Blonde on Blonde is considered by many to be the best rock and roll album of all time. Every song is magic! One of my favorites is Leopardskin Pillbox Hat.
The thing that makes Dylan's songs extraordinary is that he writes about *everything* important that can happen in life. Only a few musicians have done that. Dylan has, Leonard Cohen has, Buffy Sainte-Marie has, and I'd say Joni Mitchell has....and a few others too...but no one with a wider range in that way than Bob Dylan. And his music touches on pretty much every musical tradition...as can be seen in this song, as one example. It sounds like one of those old dance hall numbers with people singing together around the piano.
I think this song is about: no matter what you do some people will criticize you. I think the "they'll" is an interpretive metaphor for the person(s) raining on your parade.
Lay Lady Lay is a favorite.. other favorites for different reasons...when I paint my masterpiece, I shall be released, Simple twist of fate, Knocking on Heavens Door, forever young and dozens more.
This is one of Dylan's greatest. It is in his 'cacophonic mode'. They can play it right, but here, they play it righter. Bart summed it up in three words: 'Eat my shorts!' For stunning contrast, you may like 'Corina Corina'. Thanks for playing this great song, getting stoned is truly essential.
funny you should mention "what would Lennon say about this". In the Get Back John starts singing this song in the middle of the Beatles warming up. It made me wish the Beatles had made a whole album just of Dylan's songs. George played Mama You've Been on My Mind and John sang this song: Rainy Day Woman #12 and #35.
"It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"... Not just a song, a lesson on life..... OR, for the funniest song ever written.... "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" (song name) will make you laugh at Bob's incredible sense of humor.
It is my understanding that Dylan immersed himself is virtually every genre and era of American music (& possibly music from 'round the world). He knew his shit and brought it into his song creation, hence the great surprise this song was on the radio in '66. I remember watching a documentary on the Band and about the Basement sessions. Those guys knew R'n'B and Rock'n'Roll and then Dylan introduced them to a whole bunch of other things, with the intention of them being able to add it to their reference library for creating rich songs. And of course, it really paid off. The Band became one of the first "Americana" groups. The best thing about these "reaction" videos is watching someone share their enjoyment of a record I love. One of the best things about radio way back when, were the surprises - those rare "Wow! This is fantastic! Who is this? I gotta go out and buy this." moments. And it's fun to watch someone else have one. BTW, although I used to think this song was about getting high, at least drunk, I think it is more about there always being someone who'll rain on your parade. We've all experienced it. And at some point, I came to see that I did it sometimes too. Now days, I try to be aware of my words and not do that. And, instead of getting loaded or taking a bad day out on someone, I hug my girlfriend and watch some funny movie or funny pet videos (prayer and meditation are part of my day too). Much easier on the old liver, don't ya know.
Glad you enjoyed it Harri. It just puts a smile on my face every time. Bob Dylan has some great songs but this is the one that sticks out the most. The music, the people in the background, the fun they all had. Etched in music history. ✌🤟👍👋
One of my favourite songs by Bob Dylan. From the first note, the wonderful instruments in the brass band draw you in. Recorded in Nashville in 1966, this is the opening track from "Blonde on Blonde". People thought this was a drinking and pot smoking song but Dylan denied he would write a song about drugs ever.😉 A lot of instruments in this song are playing the same notes over and over. Bob's chuckling in the lyrics adds to the humor in this song. Great reaction Harri. Hope you're well soon. Take care of yourself. 🤗🤗 Thanks Harri and Imadrummin. A Favourite. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I got "Blonde on Blonde" when it came out. Half the songs(including this song)were great, but half of them, I wouldn't listen to...........I thought, "what the hell?"
You're telling me that you have gone your whole life up to now without ever hearing this song? How is that remotely possible? I'm not criticizing you or anything... I just find that to be amazing! I really enjoy your videos... keep up the great work! Take care!
I was 17 when this came out and for all I could tell Bob and the boys were just having some fun on a break and then he decided to keep it on the RTM...Release To Manufacturing after the master tape mix is finished. However, my interpretation got more serious later on and it's that he is saying that no matter what you do someone is going to have a problem with it. Stoning was (and still is in places) the practice of actually stoning someone to death for some offense, real or imagined. He is just turning it upside down with humor IMHO.
