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- From: cpw2@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Ted Martin Cpw2 Rick Martin)
- Subject: Re: Nanci Griffith song about Bob D.?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1993Jan21.164019.4430@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1993Jan21.214352.10181@sarah.albany.edu> <1993Jan23.112105.2342@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:45:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.112105.2342@fwi.uva.nl> niese@fwi.uva.nl (Eddie Niese) writes:
- >>>David Bowie wrote an excellant song about Bob on his
- >Actaully it is a song AGAINST Bob Dylan saying he is too critical and to
- >pessimistic about the world.
- >Bob answered David Bowie in "Balled for a thin man".
- >"You know something's happening but you don't know what it is,
- >Do you? Mister Jones"
- >
- >NOTE: Jones is the real name of David Bowie....
- Except "Ballad of a Thin Man" is 1965 and "Song for Bob Dylan" is 1969.
- Perhaps the problem--or pleasure--with this whole line of discourse is
- that it is all so wide open for interpretation.
- >
- >Eddie Niese.
- >(I like both Dylan and Bowie)
- >For those of you who are not familiar with Bowie: Listen to "Ziggy Stardust"!!
- >
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