You just gotta love this pic..

[Playinghardball]

By the time he was 23, Bob’s voice, with its weight, its unique, gravelly power was redefining not just what music sounded like, but the message it carried and how it made people feel. Today, everybody from Bruce Springsteen to U2 owes Bob a debt of gratitude. There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music. All these years later, he’s still chasing that sound, still searching for a little bit of truth. And I have to say that I am a really big fan."

— President Barack Obama, awarding Bob Dylan the Medal of Freedom

[dreampunk]

1. yay

YAY!

[snappyturtle]

2. Yes! Thanks for posting. nt

[madokie]

3. I'm a big fan of both of those Gentlemen

[TBF]

4. Now THAT is awesome. nt

[lpbk2713]

5. May you grow up to be righteous

May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

[Major Hogwash]

6. Plus, he kicked Phil Ochs out of his limo once.

I learned that from Iverglas!!!

Yeah!!!

[Ken Burch]

8. Yeah, Bob could be a raving asshole at times.

He kicked Phil out of that limo because he'd just played Phil a new song and Phil DARED to say that he didn't think the song was that great.

He and his friends were also deliberately obnoxious to Joan Baez when she went along on his British tour in '65, because they wanted her to leave(it's why she disappears halfway through DON'T LOOK BACK, the Pennebaker documentary about that tour. Dylan(who had also just broken up with Baez)was being such a total bastard to Joanie at that point that, a few months later, her sister Mimi threatened him with a beatdown while they were all sitting in a restaurant(this incident is recounted in "Positively 4th Street" David Harjo's book about the Dylan-Baez and Richard and Mimi Farina relationships).

(on edit)...Uh, you weren't saying that you LIKED it that Dylan kicked Phil out of the limo, were you?

[Major Hogwash]

16. Oh hell, no.

I didn't know any of that crap about Phil Ochs until I read what Iverglas said about it on her forum.
I didn't know any of what you just said about him and Joan Baez, either.

[Ken Burch]

17. Thanks for the clarification.

I guess we could say that The Mighty Zimm is a classic example of the flawed genius type,

[Ken Burch]

7. Love the shades.

But is Dylan wearing them because he's gonna apply for one of those vacant Secret Service jobs?

[spanone]

9. k&r...

[Voice for Peace]

10. Obama's expression is very cute, like a little kid

[connecticut yankee]

11. Do you think

that in 1968 (or so) Bob would ever have envisioned himself wearing a dinner jacket at the White House?

[bongbong]

13. Kinda...

1968? Yeah, maybe.

1962? No.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. past the 49th street bridge...

... and positively 16th Avenue :-D

[roody]

14. I like his music, his Cadillac commercial,

I did not care for.

[Merlot]

15. Cool to see Obama looking so impressed

He meets so many famous, important people, but Dylan is the one that makes him kinda giddy!