In April, Dylan was supposed to perform in China. The future seems uncertain, however let's entertain the thought that one day Dylan will play behind the Great Wall. Well as we all know the fascist state of China will exercise it's full "privilege" of censoring everything that doesn't bode well with the government, i.e. see The Rolling Stones. Dylan is 50% poet, 50% anarchist. Now I don't know who Dylan is these days but I do know the Dylan that we all love and hold dear would cause quite the ruckus. I could even see Dylan getting shot by authorities in turn becoming a martyr. Unlikely but I could see it happening. So as predicted, Dylan will not get to play 90% of his songs. Songs with drug reference, sex reference, religious reference (remember those 3 gospel records? lol, those were interesting), and of course no reference to anti-government. .... well that leaves Dylan with..... uhhhhhh..... Hurricane?.... no..... honestly what else is there to sing about :P. Anyways, if Dylan goes to China, 2 things can happen, either one he has totally lost touch and will disappoint me and break my heart or he will get shot by authorities which will also break my heart. There is no win win situation here. Imagine Bob Dylan performing in front of a Chinese audience.... would have never thought in a million years.
Ok, time for today's featured artist. Looking through my library, I found Massive Attack. "Love, love is a verb, love is a doing word" House anyone? I don't really have a specific reason why I'm talking about Massive Attack today. I think it's simply to have a little change of pace from the past two Japanese rock/metal bands featured. But ya nothing bad could be said about this collective. Awesome tunes, definitely, Mezzanine is an album you have to have sex to. It's a very dirty album without being 1970s porn.
