Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
You just want to be on the side that's winning! :-)
  

    
I like what Bob did with Friend of the Devil. Kept its country roots
with the added Johnson twist -- the aura of which it already had
anyway. Dylan has done several Dead tunes. Alabama Getaway came off
pretty well and West L.A. Fadeaway cool for its novelty. Not one that
you would expect. Always thought a Dylan Black Peter would  be a
perfect fit.
  

    

Our next interview has taken "center stage," but that's no reason for this
excellent conversation to end.  I have really enjoyed this one, and I hope
everyone will continue.
  

    
 certainly Black Peter has that Dylan gravelly tone to it.  I'd like to hear
him give it a try.
  

    
never gonna happen, I hope!    %)
  

    
catching up on this great conversation, rather late. let me just say
that I've always found Desolation Row to be almost unbearably witty.

Yes, I received your letter
About the time the doorknob broke
You asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?

I read about three different ways, all funny, all anguished.

see also...
<http://xianlandia.com/te-amo/2002/04/08/about_the_time_the_doorknob_broke.html
>
  

    
Dylan's 11/1/92 show in Wilkes-Barre seems tailor-made for his
Deadhead fans. Viz the first 50+ minutes of setlist:

West L.A. Fadeaway
Peggy-O
All Along the Watchtower
Positively 4th Street
Tangled Up in Blue
She Belongs to Me
Silvio
  

    

I liked that post referenced in <106>, xian.  Guess you had a bad day that
dsay!
  

    
Thanks for a great couple of weeks. Lets'c continue as things go. I'll
check in every few days. In reviewing the posts, I'd like to send a
shout out to my copy editor at WG. She, who wishes to remain
semi-anonymous, really hunkered down with me last summer and helped
pull every aspect of the book together down the home stretch. Really
couldn't have done it without expertise and patience.

No one has mentioned the graphics in "Keys." I think they are pretty
idiosyncratic. Any thoughts?
  

    
You probably already talked about this...but if not...have you
discussed at all the impact all of Dylan's liner notes had on all of
us, first coming up?

It was amazing...I lived for those notes, more than the songs, at
first...it was like a free ticket to the "Beats" or something, poetry
on the walls of a great coffee house...

He was the first person I was aware of to include poetry and art along
with his music...I really haven't seen anyone do that since until
Eddie Vedder and Peart Jam and a few others who were such rounded
artists that the music was only a part of their 'art'...

Would you talk a bit about Dylan's liner notes, poetry, style and
impact as it paralleled his music?
  

    
thanks for the book and being here!
  

    
Ya know, I probably didn't give the liner notes enough ink. There is
some casual discussion of their style but little of their content.
Certainly "11 Outlined Epitaphs" or "Some Other Kinds of Songs..."
deserved its own, elonagted entry but it was almost like that was a
separate book. And yes, those notes from the mid-'60s albums were like
some kind of missing link or stepping stones between the beat and
hippie movements. "Tarantula" can be seen as Dylan taking the liner
note aesthetic into a longer form. And then, starting with "Blonde On
Blonde," he pretty much abandoned that word canvas only to resusicate
it with "World Gone Wrong." Again, "Chronicles" can be read as a long
form version of less arty, yet "Another" side of Bob Dylan.
  

    
 thanks Oliver - its been a pleasure hearing from you!
  

    
And thank you, Howie!
  

    
Oliver, got a chance to read your book today at B&N. Fantastic, it is
the mortar that joins all the others about the Web/Internet...

You may be pleased to know Barnes and Noble is giving you prominent
display...on the first table walking into the stores on the Father's
Day table....Father's Day is the 2nd biggest book season of the year.

You deserve it, hope you make a bundle.