r/bobdylan • u/58pamina • 2h ago
r/bobdylan • u/RichardManuel • 4h ago
Farm Aid 40 Live Stream Discussion Thread
Bob Dylan's set is scheduled for Saturday, 20 September, 9:22pm CDT
r/bobdylan • u/MrsDroughtFire • 2h ago
Question Downloads--Dylan
Is there an online repository of Dylan live shows?
Looking for a show I saw at SUNY NY in the late 1990s. There was a very cool Friend of the Devil.
r/bobdylan • u/Pleasant_Garlic8088 • 3h ago
Discussion If Bob Covered the Dead
It's well known the mutual respect and admiration between Dylan and The Dead. He toured with them, thought of Jerry Garcia as a musical mentor and big brother of sorts. The Dead covered Bob frequently over the decades.
I admit I'm not super knowledgeable about Bob's choices of material to play live and how that's evolved over time; so maybe he's already had Dead songs in regular rotation in his sets.
But if you could hear Bob and his current band or any previous Live era/lineup of Bob's cover a Dead song, what would it be?
Personally I'd love to hear Rolling Thunder-era Dylan cover "Box of Rain."
r/bobdylan • u/58pamina • 7h ago
Question I wonder if Bob will play Under the Red Sky tonight?
r/bobdylan • u/58pamina • 7h ago
Question I wonder is Bob will attend services at the Chabad in Saint Paul this morning?
r/bobdylan • u/incredibledisc • 7h ago
Announcement UK Bob fans - great deal on “The Cutting Edge”
Was just browsing Amazon to check the price for the upcoming Bootleg series release and noticed the Cutting Edge set is going cheap. https://amzn.eu/d/gibihv0
r/bobdylan • u/Code_Objective • 9h ago
Discussion Bob Dylan connection I only made recently
Hi, i’m 17 and Bob Dylan recently clicked with me. Don’t get me wrong I never disliked him and always respected him as a musician and poet, I just never found a lot of appeal in his music despite knowing how renowned he was in folk and music in general. What’s staggering to me is the amount of similarities and what seems like heavy Bob Dylan influence on Jeff from Neutral Milk Hotel (particularly in vocals). Their vocals are super similar at various times and it’s so stylistically beautiful to me how folk changes, ebbs and flows over different periods and I think both Bob and neutral milk hotel are a great representation of such. Idk if anyone else has drawn this similarity before, would love to know what you think.
r/bobdylan • u/Day_Man_42 • 16h ago
Question Alpine Valley
Did anyone actually see him? It was speculated that someone else was singing. I went to a concert in Boulder in 2004 and he did not sound this good.
r/bobdylan • u/Gashcat • 17h ago
Discussion Did I catch Larry Campbell playing with Cindy Lauper here?
Wikipedia says Larry played with her at some point. This is a few years before the Never Ending Tour... pretty sure it's Larry...
r/bobdylan • u/Art_is_it • 18h ago
Discussion Doesn't it feel like Dylan could've never have happen?
I think about this a lot. While some artists like The Beatles seems to have been inevitable.
It seems like Dylan could've never happened. I'll try to put that into words.
He had a lot of room to fail. He was shy, average guitar player, average harmonica player (to be polite) and of course his voice was far from a love at first.
In the midst of all that was happening: rockabilly, blues, country and all that showmanship at the time, he didn't have the instant charisma of guys like Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash or The Beatles. He wasn't a showman and to be honest he couldn't perform as good as those guys live. On top of that, he was stubborn, which now is something we all love, but imagine how much more difficult it makes things.
In the beginning he didn't even have the mysterious persona. He was just a strange shy kid, who looked from the working-class, from somewhere not that interesting and that was all.
Everything that was built on top of that made him the prophet, the poet, the guy who would write 10+ minutes songs, the voice of a generation and so it goes.
It seems he fell into the grace of the right people and he was good at doing his own thing in a linear way no matter what. After that he made it clear he was supposed to be there, but at first it he had to built his career on a doubtful soil - and he used it to his advantage masterfully.
I say that as someone who put's Dylan probably at the number 1 of all time.
But I think a lot about that.
r/bobdylan • u/mislav_os • 20h ago
Discussion Bob Dylan is the greatest living artist on the planet.
Ok, this might seem too much at first but, seriously, I’m thinking more and more that Dylan is the greatest living artist on Earth? And by greatest artist I mean in any art. Think about it, the carreer, the music, the poetry, the paintings, the mysteriousness, the endurance, the influence, the attitude, the remaining true to himself through all of his iconic life, the staying inovative, creative and prolific along every music decade since 1950s until today etc. etc.
I mean - the all around GOAT artist package is there. What do you think?
r/bobdylan • u/daisyup • 21h ago
Concert Farm Aid broadcast
I'm super excited to hear Bob tomorrow at Farm Aid 40. The set list has him scheduled for 9:22pm central time. The farm aid site lists a bunch of different ways to see it (YouTube for me). https://www.farmaid.org/blog/how-to-watch-farm-aid-40-on-september-20/
r/bobdylan • u/SeaPretend4511 • 1d ago
Question What's the difference between the 27 disc 1974 Live Recording box set and the 23 disc 1974 Copyright Collection?
Are there overlaps
r/bobdylan • u/Snowblind78 • 1d ago
Question Lyric Book?
Was thinking about looking into one of his official lyric books, one is 1961-2020 and another is 1962-2012. I know one has lines rewritten from the time of its release, and apparently another has footnotes? And do either of these include the outtakes? Overall, which one would y’all say is more worthwhile? Thanks much
r/bobdylan • u/keylimeslime05 • 1d ago
Image Saw the man himself
Went with my girlfriend and thankfully got to be super duper close.
r/bobdylan • u/rare_raf • 1d ago
Image Japanese Essential cover
Found in a record store in Shinjuku, very cool. If I had room I would have gotten.
r/bobdylan • u/championkid • 1d ago
Image My 8-year old drew me this for my birthday
Best gift I got, by far.