coming from experience, after a while you just get used to it as your new normal. Bob was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol so he basically became numb to it all
Sounds like a downer, perhaps the same dope he shared with John Lennon around this time in a cab. As the video shows. John later confirmed it in an interview
Bob could have become a cult leader with an inflated ego and enlarged sense of himself. But he chose to play down all that nonsense and actually be really humble. And for that, I personally respect him more
Then how he did he become famous? Did the gods of fame just drop by his house one day after he put his music on RUclips? The guy could have sold Bibles to a chicken and they would have believed what he says is true. If he's so humble, then why won't he ever stop touring and live a quiet life?
@@paulsavage5057 You don't choose to be famous, especially back then with the lack of mass social media. He made music and gained a very large following early in his life. His job is being a musician, so he tours.
It was a blessing in disguise that Bob got in that motorcycle accident. You can tell he is wrecked and tired by this last concert. If he had continued the planned world-wide tour, he may have died. And i don't know what our lives would be without the classics he made from that point!
I think he manufactured the accident to save his life/ sanity. It’s a perfect excuse. People are fanatical about Dylan, if he went to the hospital someone would have found that info and as far as I can tell no one has.
He is talking cryptically about William Burroughs in the beginning. Burroughs was a painter too. He divided his time between Mexico City and Texas for a bit. I've always felt this whole song is a montage and homage to the kind of life Jack Kerouac lived with Burroughs and chronicled in "Mexico City Blues" and "Tristessa". Kerouac would have to score heroin for Burroughs and one usually got it from female "leaders" who brought you someplace else to buy/sell it and were often prostitutes too. "They got some hungry women there and man they'll make a mess out of you". "Tristessa" of the book title, was one such leader/dealer and "Sweet Melinda" "The goddess of gloom" and "St. Annie" are her stand-ins here - "please tell her thanks a lot. I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot (probably bad/tainted heroin). I don't have the strength to take another shot. My best friend the doctor (what they called Burroughs or anybody in drug circles who knew about drugs and reactions) won't even say what it is I got". Kerouac called Burroughs "Doctor Sax". "Playing the sax" was slang for shooting up in the 50's - 60's. When you read Kerouac's accounts and his journals this song makes perfect sense. The crooked cops and the whole scene. Kerouac himself never touched heroin but smoked pot, drank (of course), and lived in the bathroom. He found out "On the Road" was about to be published while living there penniless, near middle aged, in such circumstances. And naturally - "I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough" - is something both Burroughs, Kerouac and many of the beats did when life somewhere else wasn't panning out. But let's not forget, at the time of writing, Dylan himself was starting to experiment with such drugs/having to score and some lines could be autobiographical. Going to Juarez or other Mexican border towns from Texas/Lower California to score Heroin was commonplace and chronicled so well (and painfully) by Lucia Berlin in her great short story "Carmen" from 'Manual For Cleaning Women' (the "Madame" she scores from is female too).
Great post. It follows very well with the "stream of consciousness" style of this song. Also a clear homage to Kerouac who captured Dylan's imagination when he found himself a genius in Hibbing, MN as a teenager and was trying to harness his intellect. I believe the line "housing project hill" is from Kerouac's writing. The idiot in the audience in Dylan's opening comments probably never got the insult when he said "go outside and read a book".He clearly decided early on that his creative expression would never be a static condition & he required the freedom to reinvent himself as often as he liked. To the great benefit of all of us, the one thing he held constant was sharing his creative output with us.
Thanks. Further rambling info. "I started out on 'Burgundy' but soon hit the harder stuff". Heroin was often given names of alcohol colors to differentiate it on the street. When you cooked it it turned colors depending on what it was cut with. "Cherry Wine" - "Jamaican Rum" (which Dylan fills up his shoe with in another song!) "The harder stuff" was always clearer - no color. He references so much street drug slang in his songs at this point - it usually went over the academic's heads! 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' is about a girl (Edie Sedgwick?/ type) who has overdosed (you turn blue when you o.d.) while other users steal her stuff from around/under her, 'carpet', 'clothes', 'sheets' etc. - not uncommon unfortunately. He himself was slipping into a speed/heroin habit - his songs getting wordier and faster - his looks paler and speech slurred (like in this performance). It all came to a head with the bike crash. I've always suspected a "Tom Thumb" was slang for someone who shot up (with your thumb duh!) or a "newbie user" a 'Little Man' on the drug scene. Maybe something Dylan made up for himself. "Picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast.....looked fine at first but left looking just like a ghost." What drugs can do to a fresh face. People are often uncomfortable with it but many of his songs are about street drug culture. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is full of drug slang. "...in the basement mixin' up the 'medicine'...Man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen wants 11 dollar bills you only got 10!". "..must bust in early May, orders from the D.A." - It's pretty clear once you see it in this light. The beauty is you can interpret these "obtuse slang" phrases however you want.
"Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon" from "It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)" is a heroin reference. They're all over "Bringing It All Back Home".
@@altadelacruz4312 Spot on. Never caught that one, but yep - before "zip-loc" bags, a tied up "child's balloon" was a way to keep powdered drugs and also used for tying up your arm.
Even high, Bobby knew his song before he started singin' .... and, like Caruso, he hit all the notes. I've been singing this song for years, drunk or sober. Never once got the words right. God gave Bob the words in the first place, and reminded him of them in his time of need. Bob Dylan, chosen by whichever God you believe in.
@@thebluesandothercolors6602 the theme that keeps repeating itself to me is Juarez is always portrayed as a sell your soul place, and this reference about Easter as I make it out to fit my ideal speaks of "religious" sanctity occurring in such a place
I hope this was the last song he played on this Tour. The last line would be perfect, "I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough." Thanks for almost killing me Albert.
I remember in 1975 I had hichhiked up the coast and I was living with some hippies on a community near Nimbin in a plastic shack and we would sit around and listen to early Dylan and smoke chilms around the fire..I played harmonica and would play along sometimes..love early Dylan.. that series Rolling Thunder on Netflix was great.
Drummer is a titch confused. Who could blame that poor chap working with stix? Dylan finally went to the Village and got him some drummers in Howie Wyeth, Z"L Rest In Play and Gary Burke. See all the footage in Renaldo and Clara (Dylan's Rolling Blunder Revue back and frontstage mytho poetic film improv'd during that most old time stagey of Vo-De-Ville shows directed by Jacques Levy, Z"L Rest In Play, Prof! Tio Mitchito
I don't think you're correct, but I'm not positive it's the same tour. A few years ago (2016?) copyright in the UK was expiring, unless the live recordings were released. So they released a 20 CD set of IIRC this tour. I think they did the same thing with some Rolling Stones recordings. You might be able to track them down, but they weren't around long.
this is not a dis on dylan but yes while he was ie tired....its fair to say he was overwhelmed with his own fame and fell into a spell of drugs....stay away from drugs you will lose! bob would tell you that...but...tired and drugs here...
