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"Harry, enough! It's enough already" —My mom when I was five minutes old
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For those who care: I did a 21-day Leonard Cohen video series. If you missed any of the videos—or if you missed the whole series altogether—I have packed everything into one big thread. Just click the tweet below and scroll down and all 21 videos are there. #21DaysOfLC
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"New things are beginning." Today is Day 1 of my 21-day Leonard Cohen video series. Welcome, friends. Being that today is also the first day of September, there is only one logical place to begin... and that is with Leonard Cohen's alter-ego: "September." #21DaysOfLC #Day1
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My nephew asked me if it's true that Michael Jackson set his head on fire so you could see his brain and I asked him why he wanted to know and he said he was gonna look it up on the computer but he doesn't like how brains look. I told him I totally understand.
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MICHAEL WOLFF: "Warren took his singing very seriously. When I asked him to sing these two songs, he worked very hard on them. He came into the studio dressed for the occasion in a beautiful gray suit, totally prepared to give his all. ... He does them beautifully."
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Pianist Michael Wolff was doing a Christmas album. He asked his friend Warren Zevon if he'd sing two songs. One was "The Christmas Song." Zevon said he imagined the singer as a divorced father at the bar on Christmas Eve who wasn't allowed to see his kids
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Provided to YouTube by Entertainment One Distribution USThe Christmas Song (feat. Warren Zevon) · Michael WolffChristmas Moods℗ ArtemisReleased on: 2007-10-0...
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What's the best song that Bob Dylan has claimed in an interview to have written but which he probably made up for shits and giggles?
  • Her Version of Jealousy
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  • Chicago After Dark
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  • You Don't Say
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Bob Dylan: "My fav music is a combination of genres. Anything that moves. Western Swing, Hillbilly, Jump Blues, Country Blues, everything. Doo-wop, Bluegrass, Boogie-Woogie. Music historians would say when you mix it all up it's called Rock and Roll." Music Historian Levon Helm:
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BILLY LEE RILEY: "Bob said I was his favorite singer & he had been looking for me since 1985—he'd even been to my old house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee looking for me. He said he's always admired two of my songs: 'Trouble Bound' & 'One More Time.' He knew more about me than I did"
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Bob Dylan listens to Billy Lee Riley play on his tour bus, 1992. 📸: Karen Pulfer Focht. #BobDylan #Dylan #BillyLeeRiley
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BOB DYLAN on Billy Lee Riley (from Dylan's 2015 MusiCares speech): "He was a true original. He did it all: played, sang & wrote. ... He was a hero of mine. ... We spent time together just talking & playing into the night. He was a deep, truthful man"
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Photographer KAREN PULFER FOCHT: "Dylan was in awe of Billy Lee. Dylan talked to him about being influenced by his music, listening to his music in his room as a kid. Dylan was so enthused, so eager to hear more. He asked Billy Lee over & over, show me how you did this & that"
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BILLY LEE RILEY: "Bob said I was his favorite singer & he had been looking for me since 1985—he'd even been to my old house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee looking for me. He said he's always admired two of my songs: 'Trouble Bound' & 'One More Time.' He knew more about me than I did"
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Bob Dylan listens to Billy Lee Riley play on his tour bus, 1992. 📸: Karen Pulfer Focht. #BobDylan #Dylan #BillyLeeRiley
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"When [Dylan] wears the hood, you're not supposed to talk to him. ... I tapped him on the shoulder. The drummer said, 'No, no. He don't talk to anyone when he's got the hood on.' I was like, 'OK. I'm glad you told me.'" Guitarist Billy Burnette on touring with Bob Dylan in 2003:
ROLLING STONE: Bob travels the whole world. He’s always on tour. But he’s almost never seen offstage. He just seems to vanish. BILLY BURNETTE: He went out and ran every day. I’d see him in his sweats in the hotel, but he’s slippery. He can walk in an airport…they lost him one day. They couldn’t find him anywhere. I’m in this little gift shop and I turn around, and there he is. He goes, “Hi Billy.” I was like, “How did you get in here?” He moves around. It’s a weird thing. ROLLING STONE: He wears that hood over his head sometimes. BILLY BURNETTE: When he wears the hood, you’re not supposed to talk to him. I didn’t know that until one day we were in line to get on a plane at the airport. I tapped him on the shoulder. The drummer said, “No, no. He don’t talk to anyone when he’s got the hood on.” I was like, “OK. I’m glad you told me.”
