Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1

[itrainmonkeys 0]

 

Anybody else read this book? I'm fascinated with the man to be quite honest. He's a hero of mine. Bob Dylan's music has touched a lot of people and his book is amazing. I read through it so fast. It touches on so many things in his life. His desire to just be a musician and not this prophet or speaker for a new generation like everyone was making him out to be. How he got his start playing covers of people's songs. Where he lived when he went to New York. What little cafe's he played in. It was amazing. Here's a quick review from amazon.com

 

One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.

Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.

 

For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."

 

Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

There's no other book i'd recommend. If your a fan of his....great.....if not.....even better. Pick up Chronicles volume one.

[Zlash 0]

Didn't even know about the book. Sounds intresting.

[demonatashadow 0]

Actually I have never ever read this book before. I think that I've heard of it though. Whats the book about?? And some guys are completely honost, lol.

[linekill 1]

I haven't read the book either. Woody Guthrie of Rock and Roll. Quiet a guy. I also like Bob Dylan.

[velma 6]

I had heard of this and once tried getting it but I have failed in getting a copy for at that time I could not afford his book and now I cant find the book for they don't seem to stock books that aren't in demand here :DBut I would definitely read it when I do get it, I heard his songs through my cousins yet I have heard a few songs and love them a lot.