@@thesongtowoody He didn't 'fall' into a spell of drugs. The drugs were there and he wanted them. Don't make a victim out of Bob Dylan. Whatever he did, he did it because he wanted to.
@@ardalla535 perhaps your right. he obviously did them of his own free will. i cant deny that. perhaps i should condemn him for using drugs? that could very well be a justified position unless you see the world through a nihilist lense, then nothing is good or bad right or wrong it just is. What i was getting at is that i have sympathy for the soul that falls into a ditch even if it is by their own evil choices , i dont take pleasure in that i sympathize with their precarious plight. some people end up homeless cause of one off the cuff casual ignorant curious try of drugs....are they victims ultimately no, but i feel for them, that is my nature and we will all ultimately answer to God and his son Jesus Christ.
thesongtowoody The God I believe in, is the forgiving creator of you and me. God loves sinners, which redeem. The vengeance is mine, said our Creator. Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil..Praise the Lord 🙏💙🦋
That is one damned good performance, perfect for those with the humanity to get it, as well as perfect to frustrate those who are far too shallow and thoughtless to have any hope to.
Sure would be a bummer to have the rare chance to see Dylan - and he's bombed out of his F'kn mind! Sad. Saw Rod Stewart once, he was so drunk he couldn't stand, but his warm-up band, The Eagles, were GREAT! girlfriend & I walked out on Stewart. (performing in this condition... is theft, and I've loved Dylan for 60 yrs!
He's a survivor.. the God's smiled upon him a true legend...! Glad to have grown up listening to his lyrics ... he keep me going when I was in a dark place... thanks Bob namista 🙏
Thanks for this gem! Dylan is now so often criticised for the lack of interaction with the audience during concerts. He used to interact a lot since end of the 80s. We must respect his attitude. Still giving us his music and poetry after so many years is an enormous gift.
Michele Minick Wow, thanks for much for that insightful comment! I had a blast reading it. I agree with you; he must’ve been out of his head by the end of the tour, and fed up with what was being demanded of him. Thanks for listening! And let me know about that request whenever. I’ll see what I can do. Cheers!!
Of course he's right. This particular song means absolutely nothing. I doubt if he had anything at all in mind when he wrote it. He just sat down at the keyboard and played a blues riff and filled in the lyrics as they occurred to him. And what was on his mind was something about Mexico, so that became the framework it was built around. Sometimes Bob put a lot of hidden stuff in his songs that he didn't want to be clear about for one reason or another (Visions of Johanna), but sometimes there really is just nothing there. But just because it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's not a great song.
Holy cow !!!!!! Best version by far !!! I play this song live every time I can and I’m good but nothing like this !! Wow 😯. Bob is my man . Crazy vocals - all emotion - crazy lyrics - so real yet fantasy - Badass Bob
This is just wonderful. All that pent up frustration & the crowd provoking him. This is a song that needles someone (Positively 4th Street) but Dylan sings it like it is
I am so fortunate, Peter, paul and Mary, the Beatles, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt...and so many more artists of the times were my inspiration to find my own voice in the arts. The sixties were very similar to the varied art movements at the turn-of-the 20th century in europe.
I believe this was just before his motorcycle accident. I've read that the accident, resulting in him hospitalized for weeks, actually saved his life.as per your comments.
He's not slurring and he's an adult he can do what he wants he still put on a good show that's all that matters. Strange how people want to reject any artists who ever took a drink or smoked a joint now considering that is the majority of artists especially in the 60s.
Cops like this song just because they appreciate that someone finally said: "the cops don't need you and man they expect the same." ...Even though Dylan is obviously loaded to the gills on who knows what...
Whilst all the pontificators pour over the "meanings" of Mr. Dylans lyrics, and the Intellects post their "insightful" takes on Swingin' Pig's marvelous post, I wallow in the sweet sounds of Bobby, Robbie, Rick, Mickey, (Richard?), and Garth, shred this classic, sounds like the band Television! Such a punk rock version (reminds me of the Dewey Cox Story) Not always a huge backer of Robbie, but his licks in this tune are sublime. Thanks my friend for posting. Can't wait to see Dylan at Frost Amphitheater on the 14th! Saw him on the exact same day in 2016 when he opened for the Stones in Indio, CA. the night he won his Pulitzer!
You've nailed a paradox in Dylan that keeps twisting back on itself through the years. As he says in "My Back Pages" "I was so much older then\I'm younger than that now..." I got to know the Mayor of McDougal Street, Big Dave Van Ronk, Z"L Rest In Play, who along with his wife\partner\manager Teri Thal at the time Dylan first hit NYC from the Minnesota Iron Range and then college in Minneapolis, Van Ronk & Thal extended their ratty apartment floor to this kid from the open mic nights at the Greenwich Village cafes (never the bars where you'd need a cabaret license in corrupt NYC to perform). Dylan didn't even give them his real name, they had to find it out by accident. But the kid was so funny that they loved having him around. By around, usually under the folding table that was like their only furniture and over which Van Ronk and Thal's Village pals came weekly to play cards with Dylan under the table typing away and occasionally passing typed sheets table-top for Van Ronk to critique). Read Van Ronk's memoir completed after Dave passed away about a decade ago by one of Dave's guitar students from the neighborhood, Elijah Wald: Truly one of the great Musical Memoirs (a genre invented later by Bay Area based poet ovelist\ lit inventor and U.C.-Berkeley prof as well as occasional club performer, Al Young. Get his paperback Musical Memoirs to learn much about how one can braid their lives with the songs floating by in the air): litkicks.com/mayorofmacdougalstreet/ The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk By Levi Asher January 7, 2014 African-American, American, Beat Generation, Biography, Comedy, Film, Indie, Jazz Age, La Boheme, Love, Music, New York City, Reviews, Summer Of Love, Tributes The Great Lost Rock Memoir 12 Comments neglectedbooks.com/?p=205 Al Young’s Musical Memoirs 4 June 2008 Mitchito Ritter 27 October 2014 at 5:56 am soundcloud.com/tags/a%20jazz%20life Carlton Jackson, the multi-dimensional drummer in Portland, Oregon. Po’town is a hotbed of fine and color-filled drumming and percussion across musical styles and global vocabularies, but few if any are as varied in what they play well as Carlton. He has a Sunday night radio show called THE MESSAGE. His Play-Lists reflect the varied and tasteful, not to mention exploratory scope of the bands, combos and larger ensembles he plays out with and the recording session work he’s done. Carlton Jackson’s unique aspect brought to KMHD’s weekly THE MESSAGE is his musical imagination, as he’s brought to the broadcast range of one of the few