No one ever says this, but Dylan must have a phenomenal memory to retain all those long, long, convoluted lyrics by heart and give them back in concert. He still does this well into his '70s.
Coming from someone who plays and sings it is pretty impressive. Ny memory is absolute shit but somehow when I just speak the words come out right so maybe that’s how he felt too. When you practice them a couple times I think it becomes muscle memory but it’s different for everyone
From what I've read and know about Bob Dylan, I wouldn't class it as "memory" in the traditional sense of the word. He says (and I believe him) that by the time he comes to write a song out for the first time he already knows it all in his head. When answering your very query he said that the lyrics are visual to him, so I guess he doesn't have to track through them line by line like the rest of us. I think what puts him above all other songwriters and poets etc is that his poetry is born out of performance, listening and playing in turn. Perfectly matching the written poetry of the beats to the rhythms of folk and blues music surely stands as one of music's great moments. Maybe the closest thing the 20th century had to Homer
In March 1986, Dylan told his audience in Japan: "This is a song I wrote a while back in response to people who ask me questions all the time. You just get tired of that every once in a while. You just don't want to answer no more questions. I figure a person’s life speaks for itself, right? So, every once in a while you got to do this kind of thing, you got to put somebody in their place... So this is my response to something that happened over in England. I think it was about '63, '64. Anyway the song still holds up. Seems to be people around still like that. So I still sing it. It's called 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'."
Thank you so much for this information ha yeah i thought he was making an idiot for people ya no just where do they get it from 😂it doesn't matter what you think he changed that 😂
Yep Mr Bob told them what it is...if they ever known that who knows..tatatat Tata teenie tiny teenie weenie i really don't think so..pickle pipe a pepper 😂
The phrase: 'He doesn't suffer fools easily' was made for Bob Dylan - don't try to sneak any inauthenticity past him, you'll get blown into a trillion pieces.
Welcome aboard youngsters. May we all try our best to follow in his footsteps. A rather sad tip- you don't have to bother with anything he did after Blood on the Tracks, except Planet Waves. But there's enough before to last a lifetime.
@@stealthsadhu306 I disagree. As a 15 year old I'm absolutely in love with Desire, Street Legal and Oh Mercy. (And Planet Waves! Which was released before BOTT) There's a lot to discover after his best!
@deceitfulviper But wait! THERE'S MORE! The Basement Tapes will blow your mind. And there's Time Out Of Mind, Love & Theft...enjoy your journey, and please go see him live. He's always on tour, and it's cheap at any price... It'll change your life.
The lyrics and music remind me of a surreal nightmare where nothing quite makes sense and clarity is just out of reach and there's no escape. Unsettling brilliance
I've always thought it was 10 years ahead of it's time, a song about an anonymous man (Mr. Jones) walking into a gay "tea room" where men are engaged in various sex acts. Someone is naked, someone is a sword swallower, someone hands someone else a bone. Meanwhile Dylan is ripping the hypocrisy of a society that pretends this scene doesn't exist.
@John Walsh What a fascinating interpretation. I did once read Ginsberg introduced Bob to the underground homosexual culture that was thriving throughout Europe in the 1960s. Like you say, maybe Bob is letting us peak through the curtain into a world very few would have experienced. When I read your comment Kubrick came to mind, seems like a surreal scene from one of his films. Amazing how Bob can still blow our minds even now, it must have been truly revolutionary at the time!
this whole video is like a superimposition of the future onto the past...which was then the present. No wonder they booed...who had ever seen anything like this...or heard.///and once you do hear the words they stick in your ears for about 60 years until the future finally gets here,
This guy inspired The Beatles to go 'deeper.' Think about that. This cat was ahead of The Beatles. Bob just goes pure poetic prophet on this one, just IMO. And that's one of many things I love about Dylan... There will be uncountable different opinions on this very same song. God bless Bob Dylan, man. Yeah. God bless Robert Zimmerman from Minnesota.
Dylan also turned them on in terms of pot, which changed their music tremendously, and in a wonderful way. Getting into that encouraged them to think more deeply, more profoundly, and we know how it went from there. Bob was a bit older as well, so they looked up to him. He had a big impact on them, musically.
@@lescobrandon4586 ... That's simply playing into what Dylan said in an interview about selling his soul. But if you know anything about Dylan, you know he played with the media. Not infrequently he made up stuff for the media to feed on. In fact, this is what song is about: "You know something is happening, but you don't what it is, do you Mr Jones?"
I love how his melodic cadence is completely different than the studio version, but sounds just as cool which, to me, is a clear indication that he improvises these lines both live and in the studio. Genius.
The Master at work. Still have my Blonde on Blonde album that I bought in 1966. I was 14yrs old. Still sounds great. Timeless. Thank you. God bless you. 💗➕💗😇
Bob's shot at the press, who blasted him for going electric ..."you walk into the room with a pencil in your hand, (the press)..you see somebody naked and say who is that man, "(Bob feeling vulnerable during the interview , and the reporter has no clue about him or his music/Art).....54 years later and this GREAT song still holds up! Great vid!!!!!
