First hour will be fake, mashups, weird covers, etc, then Andy Breckmanman joins us at 10am. From 10:15 to 11:15, we will be recording the Bob Dylan Advanced Obituary show, so call in during that hour at 201-209-9368 with your remembrances of Bob, and where you were when you heard the news that Bob Dylan had died. The last 45 minutes will be me and Andy discussing and playing the ONLY musical artist we both sincerely love - Bob Dylan.
I can tell you this practice is still going on. I happen to be close to someone who has an advance obituary (or several) ready to go at a moment's notice!
Get ready to call in from 10:15 to 11:15am today folks, with your remembrances of Dylan, where you were when you heard the news about his death, etc. Phone is 201-209-9368 at that time (10:15-11:15am, ET)
Please, mourning callers, feel free to refer Mr Ken as Station Manager when you call in. Pretty safe bet Ken will be still in charge then. Also, congratulate Andy Breckman for his latest movie "Rat Race: The Remake".
hey a big thanks mr friedman and mr breckman for rhe kind pre-obituary i appreciate it.
9:56am
Androu B.:
Hey Ken,
You do realize what Bob Dylan's passing will signify, don't you? It will mean that Jeff Lynne will be the last surviving member of the Travelling Wilburys! How sad and eerie is that?
Btw, all bets are that Dylan's actual epitaph will either be a line from one of his most well-known songs or one that he wrote in the first person.
I don't know if I can contain my grief much longer. My dog senses something is wrong. If she looks up at me again with those sad sympathetic eyes I'm going to lose it.
Andy didn't know there was a 10:20 AM because as a child he was raised in a cave and never allowed to see the sun nor a clock.
(The family did however own a perfectly good hourglass but couldn't afford the sand.)
i am alone in my apartment, working from home, and let out the biggest bellow of a laugh at the notion of listeners tuning in and not having any context.
The first time I played a song in front of others was during my sophomore year of high school in a German class talent show. I sang this song with a shitty ukulele. It was a fairly awkward stage of my life and I was really nervous going into it. To my surprise everyone seemed to like it and I left feeling I had done the song justice. From then on I've been much more comfortable playing for others, even though it's rare for me to do so.
Rest in peace Bob, and thank you for what you have given
So sad. it's been an almost 10 years since i went to his concert. i was young and now I am not. i am driking a beer at 2am alone. I feel why he doesnt make a new album.
You are so loved, Bob. I’m so heartbroken over your passing but I’m just so thankful to have had your art in my life. You saved so many people and will continue to do so for years to come. Thank you so much, Bob
10:35am
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In my opinion Bob Dylan is the epitome of an artist, creativeness in its rawest form.
10:35am
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R.I.P. this song makes me want to cry, because i’ve struggled so much with love. Thank you for writing this, Bob.
10:35am
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I love you man, rest in peace you'll always be a legendary artist.
10:36am
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Life is weird, it's nice that music has this ability of distracting us and/or bringing us to a more beautiful place and that people are able to share this feeling
10:36am
Donald Trump:
So sad to hear of Bob Dylan passing. He was a national treasure and a very very fine American. He will be truly truly missed. I'm preparing a series of tweets now to express our great great sorrow..
I do like Blowin' In The Wind. I don't forget the context...
10:38am
jess:
this is kind of cruel
10:38am
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I was so sad to discover of his death earlier this morning and I've been playing his songs on repeat since. Thank you Bob for your beautiful soul touching many lives, including mine. This song is one of the most important in my life. R.I.P
A 'red diaper baby' is someone raised from birth in a very Left-wing family, especially—but not at all exclusively—in a family where parents and all their friends were in the Communist Party c.1935-1965.
…as in the joke 'My parents were so involved with the Party even my diapers were red.'.
I don't want to scare you guys...but what if he does go...DURING THIS PRE - OBIT!!!
10:41am
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Rest in Peace this Blond on Blond song help me get through my depression and struggle with addiction 1 yr and 3 months clean and sober you will be missed
10:42am
Androu B.:
As we comment, a special two-hour "Democracy Now" is airing, dedicated to the life and work of Bob Dylan.
10:42am
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Bob I never knew of you until today. I heard the news of your passing from a friend and then explored your music. I never knew of how much of all the things I love...was actually inspired by you. I never knew you until today, but I've learned I knew you the entire time. I wish I could've been your friend.
10:43am
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Rip Bob. Thank you for all your beautiful songs. One in a billion
I started with 'Bringing It All Back Home' then went backward, then forward. When I first saw 'Home' in Nunzio's Music in Nutley, NJ I thought to myself "He looks like an anemic Bobby Vinton."
10:43am
Don McLean:
Dylan's gone? It's about time. Hey Andy., how's it going? FU, BTW.
often thought to myself “i hope bob dylan is doing ok out there”. usually while listening to Travelling Wilburis late at night with a beer on the back porch. i never met him but i loved him like a brother. his songs always had the words for the little moments and pervasive feelings we all experience but don’t know how to describe; he was like the soundtrack to my clinical depression but also my hope for things to get better. i was going to go to one of his shows for my birthday, and was excited to crash-deal with my own social anxiety by trying to talk with him. that’ll never happen, and i’ll never hear another new song of his, and instead of wondering if bob dylan is ok, i will only hope he’s with his mom in heaven.