jazz radio stations left on the U.S. airwaves a spectrum of styles and types of recorded music that skate well above any genre or marketing categories superimposed onto what is and should ideally remain non-classifiable, if yet widely discussed and savored. Tonight, Sunday 10/26/14 Carlton played an oral history feature of KMHD that is archived on SoundCloud and retrievable for your delight and the delight of others here: soundcloud.com/kmhd-radio/andre-st-james This 21st C. revival of free-form and expanding community and public radio arts builds on the Al Young culture-building project he well-titled MUSICAL MEMOIRS that you so righteously celebrate here on your web page NEGLECTED BOOKS.com. Hopefully with the death of so many music appreciation ‘zines or the moving of the rolled-up back pocket variety to the internet as web sites, the vision Al Young brought into the world, that I would nutshell as a way to both spread musical enthusiasm and create the necessary community-market base to support musical expression that is essentially deemed unworthy by the “Hidden Hand of the Market” this Young-ian concept of the MUSICAL MEMOIR may live on and travel farther on as Joy Harjo might phrase it “Winding through the Milky Way” via public and community radio shows like THE MESSAGE and via web sites that replenish musical enthusiasm by retrieving it from the dustbin of the fashion industry like your wonderful NEGLECTED BOOKS.com web site. Long may y’all run! PS - The Andre St. James entry into the above-referenced A Jazz Life musical memoirs features reminiscences of Bay Area music educator and hot pianist of choice Ed Kelly bringing the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk into a college music class for a hands-on nose-in philosophical lecture with vivid musical illustration. Student Andre was invited to sit in on bass with musical adept Rahsaan Roland Kirk and after the lecture and presentation the young lion-in-training wigged out. Terrific story to be shared and Carlton Jackson & The Message ought to be commended for weaving that oral history into a splendidly wide-ranging set of sounds over KMHD, the FM radio station licensed to Mt. Hood Community College and being put to good use as part of the OPB state-wide public radio imperium. Let us now retreat to the PURPLE GROTTO… Mitchito
Thanks so much for this! I just can't say it enough how much I love ANYTHING that is "YOUNG DYLAN"! I was only 10 years old back in 1966. My Uncle used to like to listen to Dylan. I looked up to my uncle & I would pay close attention to the stuff he liked 'cause I always seem to like, what he liked. He was about 9 yrs. older than me. At home I didn't have a record player or albums yet for that matter. My older brother did, but I didn't get a chance to use his until I was a couple years older. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll be waiting and watching for more!
Cindy Bradley thanks so much for listening!! And I love hearing stories like that. I wish I grew up in that generation. Like your uncle was then, I’m 19. Cheers!
@Michele Minick Of course I'll answer! I'm an open book haha. I guess my dad got me into him. He was into all sorts of stuff, but Dylan really stuck with me. Then after hearing him play Tambourine Man in Newport '64 on RUclips when I was 10, I was hooked. I learned guitar and harmonica, and I'm still playing his stuff at local coffee houses. He inspired me to write my own stuff too (if you wanna see some of it and my Dylan covers, visit my personal page: Ross Wylde). I've always thought that if you want to be a good songwriter, listen to Dylan, because he pulled from so many genres and is a wealth of information. The videos I post are just me curating the wealth of performing knowledge, poetic ability, and just inspiration. Look who's rambling now. Have a great day.
Swingin' Pig....if I may be so bold as to interrupt but, you are 1 REALLY SMART GUY!!! And talented too! Unbelievable! Thanks so much again, for all your cool Bobstuff!!!
"priceless", indeed the last thing one can say about this clip. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for being there and whoever you were back then mister singer.
He once told everyone what his songs are about “some are about 3 minutes, some are about 4 minutes and some are about 5 minutes long”. Or something like that. If you can remember you weren’t there.
And this is the trip he banged out BALLAD OF A THIN MAN ...after a quiet speech ...he retaliated with the most fantastic version of that song. How great that must've felt. Standing up Waving one hand Tapping out the rythmn within his boots.
Folks, I love Bob Dylan, and his music is part of my daily life. I came here to listen to this precious live recording and for the MILLIONTH time, against my will, I was forced to hear that hateful "audible - audiobook" advertisement. It's good that someone is promoting books, People needs to read but I can't take it anymore, of it, and all the advertisements and double ads on RUclips. I tried to get rid of those but it didn't work apparently. Hope you Bob Dylan's people can understand my vent about this. Love
This is a very special and interesting recording....Thank you so much Swingin' Pig! I especially love the 60ies Dylan. I can really imagine sitting at this concert...listening....being overwhelmed...being part of it...
I just listened to Nina Simone's cover of this favourite of mine, very beautiful, very soulful, but I must say nothing beats hearing it from the man himself while he sounds ready to beat me to death with his Telecaster
That's probably the only case in which i prefer a cover to Bob's original, or other Bob's versions... Nina paint those 6 pictures so vividly, like not even Bob could, maybe for the sparsity of the arrangement and the composed intensity of Nina's performance.
One of th first Bob Dylan songs I was exposed to...'70-'71; a decade later I planned a cross-country thing with Juarez on my itinerary...luckily I didn't go there. Thanks, Bob, for our 5+ decades.
Then I heard the story of Magdalena Solis, all over the newspapers back in the day, and understood some of the horrifying depth of the nothing this song was about.
Yes. But he only pissed off about *half* of the folkies at that time. The other half loved what he was doing. They got it right away. And the rest had to catch up, which took them awhile. All that the press covered was the people who booed and objected to his new sound. They liked the controversy, just like they always do, and did a lot to encourage it.
Boy are they ever rocking. Band is just lit up and loose, you don't hear anything like this for years and years to come, it's not how professional musicians would usually play.
No, he's talking to the audience, when some fucking fucks open their fucking mouths full of hatefulness and entitlement, like just because they paid for a ticket, they own an artist like he's their puppet. What a bunch of fucking jerks.
Slightly different intro in Cardiff "This is a song about an artist from Juarez , er this is a song about his blue period, he was a short artist and all artists have a blues period"
Michele. Oh my, we should try to coordinate. I'm super psyched to see Tulsa. I'm in Texas but it's still far. Dallas is a good place. Airports. Shorter drive (or bus) to Tulsa.
Ive seen this before many times but just now realized what he says just before they play those first few notes and then hit the first chords - what a genius thing to yell out - but not surprised at all !!!
