The photo of young Dylan & her on Freewheelin' cover must be the most famous image of Beat generation, and also has have strong impact on people who love their way of life.
At the same time, I happened to have the news that Cameron Crowe's upcoming movie will be distributed by us next year.
In Cameron Crowe & Tom Cruise's Vanilla Sky(also starring Penelope Cruz & Cameron Diaz), they gave their hommage to the image.
Vanilla Sky is the remake of Open Your Eyes, great Spanish film. However, I'd like to recognize that Vanilla Sky includes their original message and affection to pop culture.
After reading asbury-san's blog, I'd like to know Suze's life after her departure from Dylan. That is partly because I have had a keen interest about his changes in his 70 years' lifetime.
His changes must be deeply related with every woman he loved.
As same as Dylan in 1960's, I have had the curiosity about Dylan's Christianity period, and it has been amplified in me since I watched Dylan this April.
In one of Lennon's last interviews, he mentioned his new song "Serve Yourself", which is the answer song to Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody" This is a very irony episode, but I feel their indirect interest with friendship(like "How Do You Sleep" to Paul).
("Serve Yourself" hasn't been released before John's death.)
I had a feeling that Suze's story would give me one of the clue to understand how we live our lives, and it would be great help to understand Dylan's works.
I am inspired to listen and write something about Bruce Springsteen. 18 years has passed since my last Springsteen experience, Human Touch & Lucky Town. During this period, I sometimes felt like having letters from an old friend when I heard his activities, like wrestler in the motion picure.
I saw (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, in which Zooey Deschanel (Summer) said "I wanted to sing BORN TO RUN, but they didn't have it." (500) DAYS OF SUMMER inspired me to remember a lot of things left behind. Moreover, the conversation mentioned between Springsteen & Edward Burns via twitter instigated me. Finally, the sincerity of his fun's blog proved to be the fatal blow that makes me come back into Bruce.
I was led into Springsteen by John Lennon. John mentioned HUNGRY HEART in his playboy interview(one of my Bible) as his favorite for current hit tune with 50's mind. When I was 13 (in1982), I had listened to their DOUBLE FANTASY once a day for about 6 months.(I'll pick up this album someday)
I'm really interested in Bruce.
Soon I purchased his double album, THE RIVER, later got other his master pieces(BORN TO RUN, DARKNESS OF THE EDGE OF TOWN).
As you know, BORN IN THE USA(1984) made him popular, but for no reason at all, I didn't take that.
On the other hand, when I heard the announcement of the release of his first live album, LIVE 1975-1985, I was so excited.
His first gig in Japan was held in 1985, but I was too young and far away to go.
At that time, we heard his legendary live performance, but most of us couldn't experienced. Therefore the press had special issue of his latest one.
I couldn't wait for the release, and I wanted to see his live performance.
As a result, I found bootleg VHS video and bought it:
LIVE IN LARGO (1980)
1.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
2.TWO HEARTS
3.10th AVENUE FREEZE OUT
4.YOU CAN LOOK
5.DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
6.INDEPENDENCE DAY
7.FACTORY
8.JACKSON CAGE
9.OUT IN THE STREET
10.THE PROMISED LAND
11.RACING IN THE STREET
12.THE RIVER
13.BADLANDS
14.THUNDER ROAD
15.CADILLAC RANCH
16.SHERRY DARLING
17.HUNGRY HEART
18.FIRE
19.BECAUSE THE NIGHT
★TAPE 2
1.FADE AWAY
2.GROWIN' UP
3.STOLEN CAR
4.WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY
5.POINT BLANK
6.THE TIES THAT BIND
7.CRUSH ON YOU
8.RAMROD
9.BACKSTREETS
10.ROSALITA,COME OUT TONIGHT
11.JUNGLELAND
12.BORN TO RUN
13.DETROIT MEDLEY
This is THE RIVER Tour program, which is consisted of mainly the albums, THE RIVER,DARKNESS OF THE EDGE OF TOWN and BORN TO RUN.
I was blown away at the first song, Prove It All Night.
From the motion picture of his performance, I found his great talent as a guitarist. I was so surprised at the fact that he usually took the guitar solo by himself. His guitar always eloquent same as a singer and a poet. His guitar style is not professional guitar players' one. He plays like exposing his emotion. I know one other great guitar player like him : Neil Young.
I couldn't mention the album, LIVE IN NYC on this page. Next time I'd like to talk about integrity, sincerity, and promising in his music.
