Hard Rain [Masked and Anonymous]

To the fisherman lost on the land

He stands alone at the door of his home,

With his long-legged heart in his hand.

- Dylan Thomas

Keith Richards has a personal preference for Open G Tunings. They fit his temperament and the requirements of his band's dynamic. Open G Tunings often differentiate in ultra-high-contrast the work of the bass and the work of the six-string (or sometimes modified five-string, with Richards at any rate); the idea from a purely acoustical perspective is that there will be less sloppy overlap and confusion in the low end of the string-instrument dynamic and the overall group dynamic. Though it comes out smack dab in the middle of his Christian phase, the Bob Dylan live album Hard Rain has clearly been engineered to on one hand channel The Band, no surprise, and on the other hand these cats go just about full Rolling Stone. At any rate, it's the Dylan album I play the most. Of that I am certain. 

The beast is loose

Least is best

Pee-pee-maw-maw

Pee-pee-maw-maw

- Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

THE 'BOB' IS A PALINDROME AND THEREFORE THE 'BOB' HAS OCCULT RITUAL APPLICATIONS. 

Renaldo and Clara (Bob Dylan, 1978)

Backtrack (Dennis Hopper, 1990)

Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles, 2003) 

[A seamless recreation of the final scene of The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)] 

Bob Dylan and His Accompanists, "Shelter from the Storm" 

1976