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Re: Food Insecurity
By: Phil Potts Date: June 10, 2022, 8:13 pm
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[quote author=Digwe Must link=topic=112.msg3553#msg3553
date=1654881679]
I am working on a column for Permaculture Design magazine. I
have to thank K-Dog for giving me the theme for my contribution
to this edition.
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Be sure to post it here thanks
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Re: Food Insecurity
By: Phil Potts Date: June 10, 2022, 10:25 pm
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[quote author=Digwe Must link=topic=112.msg3547#msg3547
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[quote author=Phil Potts link=topic=112.msg3546#msg3546
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[quote author=RE link=topic=112.msg3536#msg3536 date=1654743699]
Song is "All Along the Watchtower". Hendrix covered it, but
Dylan wrote it.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7zQE2NpkZU
The lyric is the same, but the music is so different that you
couldn't claim copyright infringement
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Dylan said on at least two occasions that Hendrix had taken the
song and made it his own. One example:
In 1995, Dylan described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's
version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he
could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He
found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in
there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using."
In my aging and biased opinion, it is the best cover of a Dylan
tune - or any damn tune - out there. I play it all the time -
and the dogs howl.
I've seen them both live and I even worked a Hendrix concert in
Providence RI about a million years ago. A buddy of mine was
friends with Hendrix's road manager and we got in for agreeing
to help load sound equipment after the show. This was in a
hockey arena with the stage set up where one goal would be. A
quarter of the place was behind the stage and empty. Our job
during the show was to sit on one end of the stage and make sure
nobody snuck back there into the equipment. Through the show I
wound up sitting about ten feet from where Hendrix was standing.
High point.
Dylan is an all time great song writer. As far as his voice
goes - people love it or hate it - it's not why he won a Nobel.
He is not a great live performer. In his very early career he
was highly political, deeply involved in the Civil Rights and
anti-war movements as was the entire folk music scene on the
east coast at the time. Phil Ochs, Baez, Pete Seeger, and more
all tried to carry on Woody's legacy. But then things changed.
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Someone I knew saw Dylan live in 2008 and was unimpressed. She
probably wasn't a fan and expected something other than deep
poetry. Hurricane and Master's of War would be my equal
favourites; both as pertinent now as ever. I caught the last
couple of minutes of an interview with him the other night on
the car radio. In fact I gathered who it was not from hearing
the name, but by what he said about owing it all to a deal with
the devil, having heard him say that before. I don't really
believe that possible. The industry promoting him perhaps, but
not the lyrics he wrote, as he believes.
Other than that, I was blown away by the honesty, wisdom and
humility of what he said. I read a biography of John Lennon who
never had anything positive to say on any contemporary, except
Yoko Ono. Lennon showed some of his late 60s work before release
to Dylan, who crushed him with the crack 'i get it, you don't
want to be cute any more'. The most acerbic tongue was thus
outquipped.
Your anecdote of the Hendrix concert made me wish I could retell
that to Bob, the panel beater in my uncles workshop who taught
me when I was an apprentice in the 80s. Unfortunately I lost
contact and heard from the spray painter when I got around to
trying to find him, he had taken his own life. He would have
loved hearing that story. The station we had on in the workshop
was a lot of classic rock from before my time and he would tell
me interesting stories on Marvin Gaye and many others.
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