Totally blown away by the news that Dylan wins the Nobel Literature prize. Brilliant, an inspiration, and a great and true Troubador.
Bit of a slow start but it is the Dead backing him.
Re: Congratulations Bob.
Posted: Fri 14th Oct 2016 12:09 am
by notsofasteddie
spidergawd wrote:Totally blown away by the news that Dylan wins the Nobel Literature prize. Brilliant, an inspiration, and a great and true Troubador.
Totally blown away!
He changed the world and my life too!
Thanks Bob!
Re: Congratulations Bob.
Posted: Fri 14th Oct 2016 02:03 am
by macky
Nothing against Bob but…..The lyric hides it,s weakness through melody while prose has to be strong enough to withstand the vacuum of it,s own existence. judges are reaching here ,He,s know Norman mailer,Keats.
Re: Congratulations Bob.
Posted: Fri 14th Oct 2016 02:08 pm
by Willjay
macky wrote:Nothing against Bob but…..The lyric hides it,s weakness through melody while prose has to be strong enough to withstand the vacuum of it,s own existence. judges are reaching here ,He,s know Norman mailer,Keats.
Good point, but I never heard any one singing Mailer or Keats on the streets
"The times they are a changing", you my northern friend are proof of that
Re: Congratulations Bob.
Posted: Fri 14th Oct 2016 04:35 pm
by spidergawd
Macky, Homer and Sapphos wrote lyrical texts to be performed, and here we are 500 years later still enjoying them. So time must be the real judge.
Sure I agree Mailer was/is a good candidate, but are they awarded posthumously? I'm not sure they are.
Norman Mailer once said, "If Dylan's a poet, I'm a basketball player." Miserable old fucker.
