![]() ![]() ![]() We don’t have any explanations from Shakespeare. Most artists are careful to hide or destroy their notebooks, or at least leave them in the hands of someone who will do that hiding away. ![]() Picasso didn’t know, Dali didn’t know, Shakespeare didn’t know (just go and watch Winters Tale and see if you can make sense of the construction of the five acts). The idea itself might indeed be a dead end, or it might go on to somewhere else, and somewhere else, and then become… who knows. Look at any creative artist and you will find sketches of ideas that in many cases don’t work, and in retrospect look to us from without as ideas that would obviously never work.īut for the creative artist that is not the point. And like all artists, many of his experiments turn out to be going nowhere. But for now, if you haven’t read or heard the speech, take my word for it – his ideas come from being totally immersed in the music of the people across the ages. You only have to read his MusicCares speech to see this – indeed since I don’t think the speech is copyright, I think I will try and find a bit of time to put an edited section of the speech on this site. Second Dylan is an experimenter, he plays with ideas, turns them inside out and upside down, not to mention back to front. I think Rolling Stone could have answered the question if only they’d bothered to take a moment to think about three pointers:įirst, Dylan knows about rock music, and the antecedents to rock music – he is an aficionado, he knows the songs, and their antecedents, from all across North America, plus England, Scotland, and I imagine some other areas too. “Sarah Jane” and “Big Yellow Taxi” (an utter disgrace and one performance that Columbia should have had the good taste to withhold) are so bad that they inevitably re-pose Self-Portrait’s central question: What was Bob Dylan thinking about when he sang this stuff? That didn’t bother me too much when I was asked to write a piece about the song, but what did fascinate me was a comment made by Rolling Stone magazine: Bob Dylan’s song “Sarah Jane” is one that is nominated sometimes as being among the worst ever Dylan recordings. ![]()
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