Watch Bob Dylan’s seldom-seem ‘Hard Rain’ TV concert, and the better version that was shelved
When Hard Rain, Bob Dylan’s much ballyhooed NBC TV special aired on September 14, 1976, I was nine years old. I’d “discovered” Dylan earlier that…
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William S. Burroughs on the cut-up technique and meeting Samuel Beckett & Bob Dylan
“It’s the stink of death, citizens!” (Photo by Peter Hujar) This hour-long BBC Radio special opens with “Old Lady Sloan,” the Mortal Micronotz’ interpretation of…
Months later, Bob Dylan is STILL trolling the Nobel Committee! (Updated)
After last year’s surprising choice of Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, some observers surely saw it coming that the prototypical trickster…
Bob Dylan’s little-known songs about Vincent Van Gogh
“Side Tracks – 17 October 1964 – Detroit, Michigan” by Bob Dylan (via Halcyon Gallery) Seeing both Bob Dylan and Vincent Van Gogh in the…
Mind-blowing psychedelic 60s posters of Hendrix, Dylan, Pink Floyd, Yoko Ono & The Who
Martin Sharp, ‘Exploding Hendrix,’ 1968. The late great counter cultural figure, poet and publisher Felix Dennis collected an incredible array of psychedelic advertising posters during…
‘Pistol shots ring out in a barroom night’: Bob Dylan’s riveting performance of ‘Hurricane,’ 1975
Yesterday, right after I’d finished reading an article on The Daily Beast about it being the 40th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s 1976 album, Desire, I…
Bring me the head of Bob Dylan: Creative and cool looking die cut records
Bob Dylan “Baby Stop Crying” die cut 7″ record Artist Daniel Tolhurst has found yet another creative way to make art out of vinyl –…
Bob Dylan plays ‘Hava Nagila’ with Harry Dean Stanton
Bob Dylan gets in touch with his inner Zimmerman, playing “Hava Nagila” on harmonica with his son-in-law Peter Himmelman and Big Love patriarch, Harry Dean…
50 years ago today Bob Dylan totally blew our minds with ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
It was 50 years ago today that one of the truly momentous events in rock history took place when Bob Dylan recorded “Like A Rolling…
Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ was recorded 50 years ago today
Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” one of the young folk bard’s first “electric” numbers, was recorded on January 14, 1965. The personnel at the session…