NOTE: THE OASIS IMAGE WOULD GO RIGHT HERE,
BUT SONY SAYS IT AIN'T NO GOOD; SO A PICTURE OF DYLAN INSTEAD:
You may have heard of a British band, two mop-haired brothers who
answer to the name "Oasis," and if you've heard of them you
probably thought that they were just trying to be the Beatles.
No.
It's not the Beatles they're trying to be at all, rather it's a guy called Bob Dylan.
Listed below are all the clues you could ever ask for:
- They're rude: In D.A. Pennebaker's 1965 documentary
of Dylan's concert tour, he is very rude. Ruder than Oasis
even, except you can understand him a little better.
- The name of that documentary is "DON'T LOOK BACK."
Is "Don't Look Back in ANGER" really that much of a
stretch?
- The Oasis song "She's Electric" refers in point of fact to
Bob's guitar, an electric guitar, given the fact that he was
then in the midst of the famously controversial process of
"going electric."
- The tour takes place in England, dammit, England!
- During the course of this tour, Dylan met and influenced
the Beatles, Donovan, and a really angry Scottish guy;
much of what these people later became known for would
have been impossible without Dylan (especially that angry
Scottish guy, he would be no where today): Dylan
introduced a lyrical depth to popular music that hasn't
been topped until the lines, "where were you when we
were getting high? we were getting high? we were getting
high?" Which clearly relates directly to:
- the prophetic Dylan injunction, "Everybody Must Get Stoned."
- One final 'coincidence': At the end of the film, Bobby's
seen being driven around London in, yes, a Champagne
Supernova. Mysteriously, even though he faces the sun,
he casts no shadow. . . .
