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The best man at my wedding was a part time pharmacist in Malibu, and lifeguard at Zuma Beach up the road in the mid-70s, early 80s. He said Dylan was always filling a Valium prescription.

I went to Bob Dylan Concert at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with Austin McIntosch. I was still in junior high at the time, early 1965.

Jill St. John said Henry Kissinger had smelly sox at some point during sex. Not sure what either couple was doing?

As DGTD’s greatest Dylan fan, I’m dying to see it but will be on a plane the day it debuts. I hope it’s playing in English where we are heading. I’ve seen Dylan live in Rome, northern Spain, and a half dozen other places, and I can listen to his complete works on shuffle with no need for other artists. I’m pretty amped up about it!

Hey GoI, I got a good running story from the past. I was at a meet in 1967, my HS junior year, and have no recollection of what events I competed in. What I do remember is Marty Liquori running a 9:07 2 mile (not 3.2 km) like he was out for a Sunday stroll. Well this past spring I was talking to my younger brother on the phone to wish him a happy birthday. We probably talked for over an hour and he brings up that meet. He says, "You remember the time I lent Liquori my running shoes at that St Joe's Montvale meet". I'm like that's almost 57 yrs ago and this is the first time I'm hearing this. The track was one of the few all weather tracks at that time so I guess Liquori didn't know that and brought the wrong shoes. It's funny, I sort of remember watching my brother compete as well.

Another Liquori story, after the last of my father's family passed away, we headed to the local Irish pub from the wake. One of my sisters is talking to a couple at the bar that I recognize, the husband was a SR when I was a FR and ran track. I go over and start asking him about people I knew from his class. We eventually get around to the track team. He says, remember I once beat Liquori. This was true, he was a good 880 runner, 1:56+, and he beat him in a 880 race. Liquori was a Soph. I could just imagine him telling someone that story now, with him being very overweight, and that person saying to himself what total bs.

Hey cr, did you ever see that 2 part documentary on Dylan that played on PBS some years back? I was a big Dylan fan back in the day. By 1974 I was into Jazz and stopped following him. Last Dylan album I bought was "New Morning". Wishing you and your family happy holidays with a healthy, prosperous new year. Same to all DgtD posters.

Essex Catholic, if I recalled correctly. Good story. At that time 1:56 was pretty darn fast.

Ryun, Liquori, Tim Danielson (in prison for murder), then nothing for quit awhile.

I'll probably see it. Why not? It seems to be getting quite favorable reviews from what I can tell.

I'm in 100%. Have tickets already.

I'm a big fan of rock and roll movies. The genre works particularly well, I think. Sound, image...and early career rock and roll stories are always a hoot.

One of my favorite early career stories is when Mick and Keith met...Everyone was so poor that if you could afford to buy an album, you'd carry it around with you to show off. Mick was walking around with an American blues album and Keith chatted him up.

I'm pretty sure just about every rock star in the 60s had some serious hygiene issues.

The only rock star connection I have is finding out afterwards that Max Weinberg was at the same small party I was at, in the 90s. But I didn't recognize him so no dice.

I didn't see that, I don't think. If you stopped at New Morning you've missed some of his best work. Time out of Mind is what hooked me and remains one of my favourite half dozen or so Dylan albums.

Of course New Morning also preceded Blood on the Tracks, widely considered his masterpiece (one of many, IMHO). So many great albums after New Morning…

“Positively 4th Street” was my go to when my long term girlfriend dumped me out of the blue.

I’m at the YMCA abounding the bitter cold and found some Dylan covers from the new movie. Timothee Chalamet does a pretty decent interpretation of Like a Rolling Stone and Girl from the North Country!

Did he recognize you (agip)?

tangled up in blue is probably my favorite of the non-iconic dylan songs...I mean putting aside the 5 immortals of his I'd pick that one. Great way to start the day. John Irving sort of took that one and expanded it to a novel, albeit without much allegiance to the text. Love the weirdness of Series of Dreams too.

Like a Rolling Stone is one of those immortals. Springsteen got it right. That snare drum was, like the chord in 'Hard Days Night,' one of the great sounds of the rock era and opened that peakness of that period. I've always loved the observation that Springsteen's triumph was that he took the rock and roll energy of Elvis and the words/songwriting thoughtfulness of Dylan and combined them.

Bruce:

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind ... The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock'n'roll for ever and ever.[78][79]

I got into a Dylan cover song rabbit hole and heard some doozies on the stationary bike. My Chemical Romance does a wild, abbreviated punk cover of Desolation Row, probably Dylan’s darkest song. Wow!

I checked out the My Chem. Rom. cover and not too bad, so thank you for that.

That got me checking some other covers of Dylan's songs, done by Chris Cornell and others, but one that struck my fancy is Mark Lanegan covering Dylan's "Man in a Long Black Coat."

Not much to add about Dylan - his work is just amazing.

My retirement (401k) is being managed by UBS. I've been with my company for 17 years and this was the only financial company we could use for our employers contributions. We are told that we will get another option, but i don't know who that will be. Thoughts on UBS?

all the big wire houses are pretty much the same...it just depends who is taking care of your account and how good the 401k (assuming that's what we're talking about) was designed. It could be good or it could be bad, depending on how well it was set up.

The issues are cost, investment choices and service.

Economists were terribly and wrongly pessimistic about 2024. They expected a recession or close to it...we got a boom. You'd think they'd see a boom coming, yeah? Nah.

The good news is the probability of a recession is down sharply, according to The Wall Street Journal’s latest survey of economists. The bad news is that, for a lot of people, it is still going to feel like a recession.
Business and academic economists surveyed by the Journal lowered the probability of a recession within the next year, to 39% from 48% in the October survey.

Still, economists on average expect the economy to grow just 1% in 2024, about half its normal long-run rate, and a significant slowing from an estimated 2.6% in 2023.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/it-wont-be-a-recession-it-will-just-feel-like-one-1919267a?st=GFNLpA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

big mixed call here.

Got the fast gdp growth correct, and got higher inflation than expected correct...and the 10 year is at 4.6% and rising...but not 5.5%. Bonds only made 1.5% this year, so he was generally correct.

And of course it was not a good year for stock picking. It never is.

Happy Holidays DGTDers.

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