Not quite enough credit is given to that hammond organ playing. Atmospheric, dark, improvised melodic lines, that compliment wonderfully between each of Dylans surreal lines. One of the most ground-breaking moments in pop history on film.
I saw him play and sing this at Berkeley Community Theater in 1965. It chilled me to the bone then, and it chills me to the bone now. I close my eyes and see him leaning in, hunched over, hair tangled, fingers plucking the keys. Down my spine it goes.
OMG. Here is Dylan's greatness, unalloyed. That he could once rise to this peak, burn and tremble so brightly, thanks to this, will go on forever. A timeless moment in the history of Western art.
Peak Dylan. My favorite period. And Garth- genius playing. Been listening, watching from Day One. This defined his essence for me, the apex of rock music, no musician or band, no matter how loud or how many amplifiers, made a bigger sound than this.
Definitely, don't believe is a self portrait. The lyrics seems to be about someone he has forced to engage to and despise. Maybe a journalist or a music critic.
What a song! Only Bob could write this. Chills. Somehow the man is still doing this. Absolutely mind-boggling! Thanks Swingin! You have one of the best Dylan channels in existence.
I just can't believe that he and the band were booed when playing these songs. This is one of the most beautifully honest and emotive songs ever recorded I would have given my right arm to hear it fresh and live
@@gforce4063 "Folkies" being a very small sub-set of IDENTITY MOVEMENTS. How else to explain the perceived charisma of rank State of NY Democratic Political party Machine Heir turned Hack Icon of a family that got rich after emigrating from war-torn Germany to outer Queens on Long Island by milking PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT CONSTRUCTION then turned CONSERVATIVE Christian Evangelical GOP theocrats who believed in SHRINKING BIG GOVERNMENT and GREED IS GOOD; Da Trumpster?!?! A national political candidate that only the depths of big D Democratic Leadership Council institutional corruption of decades of Wage Stag-Nation and Food Stamp Nation wealth concentration to the ever smaller group of oligarchs where our Post WW II national wealth has been siphoned into the bank secrecy off-shore accounts or South Dakota money-laundering accounts of our Oligarchs In Chief and their Wealth Management and Portfolio wizards of Neo-Liberal\Neo-Con Zombie E-CON waste via Financialization, Privatization and Wealth Concentration. Nothing else will matter as da UndaWoyld keeps rising above ground and grabbing what ain't setting off the Geiger counters.... Bobby D.'s alter ego and boho buddy Bob Neuwirth made this one major label collaboration with founding Velvet Underground experimentalist John Cale. Give it a listen in sequence, recall it was recorded with outtakes of other collaborators all in 1993 and then read today's newspapers..... All tracks with outtakes in sequence posted here as LAST DAY ON EARTH album... th-cam.com/video/FdfxCweZ9RI/w-d-xo.html Bob Neuwirth/John Cale - Who's in Charge (from album Last Day on Earth) 2,257 views Oct 17, 2012 Visit: bobneuwirth.com/ "Who's In Charge?" Tio Mitchito\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
The words of this song (poem) don’t resonate with me at all, yet I feel like it was written for this moment of my life. This is the only song that gives me goosebumps every.single.fking.time. And tears to my eyes.
It's great how you put this together. The distorted black and white of the film, and this ghostly slender figure playing this funeral-like song that encompasses his appearance, wandering a house in ruins, it's so surreal and mysterious.
I was born in 1966. And now my 19 year old son has turned me into a Dylan fan. We saw him 2 months ago he wasn’t even the youngest kid there. You can learn from kids if you let yourself.
...Can't say enough about this incredible song and stupendous performance. I'm glad a song of this imagination and power exists . He needed to blast it out ...and he did. I love that piano re-enforcement. Watch his hands..they are made for piano and he's making it his own... He is grace here.. beauty, gentleness and ferocity. So original..
For me the summit of the 66 tour! Everything is perfect! The intro with the piano of Bob and the guitar of Robbie, the loud drumming of Mickey Jones, the outstanding and subtle organ of Garth, the solid bass guitar of Rick, and of course the wild and inspired singing of Bob on his incredible mysterious but meaningful text! Really a summit and a revolutionary piece of rock music 🎶 🤩!
And this is why I have loved Bob Dylan since I was six years old, my mom and dad were young when they had me and music was always playing in our house, so I grew up listening to Bob, and we have tickets to see him in 3 weeks. I love him and his incredible wordsmith music.
@@likearollingstone007 It was a very good Outlaw Festival. Bob’s band was super tight, his vocal cords are shot through, unfortunately, or he was having trouble with his voice. Still a great show, he played piano, a black shiny Grand Piano 🎹.
