Issue 105
News: Dylan at Newport.
One major misconception about Bob Dylan concerns his performance at Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Many people believe that this show ended in disaster due to Bob Dylan's use of electric instruments. While his use of electric instruments caused great controversy in other concerts, this wasn't one of them. I heard this legend being disseminated in films like (reviewed below), and even in Scorsese's otherwise accurate documentary No Directon Home. I managed to get a copy of the performance before the video of the performance got released on DVD. The fact is that his set (while it lasted) was well recieved, despite the poor quality of the sound (which was most likely what was booed at at first). However, the booing truly began later, when he left after only a three-song set. Both of his previous sets were six songs each. The booing really got large when Peter Yarrow decided to introduce some other act, and justify Dylan's leaving. Of course, the audience was eventually placated when Dylan managed to get back on stage to do two songs with only his guitar and harmoninca. This would be one of the last times Dylan would be performing completely solo as was the norm in years before.
Band Name of the Day: None this week.
Film Idea of the Day: Jukebox Musical. This will be a stage musical based on a bizarre and random list of songs.
Film Review of the Day: I'm Not There. This movie is a biopic of Bob Dylan with a twist: there are several actors of different ages, races, and sexes playing Bob Dylan (just like in Todd Solondz's Palindromes). If you know Bob Dylan, you might like it, but odds are that anywhere else, you'd just be more confused with the changing settings and the changing main characters, and nonlinear plot.
Quote of the Day: "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
__________Atticus Finch.
Link of the Day: 253: An online novel.
One major misconception about Bob Dylan concerns his performance at Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Many people believe that this show ended in disaster due to Bob Dylan's use of electric instruments. While his use of electric instruments caused great controversy in other concerts, this wasn't one of them. I heard this legend being disseminated in films like (reviewed below), and even in Scorsese's otherwise accurate documentary No Directon Home. I managed to get a copy of the performance before the video of the performance got released on DVD. The fact is that his set (while it lasted) was well recieved, despite the poor quality of the sound (which was most likely what was booed at at first). However, the booing truly began later, when he left after only a three-song set. Both of his previous sets were six songs each. The booing really got large when Peter Yarrow decided to introduce some other act, and justify Dylan's leaving. Of course, the audience was eventually placated when Dylan managed to get back on stage to do two songs with only his guitar and harmoninca. This would be one of the last times Dylan would be performing completely solo as was the norm in years before.
Band Name of the Day: None this week.
Film Idea of the Day: Jukebox Musical. This will be a stage musical based on a bizarre and random list of songs.
Film Review of the Day: I'm Not There. This movie is a biopic of Bob Dylan with a twist: there are several actors of different ages, races, and sexes playing Bob Dylan (just like in Todd Solondz's Palindromes). If you know Bob Dylan, you might like it, but odds are that anywhere else, you'd just be more confused with the changing settings and the changing main characters, and nonlinear plot.
Quote of the Day: "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
__________Atticus Finch.
Link of the Day: 253: An online novel.
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