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30 November 2011

The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society - Next meeting

The next meeting of The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society will be on February 3 at The Red Lion pub in Grantchester. Click HERE for more details.

DVD: "Bob Dylan - Revealed"
From Wienerworld, released in UK on 4 July 2011. Duration 110 minutes.

Bob Dylan - Revealed, directed by Joel Gilbert 

This 110 minute DVD has been produced to coincide with Dylan’s 70th birthday year, and claims to provide a ‘true portrait’ of Dylan as never previously seen. To me it seemed much the same as any other documentary about Bob Dylan, and the format was the same old dreary format of any biographical documentary about anyone.

It divides Bob’s career into eras and for each gives us a summary of the key events and changes in musical direction at the time, most of which any self-respecting Dylan fan could recite by heart. Then various key people are wheeled on to give their version of events/ truth about Bob/ hearsay, all talking openly and honestly directly to camera. I was glad of a break from most of them by the end of it. Although it may be true that what they had to say has never been heard before, I can’t say anything new about Bob was revealed to me by hearing it.

I enjoyed some of the old footage of Bob on stage and in interview, though hearing only excerpts of songs is always a bit tantalizing. But again was it really “never-before-seen” as claimed in the blurb? I don’t think so. Call me picky, but the alternating interview/concert footage format also got monotonous, and personally I found the Power point style chess imagery dividing up the eras a bit irritating and amateurish-looking.  

What did Bob have to say about it all? Where was the brilliant music he is producing now? What are his reflections on his career, and where it still might go? As far as this DVD goes, that still remains to be revealed.  

C. J. Daniels

July 2011, for The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society

Kill Ol' Bill

		Johnny's no longer in the basement, but can now be found haunting Room 237. Find him yourself here This is being made available to you by those nice people over at Freewheelin House, home of the only on-line Bob Dylan magazine. To go to their website, where, apart from Room 237, you can find a wealth of other Dylan-related writings, click here.

Cambridge Bob Dylan Society (see The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society, below).

Desolation Row - Artwork on Canvas
Bob Dylan's epic song Desolation Row recorded on August 4th, 1965 has been brought to life into the form of a fine art painting.

Dylan Days
Supporting the arts and honouring Bob Dylan in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota.