With the obvious exceptions of everyone on this thread the real trouble with Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan fans. Alan Bennett said about Kafka that he is "picketed by his own admirers" and unfortunately the zeal and certainty of Dylan fans has always had that effect on me.
My late friend John, who used to write gig reviews for the Observer, was inundated with hate mail when he admitted that he left a Dylan gig early. That was in the early nineties, I think. Things have not really improved much since then.
With the obvious exceptions of everyone on this thread the real trouble with Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan fans. Alan Bennett said about Kafka that he is "picketed by his own admirers" and unfortunately the zeal and certainty of Dylan fans has always had that effect on me.
My late friend John, who used to write gig reviews for the Observer, was inundated with hate mail when he admitted that he left a Dylan gig early. That was in the early nineties, I think. Things have not really improved much since then.