I saw Ian Tyson play at a music festival in Vail put on my Michael Murphey who wrote the song Wildfire. I was working for Murphey's ex-wife driving a van and carrying boxes for a sales tent she ran. After Tyson's performance, I went up to buy a cassette (!) and get Tyson's autograph. I'd never asked a star for an autograph as it seems kind of a groupie thing to do. But Ian Tyson really is a godfather in the folk music world - having been there at the start and being part of the time when Gordon LIghtfoot, Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary etc were all playing and my life was definitely impacted by their music. While he was signing whatever it was he signed, I didn't want to just stand there like a manniquin so I said; when I broke up with my girlfriend recently the worst part of it was when she stole all my Ian and Sylvia records. He said - don't worry about it - my wife did the same thing to me! And he meant Sylvia!
Nice story. I had their album Northern Journey around the time it came out. I might still have it, will have to look. It's packed away - I no longer have a turntable. Their harmonies and the quality of the songs were an inspiration that still resonates.
@@johnhamilton5290 Yeah they were unique and special. I saw Ian in concert in durango, colorado in about '98 - he is sort of worshiped by the cow and horse crowd. I think it was at that concert I learned that Judy Collins recording of Someday Soon bought a new roof for his barn. I still sing his song Short Grass and have been meaning to learn 4 Strong Winds. Be well!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wish you were the the king. Did he really say that makes him the king? He puts on a Bob style hat, on purpose, hoping someone will mistake him for Bob and probably goes right along with it. Sorry, I'm pissed. Guess I'm having a bad day. Sorry.
Great story, well told, a true legend, heralded in Canada and pretty much unsung in the United States. Even more surprising than giving weed for the first time to Bob Dylan is that Mr. Tyson wrote "Four Strong Winds" in only twenty fucking minutes!!
@@lincolnmaceachern2410: I don’t know if it was literally the day after or who knows, maybe the day before, but according to Mr Tyson himself it was definitely Bob Dylan who inspired him to take up songwriting. In any case, some time later Mr Dylan recorded a cover of the song as did dozens of other well known artists. It was truly an excellent song and everyone saw that it was.
"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. I never saw myself as a folk singer. Folk music is a bunch of fat people." - Bob Dylan
These best story people should really try n get any of the original Mothers of Invention to share their best stories from the road , I know a few & those cats got into some seriously wild stuff .
He and Sylvia sounded good together ......... and Suze, well, I liked her book and she sounded like an honest humble person with integrity in that book.
Ian and I were friends and musicians along with Dylan in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s. Here's my Bob Dylan story in a video where i sing and tell the story of how I learned "Tomorrow is a Long Time" from Bobby in 1962: ruclips.net/video/oiPBnKph70w/видео.html JRW
The idea of "turning" someone onto marijuana. Kinda funny. Heck, in the right state today you can just go into a pot shop and great such powerful strains that you couldn't even write a song after firing up.
It's all down to weed then. Like people were not switched smart before the leaf! It's the biggest joke of the age. Music is the switch. What musicians do is up to them.
hysterical! Come on Ian, come down the shore and have some turkey and some pie! We can tawk about how you are to blame for all the sex, drugs and rock n roll that has permanently permeated our society. Go Daddy Goooooooo. :)
lookin forelief: When The Beatles were in Hamburg there was no weed around though there may have been hashish, but back then they only drank booze. Weed was never a thing anywhere in Europe until the 1990s, we smoked hashish.
Folk music is only big in the USA and Ireland. Dylan went beyond that but has restricted himself by returningvto folk and country style music ever after John Wesley Harding. Curiously enough, Dylan himself thinks he experiments with new music in every album but to non-folk addicts, he's stuck in the folk rut since 1968. Country music is an American thing, we hate it.
Oh, Mr. Tyson, my Canadian songwriting hero. Have a wonderful afterlife, ridin 'up there on that never-ending range among the stars...
