Color known

On the day of my life, when I bought my first hell-Bob Dylan album, I'll always remember. Suddenly it seemed to me that the world is no longer the same - what at least myself concerning also agreed well. Fourteen years old I was and the 1974 calendar hanging on the wall. In order to deal carefully with my pocket money seemed appropriate to have all known Dylan numbers on a double LP. I wore "Before the Flood" to till.

So I started my Dylan collection with this live album, which is so rough and rebellious as any other of its wheels up to "Hard Rain". But that was certainly in my senses. In order to go his way, Bob Dylan had always distinguish. Of the errors of his time, from the appeasement of the media industry, from false friends and the expectations of his fans, often even from themselves or rather from that which he had already saved. It is no coincidence if this overlaps with the aura of a fourteen year old.

This album is primarily a statement. It fell into the midst of the time of the Six Day War, the "oil crisis" and spooky empty highways. The entire Western world suddenly found himself challenged to its very foundations. The conquest of the mainstream had many who had hitherto dreamed of having music is changing, certainly presented quite differently the world. However, the fact was already at that time, that rock music from the popular culture of the industrial nations was not indispensable. As an economic factor any more than as expression of life, as an expression of freedom in the Western Hemisphere.

All this I have indeed had not yet understood, but "Before the Flood" has facilitated my understanding immensely. This double CD always reminds me: Bob Dylan has known color when it mattered to him. My Anspieltipps called "It's Allright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "Like a Rolling Stone". Both pieces are here to be heard in a version that can compress a smooth in the chair.