North American tour announced with Bob.

[Jules]

Well, I have to say that I find the Early Roman Kings as a stupid song, I mean, its a standard blues, played by ANYBODY that has ever played a blues even without the faintest idea of how to play a blues, with new lyrics that are, at least to me, pretty boring and meaningless.

Even the lyrics has a meaning, it will be a very poor and standard song. Dylan could have released a box with 7 discs full of songs like this.

[superval99]

... He did long songs already, "Highlands" for example, and it is good fun to listen to all those lyrics...

LE

A very good song for insomniacs!   Better than a sleeping pill... zzzzzzzz     

[Love Expresso]

What's wrong with your "stars" anyway? Pottel is a 8-stars-general Voldemort now...

 

LE

Hey I am Titanium, too!  Wtf...

[Jules]

And Val just a master of puppets...

Pottel is missing his holydays!!!!

 

[superval99]

Hehe!   Just noticed the new titles!   Lots of newborns, toddlers, etc!    I presume mine is from Metallica's album?       Shouldn't I be Mistress of Puppets?   

[Pottel]

lol, as said, am open for suggestions

[twm]

There was a time in my life when I had a car journey of just under one hour, driving north through the wonderful Scottish border country in the morning and back in the evening. These were not the Scottish Highlands but the Southern Scottish Uplands. This coincided with the release of TIME OUT OF MIND, so I played it fairly constantly on that journey. Almost invariably my journey ended just as "Can't Wait" finished and just before "Highlands" began, so I tend to disconnect the song from the album.

No "Highlands" either in the car or outside.

[Justme]

There was a time in my life when I had a car journey of just under one hour, driving north through the wonderful Scottish border country in the morning and back in the evening. These were not the Scottish Highlands but the Southern Scottish Uplands. This coincided with the release of TIME OUT OF MIND, so I played it fairly constantly on that journey. Almost invariably my journey ended just as "Can't Wait" finished and just before "Highlands" began, so I tend to disconnect the song from the album.

No "Highlands" either in the car or outside.

I do suppose that this had been a pretty picturesque journey every morning. But - as I know by myself - one tends to think of the office and tries to get there as quick as possible.

[twm]

Yes, indeed. Up the A7 road to the  Border towns.

Here's a bit of trivia for you. Before motorways, all the main roads in England and Wales   (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and A6 roads) started from London and all the main roads in  Scotland (the A7, A8 and A9) started from Edinburgh. Other than those two cities, only one other city in Britain had more than one of those roads. That was Carlisle, where the A6 and the A7 both terminated.

[dustyvalentino]

Highlands is a great song, and not just because it mentions Aberdeen. 

[Pottel]

Time out of mind was the album that brought me "back" to bobby

[Fletch]

Well, I have to say that I find the Early Roman Kings as a stupid song, I mean, its a standard blues, played by ANYBODY that has ever played a blues even without the faintest idea of how to play a blues, with new lyrics that are, at least to me, pretty boring and meaningless.

Even the lyrics has a meaning, it will be a very poor and standard song. Dylan could have released a box with 7 discs full of songs like this.

The beat is Hoochie Coochie Man...

Not sure it's as bad as you're suggesting, just Bob doing his thing in surrealism. Nothing new, no surprise.

[superval99]

Highlands is a great song, and not just because it mentions Aberdeen.  

I like Highlands too, but it is a bit soporific.  Not for listening to whilst at the wheel, especially towards the end of a long journey! 

[superval99]

 Nothing new, no surprise.

That's one of the main problems - it was expected that Bob was going to do something different with Tempest - we will know more when we hear the rest of the songs, of course.  So far it just sounds like lots of other songs he has done.

[dmg]

Highlands is a great song, and not just because it mentions Aberdeen. 

But Aberdeen was never in the Highlands it was in Grampian - as you'll well know!