This was less than a month after Richard Farina, Mimi Baez's husband, was killed on a motorcycle & about a month away from his own motorcycle accident.
Seth to Rob: “You are still learning. Your work is still developing. How truly unfortunate you would be if that were not the case! There is always a kind of artistic dissatisfaction that any true artist feels with work that is completed, for he is always aware of the tug and pull, and the tension, between the sensed ideal and its manifestation. In a certain fashion the artist is looking for a creative solution to a sensed but never clearly stated problem or challenge, and it is an adventure that is literally unending. It must be one that has no clearly stated destination, in usual terms . In the most basic of ways, the artist cannot say where he is going, for if he knows ahead of time he is not creating but copying. “The true artist is involved with the inner workings of himself with the universe- a choice, I remind you, that he or she has made, and so often the artist does indeed forsake the recognized roads of recognition. And more, seeing that, he often does not know how to assess his own progress, since his journey has no recognizable creative destination. By its nature art basically is meant to put each artist of whatever kind into harmony with the universe, for the artist draws upon the same creative energy from which birth emerges.” Roberts, Jane (2012-06-02). Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Volume One.
I was at both Melbourne, Australia concerts in 1966 and Bob talked a lot at those concerts. Probably more during the acoustic set than after the interval.
I once had a teacher tell me my interpretation of a particular poem missed the poet’s point. I replied that if the poet has a specific point to make, he should write it out specifically, not in poetic form. So what is MY point? That what a listener gets out of Dylan song is all that is important. What was on Dylan’s mind when he wrote something really is meaningless. It means “nothing”.
Can't explain it because it is a slice of someone's life on a sunday afternoon, and they feel that weird way sometimes on sunday afternoons when the light is a certain way, and want to drink a gallon of red wine and consider all the angles, and that is just verse 1, so shaddup and siddown.
Bob read Poe, he put a melody to a poem of his & performed it at the coffeehouses, don't recall which but read it in Chronicles I. I'm starting *The Murders in Rue Morgue* by Poe, said to be the first modern detective story. Looking forward to find any connections or similarities to this amazing song. Edit;. Was banned from Utube, it appears everything connected with my username was also deleted, comments included. Good to be back !! 😎
Imagine being that high and remembering all those lyrics. I mean...dang.
LOL
And he would play, and deliver some killer performances being that high, umbelievable
coming from experience, after a while you just get used to it as your new normal. Bob was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol so he basically became numb to it all
Sometimes it's best just to say nothing at aallll.
Been that high, nobody wanted to listen to me though 😁😁😁
He was already married at this time and father of his first child, Jesse. Hard to believe.
Bob is a little high. Just a little
Speed kills.
Sounds like a downer, perhaps the same dope he shared with John Lennon around this time in a cab. As the video shows. John later confirmed it in an interview
He had a reason people get on his nervous he's sick of them 4 sure.love
Started on burgundy then started on the harder stuffffff. 💘
@@JimmyFranceable not this man
😅😂😄😎😂😅😄
I was there. I'm 72 now and. still listen to this stuff.Been a fan all my life
Bob could have become a cult leader with an inflated ego and enlarged sense of himself. But he chose to play down all that nonsense and actually be really humble. And for that, I personally respect him more
thats exactly how it is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I think that Bob Dylan could have been a mathematics professor...
Then how he did he become famous? Did the gods of fame just drop by his house one day after he put his music on RUclips? The guy could have sold Bibles to a chicken and they would have believed what he says is true. If he's so humble, then why won't he ever stop touring and live a quiet life?
@@paulsavage5057 You don't choose to be famous, especially back then with the lack of mass social media. He made music and gained a very large following early in his life. His job is being a musician, so he tours.
@@paulsavage5057 He made an early vow: "cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it" True to the end.
It was a blessing in disguise that Bob got in that motorcycle accident. You can tell he is wrecked and tired by this last concert. If he had continued the planned world-wide tour, he may have died. And i don't know what our lives would be without the classics he made from that point!
Blessing in disguise…
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Absolutely, he was so close to being a member of the “27 club”.
I think he manufactured the accident to save his life/ sanity. It’s a perfect excuse. People are fanatical about Dylan, if he went to the hospital someone would have found that info and as far as I can tell no one has.
This person or “persona” did die, in the motorcycle crash.
"Go read some books. Read J.D. Salinger!" Bobby trolling the hecklers back into their seats. freaking epic. He's such a legend!
Olive Eisner fuck Salinger. His book is only for depressed boys with mommy issues
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 Stick to Mills & Boon.
Joe Rodriguez Failed 9th grade English class.
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 "book" implying Salinger only had one book shows your ignorance
once sgain once again once again
He is talking cryptically about William Burroughs in the beginning. Burroughs was a painter too. He divided his time between Mexico City and Texas for a bit. I've always felt this whole song is a montage and homage to the kind of life Jack Kerouac lived with Burroughs and chronicled in "Mexico City Blues" and "Tristessa". Kerouac would have to score heroin for Burroughs and one usually got it from female "leaders" who brought you someplace else to buy/sell it and were often prostitutes too. "They got some hungry women there and man they'll make a mess out of you". "Tristessa" of the book title, was one such leader/dealer and "Sweet Melinda" "The goddess of gloom" and "St. Annie" are her stand-ins here - "please tell her thanks a lot. I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot (probably bad/tainted heroin). I don't have the strength to take another shot. My best friend the doctor (what they called Burroughs or anybody in drug circles who knew about drugs and reactions) won't even say what it is I got". Kerouac called Burroughs "Doctor Sax". "Playing the sax" was slang for shooting up in the 50's - 60's.
When you read Kerouac's accounts and his journals this song makes perfect sense. The crooked cops and the whole scene. Kerouac himself never touched heroin but smoked pot, drank (of course), and lived in the bathroom. He found out "On the Road" was about to be published while living there penniless, near middle aged, in such circumstances.
And naturally - "I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough" - is something both Burroughs, Kerouac and many of the beats did when life somewhere else wasn't panning out.
But let's not forget, at the time of writing, Dylan himself was starting to experiment with such drugs/having to score and some lines could be autobiographical.
Going to Juarez or other Mexican border towns from Texas/Lower California to score Heroin was commonplace and chronicled so well (and painfully) by Lucia Berlin in her great short story "Carmen" from 'Manual For Cleaning Women' (the "Madame" she scores from is female too).
