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05 Jul 2017, 7:04 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLMr784l0Q

Anyone who used to think this song was by the Rolling Stones? I used to think so because of the line "like a rolling stone".



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06 Jul 2017, 12:57 pm

No because Bob Dylan sounds nothing like the rolling stones.



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06 Jul 2017, 3:01 pm

I've only ever heard the version by Hendrix.



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06 Jul 2017, 7:24 pm

I never thought that thou I thought that line was a reference to that band. I like The Rolling Stones & some of Dylan's stuff.


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07 Jul 2017, 6:27 am

No, but the song is interesting. The line that always sticks out for me is "carrying on his shoulder a Siamese cat."



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07 Jul 2017, 12:34 pm

nick007 wrote:
I never thought that thou I thought that line was a reference to that band. I like The Rolling Stones & some of Dylan's stuff.


The Stones were contemporary with Dylan but Dylan's song had nothing to do with referencing the Stones.

The Rolling Stones took their name from a Muddy Waters blues song "Rolling Stone blues" about being a homeless vagabond. And Dylan was probably also referencing that and other roots blues in his song of that name. So both Keith Richards, and Bob Dylan, were borrowing from common musical parentage, and not from each other.