Bob Dylan - The 1966 Live Recordings: The Untold Story Behind The Recordings
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A monumental 36-disc box set featuring every known recording from the mythic and controversial 1966 tour of the US, UK, Europe and Australia.With the exception of the Manchester concert (May 17, 1966) released as Bob Dylan Live 1966 The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 in 1998, a pair of songs appearing on the 1985 Biograph compilation and a smattering of others, the overwhelming majority of tracks and performances on Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings are previously unreleased in any format--official or bootlegged--and are being made available now for the very first time.
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There's being a Dylan fan and there's being a "oh man I wish I could hear more of that acoustic soundcheck version of 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?'" Dylan fan.
Guess which one I am.
You and I both
AHAHAH literally, I would kill for that version
Definitely fall in the latter category. I got goosebumps when I realized what he was singing.
Jimi Hendrix's version on the BBC recordings is a fitting tribute to Bob, he also loved Dylan soo much!
But yeah, if only we had a raw acoustic version
This video is about Richard Alderson and what he went through to capture this historical moment of music history. Amazing that I see no comments here about his contribution...thank you, Richard, for the effort and the suffering to bring us this.
Sounds like he enjoyed it.
I'm feeling ya !
Thankyou!
I concur!
Much respect to Richard Alderson. He seems almost heartbroken when asked to talk about the tour some 50 years later, but at least he lived to see these recordings get the recognition they deserve.
Dylan has always been in a class by himself. A self-taught genius.
Hoping future generations will appreciate him the way we do.
What amazing gifts he has given to the world.
Eternal gratitude, Bob!
".. a self taught genius."
You can't teach yourself to be a genius.
He was the right person at the right time. He wasn't Leonardo da Vinci. He was a cultural artist.
This backstage footage of Dylan in 66 is totally priceless... I'd pay good money to see all of it, I hope we get to someday.
Martin Scorsese did a great movie about Dylan where you can see alot of the backstage stuff from this era. The movie is called No Direction Home... I think..
jacob bech ........there’s another movie by D. A. Pennebaker titled “Don’t Look Back” that covers a 3 week tour of England by Bob in 1965, also worth a look.
I did not know about that movie. Thank you for recommending it!.
There's also Eat This Documents, an unreleased, once aired tv special directed by Bob himself, of the 1966 tour. But yes, the outtakes on Don't Look Back I've always wanted to see
... You wrote my comment for me Tom! Wouldn't it be great!
Richard, these Bob-era recordings are out-of-this-world - thank you for your faithful recordings!
Thank you Richard for your genius in putting those masterful recordings together! You deserved so much recognition!
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
As a lover of both Dylan and sound system culture, I now love this man forever as well.
I love watching old video recordings from the past where people are just behaving normally. Like Bob Dylan having trouble with his microphone and asking his engineer to help him fix it and they're back and forth and all. Whenever you hear music or watch films from the past they're always filtered through some cultural lens and through what the artist is trying to say. But watching videos like this shows you that they're normal people just like us. Even the young genius Dylan walks around frustrated and says goofy things to his co-workers.
What is a normal person? Please tell me because they aren't like your friends or you. Now normal is a bad word, isn't it? It shows that Dylan is an asshole unlike the people he worked with.
Paul Savage "Just be groovy, or leave man."
@@paulsavage5057 Contribute your own original thought to the message board, instead of attacking somebody else who is. The rest of us don't need you to moderate.
@@george5120 Very right on, George. Kudos.
I think Savage made a good point.are we only allowed to praise Zimmerman on here??
What a service to history to have these outstanding recordings to listen to. It's great to know mistakes can be corrected so many years later.
This has been on the internet for 8 years and I finally made it here. Real glad I did…🖤🙏🏻
Me too !
Amen !! National Treasures
Wow, Dylan has outlived Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson to name a few. He's literally one of the last of the great artists.
kyla36 To be a seeker of the truth is healthy. It is the life of a Jew. It your a seeker of the truth then your a Jew tooooooo!
