The True Idols

BOB DYLAN

terlahir sebagai Robert Allen Zimmerman lahir di Duluth, Minnesota,Amerika Serikat, 24 Mei 1941 umur 71 tahun adalah seorang penyanyi dan penulis lagu,musikus dan penyair Amerika yang sumbangannya terhadap musik Amerika bertahan lama dan dapat dibandingkan, dalam kemasyhuran dan pengaruhnya, dengan karya-karya Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, dan Hank Williams,tepatnya dalam budaya Amerika dan Eropa pada sepertiga terakhir dari abad ke-20 hingga sekarang memang unik,banyak dari karya terbaik Dylan berasal dari tahun 1960-an.

 ketika ia menjadi dokumentarian dan tokoh pergolakan Amerika. sebagian dari lagu-lagunya, seperti "Blowin' in the Wind" dan "The Times They Are A-Changin'" menjadi "lagu kebangsaan" dari gerakan anti perang dan gerakan hak-hak sipil. Dylan tetap merupakan seniman yang populer dan berpengaruh. Albumnya yang terbaru memuat lagu-lagu baru,"Love and Theft", menduduki tempat ke-5 pada tangga lagu-lagu terpoluer di AS dan ke-3 di Britania.

sedikit pribadi yang saya ketahui tentang beliau namun banyak hal tentang musik Folk yang selama ini di anggap remeh oleh mayoritas penikmat musik lain, dimulainya musik Folks berjaya berkat Bob dylan, dan Bob dylan juga adalah salah satu inspirasi buat komikus Urasawa Naoki yang membuat character kenji endou sebagai penyelamat dunia, wah mungkin masih banyak lagi hal yang masih belum terjamah oleh public tentang beliau, tapi gw tetep salut.

my favorited song :)

"A hard rain A gonna fall"

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?

And where have you been my darling young one ?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?

And what did you see, my darling young one ?

I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'

I saw a white ladder all covered with water

I saw ten thousand takers whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?

And what did you hear, my darling young one ?

I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'

I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'

I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'

Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter

Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard

And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?

Who did you meet, my darling young one ?

I met a young child beside a dead pony

I met a white man who walked a black dog

I met a young woman whose body was burning

I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

I met one man who was wounded in love

I met another man who was wounded and hatred

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard

And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?

And what'll you do now my darling young one ?

I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'

I'll walk to the deepths of the deepest black forest

Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty

Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison

Where the executioner's face is always well hidden

Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten

Where black is the color, where none is the number

And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it

And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it

Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'

But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. 

Berikut ini adalah pendapat orang orang tentang bob dylan :

• Bob Dylan took a lot of air out of the room when it came to songwriters. Everybody had a tough row to hoe distinguishing themselves once Bob invented our job ( Steve Earle, quoted at "Homage to Townes" at Austin360.com 18 May 2009)
• The stage is the only place where I'm happy." But this has its own sadnesses, like so much love. He is the one person who has to be at a Dylan concert and the one person who can't go to a Dylan concert ( Christopher Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin 2003)

Quotes Bob Dylan yang terkenal :

• uang? Seorang pria ini sukses jika dia bangun di pagi hari dan pergi ke tempat tidur pada malam hari dan di selalu melakukan apa yang ingin ia lakukan.
• Saya menentang alam. Saya tidak menggali alam sama sekali. Saya pikir alam sangat tidak wajar. Saya pikir hal-hal yang benar-benar adalah alam mimpi, yang sifatnya tidak bisa tersentuh dengan pembusukan.
• Semua ini berbicara kesetaraan. Satu-satunya orang yang benar-benar memiliki kesamaan adalah bahwa mereka semua akan mati.