Bob Dylan sells out

MadsL

I feel dirty after watching this...Bob how could you? "What is more American than America?" Sorry what? What?


Ughhh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkC_t9S6JSo

sawdoubters

Chrysler are about the worst made cars

Chrysler is owned by Fiat, a multinational company headquartered in Italy


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/american-cars/story?id=13801165

kippy

Bob Dylan sold out years ago.

FearDark

Am I the only one here who thinks is Bob Dylan over-rated and has a terrible voice? I insta-change the channel when he's on. Guff.

Frank Black

FearDark wrote: »

Am I the only one here who thinks is Bob Dylan over-rated and has a terrible voice?

No, but thankfully you're in the minority.

hidinginthebush

I thought this was going to be a hippy with an axe to grind about Dylan playing an electric years ago, disappointing.

Fr_Dougal

The Times They Are a-Changin

suicide_circus

Frank Black wrote: »

No, but thankfully you're in the minority.

I think it's pretty obvious he sings poorly in a technical sense. goes out of key etc.

crazygeryy

Poor fella just trying to earn a crust and pay the bills like the rest of us.
By the way his music is ****e bet there won't be one chrysler sold.

dodderangler

crazygeryy wrote: »

Poor fella just trying to earn a crust and pay the bills like the rest of us.
By the way his music is ****e bet there won't be one chrysler sold.

Yeah but most of us get couple hundred a week to pay bills. Not couple of million a gig to pay for mansions and crap

Not as if it's his first time advertising though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFrFQ-F64Y

Classy! :pac:

lertsnim

Bob sold out when he went electric

Frank Lee Midere

Intelligentsia is all over this thread.

Menas

He must have had some speech therapy before making that add. I have not understood a thing he has said since the late 70s.

henryporter

crazygeryy wrote: »

Poor fella just trying to earn a crust and pay the bills like the rest of us.
By the way his music is ****e bet there won't be one chrysler sold.

I'm sure Bobby is unable to eat his breakfast after reading that - he's been found out for the fraudulent artist that you claim him to be :rolleyes:

Gambas

Bob Dylan was a darling of the 60's revolution for expressing his distaste at being told what he could and couldn't do by The Man.

Problem for the purists is that Bob never liked being told what he could an couldn't do by them either, so he sold out whenever he felt like it.

Fair play Bob.

osarusan

I thought this was about concert tickets, like the Garth Brooks threads, and was wondering what the problem/surprise was.

anncoates

I felt a lot better when I stopped expecting my cultural heroes to be moral arbiters instead of enjoying their work.

OK I admit John lydon going on that show was hard but I convinced myself it was a situationist ploy.

biko

You'd think he was rich enough from his music without having to make adverts for cars and underwear.

henryporter

At least Pete Seeger didn't have to see it. I'm sure if he had he would have taken the axe to Dylan.

topper75

Impactful ad. More of a Bob fan after watching it. Not every patriot has a gun in his hand.

I don't accept the 'selling out' accusation. Selling, yes, and we all have to.
But selling OUT would be doing ads for Lockheed drones or something.

anncoates

henryporter wrote: »

At least Pete Seeger didn't have to see it. I'm sure if he had he would have taken the axe to Dylan.

You might argue that an artist's music is the sole thing that conforms to a specific time and ideal.

The music will always be frozen in that time and place.

Maybe it's better to just listen to the albums made at a time when he was you wanted him to be and not expect some guy in his 70s to be the same as he was 40 or 50 years ago.

Cienciano

FearDark wrote: »

Am I the only one here who thinks is Bob Dylan over-rated and has a terrible voice? I insta-change the channel when he's on. Guff.

Terrible voice? Depends. His voice suits his music. Lots of musicians that write their own music and play their own instruments have got a voice that traditionally wouldn't be considered amazing. But for me, a good singing voice is probably the least important item in music.

Capt'n Midnight

kippy wrote: »

Bob Dylan sold out years ago.

Robert Zimmerman sold out when he spotted a gap in the market and ditched rock 'n roll.