10:45am
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R.I.P. I found out about his music just recently. He seemed classic human in a plastic modern world.
Too obvious? "Hey, whaddya mean 'in Toto'? Bob Dylan was never in Toto!"
10:46am
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My youngest son (28) and my daughter (38) are devastated about the loss of this incredible poet, singer/songwriter. They were going to go see him in a few weeks. I am so sorry to hear of his loss, and my heart goes out to all who knew and loved him.
You're so brave, Ken, to do a live Webcast about a Certified Fake Traitor Loooser like Dylan…aren't you afraid They'll find you and send a Salvation Squad after you?
10:46am
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Having been a Bob Dylan fan for 25 years, I am genuinely upset by his passing. One of the greatest songwriters of my generation. Good bye Bob. We Are Real.
Just got here. Did they mention that Dylan was the only artist to take his fee at the Concert for Bangladesh?
10:48am
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Damn Bob.... You were a very special, fragile soul in this harsh world and yet you managed to let us see the poetry through it all.. Thank you so much for giving me the perfect soundtrack to my life.... Shine bright, wherever you are.. I hope it's like Christmas in a submarine.. Your music, your words, your presence will be with me, always. Thank you, I love you <333
For the past two decades your music has been a close companion - it gave me strength and helped me make sense of moments when I was lost and barely hanging on.
We are overjoyed to have you back. But know that your music has never left. And how could it? Your music is timeless - it doesn't fucking age.
I knew the end was near when I read in Rolling Stone that he'd lost bladder control onstage.
10:54am
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Bob Dylan was a poet. In the truest sense of the word. It's a shame his personal life was such a struggle... Rest in Peace, Bob, you'll be missed. Your words will continue to inspire and be cherished by the people that care. God bless you.
I hate to be mercenary, but we should snap some of these up, they're going to spike in value. www.ebay.com...
10:55am
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I only recently discovered his amazing music after hearing a song from Traveling Wilburys.
There's a certain joy with not learning about an artist until after they've been around for many years, you get to just totally binge on everything for the first time all at once.
Such an amazing person. Wow. So sad.
Goodbye, sweet soul! His tracing of his Jewish roots in the early 2000's reminded me a bit about my own tension within Catholicism...I learned so much from it but had to leave it, which creates a vacuum hard to fill. Bob's writing helped me to transcend indy-rock and the righteousness of religion--he was a sincere soul on a search, and I needed that. THANK YOU, sweet soul! Never give up, there is nothing sexy about David Berman's outro
One of my all-time favorite songwriters and poets. Just stumbled on this radio show and now it's a good day.
10:59am
βrian:
I was in it for the incense, myself.
10:59am
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So sad. Been a Bob Dylan fan a long time. I heard a Travelling Wilburys song on the radio last week. Looked them up right away and went from so excited for new music to incredibly sad in a few minutes.
Whether we look to the past, the now, or the future, I sense your songs as a shining light and a voice for those who have been, are, or will be suffering. Eternity can be glimpsed in your deep creations. Thank you for this, Bob.
I’m really sad. I’ve been down for awhile and I heard this song on Spotify randomly a few months ago cleaning my house before it happened and I played it on repeat and I loved it but since then canceled Spotify and just now looked this up on YouTube to hear it and heard the news and I can’t say I’m extremely surprised but I’m extremely sad.
Sure, for happy - New Morning...but for statement of human madness and delusion, JokerMan
11:02am
Brett:
Ken you hung up on the famous NJ Strongman Stanless Steel
11:03am
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This is truly tragic. For long time fans i'm so sorry and for friends/family I hope y'all are doing ok. I love blonde on blonde and found him through them recently. RIP.
Do NOT rest in peace Bob, keep pokin' us with a sharp stick.
11:05am
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The Traveling Wilburys were a balm during the dissolution of my first marriage. Bob's words saw me through “Idiot in the wind “ to use his own words. When I heard he was gone I knew that a part of myself tagged along. Good bye Bob
I asked as nice as I could,
If my job would
Somehow be finished by Friday?
Well, the whole damn weekend came 'n' went, Frankie.
(Wanna buy some acid, Bob?)
You know what, they didn't do nothin’,
But they charged me double for Sunday!
I can think of no poetry more sublime than "Why wait any longer for the world to begin? / You can have your cake and eat it too." Who doesn't love cake? And Dylan's yearning lyrics affirm that you can have cake—YOUR cake!—even if the world has not yet begun.
