Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Dylan Live) VS Knockin' On Heaven's Door G N' R Live @ Ritz

[machinegunner]

Yeah, i was just editing my post - see above.

[machinegunner]

Oh I am, i'm just saying it's something you hear a lot from people that go or have gone to Dylan gigs, personally i don't care how old a person is in that regard, it just lends a persons voice a different dimension and takes it somewhere else. I see Axl Rose get a lot of stick for this really but i think peoples voices just becomes better for other things over time.

And actually the well worn haggardness in his voice now is really suited to some dark deathly stuff in his last few albums. eg. moonshiner

Edited December 3, 2013 by machinegunner

[Guest Len B'stard]

Also, Dylan to me is in that tradition of like the old blues and folk singer, he ain't no fuckin' MTV star with a sell by date or some like, emblem of the cult of youth, Muddy Waters was still Muddy Waters into his 80s, he just sang sitting down and cut out certain things and adapted, Dylan is of that tradition, you don't get too old for folk or the blues, you get too old for being in NSYNC...or even rapping I guess, if your of a certain type, I guess time will tell how those kinds of artists adapt and evolve but in terms of Dylan it's like what you say, that well worn haggardness is tailor-made for a lot of his stuff.

[machinegunner]

You're right, he is above all a folk singer - singing about things common to humans, not some trendy hipster in some world of his own making. Even at the height of his hipness and initial blooming fame in the 60's with Blonde On Blonde etc, the songs always translated on a level that could be relatively easily understood, the folkies could never accuse him of betraying anything, he was just saying the same fundamental human things in a different style of expressing them - the way he focused their attention on personal politics (because it all starts there, before any 'political stand' is taken, and made them question what they were on about in the first place was unprecedentally genius in the history of popular music, as was how he made reporters question the whole process of interviewing or asking questions of an artist, he didn't just answer their questions on their measly pathetic and oppressive, condescending terms, he saw that as small and was bold enough to just say so to their faces, not many artists still do that these days.

[CheapJon]

Playing these 2 versions one after another, Dylan wins it easily.

[machinegunner]

Playing these 2 versions one after another, Dylan wins it easily.

Of course man, i mean he wrote the song...

[LightningBolt]

Can't believe how many people are saying Dylan's original is dull. I think it's one of the most perfect songs ever written and recorded.

[CheapJon]

Playing these 2 versions one after another, Dylan wins it easily.

Of course man, i mean he wrote the song...

Yeah but that doesn't matter. Many covers are better than their original. This grande Dylan version with Tom Petty puts sloppy drunk GN'Rs to shame.