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Thursday 26th May 2011 11:33 PM
On Tuesday night I took part in a gig in York to celebrate the life and works of Bob Dylan. I'm sure that there were thousands of other similar events taking place all over the globe that evening. People write university theses on him and there's been over a thousand different books written about him, and amazingly he's not even dead. Not only isn't he not dead, in the last picture I saw of him he looked like Douglas Fairbanks Junior playing Zorro.
I've really enjoyed all the Dylan related media stuff this week and especially the Martin Scorcese documentary on BBC2. Bob was variously referred to as having the ear of a generation, the voice of a generation and the conscience of a generation. Some even said he was the heart, lungs and urogenitary tract of a generation, but to be honest, not many.
It was also widely acknowledged that he had his finger on the pulse of a generation. The documentary showed a wild assortment of bohemian, beatnik, artists, musicians and poets, all wandering around New York's Greenwich village in the early sixties, all desperately searching for the pulse of a generation. Of course none of them could find it, mainly because Bob had his finger on it, and he wouldn't let anyone else look at it.
I once met a genuine beatnik in Afghanistan in 1975. He'd gone there from New York in 1963 and had unfortunately got preserved in a local jail for twelve years. Although his soul and spirit had evolved during that time, culturally speaking he was as fresh as the day he was canned. I had the good fortune to drink sweet mint tea with him in the Pardeeso restaurant in Herat, and am delighted to report that he wore a beret and referred to humans as 'cats'. At the time that felt more exotic to me than the nearby Buddahs of Bamian.
Seeing footage of Alan Ginsberg in the documentary, I think he might have been a beatnik as well. He was on a stage intoning stream-of-consciousness poetry dressed only in a pair of off-taupe underpants. He had quite a following apparently, although they say he didn't get much work in schools.
Standing out from the array of often tubercular talking-heads was a refreshingly robust Irishman called Tom Clancy. Interviewed forty years on he didn't look much different from the sixties clips, and I think he might have been wearing the same sensible, white, heavy with lanoline, cable-knit, Arran-style sweater. He reckoned that Bob was a shaman and that all his songs are channelled from the fourth dimension. (It's said that Chris de Burghs songs are also channelled, but sadly from the second dimension).
The way that Bob bobbed in 1965 has endured as a template for cool for over 45 years, and since then, despite an involvement in born-again Christianity and a recording with the Frog Chorus, I think he's stayed pretty cool. I didn't bother buying him anything for his birthday this year, because he's got everything he needs, he's an artist, and he don't look bad for 70.
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