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by David Dalton

ISBN: 1401323391
ISBN13: 978-1401323394
Language: English
Publisher: Hyperion; First Edition edition (April 24, 2012)
Pages: 400
Category: Arts and Literature
Subategory: Memoris

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All David Dalton's books are wonderful, but Who Is That Man? is especially insightful, funny, and beautifully .

All David Dalton's books are wonderful, but Who Is That Man? is especially insightful, funny, and beautifully written. Dalton's crazy poetic prose first caught my eye in Rolling Stone back in the day. Have loved his writing ever since. Nothing written about Bob Dylan comes close to David Dalton's WHO IS THAT MAN? It's intelligent, funny, insightful, caustic, revealing and driven by Dalton's completely original voice. Dalton brings the various stages and disguises of Dylan's life alive with an energy that is breathtaking.

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Bob Dylan was one of the few pop singers of any real influence who clearly articulated political ideas in his music. As David Dalton tells us: Godlike as he is, Dylan, like everybody else in the entertainment business, was subject to the three-year cycle of fame

Bob Dylan was one of the few pop singers of any real influence who clearly articulated political ideas in his music. But, as if in midstream, Dylan abandoned politics. Perceptive enough to realize that politics is never a real answer, Dylan knew the times were not changing as he had expected. As David Dalton tells us: Godlike as he is, Dylan, like everybody else in the entertainment business, was subject to the three-year cycle of fame. In the ‘60s and on through the ‘70s, Dylan reinvented himself brilliantly, along with revolutionary new musical genres.

Bestselling author David Dalton goes in seach of the real Bob Dylan in an electrifying biography that puts all the others in the shade. As an artist Bob Dylan has been a major force for half a century. As a musical influence he is without equal

Bestselling author David Dalton goes in seach of the real Bob Dylan in an electrifying biography that puts all the others in the shade. As a musical influence he is without equal. Yet as a man he has always acted like an outlaw on the run, constantly seeking to cover his tracks by confounding investigators with a dizzying array of aliases, impersonations, tall tales and downright lies. As an artist Bob Dylan has been a major force for half a century

Bestselling author David Dalton goes in seach of the real Bob Dylan in an electrifying biography that puts all the others in the shade. David Dalton presents Dylan's extraordinary life in such a way that his subject's techniques for hiding in full sight are gradually exposed for what they are, Despite the changing images, the spiritual body swerves, the manipulative nature and the occasionally baffling lurches between making sublime music and self-indulgent whimsy, the real Bob Dylan has never been more visible.

Who Is that Man? is a superb dissection of one of the most enigmatic figures in modern music. The reader should also be aware of additional costs that come with reading this study because David Dalton takes each of Dylan’s albums in his hands, holds it up to the light, and turns it at different angles to look for clues about his subject’s state of mind. It is not just the lyrics that are dissected, but the guitar chord changes, the linear notes, and even the pictures used on the album cover.

Authors : David Dalton. Title : Who Is That Man?. There is no-one in the office at the Weekend. He has written twelve books, including biographies of James Dean, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious and the Rolling Stones. He is the screenwriter for an upcoming Janis Joplin biopic. He Lives in New York.

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A Kaleidoscopic Look at the Many Faces of Bob Dylan

For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock's shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important, beloved, and endlessly examined, yet he remains something of an enigma. Who, we ask, is the "real" Bob Dylan? Is he Bobby Zimmerman, yearning to escape Hibbing, Minnesota, or the Woody Guthrie wannabe playing Greenwich Village haunts? Folk Messiah, Born-Again Bob, Late-Elvis Dylan, Jack Fate, or Living National Treasure? In Who Is That Man?, David Dalton--cultural historian, journalist, screenwriter, and novelist--paints a revealing portrait of the rock icon, ingeniously exposing the three-card monte games he plays with his persona.

Guided by Dalton's cutting-edge insights and myth-debunking point of view, Who Is That Man? follows Dylan's imaginative life, integrating actual events with Dylan's words and those of the people who know him most intimately. Drawing upon Dylan's friends and fellow eyewitnesses--including Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Stampfel , Larry "Ratso" Sloman, Eric Andersen, Nat Hentoff, Andrew Oldham, Nat Finkelstein, and others--this book will provide a new perspective on the man, the myth, and the musical era that forged them both.

Praise for Who Is That Man?