Great post. It follows very well with the "stream of consciousness" style of this song. Also a clear homage to Kerouac who captured Dylan's imagination when he found himself a genius in Hibbing, MN as a teenager and was trying to harness his intellect. I believe the line "housing project hill" is from Kerouac's writing. The idiot in the audience in Dylan's opening comments probably never got the insult when he said "go outside and read a book".He clearly decided early on that his creative expression would never be a static condition & he required the freedom to reinvent himself as often as he liked. To the great benefit of all of us, the one thing he held constant was sharing his creative output with us.
Thanks. Further rambling info. "I started out on 'Burgundy' but soon hit the harder stuff". Heroin was often given names of alcohol colors to differentiate it on the street. When you cooked it it turned colors depending on what it was cut with. "Cherry Wine" - "Jamaican Rum" (which Dylan fills up his shoe with in another song!) "The harder stuff" was always clearer - no color. He references so much street drug slang in his songs at this point - it usually went over the academic's heads! 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' is about a girl (Edie Sedgwick?/ type) who has overdosed (you turn blue when you o.d.) while other users steal her stuff from around/under her, 'carpet', 'clothes', 'sheets' etc. - not uncommon unfortunately.
He himself was slipping into a speed/heroin habit - his songs getting wordier and faster - his looks paler and speech slurred (like in this performance). It all came to a head with the bike crash. I've always suspected a "Tom Thumb" was slang for someone who shot up (with your thumb duh!) or a "newbie user" a 'Little Man' on the drug scene. Maybe something Dylan made up for himself. "Picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast.....looked fine at first but left looking just like a ghost." What drugs can do to a fresh face.
People are often uncomfortable with it but many of his songs are about street drug culture. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is full of drug slang. "...in the basement mixin' up the 'medicine'...Man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen wants 11 dollar bills you only got 10!". "..must bust in early May, orders from the D.A." - It's pretty clear once you see it in this light. The beauty is you can interpret these "obtuse slang" phrases however you want.
"Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon"
from "It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)" is a heroin reference. They're all over "Bringing It All Back Home".
@@altadelacruz4312 Spot on. Never caught that one, but yep - before "zip-loc" bags, a tied up "child's balloon" was a way to keep powdered drugs and also used for tying up your arm.
I wish there was a way to save comments on yt. All of this information is really great, thank you all
This show was attended by the Beatles. Dylan raising the bar for his contemporaries and for the rest of us ever since.
"...go read some books." There lies the best free advice anybody ever gave! More, more, more...
bill bayh Yes! Thanks for listening :)
He just doesn't want 2 talk to them he could care less go read 📚 if u want Lear something people & figure it out 4 yourself.
What it all meanssssss ❤
Amorone or that's amore eh!
He's said it I couldn't quite catch up dam me
@@katherinekirkwood9632 words girl words
“ You’re talking to the wrong person man “
Hahaha i love his interactions with audience on this tour its hillarious
He was so far ahead of his time. People just didn't get him! Some of us did!❤️
Even high, Bobby knew his song before he started singin' .... and, like Caruso, he hit all the notes. I've been singing this song for years, drunk or sober. Never once got the words right. God gave Bob the words in the first place, and reminded him of them in his time of need. Bob Dylan, chosen by whichever God you believe in.
Bob was seriously in the know high or sober. Smart man...i learn something from Every song he sings. So happy I grew up on his music.
Me too!
He gave it all for all the early years - his voice, his voice.
Bob Dylan songs well still be sung in 500 years. 2519, you just wait and see.
Only 500?
I'll meet you there.
Jim Seaton True! Heard George Harrison said it once!
When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Easter time too... i have thought on those lines for a couple of decades
me too
@@thebluesandothercolors6602 the theme that keeps repeating itself to me is Juarez is always portrayed as a sell your soul place, and this reference about Easter as I make it out to fit my ideal speaks of "religious" sanctity occurring in such a place
I hope this was the last song he played on this Tour. The last line would be perfect, "I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough."
Thanks for almost killing me Albert.
I remember in 1975 I had hichhiked up the coast and I was living with some hippies on a community near Nimbin in a plastic shack and we would sit around and listen to early Dylan and smoke chilms around the fire..I played harmonica and would play along sometimes..love early Dylan.. that series Rolling Thunder on Netflix was great.
The Band sounds fantastic.
Drummer is a titch confused. Who could blame that poor chap working with stix?
Dylan finally went to the Village and got him some drummers in Howie Wyeth, Z"L Rest In Play and Gary Burke. See all the footage in Renaldo and Clara (Dylan's Rolling Blunder Revue back and frontstage mytho poetic film improv'd during that most old time stagey of Vo-De-Ville shows directed by Jacques Levy, Z"L Rest In Play, Prof!
Tio Mitchito
I love everything he has ever written or recorded but the 66 Albert Hall recordings are just amazing on so many levels.
Bob is a little high!! What the F..k! This is genius at work and the crime is so little of this was recorded or filmed. Massive Missed Genius!!
I don't think you're correct, but I'm not positive it's the same tour. A few years ago (2016?) copyright in the UK was expiring, unless the live recordings were released. So they released a 20 CD set of IIRC this tour. I think they did the same thing with some Rolling Stones recordings. You might be able to track them down, but they weren't around long.
Well yeah. Isn’t this pretty much perfect? A refreshing breath of truth in sadly false times. Thank you Bob for always being there.
I mean, he was drugged out of mind and I don’t think he even knew what he was talking about.
Love this rare Dylan performance he was so tired by the end he could barely sing
Sergio Moreno I know, he was exhausted and needed a break. Still witty though!
this is not a dis on dylan but yes while he was ie tired....its fair to say he was overwhelmed with his own fame and fell into a spell of drugs....stay away from drugs you will lose! bob would tell you that...but...tired and drugs here...
@@thesongtowoody He didn't 'fall' into a spell of drugs. The drugs were there and he wanted them. Don't make a victim out of Bob Dylan. Whatever he did, he did it because he wanted to.
@@ardalla535 perhaps your right. he obviously did them of his own free will. i cant deny that. perhaps i should condemn him for using drugs? that could very well be a justified position unless you see the world through a nihilist lense, then nothing is good or bad right or wrong it just is. What i was getting at is that i have sympathy for the soul that falls into a ditch even if it is by their own evil choices , i dont take pleasure in that i sympathize with their precarious plight. some people end up homeless cause of one off the cuff casual ignorant curious try of drugs....are they victims ultimately no, but i feel for them, that is my nature and we will all ultimately answer to God and his son Jesus Christ.
thesongtowoody
The God I believe in, is the forgiving creator of you and me. God loves sinners, which redeem. The vengeance is mine, said our Creator. Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil..Praise the Lord 🙏💙🦋
That is one damned good performance, perfect for those with the humanity to get it, as well as perfect to frustrate those who are far too shallow and thoughtless to have any hope to.