The drummer is 14 years old on this album by the name of Kenny Buttrey and he had no clue who Bob Dylan was at the time. It was meant to have the sound of the Salvation Army and they nailed it. His Nashville albums are among the best. Check out all the others. I am just an old 77-year-old Bob fan from way back in the day.
Where do you get that Kenny Buttrey was 14 years old when this album was recorded? That's not even close. Kenny was born in 1945... Blonde On Blonde was recorded in 1966, which would have made him 20 or 21 years old. And I'm sure he would have known who Bob Dylan was at this point in Dylan's career... He had already released "Like a Rolling Stone"... unless Kenny had been living under a rock.
@@stevedennis4197 No harm! I apologize if I came across as an ass. I just re-read my comment and it kind of sounds that way. That wasn't my intention. Take care!
@stevedennis4197 @LaStarza61 A few years before Kenny passed away, I met him & we became fast friends. I loved music & he loved to tell me stories. Dylan has always been my fave so hearing him tell me things such as, why the song is called Rainy Day Women & what the 2 numbers mean. As well as him telling me that he had NO idea who 'this Dylan kid' was after telling me he & his fellow studio guys had been rubbed the wrong way when meeting him the NIGHT BEFORE. As I was told by the drummer, they all were there to just meet him...but he decided to keep them around to record just 1 song. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." And if you know that song, you know they were all fairly miffed on getting little to no rest. So, just saying that I was told the same story that Kenny did NOT know who Dylan was. And knowing Kenny, he would probably say that Nashville was the rock he was hiding under. For good reason. Rest in Peace, Kenny
They play like a band who got together three hours ago. When everyone was taking Dylan too seriously, he had to lighten the mood, even if he lightened the mood with a pun on “stoning”, an ancient biblical communal killing. Who else could turn that into a taboo joke and have everyone laughing? He likes to keep you off balance. Still to this day. I love it.
I do a decent Dylan impression and one time in a small college town; I did this song at karaoke in a dive bar in the late 90s. I was nervous approaching the stage because I thought these college kids weren't close to being born when this song came out. But as soon as that high band intro (they weren't amateurish, they were high and playing at a too slow tempo) kicked in, they started clapping and stomping their feet. I had them in the palm of my hand and I hadn't opened my mouth yet. Now brimming with confidence, I gave my best and highest performance of this Dylan song ever and the crowd loved it. Guess pot songs get passed from one college class to the next. The fact that I was high might have helped a little, too.
True story. In 1981 I hadn't heard much Dylan. I was first week in my tech school and found my new stone homies who took me out to get baked before our very first accounting I class. Upon finding our seats in our new teachers classroom, he said; "Do you people like music? I find it helps me relax and concentrate." and everyone agreed so he puts in a tape while we're sitting there stoned silly as can be, and then ........THIS comes on..........in class......... holding it together was an epic moment in my young life to that point.
My mother freaked when I sent a letter that said I would not feel so alone every must get stoned from California to my little home town in the mid-west.
Supposedly the call went out at 2 'o clock in the morning for a trombone player but since this was recorded here in Nashville Music City they had one in the studio within the hour.
That's hilarious. I haven't heard this in ages. I first started hearing it on the radio when I was in kindergarten and by about first or second grade, my sister and I talked my mom into buying us Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits which turned out to be his very first greatest hits album and everything on there is fire. This worked because we were actually singing his song Blowin' in the Wind in church. So we got it and my Mom hated his voice; it was like fingernails on a chalkboard to her because she grew up in the 30s and 40s with that kind of singing. But she absolutely loved his writing. And luckily at that age we were just slightly too young and she was too old school and straight to realize the double entender about the drugs, but we took it as the original meaning of, you're going to get stoned like in the Bible; people will go after you no matter what it is you're trying to do. So you might as well just go for it anyway. And we couldn't figure it out why it was called Rainy Day Women of all things. But mostly I loved it because I was already taking piano lessons I couldn't wait to start taking trumpet in 4th grade and it did harken back to an older kind of music, and I would even say maybe like there's a Vaudeville feeling to it. And you make an excellent point about good musicians trying to play something that seems like a street man that just kind of assembled that evening to play old standards or something. Love it. Once we got that album, we had this partial basement at that time downstairs with a concrete floor and a supporting pole in the middle, and we would have friends over and put on music and roller skate in circles around that. But everybody's favorite was this song. Once we got that album, people would insist on just picking the needle up and putting it back down at the beginning and just play it over and over. And then we would all start screaming and roller skating in circles again around that pole, laugh.
