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Subject: Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:31:40 +0000
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:28:06 +0000, Norbert wrote:

> Sounds like an intense (in a bad way) experience.
>
> My parents met in Cambridge, MA., in the 60s, and I grew up with them
> playing stuff by Dylan, Donovan, and Cat Stevens.  My mother eventually
> moved up to Gordon Lightfoot.
>
> Anyway, so I thought I liked Dylan.  Or perhaps I was merely used to his
> stuff.  Then, in the mid-1970s, a live Dylan concert was broadcast from
> Colorado.  Joan Baez joined him onstage.  I was eager to see it.  But
> what Dylan proceeded to do was to make a mess.  The songs were sloppy
> and barely recognizable.  His longtime collaborator Joan Baez was out of
> sync with him,

Your opinion.

That's the Hard Rain concert,band it was some brilliant stuff.

> And I began to suspect that Dylan was an emperor with no Clothes.
>
> The same thing happened at Dylan's Grammy awards "speech/performance" in
> the early 90s.  He couldn't play, sing, or deliver a speech.  In that
> case, he was probably out of his mind on substances.
>
> Still, I think he's an emperor with no clothes.  People deify him
> because they think they're supposed to.

No, I suppose with Bob Dylan either you get it or you don't.

Sorry to see that you don't.