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Bob Dylan against technology

Bob Dylan had it with technology. He had it with many things making him one of the latest old man to be exploiting his right. Getting old can be fun as you look back maintaining how much better everything was, way before computers and CD`s. The last 20 years had little to offer the music industry, Says Dylan, bringing to our attention that CD`s are smaller than records, which makes for the low sound quality. That?s Dylan`s theory anyway.

We cannot get enough when it comes to Bob Dylan. Eight albums in the last 20 years is by no means a small achievement, even with the artist himself judging these last 20 years of music to be atrocious. His poetic songs, clumsy harmonica and curly brown hair are timeless. Many Young Dylan impersonators are still playing his melancholy notes juggling with the harmonica guitar combination.

Nowadays he sits in his ivory tower enjoying his own radio show, perhaps close to accepting the praise. The Dylan industry is booming. A lengthy documentary of his life by Martin Scorsese, a memoir sold in million of copies, exclusive CD sales through Starbucks and auctioned poems in astronomical prices, early ones sold for $78,000. Dylan is an industry, and as long as his music is out there, he can pretty much say almost anything he chooses.