Thanks, brought a wry smile to my face. Haven't heard this in decades and I realize how ingrained in my mind it is. Also getting stoned with friends in the sixties.
Nobody seems to have reacted to Dylan’s funny songs ~ Bob Dylan’s 115th dream, Brand New Leopardskin Pillbox Hat, Bear Mountain Massacre Picnic Blues, John Birch Society Blues, Highway 61 ……
I had drug problems I go to rehab and there's a radio so a few of us older cats find the local rock station On comes Rainy Day Women A therapist's door is right next to where we can listen to the radio and all she hears is Everybody must get stoned And she came flying out that room as fast as a cheetah yelling no no no turn that off😂😂 We had to explain to her the meaning 😂 Im 5 years sober as of July 20th Although i still smoke weed
With the line, "Everybody Must Get Stoned," this song is often associated with smoking marijuana, although Dylan insists it isn't, stating, "I have never and never will write a 'drug song.'" It is more likely about trials of relationships with women, and Dylan has hinted that it could have a Biblical meaning. Answering a question about people interpreting this song to be about getting high, Dylan told Rolling Stone in 2012: "These are people that aren't familiar with the Book of Acts." The Book of Acts is from the Gospel of Luke, and contains an account of a stoning: "Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God... And when they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul." In this story, Stephen received his sentence after giving a speech to authorities who were going to kill him no matter what he said. This relates to how Dylan felt about his critics, who were going to figuratively "stone" him no matter what he did. (More on the meaning of "stoned" in popular songs.) The "official" explanation of how this song got its name: A woman and her daughter came into the recording studio out of the rain. Dylan guessed their ages correctly as 12 and 35. (Songfacts.com)
@@nw2394 Yeah, I'm not sure why there was the need for such a drawn out explanation from the OP. Both interpretations of the line are abundantly obvious, and certainly intentional.
I disagree, everybody needs to break out of the shell. Psychedelics actually do the job nicely. Everybody does not need rocks thrown at them, but we all need to be reborn - the sooner the better. Some Dylan songs are clearly based on inner voyages.
There was a period of time in the 60s/early 70s when a lot of bands had, not really a comedy song, but one where they're just having fun. This song, "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys, and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook are probably the best-known examples. But it's something that goes a long way back-Mozart wrote a piece called 'Ein musikalischer Spass" (A Musical Joke) which is written in four movements-each worse and less musical than the one before.
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Dylan was in it.. with those new boys. Dylan also wrote The Mighty Quinn with one of the guys in the Band.. Danko.. Manuel? Waiting for their man. Like the Stones' song. A common and popular theme about how one got drugs "brought to them" in the old days. Sometimes waiting for days staring at the corner he'd be driving around.. when he was finally on his way. "..And when the Mighty Quinn gets here.. everybody goin' to run to him.. Come on without, come on with it, ain't seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn."
Ima, you chose a Dylan piece that is one of many Dylan songs of his that I covet. Dylan is one of the most prolific and influential poets, songwriters, and unique vocalists of our time. This was an A+ pick, and Harri, your review was very enjoyable. Great stuff!!
You have to listen to a classic that will make you think he's done it again~ The incomparable, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" YOU WILL LOVE, I promise. DO with the video (INXS paid tribute in their video for "Mediate" Love watching ☮️💟
Bobby Vee hired a young Bob Dylan freshly dropped out of The University of Minnesota to play piano in his touring band. For one night only. Dylan was given a badly out-of-tune piano and sounded awful. They both agreed it was a bad match and parted ways after that single evening. Dylan had told Vee that his name was Elston Gunnn (with three n’s). Later, Vee said, he was walking down a New York street and saw an album in a record store window with “Bob Dylan” on it. “I thought to myself, ‘looks a lot like Elston Gunnn.'”
