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To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/8/2001 10:33:06 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 2695

Dylan comes to the aid of the GAA in Kilkenny ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2001/0405/hom6.htm Thursday, April 5, 2001 By Chris Dooley, South East Correspondent "I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood," declares Bob Dylan in his recent Oscar-winning song, Things Have Changed. For Hollywood read Kilkenny, where Dylan is set to play his only Irish concert this year. Nowlan Park, home to the county's hurling team, is the venue for the gig on July 15th. The promoter, Mr Peter Aiken, says arrangements for the event are likely to be finalised over the next couple of days and tickets, priced at about £35, will go on sale soon. The Kilkenny GAA board will use its share of the receipts to help fund the purchase of land for new training pitches. If the event is a success it will use the venue for other concerts. Its chairman, Mr Ned Quinn, admitted he was not a Bob Dylan fan but was looking forward to the event. "I wouldn't know Bob Dylan if he came walking down the road, I'd be more of a Pa Dillon fan," he said, referring to a Kilkenny hurler of, like Dylan, legendary status. Up to 20,000 tickets will be on sale for the event. While Mr Aiken says he does not expect demand to match that for the U2 concert at Slane, they are unlikely to gather dust. The 900 tickets for Dylan's performance in Vicar Street, Dublin last September were sold in 60 seconds. Mr Aiken said he had sent material about Kilkenny to Dylan in Australia, where he is currently on tour, and he expected him to be impressed with the venue. The Kilkenny GAA board had approached him with the idea, he added, and he had been impressed with how positive the business community had been.

To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/8/2001 10:35:08 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 2695

I don't have the CD but will get it, thanks.

To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/16/2001 2:18:58 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 2695

35 years ago Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is released. (1966)

To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/18/2001 10:35:11 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 2695

Entertainment Highlights in History By The Associated Press, Entertainment highlights during the week of April 22-28: In 1956, Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut, opening for comedian Shecky Greene. Presley's engagement was canceled after a week because of poor ticket sales, and he didn't return to Vegas for 13 years. In 1961, Bob Dylan made his recording debut, playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's ``Midnight Special'' album. He was paid 50 dollars. In 1969, The Who performed the rock opera ``Tommy'' in its entirety for the first time in Dolton, England. In 1978, Bob Marley and The Wailers performed at the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was his first public appearance in his homeland since being wounded in an assassination attempt about a year-and-a-half earlier.

To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/25/2001 4:04:22 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 2695

Did Bob Dylan lift "Blowin' in the Wind" from a high school yearbook? straightdope.com 23-Apr-2001 Dear Straight Dope: You have fearlessly tackled the prickly issues of porcupine and astronaut sex, but you have avoided the real question of the ages--did Bob Dylan write "Blowin' In The Wind"? About 1971 Mike Royko published a column in the Chicago Daily News asserting that the words to the Dylan classic first appeared in some high school yearbook, and that Dylan purchased not only the rights to the poem, but also the right to claim authorship. What's the Straight Dope? --jsowder SDSTAFF Songbird replies: How many times must this question be asked? The answer is: No. The rumor that Bob Dylan bought "Blowin' In the Wind" from unknown singer Lorre Wyatt started in the early '60s. The story was simple: Dylan supposedly bought the song from Wyatt and claimed it as his own. The rumor caught fire in the early '70s when it made Mike Royko's column in the Chicago Daily News and then Newsweek magazine. As Dylan once wrote, "Something is happening, but you don't know what it is." What was happening was little Lorre Wyatt took credit for a song Lorre didn't write, and the rumors were proved totally false. In a 1974 "mea culpa" article in New Times magazine, Wyatt admitted he made the claim to impress his high school singing group. "In September of 1962, fall of my senior year, I auditioned for the Millburnaires, a perennial singing octet from Millburn High. Ecstatic over making it, I raced to my first rehearsal overflowing with song suggestions like 'Dona, Dona' and '500 Miles.' "Several weeks later, I thumbed through the new issue of Sing Out! It was seeded with protest songs which rekindled my songwriting desires. [Note: "Blowin' in the Wind" did not appear on an album until 1963.] The ideas of one song in particular had an unavoidable impact. They agitated my head, and I made a valiant attempt to find my own words. I scribbled feverishly at my heavy blond desk, pressed by the upcoming Millburnaires rehearsal. But the printed words kept looking better and better, and I couldn't resist trying to piece the tune together. "On October 28th, the eight of us were sitting around Don Larsen's beige-carpeted living room swapping songs. In my pocket were two sets of words -- the original and the song I had hoped would grow out of it. My mind see-sawed nervously back and forth between them. Mine wasn't finished and that song was so good. Maybe I could sing it and not say anything and they'd think I wrote it and be impressed. If they said, 'let's sing that sometime,' that'd be OK. I'd finish my song by then, and they probably wouldn't remember the original. "Someone said, Anybody got a song? My hands formed a shaky D chord, and a distant voice began, 'How many roads...' Unexpected silence as I finished. WOW! Where'd you get that? Did you write that? (Why not, I thought, nothing will ever come of it...) "Yes. A rush in my brain as the chasm between the simple and the horrible surreal complex evaporated. That moment my old life ended and a new one began. "Hey, we gotta do that! We could learn it for Thanksgiving! "No-no--we can't--it's not done yet! "Thanksgiving Assembly. The ONE time we would do the song. My strictest instructions to everyone were not to mention who wrote it, but Don circumvented that by saying, 'Here's a song written by one of the Millburnaires.' At the end of the Assembly, people streamed backstage. Somewhere the answer slipped out. I became adamant that we would never sing the song again. My head was swirling. "Next Monday my homeroom teacher asked to see me after school for a 'just-between-you-and-me' chat. She wondered why I didn't want to sing that song anymore. I pulled out the answer that I had been toying with all weekend, and told her that I had sold it. But nothing would abate her curiosity. When she asked, For how much? I blurted out $1,000. Her surprise led me quickly to add that I had given it away, and Where? became C.A.R.E. "I'd begun to make Pinocchio look like he had a pug nose." Wyatt apparently got his nose back in shape, because he did not give up the stage. He went on to perform after his education, including a stint on the Clearwater Project, according to Folk File, A Folkie's Dictionary. "Four more springs later," concludes Wyatt, "my therapist listened in amazement as I unraveled the tale of how I picked, by chance, the song that was to become the crowning expression of the 'we shall overcome era.' She remarked supportively, 'Well...at least you had good taste...' " Good thing you had good taste and came to us, js. Yet another answer stopped from blowin' in the wind. --SDSTAFF Songbird Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

