Crossroads ?

This has all gone a bit off topic

i didn't want it to be a big deal. i just don't understand how one can criticize dylan for playing songs the way he wants to play them. in 40 years, he's never played the same song the same way twice. it shouldn't be your expectation. he's not the eagles.
besides, they're his songs, not yours. how would you feel if someone told you you had to play your songs exactly how you played it the first time, every day for 40 years. you'd probably get bored pretty quick.
i, for one, have enjoyed watching him play live, love the fact that his music is constantly evolving, and am glad to be alive at the same time as one of the most unique, adventurous musicians in history. and i like the way he sings.

Dylan has a very unique style that not everyone likes, myself included.

I don't listen to Dylan's music and have never seen him in concert but from it sounds like his concert was the same as all of them in that he doesn't play the songs the same way all the time.

I would think if you were a Dylan fan you would enjoy it.

It seems like people love him or hate him and there's not a lot of in between.

I have to agree with you brothertupelo. Dylan obviously has talent whether he went to the crossroads or not.
You must not forget that he was competing with groups like The Stones and The Beatles, when his genre of music would have been classed as square. and still managed to make it big time
If I could write just one song in my lifetime that could compete with a Dylan, Jagger Richards, or Lennon & McCartney I would die a happy man.

As footnote check out this threads subject.

I dont think it says Do you like Dylan or not ? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

His music was never classed as "square", he belonged to a large group of "folky"-type singers - Joanie Mitchell, Joan Baez, Mamas & Papas, Donovan, etc.. It was hippie-time, flowers in yer 'air, 'n all that.

Just wondering, why does Clapton really distort a line in crossroads. when signing. It's near the beginiing where he says "asumptalupwhosay"
then after that he sings "the devil take me if you please" It's the part where it doesnt sound like any words.

It jsut interested me, in another version, he sings that line the same way also.

First album 1962 then Free wheeling in 1963. Surely not hippie time then, flowers in your hair 1968/9.

I don't think that line is even in Clapton's version blackzero.

He says "ask the lord above for mercy, save me if you please"

Edit: Could be "take me if you please" not "Save" but after listening 30,000 times in slomo, I doubt it.

I'm not sure what line you're talking about in Cream's Crossroads, but I can understand every word Clapton sings. Then again, I've listened to the song about a kajillion times. I was, however, listening to an interview with Clapton not too long ago about Robert Johnson, and Clapton said that when performing Johnson songs, he often had to make an estimate with the lyrics, because he could never figure out for sure what Johnson was saying some of the time.

His music was never classed as "square", he belonged to a large group of "folky"-type singers - Joanie Mitchell, Joan Baez, Mamas & Papas, Donovan, etc.. It was hippie-time, flowers in yer 'air, 'n all that.

he did belong to the folk crowd, was an ardent supporter of civil rights, and was a contemporary of joan baez, but he always wanted to be part of the older pete seeger, robert johnson, hank williams, woodie guthrie sound. while he influenced mitchell, the byrds, etc, he really didn't run with them. also, he pretty much despised donovan, as you can see on the documentary "don't look back", and was not really a part of the hippie movement and feared being used as a tool or figurehead by any group.