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From: nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert)
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Subject: Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:28:08 +0000
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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,

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.