E's Surf Report

gotta get this album

e-how come your friend's scoring but not you? is that because your being faithful to your wonderful lady back home? come on man, if you're gonna dream, DREAM!
s.s. - check your e-mail.

I saw Dylan on PBS last night. I never realized how offended his folk fans were at his evolving style. I liked his folk and rock songs equally.

The people that interviewed him were absolute idiots regarding his music. They asked philosophical questions as though he was a messiah or something. And then insulted Bob when he didn't have philosophical answers in reply.

Not actual words but the idea...
Idiot Interviewer: "What's the message in your music?"
Bob: "I don't have a message."
Idiot Interviewer: "Why aren't you willing to tell us your message?"
Bob: "Huh?"

I could also see the effects of drugs as his tour continued. He was beginning to lose it. At on point he said, "I don't want to go to Italy. I just want to go home." His eyes were glazed and he was shaking and rocking back and forth. Lots of heavy speed pills and barbituates were readily available back then--mother's little helpers as Mick J. put it.

I like that Dylan would do songs in one take. Would drive engineers/producers crazy. Monk was the same way. 'Cept he would just sit down and start playing--and use a few choice words when the engineers would ask him if he was ready...when he'd already played the piece true and pure.

Critics always try to intellectualize. The artist creates the poetry--doing what they do best. Then the critics come along and want to translate its relevance. Who needs critics.

Saw High on Fire the other night--an onslaught of riffage. My friend turns to me and says, "He's [Matt Pike's] got the 7 million dollar wrist." Heavy shit. Swirling guitars and drums. Not for the faint. It's kinda like being in that turbulence that ocean beach creates...grabs ya and pulls you back and down. We were close to hell; I could feel it. Nice to see pureness in music.

i hear that high on fire is bad-ass.. gotta check them out next time.

Dennis - check out "Don't Look Back" if you haven't seen it. A lot of the England footage in the PBS show came from it.

I've seem him 3 times I think. 1978, around '85 and then about 2 years ago at the Civic. The guy's a very powerful presence on stage. His back-up band for the 1985 show was Tom Petty and Heartbreakers, probably the first real "band" he'd played with in a long time, and it showed.

After the Civic show he hung out in the doorway of his tour bus, shaking hands and chatting with the crowd. I couldn't believe it.

About 16 years ago I worked at UCLA. One of the admin assistants was in a rock band, I went and saw him a few times. His "claim to fame" besides being a very cool dude who grew up in the Valley riding his horse to school, was that he was one of Van Morrison's guitar players on one tour. Van was opening for Dylan.

So my friend met Dylan once. Van came up to him after the Dylan show and said, "Hey, want to come along and say hey to Dylan?".

They go over to Dylan's suite. Dylan is laid out, gospel singers on either side of him spooning coke into his nostrils. Dylan looks up and says "Hey Van, what's up?"

Van replies "You are pathetic, man" and turns around and walks out on Dylan, leaving my friend standing there with his jaw hanging open.

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I saw Dylan play several times, and he was always underwhelming, but I never saw him before 87...

saw that '78 tour with "the Band" at the Forum in LA powerful and loud
wasn't that Petty gig at the Greek in Berkeley?
drugs affected my memory possibly
notwithstanding Dennis' observation, its good that the scorcese show did not emphasise the drugs scene
nice clean music and fan critique focus

awesome story blakestah!! i hope it's true.

even though i gotta add that i think that cocaine is overrated. saps your creativity. Good for staying up when you're about to fall asleep or for chatting with your friends but bad for musical creative flow. imho. makes ya feel all edgy too. cocaine is kind-of whack.

Saw Dylan on KQED, I like his interview style.

"What? you want to...suck on my glasses?"

"Yeah, suck your glasses, just at the edge there...."

"Here, why don't YOU suck my glasses...does anybody else want to suck my glasses?"

i never listened to much of his stuff and still not totally sold on listening to his music, maybe i will today though. but the fuckin guy was like 21 and standing next to martin luther king while hes giving the most famous speach ever in washinton dc. joan baez was all up on his tip, still kinda is it seemed from her interview. insane lyrics. too bad the drugs got him but hes still alive. im claiming genius. glad that i knew close to nothing about him before i saw the documentary. totally bithcing.

