Donovan or Dylan?

[Belson]

I'll take a Donovan over a Dylan any day of the week.

 

[striker]

I'm standing up Donovan



But i like Dylan too?


i thought this whole argument was deaded in 1969.

It's like saying you can't like Crunchy & Smooth PB

 

[anthonypearson]

sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

 

[hcrink]

I was so enamored with Donovan when I was 16, 17 that my dear High School girlfriend (R.I.P.) was kind and drove us down to the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano to see him perform with his just his acoustic guitar. The Coach House is the graveyard for unloved old rock and pop stars. Loverboy plays there and shit.

oh man, the coach house! haha! I've actually seen some cool old geezers play there, but that place is kind depressing.

Dylan v. Donavan

Dylan: He might actually be almost as much of a "genius" as everyman rock critic says he is, but I don't think he's as genius as he thinks he is. He is a prick. and, as has been pointed out, him making fun of Donavan in Don't look back is funny cause he ripped off Woody Guthrie more than anyone in history has ever ripped anyone off. Woody is the shit. Neither Dylan or Donavan are good enough to lick his dead nuts. period. that said, I listen to "Another Side of" through "John Westly Hardin" a lot. I rarely tire of any of those records. Blonde on Blonde is one of the few records that hype can't tarnish. Another funny Dylan being a prick story I read is that Dylan was a total ass to all the musicians in Nashville when he recorded Blonde on Blonde. Just rude. And those Nashville players are really what puts that record on another level moreso than the songs. That is my opinion.

Donavan: the song hurdy gurdy man still blows my mind everytime I hear it. I don't listen to him very often though. I think I've only kept one or two of his records. His Epic stuff is totally original. He is cool.

I'll take Woody Guthrie.

Oh, and someone mentioned Phil Ochs - "Pleasures of the Harbor" is almost better than anything by Dylan or Donavan. I love that record!

 

[Mr_Lee_PHD]

Donovan did Get They Bearings

Dylan did Subterranean Homesick Blues

I dunno.

 

[Shingaling]

No one has mentioned that on some of those Donovan tracks you get a chance to hear some early Jimmy Page, John Bonham. Listen to Barabajagal (Love is Hot) with the Zeppelin folks and tell me it's not smokin'.

I thought it was the Jeff Beck Group on Barabajagal and Led Zepp. on the track Hurdy Gurdy Man. Am I wrong?

 

[Birdman9]

No one has mentioned that on some of those Donovan tracks you get a chance to hear some early Jimmy Page, John Bonham. Listen to Barabajagal (Love is Hot) with the Zeppelin folks and tell me it's not smokin'.

I thought it was the Jeff Beck Group on Barabajagal and Led Zepp. on the track Hurdy Gurdy Man. Am I wrong?
Yeah but there's plenty of tracks with Beck, Page and Ritchie Blackmore in their teens contributing face-melting, out-of-left-field-solos on lots of tracks from that time period.

 

[Swayze]

I listen to Donoven more. I sort of burned out on Dylans voice, and always thought Donoven was corny but after listening more I still think Donoven is corny but some of his songs and arrangements are quite moving. That said, Jimi Hendrix's version of all along the watchtower never gets old to me.