"bill van" <billvan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <64h7k8F2bvkshU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "chris greville" <chrisgreville@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "bill van" <billvan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:billvan-354326.00261021032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > In article <64fl13F2bah60U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > "chris greville" <chrisgreville@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> <Snip>
>> >>
>> >> When a DeeJay says "a Dylan song" my ears go into
>> >>
>> >> <Song=Dylan>
>> >> <Dylan=No sound>
>> >> <End song= Sound on> mode
>> >
>> > Your choice, but you're missing out on arguably the No. 1 influence
on
>> > popular music in the last half century.
>>
>> May be, but I think there were a number of of the top groups and styles
>> were
>> very influenced in their early days by the likes of Muddy Waters,
Howling
>> Wolf et al.
>
> The last thing I would do is deny the great blues guys who were the
> foundation of so much post-1960 music. That doesn't take away from Bob
> Dylan.
>
>> To me, Dylan has a droning voice.
>
> Sure, or something like that. Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and
> Johnny Cash -- and others -- have/had something other than
> conventionally attractive voices. That stopped neither their personal
> success nor their influence on others. They're not about pretty singing,
> and dismissing them because their voices are unconventional is to miss
> their art.
I have said nothing about the others, just Dylan.
It's just that my taste in music is pretty wide, but Dylan is well wide of
my wide.
> That's not to say you have to listen to them, of course.
>
And I have listened to them, but of the other three only Johnny Cash has
one
place somewhere near my top hundred.
Music comes and goes in my life, I don't listen to it a lot. But if I do,
it's because it has a meaning to me for that time amd that set of
cir***stances. I will occasionally pick a disc at random and play it, and
I
will remember the set of cir***stances that that song meant to me. I may
then not listen to music for 6 months.
Dylan never was appropriate for me.
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