Saw Dylan and the Dead in the 80's, found it amusing that Bob Weir had to step up and finish the lyrics on a couple of Dylans own songs. Dylans book "Chronicles vol 1" is a great read and reinforces imo his status as genius. Comes a time J.G. tribute at the greek saturday was a good 6 hour show - sweet set list if you are a big Jerry fan.

I've been on a serious Dylan kick for the past 6 months or so, I'd say I listen to Dylan half the time I listen to music. which is almost always. It is an aquired taste for sure, anyone with such a shity voice likr his that gets the attention of so many is a genious. He defined a generation

I haven't seen the show but I Tevo'd it and will get to it soon.

high on fire completely owns in concert, i don't think their CDs even come close to capturing them live.

i never realized what an asshole rockstar dylan could be. i'm not sure if i like him more or less now. i definitely prefer his electric stuff and highly recommend his live Rolling Thunder Revue stuff.

joan baez is smokin'. that's one 60 yr. old i wouldn't kick outta bed for eating crackers. (i guess i'm a little sex obsessed today). she did seem to have some serious issues around dylan in the segment of the show i watched.

anyone see the blues documentary Martin Scorsese(sp)
did? recomended?

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Van Morrisson seemed pretty affected by the nose candy in "The Last Waltz," so story seems a little hypocritical. Although, he was nowhere near as high as Neil Young at that same show.

very nice !

Kinda crazy, i just googled bob dylan and clicked on the "news about.." part and this was the first one...

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8563

i dont know how google searches work but doesnt this mean than more people in the world are looking at this article, or website? maybe not, i dont know, but it came before the cnn article..whatever.

If you need to have Weir finish your vocals, you are hurting.

i dont know, maybe i just liked this banner ad..ok ill work now

supposed to be offshore today but it looks to be onshore

people still actually listen to Dylan and the Dead? they both suck. i dont think they defined any generation

I agree boring.

All of the east coast transplant, cocksuckers like the Dead and all of that other hippy music.

i started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff
one was texas medicine the other just railroad gin
and like a fool i mixed them it strangled up my mind
now people just get uglier and i have no sense of time

let me guess.. KronKitus and anon like punk rock music! The Ramones and the Clash rule! Yeah! hippies suck!

E - and then you woke up ...bummer. Interesting, some of your best fantasies involve Africa, like that stretched out story you did last year with the magic coin etc ...
It's the only continent (well, along with Antarctica) that my wife and I haven't explored yet. We really want to check out western Africa SOON. It's probably the one place we'd want to do higher-end style. As much as I sneer at the thought of being insulated from the real deal, we just don't run as fast or duck as quick as we used to.
Scorsese's portrait of Bob Dylan was GREAT. I sorta wanted him to keep going, at least as far as the Rolling Thunder Review/Renaldo and Claire era; but I think the story would've just turned into the same old rock-star-legend bullshit. You know - too much money; too much fame; too much dope ... As it is this film gives us a look at the most interesting period in the life of a guy who (for those of a certain age) was reading our mail and telling (what we wanted to think was) our story. Regarding his response to the way the press treated him: my wife thought he was a bit too glib and had a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Glib? Hell yes, this is BOB DYLAN we're talking about. Chip on his shoulder? This was 1963-1966. He was 20-23 years old. The mainstream press was trying to blow him off as just another dirty beatnik. Maynard G. Krebs with a record contract. Of course he had a chip on his shoulder. Dylan has always been very resistant to being pigeon-holed and categorized. I think he's almost afraid that to be pinned down and defined will somehow jeopardize his relationship with whatever muse or force he's been able to tap into for the last 40+ years. I any case, he's only an enigma to the squares - us "cool cats & kitties" still dig him the most. ;)

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walter, i agree the setlist at the jerry tribute was sweet. good time. missed the pbs dylan shows, but Chronicle I was a good read. particularly the parts of how it all went down in the studio, the process of getting the songs to sound like he envisioned him. also how playing w/ the dead really kicked him into gear.

good heavy waves in france today...the title race is still barely alive (ai & slater squeaked through). dennis, a good example of jet skis helping out in big beachbreaks. promo material for the taxi svc?

envisioned them.