Unfortunately, the world is full of morons, fans of Disco and Billie Eilish
JAYY DEE SAAALINGERRRR!!!!!
I wonder if Bob would recommend that to a young Mark David Chapman. Yikes. Roll on John. The odd coincidences.
@@viviandarkbloom100 ikr?
@@viviandarkbloom100 Millions have read Catcher in the Rye without becoming fucking psychos.
@@Pilrig1 yes and we read it in middle or high school as well
Colors of the rains and Niely says Word word words
Sure would be a bummer to have the rare chance to see Dylan - and he's bombed out of his F'kn mind! Sad. Saw Rod Stewart once, he was so drunk he couldn't stand, but his warm-up band, The Eagles, were GREAT! girlfriend & I walked out on Stewart. (performing in this condition... is theft, and I've loved Dylan for 60 yrs!
Dylan at his acerbic best.
He's a survivor.. the God's smiled upon him a true legend...! Glad to have grown up listening to his lyrics ... he keep me going when I was in a dark place... thanks Bob namista 🙏
Thanks for this gem! Dylan is now so often criticised for the lack of interaction with the audience during concerts. He used to interact a lot since end of the 80s. We must respect his attitude. Still giving us his music and poetry after so many years is an enormous gift.
Speaking of amphetamine.
@@jnagarya519 Sounds more like alcohol.
@@MellowWind At around the time he "went electric" he was being called "an amphetamine prick". He was already a constant weed smoker.
Who can say! This is the greatest artist of the 20th century blowing the wind out of the recording industry. Who knows what this might lead to!!!
They are laughing..when he says it just means NOTHING> he always tells the truth.he isn;t sure what it all means..never did.
Agreed. He's been trying to find himself out with his songs, and it's a never ending journey.
@@SwinginPig Exactly...lol
Michele Minick Wow, thanks for much for that insightful comment! I had a blast reading it. I agree with you; he must’ve been out of his head by the end of the tour, and fed up with what was being demanded of him. Thanks for listening! And let me know about that request whenever. I’ll see what I can do. Cheers!!
Michele Minick Same here, my friend.
Of course he's right. This particular song means absolutely nothing. I doubt if he had anything at all in mind when he wrote it. He just sat down at the keyboard and played a blues riff and filled in the lyrics as they occurred to him. And what was on his mind was something about Mexico, so that became the framework it was built around. Sometimes Bob put a lot of hidden stuff in his songs that he didn't want to be clear about for one reason or another (Visions of Johanna), but sometimes there really is just nothing there. But just because it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's not a great song.
The band is on fire. As they tend to be when Bob is there.
Holy cow !!!!!! Best version by far !!! I play this song live every time I can and I’m good but nothing like this !! Wow 😯. Bob is my man . Crazy vocals - all emotion - crazy lyrics - so real yet fantasy - Badass Bob
This is just wonderful. All that pent up frustration & the crowd provoking him. This is a song that needles someone (Positively 4th Street) but Dylan sings it like it is
Pause became essential. Even in his darkest hours, his creative juice flow effortlessly it seems...
I am so fortunate, Peter, paul and Mary, the Beatles, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt...and so many more artists of the times were my inspiration to find my own voice in the arts. The sixties were very similar to the varied art movements at the turn-of-the 20th century in europe.
I think that's probably his best take on that song ever. And The Band sounds marvelous. Thanks for posting it!
This is such an incredible performance!
Right, it’s one of his stand-outs
Goodness he's wasted here. It's a wonder he could even get through these shows. However, the band is kicking ass.
I believe this was just before his motorcycle accident. I've read that the accident, resulting in him hospitalized for weeks, actually saved his life.as per your comments.
@@roncarpenter7240 there was no accident he got burnt out and had to take a break. He played it off as an accident
He's not slurring and he's an adult he can do what he wants he still put on a good show that's all that matters. Strange how people want to reject any artists who ever took a drink or smoked a joint now considering that is the majority of artists especially in the 60s.
I am just so delighted to be inundated with so many terrific Dylan moments... Deeply grateful!
Cops like this song just because they appreciate that someone finally said: "the cops don't need you and man they expect the same."
...Even though Dylan is obviously loaded to the gills on who knows what...
Well they shouldn't bother with innocent people then.
Supposedly it was heroin during this tour. But you gotta read a lot of Dylan books to find out anything.
When the white boy has to be taught about the police
Whilst all the pontificators pour over the "meanings" of Mr. Dylans lyrics, and the Intellects post their "insightful" takes on Swingin' Pig's marvelous post, I wallow in the sweet sounds of Bobby, Robbie, Rick, Mickey, (Richard?), and Garth, shred this classic, sounds like the band Television! Such a punk rock version (reminds me of the Dewey Cox Story) Not always a huge backer of Robbie, but his licks in this tune are sublime. Thanks my friend for posting. Can't wait to see Dylan at Frost Amphitheater on the 14th! Saw him on the exact same day in 2016 when he opened for the Stones in Indio, CA. the night he won his Pulitzer!
What a tour, 1966... I was months old, thanks that we have the recordings!
Did not have a huge ego, but a sense off humor humbleness and eventually later on a bit in security. I’ve watched him since 1963.
You've nailed a paradox in Dylan that keeps twisting back on itself through the years. As he says in "My Back Pages"
"I was so much older then\I'm younger than that now..." I got to know the Mayor of McDougal Street, Big Dave Van Ronk, Z"L Rest In Play, who along with his wife\partner\manager Teri Thal at the time Dylan first hit NYC from the Minnesota Iron Range and then college in Minneapolis, Van Ronk & Thal extended their ratty apartment floor to this kid from the open mic nights at the Greenwich Village cafes (never the bars where you'd need a cabaret license in corrupt NYC to perform). Dylan didn't even give them his real name, they had to find it out by accident. But the kid was so funny that they loved having him around. By around, usually under the folding table that was like their only furniture and over which Van Ronk and Thal's Village pals came weekly to play cards with Dylan under the table typing away and occasionally passing typed sheets table-top for Van Ronk to critique). Read Van Ronk's memoir completed after Dave passed away about a decade ago by one of Dave's guitar students from the neighborhood, Elijah Wald: Truly one of the great Musical Memoirs (a genre invented later by Bay Area based poet
ovelist\ lit inventor and U.C.-Berkeley prof as well as occasional club performer, Al Young. Get his paperback Musical Memoirs to learn much about how one can braid their lives with the songs floating by in the air):
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The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk
By Levi Asher
January 7, 2014
African-American, American, Beat Generation, Biography, Comedy, Film, Indie, Jazz Age, La Boheme, Love, Music, New York City, Reviews, Summer Of Love, Tributes
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Al Young’s Musical Memoirs
4 June 2008
Mitchito Ritter
27 October 2014 at 5:56 am
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Carlton Jackson, the multi-dimensional drummer in Portland, Oregon. Po’town is a hotbed of fine and color-filled drumming and percussion across musical styles and global vocabularies, but few if any are as varied in what they play well as Carlton. He has a Sunday night radio show called THE MESSAGE. His Play-Lists reflect the varied and tasteful, not to mention exploratory scope of the bands, combos and larger ensembles he plays out with and the recording session work he’s done. Carlton Jackson’s unique aspect brought to KMHD’s weekly THE MESSAGE is his musical imagination, as he’s brought to the broadcast range of one of the few jazz radio stations left on the U.S. airwaves a spectrum of styles and types of recorded music that skate well above any genre or marketing categories superimposed onto what is and should ideally remain non-classifiable, if yet widely discussed and savored.