Yes, he told Bobby Vee's brother, Bill, he had just finished a tour with Conway Twitty, which, of course he hadn't. He played for Bobby Vee and his brother and they hired him. He only did about three shows with him. Bill said he sounded great at the audition, but all the songs he did were in the key of C, but when they played out they found out that was the only key he could play good in. Bill said he and Bobby knew they were going to have to get rid of him, but Bobby says he never actually fired him, they just agreed it wasn't going to work out and Bobby Vee said he wasn't making enough money at that time to pay him. Then when Dylan got back home he told a friend that he cut some records while he was away under the name "Bobby Vee" that they might be hearing on the radio. He was quite a character back the. :)
Trust me on this. You will learn so much about this song - Bob, Buttrey and banging on a drum. RUclips: "BOB DYLAN - Kenny Buttrey played on Blonde On Blonde - Told by Pete Anderson" - Enjoy!
Harri have a look into how this that sound .he basically said to them just enjoy yourselves they did you can even hear Dylan laughing in the first verse . Harri please watch no direction home amazing documentary by Martin Scorsese about Bob Dylan. There is a lot more I could recommend but start with that one if you haven't seen it.
The story goes that he sent out for cases of beer to get the session men half drunk. Made them all switch instruments and March round the studio with tambourines, gazoos and God knows what else whooping and a hollering. They did it in one take as it was unrepeatable.
I love how you GET Bob Dylan. He should be America's eternal Poet Laureate. 😎
In my opinion, Bobby D. is the greatest songwriter of all time. 🫶🏻
Love this !!!
The music is fantastic!!!
I’m 91 years old and love listening to Dylan!!!
I'm 66, and thanks for implying a positive vibe could be mine fer the next 25 years.
Blonde on Blonde is considered by many to be the best rock and roll album of all time. Every song is magic! One of my favorites is Leopardskin Pillbox Hat.
This is a typical Bob Dylan song, if there is such a thing as typical Dylan. Love it. Takes me back to the 60s. Thanks for this. 👏👏🇨🇦
There will never be another artist as great as Bob Dylan, IMHO!
People have no idea how many songs Dylan has written over the years for himself and others.
my mother was from the 60s-70s i grew up on this song i absolutely think of my hippie parents..rip
Genius at work, whenever you listen to Dylan. Follow his advice, and drink more fluids.✌️❤️🎶
From the excellent album ' Blonde on Blonde'
In the mid 80s I was in marching band and two of the drummers would sing this all the time. Fun memories!!!!
His a talent that will never be replicated
The thing that makes Dylan's songs extraordinary is that he writes about *everything* important that can happen in life. Only a few musicians have done that. Dylan has, Leonard Cohen has, Buffy Sainte-Marie has, and I'd say Joni Mitchell has....and a few others too...but no one with a wider range in that way than Bob Dylan. And his music touches on pretty much every musical tradition...as can be seen in this song, as one example. It sounds like one of those old dance hall numbers with people singing together around the piano.
I would add Jim Croce there too. Such a talented artist, never wrote a bad song!
@@bjaded1 - Yes. And some others are John Prine, Jackson Browne, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
I sparked up my pipe for the reaction, as Dylan has suggested, it's mandatory when listening to this song. Thanks
Always ready for some Bob DYlan.
I believe the story goes that he had all the musicians switch instruments and have a blast.
Love Dylan's laugh.
I think this song is about: no matter what you do some people will criticize you. I think the "they'll" is an interpretive metaphor for the person(s) raining on your parade.
"STONED SQUARED" HAHAHAHA
Great track from Blonde on Blonde the album that sees Bob at the peak of his genius
Lay Lady Lay is a favorite.. other favorites for different reasons...when I paint my masterpiece, I shall be released, Simple twist of fate, Knocking on Heavens Door, forever young and dozens more.
The bests times to get stoned. Music was the best! Wow, it brings me way back.
Best Stoner song ever !
Oh I do love this song by Dylan, so very much a Bob sound. Been a while since I heard it. Great memory Imadrummin. ✌💜
I love this song as well. Thank you so much Cynthia. 😃😃😃
It always had a Dixieland or New Orleans Jazz band sound to me.
I still have this album Blonde on Blonde. I love all of Dylan's music. 💞
Recorded on Music Row in Nashville, TN. Bunch of Nashville dudes in the band. True Story. Joe Nashville
This is one of Dylan's greatest. It is in his 'cacophonic mode'. They can play it right, but here, they play it righter. Bart summed it up in three words: 'Eat my shorts!'
For stunning contrast, you may like 'Corina Corina'. Thanks for playing this great song, getting stoned is truly essential.
