Here at The Society we continue to ask the question – why the ‘Mr Jones’s of newspapers’ in particular are ignoring Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy tour across America and then into the world, potentially until 2024? His new tour isn’t rough and rowdy at all, more smooth like a rockin’ rhapsody with some of the …
The first review to mention Dylan and the rigours of age… Mitchell writes: I feel that the reworking of the set list was more than just publicity for the new album. All of the song selections were clearly pointing to the past (high points and regrets) and looking to the future-a future not in this …
More updated insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour … and an important question We are reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road … and we also have the first audience recordings we’ve seen and heard. Somehow they have survived the robots of internet control. The first …
BY OUR RESIDENT WRITER, ERIC LASTICK… 1965 thrusts thru—the whole hippie movements, revolution and the volunteers of ”Flower Power” Like brigades of free love, not war. Utopian celebratory—aid and it’s puller’s towards the Haight street avenues of peace…the feeds of circuses and dresser drummed-up images of peace-nicks in Edwardian wardrobes…and funny wrapped smokey tyesticks—up and …
Bob Dylan has set more dates on what is rapidly becoming his never-ending Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. A few weeks ago, Bob announced 17 dates and promised more would be on the tracks. There are whistle-stops in Springfield, Massachusetts, Port Chester, New York and Waterbury, Connecticut beginning October 1 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour hit the road in …
An open letter to the victims and perpetrators of abuse of parents and children Briefly, let me try to explain to the victims of parental alienation why they feel neglected by the traditional media. And there are three… The first, in the UK, are restrictions on reporting cases… rules so draconian that journalists and editors …
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 …
Another brilliant piece by ERIC LASTICK Being a Beatle from all the trails…the runs of development of style…the beat…the coffee houses, Jazz clubs…the night spots along the French cafes…The jingling of jewels of the Hierarchy of English tone…and tarnished souls…They, the Beatles, British Liverpoolian pop sensations were and are, just what we all had been …
Angry young man to protesting pensioner? Or is Dylan spot on about new music? As he released his third album – this one triple – of grand old American lounge-lizard ballads His Royal Bob-ness attacked new bands, saying they are just fake when it comes to the blues. He was performing on his 6,000 date …
It’s always been seen as a fair game to boo, lampoon, insult, attack, complain about and scoff at Bob Dylan. This attitude has made me furious over the years … of course he can sing, he is probably one of the most inventive singers since the beginning of popular music and has influenced the whole …