Expecting Rain

You read Confessions Of A Yakuza? Timrod? Ovid?

if im going to accuse bob of theft i would have to see at least a legal complaint.
them old guys are outside of the copyright, its community property for folks to use without penalty or remorse. thats the reason they are outside of the copyright.

Confessions Of A Yakuza isn't out of copyright, it was only published in 1991. As it happens, the author was too flattered that Bob should be interested to consider sueing. Like stealing an apple from your neigbors garden - your neighbor finds out and says, "Glad you like them."

i said the old dudes, of course the yakuza gent is flattered that bob may have been inspired by his work.
flattery is no substitue to a warrant.
theres no apples stolen. no eyewitness no arrest warrant no civil complaint.
just old fashioned rubbernecking.
bob as of today continues to be the great original.

If offense only existed once somebody takes somebody else to court, then we'd do nothing else all day.

Meanwhile, back on topic: is it possible to write lyrics like Dylan naturally? Answer: yes, if you're a cigarette-smoking Dylan. He allegedly wrote a lot of Blonde on Blonde in the studio, under the influence of nothing stronger than cigarettes and carbonated drinks. Cigarettes are an ever-present crutch and support to writers. In today's Sunday Times magazine, Martin Amis endorses cigarettes as an integral part of the writing process, capable of raising your IQ by 1.5 points.

I think we also can't underestimate the influence of smoking pot in his writing. I've said before, and I'll say it again, with his gifts - he needs nothing. However, I think pot simply turbo-charges his vast powers. I know, from my own experiences with it, that after smoking half a joint, I'm always reaching for my pen to write down great insights I might forget.

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oh, jeez, I'm glad Fellini ain't here to see that.

someone forgot to tell the the trillions of lawyers sharkin around.
my view of the matter is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty SPECIALLY when theres no crime.

No, it's impossible, that's why he always wrote so much more than he needed. As John Hammond pointed out, he was far more ambitious than the other pretenders. What is possible is the first idea which has to come from somewhere. The perfecting of it is something else altogether. Of course the great hunger to achieve fades after the achievement and then it probably becomes a chore. Maybe it eventually becomes easier to lift, cut, and paste than to think of something new.

If writing like Dylan came naturally somebody else would be doing it now. I'm not hearing it.

And the Dylan legend predated the motorcycle fall. By that time he was already the language everybody was using to describe what was going on, quoted almost like scripture even in the news rags.

Probably because nobody wants to write like mid-60s Dylan. They've got hip hop.

Right, so if writing like Dylan came unnaturally, somebody else would be doing it now, too? I'm not hearing it. Wonder why.

Nobody said it was a crime, all that was said is it was a fact. You can look up the sources for yourself, most of them are easily accessible online.

And about 45 minutes later, probably a glass of chocolate milk and a pillow...

hip hop
you can hear some of Dylan's lyrical innovations there, though.

anyway, why does everyone focus so much on the mid-60s songwriting?
he wrote some of his best stuff prior to and after that period. he also basically "invented" "confessional"/autobiographical songwriting, and there are people who've done that well (joni mitchell, leonard cohen etc).

This crap is not about drugs and writing! You've already been asked, politely, to drop the f off

I'm going to guess at this: Bob is naturally intelligent. He has a natural musical talent. He has a vivid imagination. Apparently he reads a lot, and this includes the Bible. He has a sense of humor, that is, he is a natural born wise-ass. I think he also has a rhyming dictionary and a typewriter. He probably has a computer nowadays. Another thing, he seems to be a real hard working individual. There's probably some other things.

If you are like that then maybe you can write like Bob too!

As Dylan replied, with a knowing smile (to those out there, hip to him and the hipster lifestyle he espoused) to the reporter that asked h of him, at the 1965 San Francisco Press Conference, whether he had to be in a certain mood to write his songs, "Yes, a certain mood". When the same reporter follows up with "Like a nightime kind of thing?", Dylan puts him straight, with another knowing smile "I wouldn't say night has anything to do with it."

Nice!

And then again, probably not.

" I don’t even know what a drug is. I’ve never even seen a drug. I wouldn’t know, probably, what one looked like if I saw one. "
— Bob Dylan’s answer to the question “Do you take drugs?”, 1965

Ain't that a beaut? I loved his hula-hoop riff, before that, too.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/original
No worries, I'm outta here....

It just recieved it's "post of the week" honors

1. Preceding all others in time; first.
2.
a. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual: an original play, not an adaptation.
b. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new: a truly original approach.
3. Productive of new things or new ideas; inventive: an original mind.
4. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.

You know most of his work fits that, right? Especially pre-ModBob.