after my most recent viewing of Don't Look Back, I can't get this song out of my head. It's one among many many many incredible Dylan songs.
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
..yeah , dylan's the sh*t....
i bought that RS issue w/the 500 best albums...(it does make a good reference to getting into music that you forgot or didnt know of)....and was surprised to see all this dylans discs....blonde on blonde/blood on the tracks are phucking amazing.....
i need to get nashville skyline....
i'm a big fan or tangled up in blue.....
annd i really loved the things have changed song from th wonder boys film...
phuck theres so much to say bout his guy...... :!:
Nashville Skyline is my favorite underrated Dylan album.
I haven't heard that much ::SMILEYFACEFORBEINGSAD::
But everything I've heard is great ::CONFOUNDED!!::
you nneed to runnnn--NOt walk to your local best buy and buy some dylann::excited but serious expression follwed by two snaps annd a twist::
......that was funnny slobh.....
After being booed off stage during the infamous folk festival scene in 65 for going electric, he returned to the stage and played this song which pleased some of the folkies at the time. Dylan would then go onto his shit hot rock period (Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde). It may just be me, but I don't think it was a coincidence that he choose "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" as the sendoff performance for his folk fanbase. From the reports I've read, some of them got the message, but some were oblivious to any special meaning. Just an interesting note I thought.
Latest Victoria's Secret model: Bob Dylan
Singer appearing in new series of ads
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NEW YORK (AP) -- New, from Victoria's Secret: the MiracleBob?
Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting through Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels.
Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.
Dylan's song "Love Sick," from his Grammy-winning 1997 album "Time Out of Mind," provides the musical backdrop for the spot, which airs in 15-, 30- and 60-second versions.
It promotes a new line of lingerie, the "Angels" collection -- which explains the wings on Lima's back as she prances across a palazzo near a Venetian canal.
"It's weird," said New York disc jockey Dennis Elsas, who's played Dylan music for three decades. "I would be hesitant to say it's awful or wonderful. It's just strange."
The commercials began airing a week ago, and will run for the next two weeks, said Ed Razek, chief creative officer for Victoria's Secret. The company experienced an immediate uptick in sales once the spots ran, he said.
Dylan was not a hard sell when approached about the campaign, Razek said. The company already had decided to use the song when its corporate boss, Les Wexner, suggested inviting Dylan himself.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer quickly agreed, although no one's quite sure why.
"I can't speculate to his reasons, I never talked to him about why he decided to come to the party, but he did," Razek said. "He's iconic, a living legend."
Dylan's spokesman did not return messages for comment about the campaign.
Little backlash
It's the first time in his 40-plus years as an international star that Dylan has appeared in an ad campaign, although his "The Times They Are a Changin' " was used in a Bank of Montreal commercial in 1996.
Back then, Dylan was ripped for selling out. His association with ladies in lingerie, as opposed to some corporate entity, failed to produce much antipathy -- particularly in an era where Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel and Sting recently licensed songs for commercials.
But the strange mingling of Dylan and decolletage prompted plenty of comment, from a New York sports writer's Sunday column to various Internet chat rooms.
"On first glance, this is wrong on so many levels, but after viewing it I really admire Bob Dylan," wrote one Dylan fan in a chat room. "I only hope that when I reach Dylan's age someone approaches me to ask if I would like to be paid to fly to Venice and do a commercial with several supermodels."
Once you reach that level of acceptance, as Elsas observed, the Dylan spots don't seem so bad.
"What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?" Elsas asked.
See, that's class: "Can we use your song?" "Only if I can cavort with hot young semi-naked girls". "Done." The old guy's still got the smarts left in him.
Dylan gains even more of my respect (if that's possible)!
i really really love him. i got to see him a couple years back and the concert was great, but i didnt really know much of his music at the time. his songwriting skills and guitar playing are just incendiary
i just picked up the Live in 1964 2-Disc album and it's fantastic, I reccomend to everyone to pick it up.
also, i dont know what's going on with him and the Victoria's Secret commercials and wanting to judge on American Idol, it's bothersome.
Quote from: SoNowThenNashville Skyline is my favorite underrated Dylan album.
Agreed!
I've been trying to decide if I should replace all my classic Dylan albums with the new ones that were put out last year (I think they're remastered or something, as if I have any clue what any of that actually consists of).
Anybody make a comparison between the old cd's and the new ones?
I'm thinking Nash Sky, Bringing It Back, Blonde On Blonde, etc...