🙏If I did not subscribe before, I would do so within 10 seconds. Only today [2023/12/26] did this clip reach my retinas and eardrums. Reason for me to celebrate with the following inscription: "Thank you everyone, for since decades I have longed to be able to enjoy recordings of this most authentic possible ."
Dear Swingin Pig - What a brilliant job, mixing disparate videos and audios together. You've created the best ever 66 Thin Man, bar none. Dylan fans will know how many choices you've made to create this, and how astute those choices are - a hundred times better than 'I'm Not There', for a start... Thank you SO much, it's hugely appreciated. What a f----ing masterpiece.
there are very very few people that can deliver such intensity and commitment onstage. I can only think of Jimi Hendrix and Howlin Wolf, but even they are half-hearted in comparison. How could anybody not love this performance?
It was through songs like this that Bob Dylan surprised the folk, jazz, and Rock N'Roll world. It's been said that he's real selective about the lead guitarists he plays with. This live version of "Ballad of a Thin Man" shows the super group caliber of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on organcrew playing in this stellar performance. "But something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?"
I think what the British people missed is that the ‘60’s were a rough time in America. A lot happened politically and socially and I think Dylan was feeling that and put it to music. Sure he changed and went electric but the times were changing. He just knew and went with it.. he was too talented to stick to just singing topical songs on a acoustic guitar..
Sure it was. British people were under government rations until 1958 and couldn't get enough dairy products to live on or feed their children because the British government was forced into rationing these imports in order to make sure that no one in the country starved. This is why, perhaps, you find that many British people of the older generation have bad teeth. This was also due to the fact that dental care was expensive and only the rich could afford to have braces.
One of the things that's get glossed over is that Dylan only got popular in around 1965 in the UK. All of his acoustic music was in the charts during this tour. So a lot of people expected that Dylan to show up. But then again, some people probably were mad that he "sold out" or whatever
We gotta keep these old Dylan videos up! Really, sincerely mean that. Thank you for posting. These recordings, they're so insane, haunting, amazing, and should (and will) outlast and 'out win' most singer songwriters(ing) of any generation inspired to write and perform what they perceive and deal with on the inside and attempt to poetically express. I know we like Bowie, Bruce, Led Zeppelin, the Clash, PJ, but Jesus, all of them know this man. Jesus knows this man. Thank you. And that film and it's soundtrack, thank God for Martin Scorsese.
My world changed completely when I was 16 and I heard a song called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on the radio. No one did songs like that. No one wrote songs that challenged your mind until Dylan came along. Of course, he embraced rock music, that was the music of the time. The folkies were left behind in the dust. Some appreciated what he had done, but many of them never recovered.
Gracias Bob Dylan,,, tienes tanta musica,,, tantas grabaciones,, que no soy capaz de oir todo lo que cantas,,,,, gracias,,, para mi es lo que más se asemeja a un profesor de musica
This is EPIC!! omg what a terrific editing job. Thank you so much~ probably the very first punk rock piano performance. Bobby on the edge. Gotta love that kid in the glasses at 3:33, he gets it.
Sitting in the second row April 22 Adelaide "Palais Royal Theater" Adelaide, Aust. I was 13 but i'm younger than that now. Never been quite the same ever since. Thanks Bob.
When I rode the bus as a kid in middle school I would listen to this on repeat, it's my secret favorite I have never share until now. It is how I learned what a one eye midget is then 😢.
All these people at one of the greatest concerts of all time... some get it many don’t something is happening and you don’t know what it is . Thats life in a nutshell
It was a wild time. cool to see little glimpes of TheBand! So young. Dylan loved the boos and conflicks, Ive heard him say in interviews. The more boos the better...for breaking the box some were trying to keep him in.
I just think the part about the carnival geek handing him a bone is the most crafty writing and poetic delivery I've ever heard after 60 years on this planet.
Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party was formulated. Bobby Seale writes about this song in his book "Seize the Time". There's a couple pages about it... I'll just give an excerpt: Bobby Seale wrote" ".... in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan. Now that melody was in my mind. I actually heard it. I could hear the melody of this record. I could hear the sound and the beat to it. But I really didn't hear the words. This record played after we stayed up late laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up late laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over. Lots of brothers stayed right over there with lots of shotguns for security. Huey P Newton made me realize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record but what the lyrics meant in the record. This song is hell. You've got to understand that this song is saying a hell of alot about society." Bobby Seale of BPP... Breakfast Program Power... (really Black Panther Party 🤭)
He has never told the truth about who Mr. Jones is... He probably doesn't even know himself. He's one of the greatest of all time. And the live version of this song is probably the greatest piece of music I've ever heard.
Boys and girls!! Do y’all even know who is playing behind him?! That looks like the band! First footage I’ve come across where I’ve seen them back him. So freaking cool
Asher Fairbanks - Hmm well - considering they were Dylan’s backing group at the time - makes it absolutely no surprise whatsoever that he is being backed by The Band ! Any fool knows this.