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Reason I object to people saying Joni Mitchell hates Bob Dylan is it undersells Joni as a shit-talker. She's called Bob a phony with bad breath. Please. That's Joni at her most genteel. This is Joni on Jackson Browne. THIS is what it looks like when Joni Mitchell hates somebody
Not to Blame Joni Mitchell Track 7 on Turbulent Indigo [Verse 1] The story hit the news from coast to coast They said you beat the girl you loved the most Your charitable acts seemed out of place With the beauty with your fist marks on her face [Chorus 1] Your buddies all stood by They bet their fortunes and their fame That she was out of line You were not to blame
[Verse 2] Six hundred thousand doctors are putting on rubber gloves And they're poking at the miseries made of love They say they're learning how to spot the battered wives Among all the women they see bleeding through their lives [Chorus 2] I bleed for your perversity These red words that make a stain on your white-washed claim That she was out of line And you were not to blame
[Verse 3] I heard your baby say when he was only three "Daddy, let's get some girls, one for you and one for me" His mother had the frailty you despise And the looks you love to drive to suicide [Chorus 3] Not one wet eye around Her lonely little grave Said, he was out of line, girl You were not to blame
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JONI MITCHELL: "On the third night they stuck Bob at the mic with me, and that's the one that went out on tape. If you look closely at it, you can see the little brat, he's up in my face—and he never brushes his teeth, so his breath was like... right in my face"
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Just Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan enjoying themselves in Nara, Japan, in 1994.
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LEONARD COHEN, 1988: "I'm not a pacifist because I come from a small people that have been persecuted & I understand that self-defense is a necessity" BOB DYLAN, 2001: "I'm not a pacifist. ... I believe strongly in everyone's right to defend themselves by every means necessary"
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BOB DYLAN: "I like to wonder about some of these people who elevated John Lennon to such a mega-god as if when he was alive they were always on his side. I wonder who they think he was singing to when he sang 'just give me some truth.'"
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Thank you so much, friends. I have struggled & staggered through the social adventure, trying with thousands of tweets to touch the centre of the unified heart, & I am so proud & so honoured that you have chosen to embrace my message about Leonard Cohen fucking John Cale's wife.
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"Leonard Cohen and I were chasing after the same woman in London for a time. I called him one morning and she answered—and that was that. It didn't matter that Cindy was my wife." —JOHN CALE
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"Thank you so much, friends. We are so privileged to be able to gather in moments like this when so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos. I would like to dedicate this next poem to Mr. John Cale..."
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"Leonard Cohen and I were chasing after the same woman in London for a time. I called him one morning and she answered—and that was that. It didn't matter that Cindy was my wife." —JOHN CALE
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Don Henley responding to a silly question about "Hotel California" with his usual bonhomie. What a fun guy.
Q: On Hotel California, you sing: "So I called up the captain/Please bring me my wine/He said, 'We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I’m probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn’t a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Wine also has a lower ABV (alcohol by volume) percentage than spirits. Do you regret that lyric? A: Thanks for the tutorial &, no, you’re not the first to bring this to my attention—& you’re not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric & miss the metaphor. Believe me, I’ve consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made & what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It’s a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting & lower the discussion to some silly & irrelevant argument about chemical processes.
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Bob Dylan's artist message for his top listeners: "Well thank you, everybody. I want to thank you on behalf of my band as well. It's good to be back here on Spotify. Frank Stallone is on here. And if you haven't heard his latest album, you got to go hear it"
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mitski's artist message for her top listeners 🫶🥺
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For every thousand terrible Bob Dylan impressions there is one that is so good it singlehandedly justifies the continued existence of the Bob Dylan impression genre. This is the one. Well done,
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James Austin Johnson sings “Jingle Bells” as Bob Dylan through the decades. #FallonTonight
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