. He is a man who has produced more pioneering, influential work in his the years between 1960 and 2008 than almost anyone you would care to mention. His catalogue, even in the down and quiet [...]
Movies, Music
Renaldo and Clara / The Rolling Thunder Revue
08.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Renaldo and Clara was Bob Dylan’s first real foray into the world of film-making. Part fiction, part documentary, Renaldo is an oft-misunderstood near 4-hour epic which contains some of the finest footage and performances from the first leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.
‘Renaldo’s on top of it, he’s on top of circumstances. He’s [...]
Music
AN INTRODUCTION TO: The Band - Music From Big Pink
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“Once I walked through the halls of a station.
Someone called your name.
In the streets, I heard children laughing.
They all sound the same.
Wonder could you ever know me?
Know the reason why I live.
Is there nothing you can show me?
Life seems so little to give.”
Richard Manuel - In a Station
Although most talk about THE BAND’s second album [...]
Music
AN INTRODUCTION TO: The Band - The Basement Tapes
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

THE BAND were Jaime Robbie Robertson on guitar, Richard Manuel on piano, Rick Danko on bass, Levon Helm on drums and Garth Hudson on organ. Although all members of THE BAND featured with Ronnie Hawkins, as the Hawks, they were not the five man unit that we know and love until late 1964. Jerry Penfound [...]
Music
Fandom (and how Bob Dylan cost me a friendship)
08.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Fairly recently, I was engaged in a surprisingly pointless argument for no good reason with a friend of some years. This argument, it was divulged to me at a later date, was some time coming. Apparently my friend took issue with my constant Bob Dylan orientated conversations and wanted to show me how real people [...]