Always thought they were having such a blast when they recorded this!
funny you should mention "what would Lennon say about this". In the Get Back John starts singing this song in the middle of the Beatles warming up. It made me wish the Beatles had made a whole album just of Dylan's songs. George played Mama You've Been on My Mind and John sang this song: Rainy Day Woman #12 and #35.
Have you reacted to Subterranean Homesick Blues yet? You’ll love it!
This song actually got played on AM pop radio back when.
Great pick Immadrummin... Great reaction Harri! Love it! 🇨🇦
Thank you very much KDKitchen. Such a Dylan classic. 👍👍👍
Fun song
The shambolic nature of the music and cackling in the background always makes me laugh.
"It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"... Not just a song, a lesson on life..... OR, for the funniest song ever written.... "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" (song name) will make you laugh at Bob's incredible sense of humor.
It is my understanding that Dylan immersed himself is virtually every genre and era of American music (& possibly music from 'round the world). He knew his shit and brought it into his song creation, hence the great surprise this song was on the radio in '66.
I remember watching a documentary on the Band and about the Basement sessions. Those guys knew R'n'B and Rock'n'Roll and then Dylan introduced them to a whole bunch of other things, with the intention of them being able to add it to their reference library for creating rich songs. And of course, it really paid off. The Band became one of the first "Americana" groups.
The best thing about these "reaction" videos is watching someone share their enjoyment of a record I love. One of the best things about radio way back when, were the surprises - those rare "Wow! This is fantastic! Who is this? I gotta go out and buy this." moments. And it's fun to watch someone else have one.
BTW, although I used to think this song was about getting high, at least drunk, I think it is more about there always being someone who'll rain on your parade. We've all experienced it. And at some point, I came to see that I did it sometimes too. Now days, I try to be aware of my words and not do that. And, instead of getting loaded or taking a bad day out on someone, I hug my girlfriend and watch some funny movie or funny pet videos (prayer and meditation are part of my day too). Much easier on the old liver, don't ya know.
Glad you enjoyed it Harri. It just puts a smile on my face every time. Bob Dylan has some great songs but this is the one that sticks out the most. The music, the people in the background, the fun they all had. Etched in music history. ✌🤟👍👋
I like your taste in music, keep it up!
i remember when this song was new.... time evaporates so quickly.
One of my favourite songs by Bob Dylan.
From the first note, the wonderful instruments in the brass band draw you in. Recorded in Nashville in 1966, this is the opening track from "Blonde on Blonde". People thought this was a drinking and pot smoking song but Dylan denied he would write a song about drugs ever.😉 A lot of instruments in this song are playing the same notes over and over. Bob's chuckling in the lyrics adds to the humor in this song. Great reaction Harri. Hope you're well soon. Take care of yourself. 🤗🤗 Thanks Harri and Imadrummin. A Favourite. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you my dear friend. Ditto on your post. ✌✌👍👍
@@Imadrummin You are so welcome. Glad you're back to tweak my brain.😊👍✌️🎶🇺🇲🇨🇦🎶
Bob Dylan has also said "they keep it all hidden kid"
Anyone who doesn't think this is about using drugs and GETTING STONED is an idiot (wind) !!
I got "Blonde on Blonde" when it came out. Half the songs(including this song)were great, but half of them, I wouldn't listen to...........I thought, "what the hell?"
I saw the title and thought I wonder how Harry will like this one!
Bob went for a Salvation Army band sound here. Wonderful!
Uncle Bob.
Oh, this was a favorite on a Friday night while in high school. Everyone had scored a bag and was passing them around….
You're telling me that you have gone your whole life up to now without ever hearing this song? How is that remotely possible? I'm not criticizing you or anything... I just find that to be amazing! I really enjoy your videos... keep up the great work! Take care!
The double entendre in full implementation here....Ty Harri
Love it! Come on now "everybody must get stoned". Agree!
I was 17 when this came out and for all I could tell Bob and the boys were just having some fun on a break and then he decided to keep it on the RTM...Release To Manufacturing after the master tape mix is finished. However, my interpretation got more serious later on and it's that he is saying that no matter what you do someone is going to have a problem with it. Stoning was (and still is in places) the practice of actually stoning someone to death for some offense, real or imagined. He is just turning it upside down with humor IMHO.