Riki Newton I was being sarcastic and highlighting something I think is very cool. Maybe someone scrolling through the comments didn’t know such information! Thank you for the reply 😌
They didn't understand when he switched on an amp and took that electric and sang but he was the Zimmerman flying ahead of everyone before they ever saw that he can fly transported by the girl on the half-shell, in her hand.
Wow I need a rest after that
Yah know somethings happening but your not really what it is do you mr. Piggy hahahaha what's up man
When you hear that single note 0:28 you know you're in for it.
Very similar to the first guitar note, nine years later, on Wish You Were Here.
@@benjimcdonald4522 a little passive-agressive perhaps !?
@@dixonpinfold2582 you mean that B note ?
He's worried about what he's going to tell his family when he gets home.Shit,he's already home.looking at the naked dude in his living room...
No one ever says this, but Dylan must have a phenomenal memory to retain all those long, long, convoluted lyrics by heart and give them back in concert. He still does this well into his '70s.
Yep . I’d give £1000 to Anyone who can sing the whole of ‘sad eyed lady of the low lands’ without reading the lyrics
Coming from someone who plays and sings it is pretty impressive. Ny memory is absolute shit but somehow when I just speak the words come out right so maybe that’s how he felt too. When you practice them a couple times I think it becomes muscle memory but it’s different for everyone
From what I've read and know about Bob Dylan, I wouldn't class it as "memory" in the traditional sense of the word. He says (and I believe him) that by the time he comes to write a song out for the first time he already knows it all in his head. When answering your very query he said that the lyrics are visual to him, so I guess he doesn't have to track through them line by line like the rest of us. I think what puts him above all other songwriters and poets etc is that his poetry is born out of performance, listening and playing in turn. Perfectly matching the written poetry of the beats to the rhythms of folk and blues music surely stands as one of music's great moments. Maybe the closest thing the 20th century had to Homer
How does he remember Desolation Row???
He can remember his lyrics but judging from the first few seconds he might have trouble remembering how to play some of his songs
In March 1986, Dylan told his audience in Japan: "This is a song I wrote a while back in response to people who ask me questions all the time. You just get tired of that every once in a while. You just don't want to answer no more questions. I figure a person’s life speaks for itself, right? So, every once in a while you got to do this kind of thing, you got to put somebody in their place... So this is my response to something that happened over in England. I think it was about '63, '64. Anyway the song still holds up. Seems to be people around still like that. So I still sing it. It's called 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'."
Thank you so much for this information ha yeah i thought he was making an idiot for people ya no just where do they get it from 😂it doesn't matter what you think he changed that 😂
Yep Mr Bob told them what it is...if they ever known that who knows..tatatat Tata teenie tiny teenie weenie i really don't think so..pickle pipe a pepper 😂
The phrase: 'He doesn't suffer fools easily' was made for Bob Dylan - don't try to sneak any inauthenticity past him, you'll get blown into a trillion pieces.
i’m so glad i’ve found bob while he’s still with us. i’m only 20 but this is one of the best songs i’ve ever heard. so intoxicating.
I’m 14 and I’m in love with this man. His words and instrumentations speak to me on so many volumes
Welcome aboard youngsters. May we all try our best to follow in his footsteps. A rather sad tip- you don't have to bother with anything he did after Blood on the Tracks, except Planet Waves. But there's enough before to last a lifetime.
@@stealthsadhu306 I disagree. As a 15 year old I'm absolutely in love with Desire, Street Legal and Oh Mercy. (And Planet Waves! Which was released before BOTT) There's a lot to discover after his best!
I’m 17 and just fell down a rabbit hole about a week ago and I can’t stop listening to him… amazing music
@deceitfulviper But wait! THERE'S MORE! The Basement Tapes will blow your mind. And there's Time Out Of Mind, Love & Theft...enjoy your journey, and please go see him live. He's always on tour, and it's cheap at any price... It'll change your life.
The lyrics and music remind me of a surreal nightmare where nothing quite makes sense and clarity is just out of reach and there's no escape. Unsettling brilliance
Very true. I had never thought about it that way but you’re spot on!
I'm 62 and dealt with the general pubic most of my working life, lines from this song came to mind then, and still do on a daily basis... it's genius.
I've always thought it was 10 years ahead of it's time, a song about an anonymous man (Mr. Jones) walking into a gay "tea room" where men are engaged in various sex acts. Someone is naked, someone is a sword swallower, someone hands someone else a bone. Meanwhile Dylan is ripping the hypocrisy of a society that pretends this scene doesn't exist.
@John Walsh What a fascinating interpretation. I did once read Ginsberg introduced Bob to the underground homosexual culture that was thriving throughout Europe in the 1960s. Like you say, maybe Bob is letting us peak through the curtain into a world very few would have experienced. When I read your comment Kubrick came to mind, seems like a surreal scene from one of his films. Amazing how Bob can still blow our minds even now, it must have been truly revolutionary at the time!
