forever young

my favourite parts are definitely the beginning and the end when lou majaw and the band play loudly and joyfully ‘forever young’ and ‘rainy day women’- everybody must get stoned… and the kids in a girls school sing along and laugh and scream.

my bob dylan phase was in my 20s, when with a collector’s mania i bought and knew by rote all his 60’s classic albums. ‘ highay 61 revisited’, ‘freewheeling’, nashville skyline’… but of all of them ‘blonde on blonde’ was my personal favourite with ‘visions of johanna’ being, for me, the greatest song ever written. i could hear it on repeat for hours. his later albums from the 70’s and 80’s i did not like except for the bitterness and humour of ‘blood on the tracks’. ‘oh mercy’ was all atmospheric daniel lanois production that i thought was divine but am not so sure of right now. his recent albums don’t do anything for me, though i do religiously download every one of them. ‘time out of mind’ was perhaps the only one that i probably liked.

lou majaw seems like he is the dylan of the north east. every year he and his band play a celebration concert every year to commemorate dylans’ birthdays from the 60^th to his 65^th . these are documented through concerts and conversations with majaw, his makeshift family and his band members. in the film dylan plays, like he always does, a prophet for a generation who was so much younger then and are older than that now.