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Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:55 pm**

Personally, I think this guy is the greatest poet of the 20th century...but some of his stuff is so open to interpretation, and that's interesting.
I think I know who the "Joker man" is, but it's the connection to the artist that interests me..... what inspired that song etc etc ...off on a tangent again sorry ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSvsFgvWr0

Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:53 pm**

Well there's clearly a biblical connotation, and Rob Zimmerman was so infatuated with himself that you could easily jump to a conclusion.
I never did like the little squirt, because he plagiarised so much and claimed it as his own.
However: the other day I had cause to listen to a remastered Tidal stream of Blonde on Blonde.
(I had ignored the album mostly because of my inbuilt bias.)
It's a work of musical genius.
It's never too late, y'see, to re-live your entire life within the miracle of modern technology.

Posted: **Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:58 pm**

Charl "It's never too late, y'see, to re-live your entire life within the miracle of modern technology." Damm, right it's never too late, I try to learn or understand something new every day.

Posted: **Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:55 pm**

From the earliest days of the Protest era through into the 1970s, there was a lot of brilliant urban poetry, satire, and social comment - none of your doof-doof pizza delivery noise, just melodic witty songs. Tom Paxton is still soldiering on and he's even older than me

Dylan was one of the best, but I can't really get on with his later stuff.