Saw Ian and Sylvia at Miami Pop in 1968. They were great.
Ian Tyson.. on behalf of music lover's everywhere.. THANK. YOU.
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD
lovers
I saw Ian Tyson play at a music festival in Vail put on my Michael Murphey who wrote the song Wildfire. I was working for Murphey's ex-wife driving a van and carrying boxes for a sales tent she ran. After Tyson's performance, I went up to buy a cassette (!) and get Tyson's autograph. I'd never asked a star for an autograph as it seems kind of a groupie thing to do. But Ian Tyson really is a godfather in the folk music world - having been there at the start and being part of the time when Gordon LIghtfoot, Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary etc were all playing and my life was definitely impacted by their music. While he was signing whatever it was he signed, I didn't want to just stand there like a manniquin so I said; when I broke up with my girlfriend recently the worst part of it was when she stole all my Ian and Sylvia records. He said - don't worry about it - my wife did the same thing to me! And he meant Sylvia!
Neat story. Folk music though has been around at least 1000 years though. None of those guys invented it.
Nice story. I had their album Northern Journey around the time it came out. I might still have it, will have to look. It's packed away - I no longer have a turntable. Their harmonies and the quality of the songs were an inspiration that still resonates.
@@johnhamilton5290 Yeah they were unique and special. I saw Ian in concert in durango, colorado in about '98 - he is sort of worshiped by the cow and horse crowd. I think it was at that concert I learned that Judy Collins recording of Someday Soon bought a new roof for his barn. I still sing his song Short Grass and have been meaning to learn 4 Strong Winds. Be well!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wish you were the the king. Did he really say that makes him the king? He puts on a Bob style hat, on purpose, hoping someone will mistake him for Bob and probably goes right along with it. Sorry, I'm pissed. Guess I'm having a bad day. Sorry.
@@erickdeveau8635 Hope you're having a better day! : )
A great story from a great Canadian icon.
I LOVED Great Speckled Bird, and as a result Amos had a huge impact on me!!! Thanks, Ian and Sylvia!
Rest in Peace Ian Tyson 🤠🐴🌄🇨🇦
I got high with Ian and Sylvia at Tom Campbell’s house in Topanga canyon back in 67… I got to hear them sing that day… just the four of us😀
Sweet.
Great story, well told, a true legend, heralded in Canada and pretty much unsung in the United States.
Even more surprising than giving weed for the first time to Bob Dylan is that Mr. Tyson wrote "Four Strong Winds" in only twenty fucking minutes!!
🎯
Neil Young brought him to my suburban american attention
He was fucking when he wrote it? Man, that's really impressive!
On the day after Dylan wrote "Blowin' in the Wind."
@@lincolnmaceachern2410: I don’t know if it was literally the day after or who knows, maybe the day before, but according to Mr Tyson himself it was definitely Bob Dylan who inspired him to take up songwriting. In any case, some time later Mr Dylan recorded a cover of the song as did dozens of other well known artists. It was truly an excellent song and everyone saw that it was.
The era of Cowboy Hippies. :)
Wow this is the best story ever. This is the best story ever in the whole, wide world. Amazing.
I only tried it once, many years ago but I never exhaled.
Finally something positive about the most amazing Plant ever!
You love plants, do you ?
Way to go Ian, love always
If you remembered it, you weren't actually there! Great story.
I'm 65 years old, Italian ancestry, our family is from Newark, NJ. My father smoked pot in the early 1940's.
Probably grown in a back yard too, among some tomato plants.
i know
Was he with Gene Krupa?
Respect!
Great story!
great story!
"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. I never saw myself as a folk singer. Folk music is a bunch of fat people." - Bob Dylan
Funny
My god, where did you get this quote? Priceless
@@alvarov4279 haha ...I don't remember.
"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself." - Bob Dylan
I would smoke with Ian any time. I ll bring the weed and the guitars. Just say when and where, Ian.