@@TONYSESLCAFE he grew up in olde wilde america..now it is back...he replanted the seed from woody guthrie, from cash and carter family and they got it knocking on strangers doors song catching and picking up coal on the tracks and much came from england and scotland.
it is a web, and dylan was and is still in many ways the grand daddy spider of the era.
i am honored to play his newer dance/blues-americana in a nor cal band.
it is amazing stuff- and his musical genius, his alive letting of life directly into his words and songs is still the gold standard.
this lets us deeper into a the real crucible period along with 61, fresh and raw and on fire for woody but soon to be forced into original writingon meeting ramblin jack elliot, the better woody, lol, with woody bona fides - all for our blessing, his second album was born, just after this gaslight phase...and they are the next foundation of folk after the anthology, woody and leadbelly.
that dylan took the beatles and raw blues energy of bloomfield and blazed trails all would follow as they could till zeppelin really. then dylan was king of folk that mattered again in blood on the tracks with a worthy follow up in desire.
not again till slow train would he catch fire again, already miles and leagues ahead of the curve. think wikileaks 2016 and listen to slow train coming the song again and serve somebody.
a prophet indeed.
he rises and falls sending out new keynotes to the top artists everywhere - that is who follos dylan closest, ALL the poets and underground and genuine musico's of the world.
awesome video! our sandman was so straight up. i wanna see the whole thing.
the year I was born!
British Comedy Bronco Rothschild Triple Agent you’re either schizophrenic or have a learning disability.
@@Zach-bt2ky ''you’re either schizophrenic or have a learning disability.''
Actually, Zah, it's that you're acting venomously with not a wisp of wit.
@@xrxs1020 Bob Dylan converted to Christianity in the 80s.
One man sound system designer, technician, live sound & recording engineer (and much more), Richard Alderson! --A both, hip & humble Hero! (Astounding. Thank You Richard!)
Bob Dylan's timeless artistry and Richard Alderson's dedication in capturing his masterpieces are truly commendable, with hopes that future generations will appreciate the immense gifts they have shared with the world.
Bob is still relevant and appreciated all these years later . Thank you Pete for your channel . Peter behind my Judy .
Judy Armstrong who's Pete?
Wow the way he hangs his head when he says he's glad it's being appreciated. Heartbreaking
Thank you Richard for your dedication and diligence and your true love of the music, what you did and what you achieved was all worthwile
Martin Heath amen
💯
I saw Bob on this tour in San Diego. My seat was in the nose-bleed balcony. The sound for both sets was pure and very clear ...
I remember walking the halls of high school in 72 with Dylan albums . I wanted everyone to listen to him, to hear him. Truly a great ( no matter what he says)
"I think there's something wrong with the wires" LOL I love Bob!
Yeah magpieeye... that line had me rolling!!!🎼🎵🎶🎸😂😂😂
magpieeye Seems he’s not an engineer...
His voice sounds as if it comes from afar, but you have the feeling that he is always present and knows exactly what he wants
The Nobel Prize winner... god I'm so happy I can say that. His music doesn't change because of the win, but now so many more people will find his words.
I went to those concerts. I was one of the ones cheering. The sound was awesome, but half the audience booed because they wanted Blowing in the wind and Times, done how he'd done it before. So gald he kept going.
These recordings are some of the best. This is one of my all time favorites of any of Dylan's recordings.
When he said "I can't hear it coming back." He certainly nailed that these days. I love the echo effect of his growl.
These guys were more punk rock than the punk rockers were. Thanks for uploading.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Pouring themselves into every note, every song, with furious passion.
Sometime anger works wonders
I enjoy some live punk rock but musically it kind of bores me.
I love punk rock (AND Dylan)...while being booed unmercifully, if he really did turn to his band and exhort them to "Play it fuckin' loud!" as Srorcese said that's just about as punk as it gets.
You are right, I heard a story when the Band and Bob played their 1st together show everyone booed them, then Bob said "lets do a tour." The Band members just met Bob that time and they were confused lol. (i watched it in youtube, too but could not remember where.)
some punk ideology is i-dont-care attitude, too.
We revere the artists, fair enough. But there are always many hard-working guys and gals doing their best to make the artist look good, sound good…like this guy. Good on you Richard Alderson, I’m glad your recordings can finally be heard.
Right on. It takes a village to do things proper.
I'm 66 years old and still haven't met a man that can compare to you.
God bless you
Bob has always been a force of nature- performing his own way, on his own terms. A creative genius always ahead of his time. Always keeping it real and innovative- even when the audience and studio execs lacked appreciation for his freewheeling process. Thank you too Richard for these National Treasures! You are an unsung hero-- bootstrapping the sound system on the fly at every venue to capture these performances. Amazing to hear the back story, and hear the originals so many years later.
This is so cool! I wish there was a way to meet him. I just want to sit in a room with him. I am not even sure what it is about him. It isn't just his music, it is the way he speaks and almost doesn't take it seriously in the way that most would. He is one of a kind and I am so happy all of these are getting posted. Thank you.