Tonight, Sunday 10/26/14 Carlton played an oral history feature of KMHD that is archived on SoundCloud and retrievable for
your delight and the delight of others here: soundcloud.com/kmhd-radio/andre-st-james
This 21st C. revival of free-form and expanding community and public radio arts builds on the Al Young culture-building project he well-titled MUSICAL MEMOIRS that you so righteously celebrate here on your web page NEGLECTED BOOKS.com. Hopefully with the death of so many music appreciation ‘zines or the moving of the rolled-up back pocket variety to the internet as web sites, the vision Al Young brought into the world, that I would nutshell as a way to both spread musical enthusiasm and create the necessary community-market base to support musical expression that is essentially deemed unworthy by the “Hidden Hand of the Market” this Young-ian concept of the MUSICAL MEMOIR may live on and travel farther on as Joy Harjo might phrase it “Winding through the Milky Way” via public and community radio shows like THE MESSAGE and via web sites that replenish musical enthusiasm by retrieving it from the dustbin of the fashion industry like your wonderful NEGLECTED BOOKS.com web site. Long may y’all run!
PS - The Andre St. James entry into the above-referenced A Jazz Life musical memoirs features reminiscences of Bay Area music educator and hot pianist of choice Ed Kelly bringing the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk into a college music class for a hands-on nose-in philosophical lecture with vivid musical illustration. Student Andre was invited to sit in on bass with musical adept Rahsaan Roland Kirk and after the lecture and presentation the young lion-in-training wigged out. Terrific story to be shared and Carlton Jackson & The Message ought to be commended for weaving that oral history into a splendidly wide-ranging set of sounds over KMHD, the FM radio station licensed to Mt. Hood Community College and being put to good use as part of the OPB state-wide public radio imperium. Let us now retreat to the PURPLE GROTTO…
Mitchito
Thanks so much for this! I just can't say it enough how much I love ANYTHING that is "YOUNG DYLAN"! I was only 10 years old back in 1966. My Uncle used to like to listen to Dylan. I looked up to my uncle & I would pay close attention to the stuff he liked 'cause I always seem to like, what he liked. He was about 9 yrs. older than me. At home I didn't have a record player or albums yet for that matter. My older brother did, but I didn't get a chance to use his until I was a couple years older. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll be waiting and watching for more!
Cindy Bradley thanks so much for listening!! And I love hearing stories like that. I wish I grew up in that generation. Like your uncle was then, I’m 19. Cheers!
Wow, your only 19? Your still a "Baby"!! It's great that someone as young as you, actually loves and appreciates, the genius of our beloved Mr. D.
@Michele Minick Of course I'll answer! I'm an open book haha. I guess my dad got me into him. He was into all sorts of stuff, but Dylan really stuck with me. Then after hearing him play Tambourine Man in Newport '64 on RUclips when I was 10, I was hooked. I learned guitar and harmonica, and I'm still playing his stuff at local coffee houses. He inspired me to write my own stuff too (if you wanna see some of it and my Dylan covers, visit my personal page: Ross Wylde). I've always thought that if you want to be a good songwriter, listen to Dylan, because he pulled from so many genres and is a wealth of information. The videos I post are just me curating the wealth of performing knowledge, poetic ability, and just inspiration. Look who's rambling now. Have a great day.
Swingin' Pig....if I may be so bold as to interrupt but, you are 1 REALLY SMART GUY!!! And talented too! Unbelievable! Thanks so much again, for all your cool Bobstuff!!!
Cindy Bradley awe, thank you!! Means a lot. I’m just an old soul who appreciates Dylan’s work. The Shakespeare of our generation haha. Cheers.
"priceless", indeed the last thing one can say about this clip.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for being there and whoever you were back then mister singer.
What a dogtooth suit! Must be the best version I’ve ever heard of this great song. Thx so much. 🇮🇪🎱💜💒⏰
He once told everyone what his songs are about “some are about 3 minutes, some are about 4 minutes and some are about 5 minutes long”. Or something like that. If you can remember you weren’t there.
Even shitfaced, its crazy how Dylan 50+ years on can still capture listeners individually while millions share the same experience.
And this is the trip he banged out BALLAD OF A THIN MAN ...after a quiet speech ...he retaliated with the most fantastic version of that song.
How great that must've felt.
Standing up
Waving one hand
Tapping out the rythmn within his boots.
Folks, I love Bob Dylan, and his music is part of my daily life. I came here to listen to this precious live recording and for the MILLIONTH time, against my will, I was forced to hear that hateful "audible - audiobook" advertisement. It's good that someone is promoting books, People needs to read but I can't take it anymore, of it, and all the advertisements and double ads on RUclips. I tried to get rid of those but it didn't work apparently. Hope you Bob Dylan's people can understand my vent about this. Love
@Mark J you should watch RUclips on Brave browser. It eliminates all the ads.
Bob sounds really ripped.
He really sounds like he doesn't have the strength to get up and take another shot
FAN BLOODYTASTIC THANK SO MUCH YOU ARE THE MAN
Mozart lasts because his music can be played by today's orchestras. Nobody can sing Dylan like Dylan.
Hold my wine
Profound. Thing is, Mozart and Brahms, et al, didn't make records.
@@klausrain111 I have many records by Mozart and Brahms.
Such impeccable prowess! Thank you for this!!!
This is a very special and interesting recording....Thank you so much Swingin' Pig!
I especially love the 60ies Dylan.
I can really imagine sitting at this concert...listening....being overwhelmed...being part of it...
Thanks for uploading this!!
Thank you for listening! Let me know if you have any requests. Cheers!
