And Greil Marcus love for Bob Dylan.
In response to a caller with a dissenting opinion, Marcus uses that old familiar Lone Rangerism, “Who was that masked man?”. Using the phrase to describe the song as a Moment that seems to begin with the song’s beginning, and arc through the song’s meandering triumphs, Marcus offers a radical new interpretation of the Lone Ranger.
Who was that masked man? The Lone Ranger as something larger than ourselves. The moment of a rescue we cannot properly perceive. A rescuer not properly understood. The idealist, as outsider.
Weird, I always thought of the Lone Ranger as conservative.