I'm hardly feverish for Dylan, but I can't ever see the title of this thread without being reminded that this particular song was covered by this man:
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....which I find very amusing, seeing as how Dylan is apparently so hallowed and this guy is the worst kind of bad Euro-disco trash. I've never heard it, but I kind of want to.
It's also covered by Hole (much more legit) on the b-side of the "Malibu" single.
But the BEST Dylan cover ever is on Nick Cave's Murder Ballads: Cave, PJ Harvey, Kylie Minogue, and a bunch of others do a sort of "We Are the World" turn-taking with "Death is Not the End." It's very sardonic and very brilliant.
All in all, I agree with a very great man who once said Bob Dylan would've had more fun if he'd been in the New York Dolls. I'm no Dylan-hater, but he's soooooo over-earnest and self-serious. Small doses for me.
Quote from: godardiana very great man who once said Bob Dylan would've had more fun if he'd been in the New York Dolls.
I'd like to meet that man and break his nose.
The nasal voice and lone guitar (and/or sparse backing band) is the whole friggin point.
Quote from: godardianI'm no Dylan-hater, but he's soooooo over-earnest and self-serious.
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what an odd thing to say..
Quote from: PubrickQuote from: godardianI'm no Dylan-hater, but he's soooooo over-earnest and self-serious.
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what an odd thing to say..
I should confess that I have completely different standards for the personae of pop stars/public figures than I do for the rest of us. :wink:
Don't forget the cover of Highway 61 Revisited on Rid Of Me, Godardian!
I love Dylan. I'd never really heard much of his stuff, other than what they play on oldies stations, until I bought Time Out Of Mind back whenever it came out, and instantly realized what was so great about him. Now, with large quantities of his music in my possession, I think that Time Out Of Mind is still the best album he's ever done.
Oh, yes... I contradict myself when I say the Nick Cave and Friends cover is the best, 'cos that "Highway 61" on Rid of Me the same thing... really, it does supercede any other Dylan cover I've heard.
That's the thing for me about Dylan; the greatness of his great songs (which is not all of them by any means) comes through much more clearly when someone else is singing them. He has kind of a Burt Bacharach/Carole King thing going on, where his own performances of his songs sound like blueprints or sketches waiting to have life breathed into them.
Quote from: godardianThat's the thing for me about Dylan; the greatness of his great songs (which is not all of them by any means) comes through much more clearly when someone else is singing them. He has kind of a Burt Bacharach/Carole King thing going on, where his own performances of his songs sound like blueprints or sketches waiting to have life breathed into them.
That's interesting, and I definitely see your point. The Band especially took some of his songs to a different/new level.
However, the three most celebrated ones absolutely PALE in comparison to the originals: Clapton or G&R doing Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower. Such craphole versions when compared to Dylan.
I agree with you, except for All Along The Watchtower -- Hendrix owns that one.
Dave Matthews owns it, actually. :wink:
"I'd like to meet that man and break his nose."
well put.
Say what you will about Dylan, but his writing is tremendous to say the least. He plays with words like no one.
Quote from: SoNowThenQuote from: godardianThat's the thing for me about Dylan; the greatness of his great songs (which is not all of them by any means) comes through much more clearly when someone else is singing them. He has kind of a Burt Bacharach/Carole King thing going on, where his own performances of his songs sound like blueprints or sketches waiting to have life breathed into them.
That's interesting, and I definitely see your point. The Band especially took some of his songs to a different/new level.
However, the three most celebrated ones absolutely PALE in comparison to the originals: Clapton or G&R doing Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower. Such craphole versions when compared to Dylan.
If you already haven't, check out Clapton covering Don't Think Twice on the 30 year tribute to Dylan. It's a motherfucker.
Dylan's autobiography: three-part 'Chronicles'
By Reuters
NEW YORK -- The famously private Bob Dylan, whose background and music are the stuff of legend, will shed light on his life and four-decade career as a singer-songwriter in a memoir to be published this autumn, his publisher said Tuesday.
Dylan's "Chronicles: Volume One" (Simon & Schuster), the first of a planned three-book series, is a first-person narrative from the 63-year-old music icon, who rose to fame in the early 1960s and whose musical style ranged from folk and blues to rock, country and gospel.
The first volume of his memoirs focuses on significant periods in Dylan's life and is described by publisher David Rosenthal as "extraordinary, revealing and surprising. It is a beautifully written, singular achievement."
The 304-page book is due out on Oct. 12 and will be followed about a week later by an updated edition of "Lyrics: 1962-2001," a compendium of lyrics to nearly every Dylan song.
