Dylan's jacket

don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 11:18:50 AM6/9/04

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Reading the Uncut M&A review about how the Jeff Bridges character is
seen wearing various Dylan jackets from the 60s has caused me to think
back to the old universal-jacket theory of Dylan album covers. John
Wesley Harding was considered such a departure from what we'd come to
expect from Dylan, it was very reassuring to see he was wearing the same
jacket on the cover that he wore for Another Side of Bob Dylan. At least
we think it was the same jacket. The photo on the cover of Another Side
is too dark to reveal much jacket detail.

Whatever, the jacket seemed to appear again on the cover of Nashville
Skyline. This led to much speculation about the jacket. Could it have
been the same jacket from Freewheelin'? That jacket is definitely a soft
brown cover. I suppose it could have been dyed.

But the jacket Dylan wears on the cover of Blonde on Blonde on Blonde is
wonderfully symbolic. It appears to be another version of the
Freewheelin soft brown jacket, yet its double breasted. How apt for a
double album to be fronted by a jacket with two rows of buttons!

Now, if Jeff Bridges character is so jacket conscious in M&A, how do we
account for that dull, awful jacket Dylan wears in the movie?

Peter Stone Brown

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Jun 9, 2004, 12:18:12 PM6/9/04

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"don freeman" <dfr...@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Reading the Uncut M&A review about how the Jeff Bridges character is
> seen wearing various Dylan jackets from the 60s has caused me to think
> back to the old universal-jacket theory of Dylan album covers. John
> Wesley Harding was considered such a departure from what we'd come to
> expect from Dylan, it was very reassuring to see he was wearing the same
> jacket on the cover that he wore for Another Side of Bob Dylan. At least
> we think it was the same jacket. The photo on the cover of Another Side
> is too dark to reveal much jacket detail.

The coat on JWH is the same one as Blonde on Blonde.

>
> Whatever, the jacket seemed to appear again on the cover of Nashville
> Skyline. This led to much speculation about the jacket. Could it have
> been the same jacket from Freewheelin'? That jacket is definitely a soft
> brown cover. I suppose it could have been dyed.

Don, do you have a major vision problem?

>

don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 3:48:23 PM6/9/04

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> The coat on JWH is the same one as Blonde on Blonde.
>

Ah, but the picture on JWH hides the second row of buttons, making it
look like the single breasted coat of earlier albums.

Technically you're correct, but you're missing the bigger symbolic picture.

Jesse Jones

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Jun 9, 2004, 5:26:08 PM6/9/04

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don freeman wrote:
> Reading the Uncut M&A review about how the Jeff Bridges character is
> seen wearing various Dylan jackets from the 60s

Okay, I've been trying to get someone to make this connection.

Jeff Bridges' character is named "Tom Friend."

Joyce Carol Oates dedicated her 1966 short story, "Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?" to Bob Dylan - and explained that it was inspired
by It's All Over Now Baby Blue.

http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/joyce_carol_oates_dedication.html

The protagonist in Oates's story is named Arnold Friend -- a very
Dylanesque name.

http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/wgoing2.html

Can Tom Friend be unrelated?

Simon

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Jun 9, 2004, 8:49:16 PM6/9/04

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What about the jacket that is hidden in the tree next to the Beatles?

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Tamara

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Jun 10, 2004, 5:09:03 PM6/10/04

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Jesse Jones <jessecjo...@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<QfLxc.19511$Yd3....@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...

you are likely right.sounds like a character from JWH