do you love SELF PORTRAIT? See the website, leave your mark
Groucho
http://www.weloveselfportrait.mockfrog.com.au/
If you love SP, have a look. And if you have any interesting SP
links/facts/trivia, send them to me
-Groucho
Ironywaves
Will
"Groucho" <gro...@mockfrog.com> wrote in message
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Rich Allan
of the Marx Brothers,I liked Harpo.but this album has so many
uses.I listen to it everyday,compared to Street Legal once every three
years.and SP has a good cover,no embarassing suit.H H
Tricia J
>Yep, still too much time on my hands :-)
>
>http://www.weloveselfportrait.mockfrog.com.au/
>
>If you love SP, have a look. And if you have any interesting SP
>links/facts/trivia, send them to me
excellent groucho - but there are too many good songs on Self Portrait
for me to pick just one "favourite".
Groucho
That's okay, pick 2 or more :-)
We should have International Self Portrait Day (according to
http://www.xtrememusician.com/info/artists/profiles/41.html
it is June 8, 1970)
Imagine the shopkeepers, the policemen/women, postal workers, the
unemployed novelists drinking coffee in rundown beanhouses smiling
when they say:
"Happy Self Portrait Day, Marvin"
"And a Happy Self Portrait Day to *you* Sally-Ann! :-) "
Ah, what a day it would be
We'll do it next year (????)
Groucho
Tricia J
there's a Self Portrait throw-rug available from bobdylan.com?
lara lara
this reminds of a Twilight Zone "The Eye of The Beholder"-here
it's ears & I always love and hate that cover.What was he
thinking?best song-"Gotta Travel On"
harry haller
Living the blues,I forgot more...,Take me as I am-hh
lara lara
you people who lived durung D's peak(?).I got a question-what were
you demanding from this one man,genius true-where did you think he'd
go from "Nashville Skyline"?Put yourself in his shoes,no,his hat.There
is only what you have,who you are at a time.If "Self Protrait" is
where our Mr. Dylan was,he seems to just have wanted to play some
music,even other people's songs when your own dogs don't bark at you
in the morning at the back door.Maybe people would hsve been happier
if he had put forth a statement.-"Sorry folks,not much but keeping
kids,playing at Pink,so nothing exciting ,you can buy this,but don't
expect much.Things are slower for me now since the wreck.I'm with
you,I hate to tell you but geniuses have poor times,and the pressure
is making me withdrawn.so,since you can't leave me be,here---Self
Portrait".
Tricia J
wrote:
>
> Living the blues,I forgot more...,Take me as I am-hh
Days of 49, Copper Kettle, Early Morning Rain... there's another
three!
Tricia J
wrote:
> you people who lived durung D's peak(?).I got a question-what were
>you demanding from this one man,genius true-where did you think he'd
>go from "Nashville Skyline"?Put yourself in his shoes,no,his hat.There
>is only what you have,who you are at a time.If "Self Protrait" is
>where our Mr. Dylan was,he seems to just have wanted to play some
>music,even other people's songs when your own dogs don't bark at you
>in the morning at the back door.Maybe people would hsve been happier
>if he had put forth a statement.-"Sorry folks,not much but keeping
>kids,playing at Pink,so nothing exciting ,you can buy this,but don't
>expect much.Things are slower for me now since the wreck.I'm with
>you,I hate to tell you but geniuses have poor times,and the pressure
>is making me withdrawn.so,since you can't leave me be,here---Self
>Portrait".
I lived then - didn't expect _anything at all_ - when I heard Self
Portrait (I didn't buy it - didn't buy many records just then), just
thought it was so funny and charming, full of humour and lazy Sunday
type songs
harry haller
my copy was a gift from a professor and editor who suggested using
the LPs for Frisbees.After hearing SP,I told him he obviously didn't
play,that he was unhappy with the product.Listening last pm,I'd rate
it in his top ten,I think.I'll repeat that sooner or later
rankflv
funny to take it seriously . . . a contradiction writen by a man who
felt it better not to be pinned down. It dares it's listener to walk
that line between getting it and not getting it.
Also, It is very much like some of the stuff done at big pink. I think
of the drunken mexican song on the basement tapes outtakes. Obsurdly
funny...
harry haller
when an artist goes into a studio with the best session players
available,isn't it likely that,whatever their cognitions or state of
mind,a marketable LP is expected by the Company.After all,he's
introduced as "Columbia Recording Artist,..."That doesn't sound
appropriate for Bob Dylan.Like he's a museum,a commodity,or a fish
that walks and talks.Self Portrait is awfully good, I tell you
nonbelievers and if you get through a hundred or so listenings you'll
like it,or maybe your critical faculties will be altered.HH