I feel the same, and I’m an Emery 💕✌️
@@Nick-Emery ☺️✌️
@@EmeryIsland can I ask, is you first name Emery? Like is your name actually Emery Island? If so that’s a cool name 😎😎
@@Nick-Emery my first name is Emery, yes. It is my mother’s maiden name. ☘️ 😉
@@EmeryIsland awesome 😊
Our Shakespeare. How lucky we are. Lovely man, the sound man.
Yes! Isn't he something! So very very clear and straightforward!
Just wonderful. Thanks to God for sending him at this time.
That's just disgraceful believe me you absolutely have no idea of what Shakespeare's writings can be whether you read them or not
@@user-io2xb5ur4tHe ain't Shakespeare but he's the greatest troubadour of our time.
This is a fascinating video of a very humble man. It appropriately ends with Dylan singing the best song ever written.
From what I have heard already.....another remarkable set of Bob Dylan recordings.
An astonishing career.
Da Pennebaker's 1966 footage finally got some proper exposure in "No Direction Home" . Martin's wonderful documentary. Wish we could see more.
and in Eat The Document
these tapes are the greatest footage we have of bob Dylan
So Marty Scorsese filtered through the Dylan archives and brought back possibly the greatest live recordings of rock and roll ever. This was Dylan at his peak, his greatest artistic ability, I dont think he or anyone else really surpassed it. So thank you Marty for having the passion to show this to us, I love you just as much as Bob, and Hunter :D
Greatest American Singer/Songwriter. Seen him numerous times (and this next week as well) since I was 13 years old. I was 1 when these tapes were made. Thanks for posting this. The Nobel actually sells him short. It wont change him, but I bet it changes them.
i think that's why they did it--to stay alive, relevant, because song lyrics are literature, ever since Dylan in the early 60s, he opened doors for all those guys, who gave him credit, that you could be yourself, dress like you, act like you, and write what you feel like writing, do your own songs and use them to express anything, any way, crossing the line into what literature is, use of words to reveal life, simple and complex. Dylan didn't need a prize, they needed to give him one.
Visions of Johanna one of the best songs ever written. Period.
this is my favorite video on the internet so far.
It would be awesome if they released a full 1966 documentary that used a lot of this unreleased footage.
It boggles my mind why they haven't. D. A. Pennebaker captured lightning in a bottle, with this amazing footage! :)
Yeah. This footage captures "another side" of Bob that we don't see in any of the other 1966 tour films like Eat the Document and No Direction Home
There is a TON of lost footage (So they call it) From Don't look back, the outtakes. If you look hard enough you can find them. There are endless archives of Dylan that are to be found.
WHO DO WE HAVE TO BEG ??
Thank you so much for uploading this piece of treasure in music history.
We have to be so thankful for Dylan’s 1966 tour, for out of it came at least one thing to astound millions of Dylan fans, it is absolutely priceless, it leaves me stunned with awe when I see it even though the song is incomplete, it is Bob purring into the mic: Visions of Johanna. The greatest performance I have ever seen of anyone.
I was at the May 24 concert in Paris. I was friends with a news photographer who took me backstage before the show. I shook Dylan's hand, and said "Hello Mr. Dylan" and then I was speechless. After the intermission when he started going electric, half the audience walked out.
That’s his birthday
1:37 An acoustic version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window??? Wow!!!
I know! What a tune !
DO YOU KNOW IF HE EVER PERFORMED IT AND WHERE DO I FIND IT
That song is about something that really happened to him as a teenager. ;)
i kind of see how he's talking about eddie in the song? and in fact, can you please crawl out your window was meant like a second part of like a rolling stone, according to Clinton Heylin
Sure did. It's on the cutting edge.
fantastic and beautifully crisp video quality! heard some interesting little jams that i'd love to hear in full! great insight into the behind the scenes ! loved it !!!!
Wow .....goosebumps! 66 Dylan was the coolest!
Ye man Dylan was so cool in 60s he could of invented rap music, wait a minute...... Subterranean homesick blues 😎
This was shot on film, not video. That's why it still looks great. Sad that film and the related chemical processes seem to have become an urban legend already.
James McHenry i love film and i’m 17!!!
Snippet of gold.
Thank you for sharing on YT.
Thank you for recording, Richard Alderson.
Wow..I would love to see/hear extended interviews with Alderson and those early performances with "The Band". I also enjoyed Bob Johnston's (short) interview in No Direction Home. Many of these "behind the scene" dudes have interesting stories about how legendary music was made.
fucking legends.. all of them.. not just Dylan who stood up and said fuck you to the world but everyone who got his back and stood there next to him doing so.
