Talk:Positively 4th Street

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Who played rhythm guitar? I suspect it was Dylan.

67.101.41.182 (talk) 23:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Covers

The article says that X covered this song, but this redirects to the letter X. There are 3 bands called X, which band covered this song? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.231.129.52 (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

R. Stevie Moore covered this song too on his album Aesthetic. here is the video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDlIwUUNes (i don't know how to edit wikipedia) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.69.56.244 (talk) 20:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Fixed dead links. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 22:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Ask

Man, what a lot of speculation. bob Dylan is still alive. Why doesn't someone just ask him what the song is about? It's actually one of his more lucid set of lyrics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.73.125.247 (talk) 16:03, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

If Zimmerman wanted to be specific, he would have been. I'm convinced it's a composite. I also doubt, contrary, to what the article suggests, that it had anything particularly to do with Zimmerman renouncing "folk". Zimmerman ruffled a lot of feathers in Greenwich Village and Cambridge, stealing songs and otherwise appropriating material, perpetually lying about his past, and using people as stepping stones. Various singers, such as Dave Von Ronk, who witnessed Zimmerman's quick commercial rise, who had aided Zimmerman and then found themselves (at least to some extent) rejected, couldn't help but feel some resentment. In this song Zimmerman is putting them all on notice: He renounces responsibility. He will not make amends. He "positively" views himself as the victim. TheScotch (talk) 16:28, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

'You got' or 'You've got'?

The linked Metrolyrics lyrics page, with 'You got a lotta nerve, to say you are my friend' is not very official. NjtoTX (talk) 00:03, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Book

The Hadju “Positively 4th Street” book is not the first published about Zimmerman. A earlier book with this title was published in the seventies. My brother gave me a copy on Christmas, 1974. The author traveled to Zimmerman’s home-town of Hibbing, Minnesota and to the University of Minnesota town where Zimmerman lived when he was pretending to be enrolled. He interviewed Zimmerman’s former friends and associates and even began to date one of Zimmerman’s old girl friends. Eventually the book became not so much an expose, but, rather, simply a recounting of the author’s adventures in researching it, which I found refreshing. I lost my copy decades ago, and I don’t remember the author’s name, but it’s possible his first name was Toby: A blurb on the cover quoting Zimmerman read something like, “That boy, that Toby [?], has got a lot to learn.” Does anyone else remember this book?~~~ TheScotch (talk) 16:14, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Ah, it was easier to track down than I thought (although I had tried, unsuccessfully, some years ago). It turns out the book is actually called "Positively Main Street", not "Positively 4th Street". Is that close enough to merit a mention in this article (considering that the other book is mentioned)? It was written by one Toby Thompson in 1971. TheScotch (talk) 18:33, 7 October 2022 (UTC)