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Yes, I think that's the point, it's the latest thing in suspense tv, and it can work to get you to watch week by week. . . Or buy the dvd at the end of the season/beginning of the next! I'm not completely sold on it yet, but I think they're making an effort to be a fresh look at superheroes (i. e. using only the latest and greatest cliches!) and I'll give them a few more episodes.

Any of you comic book heads out there watching this? Since the only comic books I've read in over a decade I've "seen" on a screen instead, and since I have time on my hands in the evenings, I gave this one a chance. Not too bad so far. . . considering.

Oh it's in here somewhere, started by Dan Gould I believe, about three or four months ago. I am having no luck with the search function today!

Belated wishes that it was a great day! Woo Woo!

Sorry you got caught by that marketing ploy. We had discussed this here in advance of the release. . .which is how I would know to avoid the trap.

Interesting. I love Dylan with the Band and love the Basement tapes. I was at the Last Waltz and loved that. I was also at the Before the Flood tour Oakland performance. For some reason, it didn't excite me at all, and the record doesn't either. There is just something too smooth and calculated about it. I can understand why the Band of Gypsies was the next step. Something had to be done to make it raw and real again. Yes, Before the Flood doesn't do much for me either. But a few boots of the tour I've heard do. Makes me wish they would do an official box of some of these or a big "Bootleg Volume." The Band and Bob CAN be very good listening. . . .

I'm just walking by Brian. You don't get it, and I'm not playing your game. See ya, wouldn't want to, etc.

Those are pretty darned rare those lps. Hardly spotted, couldn't have had a big print run. The CTI is coming back out again from Japan. Nice record.

You know, I'm coming to the conclusion you are clueless as to how you come off. Walk on by. See ya.

I can't remember whether OC made that quote when he played "Turnaround" in Austin, but he may have. . . . I'm too far away from my collection to dig up the recording made by someone else of that show I happen to have. It's likely he intended to quote that fully well aware of the lyrics. . . .

I really like Gatemouth Brian. Didn't you read my post right? I just don't like Sahm, and Sissy seems to me to be the way his music sounds that's all. I doesn't do anything for me personally. There are so many others that do nothing for you, surely you can connect that the obverse is true for others. I wonder if you really get things somehow. Texas Instruments, blah blah blah. Heard them. Not so impressed. Been to all kinds of places like Hole in the Wall, Outhouse, etc. When was the last time you were there NYC boy? It doesn't really matter if I like Dylan and have or have not heard TI or whomever. There are gazillions of words out there. I can pick and choose my own, just like you do. Again you're judging me, like you judge so many others on this board, exalting yourself. Don't you see how ridiculous that is? Your opinion of me or what I could or should say about music means nothing to me. Walk on by, see ya.

I like Chris Connor, but I have never yet felt moved by her the way I have by Peggy. Maybe it's just personal preferrences, but it's not just the material for me. Listened to some of the Benny Goodman material this morning. Young Peggy, not fully formed. Still quite fine stuff.

Hey Mr. New York City, I'm looking forward to the day when you "have nothing to say to me." I need you talking to me like a hole in the head. I don't invite it or want it. I need you schooling me even less. I know enough about all these guys you're listing there to know what the music is like. Some I like, some I can't stand (Gatemouth for one, Sissy Sahm for the other). I know enough to have A clue. I know the eighties versions. I'm a fan of Dylan's words to be honest with you. My interest in Dylan sort of went south with "Slow Train" and all that Christian stuff. And I really turned away all through the eighties and I guess the media attention to his comeback albums got me itnerested again, and then Masked and Anonymous and the "No Direction Home" thing got me exploring back a little, and I picked up this new one because I wanted to hear what the controversy was about the song credits and just see what it was like, and Denny was on there, so I knew somewhat what to expect quality wise. I'm no rabid fan of the boy or the genre he seems to be dippin' his toes into. Been there and don't need to be there any longer, I've moved on. To listen to this album you don't need to have spent time listening to a bunch of yodelers and assorted other past swingers to know that this is Texas blues boogie based, and to either enjoy it or not enjoy it. Jeez, I spent a lot of time in the eighties in Antone.s and other clubs listening to those girls like Lou Ann, Angela, Sara Brown, and to many may acts both Texan and otherwise, steering clear of the country stuff because frankly a lot of it was jive and it didn't float my boat jive or not. I listnened to Will's little bro Charlie when that was all he was. I've got requisite background, I'm not claiming to be an expert or wanting to be or know more. That's your bag and you can have it. Please don't open it around me. If that shit floats your boat sail on. Please sail on. See ya. Wouldn't want to, etc.

