Knockin' on Heaven's DoorFollow

Ask Bob Dylan I guess.

Kelv, Guns n' Roses covered the song, Bob Dylan is the original singer. So what does the lyric have to do with GnR, when Dylan wrote it?


I thought Bob Dylan was dead, but apparently he's still alive... Though I doubt I'll have a chance to ask him, Smash.


I was hoping someone could link me to some previous discusison of it, or something.

I'm pretty sure it does, but I guess I could be wrong. I haven't listened to Dylan's version in literally years. I'll have to find out.


So I guess Kelv's post might not have been irrevelant afterall. Well, less irrevelant.


Still, I'm wondeirng what the phone call is all about.

The Dylan version has no phone call. Dylan don't play dat ****.

30 million meat-headed suckers.

It's hair metal.

All those bands just try to be Zepplin, and fail miserably. With their perms and high pitched squeeling and there "oh I'm such a rebel" attitude.

AC/DC sucks too.

Led Zepplin were something special, I saw Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on tour a couple of years back, Certainly not Led Zepplin but definately worth the ticket price.
I never saw the whole legend just Half, and that still put the bands of today in their shadow.
I agree with Kelv, bands today try to be Rebels. Bands trashing hotel rooms. Keith Richards through a TV out the window that started a trend, but he was the real rebel the others just wannabes.
People try to be rebelious or controversial today where as those that were like Zepplin, Hendrix, Dylan, the stones, Marley the grateful dead, and even Elvis (yep even he was at his time)were controversial without trying to be.
You watch Bands of today throwing as many F'words and curses they can into a song, claiming it helped them get their views across. None of the above needed to, their Lyrics were far more powerful. (Except Elvis who was condemed for his Pelvis).
They changed peoples views where as bands today grab children already looking to be rebelious and already agree with what they are saying.

You post questions that make no sense or only a marginal amount and do not like the answers you receive because they don't meet your criteria as intellectually stimulating then you berate those that did answer. You are batting 1.000 my friend. Keep em comin. We really do enjoy you.

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"You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation jack <----- seems to mean "accept the fact that you're trapped in the situation'cause it's just you against your tattered libido<---- now all you can really do for your self is jerk off, the bank and the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive" <----- All life is is being rich and then you die?

I've heard the song, both versions, quite a bit, actually. I am well versed in Dylan, as well as Guns and Roses. When you ask a question about a sh1tty cover of a great song of angst that, among quite a few others, embodied the feelings of a generation during a time of national growing pains, make sure you refer to the sh1tty cover song. I am not trying to make you look stupid, cholo, you are accomplishing that all on your own.

Guns and Roses was a crappy hair band with a damn fine guitar player for the era. AC/DC may not suck, but they were, and continue to be, a one trick pony with nothing of note to offer history in their music. You want to have a discussion about music? Let's have one. But do us all a favor and end the non-sequiter questions that don't make a f'ucking bit of sense in the first place.

Don't forget the 30's too. Besides, what do you expect? Black people are better at rhythem than us. We have to rip off their ****.

I'm fairly sure GNR was trying to be Aerosmith.

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David Bowie. ;)

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It's fairly clear they were influenced by T.Rex and Bowie. Look at the way they dress. Even Slash AND Joe Perry copped Marc Bolan's look. (Gibson Les Paul, low slung, curly hair in face and in Slash's case even the Top hat).

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