re: #715 ryannon

I’d post music videos illustrating my point, but you’ve already said you don’t watch them. The truth is, I’m a little too tired to go looking. Maybe later. What you’ve said above is true to a point, but doesn’t go far enough. Allen Ginsberg spent time explaining prana which can loosely be defined as the modulation of the life-force associated with one’s manner of breathing. At that point, Dylan’s phrasing took a quantum-jump: it was no longer a prolongation of field hollers or cramming more words into the beat, etc., just as Charlie Parker’s music could not be said to be some sort of souped-up version Dixieland. In each case, they had pushed the envelope in new territory: something which had never been heard before. As for being condescending, I wasn’t. But so as not to disappoint you, let me add that I’m not surprised that you think I was.

telling people they “don’t get it” when in fact they do is condescending where I come from…as for Ginsberg and the ‘life force’ I’ll take that on the surface….the finer you want to split it will assure your outcome….yes Dylan did what nobody may have ‘exactly done’ that we know of, at that point….nevertheless I don’t consider Bob a genius and I’ll wager he’d simply blow you off if you tried…