![]() ![]() Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, will celebrate his 73rd birthday in nine days on May 24th, 2014. Three other tracks from the album also made the Top 100 "I Want You" (#20), "Just Like A Woman" (#33), and "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (#81). Was track one of side one on his seventh studio album, 'Blonde On Blonde', the album reached #9 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 15th 1966, "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35" by Bob Dylan peaked at #2 (for 1 week) it had entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on April 10th at position #79 and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 5 of those 10 weeks it was on the Top 10). ![]() While on the United Kingdom the song was at #10 and peak at #7 two weeks later. Dylan responds with "I don't believe you", and instructs his band to "Play F-king loud".Īt the time "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is at position #2 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, it was at #2 for one week and was kept out of the top spot by "Monday, Monday" by The Mamas and the Papas. Just before he started to perform "Like A Rolling Stone", some one in the audience shouts out 'Judas', in reference to him recently going electric. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 17th 1966, Bob Dylan appeared in concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England.Sean Kelleher from FloridaRainy women is a 1930s,40s slang term for a pot joint.That would come later- and he wouldn't be performing it with a joint in his hand. Plus, the music is wildly unconventional and reflective of the same in a way that recalls Bill Hicks: "The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal high on drugs." I find it hard to believe Dylan was making some kind of obscure biblical reference in view of that context. 1966 is not even two years removed from Dylan introducing the Beatles to pot and right on the doorstep of the Summer of Love. At the end of the day, I think they're meaningless and it's 100% a lighthearted drug anthem/party song. But 420 was born in 1971 and the song recorded five years prior, so even that must be a coincidence. Phil from NycThe most compelling argument I've read is that the numbers are a reference to 420 (12*35).AnonymousIt seems everybody must get stoned could be a biblical reference, he used others should always do for others and let others do for you.Truthbomb from WashingtonRipped off from: Phil Ochs - You Can't Get Stoned Enough / Just One o' Those Days (1963).(More on the meaning of "stoned" in popular songs.) This relates to how Dylan felt about his critics, who were going to figuratively "stone" him no matter what he did. In this story, Stephen received his sentence after giving a speech to authorities who were going to kill him no matter what he said. And when they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul." The Book of Acts is from the Gospel of Luke, and contains an account of a stoning: "Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Answering a question about people interpreting this song to be about getting high, Dylan told Rolling Stone in 2012: "These are people that aren't familiar with the Book of Acts." With the line, "Everybody Must Get Stoned," this song is often associated with smoking marijuana, although Dylan insists it isn't, stating, "I have never and never will write a 'drug song.'" It is more likely about trials of relationships with women, and Dylan has hinted that it could have a Biblical meaning. ![]()
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