I met him only once, with a 20-minute one-on-one interview eight years after Chappaquiddick, three years before he lost the Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter. No matter what you may have thought of him as a man, I have to stay that Ted Kennedy was very impressive in person. As a senator he knew his stuff.
P.S. Ted didn’t lose the nomination, of course, in 1980. He dropped out of the running.
See comments for why I added this post to the Beatles category.
Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan, 1963, © Jim Marshall
Bob Dylan famously “went electric” at the ’65 Newport Folk Festival, to a somewhat mixed response.
When I first heard the “Biograph” set in ’85, which I got on LP before buying my first CD player, I was stunned by the pairing of these two songs.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2009/AUG/Biograph.mp3]“Mixed Up Confusion” was recorded in 1962. ’62! With “Tombstone Blues” Dylan was just picking up where he’d left off nearly three years before. When I first heard this I felt as though Dylan hadn’t caught up to Folk Rock, but that he had, in fact, secretly invented it.
Back in May, it was reported that Bob Dylan joined a Beatles tour in England, and went essentially unnoticed, to see John Lennon’s boyhood home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8046278.stm
But that wasn’t the first time Bob Dylan visited the hometown of the Beatles. Here he is in Liverpool in 1966, only a couple of months before his motorcycle crash.
© Barry Feinstein
Clare, in Clare and the Reasons, is Clare Muldaur, daughter of Maria and Geoff. Here she sings in defense of Pluto, the little put-upon planet that scientists say may not actually rate being called a planet. Listening to the French version, “Pluton,” on her MySpace page, with its dreamy use of a theramin sound, I get a sense that this was intended to be the missing final part of Holst’s suite The Planets, which was composed before Pluto had been discovered.
Speaking of 60’s fashions (see previous post), blog reader Lía Pamina, a lady of Spain and self-described 60’s retro girl, has a couple of delightful new recordings, singing the Beatles songs “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “You Like Me Too Much.” They’re produced by Robbie Leff, of the 60’s garage band The Crabs. Bravo, Lía!
Les Paul, 1915-2009.
This is Denro with Les last year.