I came to associate this song with Horace Judson. The interviewer from Time magazine. He’s Mr. Jones
Man the organ in the background makes this song hit different
Garth Hudson on organ , Robbie Robertson guitar, Rick Danko on bass
@@tanygnatus The Band really made Bob sound so sixties.
Planet Waves is a favourite of mine and Before the Flood is my favourite live album ever.
@@babylonsburning1I’ll echo that.
"You should at all times be carrying a telephone...." I think Bob predicted the future. LOL.
Seriously. They don't call him a prophet for nothing.
this whole video is like a superimposition of the future onto the past...which was then the present. No wonder they booed...who had ever seen anything like this...or heard.///and once you do hear the words they stick in your ears for about 60 years until the future finally gets here,
@@mortimerzilch2608 best comment
Sheiks walking around like kings, deciding Americas future from Amsterdam into Paris" Slow Train Coming 1979
he is a prophet
Bob is like "shhh, im gonna tell you about the absurdity of your life and hit you with some existential angst. " Nice job piggy:)
Yes that's it you found
You know it meant a lot to him, the weight and power of hushing them there
A24 year old kid. Up there with Shakespeare and newton and Einstein. And he has longer more wordy songs
Underrated Piano Player as well as a guitar player.
This guy inspired The Beatles to go 'deeper.' Think about that. This cat was ahead of The Beatles. Bob just goes pure poetic prophet on this one, just IMO. And that's one of many things I love about Dylan... There will be uncountable different opinions on this very same song. God bless Bob Dylan, man. Yeah. God bless Robert Zimmerman from Minnesota.
Dylan sold his soul bud
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Dylan also turned them on in terms of pot, which changed their music tremendously, and in a wonderful way. Getting into that encouraged them to think more deeply, more profoundly, and we know how it went from there. Bob was a bit older as well, so they looked up to him. He had a big impact on them, musically.
@@John-xk2sd Dylan is the Man
@@lescobrandon4586 ... That's simply playing into what Dylan said in an interview about selling his soul. But if you know anything about Dylan, you know he played with the media. Not infrequently he made up stuff for the media to feed on. In fact, this is what song is about: "You know something is happening, but you don't what it is, do you Mr Jones?"
Blown away, Dylan at his best. The annunciation is so perfect.
part of what makes him the most important singer of all time
I love how his melodic cadence is completely different than the studio version, but sounds just as cool which, to me, is a clear indication that he improvises these lines both live and in the studio. Genius.
The Master at work. Still have my Blonde on Blonde album that I bought in 1966. I was 14yrs old. Still sounds great. Timeless. Thank you. God bless you.
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Best album ever made Blonde on Blonde
I just gave my original press vinyl to my brother. He's the biggest Dyan fan I know.
One of the great hooks for me is Dylan's ability to make me want to hear the next verse.
Bob's shot at the press, who blasted him for going electric ..."you walk into the room with a pencil in your hand, (the press)..you see somebody naked and say who is that man, "(Bob feeling vulnerable during the interview , and the reporter has no clue about him or his music/Art).....54 years later and this GREAT song still holds up! Great vid!!!!!
Not quite enough credit is given to that hammond organ playing. Atmospheric, dark, improvised melodic lines, that compliment wonderfully between each of Dylans surreal lines. One of the most ground-breaking moments in pop history on film.
Not a Hammond, but a Lowrey Festival :)
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garth hudson going brazy
BABY GARTH!
Garth makes every song he plays on better.
Brilliant Garth
I saw him play and sing this at Berkeley Community Theater in 1965. It chilled me to the bone then, and it chills me to the bone now. I close my eyes and see him leaning in, hunched over, hair tangled, fingers plucking the keys. Down my spine it goes.
You are one lucky man for sure
OMG. Here is Dylan's greatness, unalloyed. That he could once rise to this peak, burn and tremble so brightly, thanks to this, will go on forever. A timeless moment in the history of Western art.
Now this is the most fire breathing version I've ever heard Dylan perform - he was shooting for the stars on this night ...
“Shhhhhh.” He shushes the little brats. So cool, and in control. The adult in the room.
Peak Dylan. My favorite period. And Garth- genius playing. Been listening, watching from Day One. This defined his essence for me, the apex of rock music, no musician or band, no matter how loud or how many amplifiers, made a bigger sound than this.
Maybe one of the best Dylan songs...an intense and immense self portrait..great...
I agree. It’s definitely his most musically brilliant.
I interpreted it as him singing to the people who clinged to his folk music and could not understand the change thats happening.
To me this is a story about media figures, I guess it goes to show how fantastically it's written that there are so many interpretations
Like quite a few of Dylan's songs, it could be about several different things at the same time, so yes, it could partially be a self-portrait.