I could watch hours and hours of this.
Bob, a treasure to be treasured.
The Recordings are Perfection. So grateful we were given the opportunity to hear them. Great Job. Thank You 😊
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Simply Brilliant! Still warm inside from watching :-) and so, deeply warm, heartfelt appreciation. I will buy! Thanks again.
Some of the best recordings ever. I'm glad they got out too.
Fantastic doc. Sometimes we see history and think it is sort of neat, but maybe we do no appreciate what it meant. But with the passing of time, all is revealed. And the connection of Bob Dylan and The Band the challenges and emotion of night after night was astounding. And we remain thankful to finally feel a part of that epic journey.
"You see, my electric guitar never goes out of tune"
Yeah, because not many musicians can play when they are that fucked up on Heroin.
@@paulsavage5057 - I think it was a joke.
@@paulsavage5057 It wasn't heroin.
Paul Savage he beat that problem in three months.. unheard of. He was not in it when he was making this music.
@@LibertysTom a good one lol 😂
All I can say is he is mystical ! 🤗
That is so true...the song writing alone was magical....then he has this aura about him...mystic is a perfect description.
allen ginsberg said he was at a top level here something like samadi
At the height of his drug use but still just as brilliant. Always hated that they crucified him for going electric. He never left his acoustic roots, he was just trying something different. Congrats on the Nobel Bobby. :)
He was electric first then went acoustic then back to electric, when in his teens at school he was into stuff like little Richard, now not to sure about this think he got into folk and woody Guthrie after he left home
Love this stuff! Bob Dylan is the greatest.
Folk musicians criticized his electric guitar, and his entire new 'persona', after his success with Like a Rolling Stone and other songs. But Dylan was willing to evolve, because he was influenced by the electric guitarists of his day, who in turn were influenced by him!
@@kimberlyandreson6909 dylan was electric before he got into folk way before, in school he was into people like little Richard
Kimberly Andreson Beatles as He said we’re a big influence
When I heard the electric albums I said to myself “I’m tired of hearing all the folk music, I wanna hear something new and here it is!” 🤩👏👏🎉
I love his electric stuff, I really do, but after hearing that tiny little fragment of "Can you please crawl out your window?", at the 1:30 mark..... Man, I'd love it if he had recorded an acoustic version of it.
Wow! I would love to see more of this early European tour. Bob sounded great and the tension was like high voltage. You could see Bob Dylan's feelings were raw at that point. Priceless...
Brilliant mashup of Bob Dylan and Richard Alderson behind the scenes. Wish I could see more. Thank you...
Listening to Bob Dylan's music always puts fabulous images in my mind
God bless all the cameramen who worked on stage and backstage during one of the greatest moment in Music History so the future generations will SEE and not "only" hear! 🙏🏻
fascinating footage, I was at the Paris show backstage thanks to Tom Keylock.... Bob was not happy during the acustic ste, they had to push him on stage for the electric one and then everything exploded, the LOUDEST band I had ever heard.... it was his birthday
Good to see my old buddy Mike Bloomfield in those clips.
Thank you for documenting this and doing such a great job capturing the spirit and the soul of the music it's not easy to do and you did it well thank you
I wish they would release some 66 concerts on dvd in entirety. Pleassssssse
[?] Question Block ......but there are wonderful live performances from 1966, I have them on CD. I ordered them through my local record store, I’m sure you’d find them online, it’s The Bootleg Series, (Bootleg something anyway, I’ll check and get back to you) but they’re truly fabulous.
@@lindadote thanks, yes i have the complete 1966 cd boxset. i would like them a couple concerts on dvd tho. would be awesome
Bootleg Series Volume 4 is probably the best live album I've ever heard.
Agree it's groundbreaking. How many other bands were sounding anything like the electric sets in '66?
Agreed. These sets are totally ahead of their time and when I play them at home I play them really loud and they sound awesome!
@@truevipermark It was pretty punk honestly.
I used to have the so called "Royal Albert Hall" concert on a bootleg cassette when I was in college in 1986. It was and is incredible.
That ending... absolutely spectacular. Absolutely MYTHICAL.
Bob Dylan. Forever Young.
visions of johanna?@Wilkin & Sons LTD
Richard , you did a wonderful job !
What do you feel when you see this pictures? I would like know... really.... All a life had happened since this... How things had happened in our lives around the world... And your songs are forever in the air, entering in our hearts, in our souls for never more leave its... Oh my God!
