Bob Dylan Rehearses "Obviously Five Believers" In the Studio [BLONDE ON BLONDE OUTTAKE]
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Here is an interesting little tidbit of music history. It's really incredible that we're able to listen to studio banter during the making of one of the best albums in history. This recording is kind of a "fly-on-the-wall" look into the Blonde on Blonde sessions. This was one of the final tracks recorded for the album, and whereas there was a much more light-hearted vibe on earlier sessions, impatience and frustration can be sensed here. This is Take 1 (Breakdown) and Take 2. At this point in time, Dylan called this song, "Black Dog Blues".
More studio outtakes to come, and be sure to check out this playlist of outtakes I've previously posted: • Studio Outtakes .
Peace & Love,
~SP
"What the fu-"
Love how everyone sounds so frustrated with this entire process.
Yep, you can hear the irritation for sure. The moment when Bob slips from singing to sneering "What the -" is priceless : only the "beep" sound is missing! :)
Might have been some amphetimines in the mix during this period, watching film and clips he looks like Johnny Cash with his arms flailing around all the time. Might have cause some short tempers while gnawing their teeth down.
@@hammer44head Yep, Dylan certainly had a drug addiction problem around this time. He was doing outstanding music, live and in the studio, but also caught in a long-term frenzied "gotta keep running fast or the wind will knock me over" situation. In a sense the motorcycle crash may have saved his life by freeing him from inhuman expectations (his manager had already booked him up for a new US tour in the fall of 1966!) and allowing him to take a step back out of the spotlight.
@@louise_rose - Yeah, another tour after the earlier one probably would have jacked him up. Besides, we got a lot of great stuff on the Basement Tapes recordings that are still being collected. I love those songs every bit as much as anything 66 and pre 66.
@@hammer44head Yes - and without Dylan's sabbatical year of 1967 and the Basement Tapes, the Band wouldn't have emerged the way they did either. The guy is one of the essential singer-songwriters of modern times. He totally deserved his Nobel Prize. :)
back then, musicians griped about the chaos of working with bob in the studio, but seeing as this chaos produced some of the most legendary albums in history, maybe, just maybe, bob knew what he was doing
Consider that on *just* Thursday March 10, 1966, this crew recorded the album takes of Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Obviously 5 Believers, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, AND I Want You. Outrageous creativity
These moments in the video would have been "early in the morning" indeed - long past midnight, perhaps at 2 a.m. Everybody's a bit tired but determined to lay down this song too (it's amazing how little studio time was booked back then, even for a superstar of Dylan's stature)
This is so weird. I was just listening to Visions of Johanna. I love the Blonde on Blonde outtakes.
God I love these! Obviously 5 Believers is one of the only songs that isn't on RUclips. The photo of Bob from the album cover photo shoot is beautiful. Mona Lisa smile. 👍😎✌
It is, actually: ruclips.net/video/v_tc8kP99SY/видео.html
It's painful how much I relate to the energy of this take on a spiritual level
“I don’t wanna spend no time with this song man” this is epic piglet I actually liked this song the more I listened to it. A great insight into the frustrations of recording.
I'm not even hearing *what* it is that makes Dylan suddenly break off and ditch the take (somebody being too slow at that point?) but I still break into laughter every time I hear it happening: "what the -".😄 The funny thing is how seamlessly he breaks the fourth wall, he doesn't even change his tone of voice!
Can listen to it endlessly
I love the bluesier feel of many of the outakes. I prefer their softer sound to the hard-edge of the more-developed rockier versions.
We're told that Bob was rather in awe of these top Nashville Cats when he started recording Blonde On Blonde with them, and was at his best behaved. The final "What the F..." at the end of that clip suggests he was getting over that ;)
the released track is outstanding. Paul Butterfield said it was where the real blues was at that moment in time (1966)
"leopard skin pillbox hat take 1"
" NO THIS ISN'T LEOPARD SKIN PILLBOX HAT THIS IS UHHH BLACK DOG BLUES"
"oh I'm sorry 🥺"
On the anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock, at the start of the rich set of bonus tracks, there's an engineer's voice saying, in a VERY educated and polite "Oxford English" tone: "Kneel and Pray - take one!". Kneel and Pray was the working title for Speed King, but the band were told by EMI they could not call it KAP (allusion to oral sex). 😄
Perfect time
This is one of the greatest things I've heard
“ROLLIN ON”
Bob needed a special atmosphere of permeability for the unconscious comprehension of experiences ..comparable to how actors put themselves in roles.
