10-23-2006, 10:54 AM
The next time he played was in '93 alongside Santana, but I'm thinking that was after your time with RM, ED.
I love Dylan's voice the same way I love Tom Waits voice. It's the way I would choose to sing if it didn't make me cough like a cat chucking hairballs. Note that he chooses to sing that way. Just compare it to Lay Lady Lay if you want to hear his 'pop' singing voice. That's the thing with Dylan - he can be quite the chameleon. It sucks when he's bad, like this recent tour, but it's astounding when he kicks down. But I totally hear you about other people doing Dylan tunes. I can't think of anyone who's even in the ballpark lyrically. Jerry lifted heavily from Dylan's songlist, and every time I hear Dylan do one of those, like this last tour, I think Jerry did it better. Dylan confessed that the Dead taught him a lot about his own music after their historic tour together.
BTW, I hear Waits has a new 3-disc thing coming out real soon.
I love Dylan's voice the same way I love Tom Waits voice. It's the way I would choose to sing if it didn't make me cough like a cat chucking hairballs. Note that he chooses to sing that way. Just compare it to Lay Lady Lay if you want to hear his 'pop' singing voice. That's the thing with Dylan - he can be quite the chameleon. It sucks when he's bad, like this recent tour, but it's astounding when he kicks down. But I totally hear you about other people doing Dylan tunes. I can't think of anyone who's even in the ballpark lyrically. Jerry lifted heavily from Dylan's songlist, and every time I hear Dylan do one of those, like this last tour, I think Jerry did it better. Dylan confessed that the Dead taught him a lot about his own music after their historic tour together.
BTW, I hear Waits has a new 3-disc thing coming out real soon.
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