Tiny Montgomery

[koganbot]

I like how the rhythm in "Tiny Montgomery" makes itself strong by just digging in and digging further, no moving forward. -The rhythm I'm referring to is mostly Dylan's voice, and the strum strum strum. Bass and the rest are a shuffling swing, I guess. So you can sway back and forth while the song steadily drives you down. A-Plus

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Masters of War

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Velvet Underground "Prominent Men"

Luc Sante adds:

But the Velvets were deep-fried in Dylan. Coincidentally [our friend] Richard Campo dropped by the shack last night, and we played the first disk (acoustic demos) of Peel Slowly and See all the way through - which I'd never done because each track is like eighteen takes of the same song strung together end to end - and everything sounds like "Masters of War"! "Venus in Furs," "All Tomorrow's Parties," and especially "Prominent Men." "Black Angel's Death Song" isn't included, but it doesn't take a lot to hear that as "Masters of War," too.
And Don Allred reminds us that Dylan borrowed the tune of "Masters Of War" from old English folk song "Nottamun Town."

Dylan's guitar part was incredibly pertinent to me (and to my incipient Velvets infatuation). I would spend hours trying to master it, the fast hard twenty-fourth notes*, BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BOO-OOM, BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BOO-OOM.

Bob Dylan "Masters Of War"

*"Twenty-fourth notes" isn't in the lexicon, but that's what they are.