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Hey.
Just came from watching the second half of the biographical documentary "No Direction Home" on PBS.
It was good, but to me it was also a little disappointing. For one, there was much too much footage of the stupidity Dylan had to endure in press interviews. He seemed to suffer from the experience more than most other musicians of the time.
Second--this part only covered the three years from just after he became famous through his European tour of 1966. Even after his sabbatical, he still had a great career in music through the Seventies and Eighties. Martin Scorcese just cuts the story off.
As for Bob Dylan's attitude...I can identify with a lot of it. He hates being interrogated, defined by others, criticized (negatively AND positively), being told what is "right" or "wrong" about his work, being identified with crowds that he doesn't feel he belongs to--and all of this is valid in my opinion. I'd probably feel much the same way if I were a celebrity.
I mean, what if Chillin' Out became a best-selling book and a hit movie? The press would be calling me things like "a voice for the Asbergerian and the affection-starved" or "the new champion of the fetishist set" and garbage like that. I would hate that kind of baloney, and the fact of being subjected to it at every public event. Man, I WOULD act like Dylan!
And if I ever met Bob Dylan in person, I wouldn't ask a single question, and would trust that if he wanted to tell me anything at all, he would. If anybody deserves his social liberation, he does.
FP
Just came from watching the second half of the biographical documentary "No Direction Home" on PBS.
It was good, but to me it was also a little disappointing. For one, there was much too much footage of the stupidity Dylan had to endure in press interviews. He seemed to suffer from the experience more than most other musicians of the time.
Second--this part only covered the three years from just after he became famous through his European tour of 1966. Even after his sabbatical, he still had a great career in music through the Seventies and Eighties. Martin Scorcese just cuts the story off.
As for Bob Dylan's attitude...I can identify with a lot of it. He hates being interrogated, defined by others, criticized (negatively AND positively), being told what is "right" or "wrong" about his work, being identified with crowds that he doesn't feel he belongs to--and all of this is valid in my opinion. I'd probably feel much the same way if I were a celebrity.
I mean, what if Chillin' Out became a best-selling book and a hit movie? The press would be calling me things like "a voice for the Asbergerian and the affection-starved" or "the new champion of the fetishist set" and garbage like that. I would hate that kind of baloney, and the fact of being subjected to it at every public event. Man, I WOULD act like Dylan!
And if I ever met Bob Dylan in person, I wouldn't ask a single question, and would trust that if he wanted to tell me anything at all, he would. If anybody deserves his social liberation, he does.
FP
