I owe an apology to the room. The two posts I did were a study in not knowing when I am not up to writing respectfuly, and in good taste, of Dylan OR Lightfoot or anything. I should not have written those when I did.
The second of the two, where I poorly attempted to vent my thoughtless humour of Dylans.. singing ability, was in fact meant, however misidrected in my effort, to be a bit of irony and humour, as if I were mocking my own previous longer post of trying to see/hear/appreciate the Dylan video. I also should not have mixed in the dead horse of the awards presentation.
I was in a very difficult mood, pain, mourning for my wife, and needed to cut up a little on the second one, the first was my more thoughtful take, but still in the wrong frame of mind with liberties taken and assumptions made I pride myself typically in NOT taking..
In either case, and for whatever reason, there is no excuse for the lambasting I did of Dylan's video and singing ability, and the awards ceremony, because it was in poor taste and disrespectful of those in the forum who appreciate Dylan with a more refined and educated knowledge of his body of work and contribution to our culture, music; agent of change as an undeniable folk movement prime mover, and a host of other things we may thank him for.
I truly apologize. Thankfully and fortunately, no one has taken me directly and harshly to task for this (SPOCKSBRAIN, did you mean geodeticman vs geocitieman, did you mean me ?) - if so, you were taking it easy on me, thank you for the balanced thoughts.
Rather than mentioning each of you by name as I am inclined to do out of respect, rather, please know I have respect for each and every one of your posts. Also, my uncharacteristic posts, very notably the second one, were not representative of my heartfelt thoughts of people's musical and lyrical appreciation for both artists.
Everyone that knows me knows I find Lightfoot to be a truly masterful artist, and my favourite in folk, but I do acknowledge Dylan's heavyweight impact and influence, if not shaping, of folk. His voice and manner of singing are an individual taste. As I said in the first post, I did actually find his choice to cover Lightfoot's INSTC to be a professional compliment,.
Please, to all of you, accept my apologies for writing on two days I should have not written posts on. You were remarkably tolerant of my thoughtless words. What I am in fact going through is NO excuse, as we all are going through SOMETHING(S) difficult, and I do not suffer a whiner myself; hence I will not ask you to either.
Instead, I take responsibility for my posts, and would choose to never have written them. We are all here in this forum for too important a reason - to respectfuly share our varying thoughts and opinions, with some common threads...and one of those common threads should be tasteful and respectful carriage of ourselves in discussing others' points of view, or artists whom others admire more than I.
I do not deify Lightfoot, that would be unhealthy. He's just damn good, and Dylan is damn good to a large following as well , which I tip my hat to tonight, and back out of the bar slowly...... goodnight/morning
~geo steve