Someone came up to me and said, 'Do you know the difference between you and Bob Dylan?' I said, 'Yeah, he made money
Are you a publisher? Try Daylife's Intelligent Content Services Platform
It was seen as a cool thing to do ... Young people were marching with CND, Bob Dylan was at his height and folk dancing was part of popular culture. Every town had three or four folk-song clubs. A lot of people arrived in morris dancing then, but they are now in their fifties and sixties.
I listened to a lot of Ella Fitzgerald when I was growing up ... A lot of early jazz - Billie Holiday. A lot of Bob Dylan. A ton of Bob Dylan. My mom's obsessed with Bob Dylan. Johnny Cash.
Neil Young, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin where relentess for years, and would have quality records out on a regular basis.
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Nat Hentoff wrote liner notes for every great musician that I’ve ever loved, from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, and that’s not even what he’s been writing about for the last 30 years
I've met Bob Dylan and his bodyguards, and I don't think Steve could get anywhere near his coffee table.
But then, when we're playing this stuff live, it's ultimately going to get more aggressive, so I think it'd be interesting to hear what the band sounds like recorded at least somewhat in those parameters of a live set. And that's not to say it'll all be distorted, who knows. I think you record it live viscerally, and the minute you put in the distortion, yeah, it's going to sound 'punk,' ... You take it off and I don't know what it sounds like then. The song we did for 'Watchmen' [a cover of Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row'] in a lot of ways is a really good test-run or experiment, at least sonically.
When Rodney sings 'Going Through Hell,' he is that song because he comes from that, where I grew up in the suburbs, playing Journey songs in rock 'n' roll bands ... So I sing it in kind of a Bob Dylan version or like a poor man's Tom Petty.
Bob Dylan is the star I steer my boat by. If I'm in trouble, I go to Bob and if things look up, I go to Bob. If it rains, I go to Bob; if the sun comes out, I take it to Bob.