As a carpenter I did some structural repairs to on one of the original Byrdcliff houses , I drove past that home frequently , but I never meditated on the lawn.
Dylan wrote in his autobio about the hippies coming to this house, even climbing on his roof & generally giving his family no peace. I remember reading somewhere that a subsequent buyer claimed the house came with some furnishings, including a "big brass bed." I've no idea whether that was true. I believe it was when Dylan lived here that he also began taking art lessons from an artist who lived nearby. He's quite the accomplished visual artist now. I especially like his welded metal gates and his French Quarter paintings.
In Bob's autobiography Chronicles I, he said his wife (Sara) never understood him again after he began art lessons. (Either that or she couldn't understand why he thought having more than 1 woman should be acceptable, lol) He said it bothered him that men today have ONE wife while Holy men during Biblical times had multiple wives and/or concubines...😆 Oh Bob! It was a different time, different circumstances & culture Become a Mormon Zimmy, polygamy continues to be acceptable
Nice footage-I've driven around up there but I wasn't sure where Dylan lived exactly. Anyway, I think Bob made some of my favorite music of his while living in Woodstock: The Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, and New Morning are all masterpieces and "easier" listens than some of his mid-60s work.
My wife and I spent about 24 hours in Woodstock, NY on our way to catch a flight out of NYC. It is a beautiful little place. We visited’Big Pink’ but from a respectful distance. We weren’t sure where BD’s former home was located and I don’t like to be a nuisance.
As a kid I spent many summers in Woodstock with my siblings. We would stay with our great grandmother and grandmother. Many long, slow barefoot days...outside most of the tie.
Technically Bob was one of the outstanding hippies of all time. He took his LSD, he saw the force, he wrote his consciousness expanding songs, he wore weird clothes, he is still a hippy. Why not, the hippy movement was stupendous, and like all stupendous things, it was destroyed by propaganda. "They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown." Not a doubt this is a referral to the anti-tripping propaganda machine. By the 80's the lie was complete, and the movement was made into a comic farce that they called Maynard G. Krebbs, and there was no one left to hang. Or, so they thought. The hippy movement is stronger now than it was in the sixties. What do you think 'Mr. Tamborine Man was about? It described a trip before the passports were dipped in shit. But till this day, every man and his dog say 'cool' every second word, an unconscious token of respect to the hippies. The folk who hung around his house leering weren't hippies, they were groupies. A hippy is hip - which means 'I understand at last.', and 'be cool' meant 'Don't let the bastards get you down.' His conciousness exploded while the fish truck was loaded', so pertinent and so utterly true.
@@kenbellchambers4577 Interesting thesis but I disagree completely. Bob certainly had an affinity with the earlier Beatnik thing but by the time the hippies came along he was already moving off somewhere else. Of course, there are many aspects of his 60s music that the hippies found tied in with their world view but as for Dylan being a hippy? No way. From what he has said, he viewed the entire counter-cultural scene with great suspicion.
@@jeremystone6641 He may have moved on from the 'hippie thing' but that's not to say he wasn't one. He certainly did the things in the previous comment...actions often speak louder than words. Bob's words during interviews often counter his opinions shared previously & after said interviews... (Everyone gets the Zimmy they deserve :-) I love & admire him, Most of the Time 🎶 Wish he'd have taken care of his voice tho, I'm quite certain he wanted the voice of the ole bluesmen he emulated & now sings like, naturally. Ignore my rambling, sleep deprivation 💤😴 Peace & blessings...
@@kenbellchambers4577 "What do you think Mr. Tambourine Man was about? It was about a trip..." That's the popular interpretation, but actually, Mr. Tambourine Man was about... Bruce Langhorne. He was a musician & friend of Dylan's who played a gigantic tambourine that he'd created himself. He played numerous instruments in a very unique style, having lost several fingers in a childhood mishap, & was said to be a magical character like nobody else around.
