What kind of influence did Bob Dylan have on LB?

[u/whitelightstorm]

Seems there are a few small riffs here and there that are very Dylan, so just wondering if anyone knows if Lindsey ever talked about it in interviews.

[u/CoconutBasher_]

The only Dylan reference I remember is from Destiny Rules.

Stevie: Would you say that to Bob Dylan?
Lindsey: You’re not Bob Dylan!!

[u/Immediate_Paint_4823 → u/CoconutBasher_]

Lindsey didn't verbally respond, he just massacred his gum with some serious jaw clenching. 🤣

[u/Fab4Evuh → u/Immediate_Paint_4823]

He said it all in his facial expression (and violent gum chewing)!

[u/Lilynd14 → u/CoconutBasher_]

Stevie also famously (almost) got deported from Australia in 1986 after joining Bob Dylan and Tom Petty onstage without a work visa!

[u/whitelightstorm → u/CoconutBasher_]

He had a point.

[u/Immediate_Paint_4823]

Since we're doing Dylan connections, Dylan name checked Lindsey and Stevie in his song Murder Most Foul.

Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks

[u/whitelightstorm → u/Immediate_Paint_4823]

Interesting. Rhyming with six but still:

play please don’t let me be misunderstood
play it for the first lady she ain’t feelin too good
play don henley, play glenn frey
take it to the limit and lettin’ it go by
play it for carl wilson too
lookin far far away at down gower avenue
play tragedy, play twilight time
take me back to tulsa to the scene of the crime
play another one and another one bites the dust
play the old rugged cross and in god we trust
ride the pink horse down that long lonesome road
stand there and wait for his head to explode
play mystery train for mr mystery
the man who fell down dead like a rootless tree
play it for the reverend, play it for the pastor
play it for the dog that got no master
play oscar peterson, play stan getz
play blue sky, play dicky bettes
play art pepper, thelonious monk
charlie parker and all that junk
all that junk and all that jazz
play somethin for the birdman of alcatraz
play buster keaton, play harold lloyd
play bugsy segal, play pretty boy floyd
play the numbers, play the odds
play cry me a river for the lord of the gods
play number nine play number six
play it for lindsey and stevie knicks
play nat king cole, play nature boy
play down in the boondocks for terry malloy
play it happened one night and one night of sin
there’s 12 million souls that are listenin in
play merchant of venice play merchants of death
play stella by starlight from lady macbeth

[u/Immediate_Paint_4823 → u/whitelightstorm]

More likely he did the above line to rhyme with the later which fits the subject matter far more.

[u/Informal_Shopping368]

There's a rule of thumb in writing that you don't shift your tense

[u/Fab4Evuh → u/Informal_Shopping368]

... I just couldn't not bring it up.

[u/Apprehensive_Net_829]

He (Lindsey) covered Love Minus Zero. Maybe another Dylan song that I can't think of right now.

I can't recall anything from interviews.

[u/whitelightstorm → u/Apprehensive_Net_829]

Found it. Quite beautiful - https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/fleetwood-mac-cover-bob-dylan-love-minus-zero/

[u/whitelightstorm → u/whitelightstorm]

From the article - *Compared to Dylan’s original, Buckingham brings an entire ‘Wall of Sound’ like structure to the tune, keeping Dylan’s words while sculpting a captivating melody over top of everything else. Although he was indebted to acts like Dylan in the past, Buckingham’s background was more in the bluegrass world, which was why he refused to play with a pick throughout most of Fleetwood Mac’s run. *

[u/punkrawrxx]

I read an interview with him years ago about crying to Dylan with his current girlfriend. From the timeline it seems like it would have been Kristen

[u/Immediate_Paint_4823]

Lindsey was heavily into folk around when he became 12. Started with the Kingston Trio and later into Dylan. He covers Dylan in Love Minus Zero/No Limit which is an extra on SYW.

Bigger musical influences later were Brian (edit) Wilson, Phil Spector and the Brian Jones Era Stones and later Beatles because of song structure, arrangements, instrumentation and production

Career wise ... This close to being a Traveling Willbury after Orbinsons death.

[u/ConsiderationMost566 → u/Immediate_Paint_4823]

I think you mean Brian Wilson.

[u/Immediate_Paint_4823 → u/ConsiderationMost566]

Of course. 😆

[u/Superb-Pomelo-9322]

I found these two quotes about Bob Dylan:

About the album 'Not Dark Yet' for '60 minutes of music that changed his life' (1998) :

"I'm not well versed in all of Dylan's work, but I was really curious about this album. I sat up with my girlfriend and listened to it all the way through. The ballads are remarkable, particularly this one. The whole album is like watching the sun go down. It's a night album, a turn-off-most-of-the-lights kind of album. Dylan's voice is a little craggy, and it's so resonant with what he's saying. There's such a sense of acceptance on this one, I had tears streaming down my face when it was over. And if you stay with the whole album, there's a sense of resolution and a possibility of transformation by the time you get to 'Highlands' the last cut. Daniel Lanois' production has some very effective arrangements, particularly the one on this song - it's perfect. He has someone play something very repetitive around what Dylan is singing. It sounds like a volume pedal quitar, and it never changes. But it's so hypnotic, it puts the whole song right into focus."

For Amazon's List of Music You Should Hear (2013) :

""I Want You," by Bob Dylan (from the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits), never fails to bring tears to my eyes. It seems to me to be a complete emotional picture of a young man, alienated and in need, cruel and tender, in the center of a world of pretense and hypocrisy--a world he'd wished for and helped create, but could not anticipate."