{"id":26411,"date":"2023-01-22T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2023-01-22T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:13:26","slug":"kw-04-2023-i-am-a-bob-dylan-fanatic-bob-dylan-is-the-greatest-songwriter-of-the-last-century-rogerglover-member-of-deepurple-talking-abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=26411","title":{"rendered":"KW-04-2023: \u201eBob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of the last century \u201c &#8230; \u201eI am a Bob Dylan fanatic\u201c \u2026  \u2013 #RogerGlover, member of #DEEPURPLE talking about #BOBDYLAN and the #never_ending_tour &#8230; and about #Leonard Cohen\u2013 Excerpt, taken from the Book: BOB DYLAN \u2013 ON THE ROAD \u2013 Never Ending Tour 1988 &#8211; 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter - DEEPPURPLE RogerGLOVER on BobDylan -Cohenpedia-\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OrhGA6LjHU4?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 October 13th, 2021, Germany, Oberhausen, Parkhotel, Teutoburger Stra\u00dfe 156. The hard-rock formation \u201eDeep Purple, \u201cwhose rock hymn \u201cSmoke On The Water\u201d turned fifty in 2021, introduced their new album \u201cTurning To Crime,\u201d to the media, in form of an interview. One of the twelve cover song that were arranged by \u201cDeep Purple,\u201d is \u201cWatching The River Flow,\u201d from Bob Dylan. Roger Glover and Ian Gillan knew to tell me a story about that for German BREAK OUT MAGAZINE via ZOOM:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat song is my favorite Bob Dylan song,\u201d says bassist Roger Glover. \u201cThere is no deeper meaning. With that song, it\u2019s just like with the song \u2018Rockin\u2019 Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu,\u2019 it is an expression of the zeitgeist that currently surrounded the band during the conception of the album \u2018Turning To Crime\u2019 (2021). And yes, \u2018Watching the River Flow,\u2019 is definitely a type of homage to its originator, just as every other song on this album is an homage. If I\u2019m honest, the songs that I listened to as a teenager impacted me more than the ones I heard in the last 10-15 years. Consequently, all the songs on this album are ones that mean something to us. \u2018Watching The River Flow\u2019 is just one of the songs that exist in my system, just as many other songs by Bob Dylan. It is one of the songs, that has the potential to continue inspiring me to go on.\u201d Would other Bob Dylan songs also be considered, I ask Roger Glover? \u201cAt the most, 400 more of his songs,\u201d said Glover and added: \u201cOk, I admit, I\u2019ve been a Bob Dylan fan since I was a student and heard the \u2018Freewhelin\u2019 album. It changed my life. \u2013 When fans come to me and say, hey, your music changed my life, I really always say: I know how that feels. Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of the last century and also changed my life. He is just marvelous.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Excerpt, taken from the Book: BOB DYLAN \u2013 ON THE ROAD \u2013 Never Ending Tour 1988 &#8211; 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Qre97QwL8a\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohenpedia.de\/vol-12-bob-dylan-on-the-road-never-ending-tour-1988-2021\/\">Vol. 12 &#8211; Bob Dylan &#8211; On The Road &#8211; Never Ending Tour 1988 &#8211; 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8222;Vol. 12 &#8211; Bob Dylan &#8211; On The Road &#8211; Never Ending Tour 1988 &#8211; 2021&#8220; &#8212; cohenpedia.de\" src=\"https:\/\/cohenpedia.de\/vol-12-bob-dylan-on-the-road-never-ending-tour-1988-2021\/embed\/#?secret=kvXIfGu8um#?secret=Qre97QwL8a\" data-secret=\"Qre97QwL8a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gillan &amp; Glover (Deep Purple) &#8211; &#8222;Watching The River Flow&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n<li>Oktober 2021, Deutschland, Oberhausen, Parkhotel, Teutoburger Stra\u00dfe 156. Die Hard Rock-Formation &#8222;Deep Purple&#8220;, deren Rock-Hymne im November 2021 f\u00fcnfzig Jahre alt wurde, stellt ihr neues Album &#8222;Turning To Crime&#8220; den Medien in Form von Interview-Gespr\u00e4chen vor. (Am 4. Dezember 1971 hielten sich Deep Purple in Montreux aufzunehmen. Der Brand und der aufsteigende Rauch \u00fcber dem See von Montreux inspirierte Ian Gillan zu dem Text des Songs.