I could have listened to that for another hour.

My Desert Island Bob Dylan album is Live 1966. Nothing like Desire, Fraser, but what do you think?

The Dylan welding cameo is from Dennis Hopper's - sorry, Alan Smithee's - film Backtrack, or Catchfire, depending on which country you saw it in:

but nice to see the Hepworth Jumper get another airing. Almost as ubiquitous as the Ellen Blue Shirt.

... to hearing this podcast.

You guys are on a roll !!!!!

for Fraser's view as Desire has some unique qualities in the Dylan canon. It *sounds* good too-I remember the wonderful sound of the drums on Black Diamond Bay as played on a Linn in a London shop about 25 years ago. ..

Fraser might enjoy "more of the same" in the shape of the Rolling Thunder live 1975 CD---just had a dig around on YouTube but it seems Dylan's or Columbia's lawyers have had their influence, so here is Abandoned Love instead

as usual.

I had visions of Fraser looking out the window or absent-mindedly texting someone on his phone while all the Dylan talk was going on.

Best pun of the 'cast came from Mr Hepworth following the revelation that Bob's hobby is welding

"Weld gone wrong!"

like Mark Ellen, i lived in Fleet Hampshire all through the seventies.
i used to buy my vinyl from Clarks next to Woolies, or there was a small narrow record shop next to the Rendevous cafe, who's name escapes me - perhaps Mark can remember?

about Steve Forbert though

Viewed as a Dylan 2.0 (pronounced "Di-LAN") I guess he falls short, and I don't know the later albums, but I loved the first album and still do, c.f his Midsummer Night's Toast for example:

(wasn't Gambo a fan ?).

If anyone has a right to use this infamous rhetorical enquiry it would be Bob Dylan.
The many stories I have heard and read though tell me he is above this silliness and is a true gent.

I read a story recently about Bob taking a leisurely swim in a pool. Pools often have slow and fast lanes depending on your ability and needs. Well Bob was in the fast lane but you would not have mistaken him for Ian Thorpe and he was politely asked to move into the slow lane.
What did Bob do?
He moved into the slow lane and carried on his merry way without a fuss.

Trivial in the scheme of all things Bob Dylan (ie the music) but I like it and respect to Bob.

Thanks for the podcast.

Is almost as bad as mine. For this I thank him! I feel less lonely now.

Even apart from that - great podcast as usual. Keep them coming.

about why we are so interested in Dylan trivia - ie, it's because he is so unreachable and obscure that any little detail about his reality is welcome (bad paraphrase I know).

Also being of approximately the same age as DH and ME I too remember hearing about Dylan from older people - in my case I think my parents, who liked PP+M and even bought one of their albums ("In The Wind" I think it was called - have only just realised that title was from a Bob song).

Bob Dylan has been there all my life it seems. Never as important as The Beatles, or Thelonious Monk, or XTC, or Erik Satie, or Nino Rota, but there.

And also I agree with Mark re "Chronicles" - a wonderful read, especially his description of when he first heard Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny".

Thank you and good night!

yes
yes
yes.

Thank you.

... because it was over far too quickly! Keep it up, gents.

to have the Word's crack team of illustrators deployed on that tennis game---Tenniel's "Alice in Wonderland" style perhaps--

There are plenty of examples of Bob's humour on the Theme Time Radio Hour shows. One of my favourites is his reference to Diana Dors, who was a kind of downmarket British Marilyn Monroe in the 50s & 60s. Bob says:

"You probably have a picture of (Diana Dors) in your house right now! If you don't believe me, pull out a copy of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Front and off to the side. HEY! There I am!"

Here are some more jokes from Theme Time Radio Hour:

http://www.examiner.com/bob-dylan-in-national/dylan-countdown-no-11-joke...

I've just done a massive double-take at the picture of Dylan at the top there. It's my Uncle Ken. The resemblance is uncanny. (You'll have to believe me, as he's declined to give permission for me to post a picture of him to compare. However, when I showed him the picture of Dylan, he said "bloody hell, you're right... Wish I had his money.")

The odd thing is that when Bob Dylan was the latest new thing, my Uncle Ken resembled Dennis Lotis, singer with the Ted Heath band.

As you were, laygennelmen.

Course he can - he does so on Lay Lady Lay.

Therefore I can only assume that for the rest of his career he was just too bloody lazy to bother.

Guys.... best podcast EVER!!!

...I drove home from work, listening to my cherished bootleg of the final 1966 show's acoustic set, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 27th May. Then I realised that, not only was it exactly 45 years ago, but I was listening to it at pretty much exactly the same time of evening that Dylan would have performed it. The light was perfect; and, as I drank in every drop of the best version he ever sang of Just Like A Woman, I thought to myself: if that isn't singing, I have nothing else to say on the matter.

Failing that a monthly one will do.

A spot-on Keith Richards and rather good Dylan. Difficult to say who the talented mimic is but would be interested to know if his repertoire extends further.