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Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Track: I Want You
Album: Live at The Main Point
Year: 1975

This is a cover of a Bob Dylan tune that Springsteen and The E Street Band played at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1975.  The Main Point was a coffee house that hosted music acts for many years. If you reblog this and have more information you want to add please feel free.  Enjoy! gh

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Happy birthday Bob Dylan!

Bruce Springsteen inducts Bob Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1987 (via rockhall)

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. Like a Rolling Stone. My mother, she was no stiff with Rock ‘N’ Roll, she liked the music, sat there for a minute, then looked at me and said “That guy can’t sing”. But I knew she was wrong. I sat there and I didn’t say nothing but I knew that I was listening to the toughest voice that I had ever heard. It was lean and it sounded somehow simultaneously young and adult.

I ran out and bought the single and ran home and played it, but they must made a mistake in the factory because a Lenny Welch song came on. The label was wrong. So I ran back to the store, got the Dylan, and came back and played it. Then I went out and got “Highway 61”. That was all I played for weeks, looking at the cover with Bob in that satin blue jacket and Triumph motorcycle shirt.

When I was a kid, Bob’s voice somehow thrilled me and scared me, it made me feel kind of irresponsibly innocent - it still does - when it reached down and touched what little worldliness a fifteen- year-old high school kid in New Jersey had in him at the time. Dylan was a revolutionary. Bob freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body. He showed us that just because the music was innately physical did not mean that it was anti-intellectual. He had the vision and the talent to make a pop song that contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording artist could achieve, and changed the face of Rock ‘N’ Roll forever.

Without Bob, the Beatles wouldn’t have made “Sgt. Pepper”, the Beach Boys wouldn’t have made “Pet Sounds”, The Sex Pistols wouldn’t have made “God Save The Queen”, U2 wouldn’t have done “Pride in the Name of Love”, Marvin Gaye wouldn’t have done “What’s Goin’ On”, the Count Five would not have done “Psychotic Reaction” and Grandmaster Flash might not have done “The Message” and there would have never been a group named the Electric Prunes. To this day, whenever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan. Bob’s own modern work has gone unjustly underappreciated because it’s had to stand in that shadow. If there was a young guy out there, writing the Empire Burlesque album, writing “Every Grain of Sand”, they’d be calling him the new Bob Dylan.

About three months ago, I was watching the Rolling Stone Special on TV. Bob came on and he was in a real cranky mood. He was kind of bitchin’ and moanin’ about how his fans come up to him on the street and treat him like a long lost brother or something, even though they don’t know him. Now speaking as a fan, when I was fifteen and I heard “Like a Rolling Stone”, I heard a guy who had the guts to take on the whole world and who made me feel like I had to too. Maybe some people misunderstood that voice as saying that somehow Bob was going to do the job for them, but as we grow older, we learn that there isn’t anybody out there who can do that job for anybody else. So I’m just here tonight to say thanks, to say that I wouldn’t be here without you, to say that there isn’t a soul in this room who does not owe you his thanks, and to steal a line from one of your songs - whether you like it or not - “You was the brother that I never had”.

Asked & Answered: Rock & Whiskey Photographer Danny Clinch - Interview - NYTimes.com

What happened to you on March 16, 1999?
I’m from New Jersey and a big Bruce Springsteen fan. He was about to get the E Street Band back together so I sent him and his art director my book “Discovery Inn.” So on that day my phone rings and it was Larry Jenkins, Dylan’s manager, and he said, “I hear you are the man to shoot Bob Dylan!” and I was like “uhhh… yeah!” The same day I go to MTV for another project and I’m telling everyone at the meeting my Dylan story and then my phone rings. I swear to god, like clockwork, it was Springsteen’s art director saying she had gotten the book and was really excited and wanted me to come down and shoot some photos.

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Bruce Springsteen - I Want You (Bob Dylan Cover) [Live, Main Point, 2/5/1975]

Tweeter and the Monkey Man - The Traveling Wilburys

“Tweeter and the Monkey Man” is a song by rock music supergroup The Traveling Wilburys that first appeared on the 1988 album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. The songwriting credit is to all members of the band; however, it is published by Bob Dylan’s Special Rider Music, revealing him as the main writer. Dylan also sings lead on the song’s verses (with the rest of the group joining in on the chorus sections). At five verses in 5 minutes 27 seconds, “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” is the longest Traveling Wilburys song put to record.

The lyrics of the song tell the gritty story of the title characters — two drug dealers named Tweeter and The Monkey Man - their nemesis the “Undercover Cop,” and the Undercover Cop’s sister, Jan.

Tweeter and The Monkey Man is sometimes regarded as a playful homage to Bruce Springsteen’s songs. The lyrics include the titles of many Springsteen songs, and the song borrows many of Springsteen’s themes and settings. For instance, the setting of the song itself is New Jersey, Springsteen’s home state, and places like Rahway Prison and Jersey City are mentioned by name. Springsteen song title references include: “Stolen Car”, “Mansion On The Hill”, “Thunder Road”, “State Trooper”, “Factory”, “The River”, and the song made popular by Springsteen but written by Tom Waits, “Jersey Girl”. Additionally, “Lion’s Den” and “Paradise” are each mentioned and prominently enunciated in the song, each being the title of a Springsteen song released after the Traveling Wilburys album.

In the Traveling Wilburys DVD (released as part of their 2007 box set) the making of the song is described. George recounts that Dylan and Petty were discussing “Americana shit that we didn’t understand.” The conversation was taped, and later translated by the group into the basis of the song. The chorus was originally part of a verse, but was chosen later for the refrain.” (via)

We Are the World - USA for Africa: Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Ray Charles and many more

Repeat after me: Thou shalt not take the name of the Boss in vain.

[From the “Making of We Are the World” special broadcast on Japanese TV. Click on photo to watch footage of Bob Dylan and “Blues” Springsteen recording their parts of the song. Also includes Lionel Richie and “Stewie” Wonder.]