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[Peter_Spaeth]

I am a huge Dylan fan, but what is the category if he is the GOAT?

Two of his "rookie" cards below btw. Took me many years to find.

[Yoda]

Bob Dylan is, and will always remain, the Poet Laureate of my generation.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Bob Dylan is, and will always remain, the Poet Laureate of my generation.

It's my opinion that with the passage of time his writing will be compared favorably to Shakespeare's. And then you have the music thrown in--all those fabulous tunes, and he is grotesquely underrated as a guitar and harp player.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

It's my opinion that with the passage of time his writing will be compared favorably to Shakespeare's. And then you have the music thrown in--all those fabulous tunes, and he is grotesquely underrated as a guitar and harp player.

At least during the 60s and 70s he was also a great singer. A number of great singers did not have good voices, and vice versa.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

At least during the 60s and 70s he was also a great singer. A number of great singers did not have good voices, and vice versa.

The way I think of it is this: who else would you want singing those great songs? The answer is: nobody else.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

The way I think of it is this: who else would you want singing those great songs? The answer is: nobody else.

He wrote a few songs that I think only Baez actually recorded/performed, like Love is Just a Four Letter Word.

[Wanaselja]

This is one of the reasons I love this forum so much.
As a GenXer I understand if you guys roll your eyes but my favorite Dylan record is Blood on the Tracks. There, I said it.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

He wrote a few songs that I think only Baez actually recorded/performed, like Love is Just a Four Letter Word.

She did some wonderful covers of his songs, and also wrote two great songs about her and Bob, "Diamonds and Rust," and about her sister Mimi, "Sweet Sir Galahad."

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I am a huge Dylan fan, but what is the category if he is the GOAT? Two of his "rookie" cards below btw. Took me many years to find.

The category would be musical artists. What's the story on that card? That might be the best picture of Bob I've ever seen, probably by Michael Ochs, his more or less "official" photographer in the early days.

[obcmac]

So basically our mutual love of Bob Dylan brought my wife and I together...and the first time she came over to my place, she spent a half hour looking at my baseball cards...I guess I win ;-)

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by obcmac

So basically our mutual love of Bob Dylan brought my wife and I together...and the first time she came over to my place, she spent a half hour looking at my baseball cards...I guess I win ;-)

That's great. Imagine how many thousands of relationships and marriages began with meeting at one of Bob's concerts over these 60 years?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

The category would be musical artists. What's the story on that card? That might be the best picture of Bob I've ever seen, probably by Michael Ochs, his more or less "official" photographer in the early days.

French cards from 1964 or possibly 1965.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

French cards from 1964 or possibly 1965.

Tres cool!