A Day In Life
OVIEDO_ La Catedral y Miren Iza
Miren Iza, del grupo Tulsa nos presenta una imagen triste y pesimista de si misma y del mundo en su cancion "Oviedo" de su disco "Solo me has rozado". Sale a la ventana buscando el mar y lo unico que encuentra es una "enorme y triste catedral", despues, abre el periodico por la pagina central y ve que " el señor Smith se ha clavado un puñal", despues, Miren no puede respirar, piensa en su vida y va corriendo al baño a vomitar.Termina esperando que " el mundo caiga sobre mi" cuando mira hacia el jardin.
Pues bien, me gusta la musica que hacen Tulsa, fui a ver la presentacion del disco recientemente y vi a una una chica, de ojos desencantados, tristes , muy en el lado oscuro de la vida.Pero resulta que yo quiero mucho a la tierra de Asturias, y digo la tierra, porque la gente es la gente, como en todas partes.A veces el verde y el azul del mar desaparecen en el gris asturiano, un gris como plomo que cae sobre el alma y nos desencanta...pero entonces, surge algo, hay algo imprevisto, nunca visto, y esta ahi, plantada y mirando al cielo.Es la catedral de Oviedo, y precisamente Miren, si la mencionas en esa cancion no es por casualidad....es porque ella se ha fijado en ti.Tu vida depende de quien habita en esa catedral, mas que de ninguna otra cosa en este mundo.La Catedral se levanta en medio de tanta frialdad y estulticia como hay en el mundo, y tambien esta sola.Dentro hay una figura magica, una imagen de San Salvador a la que ya se adoraba en los primeros tiempos.Siempre que voy a Oviedo me acerco a la Catedral y me postro ante esta imagen, y le rezo y le pido por mi y los míos.
Gems from Bob
Roger McGuinn of the Byrds said that above all else, he rates Dylan as one of rock's greatest poets: "I've always admired Bob's work, and we've gotten along well over the years. I think Bob's most admirable quality is his sense of songwriting ability, his lyrics. I've compared him to Shakespeare
Rolling Stone magazine's associate editor Austin Scaggs says that the constantly touring Dylan is just as mysterious in his 60s as he was 40 years ago: "I don't think he travels with family. I think he has that bus all to himself. I think inside the bus, I think he has books, he has a typewriter, he has some sort of outlet to listen to music. I think he's constantly listening to new music, or old music. But who knows? What does he do all day? Does he work on the next volume of his book? Does he write new songs?"
"Shooting Star" mp3
"God Knows" mp3
"Born In Time" mp3
"Dignity" mp3
Outtakes from Oh Mercy, 1989.
"Hazel" mp3
From MTV Unplugged Afternoon Rehearsals, 1995.
Alternate version from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965.
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"I'm Your Teenage Prayer" mp3
From The Basement Tapes, 1967
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOBFATHER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BDIs9gyYW4
"Thunder on the mountain, fires on the moon
There's a ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon
Today's the day, gonna grab my trombone and blow
Well, there's hot stuff here and it's everywhere i go."
66 REASONS TO LOVE BOB DYLAN
1. The words! The words! Those “spinning reels of rhyme.”
2. That attitude.
3. That frizzy halo of hair.
4. Those black shades.
5. The music. Always short-shrifted in favor of the lyrics, Dylan’s music is much more inventive and melodious than he’s ever been given proper credit for.
6. The crack of the snare drum heard ‘round the world: Like A Rolling Stone.
7. Going electric.
8. The humor. Dylan’s sly.
9. The Basement Tapes.
10. The Jesus period, because it gave us Slow Train, one of his best songs, and albums.
11. “In the dime stores and bus stations/People talk of situations/Read books, repeat quotations/Draw conclusions on the wall/Some speak of the future/My love she speaks softly/She knows there's no success like failure/And that failure's no success at all.” (Love Minus Zero/No Limit)
11. Chronicles, Vol. 1.
12. The concerts. It is there, not on the albums, where you get the most undiluted shot of Dylan — thorny, unpredictable, blindingly brilliant.
13. The Rolling Thunder tour.
14. His harmonica playing.
15. “Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"/Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"/God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"/God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but/The next time you see me comin' you better run"/Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"/God says, "Out on Highway 61." (Highway 61 Revisited.)
16. Dylan the movie star. Sure, he’s awful, but would you really not want him to be in Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid reading those labels: “Beans...succotash...beans...”? Or Slim Pickens dying to the strains of Knocking On Heaven’s Door?
17. Bob and Joanie.
18. Bob and Sara, “radiant jewel/mystical wife.”
19. Blowin’ In The Wind.
20. Beating up Weberman.
21. The great Jim Marshall photo of him rolling a tire down a Greenwich Village street.
22. “Ah get born, keep warm/Short pants, romance, learn to dance/Get dressed, get blessed/Try to be a success/Please her, please him, buy gifts/Don't steal, don't lift/Twenty years of schoolin’ and they put you on the day shift.” (Subterranean Homesick Blues.)
