Bob Dylan’s birthday today. Happy 79th birthday, Bob!
Here’s links to a whole host of previous Dylan postings on The Allen Ginsberg Project (including previous birthday postings).
To start off, there’s this – Allen praises Bob – here and here
There’s also this one – Allen criticizes Bob (but not heavily)
& Bob Dylan on Allen
Allen’s reviews and notes are featured – here and here
Allen and Bob at the grave of Jack Kerouac – here and here
Some great stories – Raymond Foye on the day Bob Dylan came to visit Allen and missed out on meeting Harry Smith
Michael McClure on Bob Dylan’s genius – here
Allen on Bob Dylan and “constantly shifting accents” – here
Allen on Bob Dylan “stopping time”
Allen on Bob Dylan and the Ballads
Rolling Thunder – Allen and Dylan – The Alchemist Scene (from Sam Shepherd’s The Rolling Thunder Logbook) – (and from Peter Barry Chowka’s 1976 interview in New Age Journal – Allen on Dylan and Rolling Thunder – here) – (and his comments, that same year, to Alan Ziegler – here)
Allen and Dylan on Renaldo and Clara – here
Allen and Dylan in the Martin Scorsese Rolling Thunder movie – here
Vintage 1965 Dylan films Allen
Allen and Bob (a photo portfolio)
More Dylan and Allen here and here
Previous birthday postings, also – here, here, here and here
And there’ll be plenty more Dylan (Bob Dylan-Allen Ginsberg) postings, rest assured, in the months and years ahead on The Allen Ginsberg Project