Oink

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Robert Zimmerman sold out when he spotted a gap in the market and ditched rock 'n roll.

I am disappointed by the commercials, but I don't think he ever cared about what people thought he should do as an artist.

His reply when he was booed for going electric: "Play it fukking loud!"

P_1

Clever enough ad considering its target audience and the, ahem, fervor of American nationalism I have to say.

Amirani

He's a poor vocalist in a technical sense, but more than makes up for it by being an incredible songwriter and musician. Easily one of my favourite artists.

A Scoundrel

Bob Dylan didn't sell out when he went electric; he didn't even sell out when he made TV commercials.

Bob Dylan sold out when he made a ............Christmas album.

Bob? Walking in a winterwonderland? Wtf man, this sh1t wasn't even ironic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Heart

It's not on youtube, but my feelings on that album are best summed up by PolicyMic: "truly distressing".

He's still a legend anyway.

Oink

A Scoundrel wrote: »

Bob Dylan didn't sell out when he went electric; he didn't even sell out when he made TV commercials.

Bob Dylan sold out when he made a ............Christmas album.

Bob? Walking in a winterwonderland? Wtf man, this sh1t wasn't even ironic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Heart

It's not on youtube, but my feelings on that album are best summed up by PolicyMic: "truly distressing".

He's still a legend anyway.

*sob*

"[Christmas music]is so worldwide and everybody can relate to it in their own way."

Yes, Bob. Everybody can also relate to cutting through your finger with a dull knife.

WilyCoyote

Trigger Happy wrote: »

He must have had some speech therapy before making that add. I have not understood a thing he has said since the late 70s.

Me too. You must have taken a tab too much or fallen of one barstool too many.

SamAK

Anyone seen him live lately?

I saw him in 2011..

He didn't sing, he croaked and mumbled. He wore a wide-brim hat so you couldn't see his face. The cameras that were linked to the multiple big screens towards the back of the venue suddenly became static. No zoom, no close ups or change of angle like they did for every other act that weekend(by order of Bob, perhaps?).

I was looking forward to seeing him, but came away extremely disheartened. I just got the impression that he didn't want to be there. And so did a lot of other people, plenty of negative feedback after that one.

Sir Gallagher

SamAK wrote: »

Anyone seen him live lately?

I saw him in 2011..

He didn't sing, he croaked and mumbled. He wore a wide-brim hat so you couldn't see his face. The cameras that were linked to the multiple big screens towards the back of the venue suddenly became static. No zoom, no close ups or change of angle like they did for every other act that weekend(by order of Bob, perhaps?).

I was looking forward to seeing him, but came away extremely disheartened. I just got the impression that he didn't want to be there. And so did a lot of other people, plenty of negative feedback after that one.

How much was the ticket?

Femme_Fatale

Shur Bob was advertising knickers and bras nearly 10 years ago: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1458742/Hey-Mr-Lingerie-Man-.-.-..html

SamAK

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

How much was the ticket?

Diddly squat, I was working there!

Great lineup that Bob was only a tiny part of...I got to see B.B King!

http://www.songkick.com/festivals/151651-byron-bay-bluesfest/id/7354541-byron-bay-bluesfest-2011

Capt'n Midnight

Oink wrote: »

His reply when he was booed for going electric: "Play it fukking loud!"

He didn't go electric, he went back.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2011/05/22/life/one-of-a-kind-bob-dylan-at-70/

This is the hall in which the schoolboy Zimmerman first performed, on piano, with his rock’n'roll group The Golden Chords. He hammered out Little Richard numbers on a 1922 Steinway Grand. And when he was leaving school in 1959, he wrote in his high school yearbook under “Ambition”: “To join Little Richard.”

thegreatgonzo

I've never been able to listen to him without thinking about this Spitting Image sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUmvjtPlQQ

Stavros Murphy

Bob is a big fake. He's not even a Dylan. Them Dylans were sound.

WilyCoyote

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Bob is a big fake. He's not even a Dylan. Them Dylans were sound.

No. He's a Carpenter