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Einer der zw\u00f6lf Cover-Songs, die von Deep Purple umarrangiert wurden, ist &#8222;Watching The River Flow&#8220; von Bob Dylan. Roger Glover und Ian Gillan wu\u00dften dar\u00fcber etwas zu erz\u00e4hlen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Der Song ist mein Lieblingssong von Bob Dylan&#8220;, sagt Bassist Roger Glover. &#8222;Eine tiefere Bedeutung gibt es nicht. Mit dem Song verh\u00e4lt es sich genauso wie mit dem Song &#8222;Rockin&#8216; Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu&#8220;, er ist Ausdruck f\u00fcr den Zeitgeist, der die Band beim Entstehen des Albums &#8222;Turning To Crimev (2021) gerade umgab. Und ja, &#8222;Watching the River Flow&#8220; ist nat\u00fcrlich auch eine Art Hommage an seinen Urheber, wie auch jeder andere Song auf diesem Album eine Hommage darstellt. Wenn ich ehrlich bin, haben mich die Lieder, die ich geh\u00f6rt habe, als ich Teenager war und heranwuchs, bis heute mehr gepr\u00e4gt, als Lieder, die ich in den letzten zehn bis f\u00fcnfzehn Jahren geh\u00f6rt habe. Somit sind all diese Songs auf diesem Album Lieder, die uns etwas bedeuten. &#8222;Watching The River Flow&#8220; ist einfach einer jener Songs, die in meinem musikalischen System existieren, ebenso wie so viele andere Lieder von Bob Dylan. Er ist einer jener Songs, die das Potenzial haben, mich immer wieder zu inspirieren, weiterzumachen.&#8220; &#8211; W\u00e4ren auch noch andere Bob Dylan-Songs in Frage gekommen, frage ich Roger Glover. &#8211; &#8222;H\u00f6chstens noch 400 weitere seiner Songs&#8220;, sagt Glover und erg\u00e4nzt: &#8222;Ok, ich gebe es zu, ich bin ein Bob Dylan-Fan, seitdem ich als Student das &#8222;Freewheelin&#8220;-Album geh\u00f6rt habe. Es ver\u00e4nderte mein Leben. &#8211; Wirklich, immer wenn Fans zu mir kommen und sagen, hey, eure Musik hat mein Leben ver\u00e4ndert, sage ich immer: Ich wei\u00df, wie sich das anf\u00fchlt. Bob Dylan ist der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Songwriter der letzten 100 Jahre und hat auch mein Leben ver\u00e4ndert. Er ist einfach nur fabelhaft.&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1TynCKjebk\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=24782\">KW-33-2022: Neuerscheinung im September: NEW BOOK ON BOB DYLAN &#8211; Neues Buch \u00fcber BOB DYLAN &#8211; Never Ending Tour &#8211; : Pre-Order possible \u2013 BOB DYLAN \u2013 On The Road \u2013 Never Ending Tour 1988 \u2013 2021 \u2013 feat. an Essay on Dylan &#038; Cohen \u2013 Picasso &#038; Matisse \u2013 a Never Ending Comparison between two Singer\/ Songwriter (Book will be out in 09\/2022)  feat. also an Interview with KISS-Founder Gene Simmons who talks about Leonard Cohen &#038; Bob Dylan in the book. Hereby an excerpt of this Interview on YOUTUBE:<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8222;KW-33-2022: Neuerscheinung im September: NEW BOOK ON BOB DYLAN &#8211; Neues Buch \u00fcber BOB DYLAN &#8211; Never Ending Tour &#8211; : Pre-Order possible \u2013 BOB DYLAN \u2013 On The Road \u2013 Never Ending Tour 1988 \u2013 2021 \u2013 feat. an Essay on Dylan &#038; Cohen \u2013 Picasso &#038; Matisse \u2013 a Never Ending Comparison between two Singer\/ Songwriter (Book will be out in 09\/2022)  feat. also an Interview with KISS-Founder Gene Simmons who talks about Leonard Cohen &#038; Bob Dylan in the book. Hereby an excerpt of this Interview on YOUTUBE:&#8220; &#8212; Der  COHENPEDIA  -  Blog   -   Christof Graf `s   -   LEONARD COHEN   -   BLOG    +++ Popular Problems, Various Positions &amp; other Old Ideas +++ seit\/ since 1996\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=24782&#038;embed=true#?secret=i6pwfDYhCn#?secret=1TynCKjebk\" data-secret=\"1TynCKjebk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 October 13th, 2021, Germany, Oberhausen, Parkhotel, Teutoburger Stra\u00dfe 156. The hard-rock formation \u201eDeep Purple, \u201cwhose rock hymn \u201cSmoke On The Water\u201d turned fifty in 2021, introduced their new album \u201cTurning To Crime,\u201d to the media, in form of an interview. 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