"If all the hippies, cut off all their hair, I don't care, I don't care, cuz I got my own world to look through, and I ain't gonna copy you" (Jimi Hendrix 1968) From the song "If Six was Nine"
Because hippies were liberal phonies peace and love yeah robbing and throwing trash while doing fuck all else but letting the players play while they hide
Bob Dylan may not have liked hippies; if so he shouldn’t have taken 100’s of millions of dollars from them in album sales and highly priced concert tickets sale. Huge fan of early Dylan up Blonde on Blonde album. Just don’t be hypocritical to a generation that made you outrageously rich.
It seems a silly and pointless discussion where there are no definitions as to what a hippie represents and/or what it was that Dylan and Kerouac lacked or rejected.
Well I was hiking the mountains in Woodstock/ Bearsville area and met a local female hiker who directed me to this house which she said was his...and it was in an artist colony in the area so it did make sense
'... and Bob Dylan once urinated on this tree right here. We'd like to install a plaque on the spot but the Town Supervisor said that there's some stupid ordinance prohibiting that. I said, "Can't you make one exception? I mean, this is not an ordinary person that we're talking about here. It's BOB DYLAN!"
It´s all about money ... wtf?, everybody has to live somewhere, I think that house looked pretty ordinary, not like the mansion you could imagine Bill Gates living in. I´m sure Dylan has a bigger house today :)
I would guess that Dylan just didn’t like people invading his privacy and bothering his family, at his private home… doesn’t matter what you label them “ hippies “… fans … attention seekers or just curious… folks… everyone needs their space. Part of the uglier side of fame, I’d guess people think you have some kind of insight… that you are different than other people… when you just want to live your life… Dylan wrote songs that resonated… that’s what he did… his talent, gift. I think I understand why he was a private person giving those circumstances.
@@gabesen1451 Oh! Thank you!!! You have an interesting profile! 😍 I see you are very funny! Did you come Brazil? I would like to travel with you... if I was newer...😍
Depends on how u look at it---with fame comes the fans...ummmmm- I think I would put up with it for the tens of millions he made from them...he could of put up a fence with attack dogs
I am not confident this is Dylan’s anything. Your uncertainty also made me wonder if you were referring to a house that USED TO BE there (the patch of weeds you first showed) or, the structure on the side. I run into this a lot on TH-cam: Well meaning people who didn’t do their homework. The history of this place is what we’re looking for. All you did was showed up with a camera.
Thanks for your comment---I based my video on a local hiker who mentioned the location of the house to me. I do know that he lived there, but in the end, she didn't tell me whether he actually OWNED or RENTED the house- which lead to my "confusion" when I was recording. It was in an exclusive artist community tho. Have great day
I don't believe he owned it, I'm sure I read somewhere he was a renter. That forest looks exactly the same as the photo on the back of Self Portrait (except it was a sunnier day on SP). Amazing. It
Thanks for the clarification. I actually met a local hiker in the area who led me to the house, but didnt say if he owned it. Guess my choice of words in that regard (owned or rented) was a bit confusing- lol
I actually can't tell you as I was hiking in the mountains of Woodstock, met a local woman hiker who told me how to get to his former home which happened to be quite close to where I was at that moment. After that I kinda got lost to where my car was, making lefts and rights....I finally finding my car....cool as it was getting dark by that time.
It's not all about money if you are a true artist and your message and integrity mean more than a paycheck. There aren't many but not every man on the planet is corruptible.
Bob Dylan's folk days totally turned off the more radical thinking hippies of the era. He was for me , a man between two cultures. Neither of which suited him with a core audience. I have played guitar for 55 years, and can tell you that he never spoke to me once with his music. Not even on my radar !
Define hippie. It's so many different things to different people,, Everyone has something different in mind. Did you truly know a hippie or just measuring a person by what you heard about what a hippie was?
Thanks for your comment...oh I know exactly what a hippy was--- because I was one, with the long hair & beard, I had the tricked out carpeted van with the love beads hanging, complete with the water bed in the back- wide deep dish tires, belonged to a van club named LIVE (Long Island Van Enthusiasts), hitchhiked across Europe AND was always broke $$$... I do miss those times tho ! ***left it all behind to become a true capitalist- lol
I bet the owners love the tourists coming over to "gawk". Hey..If you like I can tell you where Kieth Richards and Anita Pallenberg lived in South Salem NY. Just down the road from George C. Scott's house.
