Interview with Peter Dale Scott on Russia TV

[Peter Lemkin]

I just can't see Pete Seger and Joan Baez accepting a prize from the Master of War. But then they are people of integrity

As a footnote in passing, Joan Baez's sister Mimi was married to writer and folksinger Richard Farina.

The Richard and Mimi Farina website is here.

Thomas Pynchon was a Cornell classmate of Richard Farina, and as the "Richard and Mimi" website states:

"Thomas Pynchon has written warmly of his friendship with Fariña in the 1983 edition of Been Down So Long. He was best man at Fariña's wedding with Mimi and a pallbearer at his funeral.
He dedicated his greatest novel, Gravity's Rainbow, "To Richard Fariña."

On April 30, 1966, Richard Farina was a passenger on a motorcycle which crashed in Carmel Valley, killing him instantly.

Joan Baez's song, "Sweet Sir Galahad", commemorates Fariña's death, the grieving of his widow Mimi, and Mimi's eventual recovery and remarriage.

Yes, these are people of integrity.

Not Dylan.

Not Obama.

Not disagreeing with any of the above. Just a personal observation that Dylan changed. In my mind there were two. Some think mind-control; others just think he wigged-out on his own. Early Dylan lyrics were powerful and for a brief time he was lovers with Baez. That ended, and is forever immortalized in one of Baez's songs. After a ong period of silence later in his career Dylan re-emerged a 'Christian' and changed in oh so many ways. This new 'Christian' and more conservative Dylan would certainly, and did, take a trophy from the current front for the Oligarchy in Chief. The old Dylan, I think not. But, the 'old Dylan' is gone except in our memories. Baez and Farina were always leaps and bounds beyond even the old Dylan...but the old Dylan was on the correct side of history.....until something changed him......