Oh I love love this one
Awesome choice and great reaction Harri
Thank you kindly Miss Blonde.👍👍👍
@@Imadrummin you're very welcome 🎶✌️🎵
The drummer is 14 years old on this album by the name of Kenny Buttrey and he had no clue who Bob Dylan was at the time. It was meant to have the sound of the Salvation Army and they nailed it. His Nashville albums are among the best. Check out all the others. I am just an old 77-year-old Bob fan from way back in the day.
Ken was 20 when this was recorded - but he was amazing. The sound of the rhythm section on this album is so underrated.
Where do you get that Kenny Buttrey was 14 years old when this album was recorded? That's not even close. Kenny was born in 1945... Blonde On Blonde was recorded in 1966, which would have made him 20 or 21 years old. And I'm sure he would have known who Bob Dylan was at this point in Dylan's career... He had already released "Like a Rolling Stone"... unless Kenny had been living under a rock.
@@LaStarza61 My bad I was quoting Pete Anderson the producer.
@@stevedennis4197 No harm! I apologize if I came across as an ass. I just re-read my comment and it kind of sounds that way. That wasn't my intention. Take care!
@stevedennis4197 @LaStarza61 A few years before Kenny passed away, I met him & we became fast friends. I loved music & he loved to tell me stories. Dylan has always been my fave so hearing him tell me things such as, why the song is called Rainy Day Women & what the 2 numbers mean. As well as him telling me that he had NO idea who 'this Dylan kid' was after telling me he & his fellow studio guys had been rubbed the wrong way when meeting him the NIGHT BEFORE. As I was told by the drummer, they all were there to just meet him...but he decided to keep them around to record just 1 song. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." And if you know that song, you know they were all fairly miffed on getting little to no rest.
So, just saying that I was told the same story that Kenny did NOT know who Dylan was.
And knowing Kenny, he would probably say that Nashville was the rock he was hiding under. For good reason.
Rest in Peace, Kenny
They play like a band who got together three hours ago. When everyone was taking Dylan too seriously, he had to lighten the mood, even if he lightened the mood with a pun on “stoning”, an ancient biblical communal killing. Who else could turn that into a taboo joke and have everyone laughing? He likes to keep you off balance. Still to this day. I love it.
Harri, I think you'd like "The New Lee Highway Blues" or "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" by David Bromberg, given your reaction here.
I agree,They want to bring you down. Love italk.
Absolutely brilliant song! Imadrummin', stick another feather in your cap!
Its a Dylan masterpiece. Thank you for the kind compliment Mr Ambassador. 👍👍👍
Your overflowing humanity is like plush cozy blanket on a cold winter's evening.
I do a decent Dylan impression and one time in a small college town; I did this song at karaoke in a dive bar in the late 90s. I was nervous approaching the stage because I thought these college kids weren't close to being born when this song came out. But as soon as that high band intro (they weren't amateurish, they were high and playing at a too slow tempo) kicked in, they started clapping and stomping their feet. I had them in the palm of my hand and I hadn't opened my mouth yet. Now brimming with confidence, I gave my best and highest performance of this Dylan song ever and the crowd loved it. Guess pot songs get passed from one college class to the next. The fact that I was high might have helped a little, too.
Enjoyed this read G S. 👍
True story. In 1981 I hadn't heard much Dylan. I was first week in my tech school and found my new stone homies who took me out to get baked before our very first accounting I class. Upon finding our seats in our new teachers classroom, he said; "Do you people like music? I find it helps me relax and concentrate." and everyone agreed so he puts in a tape while we're sitting there stoned silly as can be, and then ........THIS comes on..........in class......... holding it together was an epic moment in my young life to that point.
I always loved the humour and camaraderie of the recording
Rainy Day Women #12 & #35!!
My mother freaked when I sent a letter that said I would not feel so alone every must get stoned from California to my little home town in the mid-west.
"Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" best Lyrics or "Bob Dylan - Pretty Saro" best dylan voice performance ever""""""
He asks all the session musicians to swap instruments about so they all played different ones what they were used to and they all got smashed.
Hope you are back to full health quickly. Take care
Please keep investigating Dylan's music. There's so much and I LOVE your reactions.
Supposedly the call went out at 2 'o clock in the morning for a trombone player but since this was recorded here in Nashville Music City they had one in the studio within the hour.