I love this, he seems so casual
This is making me so happy right now... like so happy! i am almost done with my last writing assignment about him. looking forward to check out the live 1966 recordings after the finals!!!!!
My daughter done gcse art around Bob Dylan she said his songs have so much imagery you can sketch an paint them. I asked was it hard to paint songs, i just think about a line out of my best song, i came in from the wilderness,a creature void of form, dad it just fell into place...she is only 17, i couldn't work bill & ben out at that age never mind blood on the tracks
Beyond priceless. And hot damn, we know there is more.
Bob was so far ahead of everyone else and so ambitious, he couldn’t lose.
That brief clip "Visions of Johanna" is Golden.
This is excellent commentary and the recordings are wonderful.
art began as a painting on a cave wall not for money or fame or awards, just to express yourself and to try to explain the world around you, Bob dylan did this! well done Bob!!! er ta! i enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!zit!!
0:32 Nice lipstick shade
I love you Bob Dylan, Elizabeth and I thank you for your music and paintings and life my love 💞, Elizabeth ❤️
Love the way Dylan calls Richard the hunchback of Notre dame at the start
GD..I was 10 yrs old in '66 but was still Hearing t music around me. I was blessed t be born wen I was & growing up in t '60's & '70's. Thank you God
Dylan and The Band. There’s actually nothing better in the history of the world. Visions of Johanna. Enuf said
It wasn't levon there! I had no idea Levon wasn't introduced until later on.. crazy!
Nuff said...I love that saying
Visions of Johanna, you said it. Best line in rock music history: the ghosts of electricity howl in the bones of her face.
The Band doesn't play on Visions Of Johanna, so enuf WASN'T said.
Jonathan Barbier along with Willie's " You can't hang a man for killin' a woman whose trying to steal his horse."
Imagine being a part of something as big and historically significant as Bob Dylan's music and not even knowing it at the time. Cool stuff!
Real nice vid. Priceless footage, priceless history, priceless music.
0:58 SSSHHH!!! XD Breathtaking footage that deserves it's own release!!! :)
Omg that part made me laugh so hard lol. I love Bob.
Come up here and say that
It is pretty cool for sure!
"I think there's something wrong with the wires" Brilliant!
Yes. But despite the many 'gushing' comments posted below - one of the main reasons Dylan went 'electric' in 1966 was to compete with the likes of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who et al; the so-called 'British Invasion' of music of the USA in the 1960s; in addition to wanting a change of direction away from 'pure' folk music with acoustic guitar and harmonica.
''I think something's wrong with the wires.....'' Great!
Hahaha I didn't see your comment. I said the same thing...lol
Dylan on an alternative universe
yeah,we need more wires over here
lol me too, just now! ;0
I absolutely love the 1966 live recordings. I have listened to and watched every bit of material from that tour a million times over. I've laughed to it, I've cried to it, I've played along to it on guitar and vocals, drums, bass, organ, harmonica, lead guitar...something in that tour, the sound, the vibe, the culture, the clashes with the audience...it moves something in me. The acoustic sets feel like an obligation from Bob to the crowd. Bob is so over the acoustic guitar and seems so exhausted, but it gives something to the performance. Then, oh man, "Tell Me, Mama," comes buh-lasting in and it's so, "screw you! In your face, suckers!" I love it! Bob and the boys came to rock the house and every performance was a certified barn-burner. There are so many memorable moments and highlights from the "Royal Albert Hall" recordings, to bootlegs from other cities, to documentaries ("I'll protect you, Mickey.") There was just such a cool, "happening" vibe to it all. Bob seems to become more and more defeated by the end of it, almost desperate for it to be over. It's almost sad at times and it comes across on stage, but it also feels so important and rare that it was all captured in audio and video.
Just fantastic ... ... the music and the story ...
How heartbreaking 💔 my heart, Bob Dylan Elizabeth
Then she adds, “Of course, I love everything he does. I’m his mother.” And what’s more, “He’s a remarkable, wonderful man. He’s a very ordinary person; he’s full of compassion; he has no ego. People don’t really know him. But I do, and I’m grateful for it. Every mother should have a son like Bobby.”
i want to see ALL this footage. UNCUT. RAW. ALL OF IT. Also all those Let It Be studio recordings. And if there are any, the Smile sessions.
Wonderful! Thank you man! Groovy.
Gosh, Richard's playing is great on this.
Can't get enough of Dylan
Such a shame he got the reception he did, highway 61 is a masterpiece from start to finish.