Born Robert Zimmerman, Dylan left the University of Minnesota for New York's Greenwich Village folk music scene at the start of the 1960s. He soon won fame for his such protest anthems as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They are A-changin."'
The scrawny mid-Westerner who wrote lyrics like poetry and sang with a distinctive howl, shifted to more introspective material and later added electric instrumentation as he helped create the folk-rock sound and scored a big singles hit with "Like a Rolling Stone."
While Dylan sold millions of records on his own, some of his songs are best known through recordings by others like Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, The Byrds, and The Band.
Dylan, who still tours the world with his rock band, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammies in 1991 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen in 1988.
He previously published "Tarantula," a 1971 volume of poems. Simon & Schuster Inc. is the publishing arm of Viacom.
Sean Penn Will Read Audiobook by Dylan
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn will read the audiobook version of Bob Dylan's "Chronicles: Volume One," to be published Oct. 12 by Simon & Schuster Audio.
The book and audiobook comprise the first in a series of the singer-songwriter's personal histories, with the first volume consisting of first-person narratives focusing on significant periods in Dylan's life and career, the publisher said last week.
The audiobook version runs for six hours on four cassettes or five CDs.
"When we were thinking of actors to read the Bob Dylan audiobook, the first name on our list was Sean Penn," said Chris Lynch, executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, in a statement. "We knew he would be perfect for the material, and we are absolutely thrilled that an actor of his caliber will be reading `Chronicles.'"
This is the first audiobook that Penn has narrated.
Quote from: GhostboyI agree with you, except for All Along The Watchtower -- Hendrix owns that one.
know this ended a while ago, but i figured i'd bring up that dylan once said after he heard the hendrix version, he would never play the song the same again.
THE-TIMES-THEY-WERE-ANNOYIN'!
US legend BOB DYLAN has shocked many of his fans with excerpts published from his memoirs.
The snippets appear in this week's issue of US magazine Newsweek, in which Dylan also takes part in a rare interview.
He explains that he felt nothing in common with a generation that ordained him their voice.
"The world was absurd...I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of," he said.
"I was fantasising about a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard.
"Roadmaps to our homestead must have been posted in all 50 states for gangs of dropouts and druggies.
"I wanted to set fire to these people," he said of the fans who would group outside his family home, climb onto his roof, and break in. The family were forced to move to New York to escape them.
"We moved to New York for a while in hopes to demolish my identity, but it wasn't any better there. It was even worse. The neighbours hated us," he continued.
"The big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece, spokesman, or even conscience of a generation. I felt like a piece of meat that someone had thrown to the dogs," he said.
He said that life improved for him in the Eighties. "In my real life I got to do the things that I love the best...Little League games, birthday parties, taking my kids to school, camping trips, boating, rafting, canoeing, fishing...I was living on record royalties."
He also slammed critics for their dissection of his lyrics. "I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemic and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion...," he said.
Dylan wrote the 'Chronicles: Volume 1', set for release on October 12, over three years on a manual typewriter.
Bob Dylan Gets Pop-Punk Makeover
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Drive Thru Records is celebrating Bob Dylan's 64th birthday ... by having a bunch of pop-punk fluffballs cover his songs.
You know you've made it when you write a best-selling autobiography, the literati continue to lobby for your work to be considered for the Nobel Prize and you're a featured story on 60 Minutes. When a bunch of pop-punk bands younger than your grandkids covers your tunes, well, at least you can watch the 60 Minutes segment again.
While the label hasn't released a track listing for the project, it intends to introduce a new generation of fans to the Dylan songbook -- through the use of covers.
" The goal of the CD is to introduce a newer, younger generation of listeners to Bob Dylan's music through artists that they love, the same way we (Stefanie and Richard, Drive Thru owners) were introduced to his music through one of our favorite bands, The Alarm, back in the mid-'90s," a label statement said.
That's hilarious
i've been playing the crap out of Highway 61 this week. it's the only Dylan i have. i love Ballad of a Thin Man and the next to last song (it's hard to remember his titles because a lot of the time they have nothing to do with the lyrics). hopefully i will get Freewheelin' for Christmas.
what do you recommend next?
blonde on blonde.
Quote from: themodernage02blonde on blonde.
is it sort of a continuation of Highway 61 or in a whole different direction?
i actually kind of listened to it a bit at a vinyl shop a few months ago and it didn't grab me right away, but i don't put much faith in that brief time with the music.
what are some of the bands from drive thru records?
