Bob Dylan was always a legend in music since he hit the scene in the 1960's, and is now doing something very innovative in this age of technology.How many people of my generation don’t have at least one Bob Dylan song in their collection?
Here’s some 1964 footage of “Hey Mr Tambourine Man” as I have always liked this song a lot, and many others too. It has been covered by The Byrds and Melanie Safka as well as others.Apart from his solo work I still enjoy listening to "The Traveling Wilbury's".This group was George Harrison's idea.
Many people have claimed they can sing
like Bob Dylan. Many more have claimed they can sing better and act better than
Bob Dylan.
But how many can claim they have directed
Bob Dylan? From today the answer to that one could be
millions.
A new promotional video for Dylan's
classic, groundbreaking and enigmatic 1965 song, Like A Rolling Stone – a
song which never had a filmclip at the time - will allow viewers to interact
with, redirect and have a wholly individual experience.
The video, made available on
BobDylan.com at
4am Australian eastern summer time, can be experienced as one regulation viewing
from beginning to end.(you can follow the link watch it there).
However, pressing "play" kicks off new
technology which gives you what its creators are calling “16 different
television channels” within the video.
Within each of the 16 channels are people
lip syncing the lyrics so that the song proceeds, no matter which "channel" you
have chosen, but what you see will be completely different to what anybody else
watching at the same time will see.
Familiar American television shows and
faces feature in the multiple strands of the video and presumably there will be
assumptions made about the relationship between some of those faces and the
characters described in the long and much debated song.
Since Dylan has a never apologise/never
explain policy on his songs that speculation can proceed without fear of
contradiction whether you are watching this on your computer, tablets or smart
phones.
The video is not a sign that there has
been a re-release of the song, which was Dylan’s most successful single,
reaching number 2 in the US charts in 1965 despite its extravagant, for the
time, length of six minutes and 13 seconds.
It is, however, a sign that there is a new
packaging of Dylan albums, a 47CD box with 35 studio albums, six live albums and
a double disc rarities collection.
Given that it is called The Complete Album
Collection Volume 1, more reissues, and possibly more interactive videos, are
likely.
By Bernard
Zuel
With thanks to The
Sydney Morning Herald
Above picture credit: The
Guardian, and more information.
Here’s another treat featuring Bob Dylan and many other favourites of mine.
It's almost a Who's Who of Classic Rock. Incredible!!
George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Ringo Starr and others perform "I Saw Her Standing There" at the 1988 Hall of Fame Inductions. http://rockhall.com/
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