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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"
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
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Cambridge Bob Dylan Society (see The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society, below).
Desolation Row - Artwork on Canvas Dylan Days Meetings are usually held the first Friday of every other month. The Society is one of the longest running Dylan groups in the UK, and currently meets at The Red Lion at 33 High Street, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire CB3 9NF. Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives |
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