He is helping Putin, not the US. He said he wasn’t briefed but he at least got written material. Sad!
They are using a picture from Hong Kong, not the US. Sad!
Can anyone doubt he is a racist anymore? It’s so obvious.
Fact-checking Trump’s references to the anti-police chant ‘pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon’
He’s pandering to the bigots in his cult.
Trump keeps blaming testing. He’s wrong. People would still go to the hospital and people would still die regardless of how many tests were done.
In this interview with Bob Dylan published June 12, 2020, there is a discussion of his 1971 song “When I Paint My Masterpiece”.
“Out of all your compositions, “When I Paint My Masterpiece” has grown on me over the years. What made you bring it back to the forefront of recent concerts?
It’s grown on me as well. I think this song has something to do with the classical world, something that’s out of reach. Someplace you’d like to be beyond your experience. Something that is so supreme and first rate that you could never come back down from the mountain. That you’ve achieved the unthinkable. That’s what the song tries to say, and you’d have to put it in that context. In saying that though, even if you do paint your masterpiece, what will you do then? Well, obviously you have to paint another masterpiece. So it could become some kind of never ending cycle, a trap of some kind. The song doesn’t say that though.”
I have always thought it was a great song and maybe his best song from the 1970s. The first version to be released was The Band’s on Cahoots (released 9/15/71). Dylan’s version was on Greatest Hits, Vol. II (released 11/17/71).
Dylan has changed them right from the beginning. The Band version has “a date with a pretty little girl from Greece”. Dylan’s version has “a date with Botticelli’s niece”. The live version by Dylan and the Band from December 1971 which is on the expanded Rock of Ages has the line as “pretty little girl from Greece”. This was after he had recorded it with “Botticelli’s niece”. The official lyrics have “Botticelli’s niece”. I saw him perform most recently in November 2019 and there were other changes. I don’t recall what they were but I didn’t think they were improvements.
There are covers, too.
Businesses and governments are trying to avoid making real changes that would make things fair for African Americans and Native Americans by doing superficial things like changing names and taking down statues. Animated TV shows won’t have white actors voice black characters, The Redskins and Indians may change their names, and the NFL will play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before games. Mississippi will take the Confederate flag out of the state flag.
These are changes that should be made but they are nowhere near enough. The NFL only has two black GMs and three black coaches. Colin Kaepernick still is not on an NFL roster. There is rampant inequality in income, assets, health care and education. That’s where the changes need to be made. The people with the assets figure throwing them a bone will be enough. It’s not.
Trump is a racist and still objects to renaming military bases named after Confederates. Sad!
Several musicians have wanted Trump to stop using their music but he doesn’t listen or care.
So does Steve Perry, formerly of Journey:
Trump has really let his bigotry show recently. Sad!
Sad! 