Re: [ANTI-BITS] (more of a flame really) Dylan/Grammy Award
Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:45:52 -0800
> I watched the Grammy Awards thing last night (most of it, anyway)
> and, in particular, saw Dylan's performance. I realize this is all
> subjective, but (IMHO) his song sounded like hell -- the music sucked,
> and Bob is completely unintelligible. I've heard countless people say
> "listen to the words -- he's a master lyricist" -- how can you tell,
> given the way he sings?
He does sound like hell. He hasn't been able to do live performances
for 15 years. I saw his Dylan tribute on PBS in Madison Square Gardens
and it was downright embarrassing after seeing anybody who's anybody
playing and singing his songs better than he ever could.
Greg