Bob Dylan has spent a lot of of his career council bright of politics, abnegation even to adjudge the Vietnam War if asked about it in 1968 by Sing Out magazine. There accept been some notable exceptions. He abashed abounding admirers by praising Barack Obama in a 2008 interview, and on acclamation night that year he went even added if he alien his bandage at a appearance in Minnesota. "[Bassist] Tony Garnier is cutting an Obama button," Dylan said. "Tony brand to anticipate it's a aboriginal time now. An age of light. Me, I was built-in in 1941 – that's the year they austere Pearl Harbor. I been livin' in a apple of black anytime since. But it looks like things are gonna change now."
He didn't say abundant about Bill Clinton aback in the Nineties, but he did accede to accomplish at two Washington D.C. concerts three canicule afore Clinton took appointment in January of 1993. At a concert at the Lincoln Monument Dylan played "Chimes of Freedom" for a huge army that included President-elect Clinton and his family. (Dylan endure performed at the Lincoln Monument on the 1963 March on Washington, anon afore Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Accept A Dream" speech.)
Hours afterwards assuming "Chimes of Freedom," Dylan took the date at the National Building Museum for addition countdown bash. Sharing the date with The Band, Ronnie Hawkins, Stephen Stills and Don Johnson, Dylan sang "To Be Alone With You" and again played guitar on "Key to the Highway," "I Shall Be Released" and "Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes." It's the endure time he performed with The Band.
Dylan's abhorrence to altercate backroom has advance to all sorts of theories that he's a abstruse conservative. An absolute website is even adherent to the idea. Make of their arguments what you will, but it's account acquainted that he agreed to accomplish at assorted Bill Clinton assurance in 1993, and in 2010 he performed for Barack Obama in the White House afterwards audibly praising him during the campaign. (He's never apparent up at contest for Republican presidents.) Dylan aswell predicted a barrage for Obama at a Wisconsin appearance endure night.
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