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Yes, a wonderful analogy. It has the clarity of a painting. I don't remember ever hearing the Jupiter and Apollo line before, and I've hear this song hundreds of times. Knowing Dylan's interests in Rome and recognizing he's intentionally mixed a Roman and Greek god, it emphasizes another Changing of the Guard. Especially today, as the American empire collapses. Yet the tranquility in this version reminds me of an elegy, a kind of Poussin painting. That said, Dylan's version is also a painting. More like Hieronymus Bosch. The images come so fast we can't absorb them. It's chaos. Coming after Blood on the Tracks and Desire, much of this album felt surreal to me at the time. That said, I virtually never think any cover is better than his original version. Unless he covered himself. Even Hendrix and All Along the Watchtower. Even if Dylan himself disagrees.

you are right. Totally

@@8chk92 I know I don’t like the overall production and arrangements on that album. Only one I like is Tales Of Yankee Power. The album sounds like it was recorded in a wet cardboard box. I’ve not heard the remastered version but I’m guessing a lot of work was needed to brighten it up.

Listen to Patti Smith's version. Rustad does ok, but Patti KILLS IT!!!

I liked that whole album when I got it, when it was new. It was so different from Desire.

@@MrNegative57 I could never get into it. Love Desire. Fantastic album.

Thank you for wrestling this properly moral response of yours, Janet Webb into your expression responding to this inspiring inhabitation of Dylan's Changing of the Guard. You are to my understanding in touch with the Hebraic Prophetic tradition, which as I often discuss with my many different varieties of Christian song-chasing friends, some who've been lost down rabbit holes of Preacher Prophecies miss the essentially CAUTIONARY quality of that distinctive Hebraic prophetic tradition. The Old Testament mytho-poetic scriptures are not, as too many opportunists or doomsayers suggest, narratives of pre-destination of apocalypse or timetables of End Times. From Jonah (God with a sense of humor and concern for all peoples, not just those chosen for scriptural narratives) to Jeremiah (funny since there is no "J" letter or sound in Hebrew (!) Jeremiads were not intended to be predictive. Most definitely not Jimmy the Greek giving Las Vegas odds on human annihilation or messianic travel plans. Unlike these Preachers I have no direct line to our Maker and wouldn't dare adopt a rhetoric of certitude about what any scriptural prophecy means. Nor would I trust any human coming along claiming to have God on hold on line 2 passing along Divine Exclusive directions and Revelations of Divine Intentions. The tone in Hebrew however is simple language and singularly "Cautionary" and not Predictive. Not for nothing the Hebrew Prophets won few if any popularity contests. Like journalists they held up mirrors to their own communities and urged correction of clearly inhumane communal actions, mis-leadership and behavioral conduct unbecoming of humanity. There is only the sense of a seer conveying a vision of a Maker who made creatures with Free Will and agency over their lives, of responsibility over one's and the community's actions and policy outcomes. Certainly more than we get in our Washington historical record. Sending human (therefore fallible and therefore a cautionary of the cautionary about False Prophets and False Prophecy) direction to reconsider where unseemly behavior and communal conduct that is recognizably inhumane will lead, with time and attempts to persuade the community to reconsider abominable behavior and to repent and be redeemed before a unified representation of a God of compassionate mercy. Except for Jonah sent to convey God's message to the leader of the mighty nation of Nineveh (northern Iraq, Assyrian country) the Hebrew scriptures of the Prophets are mostly self-criticism for the people chosen to be exemplars for good and ill, not chosen for any special hierarchical or merit-based positions. Certainly not to be Lording it over other similarly fallible humans created with finite horizons and sensibilities trying in our bumbling ways to serve an Infinite and Ominscient while Omnipresent unified Maker concerned with all communities of Creation. That we live on a Food Chain not of human design should be humbling and certainly is confusing. Good artists get that, without becoming paralyzed or passive in the face of the abuses mytho-poetically conveyed in that cautionary Hebrew tradition in Dylan's gospel inspired and clearly African American slavery template that is the sub-text for Changing of the Guards... Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

Oh sorry the white stripe was the guitar cord. Not a track suit after all.

Take care❤️

Dear Signe Marie, I really love your amazing performance ... and the haunting Lapsteel-Sound too 🎶