Yeah Mike, blues guys rip off blues guys. Or did back further in the day. There's something different to what Dylan is doing NOW when he has the power to be responsible, toss a few coins to estates,etc. And it's not just blues guys he's ripped! I see it as reckless behavior (which is I think in his case the point) and I don't think musicans and composers would want it to be emulated and repeated by others.

Clem you'd be surprised at how many living guys I hear. And lots of unsung unrecorded friends too. I know who Bell and Day were. No interest in that folky Texas stuff though. Yodelers need not apply. Sorry. Dreadful sorry. Hard-hearted? Just decided to give you back a little of your tactic. Hipster? Hardly. Don't care. See ya.

I've got a Jerry Garcia calendar. . . it arrived in Austin, I'm here in Houston til November sometime it looks like. . . . I bet it's good but I haven't seen it!

Ah Brian, I think you really overestimate the Chronicle. I think it's not that great. Have you ever gone to their offices? I went once years ago and it really turned me OFF. I kept reading that rag less and less. And less. If you dig it, fine. I've got no use for it myself. What is there to talk about. . . Texas blues boogie music. You know what that is right? As he's hiring Charlie Sexton and Denny Freeman to sixstring Bob knows what it's about. It's not rocket science, doesn't need in depth analysis. Look. I don't like a lot of the artists you trash, and I don't like a lot of the artists you laud. I have about 37 years of collecting recordings under my belt, and I don't need your guidance about Don or any country artist, or Texas artist, I already know what I like, and it does NOT include a lot of Texas country artists, sorry. I know why I don't like them. I don't pursue learning about things I'm not really interested in. Life is way too short for me. I'm not certain how many years I have on you, but I think it's a few. I don't have enough time to pursue those things that I AM interested in. But that is where I'm putting the effort. Texas country guys, even Wills and other swingers, just aren't on my list. I know a little about them, enough for me not to go further because. . . I don't want to. You're not my third grade teacher so stop acting as if you were and handing out assignments. I don't want them. Maybe some others here want your homework. Any takers? Lost and gone forever.

Um Brian, I just don't want to share some private details with you, that's all. You sure don't make it attractive to do so. I think you're mistaken that I even want to hold a dialog with you. I don't reconcile my posting on Mighty 'Mo at all. I don't tie things up into little bows. Reconciliation is for accountants. I don't personally care about what you think about my not reading the newspaper, the newspapers here bite and I would rather get my news online. I can safely ignore spending a lot of time on the life of Don Wasler, thank you very much. I know quite a bit about Texas blues boogie music, even from personal experience. But why should you concern yourself about that? You've already proven yourself the hip Peter Pan and impressed. . . someone I'm sure. Dreadful sorry. To get back on topic, I found this post from http://pool.dylantree.com/phorum5/read.php?1,654272 howlingly funny: More stolen lyrics on Modern times!!!!!! Posted by: Liam (---.ipt.aol.com) Date: September 17, 2006 01:05AM So I was listening to Modern Times, and just by coincidence I was also reading this book called "Bible," and sure enough, I noticed a bunch of phrases, lines, and concepts that Dylan stole. For instance, the line "We all wear the same thorny crown" from "When the Deal Goes Down." In "Bible," there's a character named Jesus who also wears a crown of thorns. Also, in "Bible," Jesus gives a whole sermon on how you should love thy neighbor. Sure enough, in "Ain't talkin," look at what Dylan so-called wrote on his own: "I am a-tryin' to love my neighbor and do good unto others " Hmm, still think it's all a crazy COINCIDENCE? Then read on: On Modern Times' defining track, "Beast with Two Backs," Dylan says, "It's gettin' hot, it's gettin' clear, There's a Beast approachin', and Armageddon outta here." And meanwhile, "Bible" ends with (SPOILER) an event called "Armageddon" which involves the arrival of a "beast." Anyway, stay tuned, because I have a plan to take care of that thieving Dylan, oooh! he makes me so mad! Hot Ptah, more I think of it the more I agree with you. . . it's just wrong.

See there you go with your tired old shtick that anyone who isn't an arrested adolescent interested in exactly the same things you are is just (insert insult #345). It's really wearying Brian. Honestly, I've grown up, I have my introverted life finally arranged well, I don't need smokey dives and drunken frat boys and stoned out burn outs so I avoid most of the Austin night scene. It's for younger folk, or people who are living in a different reality. If you like swimming that sort of a pond, go for the breast stroke. See ya BB.

