I am listening to this:
It's not really that interesting. It's the same version The Animals ripped off Bob Dylan and Bob Dylan ripped off that guy in the documentary with the Hawaiian shirt and the Hemingway hat (?) and the laugh (I know I should remember the guy's name but honestly in my brain right now it's all The Laugh). I say this as a fact when really I'm just taking the Laugh Guy's word for it. He's imposing.
ANYWAY. Jesus I digress.
The point is you've got to applaud any Japanese dude for stepping into that minefield of unfriendly consonant sounds.
Yeesh.
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You mean Donovan? No, he ripped off Dylan, definitely. He was widely hailed as "the British Dylan" at the time, however songs like "Mellow Yellow" and "Atlantis" failed to capture the public imagination like, say, "It's all over now, baby blue" and "Ballad of a Thin Man". But you mean the song, don't you? HOTRS? Oh yeah...well maybe you're right. Whatever, it's early. Give the anarchist a bong hit. Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteno the other documentary! not donovan, ha. i actually just watched that one though.
ReplyDeleteincidenatlly, i think Don't Look Back could be called The Slow Ostracization and Eventual Unceremonious Disappearance of Joan Baez, Whose Constant Wailing Bob Dylan Could One Day Use As Some Sort of Sonar Device To Figure Out the Way Back Without Looking.
i was referring to folk singer who claimed, in No Direction Home, to have originated the chord progressions dylan adopted for 'HOTRS.' i guess i'll be forced to watch it yet again to remember his name. toooo bad.
it was dave van ronk. and he wasn't wearing a hemingway hat and a hawaiian shirt, it was a whole southwestern get-up. oh well.
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