Bob Dylan Memories
Today is Bob Dylan’s birthday. Happy birthday Nobel Laureate!
I have been a Dylan fan since middle school. The posters on my walls back then were all of the Beatles and Dylan.
When I was in the seminary, a fellow seminarian and I got permission from the rector to skip a prayer service to attend the Rolling Thunder Review. Great concert. Neither of us ended up becoming priests.
When I began playing coffee houses I almost always included at least one Dylan tune. When I became a teacher I sometimes uses Dylan lyrics in teaching poetry or in discussing civil rights.
In 1979, two friends who were Dylan fans asked me to provide the music for their outdoor wedding - all Dylan tunes.
Yeah, I wore a green suit. It was 1979 after all.
One of the songs I played was Dylan’s “Wedding Song.”
they're radiating
I donned a GREEN suit for my high school photo in 1976...🤔 You asked me to consider writing again. Never had a collaborator, even during my 22 years of marriage when I was writing blog posts that explored matters deeply.
THREE FiRST VERSES
Elegance their radiating
Cool desire neon heat
Evening nears as they conspire
The glass women that you meet
(((Glass Women)))
Stagger Lee was on the radio when I was born
In a Jersey town suburbia
that winter's morning
I was taken by the sound
The best became my heart
I guess it's true that day
I got my rock roll start
(((Rock Roll Baby)))
Four questions need an answer
Four answers make it clear
Each girl I meet is bound to be
A type cast(e) love I fear.
That tell-tale first impression
Is based on certain traits
A self-fulfilling prophecy
This scale for future mates
(((Type Cast(e)ing)))
The melodies are in my mind but I have zilch musical skill.
So I tried writing my story...Stone Man, still no collaborator. It's in limbo now with the divorce.
So I try to share Bits and Pieces (((Dave Clark Five hit jumps into my mind))) with those I encounter throughout the day.
Just may be my lot in life, and I'm at peace with it.
Was reintroduced to Dylan with the song Hurricane from Desire in 1993. My friend had the album and she was very fond of him (and The Who, too)