Showing posts with label Dylan - Bob. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dylan - Bob. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Art & Photography Playlist #12 The Band: When I Paint My Masterpiece

Songs about Art and Photography: a playlist. #12 The Band: When I Paint My Masterpiece (click to play; click here to play live version; click here to find version by Bob Dylan).
Bob Dylan, Two Sisters, 2008 (?)
Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere
You can almost think that you're seeing double
On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs

Gotta hurry on back to my hotel room
Where I got me a date with a pretty little girl from Greece
She promised, she'd be there with me
When I paint my masterpiece

Oh, the hours we spent inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions, and a-wasting time
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em
Yes, it sure has been a long, hard drive

Train wheels are running through the back of my memory
When I ran on a hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday everything is gonna sound like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola

Well, I left Rome, and landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergy men in uniform and young girls pulling mussels
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside

Newspaper man eating candy
Had to be held down by big police
But someday every thing's gonna be different
When I paint that masterpiece 

"When I Paint My Masterpiece" by Bob Dylan from The Band: Cahoots, 1971.
The Band
Click on 'Art and Photography Playlist', below, to see all playlist entries; all songs on 'Art & Photography Playlist' on Spotify.

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Art & Photography Playlist #2 Bob Dylan: She Belongs To Me

Songs about Art and Photography: a playlist.
#2 Bob Dylan: She Belongs To Me (click to play live 1966 performance)
Barry Feinstein, Bob Dylan, Aust Ferry, 1966
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She can take the dark out of the night-time
And paint the daytime black


You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees


She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She’s nobody’s child
The Law can’t touch her at all


She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She’s a hypnotist collector
You are a walking antique


Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
For Halloween give her a trumpet
And for Christmas, buy her a drum

Bob Dylan, 1965 - on Bringing It All Back Home

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Barry Feinstein, 1931 - 2011

Baarry Feinstein, Bob Dylan, 1963
Barry Feinstein, the photographer whose picture of Bob Dylan became the cover for his 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin', and who accompanied Bob Dylan and The Band on their notorious 1966 tour of Britain, died on 20 October, 2011. Read an obituary by Sean O'Hagan.
Barry Feinstein, Bob Dylan - Aust Ferry, 1966
Barry Feinstein, Bob Dylan, 1966
Barry Feinstein, for The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, 1968 - rejected by the record company