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After a long world tour, full of [[Fan Dumb|combative press conferences and booing crowds]], Dylan dropped off the radar in 1966, one year prior to the [[The Sixties|''Summer of Love."]] He did not perform at Woodstock (despite - or perhaps ''because of'' - the fact that it took place basically down the road from his house), he did not protest the [[Vietnam War]]. Bob Dylan closed out the Sixties via duet with [[Johnny Cash]]. He nonetheless remains synonymous with said decade's "turbulence": [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s cover of "All Along the Watchtower" plays over about 70% of all Sixties montages.
The other major Bob Dylan reference you might encounter is to his "born again phase," which began with his conversion to Christianity in the late 70s. Attendant to this were [[Pandering to the Base|a few nostalgic, audience-baiting tours]] and some angry but lyrically intricate [[Christian Rock]] albums. Dylan eventually returned to more secular themes, but has never quite abandoned the doomsaying [[The End Is Nigh|street preacher]] point of view. On the other hand, in his personal life, he's been seen celebrating the [[Jewish Holidays|High Holidays]] at various [[
Dylan still records music, which [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|people still don't really "get,"]] and is once again sacrosanct among music critics and record store employees. As ever, this is mostly on the strength of his lyrics—Dylan is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature almost every year. Nonetheless, his nasal growl of a singing voice remains a point of contention among listeners. The stock Bob Dylan joke is that [[The Unintelligible|nobody can understand a word he says]], and he is usually depicted as talking exactly as he sings.
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