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Rolling Stone (The band, the mag, the song, the expression?)

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Luke C:

--- Quote from: tommydski on 28 Sep 2006, 17:11 ---it's from an old expression "a rolling stone gathers no moss", which an extremely old latin proverb.

the rolling stones almost certainly swiped it from the muddy waters song 'Rolling Stone' recorded in 1948. my guess is dylan was referring to the proverb and the magazine was referring to dylan. in fact i'm certain of it.

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I was wondering the same thing myself tbh. I assumed (for no real reason) it was the band first then the Dylan song (I had gussed he wrote it when the Stones were huge or maybe he toured with them or something, not very knowledgeable (sp) about Dylan I shall admit) then the mag named after the band. But like I say that was a guess with no basis tbh.

Glad someone cleared it up for me.

Gryff:
There's a really interesting section in Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Griel Marcus, where the author describes in great detail the recording session for 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Marcus talks about each individual take, where the band did things differently, where they fucked it up, where Al Kooper joined in on organ. It seems like the take they used on the album was almost miraculous in its existence, because apparently the other versions uniformly struggled to capture the feel that Dylan was going for. It's a fascinating read if you're into the song.

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