Hey Brian, grow up and get a life! I don't care what eyes are upon me. I know a little about Don Walser so what. He doesn't impact my world. I've got lots of music to listen to and lots of new things coming at me. I don't need the Chronicle for anything. I get local news from lots of sources. I actually happen to BE local. I regulate my time because I don't have enough of it for all the things I want to do. I'm over Pee Wee Crayton. I don't give a flute about Willie or Doug Sahm. I don't care if I've ever gone to Henry's. So what? More and more you're showing me that I have little in common with you or your priorities and the reverse is true. I'll just skip your posts. . . they used to be interesting, but now they're just you puffing up your chest and saying "look at me I'm so hip." Good for you! See ya.

dude you and I have very different musical tastes and I don't HAVE to read anything, I don't have to read ANYTHING. Arrogance is your attitude that whatever isn't swimming in your pool is a shark or a turd in the bowl. I just get sick of that 'tude dude. I was IN the music scene for a spell and decided it was not for me and I just don't want to go there. I wouldn't go to Emos with all those college kids for love or money. I'm a grownup now. I'm just done with all that and don't need to read about stuff or pretend I'm hip. Don't need to be out on the scene any longer, I've got my life and I'm happy with it, all but the employment part, but I'm toughing out three more years til retirement, and then deciding whether to blow Austinville for somewhere closer to family, or doing something fun or fulfilling in the town for grins and less dollars. Actually, I'm quite interested in social activism and do my lilttle bits though admittedly less now as I have caretaking full time to do, but the Chronicle. . . just can't get past the "too cool for school" look and attitude and I just don't read stuff on newsprint anymore. I just don't have the time for stuff like that, I'm maxed out on a lot of other things. I know what I want to know about Texas music and I leave the rest.

I never read the Chronicle, about four years ago decided that was a waste of time. No looking back. I don't need to READ about Texas music. I can smell it in the air or just remember a few bad nights on stage at Steamboat.

Well I finally got to hear Modern Times, once. I'll listen to it again (and again). I'm with Hot Ptah on this theivery of the songs however, I don't think Dylan should get a pass on this, no matter how much I admire his work and understand the process of regurgitating the tradition. It has to be a deliberate move to not credit some or all of the sources for these tunes he's appropriated. I sort of think it's a facet of his personality. The man started off stealing the image and personality of a true individual. He rose to fame in a blinding burst of truly innovative writing (even if founded on some traditional tunes) . . . I mean "Masters of War", "Visions of Johanna," "She Belongs to Me". . . Amazing stuff, unlike anything else. He became ridiculously popular and "successful" and he tried on some other outfits, the Nashville ones for example that brought out the movie, the Cash sessions, and the (in my opinion masterful) "Blood on the Tracks capper to that run. He put on roots rockers clothes with The Band, he put on greasepaint for the seventies greasy rock Revue, he put on evangelical robes to do Christ rock and gospel rewrites. . . . Who is this guy is probably a legitimate question? Was he ever himself? I think he has the self-destructive and insecure personality of a gambler and a thief. I think he makes these costume changes as a ploy to get himself primed for keeping the love-hate cycle he has with fame and fortune going when it needs to be going. And I think this love of theft and love and theft of the old songs is a part of the self-destructive thrill. It's one way for him to be on top of the hill and yet one slip away from the fall to the valley below. It's got to be an excitement for him, one of those spinal column chill things that he may not get otherwise. It's parcel of the personality he seems to have exhibited from the start, it's the fully matured old man version. That's how I see it, I could be wrong. It's almost as if he's daring to be called on this and held to task, and chuckling that he still has them all at bay. The cd itself? Some good Texas blues boogie music again. Denny Freeman on board, Denny delivers, in my opinion he always has, I've seen him up close and personal dozens of times. . . . It's not a great cd, not a Dylan masterpiece, but it's entertaining, I'll get some mileage out of it.

Some pretty so so hospital coffee.

Oh I definitely agree that seeing the shows on dvd would be beneficial. . . I hate those cliffhangers most of the time. I did that with Alias, never watched the shows til Season 5, the final one, but during the year of Season 4 I watched all three previous seasons on dvd, then Season 4 on dvd right as Season 5 began, taping Season 5 until I caught up. It was a great way to watch Alias as opposed to week by week. Too bad they show really started to go downhill after about Season 3. My wife had no interest in Alias, zilch, so I never got to watch it as broadcast as it conflicted with what she wanted to see. But she DOES like Lost. I think she likes to watch Sawyer and Jack.