“While riding on a train goin’ west / I fell asleep for to take my rest …” By then I was a raging Dylan fan. Martin Carthy had taught him the melody of a traditional song called Lady Franklin’s Lament, the story of the North West Passage, but Bob’s lyrics transform it into something personal and dreamlike that’s always haunted me. I’ve sung lots of his songs, but my favourite is Bob Dylan’s Dream. Soon after that I sat outside a blue door in the basement of a party in Woodstock listening to him playing Mr Tambourine Man over and over again. Then in 1961 folk bible Sing Out! printed the lyrics to Blowin’ in the Wind, by which time he’d changed his name, and I was astonished. He was homeless, so would sleep on people’s floors, devouring their books. Back then, he was always trying to get slots on the hootenannies and sang Woody Guthrie songs very badly. Then he came to see me in Colorado and, as he still reminds me, sat at my feet. I met Bob in Denver in summer 1959, when he was still called Robert Zimmerman.
You can listen to it all the time and still get something wonderful and new from it. It’s actually a really lovely song, which shouldn’t work with the imagery but does. I love the lovely half-Spanish guitar lines from the session guitarist, Charlie McCoy. My reading is that that’s about governmental, military control, but then there’s the payoff: “When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke? Don’t send me no more letters unless you mail them from Desolation Row.” That sounds like a really personal thing. The lines “The agents and the superhuman crew / Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do / Then they bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine is strapped across their shoulders” are scary and apocalyptic, viciously delivered. The opening line about the “postcards of the hanging” sets the tone, but then this awful event is juxtaposed with “the beauty parlour filled with sailors” and all these circus people. I imagine an unforgiving place, somewhere you don’t want to spend much time, peopled with strange characters. It isn’t a real street so you create your own fantasy. I couldn’t record like that.ĭesolation Row’s lyrics are just so interesting and diverse. I was at a session for Blood on the Tracks and really enjoyed watching him record Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, with this incredible depth of storyline, surrounded by all these boring people from the record company who he had sitting in the control room. The delivery isn’t just the words, it’s the accentuation and the moods and twists he puts on them. I didn’t even tell the band.I was playing Bob Dylan records at my parents’ house when he was still an acoustic folk singer, but he was already very important and his lyrics were on point. Tyler telling Q magazine: “When I hit on the melody for ‘Jaded,’ it was so phenomenal that for a while I was scared to do anything more with it. If you want the real sound you should use our arranger.’ He says, ‘Yeah, well, this guy’s a good friend, he’s very talented, he’s done some arrangements for Barbra Streisand.’ And I said, ‘Well, obviously it’s your choice, we’ll come in and play his arrangements.’ He says, ‘How about this, if at any time during the session you feel that the arrangement is not Tower of Power worthy, you just tell us – we’ll call the session, reschedule, hire your horn arranger and redo it.'”Īerosmith played the song at halftime of the 2001 Super Bowl along with ‘N Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. They finally decided to do it and Joey Kramer called me up and they said they had their own arranger and I explained to Joey, ‘I’m not sure who this guy is but I need to tell you something: When people use their own arrangers, a lot of times it doesn’t come out sounding like Tower of Power horns. Just Push Play was the first record they produced.Įmilio Castillo, who is a founding member of Tower of Power, told Songfacts: “Aerosmith hired Tower of Power horns after years and years of wanting us to play on their records. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry penned this song and produced it. Tyler stuttering replicated Roger Daltrey’s on The Who’s “My Generation.” He feels he’s the reason for her daughter being jaded due to band responsibilities or drug issues. Steven Tyler wrote the song while thinking about his youngest daughter, and how he yearned for her especially being on tour and missing out on her childhood. Steven Tyler Inspired By Her Youngest Daughter The woman in the tune has everything, which forbids her the opportunity to feel and experience life.
Advertisement The Song Is About Being Bored To DeathĮveryone become jaded when boredom strikes or annoyed, usually because they are over satisfied and take anything for granted.
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