Cocaine "kind of whack" E.

Very whack.

No surf today.

I saw a great documentary on punk rock on IFC a few days ago, "Punk Attitude" maybe? Great stuff! It did talk about how heroin helped kill punk very quickly once it was introduced into the scene. Drugs will screwup just about anything.

Shit I lost that pipe again....

Agreed. Dylan and the Dead belong to the "I need drugs to make this music sound good" category.

Don't you mean Dylan and the Dead belong to the "I need to take drugs to be able to listen to this music" category.

That might be techno..

I've tried to like Dylan, applaud his originality and song writing powers, but can never get past that VOICE! Durnit.

In other news:Giant squid! Woohoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_sc/japan_giant_squid

I never liked the collaboration between Dylan and the dead, Drugs and Dylan, maybe. Drugs and the Dead, absolutely.

Music is subjective, some people are really into Michael Bolton. When I traveled in Africa, Michael Bolton was everywhere, Later in the Seychelles I was in a small store and when Bolton came on the radio the ladies screamed and rushed over to turn it up.

The New Christy Minstrels. Now that was a musical entity. Who could ever forget their cover of Woody Gutherie's "This Land Is Your Land". Brings a tear to my eye ;^I. Sing along anybody? Anybody?

Mexi - That's painful!

mmmmmm Seychelles.

Never underestimate the power of the mullet. Someone should make a spoof of Star Wars and have the dark side be like trailer trash with mullets and their heros would be guys like Michael Bolton and Billy Ray Cyrus. The galaxy is getting over runned by these mullets, and the Force is a rag tag group of blogging surfers that go around with mighty buzzers to shave these freaks bald.

3to5 - I was just looking at that too. I wanna go.

god what a bunch of doofus chatroom opinion-slinging goobers you all are. is this some kind of CB party line "I-gotta-funboard-and-golly-me-I-stood-up-like-a-champ" office cubicle virtual massage circle or what? losers

Congrats on standing up on your new funboard! You rock!

I agree Code writers S G, now how do you feel about the conviction of Corp English?
How about the working conditions in the Thai Surf Tech factory.

Oh yeah, re:board ditching ; I've found that the last resort look-around-grab-railsaver-and-dive works 99% of the time. BUT, like somebody said yesterday, it will tweak your fingers. Critical to put an arm over your head/face when you come up - when it's choppy or offshore the board can fly right at you. Literally caught my own board midair this way. Not something I love to do, but in case of a imminent doom it's been an ok way to hold position and only endanger myself.

In general though I prefer smaller-ish boards because I can hang on and have more overall control of the thing. Big boards paddle faster but they're too overpowering for me, thus severe suckage on the inside and feels way too sketchy when other people are around. Anyhoo, this is based on far too many hours of paddling and my 2 cents.

"Do I look like I code all day...."

"How about now....."

The tenor of the board is getting stale again.

Perhaps because we have excellent local conditions and no swell.

Went home for Lunch but opted to watch Liverpool/Chelsea instead of surfing.

Good Barbeque + good beer + good Football = Great Lunch.

I just coded this actually! I was inspired by Tron, that legendary movie in the 80's. I was at 7-11 getting a chili dawg and a super big gulp for lunch and they had the video game in the back. After rolling about $3.00 in 2-bits, I came back to my cube and did some "0" and "1" to whip this up!

Pretty cool eh?

The closest I've ever come to seeing Dylan was a wasted, toothless miner caller Smiley busting out some amazing karaoke at the Colma Club. After that I think the real thing would be a letdown.

