tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277067200507366709.post3285909934648121709..comments2023-05-25T06:47:43.839-04:00Comments on Music and Memory: Master Blueprints # 1: “Take Me On A Trip Upon Your Magic Swirlin’ Ship”Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839656868192732415noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277067200507366709.post-74687100213626214652018-01-08T21:41:00.143-05:002018-01-08T21:41:00.143-05:00Fred, I'm going to work harder at finding thos...Fred, I'm going to work harder at finding those urls. Keep the feedback coming if you are so inspired (as I told Jeff below). It feeds the flame.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02839656868192732415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277067200507366709.post-45374207344601387232018-01-08T21:37:17.446-05:002018-01-08T21:37:17.446-05:00Jeff, thanks for that feedback. If anyone I know ...Jeff, thanks for that feedback. If anyone I know can describe how music adds to lyrics its you. Keep the feedback coming if you are so inspired. I love it.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02839656868192732415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277067200507366709.post-65227022709917435462018-01-07T20:59:57.922-05:002018-01-07T20:59:57.922-05:00Tambourine Man is the first and one of few songs I...Tambourine Man is the first and one of few songs I have a strong visceral feeling for, walking around streets of Harrisburg one day in the late sixties looking for something to do and finding nothing, but with fragments of the lyrics and that poetic hopeful feel of the song clanging around in my head. I was too poor to get much of any albums until 70-71 on but heard enough through AM and some FM radio (WMMR) to have a good variety of Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Beatles, and various stuff on my mind. <br /><br />Tambourine Man is I suppose one of the key songs from his catalog with that uber-literate nobel prize blah blah with the spectacular lyrics. But for me none of the songs have much meaning without the musicality that surrounds the song and gives it its feel. I've always had trouble following the story in more dense songs and only really pay attention to the lyrics of any song unless they kind of hit me over the head. Which of course a lot of good songs do, but only when the music matches the message. And that is after spending most of my live listening in the past 40 plus years at folkie type venues and listening to less pure 'rock and roll', more lyrics-oriented stuff.<br /><br />Anyway, aside from that I had to think a bit about the 'master blueprint' paradigm. I suppose it makes a lot of sense, but on the other hand, I have this horrible tendency of being pretty stuck on the early musical offerings, I almost always like the first few albums and versions of songs I hear more than later ones. I first heard 'There but for Fortune' from Joan Baez 5, and later became a big fan of Phil Ochs, but still like her version better. Meanwhile, there are very few Dylan songs I heard from someone else first, and invariably I like his better. I'mm just a crotchedy old narrow minded bugger. <br /><br />But there is one aspect of a 'blueprint' type effect that makes sense to me, in a different way than yours. Its been well described over the years and especially for his earlier songs where he has taken the music from traditional British Isles songs, as his early hero Woody Guthrie took music from Carter family songs, and remade them with his own lyrics. So in this remaking, he is taking the 'musical blueprints' from earlier songs and making them into his own.<br /><br />So anyway, enough of my 'alternative facts' for now ...jeffidontknowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788069083289890691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277067200507366709.post-80692333562276109402018-01-02T10:21:11.763-05:002018-01-02T10:21:11.763-05:00After a well deserved hiatus, I am excited to read...After a well deserved hiatus, I am excited to read on, and I cant think of a better topic than Dylan. Of the many memories of living on Lake Street, putting Blood on the Tracks on the turntable was not only memorable, but altering. I had never been a fan, but that was an easy position to have; your reference to the mid-80's starting the Dylan journey was the spark I needed. Once again, you fuel(ed) my own musical journey.<br /><br />I look forward to dissecting Mr. Tambourine Man. You have made me lazy and although I will find a link, I always appreciated your providing access, especially to a version you like.<br />Your interpretation of the songs conveyance "...in that being’s ability to emit unearthly beautiful music" reminds me of my love of the song "Killing me Softly". Powerful stuff. <br />I'm excited for more.Fred 3rdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631784444983695256noreply@blogger.com