Dan,

You could be right. I have to totally admit, I am not a Dylan fan. The long winded "on and on" form of writing has never held any interest for me whatsoever. I believe in that old adage "Brevity is the soul of wit." In books, articles, and long form things, poetry, it works fine. As songs, they never worked for me.

I never did Dylan songs because I could never remember the words and what I did remember never made a whole lot of sense to me. Dylan and Joni Mitchell are two people I probably could have done without in the overall scheme of things. I deal with a lot of people all the time who think they are them and I don't even know that THEY wish they were THEM.

But I don't denigrate their impact on the culture, they had much. I am more interested in Dylan as the person than really his music. Very odd bird. I think he got tired of people reading things into his music he never intended. But that is the price for being a prophet to a lot of people.

So I am admittedly not the person to ask about if there could be "another Dylan." I was not that enamored with the first one.

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 05/24/11 11:06 PM.