Well, it's truly in the middle of nowhere, so I doubt if anyone can find that place...took me years and I been going to Woodstock forever (i had a ski house in the area). While hiking the mountains nearby I met a female hiker who showed me....
Yes thank you for sharing. Think about how many souls bob Dylan has brought to Christ and you will see he deserves much more than this lovely home in the woods. My wish is that he finds the peace of Christ on Earth and is happy today.😎💐😘
Thanks for your comment, however Dylan is Jewish so not sure what u r saying. I do understand he found Yabushua (Jesus real name) for awhile, but I think he does not follow Him now
@@gabesen1451 It's a line from his song handy dandy, in case you didn't get the reference. I was there recently also and took practically the same footage. I hear Donald Fagan lives there now.
That is not a private road when the town maintains the road and there are public electric and telephone poles...BTW- I guess u trespassed yourself if u saw a sign stating such
We stayed in Woodstock, NY at the ‘Hotel Dylan’ a boutique hotel with a rock n roll theme. The proprietor told us how to get to Big Pink. He said the current owners are understanding of tourist but just be respectful. Apparently it’s an Airbnb now.
He moved there to leave the scene and raise a family and get clean - how is it all about money? It’s about survival, inspiration and necessity to continue on
I know Bobs house in Minnesota, he’ll walk over to the ball field to watch the baseball game going on. It’s no big deal for anybody. Bobs just cool.
Thanks for your comment
I read some time ago you could drive by and see him cutting the grass with a tractor . For real .
Fun fact: Don Fagen (from the band "Steely Dan") currently owns the house.
Beat me to it!
I was going to say the same. I did work for his neighbor across the street.
As a carpenter I did some structural repairs to on one of the original Byrdcliff houses , I drove past that home frequently , but I never meditated on the lawn.
Great comment & funny too, thanks for the comment !
It's never too late though.
Dylan wrote in his autobio about the hippies coming to this house, even climbing on his roof & generally giving his family no peace. I remember reading somewhere that a subsequent buyer claimed the house came with some furnishings, including a "big brass bed." I've no idea whether that was true. I believe it was when Dylan lived here that he also began taking art lessons from an artist who lived nearby. He's quite the accomplished visual artist now. I especially like his welded metal gates and his French Quarter paintings.
Thanks for your cool comments
In Bob's autobiography Chronicles I, he said his wife (Sara) never understood him again after he began art lessons.
(Either that or she couldn't understand why he thought having more than 1 woman should be acceptable, lol)
He said it bothered him that men today have ONE wife while Holy men during Biblical times had multiple wives and/or concubines...😆
Oh Bob! It was a different time, different circumstances & culture
Become a Mormon Zimmy, polygamy continues to be acceptable
@@michele-33 very interesting comment, thank you !
ps: apologies for grammatical & spelling errors. Computer is down & editing is difficult on smart Phone
I am the messiah
Nice footage-I've driven around up there but I wasn't sure where Dylan lived exactly. Anyway, I think Bob made some of my favorite music of his while living in Woodstock: The Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, and New Morning are all masterpieces and "easier" listens than some of his mid-60s work.
Thanks for the comment
Don't see any of Dylan as easy listening in the conventional sense. He just is adept at so many different musical genres. A man of many voices.
"don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road" Bob Dylan Thanks,I enjoyed the video 👍!!
Hey, thanks for your kind comment !
Upstate NY is so beautiful ☮️
Thanks for your comment !
Was there years ago. Justin Danko was our tour guide, visited Big Pink. Wonderful memories. Thank you Justin
Do you know if Bob still owns the headland top property in Point Dume, Malibu?
Not all about money for Bob Dylan.
I was one of those "hippies" who looked for his house but nobody would help me find it. I just wanted a picture of it. Now I have it. Thanks!
@@JonathanLingel welcome, I was hiking in the area and met a girl hiker who mentioned how close I was to his house, so I found it pretty easy
My wife and I spent about 24 hours in Woodstock, NY on our way to catch a flight out of NYC. It is a beautiful little place. We visited’Big Pink’ but from a respectful distance. We weren’t sure where BD’s former home was located and I don’t like to be a nuisance.