Definitely, don't believe is a self portrait. The lyrics seems to be about someone he has forced to engage to and despise. Maybe a journalist or a music critic.
What a song! Only Bob could write this. Chills. Somehow the man is still doing this. Absolutely mind-boggling! Thanks Swingin! You have one of the best Dylan channels in existence.
I just can't believe that he and the band were booed when playing these songs. This is one of the most beautifully honest and emotive songs ever recorded I would have given my right arm to hear it fresh and live
Folkies
@@gforce4063 "Folkies" being a very small sub-set of IDENTITY MOVEMENTS. How else to explain the perceived charisma of rank State of NY Democratic Political party Machine Heir turned Hack Icon of a family that got rich after emigrating from war-torn Germany to outer Queens on Long Island by milking PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT CONSTRUCTION then turned CONSERVATIVE Christian Evangelical GOP theocrats who believed in SHRINKING BIG GOVERNMENT and GREED IS GOOD;
Da Trumpster?!?! A national political candidate that only the depths of big D Democratic Leadership Council institutional corruption of decades of Wage Stag-Nation and Food Stamp Nation wealth concentration to the ever smaller group of oligarchs where our Post WW II national wealth has been siphoned into the bank secrecy off-shore accounts or South Dakota money-laundering accounts of our Oligarchs In Chief and their Wealth Management and Portfolio wizards of Neo-Liberal\Neo-Con Zombie E-CON waste via Financialization, Privatization and Wealth Concentration.
Nothing else will matter as da UndaWoyld keeps rising above ground and grabbing what ain't setting off the Geiger counters....
Bobby D.'s alter ego and boho buddy Bob Neuwirth made this one major label collaboration with founding Velvet Underground experimentalist John Cale. Give it a listen in sequence, recall it was recorded with outtakes of other collaborators all in 1993 and then read today's newspapers.....
All tracks with outtakes in sequence posted here as LAST DAY ON EARTH album...
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Bob Neuwirth/John Cale - Who's in Charge (from album Last Day on Earth)
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The words of this song (poem) don’t resonate with me at all, yet I feel like it was written for this moment of my life. This is the only song that gives me goosebumps every.single.fking.time. And tears to my eyes.
Do you mister jones?
A baby faced Garth tickling them, and Dylan's vocals are fantastic....this rocks.....timeless
It's great how you put this together. The distorted black and white of the film, and this ghostly slender figure playing this funeral-like song that encompasses his appearance, wandering a house in ruins, it's so surreal and mysterious.
Is that a serious comment?
I think i was high and my english is so so. But maybe i was serious.
@@Julian-sr9dgi took you serious. i agree
I saw him perform this in Australia in 1966. Couldn't believe it! I was already a convert but this took it to a new level.
I saw him in Melbourne in 1966 too my friend.
I was born in 1966. And now my 19 year old son has turned me into a Dylan fan. We saw him 2 months ago he wasn’t even the youngest kid there. You can learn from kids if you let yourself.
To the ones who booed him.... he's still standing at age 80!
He's not only standing ... he's still performing and writing songs ...
...Can't say enough about this incredible song and stupendous performance. I'm glad a song of this imagination and power exists .
He needed to blast it out ...and he did. I love that piano re-enforcement. Watch his hands..they are made for piano and he's making it his own... He is grace here.. beauty, gentleness and ferocity. So original..
Powerful. He gave it his all.
For me the summit of the 66 tour! Everything is perfect! The intro with the piano of Bob and the guitar of Robbie, the loud drumming of Mickey Jones, the outstanding and subtle organ of Garth, the solid bass guitar of Rick, and of course the wild and inspired singing of Bob on his incredible mysterious but meaningful text! Really a summit and a revolutionary piece of rock music 🎶 🤩!
And this is why I have loved Bob Dylan since I was six years old, my mom and dad were young when they had me and music was always playing in our house, so I grew up listening to Bob, and we have tickets to see him in 3 weeks. I love him and his incredible wordsmith music.
So, how was the show ?
@@likearollingstone007 It was a very good Outlaw Festival. Bob’s band was super tight, his vocal cords are shot through, unfortunately, or he was having trouble with his voice. Still a great show, he played piano, a black shiny Grand Piano 🎹.
@@jimrebr oh great. He’s not getting any younger so, surely an evening to remember.
Garth Hudson just tearing the joint up!!
One of the most atmospheric songs ever written.
He has always been a step above everyone else.
🙏If I did not subscribe before, I would do so within 10 seconds. Only today [2023/12/26] did this clip reach my retinas and eardrums. Reason for me to celebrate with the following inscription: "Thank you everyone, for since decades I have longed to be able to enjoy recordings of this most authentic possible ."
I love the way he shooshes the crowd.
