Dylan’s favourite singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The Canadian musician followed in Bob’s footsteps in the 60s and 70s with Early Morning Rain and If You Could Read My Mind. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described him as one of the country’s greatest singer-songwriters. “Gordon Lightfoot captured our country’s spirit …
By our magical surrealist and poet Eric Lastick (1) SELF PORTRAIT: Sketch me a million faces of home. Knowledge is the lines which frame and uncover. God speeds time often…and right—-away; though it may not seem it. Judge us not, this weather storm, for seldom not seem, the forgettable hills we climb of frustration…and ‘in’ …
Well, it happened. A few years ago His Royal Bobness supplied an 11 line poem to be read publicly at at the Isle of Wight’s major convention to mark his appearance there fifty years ago. And this is despite the fact the Isle of Wight wasn’t one of Bob’s most memorable hours – and some would …
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR) (A BILLY THE KID PERSPECTIVE) Another grand opus by the quite brilliant Eric Lastick Pat Garrett Texas cowpoke, high call it home.Home wherever the cowboy in him. Tilt barrels of frozen memories—–all through the grimes of …
I’ve protested about Artificial Intelligence ever since our barmy army of boffins came up with this real no-brainer threat to our civilisation. And, as Dylan almost said… Come gather ’round people wherever you moanAnd admit that the robots around you have grownAnd accept it that soon you’ll be turned to a clone – If your time …
Ooh eck! In the 60s he was booed, heckled and called Judas in Manchester – then the BBC wiped Madhouse tape clean! But now he might be in Corrie… Ol’ Bob apparently likes nothing more in the evening than curling up in his rock’n’roll slippers and catching up with Coronation Street. And now the makers …
BOB DYLAN has gone public after a blow to fans who bought his signed work. The singer, who must be one of the world’s hardest-working artists, has said he “regrets” having made “an error in judgment” in using machine technology to sign and work then sold as hand-signed. The error happened over a three year …
We have a look at Bob’s new ‘comic’ artwork and choose the Top Ten positive stories about Bob and his artistic return as the world got sick The Covid years were destructive, no doubt. People talked about it being a dark greasy blanket of coughing and fear thrown across the world to hide The Big …
It was like a painting out there. An Edward Hopper, but with people … security guards, revellers, drunks, grifters, barkers, all peddling and paddling through this liquid night. Neons and cafe lights have become vivid blotches in the rain. The theatre lights flicker and go out. Hull – around its glassy grey brutal Bonus Theatre …
By Erik Lastick Stay here at Vaudevillian ancestry… folklore i adore… these mega miles, smiles, yet from a sun— and a pasty pie wood-stove’s wood-bury— with hoards and restocks… and be of that of weird old America… it’s yodelling, knows of Bobby pins…papers and writ—twists. Earn him like a causeway of one’s whole generational long. …