Hiphop can never die so long as Bob Dylan—with story in his voice and lust in his eyes—is alive

[graywarrior]

Kick ASS article

by Greg Tate

I often think of Bob Dylan when I think about the future of hiphop. I actually think Bob Dylan is the future of hiphop, and maybe even the future of humanity. Or a weird, Vonnegut-ian, bizarro-world vision of the future where nobody ages so much as moves back and forth in time—like the Terminator, not like that post-apocalyptic bookworm Burgess Meredith played on The Twilight Zone who survives a nuclear holocaust and only freaks out when he smashes his reading glasses.


http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop06/0706,tate,75740,22.html

[graywarrior]

1. I'm kicking this just coz.

[mark414]

2. just cause i had to see it

thanks fer posting...great read

[speedoo]

3. And a well timed kick it was.

Otherwise I might have missed the thread.

Now, today I was listening to this...

All Along The Watchtower

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

This song blows my mind. If only I knew what it means.

Now, lemme go read that article!

[graywarrior]

4. Cool, baby, I was gonna PM this to you.

[speedoo]

5. Okay, I can sleep tonight, then.

Cuz if I had missed it... ahh, don't wanna think about that, friend.

Now, back to the article.

[speedoo]

6. Oh yeah. Bookmarked and to be e-mailed to some new Dylan fans...

like tomorrow.

The article speaks for me... almost as old as Bob, and damn happy he's...

"....touring like the only way he's ever leaving the stage is strapped to a gurney..."

Great article! Thanks, gray.

[graywarrior]

7. Welcome.

Catch you around later.

[hickman]

8. Does Neil Cassady get to play the Mad Hatter?

That would be very just.