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i was on a johnny cash kick and read a biography and it mentioned how he was a fan of dylan's and corresponded by letter with him after hearing Freewheelin'. i already had Hwy 61 and loved it, so i put that album on my Christmas list and got it. some really really great songs, my favorite being Corrina, Corrina (has Bob ever sang that good with those pretty big vocal jumps during the chorus?) and of course the first 3 songs and don't think twice.......a few of the other songs seem very similiar maybe even sharing the same chords. then after talking to a friend and having so many recommendations for Blonde on Blonde, i bought that and Bringing it All Back Home (the clips sounded great on barnes and noble). Bringing It All Back Home sounds pretty solid throughout. i really love 4th Time Around from BoB. my only compliant with BoB at this point is that it seems his backing band goes for traditional kinda cliche blues playing at some points and Bob's singing seems to have more of that drawn out, less tuneful sound (that i guess Tom Petty stole). but i also haven't gotten to listen that much and it probably wasn't a great idea to expose myself to all of these classic albums all at the same time, so i imagine each will reveal their hidden beauty in sweet time.
Bob Dylan to Become Satellite Radio DJ
Source: Pitchfork
The times, they are a-changin'. XM Satellite Radio announced today that Bob Dylan has signed on to become their latest DJ. Come March, the living legend will host a weekly show on XM's Deep Tracks channel. In addition to a hand-picked playlist by the master himself, the hour-long program will feature commentary on music and other topics, interviews with special guests, and on-air replies to e-mail from XM subscribers.
"Songs and music have always inspired me," Dylan said in a press release. "A lot of my own songs have been played on the radio, but this is the first time I've ever been on the other side of the mic. It'll be as exciting for me as it is for XM."
Dylan joins a roster of DJs that already includes Snoop Dogg and Ellen DeGeneres. We'll just let that sink in for a second.
How much money is XM paying Dylan to do this? The answer, my friend, is bl-- ah, you know the rest.
for those of you who would really love to get their hands on EAT THE DOCUMENT
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I have a really huge obsession with Dylan. The only dylan albums that I don't have are Live at Budokan and the Live holloween album circa 1964. I even have his overproduced 80's stuff. Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is that I've heard that a new album by him is coming out August 29th, Called "Modern Times".
yeah i love dylan too. i saw him live a couple months ago at the hard rock here in south florida. it was a great show except for the idiots in front and back of me yelling their disapproval over his song selections ("i don't know any of these songs!") which was weird, 'cause i'd hardly call stuff like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Like a Rolling Stone" obscure dylan tunes. :yabbse-undecided:
oh and also the idiots who kept calling out for opening-act merle haggard to come back onstage. "BRING BACK MERLE!" i was ready to murder someone. the best song dylan played that night was "High Water (for Charley Patton)" - totally gave me a new appreciation of the banjo. :shock:
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Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is that I've heard that a new album by him is coming out August 29th, Called "Modern Times".
more info on that..
Legendary rocker BOB DYLAN has thrilled R+B singer ALICIA KEYS by name-checking her on his highly-anticipated new album. Dylan, 65, references Keys, 26, on the title track of his latest disc MODERN TIMES. The album is his first in five years and is released in August (06). Dylan sings: "I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't help from crying / When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line / I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be / I been looking for her even clean through Tennessee". It is believed Dylan and Keys met at the 2001 Grammy Awards. Keys says, "I first heard through the grapevine that he'd mentioned my name in one of his new songs. "I just knew somebody had to be playing with me! How could such a legend know me? And bigger than that, want to write about me? "I haven't heard the song yet - it's top secret. But I'm crazy excited about it and I'm honoured to be on his mind."
Choreographer Tharp to bring Dylan to Broadway
Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who brought the music of Billy Joel to the theater with her hit show "Movin' Out," now will bring the songs of Bob Dylan to Broadway.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'," a musical conceived, directed and choreographed by the Tony Award-winning Tharp, opens this fall, according to a release issued on Monday by her press agent.
The musical, which premiered in San Diego this year, will recount the tale of a young man coming to age, using Dylan's legendary music and lyrics, Tharp said.
Dylan has written more than 500 songs, including "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "All Along The Watchtower," "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
"I have no talent for flattery whatsoever but Twyla's artistry knocks me out," Dylan said in the same statement. "Her production of 'The Times They Are A-Changin' is the best presentation of my songs I have ever seen or heard on any stage. It had a hold over me from start to finish."
The musical will open at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on October 26, with previews beginning September 25.