Them hippes were torturing him, and wouldn't leave him in much needed peace after the 1966 tour so he had to leave.
Good point and very true !
Well...Thanks for sharing this video footage 👍
Thanks for the comment
van morrison apparently moved to the nearby catskills around astral weeks just to be closer to his muse.
As a kid I spent many summers in Woodstock with my siblings. We would stay with our great grandmother and grandmother. Many long, slow barefoot days...outside most of the tie.
@guacamole8964 thanks for your reply...my parents had a second home in the general area and I spend alot of fun time upstate
Bob was never a hippy. Once they latched on to Woodstock he got out.
Thanks for a great comment....
Technically Bob was one of the outstanding hippies of all time. He took his LSD, he saw the force, he wrote his consciousness expanding songs, he wore weird clothes, he is still a hippy. Why not, the hippy movement was stupendous, and like all stupendous things, it was destroyed by propaganda. "They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown." Not a doubt this is a referral to the anti-tripping propaganda machine. By the 80's the lie was complete, and the movement was made into a comic farce that they called Maynard G. Krebbs, and there was no one left to hang.
Or, so they thought. The hippy movement is stronger now than it was in the sixties. What do you think 'Mr. Tamborine Man was about? It described a trip before the passports were dipped in shit.
But till this day, every man and his dog say 'cool' every second word, an unconscious token of respect to the hippies. The folk who hung around his house leering weren't hippies, they were groupies. A hippy is hip - which means 'I understand at last.', and 'be cool' meant 'Don't let the bastards get you down.' His conciousness exploded while the fish truck was loaded', so pertinent and so utterly true.
@@kenbellchambers4577 Interesting thesis but I disagree completely. Bob certainly had an affinity with the earlier Beatnik thing but by the time the hippies came along he was already moving off somewhere else. Of course, there are many aspects of his 60s music that the hippies found tied in with their world view but as for Dylan being a hippy? No way. From what he has said, he viewed the entire counter-cultural scene with great suspicion.
@@jeremystone6641
He may have moved on from the 'hippie thing' but that's not to say he wasn't one.
He certainly did the things in the previous comment...actions often speak louder than words.
Bob's words during interviews often counter his opinions shared previously & after said interviews...
(Everyone gets the Zimmy they deserve :-)
I love & admire him, Most of the Time 🎶
Wish he'd have taken care of his voice tho, I'm quite certain he wanted the voice of the ole bluesmen he emulated & now sings like, naturally.
Ignore my rambling, sleep deprivation 💤😴
Peace & blessings...
@@kenbellchambers4577 "What do you think Mr. Tambourine Man was about? It was about a trip..." That's the popular interpretation, but actually, Mr. Tambourine Man was about... Bruce Langhorne. He was a musician & friend of Dylan's who played a gigantic tambourine that he'd created himself. He played numerous instruments in a very unique style, having lost several fingers in a childhood mishap, & was said to be a magical character like nobody else around.
Nice Gabe thanks for sharing buddy
Thanks for the compliment!
You got it buddy that was good stuff. 😉
0:41 watching the river flow...
Good comment- lol
Thanks 🔆
Thanks for the tour. Why didn't Bob play Woodstock in Aug, '69 so nearby? Motorcycle accident?
The Woodstock festival was nowhere near Woodstock.
He was never a hippie. Never had or thereby faked the persona of a hippie. And, in fact, he like Kerouac had zero love for hippies.
"If all the hippies, cut off all their hair, I don't care, I don't care, cuz I got my own world to look through, and I ain't gonna copy you" (Jimi Hendrix 1968) From the song "If Six was Nine"
Because hippies were liberal phonies peace and love yeah robbing and throwing trash while doing fuck all else but letting the players play while they hide
Bob Dylan may not have liked hippies; if so he shouldn’t have taken 100’s of millions of dollars from them in album sales and highly priced concert tickets sale. Huge fan of early Dylan up Blonde on Blonde album. Just don’t be hypocritical to a generation that made you outrageously rich.