What a gem!
He is sick of people asking what does this meeeeaaan? lol
Damn, this is far out! Thank you much.
absolutely beeeaaauuuutifulllll!! Thank you for the upload! Wow!
Love you Bob. Wish I was that high right now.
A friend recommended this song to me and I enjoyed it.
You have a good friend
Yes sir.
I love ❤️ Bob’s lectures!
Thank you Swingin' Pig. This is out of sight!
Leocadia333 Thanks for listening!! Lemme know if you have any requests :)
@@SwinginPig Okie Dokie.
No, it DOESN'T mean "nothing," Robert....you know that!
These are simply amazing. Thank you so much!
Thank you for listening! I wouldn't be uploading them if they weren't appreciated :)
Swingin’ Pig Absolutely appreciated! Please, don’t stop. These need to be here, available and listened to. It’s important. Thank you again.
Mickey Jones just killing it on this tour
I just listened to Nina Simone's cover of this favourite of mine, very beautiful, very soulful, but I must say nothing beats hearing it from the man himself while he sounds ready to beat me to death with his Telecaster
That's probably the only case in which i prefer a cover to Bob's original, or other Bob's versions... Nina paint those 6 pictures so vividly, like not even Bob could, maybe for the sparsity of the arrangement and the composed intensity of Nina's performance.
The most God given talent ever
One of th first Bob Dylan songs I was exposed to...'70-'71; a decade later I planned a cross-country thing with Juarez on my itinerary...luckily I didn't go there. Thanks, Bob, for our 5+ decades.
Fantastic!!
A special time in the life of a special artist.
Then I heard the story of Magdalena Solis, all over the newspapers back in the day, and understood some of the horrifying depth of the nothing this song was about.
Just like the old days love and peace man
The Band is on point!
Saw him in cleveland,ohio on November 12,1965 and he did this song but was not as wild.
Isn't this- just after Mr. Dylan went electric- and pissed off all the folkies?
Yes. But he only pissed off about *half* of the folkies at that time. The other half loved what he was doing. They got it right away. And the rest had to catch up, which took them awhile. All that the press covered was the people who booed and objected to his new sound. They liked the controversy, just like they always do, and did a lot to encourage it.
Oh, I know this clip, well. It is fantastic !
" It just means nothing. "
This was that English trip !
" ... RUBBISH.. isn't even my vocabulary "
Boy are they ever rocking. Band is just lit up and loose, you don't hear anything like this for years and years to come, it's not how professional musicians would usually play.
He was very tired by this show---the weary genius
Just love this man form 13 years old through...
Lmaoo he is just fucking with them so hard. Vintage Bob
I think it's more that he's high as fuck
@@boppob1343 both
No, he's talking to the audience, when some fucking fucks open their fucking mouths full of hatefulness and entitlement, like just because they paid for a ticket, they own an artist like he's their puppet. What a bunch of fucking jerks.
Great video just subscribed to your channel
I've been to Del Rio. It is in an amazingly remote part of the county. Dylan really got around.
I am honestly so mad the audience didn't want him to keep explaining , really dumb of them , would have been great
You do realize how ironic your comment is right?
ex plane
izznitte sew ???
It just a couple of loud mouthed assholes. I think most of them wanted to listen to his introduction
Slightly different intro in Cardiff
"This is a song about an artist from Juarez , er this is a song about his blue period,
he was a short artist and all artists have a blues period"
Bob's Mondo Scripto art exhibition at Halcyon Gallery London - Highly recommended and free entrance !
I’ve always wanted to go there! I’ve heard great things. I’m most excited for the Tulsa museum.
Michele Minick yep, I cant travel to the UK right now either. Hopefully someday 🤞
Michele. Oh my, we should try to coordinate. I'm super psyched to see Tulsa. I'm in Texas but it's still far. Dallas is a good place. Airports. Shorter drive (or bus) to Tulsa.
I was there!
He is playing with the phrasing just like a jazz musician
Ive seen this before many times but just now realized what he says just before they play those first few notes and then hit the first chords -
what a genius thing to yell out -
but not surprised at all !!!
1966 -- and they still had trouble mic'ing rock and roll.
This was less than a month after Richard Farina, Mimi Baez's husband, was killed on a motorcycle & about a month away from his own motorcycle accident.
I AM AN EMPTY HANDED PAINTER FROM YOUR STREET
Seth to Rob: “You are still learning. Your work is still developing. How truly unfortunate you would be if that were not the case!
There is always a kind of artistic dissatisfaction that any true artist feels with work that is completed, for he is always aware of the tug and pull, and the tension, between the sensed ideal and its manifestation. In a certain fashion the artist is looking for a creative solution to a sensed but never clearly stated problem or challenge, and it is an adventure that is literally unending. It must be one that has no clearly stated destination, in usual terms . In the most basic of ways, the artist cannot say where he is going, for if he knows ahead of time he is not creating but copying.
“The true artist is involved with the inner workings of himself with the universe- a choice, I remind you, that he or she has made, and so often the artist does indeed forsake the recognized roads of recognition. And more, seeing that, he often does not know how to assess his own progress, since his journey has no recognizable creative destination. By its nature art basically is meant to put each artist of whatever kind into harmony with the universe, for the artist draws upon the same creative energy from which birth emerges.”
Roberts, Jane (2012-06-02). Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Volume One.
I was at both Melbourne, Australia concerts in 1966 and Bob talked a lot at those concerts. Probably more during the acoustic set than after the interval.
I once had a teacher tell me my interpretation of a particular poem missed the poet’s point. I replied that if the poet has a specific point to make, he should write it out specifically, not in poetic form. So what is MY point? That what a listener gets out of Dylan song is all that is important. What was on Dylan’s mind when he wrote something really is meaningless. It means “nothing”.
yes, i agree. the vital question is "how does it feel"
Can't explain it because it is a slice of someone's life on a sunday afternoon, and they feel that weird way sometimes on sunday afternoons when the light is a certain way, and want to drink a gallon of red wine and consider all the angles, and that is just verse 1, so shaddup and siddown.
By the way, I just googled "Rue Morgue Avenue" and they have a few short clips of this. You might want to have a look.
Cindy Bradley Love it! There’s also an excellent HD version from “No Direction Home,” also on RUclips.
Bob read Poe, he put a melody to a poem of his & performed it at the coffeehouses, don't recall which but read it in Chronicles I.
I'm starting
*The Murders in Rue Morgue* by Poe, said to be the first modern detective story.
Looking forward to find any connections or similarities to this amazing song.
Edit;. Was banned from Utube, it appears everything connected with my username was also deleted, comments included. Good to be back !! 😎