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Bob’s your uncle
The press release circulated today by the Swedish Academy is a masterpiece of succinctness:
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
And that’s it.
What this has to do with The Highway Star, you may ask? Well, for starters, before him rock’n’roll lyrics rarely went above the level of “shake, baby, shake” (albeit nothing is wrong with that per se). After him, they started telling the stories of struggle between good and bad and calling to give peace a chance.
So, cheers to Uncle Bob!
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
wow … that´s a very very great honour,
But … for me … there´s no Deep Purple -reference
LLRnR
LL Bob Dylan (because he is legend)
kraatzy
October 13th, 2016 at 17:19Hmmm, talk about stretching to make a relevant news story here… and you wouldn’t post my offering of Smoke on the Water on the TV Show, “Two and a Half Men”?….
Since we all like “Purple” related stuff… here are some entertaining segments from the great TV show “Two and a Half Men”, where the young son (Jake) is obsessed with learning the Deep Purple song, “SOTW” and drives the household crazy. I placed them in chronological order. Enjoy….
1. Sex interrupted by Jake playing SOTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIY2UcrVBc0
2. Jake confronted by Alan for playing SOTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnHnF0baChk
3. Jake confronted by Charlie for playing SOTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLklq8SVmJw
4. Jake playing SOTW on piano with his tongue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOpJa9b7Oro
5. Jake, Charlie and Alan playing SOTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4QBAPt9nSY
6. Jake on guitar and friend on Bass Fiddle playing SOTW at show end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6A2UrO4L6g
Great show and SOTW was the Main Theme. Purple News? HELL YEAH!!!!!
Ch-BeerZ
October 13th, 2016 at 17:23“ES EL NUEVO PREMIO NOBEL de LITERATURA”2016
October 13th, 2016 at 18:55The Highway Star 61 Revisited
October 13th, 2016 at 19:01😉
So you want to know what this has to do with ‘The Highway Star’?. Well, the answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…. the answer is blowin’ in the wind. Be happy!.
October 13th, 2016 at 20:44Glover is a huge fan of Dylan. There’s your connection. 🙂
October 14th, 2016 at 05:02Congratulations to Bob Dylan, much deserved indeed! We all know how woeful so many lyrics to certain songs can be at times. Dylan & Paul Simon wrote clever, meaningful, philosophical & humorous lyrics. Many others have also thankfully. Good to see Dylan mentioned here! Cheers.
October 14th, 2016 at 07:46And of course our friend Ritchie Blackmore has covered “The Times They Are A Changin’… with Blackmore’s Night.
October 14th, 2016 at 10:43A nice rendition and even with a nice video for this one. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7tun-ePIY
The Whitesnake track ‘here I go again’ is being used to advertise Nescafe coffee on UK television.
Might be more relevant than the tenuous Bob Dylan reference
October 14th, 2016 at 11:29Ian Gillan is next then 🙂
October 14th, 2016 at 12:48Svante@6;
With that in mind then can you imagine all the musicians articles that you could post here just because a Purple Member is a fan? I think that takes the “Purple Family Tree” to a whole new level….. 😉
Ch-BeerZ
October 14th, 2016 at 14:52And Gillan did a Dylan cover at least once (I´ll Be Your Baby Tonight on Gillan’s Inn) 🙂
In other news, I quite enjoyed the Whitesnake reference in Jon Oliver’s Last Week Tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbFtMgGhPY#t=9m27s
October 15th, 2016 at 02:31Wasn’t there a quote from Ritchie on BN’s Fires at Midnight album that said something like “thanks to Bob Dylan for being Bob Dylan”?
October 15th, 2016 at 10:53Didn’t Jon Lord, Ian Paice and Ritchie Blackmore play on Boz Burrell’s Derek Lawrence produced single “I shall be released”?
And if you really want to be far-fetched: Bob Dylan was the first one to use “Judas priest” in a song lyric and – fact – Halford and his men named themselves after that (prior name “Hiroshima” would perhaps not have worked as well in some, uhum, foreign markets). Only to record an album, produced by Roger Glover: Sin After Sin, with a cover of Bob Dylan’s sixties missus on it: Joan Baez’ Diamonds and – adopting Rob Halford pose – Rrrusssttt!
But most importantly: Gillan’s penchant for storytelling and clever play with words is very Dylan’esque in my ears, something like Mary Long or Mitzi Dupree has more to do with Dylan’s craft than with the escapist lyrics of, say, Robert Plant or Ozzy Osbourne/Geezer Butler. It’s one thing I have always cherished Gillan for (while Coverdale’s lyrics make me wince, never mind his qualities as a singer and frontman when he was still on the top of his game).
October 18th, 2016 at 12:36