the honest truth is that i don't have an opinion of blonde on blonde because i've never found dylan to be historically interesting enough to bother listening to. of the '66 discs, i'll take revolver and freak out! over the rest of them. sorry.
but,
even more accurate is that the historical path forwards to what i
listen to doesn't really start until '67, and is actually mostly
british. crimson. genesis. floyd. moody blues.
if i was in
california in 1966, i wouldn't have been into the doors or the beach
boys or any hippie garbage of the sort. i would have been into surf
music, mostly. some early punk, no doubt. i probably would have
preferred to be in detroit. and, i would have agreed with zappa that the
hippie culture was basically the beginning of the collapse of western
civilization.
so, don't expect happy retrospectives. that's not my culture. sorry.
