[Leica] Plagarism

[csaganich at gmail.com (Chris Saganich)]

Yes, I'm a pretty good Dylan fan, that's why I know as much as I do.  I've
also done a fair amount of research on the basket house scene in the village
between '62-and '68.  My aunt was hanging out there between '55 and '65, but
mostly with the painters.  I see Havens whenever I find out he is playing.
He lives around here somewhere, Brooklyn, so he shows up at these odd places
for gigs.  Last year it was Governors Island, before that in the Metrocenter
park in Downtown Brooklyn.  I photographed him both times...with my Leica.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:54 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Re: All Along the Watchtower, Dylan has said that he finds Hendrix's
> version
> of the song superior even to his own original.
>
> Hendrix was well-known to be a huge Dylan fan. In the 1973 film called "A
> Film About Jimi Hendrix," Jimi's Harlem girlfriend Lithofayne Pridgeon
> talks
> about the day when he came home with a Dylan album and made her listen to
> it
> with him, over and over again, he obviously enthralled by it.
>
> At his break-out American solo performance at Monterey, Jimi famously
> covered Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone, a version I prefer to Dylan's
> original. During that show, Hendrix introduced his bass player, Noel
> Redding, to the audience as "Bob Dylan's grandmother."
>
> Interestingly, while Joni Mitchell (and others) have periodically accused
> Dylan of plagiarism, Mitchell also has said that Hendrix was the sweetest
> guy around.
>
> I'm not sure that Dylan is really a musical genius -- his music is very
> much
> rooted in tradition, while Hendrix really charted new sound territory-- but
> I do feel he is a superb writer, a poet. Listen to the words to something
> like "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." It's, in some ways, amazingly
> faithful in structure and purpose to the form of medieval ballad, yet
> revved
> up with language choices and syntax that I find breathtaking.
>
> But if Dylan is a plagiarist, so was Shakespeare. I understand that perhaps
> just one of his plays -- The Tempest -- has no antecedent for its plot. The
> other stories were lifted from various well-known works by other writers.
>
> (Trying desperately to keep this on-topic, Jim Marshall photographed
> Hendrix
> at Monterey using his Leica M4. A Nikon SP appears on the cover of Dylan's
> LP "Highway 61 Revisited.")
>
> Emanuel
>
>
>
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