I don’t know if any of your friends are like Doco, who started chasing up a music variety show "Summer of the Band" after dinner .
In this show, we can not only enjoy the style of old rock bands such as faces, mirrors, admiration, and new pants, but also witness the rise of new types of bands such as Penicillin, Mr. WooHoo, and Jiulian.
The real Jiulian "Mo Bully the Younger Poor" once bloodied the circle of friends
In addition to classic rock music, some bands will also perform punk, metal, funk, folk, reggae and other different styles of music on the stage. The all-encompassing content presentation is indeed the only one in the domestic variety show.
It is true that although this show is a different way and full of rock and roll style, the overall arrangement of the show still has some loopholes. Let’s not mention that the program team has reluctantly abandoned some bands' performance clips because of the long-term broadcast. It is not enough to pay attention to certain details.
Take the third issue as an example. When Gao Xiaosong praised "This is Bob Marley", the lead singer of Taiwanese Mr. Tortoise, Li Hongqi, however, the screen showed an inappropriate picture of Bob Dylan when he was young.
To be able to confuse these two completely different legends, it is not good to say that the director of the program group was either blinded by lard or hooked on his mind . It is no wonder that such unprofessional problems will be ridiculed by netizens.
Bob Marley is totally different from Bob Dylan!
However, when it comes to Bob Dylan, the legendary musical figure, DOCO wants to recommend a freshly released documentary "Rolling Thunder Revue: The Legend of Bob Dylan" ("Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan"). Story by Martin Scorsese).
Maybe it’s because Bob Dylan’s celebrity is too big, and many people can’t invite him. Therefore, the producer of this film is the famous American director Martin Scorsese who has already had a collaboration with Bob Dylan . (In 2005, Scorsese produced a documentary "A Home Without Direction" for Bob).
Director Martin Scorsese
In this film, Martin Scorsese uses a combination of reality and reality to show Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue from 1975 to 1976 on a legendary tour.
Members of Rolling Thunder Tour Group
The tour group has a mixed staff, including musicians, singers, journalists, poets, and painters, including Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, and Alan Ginsberg ( Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Sam Shepard and others.
Alan Ginsberg recites poems for the members
These elites in different fields gathered together under the inspiration of Bob Dylan. They used the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States as a publicity stunt and traveled to 22 cities in New England, like a group of real wandering gypsies on a tour.
At that time, the entire American society was in chaos. The Watergate Incident, the Vietnam War, and the hippie movement were intertwined, politics, military, and culture were all violently shaken. Bob Dylan was also involved in the civil rights movement and was unable to extricate himself from it.
Therefore, in the summer of 1975, in the process of recording the album Desire, Bob Dylan decided to start this tour. He wanted to stay away from the crowd, away from the scrutiny of the media, and do it with his trusted friends. Wandering carnival.
At the beginning of the tour, Bob Dylan set the rules. This tour took the all-star counter-culture route , so they will no longer go to those crowded performance venues, but only go to some unknown county towns and cities. The concert hall can hold up to several thousand people. At the same time, the promotion of the tour is limited to the distribution of flyers to the residents of the small town on the same day.
During the entire tour, whenever Bob Dylan appeared on stage, he would paint himself pantomime-like white makeup, apply thick mascara, and occasionally wear a transparent plastic mask. Flared jeans and a black vest, with a hat decorated with flowers.
Accompanied by a roar and roar, Bob Dylan sang with great passion on the stage. He often played the guitar and the harmonica, and would sing and dance when he was in high spirits;
And he often plays some re-arranged songs, such as "Mr. Tambourine man", "Rita May", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and other songs are very different from the record version.
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In addition, he will completely give the stage to other members of the tour troupe to show themselves, sometimes even some strangers come here, they play musical instruments, or recite poems, and communicate freely.
And Bob Dylan will act as a driver from time to time, driving his Winnebago (Winnebago) motorhome to drive these people to the next destination.
Undoubtedly, the freedom to "create yourself" is the ultimate goal of Bob Dylan starting this Rolling Thunder tour, as he said in an interview in the film: "Life is not about finding oneself, nor is it finding anything, but Create yourself."
In order to implement this concept of freedom, during the tour, Bob Dylan will rush to the grave of Jack Kerouac (Jack Kerouac, American novelist, representative work "On the Road") to pay tribute;
And his partner Alan Ginsberg is keen on performance art-he will trick a group of middle-aged Jewish women into thinking that they can play mahjong party, but when they sit around the house, Ginsburg will He would read to them the poem "Kaddish" that he wrote to his mother.
In addition, Bob Dylan will also inject a redemptive value orientation into this tour in due course.
In the middle of the tour, he led everyone to the Tuscarola Indian Reserve to perform a benefit performance for the Indians there. Throughout the show, Bob Dylan apologized to the Indians in the form of singing instead of white people in history.
And when he heard that the black boxer Rubin Carter was framed and became a suspect in a murder in New Jersey, he personally ran to the jail to visit the athlete and wrote a protest against him The song "Hurricane" (Hurricane) to support him to clarify his stigma.
Bob Dylan visits Rubin Carter in prison
Lyrics of Hurricane
It can be said that Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder tour is like an artist caravan. It started in October 1975 and ended in May 1976.
In seven months, they continued to travel and perform music. They intended to use singing, dance and poetry to build a free and fraternal utopian world.
Every artist who joins this journey is like a Gypsy possessed, and like walking into Wenders' road movie. They are like classical troubadours, and their performances portray the most exciting era background in American society in the 1970s.
As one of the most notable tours in the history of rock music, the critic Clinton Heylin wrote in Behind the Shades published in 1991:
"Rolling Thunder's performance is still one of the best music that Bob Dylan has created in collaboration with a live band."
Alan Ginsburg called on the audience to learn from them at the end of the film
However, it is worth mentioning that Martin Scorsese actually used some fictional techniques when creating this documentary.
These two "dramatic interpretations" of fictional characters
For example, the actress Sharon Stone, the politician Jack Tanner, the director Stephen Van Depp, and the tour promoter Jim Gianopoulos appear in the film. Interviews about these people are "dramatic interpretations" ", belongs to the "smoke bomb" Martin Scorsese released for the audience.
These two are also "dramatic interpretations" of fictional characters
The documentary "Rolling Thunder Tour" is 142 minutes long, and it does not have a "story" in the general sense. It is completely a combination of reality and fiction in the art exploration led by Bob Dylan in the mid-1970s. One time reduction.
In all fairness, watching such a film is indeed a big challenge, because the content presented in the film is a large section of Bob Dylan's concert show, so the viewing process can easily become boring and boring.
However, perhaps the value of this film is also here.
Whether you are a loyal fan of Bob Dylan or not, you can see the artist’s most precious picture and his thoughts on music, and you don’t need to worry about whether you can finish watching it or whether you need to pause and continue watching. These things.
What Martin Scorsese provides us with is exactly a creation that is most in line with the musical spirit of Bob Dylan, that is to create yourself freely. You can watch any segment of this film at any time, even if it is fast forward, jump or It doesn't matter if you omit it.
As Bob Dylan said at the beginning of the film, "I have no memory of the Rolling Thunder tour show. It was a long time ago, and I haven't been born yet."
In Bob Dylan’s heart, the past experience has long become the dust of history, but now he just wants to live in the present, always on the road, living like a rolling stone, this rock spirit may be Bob · Dylan’s greatness.
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