Watched the first part of the excellent Martin Scorsese documentary last night which featured footage of the 1966 gig at the Sheffield City Hall. There were a few disgruntled fans shown bemoaning his change from acoustic to electric. Any elder forummers admit to being one of them?

Originally posted by Tubthump
Watched the first part of the excellent Martin Scorsese documentary last night which featured footage of the 1965 gig at the Sheffield City Hall. There were a few disgruntled fans shown bemoaning his change from acoustic to electric. Any elder forummers admit to being one of them?

That was the 1966 concert

No, I was much too young to see him in 66.

But I saw him in 1978 (Earl's Court) and was in a queue to buy tickets at Wilson Pecks. Queued up all night. It was freezing cold.

Were any other Forum members in that queue?

Originally posted by mojoworking
That was the 1966 concert

Oh the wonders of the edit button. Mistakes just vanish as if they were never made.

You play the harmonica and guitar at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young - the world considers you a genius, visionary and spokesman for a generation. Go that extra mile, and strap a drum to your back, and see what happens

Is it me, but is Bob Dylan in the Top 3 Most Overrated Musicians Ever ?

I just don't get his appeal. I was obviously born too young. Either that or I hate vain protest songs ;)

Originally posted by Tony
Is it me, but is Bob Dylan in the Top 3 Most Overrated Musicians Ever ?

I just don't get his appeal. I was obviously born too young. Either that or I hate vain protest songs ;)

yeah i voted him overated in a thread before...along with prince (great musician...not many good songs) and james brown (inspirational...but how many good songs??)

but bob dylan did up his game for the travelling wilburies albums.

Originally posted by Tony
Is it me, but is Bob Dylan in the Top 3 Most Overrated Musicians Ever ?

I just don't get his appeal. I was obviously born too young. Either that or I hate vain protest songs ;)

Yes it's just you. Dylan is probably the world's greatest living songwriter.

With a couple of later exceptions, he hasn't written a protest song since 1964 (vain, or otherwise :loopy: )

Carcrash.

I'm sorry to say this, but it sounds like you've never really listened to any Dylan at all.

If you had have done you would not have posted what you did.

It was a joke you miserable sod. I'm a big fan of Dylans and thought the documentry was one of the best things I've seen for a while.
Martin Scorsese has done a couple of things on TV recently. The Blues series was stunning TV but this was better. I hope he carries on doing TV.

Well, the punchline certainly had me creased up in stitches!

Masked and Anonymous is on BBC2 tonight but in certain quarters of the media it's had a right slating.

It is one to watch, or one to avoid?

Originally posted by dishwasher
Well, the punchline certainly had me creased up in stitches!

Masked and Anonymous is on BBC2 tonight but in certain quarters of the media it's had a right slating.

It is one to watch, or one to avoid?

Don't bother. I'm a huge Dylan fan, but this is not what you'd call one of his masterpieces.

Dylan wrote the script and frankly it's dire. His acting is not too hot either.

Overall, it's hard to work out what's going on, the storyline is so, er, "enigmatic".

I think enigmatic is the key word.

some of the music was quite good though.

Originally posted by dishwasher
I think enigmatic is the key word.

some of the music was quite good though.

The soundtrack CD is a killer. There's a Japanese version of My Back Pages (!), a rap version of Like A Rolling Stone in Spanish which actually samples Bob's original single and many more weird and wonderful Dylan covers.

There are also 4 new Dylan songs unavailable elsewhere