23. Don’t Look Back.
24. The Traveling Wilburys and Bob’s great Springsteen-esque goof, Tweeter and the Monkey Man.
25. Hurricane.
26. Lay, Lady Lay.
27. I Threw It All Away.
28. “Let me ask you one question/Is your money that good/Will it buy you forgiveness/Do you think that it could/I think you will find/When your death takes its toll/All the money you made/Will never buy back your soul” (Masters of War)
29. Blood on the Tracks.
30. The interviews: combative, restless, insightful, the second best way to get a glimpse of Dylan’s unique way of thinking.
31. Springsteen’s line on Dylan at the Hall of Fame: “If Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind.”
32. That reedy voice. Love it or hate it, a Dylan song needs that Dylan voice.
33. Things Have Changed, which made him "Oscar winner Bob Dylan."
34. "Have you heard the news?" he said with a grin/"The Vice President's gone mad"/"Where?"/"Downtown."/When?”/"Last night"/"Hmm, say, that's too bad" (Clothes Line Saga)
35. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
36. Every Grain of Sand.
37. Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
38. “And your long-time curse hurts/But what's worse is this pain in here/I can't stay in here/Ain't it clear that…I just can't fit/Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit/When we meet again/Introduced as friends/Please don't let on that you knew me when/I was hungry and it was your world.” (Just Like A Woman)
39. Dylan’s mystery life: How many times has he been married? How many children does he really have?
40. Dylan wearing the false beard at Newport. Why?
41. Dylan appearing on Dharma and Greg. Why?
42. Dylan performing for The Pope. Why?
43. Dylan's radio show!
44. Without Dylan, would the Byrds have ever had a career? Or Peter, Paul and Mary?
45. The famous concert in England: “Judas!” Dylan’s response: “I don’t believe you…you’re a liar.”
46. Dylan at The Last Waltz.
47. Scorsese’s No Direction Home.
48. “Don’t follow leaders. Watch your parking meters. (SHB)
49. “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. (SHB)
50. Most Of The Time
51. John Wesley Harding.
52. “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” (It’s Alright Ma)
53. All Along The Watchtower.
54. “If my thought-dreams could be seen/They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.” (It’s Alright Ma)
55. If Not For You.
56. Elliot Landy’s photo of Bob on the cover of Nashville Skyline.
57. The living room cover of Bringing It All Back Home.
58. “Lights flicker from the opposite loft/In this room the heat pipes just cough/The country music station plays soft/But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off/Just Louise and her lover so entwined/And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.” (Visions of Johanna).
59. “Early one mornin' the sun was shinin'/I was layin' in bed/Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all/If her hair was still red.” (Tangled Up In Blue).
60. Series Of Dreams
61. Dylan’s heart scare: “I thought I was gonna meet Elvis.”
62. Without Dylan, we wouldn’t have had the movies How High and American Pie: The Wedding, directed by Bob’s son, Jesse.
63. Boots of Spanish Leather.
64. Desolation Row
65. “You better start swimming or sink like a stone, cause the times they are a-changing.” (The Times They Are-A-Changin')
66. “Ah, I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” (My Back Pages)
LUCKY YOU -- Music from the Motion Picture. Various Artists. Columbia Records/Sony Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcYpESn8Ako
But make no mistake –it’s “Huck’s Tune,” written by Bob Dylan for this film, that is the album’s centerpiece, standing alone as and one of the finest melodies and most brilliant vocal performances Dylan has featured in the last decade.
Simply, “Huck’s Tune” is a stunning achievement – both musically and for its poetry, a song that captures the ache and the essence of growing old, a song that captures the taste of time as it unravels into landscapes and secret lives re-formed into long sweet new memory pools.
In “Huck’s Tune,” Dylan’s voice encases the music as tight as a glove and refuses to let go, compelling us to live through the characters on screen, driving us to put ourselves in Huck’s skin as we answer our own question -- just what makes a guy take to this kinda life anyway?
Dylan’s delivery on this piece is reminiscent of the way Johnny Cash used to sing in the latter days of his career – sometimes breathless, sometimes searching, the poet at the edge of himself and the stage, looking for answers in human words, looking for answers that just might not exist at the invisible throes of this threshold:
“The game’s gotten old
The deck’s gone cold
I’m gonna have to
Put you down
For awhile…”
"Huck’s Tune" by Bob Dylan.
Music with a taste _ Mùsica que "sabe"
When i put my daughter to bed , before she goes asleep, we listen a couple of times to one of my Bob favourites.Tonight, it was "Lay Lady lay" and what a song this is, what sweet feelings it brings to me,such a magic sound i can only define as a "taste".
¿Que le parecen la filosofía actual, las tendencias modernas?
La gente hace oídos sordos a todo lo que puede salvarla,mientras persigue un muro,una extraña ilusion.Buscan la libertad donde no esta,y acaban con los dos pies cogidos en una trampa, desangrandose sin sentirlo, porque estan colocados con las drogas de la ilusion.
Bob Dylan
Minneapolis City Pages,1983
Studies of Bob # 6
Drawn by my daughter when she was five years old