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Title: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: lbpesq on May 24, 2021, 08:40:30 AM
Dylan turns 80 today!  Happy birthday, Bob.


Bill, tgo
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: David Houck on May 24, 2021, 09:59:33 AM

The Times They Are A Changin
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: edwardofhuncote on May 24, 2021, 12:46:58 PM
I was having a conversation between sets the other night with Gabe, (our guitar player) he had recently read a story about one time Bob Dylan had expressed an interest in joining the Grateful Dead. Not sure when this was... I know they did tour some together. Anyway, it wasn't to be, there was one dissenting vote; Phil Lesh.

Happy Birthday to Mr. Dylan... definitely 'Served Somebody'. 
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: hammer on May 24, 2021, 01:29:09 PM
A while ago pre COVID, I was driving a group of my grad students to do some data collection and we traveled past a building where Bob Dylan purportedly lived when he spent his short tenure at the University of Minnesota where I teach. I pointed out that a famous person named Robert Zimmerman had lived in the building and they responded, “who?” I then corrected myself and informed them I was referring to Bob Dylan and once again they replied, “Who is that person?”
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: David Houck on May 24, 2021, 04:40:23 PM
Quote from: hammer on May 24, 2021, 01:29:09 PM
... I was driving a group of my grad students .. I pointed out that .. I was referring to Bob Dylan and .. they replied, “Who is that person?”

... at which point I'm guessing you flunked them all for the semester.
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: TheKimmer on May 24, 2021, 06:29:47 PM
Hey old timer, whut de heck is Flunked?
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: David Houck on May 24, 2021, 06:55:17 PM
Quote from: TheKimmer on May 24, 2021, 06:29:47 PM
... whut de heck is Flunked?

What I did to second semester German.
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: lbpesq on May 24, 2021, 07:35:41 PM
9th grade Latin. 
I thought it would be easy - just add “us” to everything.
“Butterflyus Americanus”. 
Boy, was I mistaken!

Bill, tgo
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: hankster on May 24, 2021, 09:53:49 PM
I never got past "Brittania est un magna insula".  But that's enough to start a conversation.
For me it's impossible to pick any single Dylan tune.  But this one has my heart...
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on May 24, 2021, 10:43:27 PM
Quote from: lbpesq on May 24, 2021, 07:35:41 PM
9th grade Latin. 
I thought it would be easy - just add “us” to everything.
“Butterflyus Americanus”. 
Boy, was I mistaken!

Bill, tgo


I passed 9th grade Latin with a D- only because I was able to charm the college girl they brought in to finish the semester after the little old lady who'd been teaching it since it was a new language dropped dead in front of the class one day.......

Peter (who fared no better in 10th grade Spanish)
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: lbpesq on May 24, 2021, 10:49:21 PM
“Blood On The Tracks” is on my desert island list.

Bill, tgo
Title: Re: Wanna Feel Old? Happy B-Day Bobby D!
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on May 24, 2021, 11:30:27 PM
Well, it's not like there's a shortage of choices, but if I had to pick one Dylan song, I'd have say "Knocking On Heaven's Door".

Peter (who does it with the 3rd verse, which he has heard only on the Garcia-Grisman-Rice version)