"Mr. Dalton, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, dates back so far in Dylan watching that he was all but present at the creation. He writes not just about Mr. Dylan but about what it's like to have lived in close psychic and musical proximity to him for so long."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"[Dalton's] attempts at exposing, debunking, and celebrating the essence of Robert Zimmerman's Dylanness, and vice versa, make for an intriguing, often amusing, vision quest. Dylan's quirks, kinks, and inscrutability are fascinating fodder for endless interpretations. Dalton is entitled to his, and they're the opposite of dull."--Robin Finn, The New York Times Book Review

"For all of the shelf-busting Dylan literature that's out there, it's rare that you find a book in which the music is discussed as adroitly as any aspect of the life... Dalton is a penetrating critic."--Colin Fleming, Washington Post

"Addictive reading... This approach would have crumbled in lesser hands, but Dalton does a stunningly good job."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The mysteries of Bob Dylan captured in even-handed, never-boring fashion... This lively and literate attempt to read a half-century's worth of brain scans from a literal living legend strikes the right balance between admiration and skepticism."--Kirkus Reviews

"All David Dalton's books are wonderful, but Who Is That Man? is especially insightful, funny, and beautifully written."--Marianne Faithfull

"Dalton's crazy poetic prose first caught my eye in Rolling Stone back in the day. Have loved his writing ever since. Oh yeaah!"--Steven Tyler

"The first truly hip analysis of the ultimate hipster." --Lenny Kaye

Comments:

Kerahuginn

Much of the information in this yummy book can be found in other places, but Dalton's telling and his interpretation make it the best Dylan book I've read.
Dalton's descriptions of the mind of a Dylan fan ring very close to home. Dylan may not want to be stared at, but I'll keep watching him through my binoculars.

When Dalton compared Dylan to Schrodinger's cat, I realized that Dalton is the "Dylan" of rock writers.

Betty Ann Samson

Mananara

arrived in perfect condition--- easily the most fluid and informative book on dylan yet. love the way dalton cleverly sprinkles lines/quotes from dylan songs into the narrative. and, it reads more like a novel than a bio, which really adds to the experience. i've read dalton before, but this is his finest. "A".

Tyler Is Not Here

Nothing written about Bob Dylan comes close to David Dalton's WHO IS THAT MAN? It's intelligent, funny, insightful, caustic, revealing and driven by Dalton's completely original voice. Having read all available bios, this is the only one that creates a work of art about the artist while still telling the facts as they are known. Dalton brings the various stages and disguises of Dylan's life alive with an energy that is breathtaking. The bio is brilliant rocknroll prose that never shies away from the truth(s) while shining a light on the deceptions and lies that accompany any individual's growth as an artist- especially one as mercurial as Dylan. Dalton sees somebody naked and searches for reality among the costumes, masks and make-up that cover Dylan in evermore translucent transformations over his seventy-one years on this earth. Reading this bio is like hearing HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED for the first time- whatever you feel about it, you won't forget it. Finally, a book about rocknroll that IS rocknroll! Read it and get busy being born....

Kesalard

A thorough telling of a great period in contemporary music that paints an interesting picture of the complex man who had so much influence.

Flas

Well researched--ties Dylan's body of work into his life nicely; compelling , understated; a good read.

Agrainel

I have been studying Dylan six hours a day since the release of his Christmas album. I wanted to understand him. I've read about fifteen biographies and Dylan's autobiography three times. I've read Joan Baez's autobiography and Suze Rotolos. None of them came close to giving me the insights this book provides. In the 1965 Press Conference interview with Dylan he tells us that we all know Mr. Jones. He says he is a real person and we all know him, but Mr. Jones is not his real name. Toward the beginning of the last third of Chronicles, Dylan's autobiography, Dylan says that after touring with Tom Petty and the Dead, he decided to start to try to write songs that did not feature him prominently. Wow. Now I think I know who Mr. Jones is. All these years I never guessed. This is a must read written by one of the original founders of Rolling Stone magaizine. This author solves all the mysteries including who is the Diplomat in "You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat, who carries on his shoulder a Siamese cat. Ain't t hard when you discover that he isn't really where it's at. After he took from you everything he could steal" from Like a Rolling Stone. I think I know who was riding on that Chrome horse. (It wasn't Dylan and the woman in the song was used by this diplomat in movies that degraded her.) I highly recommend this book and now think I'd rather meet this author than Dylan. That is a shocker.

Ueledavi

Dalton's book is ferociously readable for Dylanistas, a nice adjunct to the movie "I'm Not There" as a feast for the believers. Starting with his own odd little audience with Dylan and his circle back in the day, and continuing into the modern era of the Never Ending Tour, Dalton provides witty, insightful analysis of the man and his work. At times his style echoes Bob's beat influenced work. His description of Dylan's latter day reinvention is a great taste of his style: "...a character who just walked out of an Edgar Allan Poe story, the villain from a silent movie, a riverboat gambler. Who is this dude? It's the most unexpected and spooky incarnation of Dylan yet....this wizened, wily old coot--straight out of American folklore--". He details both the frustrations and satisfactions of attending his shows these days. But it's his take on the golden era of Bob that was the most fun.

Interesting insight on Dylan.

Covered various aspects of the singer's personal and professional life.

Seemed to tell the whole story, warts and all.