Reply #18: A Pipeline to ... Something [View All]

[the48er]

Having been a pretty hard-core Dylan fan since Nixon was president, I've finally concluded that he simply has a turbocharged muse or a pipeline to the divine -- whatever you want to call it -- through which he somehow channels all those incredible songs from some Great Beyond. That's the only way one guy (who's intellectually unremarkable and reputed to be pretty slimy now and then) could possibly have come up with dozens and dozens of songs that are so remarkable both lyrically and musically. I just don't think there's any explaining creative genius of his magnitude in rational terms. There's something mystical or divine involved, and since those sorts of things are quite beyond me, I'm just glad that the Dylans of the world receive the frequencies that only they receive from wherever the hell they're originating.