(1) Mr Tambourine Man (1964)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OeP4FFr88SQ
The guy who introduced Bob to the audience was Pete Seeger, composer of "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" Never heard of it? Well, where have you been, or gone?
(2) Interview 21 years later in 1985...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW0vIWEILzA&feature=related
(3) Another 20 years later in 2005...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LkyGqrfPf4Q#!
They were once sweethearts.
(4) At 2007 Grammys...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6siT0rlMvg
(5)
I guess one could write a doctoral thesis on Bob Dylan as much as one could write research papers on Shakespeare or rock music.
(6)
Some of his stuff is great. But is he likable as a person? He's always interesting, a bit nervous, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Joan Baez on the other hand is open, uninhibited and always pleasant.
(7)
If people in the '60s were repressed and stifled, people today are freer and happily indulge themselves in whatever makes them comfortable, but sadly they are apathetic and numb about real issues.