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A Very Dylan Christmas:#3

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:41:00 +0000

If this blog has a yearly tradition it is my ongoing efforts at photographing Bob Dylan’s Christmas Decorations. Not everyone thinks of Bob Dylan as a Christmassy sort of guy. I know I didn’t. But I do now. Read more

A very Bob Dylan Christmas, part deux

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:16:47 +0000

Its the hap hap happiest day of the year for me. The holiday season has officially started. I am talking about the unveiling of this year’s Bob Dylan Christmas tableau. Read more

A very Bob Dylan Christmas from me to you.

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:24:41 +0000

Bob Dylan has a new Christmas album out. Here is a link. Click on this:( I’ll Be Home for Christmas) and let’s listen to him sing “I’ll be Home for Christmas” together as I tell you the heartwarming story of what Bob’s version of the song means to me. Read more

Bob Dylan’s Biggest Fans

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:21:51 +0000

Only a few people in entertainment retain real icon status for me. Bob Dylan is one. And so, I thought I would use the release of his newest album as an occasion to expound on my “relationship” to Bob. Such as it is. He had a huge impact on my ideas about music and creativity when I was a kid. I was never “in love” with him, like I was with John Lennon, (he was too incomprehensible and prickly, whereas John Lennon was just the right amount of both.) but I actually snuck out in the middle of the night once when I was in high school and Dylan had just gone electric, and some how finagled a ticket to a performance he was giving at Berkeley High School.(!) Our tickets entitled my friends and I to sit on folding chairs on the apron of the stage, only a few feet from him. It was so surreal, even then, that I sometimes wonder if I made the whole thing up. Anyway, over time I have become a lot more jaded and cynical ( though I was doing a pretty good job of appearing to be both even when I was in high school) but I still think Bob Dylan is a very big deal. Read more