Bob Dylan Expresses Support for Jann Wenner During NYC Gig
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Bob Dylan expressed his support for disgraced Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner during a concert in New York City on Thursday night.
Dylan rarely speaks during his shows, but he felt compelled to shout out Wenner towards the end of his gig at the Beacon Theatre. “All right, l’d like to say hello to Jann Wenner, who’s in the house. Jann Wenner, surely everybody’s heard of him,” Dylan said.
“Anyway, he just got booted out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame – and we don’t think that’s right. We’re trying to get him back in.”
In September, Wann was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors after making derogatory remarks about Black and female artists. Specifically, Wenner came under fire for comments he made to the New York Times in an interview promoting his new book The Masters. Asked why only white male musicians were featured in the book, Wenner justified the lack of diversity by arguing that Black and female artists “just didn’t articulate at the level” of their white male peers.
“Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” Wenner was quoted as saying. “Joni [Mitchell] was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock… I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
Wenner later issued an apology, saying that his comments “don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”
Wenner and Dylan’s relationship extends back to 1969, when Wenner first interviewed the songwriter for Rolling Stone. Dylan was also one of the male artists featured in Wenner’s book The Masters.
Read Abby Jones’ essay, “No One Needs to Defend Jann Wenner.”
“All right, like to say hello to Jann Wenner who’s in the house. Jann Wenner, surely everybody’s heard of him.
Anyway, he just got booted out of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame – and we don’t think that’s right, we’re trying to get him back in.”
— Bob Dylan 11/16/23 pic.twitter.com/Vkgt8klzYS
— Dylan.FM Podcast (@TheFM_Dylan) November 17, 2023
Bob Dylan Expresses Support for Jann Wenner During NYC Gig
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