Good times, Man. Feel the fun.
Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan
That's hilarious. I haven't heard this in ages. I first started hearing it on the radio when I was in kindergarten and by about first or second grade, my sister and I talked my mom into buying us Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits which turned out to be his very first greatest hits album and everything on there is fire.
This worked because we were actually singing his song Blowin' in the Wind in church. So we got it and my Mom hated his voice; it was like fingernails on a chalkboard to her because she grew up in the 30s and 40s with that kind of singing. But she absolutely loved his writing.
And luckily at that age we were just slightly too young and she was too old school and straight to realize the double entender about the drugs, but we took it as the original meaning of, you're going to get stoned like in the Bible; people will go after you no matter what it is you're trying to do. So you might as well just go for it anyway. And we couldn't figure it out why it was called Rainy Day Women of all things.
But mostly I loved it because I was already taking piano lessons I couldn't wait to start taking trumpet in 4th grade and it did harken back to an older kind of music, and I would even say maybe like there's a Vaudeville feeling to it.
And you make an excellent point about good musicians trying to play something that seems like a street man that just kind of assembled that evening to play old standards or something. Love it.
Once we got that album, we had this partial basement at that time downstairs with a concrete floor and a supporting pole in the middle, and we would have friends over and put on music and roller skate in circles around that. But everybody's favorite was this song. Once we got that album, people would insist on just picking the needle up and putting it back down at the beginning and just play it over and over. And then we would all start screaming and roller skating in circles again around that pole, laugh.
I can see so many peeps fighting to not get stoned! Ha,ha,ha
Thanks!
Thanks, brought a wry smile to my face.
Haven't heard this in decades and I realize how ingrained in my mind it is.
Also getting stoned with friends in the sixties.
Thanks again Harri.
I had this album. I adored Dylan back in the day. ❤ thanks for sharing this..
I've always enjoyed this song very much, but always wondered why it's called Rainy Day Women. Okay, I know, because Dylan named it!
Nobody seems to have reacted to Dylan’s funny songs ~ Bob Dylan’s 115th dream, Brand New Leopardskin Pillbox Hat, Bear Mountain Massacre Picnic Blues, John Birch Society Blues, Highway 61 ……
Great, fun song!
You should listen to the entire album. This album came out in the late 1960s. I couldn't stop listening to it.
Stoned is really just the Biblical term -- people throwing rocks at you. It's just about life. We all get rocks thrown at us. That's life.
I had drug problems
I go to rehab and there's a radio so a few of us older cats find the local rock station
On comes Rainy Day Women
A therapist's door is right next to where we can listen to the radio and all she hears is
Everybody must get stoned
And she came flying out that room as fast as a cheetah yelling no no no turn that off😂😂
We had to explain to her the meaning 😂
Im 5 years sober as of July 20th
Although i still smoke weed
That was funny Harri, seeing you listening to this. You got the Vibe right away! Peace & Love 💥🎼🎸
With the line, "Everybody Must Get Stoned," this song is often associated with smoking marijuana, although Dylan insists it isn't, stating, "I have never and never will write a 'drug song.'" It is more likely about trials of relationships with women, and Dylan has hinted that it could have a Biblical meaning. Answering a question about people interpreting this song to be about getting high, Dylan told Rolling Stone in 2012: "These are people that aren't familiar with the Book of Acts."
The Book of Acts is from the Gospel of Luke, and contains an account of a stoning: "Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God... And when they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul."
In this story, Stephen received his sentence after giving a speech to authorities who were going to kill him no matter what he said. This relates to how Dylan felt about his critics, who were going to figuratively "stone" him no matter what he did. (More on the meaning of "stoned" in popular songs.)
The "official" explanation of how this song got its name: A woman and her daughter came into the recording studio out of the rain. Dylan guessed their ages correctly as 12 and 35.
(Songfacts.com)
Thanks for the enlightenment....I was in the camp of getting high...
Dylan is an absolute master of the multiple or sometimes deliberately ambiguous meaning 😁
I've always taken it as no matter what you do in your life, people will always bere there judge you and shame you. So just enjoy yourself!
@@nw2394 Yeah, I'm not sure why there was the need for such a drawn out explanation from the OP. Both interpretations of the line are abundantly obvious, and certainly intentional.
