Music Enlightenment: When I was 10 years old, my father bought a guitar, an old-fashioned record player and a
small town life of country songs. It was monotonous and closed. Except for the foreign circus performance on the
radio music program, I heard Hank Williams, Johnnie Ray, and Muddy Waters
apply for West Point Military Academy, but they were unsuccessful. The era of heroism has passed
. The first time I heard rock music on the radio felt no different from the country songs I heard in the past. I
started to form Band. At that time, no one liked rock music, country music, and blues music.
The popular music at that time had nothing to do with reality. The reality is full of fear.
Love brought inspiration and poetry to young Dylan.
At that time, screen icons James Dean and Brando did not have much influence on him.
Cooperating with Bobby Vee, he
did not finish his studies and was addicted to Keroua. John Jacob Niles
' folk music sings out what Dylan said: "Those songs sing about my feelings, about life, about people, about customs, about ideas, and the songs just reveal it all."
Odetta hit the guitar up and down, very rhythmic, and didn't even need to hit the drums, which was a great inspiration for Dylan's creation
Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, because he sincerely admires Dylan Thomas on the other side of the ocean, so he changed his surname to Dylan.
Woody Guthrie sings with eloquence and makes some amazing points, Dylan listened to other people's collections of his records, found his musical mentor, and went to visit him in the East, because he was still alive.
Joan Baez As Dylan said: "100% folk singer, she needed a singing partner
Dylan came to Greenwich Village, New York, and started that part of "A Freewheelin' Time"
1961, Columbia Records Producer John Hammond signed a contract with Dylan and began recording,
Dylan said in a 1962 radio interview: "I don't think the songs I write are folk songs, I usually call them period songs. "Blowing in the Wind is such a hymn
. It uses an easy-to-understand traditional form to write the latest ideas of the moment, and it has a sense of the times and ancient charms."
Dylan said: "There are folk words everywhere, and you can take a short paragraph. When I came to make a song, I never felt that I had broken any traditions. I used existing forms to create. I didn't invent something that others haven't tried. I just cut out parts of it and recreated it. "
Dylan is not keen on politics, is considered a protest singer and is non-committal, completely uninterested," stands with the hard-working people. Doesn't mean you're a politician. '63 and Joan Baez lived and wrote together, "
I had absolutely no idea what the content was talking about, but I liked it, so I read it carefully and told him my interpretation of the lyrics, and he said, 'What the fuck ok'...he'll say 'you look at it, in a few years, other people, other bastards will start writing the crap I wrote, how did it come about, what it's talking about, I don't know, but In the future they will write it out to help me answer'. "
"I take everything I know and put out a comprehensive statement to express my feelings, and that's the basic spirit of the era. I think that's what I do, and I think I should persevere and do what I can. Do." The
'66 reporter asked, "You don't sing protest songs anymore?" Dylan replied, "Who said that? All my songs are protest songs, every one is, and my job is to protest." The camera goes back to the Washington parade three years ago in August 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the historic speech I have a dream, which had a profound impact on Dylan. Dylan and Joan Baez performed on stage. , established the status of "spokesperson of the civil rights movement".
He accepts everyone and enriches their lives in a way that they understand and while he doesn't consider himself a protest singer it is a protest singer and he sees what's going on around him and everyone sees it but Dylan First resort to these voices
in November '63, Kennedy's assassination
in December '63, Dylan speech: "I don't have a guitar, but I can speak, on behalf of the soldiers who went to Cuba, thank you for presenting the Tom Paine Award. First of all , they're all young people, it took me years to be young, I feel young, I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of being young, I just hope everyone who's here tonight isn't here, I'm See, I see people with all kinds of faces still with hair on top of their heads, and it all makes me think you're young too. When old people lose their hair, they should step down, and I look down at the people who rule me, they do it for me Make the rules and they don't have any hair on the top of their heads, I'm getting very angry, I don't distinguish between black and white, left and right, only up and down, the bottom is closer to the ground, I just want to push up, I didn't think about politics at all. Small things."
"They praised me as the creator of current affairs songs, I was never the creator of current affairs songs, and whatever reason they gave, it wasn't a good reason, that belief didn't suit me."
"I'm an outsider anyway, I Appearing as an outsider in many ways, I am an outsider now, and they try to become a fellow traveler for a certain purpose, and I don't agree."
Why does Dylan outlast those so-called protest singers? Because he doesn't want to label, he doesn't take music as a purpose to lead the way, music is not a medium, music is the purpose, those protesting singers will be out and forgotten after that era.
"Artists must be careful, not for a certain purpose. She has to be in a state of constant transformation forever, you know? If you can be in that state, it's basically no problem."
"I can't analyze my work. , and do not intend to satisfy the audience, because I know that some people like it and some people don't like it, I cross the threshold when no one is paying attention, and since I have come in, from now on, no one can do anything about me."
Conscious Revolution
Joan Baez: "I think Bob's a special friend of mine, but he's moved on...he's ready to take the stage, and I'll say this, he doesn't want anyone competing with him."
"Like a rolling stone breaking something, I don't think the radio has played this kind of song, I know I've never heard it. So, what I did at the time allowed me to write this kind of song with no effort."
"I'm not the kind of person who wants to be part of the audience . The performer, I don't get close to the audience, the performer likes to applaud? Yes or not, it depends on what kind of performer you are, you can make the audience mesmerize, there are performers on stage, there are audiences below, many It's all going on."
At the Newport Folk Festival in July '65, Dylan first played on electric guitar for 15 minutes with Paul Butterfield's Blues, offstage Booed; then "re" put on the acoustic guitar and played
"My hand is on fire" by himself.
He held a concert in Linqiu in September 1965. He sang folk songs with the acoustic guitar in the first half, and sang rock with the electric guitar in the second half. The second half, the booing.
Of course you can make everyone like you, but if you're going to be a better person, you can't make everyone love you, it's a matter of gain and loss, depending on what you want , It doesn't matter what you lose, as long as you want to be a better person.
Man is actually a narrow animal, short-sighted and vulgar. As a dignified artist, Dylan does not want to be consumed, does not want to be a commodity, he is himself! .
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