He's a sick man.
the greatest lyrics ever, garth hudson adds with volcanic organ
Dylan at his peak as a songwriter and performer. Bristling with angst energy.
Amazing performance.Fantastic lyrics,voice and great courage to endure the fools who just could'nt understand.
What a master of mood...
toucher of our inner nerves,
and lightning rod of our insane times...
poet-Dylan is
Great work. If only there was enough footage to piece together a full '66 concert.
men ive been looking everywhere for that
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I have this tour almost complete on audio. It's amazing the crap he got. 'They' really couldn't believe he changed.
Dear Swingin Pig -
What a brilliant job, mixing disparate videos and audios together. You've created the best ever 66 Thin Man, bar none. Dylan fans will know how many choices you've made to create this, and how astute those choices are - a hundred times better than 'I'm Not There', for a start... Thank you SO much, it's hugely appreciated. What a f----ing masterpiece.
I saw him in May 1966 on this tour. I was 14 and it blew me away.
I tried desperately to get to Yale bowl; I was just 14 too, but the accident happened.
Our school took a whole bus of pupils and I was 12 and it blew me into tiny widdle pieces
there are very very few people that can deliver such intensity and commitment onstage. I can only think of Jimi Hendrix and Howlin Wolf, but even they are half-hearted in comparison. How could anybody not love this performance?
John Lennon too.
Right right right ✓✓✓✓
Funny you mention two men very close to the heart of Brian Jones. Whatever
Howlin Wolf half hearted? I don’t think …
Bob Dylan playing to his destiny and there were people right in front of him who missed it!
Nailed it
Man. Amazing footage. Dylan at his peak.
It was through songs like this that Bob Dylan surprised the folk, jazz, and Rock N'Roll world. It's been said that he's real selective about the lead guitarists he plays with. This live version of "Ballad of a Thin Man" shows the super group caliber of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on organcrew playing in this stellar performance. "But something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?"
I think what the British people missed is that the ‘60’s were a rough time in America. A lot happened politically and socially and I think Dylan was feeling that and put it to music. Sure he changed and went electric but the times were changing. He just knew and went with it.. he was too talented to stick to just singing topical songs on a acoustic guitar..
things were changing just as rapidly in britain in the 60s as they were in america.
@@christopherprice2235well said mate
The times were *a-changing
Sure it was. British people were under government rations until 1958 and couldn't get enough dairy products to live on or feed their children because the British government was forced into rationing these imports in order to make sure that no one in the country starved. This is why, perhaps, you find that many British people of the older generation have bad teeth. This was also due to the fact that dental care was expensive and only the rich could afford to have braces.
One of the things that's get glossed over is that Dylan only got popular in around 1965 in the UK. All of his acoustic music was in the charts during this tour. So a lot of people expected that Dylan to show up. But then again, some people probably were mad that he "sold out" or whatever
Astonishing surrealistic imagery
We gotta keep these old Dylan videos up! Really, sincerely mean that. Thank you for posting. These recordings, they're so insane, haunting, amazing, and should (and will) outlast and 'out win' most singer songwriters(ing) of any generation inspired to write and perform what they perceive and deal with on the inside and attempt to poetically express. I know we like Bowie, Bruce, Led Zeppelin, the Clash, PJ, but Jesus, all of them know this man. Jesus knows this man. Thank you. And that film and it's soundtrack, thank God for Martin Scorsese.
Best of the best!!Dylan at His best! I dont know what is happening but at least i know that something is happening!😄
just the greatest song writer in history , such lyrics luv the guy and joan
raw & loose & so close to being a complete mess.. yet.. swagger for days & a brutal commentary 😎😎
Those keys, man. Transplendent.
It’s simply transplendent.
Thanks this is what I needed to see and hear after a night sleepless writing and thinking about the war between US and China.
I’m blown away. Every version of this song is my favorite.
These Brits knew they were watching a legend in the making and history right before their eyes.
My world changed completely when I was 16 and I heard a song called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on the radio. No one did songs like that. No one wrote songs that challenged your mind until Dylan came along. Of course, he embraced rock music, that was the music of the time. The folkies were left behind in the dust. Some appreciated what he had done, but many of them never recovered.
Greg - Everyone knew that songs were supposed to be 3 minutes long and have simple lyrics about love and cars.
Damn he's an awesome musician and he has so many different versions of his songs
Garths organ on this is exceptional! Great live version.
(for me) one of his best life performances
Gracias Bob Dylan,,, tienes tanta musica,,, tantas grabaciones,, que no soy capaz de oir todo lo que cantas,,,,, gracias,,, para mi es lo que más se asemeja a un profesor de musica
I'm jealous of the past for knowing what this really sounded like in that auditorium.
'I'm a sick man , leave me alone.'😂
Reminds me of the first words from ''Notes from the Underground'' by Dostojevski.
Dope sick is still sick. Nothing wrong with that, at the time, that is.
