Category: Bob Dylan

Jim was just an incredibly talented, Baudelaire-ian, alcoholic, gorgeous naughty boy – says The Society Jim Morrison’s childhood home in Melbourne Florida went up for sale for $2.4 million. And his ancient bandmate Robby Krieger said at the time, it should become a shrine to Jim. “Why not make it like a little Doors museum-type thing?”… Continue reading Make Jim’s childhood Florida home a shrine, Kreiger said – so what happened?

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… Continue reading HOW DYLAN BEAT THE RESET OF OUR SHADOWY KINGDOM OF COVID AND CONSPIRACY

Smashed and Eponymous, how the greatness of Bob’s film surrounded Leigh and Andrea in good sounds Last night I had a fascinating and funny chat with LA film editor Bob Mori about the cinematic strangenesses of Bob Dylan … not the most successful part of his career as far as I’m concerned. I think Mr… Continue reading A shadowy kingdom of truth and consequences as the Dylan fantasies thunder out?

It was like a message from nowhere, a simple dignified tweet from beyond the Great Divide. ‘Rest in Peace Nanci Griffith’ … that’s all it said. The message was from country hero John Prine who died last year. I met them both after a concert in the UK Midlands. A winter’s rainy night outside but… Continue reading Faster than the speed of loneliness… Nanci dies at 68

We recently published the video looking at Bob Dylan’s strangely enigmatic and poetic history of America, Murder Most Foul, basically because it is quite brilliant. In fact, the vid is, in our opinion, perfect companion to a brilliant song! And today its director Bob Mori – award-winning film creator – contacted Our Society for publishing… Continue reading Murder vid genius Bob Mori talks to us and reveals his stunning take on I Contain Multitudes

Bob Dylan is the coolest man in the world, right? I think most of his fans will agree. But we will also have to accept that not everybody sees him in that way, including my 90-year-old mother who still maintains after half a century that she can’t stand his ‘trilling’… And as if to add… Continue reading MR COOL NEVER STUMBLES, HE’S GOT NO PLACE TO FALL … BUT HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE THE ODD TRIP OR TWO!

Claudia Levy, the once-blonde bombshell who tried to blow a hole in Dylan’s sale of his songs, has earned quite a bit of celebrity off him over the years. She was pictured at the launch of Scorese’s bleary Rolling Thunder fantasy film, for instance. She also did an interview with Ray Padgett in Flagging Down… Continue reading WHY CLAUDIA CRASHED TRYING TO LEVY A ‘TAX’ ON BOB’S LIFETIME OF WORK?

Dusty Hill, bassist with ZZ Top, has died at 72. Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said that Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas. They did not give further details. He had recently suffered a hip injury. Dusty had played with ZZ Top for over 50 years. #dustydead #zztop

If Bob Dylan doesn’t want you to see him, then you don’t. He’s not there … And believe me the depleted army of Paps in California rarely chase celebs like him down the street any more anyway It works far more simply than that. And it benefits the celeb, the Paps and, of course, the… Continue reading The kingdom of the man in the shadows isn’t there if he doesn’t want you to see it …

And So Dylan keeps coming back … all the way To so many, Bob Dylan’s career in the 80s was drear and unfocussed … but there was a springtime and it happened in New York. And here it is, documented as part of the never-ending bootleg series. In some ways Bob Dylan in the 1980s… Continue reading Precious memories as Bob goes back to his ‘hidden’ springtime in the 80s