To: mr.mark who wrote (574)	4/25/2001 4:09:39 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2695

LIVE 1961-2000: THIRTY-NINE YEARS OF GREAT CONCERT PERFORMANCES canoe.ca:80/JamAlbumsD/dylan_bob_19612000-can.html Bob Dylan (Sony Music Entertainment: Japan) Reviewer: PAUL CANTIN DISC INFO GENRE: Folk/rock FORMAT: CD ENHANCED: No NO. OF DISCS: 1 RELEASE DATE(S): March, 2001 PRODUCER(S): Various NOTES: 1. So far, this live compendium is slated for Japanese release only, but the record is turning up here as a high-priced import. It covers a range of Dylan live performances, ranging from a 1961 performance in Minneapolis through to a show last year in Portsmouth, England. 2. The sources for many of the performances sound like rough soundboard recordings and may not match up the audio standards of some collectors, although generally speaking, the material is of a decent enough quality. POINTED REMARKS Dylan has always been an enigma, and this album is suitably enigmatic. Why 39 years of performances? Why a Japanese-only release? Why this hodge-podge of material, with previously unreleased gems forced to sit alongside unremarkable performances from previous Dylan live albums such as "Before The Flood," "Hard Rain," "Dylan And The Dead" and "MTV Unplugged"? As even the most casual Dylan-phile knows, Bob's tape archive is bursting with unreleased performances that would eclipse the widely available material included here. Having said that, "1961-2000" is essential to Dylan collectors because of the newly unearthed or rare material included. "Wade In The Water" from 1961 shows His Bobness at his blues-based early best, while "Handsome Molly" (recorded a year later at the Gaslight) accentuates his roots in old-world folk. A version of "To Ramona" recorded in 1965 for the tour documentary "Don't Look Back" shows what a towering performer he was, armed only with his guitar and harmonica, but "I Don't Believe you," recorded the following year and backed by The Band, ups the ante considerably. There are also brief stops for the Rolling Thunder Revue era ("It Ain't Me, Babe"), the born-again phase ("Dead Man, Dead Man", New Orleans, 1981), and the "Time Out Of Mind" comeback ("Cold Irons Bound," 1997, Los Angeles). The three songs recorded last year in England show, too, that while Dylan has eschewed studio recording in recent years, on any given night, he's doing some of his best work -- whether anyone cares to listen or not. RATING: 4 (out of 5) SIMILARITIES: Just about anyone who ever picked up an acoustic guitar or honked on a harmonica can trace their lineage back to Bob. BEST TRACK: "Grand Coulee Dam": Backed by The Band, Dylan emerged from a long period of artistic exile to perform at a 1968 tribute to Woody Guthrie. Anyone who has made a study of Dylan's "Basement Tapes" will recognize the rollicking high spirits of the performance here. The only regret is that this set doesn't include the other song Dylan and company performed at the show, "Please, Mrs. Roosevelt." WORST TRACK: "Slow Train": People who know say that Dylan's best performances with The Grateful Dead remain unreleased. Certainly this 1987 turgid performance makes a cogent argument that the unheard Dylan/Dead collaborations couldn't be much worse. THE BOTTOM LINE: Hardcore Dylan fans will still have plenty to pine for, but there's enough tantalizing material here to make it an essential addition.