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Bob Dylan on... Bono:
"Spending time with Bono was like eating dinner on a train—feels like you're moving, going somewhere. Bono's got the soul of an ancient poet and you have to be careful around him. He can roar 'till the earth shakes. He's also a closet philosopher...talks about the rightness, the richness, glory, beauty, wonder and magnificence of America." 2005
Has Dylan ever spoken about Prince??
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Bob Dylan commented on Prince in a 1987 Rolling Stone interview: . Interviewer: The Phil Spector approach. . Interviewer: Do you think Prince is talented? . Interviewer: Lately he's seemed to be a little trapped inside of it all. . http://www.rollingstone.c...n-19871105
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Thank you. I was not aware. What about Prince on Dylan? | |
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Great what Dylan said about Prince. My third favorite artist talkin about my second favorite. | |
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Did they ever meet or perform together? | |
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An old Prince.org thread addresses this...sort of:
"relevant bit from the prince geek's bestest friend (in the form of a reference book), the vault:
http://prince.org/msg/7/202737?pr
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What a fool, turning down Bob Dylan? who in his right mind does that? | |
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Prince. Who else. I wonder if he was just impossibly shy or, being himself - aloof? | |
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Shyness could be the reason. That's also why he didn't join the We Are the World project. In the Rolling Stone interview in 1985 Prince said that he didn't know Dylans music very well and that All Along the Watchtower was his favourite- which he first heard from Jimi Hendrix. "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
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There's also a story George Harrison told some years back in a radio documentary about a session for the Traveling Wilburys first album. Out of the blue, Dylan said, "Let's do one like Prince!", and started into an improbably raunchy lyric about a woman, based on a Little Red Corvette-style car metaphor (albeit given a slightly tongue-in-cheek twist). It became the song Dirty World. Made me smile to think of Bob having a crack at channelling his inner Purple One. [Edited 4/11/17 7:03am] "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin |
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Yeah, I read about that. I liked the Travelling Wilburys, just never got around to buying the LP. Thanx for posting. Doesn't sound very much like Prince, but what the hell, it's fun.  [Edited 4/12/17 11:19am] "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
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