On 31-Mar-06, at 3:54 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Dylan said it best:
"Mothers and Fathers throughout the land,
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command,
The old road is rapidly aging.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand,
For the times, they are a-changing."
"And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their
world,
Are immune to your consultations, they're well aware what they're
going through."
To me the latter lyric points out the fallacy of the former but
anyways...
The 60's were fun until everyone thought they were significant.
The Dylan lyric above is fulsome for it's triumphalism. It embodies a
lie -- a lie that youth was (temporarily it seems--at least with
regards these two examples) allowed to tell itself.
That's all. Intellectually, quite frankly, it is drivel. David's is
real nice though... The problem starts when everyone tries to make it
into something significant. It is not --it's pop!
I never thought much of Dylan until I watched a bit of the recent
documentary. What I liked was his modesty, When asked by a reporter
if he was really a spokesman for today's youth. He replied "No, I
always thought of myself as a song and dance man."
If one idolizes Dylan this might seem disingenuous, but it wasn't.
The great bandsmen are mostly black because they understood what the
medium was. Names like Elmore James, Bobby Bland, Muddy Waters, Chuck
Berry, James Brown.
The Beatles sound like happy glad-handers who suddenly got very pouty.
I assume art was at fault.
Jerry
Gerald Berg
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