@@JamesSmith-ko4xq- Let's face it ! Thats show business...
It seems a silly and pointless discussion where there are no definitions as to what a hippie represents and/or what it was that Dylan and Kerouac lacked or rejected.
Beautiful up there I have a house 15 miles away I love that area
Thanks for the comment. I also had a house in Windham for many years. Yes it is gorgeous in that general area !
Nice we're up in Tannersville neighbor
I miss going to the festival at Hunter
On Long Island now last 8 years
@@kennethlippertshauser3376 cool, I am a builder in the Hamptons, live in Sag Harbor
Was that Bob Dylan's house in Woodstock?
Pretty cool
Well I was hiking the mountains in Woodstock/ Bearsville area and met a local female hiker who directed me to this house which she said was his...and it was in an artist colony in the area so it did make sense
But he left the Woodstock area many years ago,,,that is factual...
'... and Bob Dylan once urinated on this tree right here. We'd like to install a plaque on the spot but the Town Supervisor said that there's some stupid ordinance prohibiting that. I said,
"Can't you make one exception? I mean, this is not an ordinary person that we're talking about here. It's BOB DYLAN!"
@elcelsior …And fittingly, no ordinary pee!..
Its not about money.
Yes, u r right there,,,but it sure gives u options !
Thanks for the comment
It´s all about money ... wtf?, everybody has to live somewhere, I think that house looked pretty ordinary, not like the mansion you could imagine Bill Gates living in. I´m sure Dylan has a bigger house today :)
Point well taken...
I can only agree with this...and I think he even has a few places to stay.
I would guess that Dylan just didn’t like people invading his privacy and bothering his family, at his private home… doesn’t matter what you label them “ hippies “… fans … attention seekers
or just curious… folks… everyone needs their space. Part of the uglier side of fame, I’d guess people think you have some kind of insight… that you are different than other people… when you just want to live your life… Dylan wrote songs that resonated… that’s what he did… his talent, gift. I think I understand why he was a private person giving those circumstances.
Wonder what songs he wrote there ✌ 🇬🇧
Most of John Wesley Harding some of New Morning, plus the Basement Tapes
Grey... a few sad... But, I don't know why, i like this...
Thanks for your comments
Heliana...were u a hippy back in the day ?
@@gabesen1451 😍 No. But I liked see that young of my age with flowers, flowers and flowers... I lived in that magic time...
@@gabesen1451 Oh! Thank you!!! You have an interesting profile! 😍 I see you are very funny! Did you come Brazil? I would like to travel with you... if I was newer...😍
@@gabesen1451 Thank you, Gabe. You are a gentleman. I am happy you saw my TH-cam videos. It is good! 🥰
where was the Big Pink house?
Saugerties. About 5 miles away.
Okay, that was cool.
People would Bother Dylan and his Family when he lived in that place. they didn't respect his privacy. I would have moved too.😎
Depends on how u look at it---with fame comes the fans...ummmmm- I think I would put up with it for the tens of millions he made from them...he could of put up a fence with attack dogs
I am not confident this is Dylan’s anything. Your uncertainty also made me wonder if you were referring to a house that USED TO BE there (the patch of weeds you first showed) or, the structure on the side.
I run into this a lot on TH-cam: Well meaning people who didn’t do their homework.
The history of this place is what we’re looking for. All you did was showed up with a camera.
Thanks for your comment---I based my video on a local hiker who mentioned the location of the house to me. I do know that he lived there, but in the end, she didn't tell me whether he actually OWNED or RENTED the house- which lead to my "confusion" when I was recording. It was in an exclusive artist community tho.
Have great day
@ - Sorry for my terse comment: I am miserably sick (flu, fever cough) and haven’t slept well in days because of it! Sorry!
I don't believe he owned it, I'm sure I read somewhere he was a renter.
That forest looks exactly the same as the photo on the back of Self Portrait (except it was a sunnier day on SP). Amazing. It
Thanks for the clarification. I actually met a local hiker in the area who led me to the house, but didnt say if he owned it.
