When was Dylan coolest?

Subject: When was Dylan coolest? Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:40 pm

JWH/Basement Tapes/Nashville Skyline/New Morning/Isle of Wight etc etc. Around '69. I reckon that wins.

Least cool I guess would probably be the 80s.

His current personna is pretty cool as well...

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:59 pm

Whenever he wears dark glasses.

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Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:01 pm

You're such a fanboy.

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:59 pm

Coolest I would say 65/66

Although, I like his look in the Nashville and RTR periods.

The 80's were baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

, apart from the Traveling Wilbury bit.

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He's cool now

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:25 am

Stay cool, chilly willy!

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Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:14 pm

On the cover of Blonde on Blonde.

Now lock the thread

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:44 am

Now lock the thread what is this about?? I think his coolest was during Rolling Thunder....and 60-65 and some in between. But the Christian years were his darkest for me and the group that I would sit and listen to Bob with I think we just kind of wrote him off until he changed his act. We always knew he would come back around again once he divorced his current Christian lover.... Oh I forgot Now you can lock the Thread Laughing

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:50 pm

Lock the thread, hell. He was coolest when he skinnied down from his babyft and went dangerous - paranoid? Schizzy? Who cared. He was the definition of drop-dead cool in 1965.

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:00 pm

Yes.

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John McLaughlin wrote:

...paranoid? Schizzy? Who cared. He was the definition of drop-dead cool in 1965.

Wasn't he though.

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Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:07 am

Yesterday your were Bob Dylan now you are Bop....What did bob get mad at you for taking liberties? Yes, that was when he took a Ten year Hiatus because he was toooooooo darn Thin...and the drugs were killing him if he would have actually gone to Woodstock I think we would have nothing left.... I love you

He did not quit the drugs all together but the ten years away made him gain a bit more weigh and a little more perspective. I have a picture of him where he is just a toothpick and he looked Dope Sick.....

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:13 am

President Obama wrote:

Stay cool, chilly willy!

I remember as a teenager walking up to a Guy who dressed and looked just like that in Mesa Arizona in the dead of summer. And I just had to say something to him.... and we chatted for hours and he hypontised me soo bad I could hardly walk. He took all of my strength inside my body and left me with nothing and the ground shook and I held on the him and I said "I thought I was going to fall into the quake". And he just looked at me cool like and said....not yet....but if you would like me to help you we have an room near here you could rest up. I said not way and staggered home.......Damn Bob He was with Richard Manuel from The Band..... queen

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:45 pm

I think I remember that too...

Subject: Re: When was Dylan coolest? Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:56 pm

All I say is that nothing kick-starts my severely depleted energy levels on platforms 1 & 2 of Aldgate tube station on a freezing November morning during the morning peak better than the tunelessly-sneered :

Cold black glass don't break no mirrors
Cold black water don't make no tears

(Let's not even begin to discuss the "Ol' black Bascombe" alternative lyrics; Life's too short.)

Needless to say, I take good care that my hand-held station P/A device is turned off as I chant this, although I believe Train Operator Jah Wobble has no such compunction.

Come to think of it, the same tactic has worked pretty well for me in High Summer, too.

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