Bob Dylan — “You’re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody…”
BOB DYLAN WAS BORN Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941. He’s one of the greatest composers of all time, selling more than 125 million albums. Yet, he never had a #1 single.
Dylan isn’t Zimmy’s only pseudonym. He’s gone by Elston Gunn, Tedham Porterhous, Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Milkwood Thomas, Boo Wilbury, Bob Frost and Sergei Petrov.
He wrote The Byrds’ song, “Hey Mr. Tambourine Man,” the #1 song in 1965.
His first professional musical gig? Playing harmonica for Harry Belafonte’s 1962 album, “Midnight Special.”
In the early years, Tommy Smothers did not particularly care for Bob Dylan one bit. / Wikimedia
Tommy Smothers tried to get him kicked off a gig because Dylan sounded “depressing” and looked like a bum. In fact, Dylan was once arrested in a New Jersey rainstorm for “appearing homeless.”
Genius in multi-genres, Bob Dylan is and was — a practical joker, artist, boxer, chess fanatic, equestrian, car restorer, sailor, biker... (catch my breath) ...Oscar winner, born-again Christian, Orthodox Jew, actor, movie director and can-do guy. He’s done everything except neuter dragons. To circumvent having his parents sign his first recording contract, he told Columbia Records he was an orphan.
There’s too much to list about Dylan’s amazing life in a short article.
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It’s all about his lyric from the 1979 Grammy-winning song, “Gotta Serve Somebody.”
Thing is? Atheist or devout? We’re ALWAYS praying.
And our prayers are constantly being answered.
We get good at what we practice. Hatred. Blame. Joy. Mirth. Depression. Dishonesty. Kindness. Golf. Laziness. Making money.
Every nanosecond, with every thought, we are sending into the ionosphere and beyond, prayers. They come back, answered. We are serving those “Somebodies...” We are in a constant state of prayer, of creation, for good or for evil and all in between.
Health. Laziness. Musical expression. Facebook staring. Being a slug of a human being or, today, becoming the man or woman we’re supposed to be.
Bob Dylan has nine grandkids and a bumper sticker on is car, “World’s Greatest Grandfather.” In his life, Bob Dylan served millions of people — including, lovingly, himself.
How about us today? Not a rhetorical question.
Serving somebody? Devil? Lord?
