Patti Smith om Bob Dylans “Modern Times”

30. august 2006

Well I was sitting on my window sill, watching
the sky shifting, when a messenger arrived with
a copy of the new Bob Dylan album.
I gave old Glenn Gould a rest and put Modern
Times in my player. To this day, it still
feels funny sliding a CD in place instead
of setting a record on the turntable.
It was always exciting, that first moment, when the
needle connected with the vinyl groove. The first CD
I ever heard was an experimental one, a long time
ago, with Rainy Day Women on it. I just shook my head
and said “nope. it will never take off. nobody will give
up playing records.” Nostradamus I am not.
In any event, there are two handsome portraits of Bob in
the packaging. I like the song called Ain’t Talkin’.
Like walking alongside Bob hearing him thinking.
It was nice to get a special copy brought to my door.
It kind of made up for all those bus rides
in the mid-sixties, through Camden into Philadelphia,
to stand for hours in line just to buy a copy of
Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde. It was always
worth it though. I was never disappointed.

fra Pattis hjemmeside. Jeg kan kun tilføje: Amen!

Skriv en kommentar

Warning: Undefined variable $user_ID in /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/skimmedmilk1.2/comments.php on line 78

508 har læst indlægget
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mdv_post_count() in /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/skimmedmilk1.2/single.php:62 Stack trace: #0 /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include() #1 /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once('/customers/1/9/...') #2 /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/index.php(17): require('/customers/1/9/...') #3 {main} thrown in /customers/1/9/5/capac.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/skimmedmilk1.2/single.php on line 62