Happy Birthday Zimmerman - Bob Dylan

Babbazee, the Outraged Spleen of Zion, has a sterling birthday tribute to the one and only Bob Dylan, aka, Robert Alan Zimmerman.

Happy Birthday Zimmerman!

Bob Dylan - When He Returns
Live at Massey Hall,
Toronto CN 20 April 1980

The iron hand
it ain't no match for the iron rod,
The strongest wall will crumble and fall
to a mighty God.
For all those who have eyes
and all those who have ears
It is only He who can reduce me to tears.
Don't you cry
and don't you die
and don't you burn
For like a thief in the night,
He'll replace wrong with right
When He returns.

Truth is an arrow
and the gate is narrow
that it passes through,
He unleashed His power
at an unknown hour
that no one knew.
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice?
How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?
Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride?
Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace,
that the war won't cease
Until He returns?

Surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground,
take off your mask,
He sees your deeds,
He knows your needs even before you ask.
How long can you falsify and deny what is real?
How long can you hate yourself for the weakness you conceal?
Of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned,
He's got plans of His own to set up His throne
When He returns


Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew name: Zushe ben Avraham) was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota,^[16] and raised there and in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range west of Lake Superior. Research by Dylan’s biographers has shown that his paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States after the antisemitic pogroms of 1905.^[17] Dylan himself has written (in his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles) that his paternal grandmother's maiden name was Kyrgyz and her family originated from Istanbul, although she grew up in the Kağızman district of Kars in Eastern Turkey. He also wrote that his paternal grandfather was from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.^[18] His mother’s grandparents, Benjamin and Lybba Edelstein, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in America in 1902.

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By LBG
Image - National Lampoon

Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page

Bob Dylan: Countering the Counter Culture

Idol Smashing Circa 1966, House of David Style
by Babba Zee
Outraged Spleen of Zion






Sometime around the year I was born Bob Dylan freaked all the commies out.

They were all so sure he was their man.

Pete Seger thought Bob was gonna turn America red with his prophet's twang.
Joan Baez thought he was gonna foment their prole-volution and she would reign queen with the man.

Meantime Bob had zero thoughts in these strange directions, as he says in one of the clips below he's not even sure he knew what a communist was. This of course didn't stop any of them from thrusting their desires, agendas, fears and expectations upon him.

So, beyond category, here's Bob Dylan at something like 23 years old fresh out of Nowheretown, Midwest in General, USA after about a year with the beatniks in the big city he gets some kind of award from some communist related organization, I forget which, maybe it was even Broadside magazine, I'm not sure.

So they're gonna give him the big award you know, and they all think they own him, and they all think he has the exact same premise of life as they do, and they are all sitting there glowing, anxiously awaiting young Mercury's New Price of the Realm commie genius acceptance speech.

Meantime...
back in the visionary sphere of the prophet,
Bob reads them a short, terse, vague and deep thing, (which I can not find anywhere at the moment but it is spoken about in Scorsese's No Direction Home ~ )
and basically, what he said to them was:

I will not be your beard,
I will not wave your banner,
I am not your trick pony
or
your crown prince.
ask some other ballerina to dance.

Shortly after this he goes "electric"
was called Judas
and they tried to boo him off the stage

Bob's response was to turn to the band and say,
"Play it fuckin" LOUD"


When I was a little kid and I saw Bob Dylan on television on TV the first time
he mesmerized me. While watching these words flashed in my mind:
"House Of David"
I had zero knowledge at that time what those words meant on any level,
which is why I never forgot it.

Living beyond category requires extraordinary courage. Smash the idols, like the prophet Bobby Zimmerman did... like Abraham, he started with the ones in his own house. He knew they were trying to make him their God so... he smashed their idol for them. House of David Style.

A prophet has no honor in his own home, and if they hated me know they will hate you too, thus sayeth another radical idol smasher from the House of David in the way back long ago.



Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.~ Leviticus 19:4




This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire
~ Deuteronomy 7:5

[VIDEO at OSofZ]


They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. ~ Psalm 106:36

[VIDEO at OSofZ]


But those who trust in idols, who say to images, 'You are our gods,' will be turned back in utter shame. ~ Isaiah 42:17


[VIDEO at OSofZ]

They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions" ~Isaiah 30:10


by Babba Zee

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