tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post4527727917281750206..comments2024-03-21T00:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Every Bob Dylan Song: Bob Dylan Song #148: Went To See The GypsyTonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-16751754093740245422016-10-31T23:25:15.825-07:002016-10-31T23:25:15.825-07:00Hello there, thanks for posting this fine work. Co...Hello there, thanks for posting this fine work. Come and join us inside Bob Dylan's Music Box and listen to Every Version of Every Song. http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/724/Went-to-See-the-Gypsy Contact us via the website.David George Freemanhttp://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/724/Went-to-See-the-Gypsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-61536290083565244562013-03-15T02:20:14.343-07:002013-03-15T02:20:14.343-07:00This is a beautiful rumination on this song. Made ...This is a beautiful rumination on this song. Made shivers in my spine on a dreary London morning. Thank you and I hope you resume this blog someday soon. My dad and I are both massive Dylan fans but we disagree on 'New Morning' - personally it's one of my top5 Dylan albums - I just love it!!! Obviously something like 'Blonde On Blonde' is better but this album is far more inviting, and probably gets played in my house more than any other. Going through a divorce myself, when I put on this record it reminds me of the good times when everything was (seemingly) OK, but spiced with "what's-wrong-with-this-picture" moments a la 'Sign On The Window', which burrow to the heart of secret discontent. It's a brilliant, beautiful record, and whenever I meet someone else who loves it I know I've found a friend.Gronkhttp://gronk.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-35276336833536417312011-01-06T16:11:28.283-08:002011-01-06T16:11:28.283-08:00Hello again,
oh, "Jerry" is Jerry Schil...Hello again,<br /><br />oh, "Jerry" is Jerry Schilling and his contact with EP during the Comeback period was sporadic; he apprenticed as a film editor. It served him well later when working on visuals of his late friend. <br /><br />Also, the place Bob refers to in "Gypsy" is definetly Memphis. "Sun" in the song is a transparent ref. to Sun Records, also in Memphis. Btw. 68-69 EP was a damned jackrabbit: thus a Gypsy. <br /><br />Best,<br />BD and EP still rule!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-35189742761587030502011-01-06T15:50:32.713-08:002011-01-06T15:50:32.713-08:00Hello,
Yeah, Dylan SAID he didn't "meet&...Hello, <br />Yeah, Dylan SAID he didn't "meet" Elvis specififically because he "didn't want to." Well, turns out that Elvis's buddy - since his teens - has confirmed that Bob called often in the mig1960s no less. "Trying to set up a meeting." Jerry left for a while in 68 so he knows of no meeting but Bob mentions that year as "when he really came back." Practically carbon dating the obverse of his denial.<br />BUT BOB DYLAN WOULDN'T FIB!!! Right? {giggle}<br />Bob started out saying he had no parents. C'mon people.<br />He did have a pupose in the denial though and it's brilliant. To Bob "Elvis" is not just the guy's name; it also was earlier used to mean "Death" [1997 when he survived a brush he said he almost had close encounter with "Elvis"].<br />Otherwise, he's sung about him often, gushed over him etc. for many decades. <br />Never trust the artist; trust the tale.<br />Best,<br />Bob and Elvis both still rule!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-42054428793819762152009-09-21T11:49:44.600-07:002009-09-21T11:49:44.600-07:00I love your blog but this interpretation seems a b...I love your blog but this interpretation seems a bit 'weak' compared to your others. I'm quite sure Dylan of the late 60s could have easily spent time and met Elvis in Vegas and he probably tied this in to seeing some performer in New York City around this time (there's a section in 'Chronicles' that talks about going out with his wife and seeing some performer; I don't have it with me and forget who). I think this is absolutely about Elvis but, like Dylan always does, he ties it in with a few other experiences. I may be biased, though, as this is my favorite Dylan track. :^)<br /><br />- RogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-65837957352088263022009-09-21T07:33:03.757-07:002009-09-21T07:33:03.757-07:00I really like the album especially the title track...I really like the album especially the title track - New Morning. Last night my girlfriend mentioned she'd just read that Elvis was from a gypsy family which kind of blew me away but there again so was Charles Chaplin and Michael Caine. Maybe Dylan knew of the gypsy connection or perhaps it was just coincidental but it certainly gives the lyrics added dimension.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-53488460448985085252009-09-21T02:25:03.526-07:002009-09-21T02:25:03.526-07:00Thoroughly enjoy the blog Tony. I seem to remember...Thoroughly enjoy the blog Tony. I seem to remember reading years ago that the popularly held view of 'Gypsy' and Elvis could be off set by the existence of an African American disc jockey in 50s/early 60s Minneapalis who the young Zimmerman would visit either while in Dinkytown or in various excursions to the big city before before he left Hibbing. Of course, 'Gypsy' could be an combination of various incidents in which symbol and reality intertwine but given the autobiographical nature of his next full blown album Planet Waves, 'Went to see the Gypsy' has interesting implications.petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-57650565690363325012009-09-20T22:14:58.707-07:002009-09-20T22:14:58.707-07:00Have you heard the outtake? Much superior.Have you heard the outtake? Much superior.Pop Steve, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02031998529561295818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-81108832044668067322009-09-20T16:29:31.308-07:002009-09-20T16:29:31.308-07:00Today and yesterday are/were Rosh Hashana, the Jew...Today and yesterday are/were Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the remnants of a moral compass for those many secular Jews who have all but discarded the compass. Since the early-mid 80s Dylan has chosen to turn up at one or other Lubavitch synagogue at this time of year, or in 9 days time for Yom Kipur. I wonder where he attended this year, if at all? Strangely, I dreamt last night, quite vividly, that Dylan was once again announcing his conversion to Christianity - no doubt listening to the clips of Christmas in the Heart is what did it. As for writing songs "about" someone, eg Elvis, I recall a very interesting article which argued eloquently that "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands" was not about his wife but the Catholic Church, and the "sad-eyed prophet" was Jesus... dylan, as in visions of johanna, wanted to know if he should become catholic "or should i wait". In his later song, Sara, he says he wrote sad-eyed lady "for you" - yes, but *for* is not the same as *about*. As ever, food for thought. Shana tova to Bob and all "mixed-up confusion" Jews.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062180895899998738noreply@blogger.com