Ha Mexi - Reminds me of travelling in Sweden- took a little nap in a park- and woke up surrounded by hundereds of beautiful, young Scandaniavian ladies not a dude in sight. I was pinching myself- is this a dream?- finally asked some ladies what was going on.
"Oh it's our hero Robbie Williams is playing a concert in 30 minutes"
"Who the hell is Robbie Williams?"
"Robbie Williams is the greatest Rock and Roll star ever, we Swedes go crazy for him?"

Normally I wouldn't go check out a boy band show- but I could have cared less at that point- I was sold - grabbed a ticket and enjoyed of of the most entertaining yet worst shows I have ever been to!

Nevermind......

stunningly elegant coding Kaiser!
bravo!

holy crap! s.s. that squid story is shweet!
There's a crazy feat that looks to slip right
past the interest meters of the general
media/public. unreal. cheers, thanks for the link

soooo, no afternoon surf?

life was drudgery, boredom and endless
code-writing in my cubicle

then I discovered E's, and the whole surfing
lifestyle opened up to me

helpful, colorful, blog-mates guided me though
equipment choices, buoy-reading, and how to
chat like a real surfer!

never got into Dylan, except in covers by other people, hendrix mostly.

did get into Tron though - saw it stoned as a rat in London when it came out. frickin' great, except for the big dynamo thing at the end.

http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e050925.html

The report goes on: "Although mating has never been observed in giant squid, it is thought that what happens is that the male injects his sperm packages into the female's arms. The process is likely to be a fairly violent affair as the female is probably not that keen on being injected. This is a problem for the amorous male as females are normally a third bigger than they are.

"But males get round their inferior size by being endowed with a particularly long penis, which means they can inject the female without having to get too close to her chomping beak. The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body - excluding legs and head.

"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.

surfing sex

can you feel it?

any recommendations for big sur/SLO/santa barbara area surf and camping out there? hit me up nitsuj @ gmail dot com.

when, j?

Anyone see the Andy Irons Quizno Sub commercials?

I did, i think hes a better actor than slater too. viva le france

or is it la?

this weekend. friday thru monday, leaving thursday PM.

sweet waves above
are those colorado plates on that vw bus?

the only correlation i can imagine between bob dylan and surfing is the response to the question regarding the arrival of the next swell ...the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

ai - what's with chipotle?
everybody is talking chipotle these days. that pepper was not just invented. been around since the incas at least

seriously otf. whats next chipotle pancakes?

j, andrew moleras nice for camping down there

also those photos are the greatest. oooo mexico

ditto bagels comments on those mex photos. sounds like a nice trip. i don't think i'd bring an xterra and a subaru outback down though, seem like pretty high visibility cars. than again, i've never been so maybe i just bought the stories hook/line/sinker.

isn't a chipotle pepper just a smoked jalapeno?

I was up super f*&$ing early this morning, so I tuned in a bit of the ASP France contest. Total death tubes out there. Resickulous surfing all around. Next time I am out in some DOH+ surf, I am standing up tall in all my closeout barrels... yeah, right.

3to5, got the new Goin already. It's a work of art.

Classic line from that Quizno's commercial:

"To bad you can't have one, little Kahuna."

You know Irons must have fought long and hard with the director to keep that one out of the script.

OR did he????

He's never going to hear that repeated in the line up.

slater's gonna say it to him at pipe masters...

am i ghetto if i use a swiss army knife as my can opener? damn, ?uestlove can hold a beat.

nobody comented on the absolute brilliance of Surf seeker Seven's creative early am post today. Shame on you all for not commending him. That made me both laugh and cringe with fear at the same time a true work of art! Bravo......now on to something more meaningful....is there any pornstar hotter that Christy Canyon at her prime?

nobody comented on the absolute brilliance of Surf seeker Seven's creative early am post today. Shame on you all for not commending him. That made me both laugh and cringe with fear at the same time a true work of art! Bravo......now on to something more meaningful....is there any pornstar hotter that Christy Canyon at her prime?

I suggest the "thank YOU niceness" post be REposted at the top of the fold on Thursday. ? the funny, no?

Go inject yourself with sperm packages!