This is EPIC!! omg what a terrific editing job. Thank you so much~ probably the very first punk rock piano performance. Bobby on the edge. Gotta love that kid in the glasses at 3:33, he gets it.
Haha, yep, one of my favorite parts. Thank a lot! I had a blast making it :)
Looks like a British me if I were a time traveller, which I'm not...
Amazing Bob got the golden voice and manerisms
A huge mark is the history of a unforgetable GREAT SONG!
your right on the money sara
Sitting in the second row April 22 Adelaide "Palais Royal Theater" Adelaide, Aust. I was 13 but i'm younger than that now. Never been quite the same ever since. Thanks Bob.
" you know something happening,,but you just don't know what it is ..... you're well read,it's well known".
I just LOVE it! Wonderful, fantastic... words fail me here...
What did I just discover?? My God, this is a life altering experience
When I rode the bus as a kid in middle school I would listen to this on repeat, it's my secret favorite I have never share until now. It is how I learned what a one eye midget is then 😢.
All these people at one of the greatest concerts of all time... some get it many don’t something is happening and you don’t know what it is . Thats life in a nutshell
What a Emotional and Brilliant Song!
So good to see and hear this, when Dylan in a 45 minutes electric set definitely changed music for ever!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous! Surely nobody there objected to such brilliance!
😎 OH MY GOD AM I HERE ALL ALONE ???? 👍👌
Such talent !✌️
this video is beautiful and mesmerizing. thank you for sharing it with us
Song's awesome. This version's just perfect, man. Yes. Haha! Geeked out when I found this. Thanks for posting!
So much love for Dylan
His music is sun drenched & glistening
Thank you so much for the restoration. You've done a great job.
I love the part where he told them to leave him alone. You can tell he genuinely meant that
Chef d’œuvre !
this is fucking great. i keep coming back month after month revisiting this video, how is he real
“You should be made , at all times,...to be.....carrying a Phone..” 🎶🎵. (At 6min 30sec)
who is this...my god you're killing me, as if we peaked with nowhere and with no one to ... It’s definitely his most musically brilliant.
great moment in the history of confrontational performance art!
Saw him live a few years ago in Vancouver so many years after this & it was amazing.
It was a wild time. cool to see little glimpes of TheBand! So young. Dylan loved the boos and conflicks, Ive heard him say in interviews. The more boos the better...for breaking the box some were trying to keep him in.
I just think the part about the carnival geek handing him a bone is the most crafty writing and poetic delivery I've ever heard after 60 years on this planet.
Magnificient work thanks for your effort and sharing!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening :)
Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party was formulated. Bobby Seale writes about this song in his book "Seize the Time".
There's a couple pages about it... I'll just give an excerpt:
Bobby Seale wrote"
".... in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan. Now that melody was in my mind. I actually heard it. I could hear the melody of this record. I could hear the sound and the beat to it. But I really didn't hear the words. This record played after we stayed up late laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up late laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over. Lots of brothers stayed right over there with lots of shotguns for security. Huey P Newton made me realize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record but what the lyrics meant in the record.
This song is hell. You've got to understand that this song is saying a hell of alot about society."
Bobby Seale of BPP... Breakfast Program Power... (really Black Panther Party 🤭)
Every single artist owes this man a living
My idol you have been since i was s kid
I love ya so much bob
Come on how true is this comment like it please ya all know its so so so true
Awesome!! I've been looking for this un truncated version for years!! Thanks for sharing Swingin' 🐖.
Das ist auch ein KLASSE-SONG!! Und fantastisch von Dir gesungen!
He has never told the truth about who Mr. Jones is... He probably doesn't even know himself. He's one of the greatest of all time. And the live version of this song is probably the greatest piece of music I've ever heard.
I suspect it's him
Mr jones is the great love of his life
You
Are you calling him a liar? He said that Mr. Jones is a pin boy at a bowling alley wearing a bow tie.
@@Lazariuk where did he said that?
Boys and girls!! Do y’all even know who is playing behind him?! That looks like the band! First footage I’ve come across where I’ve seen them back him. So freaking cool
Asher Fairbanks The late Mickey Jones (The First Edition, TV-Movie actor) on drums. Levin was pissed about something and didn’t make the trip.
Asher Fairbanks - Hmm well - considering they were Dylan’s backing group at the time - makes it absolutely no surprise whatsoever that he is being backed by The Band ! Any fool knows this.
Riki Newton I was being sarcastic and highlighting something I think is very cool. Maybe someone scrolling through the comments didn’t know such information! Thank you for the reply 😌
Regardless, Riki speaks the truth. I’m a fool, as comparable to any, and I knew that was The Band.
melodymakermark sick dude that’s cool
They didn't understand
when he switched on an amp
and took that electric and sang
but he was the Zimmerman
flying ahead of everyone
before they ever saw that he can
fly transported by
the girl on the half-shell,
in her hand.