The two folk icons followed a similar course as a superstar, and for decades it seemed as if they were solid friends. In fact, Mitchell even joined Dylan for a long period on his famous “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour in the 1970s, a series of dates where they would duet together on several occasions. For people who observed from the outside, it looked like everything was a world of counter -culture, but the audience only saw the idyllic image presented on stage.

Mitchell’s original positive words only reinforced this belief. In 1979, year after the tour ended, she was full of praise for her contemporaries. In an interview, she openly discussed their “series of short meetings”. While she admitted that they endured some “tests” over the years, the singer claimed that she “always had affection for him”.

1994, the couple performed several concerts together in Japanstrengthen the general perception of their friendship. Reflective years after the exhibitions, Mitchell was less than free when it comes to sharing a microphone with Dylan, with reference to his alleged bad oral hygiene as a question in what felt like a low blow to the release. This weak detail emerged in Brian Hinton’s biography Both sides nowWhere Mitchell recalled: “The third night, they fasted Bob to the microphone with me and he never brushes his teeth, so his breath was like right in my face.”

While her complaint seems unnecessary, Dylan’s former employee, Victor Maymudes, supported and once said: “He is a very rude, disgusting guy. He does not take off his clothes when he settles and the guy does not clean his teeth. Horrible breath. “

When Mitchell spoke to La Times In 2010, she reacted furiously when the interviewer compared her to Dylan and answered angry: “We are as night and day, (Dylan) and I. Bob are not authentic at all. He is a plagiarism and his name and voice are false. Everything about Bob is a fraud. “Furthermore, Mitchell 2013 fired again, this time in discussion with CBC. She commented brutally: “Musically, Dylan is not very talented; He has borrowed his vote from old Hillbillies. He has many borrowed things. He is not a good guitar player. He has invented a character to deliver his songs, it’s a kind of mask ”.

In fact, it is challenging to decipher the specific moment that triggered the enmity between the two, and about hostility even floats both roads. When it comes to their artistry, Mitchell has correct to highlight his differences, but no one denies that he is a talented singer writer who changed music forever. But Mitchell has often made statements at the moment and is not intentionally full of evil. Perhaps-all-right, she trains that her work deserves to be praised to the same extent as Dylans in what is a reflection of the male-dominated music industry. They are both singer writers who exist in their respective leagues, and the endless comparisons are probably tiring for Mitchell. But telling the world about Dylan’s alleged poor dental hygiene still feels inappropriate.

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