I don’t even know what to say I’m so shocked and sickened...rip David. there were times i thought my internal monologue wasn't my own voice at all, but david's, so strong was his impact on me and my need to see the poetry equally in life's horrors and its banalities. he was a giant who tried desperately, failingly, to hide. i didn't know him personally, i wish i did, i envy those who did. he seemed like the sort of person who wished he had it in him to be silent, but sung almost in spite of himself. i don't think any writer or singer has meant more to me in my lifetime, and it's goddamn damn damn awful to hear the world one voice quieter tonight.
In the spring of 1987 I danced with the love of my life to "Visions of Johanna", just the two of us in front of a gym full of high school classmates. I didn't realize until I stumbled upon this work of art, that moment lost in time would flood back and fill me with joy and then the bittersweet realization that life doesn't work out the way we hope. I have an instant connection to Dave via this poetry and my singular experience 32 years ago and I'm sure many others feel a similar connection. I have binged this song for 2 days now. I expect it to be in my life until I too expire. I am just now discovering the Traveling Wilburys and his poetry. i'm selfishly thrilled to get to experience it all while simultaneously devastated by his death. There are lights that shine like the sun, and this man was one of those 1 in a billion. I'm sorry to all that loved him, but let's all take solace in what he left us and the end of his pain.
I just got word that the Reelz channel is about to produce a two-hour biography on Dylan. I'll be holding out until they come out with a Celebrity Autopsies episode on him.
11:13am
Dean:
@KenFHP: That's because he was webmaster.
11:13am
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Having been a Bob Dylan fan from the Blond on Blond onwards -not a day goes by without me reciting at least one of his lyrics - had the pleasure of meeting him at the merchandise stall on his last tour of the UK . Gonna miss you Bob .
I thought I was gutted when Keith Richard died the first two times, but apparently I have some guts left, or they grew back. (I'm sorry, probably too soon for these kind of jokes. I can't help myself)
11:15am
Brendan:
Man I feel so low. Somebody hold me feed me grapes and. scratch my back
I LOVE the Christmas album for just that reason. I see it as a total mockery of our lying piety. ONLY could be done by a Jew with a shot up voice. Genius! (I especially like watching peoples faces while I play it).
don't forget the victorias secret adds, introduced to a whole new generation
11:15am
thelma blitz:
Nobody remarked It's the end of an era. C'mon folks!
11:16am
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Ive never heard of Bob Dylan until a few weeks ago. This song you just played speaks to me on a very personal level. I heard that he died but didn't know the cause and today after listening to the whole album I said to myself "..fuck this guy probably killed himself" and he did NOT fortunately. I got really emotional after finding out even though I never do that for strangers, hell even some family members. The whole album is so personal. I typed out a whole rant on what I think is wrong with the world but none of that is relevant and nobody would actually give a shit anyway. In the end..god I just wish i could have hung out with him one time and shared thoughts. RIP Bob Dylan, you are free.
I wanted to move heaven and earth in my life to see Bob Dylan play live. It was one of my biggest wishes. I was on the fence if I could afford it and right when I made the decisive moment my friend told me he passed. I am heartbroken his haunting lyricism has gotten me through many hard times in my life. I wish him the best. "The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind"
11:19am
TomFromJerseyCity:
I've just listed all my Dylan vinyl on eBay for ridiculous prices. Can't wait for the suckers to scoop 'em up!
Why limit ourselves to known facts about Dylan? Might as well throw in some "future history". Who knows, it might be true by the time this gets played.
Will his tombstone show
Born: May 24, 1941
Born Again: February 29, 1984
Died: October 23, 2019
11:21am
thelma blitz:
There's a HUGE Born again, evangelical Christian population and maybe even more Christmas carol sentimentalists. Don't you think Dylan wanted them to buy his records too?
While we're at it, can we hear some memories of Raymond Leppard, too? I remember buying a couple of his early LPs re-engineered for fake stereo. Good times.
In the 80s, I was at a ball game in the Metrodome and they presented Bob with an award for helping out the unemployed & distressed people in the Iron Range.
@ steveo, Ken and Andy pre-recorded a 7SD for airing shortly after that date, and one of them wondered what would happen if some cataclysm prevented its timely airing.
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He was a great man...sad.
11:38am
American dream:
Not funny and incredibly distasteful. Maybe we should do a fake show about kens dearest loved ones death in a space shuttle accident.
11:38am
Androu B.:
Gawd, you'd think VH1 or MTV Classic would be all over this, but all they're showing right now is hip-hop movies and 80's music videos! Well, knowing them, it'll take them a while to break the news. Besides, the current demographics watching both channels won't even make a big deal about it, anyway.
@ American dream - all humor has roots in poignancy, baby. And distaste.
11:40am
Brendan:
Details of the candlelight vigil are cropping up on the Internet . In lieu of flowers the family is requesting that pet waste bags, used motor oil and yard waste be left in memorial and remembrance in the station parking lot after sunset
Archivists released (just yesterday) an original recording of him and Johnny Cash singing "Wanted Man," which Dylan wrote for Cash in 1969 www.youtube.com...
No kidding, they just interrupted the show I have on in the background with "CBS News Special Report". Had me wondering until Le Grand Orange began speaking