It was none of the above we were just cold and the two of us were shivering. Of course everyone was trying to interpret the meaning, saying it must represent getting high or an LSD trip. The frame he chose for the cover is blurred and out of focus. At the time it was the meat-packing district of New York and I liked the look of it. We went to the west side, where the Chelsea Art galleries are now. 'I wanted to find an interesting location out of the studio. Reportedly, the album's title was inspired from Dylan's friendship with Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and his then-girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg. Virtually everyone who were close to her believe there was never sexuality between 'Bob Dylan' and Edie Sedgwick (I think otherwise).but there are the images in his complex kabbalistic poetries, which, astutely notes David Dalton, 'are littered with mutated Edies'.Jerry Schatzberg's striking color portrait of Bob Dylan was the cover of his now-immortal 1966 album, Blonde On Blonde. Without evidence, Edie Sedgwick's brother claimed she aborted a pregnancy, insisting 'Bob Dylan' was the father ('Bob Dylan' was ready to sue over this accusation). It was a complex, sometimes cruel tapestry (with Bobby Neuwirth in-and-out of the picture). The content of many of his 1965-1966 compositions are rife with the dialectics (first seen in 'Desolation Row') of the relationship(s) between Andy Warhol ('Dr Filth' on his 'chrome horse' scooter) and Edie Sedgwick (with her leopard-skin pillbox hat, her fog, her pearls, her amphetamine) and Shabtai Zisel (in his 'Bob Dylan' masque). The title, as I document elsewhere, was derived directly from Kazimir Malevich 1918 painting Suprematist Composition: White on White. On Friday, Septemat 3:46:16 AM UTC-7, Merle wrote: If this was at all possible, we'd have some evidence of it by now, am Iīlond Lebanese Hash was indeed popular back in the day as was "Honey can I jump on it sometime?".both involving smoke.:-) The parallel structure of phrase my be in accordance with those findings of scholarly research, but everything else is bullshit. The double meaning was tied up together in the conjunction of Virginia white and Lebanese, echoing the opening track's double entendre as it utilized a popular phrase for a well-known smoking mixture at the time. her blonde on blonde hairstyle.īlonde on Blonde was a direct comparison to hair above, hair below.natural as can be.he told me so.
#Bob dylan blonde on blonde album meaning skin#
Maybe, then, it was simply another descriptor of something he digs about this girl, her fog, her amphetamines, her pearls, her leopard skin pillbox hat. Out of an overheard conversation between two women. Unless he just couldn't come up with a title and grabbed the phrase Thinking BD must have been using the phrase ironically to mean somethingĮlse. To what we now call "highlighting." IOW your hair is dyed dark or mediumīlonde and then you have streaks of light blonde put in. I don't think it was a specific (Clairol or whatever) product it referred If this was at all possible, we'd have some evidence of it by now, am I right? Hi Merle, 'Blonde on Blonde' was the brand name of a hair dye,Īvailable in the sixties.
Title "Blonde on Blonde"? What is that all about? We Dylanites love to dissect his lyrics, but what about the album