Final week, Bob Dylan made a uncommon post on X complimenting Nick Cave on his present in Paris with the Bad Seeds. “I used to be actually struck by that track ‘Pleasure’ the place he sings ‘We’ve all had an excessive amount of sorrow, now it the time for pleasure,’” Dylan wrote. “I used to be pondering to myself, yeah that’s about proper.” A number of days later, Cave responded in his Purple Hand Recordsdata e-newsletter, calling the tweet “a stunning pulse of pleasure that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state.”
Cave famous the “admirably perverse” undeniable fact that Dylan was posting on X, at a time when a lot of the left was enterprise a “Twitterectomy” and becoming a member of Blue Sky, in protest of Elon Musk’s stewardship of the platform. “The world had grown completely disenchanted,” Cave wrote, “and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of something remotely just like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent—that holy place the place pleasure resides. I felt proud to have been touring with The Unhealthy Seeds and providing, within the type of a rock ‘n ’roll present, an antidote to this despair, one which transported individuals to a spot past the dreadful drama of the political second.”
He concluded, “I used to be elated to assume Bob Dylan had been within the viewers, and since I doubt I’ll get a chance to thank him personally, I’ll thank him right here. Thanks, Bob!”
Learn Cave’s full response within the Red Hand Files archive.
