BOB DYLAN AND DAVE VON RONK PART TWO My earlier post titled BOB DYLAN AND DAVE VON RONK was never intended to be a personal attack on anybody, it was on something I found interesting enough to share with members of this group. My references came several from Bob Dylan biographies that all agree that at the time Dave Von Ronk was pissed with Bob for doing what he did. I have no doubt he eventually forgave Bob , Andy Greene in Rolling stone magazine wrote the following: Dave Van Ronk – one of Dylans earliest supporters and a huge presence in the Village – was famous for his arrangement of the traditional tune. House Of The Rising Son “ Before going in the studio, he asked, Hey Dave, mind if I record your version of Rising Sun? Von Ronk recalled to Dylan biographer Anthony Scaduto. I said, Well, Bobby, Im going into the studio soon and Id like to record it. And later he asked me again and I told him I wanted to record it myself, and he said, Oops, I already recorded it and I cant do anything about it because Columbia wants it. For a period of about two months we didnt speak to each other. I was accused by members this group, of posting inaccurate information, these accusations were based opinion and hearsay. I do not take kindly to these accusations of this nature. If anybody has any reason to dispute the information presented in my posts please back your dispute with something other than your opinion. In one of my comments I made the mistake of stating my opinion, an opinion that was fervently attacked by several members of this group who accused me of trolling , which was in fact something they were doing themselves .This action of the members angered and frustrated me to such extent that I used words of bad taste that were uncalled for, ( these words were subsequently removed by the powers that be ). I extent my apologies for the use of such words both to the members I offended and to the family of the late Dave Von Ronk The opinion I expressed was the following; in comparison to Bob Dylan ,Dave Von Ronk( in fact anybody else at the time) was a mediocrity. I must admit my opinion as opinions sometimes are was not backed up by any substantial knowledge of the works of Von Ronk. I have heard a beautiful rendition of Mitchells Both Sides Now and a excellent recording of House Of The Rising Son, the rest of the Von Ronk stuff I heard was way above average but that’s about all. After the last comment on this post was made I did some more research , I realize that Dave Von Ronk as performer and musician was no means a mediocrity . I found the following article by Robert Shelton [A] tall, garrulous hairy man of three quarters, or, more accurately, three fifths Irish descent. Topped by light brownish hair and a leonine beard, which he smoothed down several times a minute, he resembled an unmade bed strewn with books, record jackets, pipes, empty whiskey bottles, lines from obscure poets, finger picks, and broken guitar strings. He was Bob [Dylan]s first New York guru. Van Ronk was a walking museum of the blues. Through an early interest in jazz, he had gravitated toward black music - its jazz pole, its jug-band and ragtime center, its blues bedrock... his manner was rough and testy, disguising a warm, sensitive core. Van Ronk retold the blues intimately... for a time, his most dedicated follower was [Bob] Dylan. In conclusion I would like to state the following ; in my research of the work Von Ronk , I could not find one song that he had written that I would care to listen to again, in that respect I stand by my humble opinion that compared to Bob Dylan (as a song writer) he was a mediocrity.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:20:10 +0000
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