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#549 Bob Dylan at 75 – *Blonde on Blonde* to Modern Times

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot conclude their two-part celebration of American icon Bob Dylan as he turns 75. This week, they explore the recording of Blonde on Blonde through his late career renaissance.

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0:00.0

I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

Oh, I'm down, bet you're now. In 1966 Bob Dylan stunned the music world

0:36.5

with his unprecedented double album, Blond on Blond. Even more shocking is that now at

0:42.1

age 75 Dylan's career is still going strong and of course his influence is immortal.

0:47.8

We conclude our celebration of Bob Dylan's life and music with a close look at Blond on Blond with rock legend

0:53.4

Al Cooper. Then we explore Dylan's late career renaissance. That's coming up on

0:57.9

sound opinions. Once upon a time you dress so fine, do the bumps of dime in your prime, then you.

1:11.0

People call, say beware, doll, you're bound to fall you thought they were all

1:17.2

kidding you. You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Jim De Ergatus. My partner is

1:21.9

Greg Kot and today we're continuing our

1:24.4

look back at Bob Dylan as he hits the milestone of his 75th birthday.

1:29.8

Last week we explored a relatively short but fruitful period in his career the early

1:34.0

60s that time in New York on the folk scene leading up to the fateful day in

1:38.8

Newport, Rhode Island July 1965 when Dylan electrified his music, the audience was in turn electrified

1:46.7

and neither would ever be the same. We revisited our 2009 conversation

1:51.3

with Al Cooper who was with Dylan during that tour when he

1:54.4

plugged in and he became one of Dylan's longest running collaborators. In fact that is

1:59.2

Cooper's trademark Hammond organ that you're hearing on Dylan's famous 1965 track, like a Rolling Stone.

2:05.0

That's the game changer for a lot of people. Six minute single released during the summer of 65.

2:13.0

The historians tell us it changed everything.

2:15.6

The length of the song, the sound, the fact that Dylan had gone electric full on.

2:21.1

He had this amazing guitar player at his side as well, Mike Bloomfield out of Chicago,

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