When I am getting ready to leave for the year and think back about what was good for 2009, man, the 2009 Minnesota Ride In was one of them....TP and Nancy showed any rider who came hospitality that was second to NONE. It was a special ride and a ride that was special to me as well.
The Minnesota group showed me a special Bob Dylan ride as well. Why would Bob Dylan interest you brother? Ummm, let's see, they showed me the home where he was born, the home he was raised in and got to ride on Highway 61 (kind of revisited).
Folks when I got ready to make the ride, made comments like, he did great words, but I don't like the way he sings them. At over 65 years old, he still rocks and YEP, YOU GOT IT!!! HE DID GREAT WORDS! He is a POET that also happens to sing.
In 1965 when he went electric, he was booed from the stage because his words were still AWESOME, but he had the audacity to pick up an electric guitar instead of keeping singing the folk/anti war songs that he was known for over the last year. He matured and folks didn't understand.



I mean in 1965 the number 11 song for the year was I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher, the number 3 song for the year was Wolly Bully by Sam the Shame and the Pharohoes, 2 of the top ten were by Heman and the Hermits, two were by the Righteous Brothers and one was from Elvis...... THE NUMBER 2 SONG OF THE YEAR was Sugarpie Honey Bunch....
Then this POET came out (listen to the words man) with an electric guitar.........
Liike Wikepdeia says:
One of the most celebrated recordings in rock history, "Like a Rolling Stone" is a song directed at a woman who once lived a life of privilege but has now experienced a reversal in fortune. Soon after recording the master, Dylan cut a test pressing for his music publisher and played it for several friends. It made an immediate, strong impression. One early listener was producer Paul Rothchild, who said "I knew the song was a smash, and yet I was consumed with envy because it was the best thing I'd heard any of our crowd do and knew it was going to turn the tables on our nice, comfortable lives." Dylan's friend, Paul Nelson, was recording a folk album at the time, and upon hearing it, he thought, "Oh boy, this just makes what we did obsolete."
When the single was released, Paul McCartney recalls hearing it at John Lennon's house: "It seemed to go on and on forever. It was just beautiful ... He showed all of us that it was possible to go a little further." A very young Bruce Springsteen would hear the recording on WMCA while driving in a car with his mother: "That snare shot that [kicked it off] sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind." Frank Zappa later recalled, "When I heard 'Like A Rolling Stone,' I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: 'If this wins and it does what it's supposed to do, I don't need to do anything else.' ... It sold, but nobody responded to it the way that they should have."
Man, the Minnesotta Ride In was AWESOME and I thank you for showing a Dylan FAN some awesome stuff.......
2009 was a great year for riding........many a mile, many a SMILE!!!!!!!!
TP and NANCY - YOU MADE IT SPECIAL THIS YEAR AND I THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DYLAN ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
