more dylan.....

ok, so i also forgot to mention the following dylan classics......it's all over now, baby blue, tamborine man, it ain't me babe, i dreamed i saw st. augenstine, highway 61 revisited, just like a woman, a simple twist of fate, and tangled up in blue........i may think of more before the night is over.......the documentary ended abruptly with dylan's motorcycle wreck, an accident which happened not logn after his cataclysmic appearance at newport folk festival and a european tour....whereupon fans booed his metal music and screamed accusations that he had sold out from his folk roots....and turned his back from his topical (protest) format....the filmed sequences of dylan at press conferences were amusing.....with reporters asking him insipid questions about what his songs meant.....at one point...dylan asked the querrying reporter what the songs meant to him.....and the guy replied that he heard any of his songs......it was only his job to ask questions not to know answers.......the same could be said for dylan.....it was not his job to know answers......i felt especially sad for joan baez.....who recalled the disapointment she felt when dylan declined to get involved in the vietnam war protests.......dylan had sung a duet with her during the march on washington for civil rights....something about a shipcoming in.......the documentary was unclear whether they sang before or after mlk's i have a dream speech....i had not known of dylan's presence at that event........dylan went on to make music with a backup band.... like a rolling stone was one of the first in this format....hard to conceive of crowds booing such a catchy, witty, and deeply serious song about...well....according to bob in the documentary...he never meant his songs to mean anything.....he said that his words mean different things to him now than they meant then.....and therefore have no eternal meaning......hmmm......so i suppose it is right and good that i take from his lyrics what i want to take from them.......and disregard the rest.......wait.....that was a simon and garfunkle lyric....not dylan....sorry....all of these rock poets can run together at some point......