Tharp, known for choreographing such works as "Nine Sinatra Songs," won a Tony Award for "Movin' Out," with its score by rock star Billy Joel.
Quote from: Hedwig on July 04, 2006, 09:57:23 AM
Quote from: SiliasRuby on July 03, 2006, 11:48:25 AM
Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is that I've heard that a new album by him is coming out August 29th, Called "Modern Times".
more info on that..
Legendary rocker BOB DYLAN has thrilled R+B singer ALICIA KEYS by name-checking her on his highly-anticipated new album. Dylan, 65, references Keys, 26, on the title track of his latest disc MODERN TIMES. The album is his first in five years and is released in August (06). Dylan sings: "I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't help from crying / When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line / I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be / I been looking for her even clean through Tennessee". It is believed Dylan and Keys met at the 2001 Grammy Awards. Keys says, "I first heard through the grapevine that he'd mentioned my name in one of his new songs. "I just knew somebody had to be playing with me! How could such a legend know me? And bigger than that, want to write about me? "I haven't heard the song yet - it's top secret. But I'm crazy excited about it and I'm honoured to be on his mind."
New Dylan album boasts some epic songs Bob Dylan will release his first studio album in almost five years, "Modern Times," on August 29.
Four of the 10 cuts on the Columbia release push the six-minute mark, including the nearly eight-minute "Spirit on the Water" and the nearly nine-minute closer, "Ain't Talkin'."
"Modern Times" was recorded earlier this year with Dylan's touring band of bassist Tony Garnier, drummer George G. Receli, guitarists Stu Kimball and Denny Freeman and multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron.
The album will also be available in a special edition with a bonus DVD featuring four additional songs, details of which have yet to be announced. Dylan will support "Modern Times" with his third annual tour of minor league baseball stadiums, which gets underway August 12 in Comstock Park, Mich.
His last album, "Love and Theft," was released on September 11, 2001.
Meanwhile, Dylan will be the subject of a star-studded tribute concert to be held November 9 at New York's Avery Fisher Hall. Such artists as Patti Smith, Phil Lesh, Cat Power, Philip Glass, Natalie Merchant and the Black Crowes' Chris and Rich Robinson will each cover one of Dylan's tunes at the event, proceeds from which will benefit the Music for Youth Foundation.
Other acts on the bill include Rosanne Cash, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Medeski Martin & Wood, Gov't Mule and Al Kooper and the Funky Faculty.
Here is the track list for "Modern Times":
"Thunder on the Mountain"
"Spirit on the Water"
"Rollin' and Tumblin"'
"When the Deal Goes Down"
"Someday Baby"
"Workingman's Blues #2"
"Beyond the Horizon"
"Nettie Moore"
"The Levee's Gonna Break"
"Ain't Talkin"
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ads/dylan/
Bob Dylan's new music video "When the Deal Goes Down," directed by Bennett Miller (Capote), starring Scarlett Johansson:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iBfTBagpAUY
Awesome, I love this cat. New Album is fastastic.
resurrecting this old thread with just cause:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM
ain't he something?
(my favourite performance of his)
I always thought this was interesting. One of the early performances of Desolation Row where everyone just laughs the whole time. It's kind of creepy actually. It has funny aspects but this shit doesn't make sense.
"Oh, we're supposed to be laughing."
I couldn't find the youtube version. Sorry.
http://fliiby.com/file/402196/nbcgbh4ny0.html (http://fliiby.com/file/402196/nbcgbh4ny0.html)
It's his first live performance, right? Then maybe they just don't know how to react to him, like they think he sings a certain way because he's trying to be funny? They also must be unfamiliar with a song structured this way, so they think "oh, he's telling a story, well I guess we're just along for the ride"
To be fair, some of the lyrics are funny:
"Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants"
"Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style"
"Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet"
It's the first live performance of Desolation Row. The video says it's from 1965, so Dylan had been around for a couple of years.
Quote from: Neil on November 30, 2011, 12:44:49 PM
I always thought this was interesting. One of the early performances of Desolation Row where everyone just laughs the whole time. It's kind of creepy actually. It has funny aspects but this shit doesn't make sense.
"Oh, we're supposed to be laughing."
I couldn't find the youtube version. Sorry.
http://fliiby.com/file/402196/nbcgbh4ny0.html (http://fliiby.com/file/402196/nbcgbh4ny0.html)
Interesting. It would be funny to hear that for the first time with an audience though. It has some very funny/jarring combinations of images/literary/Biblical characters.
I guess it would also help to know what he played before and see if he was smiling while singing it, too.