Wow this is so cool Swingin' lol
It gave me a great laugh! Thanks! 😍
"I got a mouth full of harpoons." 0:25.
Do you know what he meant by that?
@@SwinginPig
No! I wonder who said it as well. I had to look it up ... In "She's Your Love Now" Dylan sings, "She'll be standing on the bar soon / With a fish head and a harpoon." That was recorded on January 21, 1966. While "Obviously Five Believers" was recorded 7 weeks later, on March 10, 1966. So maybe whoever said it remembered it and ... Oh, hell, I don't know!
@@Anthony-hu3rj for all we know whoever said it might have had a mouth full of harpoons at the time of this recording. Maybe he was even thrown in jail for carrying them around.
@@joanvega2177 haha
@@Anthony-hu3rj Ah, that's an interesting theory. Good detective work. I was thinking it might be a nickname for harmonica if the guy who said it was the harmonica player. Either way, the phrase sounds like it should be in a Dylan song haha.
What a great insight on how Bob Dylan creates his music. I hope you have a Happy New Year. Cheers!
Mr. Pig, this is just so fantastic.Dylan in command.Imagine if he wasn't!Took me ages to compose this !
Hell yes
Thank's a lot for this musical joy !
Thanks Swingin Pig🙏
Perfect.
Fantastic love this one.
Thanks a lot! I love the photos😊...
And i love listening to that process...
REQUEST!!! : There was a bootleg sometime around 1970 called "Almost Went to See Elvis" with a fantastic version of Gates of Eden. It used to be on youtube but they took it down. I'd very much appreciate it if you could find it. Thanks in advance!
Roling on one, obviously five believers, top!
Not my favorite song from Blonde on Blonde, but still interesting outtake for sure
PS the first photo is very cool. Never seen it before
Yep, these photos are great - also the one at 1:22. As Paul Simon pointed out in an interview a few years later, around the mid-sixties "Dylan was the coolest thing in the country".
Hey SP, what’s your favourite Blonde on Blonde track? And I’ve said it in one way but I’ll say it in another, your channel has to be just about the best Dylan archive & historically related content on RUclips. Bravo Sir.
Thank you so much, that's a huge compliment :) Hmm my favorite from B.o.B. would prob have to be 4th Time Around. Just such a beautifully constructed melody and that nylon string is spellbinding. One of Us Must Know is a close second. Stuck Inside A Mobile is next. God this is hard. Visions, Just Like a Woman and Sad-Eyed are all masterpieces but I've heard it too much. What about you?
@@SwinginPig You’re welcome SP & great picks. My top would have to be Just Like A Woman as it shows Dylan’s softer side and how things like that affect him just as much as any of us. That moment just after the chorus where the nylon guitar plays those chords and then the organ comes in has to be one of my favourite moments on the album. Stuck Inside of Mobil has verses that are worthy of being compared to Shakespeare and I love how after the end of every repeat of the chorus the drummer does a different fill to introduce the next verse each time, it’s awesome. & for my third I’d have to say Sad Eyed Lady as it is a feat of lyrical magnificence and has to be one of the greatest love songs of all time.
@@SwinginPig Fourth Time Around was written "for"John Lennon right? I believe he wanted to write his own song to the tune of Norwegian Wood. The open verse is one of my favorite thing Bob ever wrote.
It's notable how much more aggressive, pointed and funky Ken Buttrey is on the drums by the final (fourth) take a little later. By that time they have all really turned into a fast, dirty honky-tonk band! 😀
Hey Swingin' Pig, I was looking for a particular version of "She Belongs to Me" that seems to have been taken off of youtube. This version seems to come from around 1965 or just a bit after, and near the end of the song one of the lines get cut. If I remember correctly I think it is "Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes Bow down to her on Sunday Salute her when her birthday comes" that gets cut but my memory might be wrong. I have looked at all the versions of "She Belongs to Me" on your channel and they're not what I am looking for. If you could help me out I would really appreciate it.
Actually, after further searching I was able to find the version I was looking for! ruclips.net/video/uTx1gAWTQGo/видео.html
I know nothing about where the recording was or anything of that nature though, so if you know anything that would be super cool.
Ooooot there nut
YEAH BOB HONEY
There's only one Bobby Dylan 👍
Just let bob do his thing
Great, but it isn't an outtake!
pig me up!
Cookin cooked cookin