(np) Dylan's _Chronicles vol 1_ AuH20

[Michael Bailey]

There was a lot of really good stuff in the book.  I think he revealed
about as much of himself as I wanted t know: he was great on
childhood, for instance, and I especially loved the descriptions of
people's apartments and his reading

I really liked the book, and if Keith (Richards') is even better, I
look forward to reading that as well.

Matthew wrote:
>   Oh, & about Bob on Goldwater, brings to mind a lyric: "Don't lend your hand
> to raise no flag upon no ship of fools"



Blowin' in the Wind, God on our Side, Masters of War are
straightforward extroverted anthems that fit in really nicely with I
Have a Dream, Solidarity Forever, and if the people who line up for
that boat ride are a ship of fools,
if that's what he really thinks...

...if the fife-and-drum militarism of Goldwater sounded sweet to him
while he was immersed in the folk scene (and geez, deep in the most
sonorous chambers of it!), he was certainly right to seek other
frontiers -

- takes all kinds, I suppose.  With his skill, I'm just glad he never
did anything quite so effectively agit-proppy for the bad guys.
(Though "Union Sundown" kinda makes ya wonder - maybe he would if he
could)

It really isn't just political inclinations (though the politicians I
like are Kucinich and - to a certain, limited extent - Ron Paul...
Goldwater is down there in the ninth circle of my non-sectarian region
of disapproval along with his protege Reagan, Rush Limbaugh is cooking
popcorn and Sean Hannity is pouring Lite beers for everybody while
they all watch endless repeats of _A Christmas Carol_, _Norma Rae_,
and _Scrooged_, and Glenn Beck is drawing diagrams of the ill effects
of the Taft-Hartley Act under the tutelage of Michael Moore) - and
I've said on the list many times that I usually like people's later
work a lot better - and neither am I ruling out the possibility that
Brock Vond brought him to an undisclosed location sometime after he
became a family man...

but I really think, in Mr Bob Dylan's case, that the early idealistic
stuff is the best.

Until ya get to the Xmas album, that is! That f-in' rocks!

So even though the interview Mr Kelestron quoted (and thank you for
that) reveals that indeed BD was disappointed when Goldwater lost, I
won't be selling my Dylan recordings just yet - but I might just rip
the ones I like and make a mix or two (or 12)