Grooving back to '65 - the 2009 Minnesota Ride In.

[Strider]

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.........

Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Strider]

Aint bad with some backup like George Harrison and Leon Russell either......What a poet - what a genius.....

Thanks TP and Nancy for leading me up through the Dylan ride....  Cheers!

Telecasts 28 - Just Like A Woman - Bob Dylan

You know, this is like more of his genius, he comes out at the Newport Jazz with electric and he comes out with George Harrison, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Badfinger, Ringo Star and Eric Clapton and plays Accoustic.....Never thought of that before.

[Dennis Klinefelt]

Hey Strider...Netflix has all kinds of Dylan stuff...interviews....concerts....i think he was even in a movie or two...Rock on dennis

[Bob E.]

I love Dylan's music...but...I saw him in concert back in the late 80's when I was in high school and that was without a doubt the WORST concert I have ever been to.  He did none of his music that had made him famous.  And whoever was doing the sound mixing needed to go back to tech school.  It was shameful.

[eric in md]

hey warren take care over there cant wait to share some wind with ya in 2010  happy holidays and happy new yr bud   eric

[T.P.]

THANKS BROTHER STRIDER ! We are so glad that you were able to come up to Minnesota, so soon after getting back from Africa. You know that you and Bonnie are welcome back any time..............oh  yah. the 2010 ride will be the PRINCE ride-in.     T.P.

[valkyriemc]

I love Dylan's music...but...I saw him in concert back in the late 80's when I was in high school and that was without a doubt the WORST concert I have ever been to.  He did none of his music that had made him famous.  And whoever was doing the sound mixing needed to go back to tech school.  It was shameful.

I seen B/D in concert with Roger Mcquinn, et al. in U. of  F. Gainesville Florida, in '77(?)  We sat close and had a good view, and it was a good show but my hearing suffered. I still remember the opening cords of "Eight miles high" ringing through the stadium... 

[Big IV]

Thanks for the pics.
I'm not going to say Dylan is my favorite, but he does speak to me on occasion. It is odd how sometimes the right words off of one of his songs will hit me and just make sense in the moment.

I had a professor in college who kept lamenting that serious research should be done into the poetry of Dylan. He however, refused to, not because of his popular success, but because that professor used to hang out with Dylan's brother and personally couldn't stand Bob Dylan.  Apparently, he's not the coolest if you have to keep kicking him off your couch or something like that.