I disagree, everybody needs to break out of the shell. Psychedelics actually do the job nicely. Everybody does not need rocks thrown at them, but we all need to be reborn - the sooner the better. Some Dylan songs are clearly based on inner voyages.
Hope your feeling better
Don’t forget Dylan loved messing with reporters. He wrote several drug songs
There was a period of time in the 60s/early 70s when a lot of bands had, not really a comedy song, but one where they're just having fun.
This song, "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys, and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook are probably the best-known examples.
But it's something that goes a long way back-Mozart wrote a piece called 'Ein musikalischer Spass" (A Musical Joke) which is written in four movements-each worse and less musical than the one before.
Everybody must be stoned ... not a reefer thing. Stoned, as in, punished by stoning. I didn't understand that for a long time, that's Dylan for ya!
Loved Barry White
Ha ha ha.
YEAH, DEFINITELYYYY A PIANO BAR SONG HARRI 💯😊
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Dylan was in it.. with those new boys. Dylan also wrote The Mighty Quinn with one of the guys in the Band.. Danko.. Manuel? Waiting for their man. Like the Stones' song. A common and popular theme about how one got drugs "brought to them" in the old days. Sometimes waiting for days staring at the corner he'd be driving around.. when he was finally on his way. "..And when the Mighty Quinn gets here.. everybody goin' to run to him.. Come on without, come on with it, ain't seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn."
I do believe he told his band he wanted them to sound like a Salvation Army band. Great reaction.
suggesting: for ramona, boots of spanish leather, sad eyed lady of the lowlands
Ima, you chose a Dylan piece that is one of many Dylan songs of his that I covet. Dylan is one of the most prolific and influential poets, songwriters, and unique vocalists of our time. This was an A+ pick, and Harri, your review was very enjoyable. Great stuff!!
Thank you DaveBZen for that shout out. Can't listen to this Dylan masterpiece without smiling and getting the toes tappin. 😀😀😀
Hurrucane....ISIS.....Black Diamond Bay....Shelter From The Storm...Idiot Wind....those are from 1975's Blood on the Tracks and 1976's Desire albums.
Getting stoned / death by stoning is a biblical reference. that's the meaning here.
I know Dylan says otherwise, but I can't hear this or Mr. Tambourine Man without interpreting them the way I always have.
You have to listen to a classic that will make you think he's done it again~
The incomparable, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
YOU WILL LOVE, I promise.
DO with the video (INXS paid tribute in their video for "Mediate"
Love watching ☮️💟
Bobby Vee hired a young Bob Dylan freshly dropped out of The University of Minnesota to play piano in his touring band. For one night only. Dylan was given a badly out-of-tune piano and sounded awful. They both agreed it was a bad match and parted ways after that single evening. Dylan had told Vee that his name was Elston Gunnn (with three n’s). Later, Vee said, he was walking down a New York street and saw an album in a record store window with “Bob Dylan” on it. “I thought to myself, ‘looks a lot like Elston Gunnn.'”
Yes, he told Bobby Vee's brother, Bill, he had just finished a tour with Conway Twitty, which, of course he hadn't. He played for Bobby Vee and his brother and they hired him.
He only did about three shows with him. Bill said he sounded great at the audition, but all the songs he did were in the key of C, but when they played out they found out that was the only key he could play good in.
Bill said he and Bobby knew they were going to have to get rid of him, but Bobby says he never actually fired him, they just agreed it wasn't going to work out and Bobby Vee said he wasn't making enough money at that time to pay him.
Then when Dylan got back home he told a friend that he cut some records while he was away under the name "Bobby Vee" that they might be hearing on the radio. He was quite a character back the. :)
Trust me on this. You will learn so much about this song - Bob, Buttrey and banging on a drum. RUclips: "BOB DYLAN - Kenny Buttrey played on Blonde On Blonde - Told by Pete Anderson" - Enjoy!
Harri have a look into how this that sound .he basically said to them just enjoy yourselves they did you can even hear Dylan laughing in the first verse . Harri please watch no direction home amazing documentary by Martin Scorsese about Bob Dylan. There is a lot more I could recommend but start with that one if you haven't seen it.
The story goes that he sent out for cases of beer to get the session men half drunk. Made them all switch instruments and March round the studio with tambourines, gazoos and God knows what else whooping and a hollering. They did it in one take as it was unrepeatable.