I think you might want to read up a bit on Dylan's "conversion" to Xtianity, it was both more and less than you might imagine. Seems harsh to damn him for making a couple gospel records (I mean, every country star makes a gospel record, and Elvis did a few); then, as he always has done, he moved on from that. And he made some great records later still, including one during the pandemic. So, you know,...."to live outside the law you must be honest." As for "punk," you might watch those methedrine-fuelled press conferences (bits of them in DA Pennebaker's great film, "Don't Look Back"), Dylan snapping wise and poetic at throngs of journalists, and study the color footage from that first electric tour of England 1966, and tell me he's not just a bit of a punk. xo, P
I think you might want to read up a bit on Dylan's "conversion" to Xtianity, it was both more and less than you might imagine. Seems harsh to damn him for making a couple gospel records (I mean, every country star makes a gospel record, and Elvis did a few); then, as he always has done, he moved on from that. And he made some great records later still, including one during the pandemic. So, you know,...."to live outside the law you must be honest." As for "punk," you might watch those methedrine-fuelled press conferences (bits of them in DA Pennebaker's great film, "Don't Look Back"), Dylan snapping wise and poetic at throngs of journalists, and study the color footage from that first electric tour of England 1966, and tell me he's not just a bit of a punk. xo, P
I'm glad you caught that, I wrote it before I understood the world better. And then, of course, there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRmr7k8jsQ