Talk:A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

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I'm almost certain that Hard Rain was not written during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that that story was just a myth that Dylan told.

How is it possible that it was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but premiered a month before the crisis occured? That does not make sense.

I'm gonna change it because there is no possible explanation how a song could be written a month after it premiered.

[edit] "gaslight"

This is shaping up as an excellent song article, thanks to those working on it. I'm having trouble making sense of this line, however:

Although Dylan first silenced his crowd with this song amongst friends by the gaslight,

If I knew what it was supposed to mean I would clarify it, but I'm not sure and don't want to just delete. Perhaps you can try a different wording? Jgm 11:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorted. Levi_allemany 1920 GMT, 23/09/05

[edit] SUV commercial

I just saw a ghastly "hard rock" version of this on a TV commercial for an SUV... the slogan at the end was "Get hard". Perhaps a comment like "In 2006 Dylan drew criticism for allowing a hard rock cover version of the song to be featured in a television commercial advertising an SUV with the slogan 'Get hard'." would be appropriate? Though I can't find anything on Google about it, I'm sure he will be criticised for it... how could he not be? Caleby 10:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

In fact, I've added the sentence to the article. Consider him criticised (by me). I'm going to write a blog about it too, so we can say he has "drawn criticism among bloggers". I don't know what kind of SUV it was advertising or who performed the horrible cover, but someone else will surely add that. Caleby 10:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)