I will bring my dobro slide guitar! See what dust we can kick up in an alley way!
obviously. Ian Tyson is IT
Ha. Blowing in the wind.😋
Always thought Tyson's song Magpie had a good reggae groove, go figure.
Title could be taken more than one way. I admit I took it pejoratively. Great story though, and if indeed true, we owe Ian a lot.
1:20 "That makes me the king." LOL
‘That makes me the king’ - haha yessir, it does.
These best story people should really try n get any of the original Mothers of Invention to share their best stories from the road , I know a few & those cats got into some seriously wild stuff .
All Hail the King !!!
Goddamn right!👏
Roll In Peace.
He and Sylvia sounded good together ......... and Suze, well, I liked her book and she sounded like an honest humble person with integrity in that book.
You see the direction of pop music began with a Canadian, go figure
Cool. Now who turned Ian Tyson on?
Not to be confused with the other greenwich village story of turning on...
That’s a great story ! That’s Americana
No son, Canuckiana
Ian and I were friends and musicians along with Dylan in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s. Here's my Bob Dylan story in a video where i sing and tell the story of how I learned "Tomorrow is a Long Time" from Bobby in 1962: ruclips.net/video/oiPBnKph70w/видео.html JRW
I was there... but don't remember. Did I inhale?
Hey Strombo, check out Colter Wall's cover of Ian Tyson's Summer Wages 😘
The idea of "turning" someone onto marijuana. Kinda funny. Heck, in the right state today you can just go into a pot shop and great such powerful strains that you couldn't even write a song after firing up.
Yes the Times they have a'changed!
best ever
I definitely read this title wrong….
yep I knew it it was Bob,who started that whole pot smoking sixties thing,,another one on his slate...that rascal
Cool.. l always wondered who turned Dylan on to weed.. thanks Ian..
Everybody talks about how Dylan went electric but they're missing the point. It was the weed all along.
Oh forsure.. l believe so,aswell.. and he's still smoking cannabis l'd bet... Lol..
It's all down to weed then. Like people were not switched smart before the leaf! It's the biggest joke of the age. Music is the switch. What musicians do is up to them.
hysterical! Come on Ian, come down the shore and have some turkey and some pie! We can tawk about how you are to blame for all the sex, drugs and rock n roll that has permanently permeated our society. Go Daddy Goooooooo. :)
You wish sex, drugs and rock n roll had permanently permeated our society !
I think Ignorance has permeated our society.
Says the fool in the corner with the dunce cap on. . .
@@HerRoyalKateness Johnny's in the Basement?
Hey Ian - where does Victor Maymudes fit into your story?
Your neighbor ? He doesn't fit at all in that particular story.
You go out of your way to leave out pot in the title. Nice clickbait.
yeah I guess the Beatles never smoked any weed in Hamburg
lookin forelief: When The Beatles were in Hamburg there was no weed around though there may have been hashish, but back then they only drank booze.
Weed was never a thing anywhere in Europe until the 1990s, we smoked hashish.
@@abw48 only drank booze? And ate pep pills which are amphetamines.
Ian Tyson the true king of pot!
You are the king anyway you seem more real dude than Bob, maybe the pot messed with his head though, but he did ok.
All dudes are real, pal !
LoL 🤣
He looks like John Lennon aged.
Marijuana confessionals
Folk music is only big in the USA and Ireland. Dylan went beyond that but has restricted himself by returningvto folk and country style music ever after John Wesley Harding. Curiously enough, Dylan himself thinks he experiments with new music in every album but to non-folk addicts, he's stuck in the folk rut since 1968. Country music is an American thing, we hate it.
Johnny Cash?
Skin up!
Arrogant as ever.
That's the hat. It's majextic.
Part of his charm!?
Who turned Ian on to pot?
Apparently he doesn't remember that either ...
That tells you something about goodness of the weed. Turns you into a zombie but come on, go ahead if you think you're so cool.
willie nelsons uncle?