listen you guys, this song is about the circus his world turned into once he went electric. All chaotic and surreal. Around this era many songs are about the same thing, so don't let them trick you into any other b.s.
Anyway, Mobile is a southern town, I think in Alabama,i.e. folk music
Memphis, i.e. Elvis, i.e. rock n' roll
So he's stuck in the middle of both tendencies
Great concept, great song
When I followed the lyrics I succesfully interpreted them following your idea!!! But...after all...that's the best thing about Dylan: you can't fully understand him!!!
When I followed the lyrics I succesfully interpreted them following your idea!!! But...after all...that's the best thing about Dylan: you can't fully understand him!!!
How about this--a "mobile" is a sound truck used to record live music. They are better able to control the sound by recording it outside of the venue. Anyway, maybe "mobile" is the symbol of playing live, and the memphis blues is a symbol for he is simply homesick. He did say at the end of Scorcese's film that he was burnt out and just wanted to go home. Just a theory. The other theory, is he was smoking alot of weed, or taking alot of acid. Really the imagery is absurd. Maybe...
How about this--a "mobile" is a sound truck used to record live music. They are better able to control the sound by recording it outside of the venue. Anyway, maybe "mobile" is the symbol of playing live, and the memphis blues is a symbol for he is simply homesick. He did say at the end of Scorcese's film that he was burnt out and just wanted to go home. Just a theory. The other theory, is he was smoking alot of weed, or taking alot of acid. Really the imagery is absurd. Maybe his life had just become a living hell, a joke, w/ a bunch of lemmings and sycophants in a carnival world where he had just become too big. Like "I am a Walrus", it is really just nonsense. "Texas medicine and railroad gin" is what, peyote and cheap liquor, w/ a bad trip combined w/ a bad hangover where "everyone just gets uglier." Grampa went nuts by "building a fire on main st. and then shot it full of holes." Sometimes it is just fun to listen to the imagery w/ out caring what it is about, like Come Together. Who cares what Lennon really meant, just enjoy the cool sounding lyrics. "Hold you in his objay you can feel his disease." (I think that is the line). Unlike Positively 4t ST, which begs the listener to wonder who he is so pissed off at, this song is just silly, and if you listen to him sing, he is almost giddy. The guy is a genius for sure, but I wonder if he was/is bi-polar? He could be so angry, and other times almost like a happy little kid. This is a happy song in my view. It definitely puts me in a good mood. BTW, the drums are killer, as are the guitar fills, both done my Nashville aces. Sometimes it is fun to just focus on just that. Like all great tunes, there is something new everytime you listen!
@cavern Everyone here refuses to look at these songs in context. One must look at this one in relation to the entire album, and to his previous work, especially the album before it, Highway 61 Revisited. Although I agree there might be some influence of his weariness with his "following" here, if it were a response to what you say it would be prominent on Highway 61 which it isn't. The only reference is very specific in the last verse of Desolation Row where Dylan remarks on the letter printed in Sing Out magazine that ripped him for betraying the...
@cavern Everyone here refuses to look at these songs in context. One must look at this one in relation to the entire album, and to his previous work, especially the album before it, Highway 61 Revisited. Although I agree there might be some influence of his weariness with his "following" here, if it were a response to what you say it would be prominent on Highway 61 which it isn't. The only reference is very specific in the last verse of Desolation Row where Dylan remarks on the letter printed in Sing Out magazine that ripped him for betraying the folk music movement. ("I received you letter yesterday.") I will generally comment on the album's overall despair and weariness but I do not think at all this is an album dedicated to the issues around going electric. Dylan was not that prosaic an artist. You lose a point.
listen you guys, this song is about the circus his world turned into once he went electric. All chaotic and surreal. Around this era many songs are about the same thing, so don't let them trick you into any other b.s. Anyway, Mobile is a southern town, I think in Alabama,i.e. folk music Memphis, i.e. Elvis, i.e. rock n' roll So he's stuck in the middle of both tendencies Great concept, great song
When I followed the lyrics I succesfully interpreted them following your idea!!! But...after all...that's the best thing about Dylan: you can't fully understand him!!!
When I followed the lyrics I succesfully interpreted them following your idea!!! But...after all...that's the best thing about Dylan: you can't fully understand him!!!
How about this--a "mobile" is a sound truck used to record live music. They are better able to control the sound by recording it outside of the venue. Anyway, maybe "mobile" is the symbol of playing live, and the memphis blues is a symbol for he is simply homesick. He did say at the end of Scorcese's film that he was burnt out and just wanted to go home. Just a theory. The other theory, is he was smoking alot of weed, or taking alot of acid. Really the imagery is absurd. Maybe...
How about this--a "mobile" is a sound truck used to record live music. They are better able to control the sound by recording it outside of the venue. Anyway, maybe "mobile" is the symbol of playing live, and the memphis blues is a symbol for he is simply homesick. He did say at the end of Scorcese's film that he was burnt out and just wanted to go home. Just a theory. The other theory, is he was smoking alot of weed, or taking alot of acid. Really the imagery is absurd. Maybe his life had just become a living hell, a joke, w/ a bunch of lemmings and sycophants in a carnival world where he had just become too big. Like "I am a Walrus", it is really just nonsense. "Texas medicine and railroad gin" is what, peyote and cheap liquor, w/ a bad trip combined w/ a bad hangover where "everyone just gets uglier." Grampa went nuts by "building a fire on main st. and then shot it full of holes." Sometimes it is just fun to listen to the imagery w/ out caring what it is about, like Come Together. Who cares what Lennon really meant, just enjoy the cool sounding lyrics. "Hold you in his objay you can feel his disease." (I think that is the line). Unlike Positively 4t ST, which begs the listener to wonder who he is so pissed off at, this song is just silly, and if you listen to him sing, he is almost giddy. The guy is a genius for sure, but I wonder if he was/is bi-polar? He could be so angry, and other times almost like a happy little kid. This is a happy song in my view. It definitely puts me in a good mood. BTW, the drums are killer, as are the guitar fills, both done my Nashville aces. Sometimes it is fun to just focus on just that. Like all great tunes, there is something new everytime you listen!
@cavern Everyone here refuses to look at these songs in context. One must look at this one in relation to the entire album, and to his previous work, especially the album before it, Highway 61 Revisited. Although I agree there might be some influence of his weariness with his "following" here, if it were a response to what you say it would be prominent on Highway 61 which it isn't. The only reference is very specific in the last verse of Desolation Row where Dylan remarks on the letter printed in Sing Out magazine that ripped him for betraying the...
@cavern Everyone here refuses to look at these songs in context. One must look at this one in relation to the entire album, and to his previous work, especially the album before it, Highway 61 Revisited. Although I agree there might be some influence of his weariness with his "following" here, if it were a response to what you say it would be prominent on Highway 61 which it isn't. The only reference is very specific in the last verse of Desolation Row where Dylan remarks on the letter printed in Sing Out magazine that ripped him for betraying the folk music movement. ("I received you letter yesterday.") I will generally comment on the album's overall despair and weariness but I do not think at all this is an album dedicated to the issues around going electric. Dylan was not that prosaic an artist. You lose a point.