Bob Dylan makes the news:  to be the voice of direction on GPS in UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/aug/25/bob-dylan-sat-nav

Starbuck wrote on Aug 25^th, 2009 at 9:32am:



Listen here.  I'm just the Wicked messenger.  Have one more cup of coffee, open the door Homer , look for the sign in the window and check your Leopard-skin pill-box hat.  If it isn't in there, is probably in your copper kettle.

Tumbled wrote on Aug 25^th, 2009 at 9:16am:



well, he said he's 'been asked' to do sat-navs. Not quite the same.

This is all over the papers here today (including a front page photo in the Daily Telegraph). Which is a bit odd as it came from a remark he made on his radio show which was broadcast on the BBC a couple of days ago - yet when the show was aired months ago in the US, no one seemed to bat an eyelid.

People actually take everything he says on Theme Time at face value? Next thing they'll be telling us those e-mails are all genuine as well !

I love the idea, though.

Gazza wrote on Aug 25^th, 2009 at 10:37am:



with that kind of party hat he should be recording some hasidic hymnals

Christmas Album Official Announcement



On August 25, 2009 Columbia Records officially announced the release of Bob Dylan’s Christmas album. The working title for the album, the news of which was first made known on the ISIS website on August 20, has been confirmed as “Christmas In The Heart”. Columbia has also confirmed that our predicted U.S. release date of October 13, 2009 is correct. Columbia also confirm two of the songs already mentioned by ISIS, ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’ and ‘Must Be Santa’, but also mentions ‘Winter Wonderland’ and ‘Little Drummer Boy’ as being on the album. Columbia has stated that all of the artist’s U.S. royalties from sales of the album will be donated to the charity “Feeding America”. The press release states: “Bob Dylan is also donating all of his future U.S. royalties from this album to Feeding America in perpetuity”.



The statement goes on to say: “Additionally, the artist is partnering with two international charities to provide meals during the holidays for millions in need in the United Kingdom and the developing world, and will be donating all of his future international royalties from “Christmas In The Heart” to those organizations in perpetuity. Details regarding the international partnerships will be announced next week”.



Feeding America is the United States leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Their network members supply food to more than 25 million Americans each year, including 9 million children and 3 million senior citizens. Their network of more than 200 food banks serves all 50 states plus the Districts of Columbia and Puerto Rico.



Bob Dylan commented: “It’s a tragedy that more than 35 million people in this country alone – 12 million of those children – often go to bed hungry and wake up each morning unsure of where their next meal is coming from. I join the good people of Feeding America in the hope that our efforts can bring some food security to people in need during this holiday season”.

mojoman wrote on Aug 25^th, 2009 at 12:54pm:



that's from a Chabad telethon in 1989 that he did with his son in law Peter Himmelman and Harry Dean Stanton. They called themselves 'Chopped Liver' and  played three songs  - 'Einsleipt Mein Kind Dein Eigalach' , 'Adelita' and 'Have Negilah' - with Bob playing flute and recorder. At the end Bob was 'blessed' by a dancing rabbi.

As you can imagine, it has to be seen to be believed.

Gazza wrote on Aug 26^th, 2009 at 6:57am:


Bob always ends up making perfect sense....no need to ever doubt that!  I am so excited and happy and I respect and love Bob even more....it just keeps getting better!  I'll make the Chex Mix!

xxoo,
Martha

Sister Meg,  I've been spinning on a regular basis ever since Bob moved into my head...and house....and car. LOL

Bring on the Holiday!

peace on earth,
Martha

NEWPORT, R.I. (CAP) - Some of the same concertgoers who booed Bob Dylan's first "electric" performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 say the announcement that he'll release a Christmas album this year is just "rubbing salt in the wound."

"He's really starting to get my goat now," said Fred Markinson, 68, of Pawtucket, R.I., who was one of the many crowd members who protested Dylan's electric set at the folk festival back in '65. "I'm done with him, and this time I probably mean it."

However, despite his belief that Dylan had "turned Judas" by forgoing traditional folk for rock 'n' roll 44 years ago, Markinson admitted he did continue to buy his albums and see his concerts, right up through his country phase, his "born-again" period and the era when "his voice started to sound like he'd swallowed a bar of Lava soap."

"But the Christmas thing is definitely the last straw," he said, then yelling "Judas!" to no one in particular.

Bob Carlisle, 64, of Newton, Mass. also booed Dylan at Newport, and wrote several lengthy screeds on the rock Bard's sellout status in the underground Boston newspaper Avatar. In one of those, he called Dylan's electric set "a pedantic, pandering betrayal of all he ever claimed to stand for, and one of the most grievous crimes hereforto committed upon the world of folk music, nay, the world in general."

"I still feel pretty much the same way today, even though I now know hereforto is not a word," said Carlisle, who currently does a music blog called "StereoBob" in which he keeps track of the latest artists to sell out their principles. This week he features U2's $100 million concert set, pooh-poohing it as "ostentation personified" in a post that actually uses the words "pooh-pooh" five separate times.

As for Dylan, "I also booed Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review in 1975, and almost a dozen of his religious shows in the late '70s and early '80s, and a couple of concerts in 1988 when he just sucked," Carlisle noted. "Plus that tour with the Dead - I practically strained my booer on that one.

"I hope to keep on booing his concerts and bad-mouthing his albums until he returns to his folk roots, or is dead, whichever comes first," explained Carlisle. As for the Christmas album, "I'm sure I'll hate it as soon as I buy it," he said, adding, "Judas!"

Dylan has been fairly mum about the Christmas album, although in a recent interview for Rolling Stone he said, "Well my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, you know it's not possible to be Santa Claus unless you come down Santa Claus lane." Then he sat back slowly in his chair, rubbing his pencil-thin moustache.

Meanwhile, a press release from Sony announced that the Christmas album would be a combination of traditional and original holiday favorites, done in the style of a 1920s blues singer who just swallowed Lava.

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I am amazed at that article you posted Gazza.  That guy seems so angry...and self-absorbed to the hilt.  He's certainly no Santa Claus!

Ho Ho HO!

xxoo,
Martha

Martha wrote on Aug 27^th, 2009 at 12:06pm:



er..it was a bit of satire, Martha!!

Gazza wrote on Aug 27^th, 2009 at 5:30pm:


Oh.  Doh! I didn't get that. I got a tummy ache from reading it.  lol!