Guess my choice of words in that regard (owned or rented) was a bit confusing- lol
Dylan was never a "Hippie".
What’s the address
I actually can't tell you as I was hiking in the mountains of Woodstock, met a local woman hiker who told me how to get to his former home which happened to be quite close to where I was at that moment. After that I kinda got lost to where my car was, making lefts and rights....I finally finding my car....cool as it was getting dark by that time.
So I have no actual address to give u...
It's not all about money if you are a true artist and your message and integrity mean more than a paycheck. There aren't many but not every man on the planet is corruptible.
@scott7521 the comment of a fool !
Bob Dylan's folk days totally turned off the more radical thinking hippies of the era.
He was for me , a man between two cultures. Neither of which suited him with a core audience. I have played guitar for 55 years, and can tell you that he never spoke to me once with his music. Not even on my radar !
I think you are over analyzing the man
Nice!
God, i wish i lived there instead i had to live here in hell
where do you live?
He said he lives in hell- lol
@@_Singularity_ ksa
@@_Singularity_Hell
Is this house by Glaso Turnpike
Thanks for your comment. No, it's in Woodstock, just off the NYS thurway,,,,about 1 and half hour car ride north of NYC
John, I believe so...
@@gabesen1451 Glasco Turnpike goes through Woodstock and yes it goes near it.
@@tlennox2991 thanks for the clarification
How far is it from where he had his motor bike accident?
Traduction en francais complet complet 1:41
Addy?
looks like my property in Jericho
U R very funny this morning, thanks for the comment- lol
It was known as “Big Pink”.
Define hippie. It's so many different things to different people,, Everyone has something different in mind. Did you truly know a hippie or just measuring a person by what you heard about what a hippie was?
Thanks for your comment...oh I know exactly what a hippy was--- because I was one, with the long hair & beard, I had the tricked out
carpeted van with the love beads hanging, complete with the
water bed in the back- wide deep
dish tires, belonged to a van club named LIVE (Long Island Van Enthusiasts), hitchhiked across Europe AND was always broke $$$... I do miss those times tho !
***left it all behind to become a true capitalist- lol
To add to my comment- played the guitar, etc
I am 74 years old
Funny am living in an artist’s colony.
Cool, in Woodstock ?
BTW- thanks for your comment !
It was a “girl” from the North Country but I guess you grew up.
I bet the owners love the tourists coming over to "gawk". Hey..If you like I can tell you where Kieth Richards and Anita Pallenberg lived in South Salem NY. Just down the road from George C. Scott's house.
Well, it's truly in the middle of nowhere, so I doubt if anyone can find that place...took me years and I been going to Woodstock forever (i had a ski house in the area). While hiking the mountains nearby I met a female hiker who showed me....
The current owner is another rock legend, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.
You don’t seem to know much about about Dylan. He was never a hippie.
I think my comment on my video already stated that !
@@gabesen1451 it did, but freaks will freak.
@@smacpost3 thanks for your comment
I'm such a loser
Interesting
Yes thank you for sharing. Think about how many souls bob Dylan has brought to Christ and you will see he deserves much more than this lovely home in the woods. My wish is that he finds the peace of Christ on Earth and is happy today.😎💐😘
Thanks for your comment, however Dylan is Jewish so not sure what u r saying. I do understand he found Yabushua (Jesus real name) for awhile, but I think he does not follow Him now
Yahushua *
"He's got that mansion on the hill"
Now hes got another one.
Thanks for the interesting reply
@@gabesen1451 It's a line from his song handy dandy, in case you didn't get the reference. I was there recently also and took practically the same footage. I hear Donald Fagan lives there now.
Ignores the "Private road No Trespassing" sign
That is not a private road when the town maintains the road and there are public electric and telephone poles...BTW- I guess u trespassed yourself if u saw a sign stating such
We stayed in Woodstock, NY at the ‘Hotel Dylan’ a boutique hotel with a rock n roll theme. The proprietor told us how to get to Big Pink. He said the current owners are understanding of tourist but just be respectful. Apparently it’s an Airbnb now.
It’s all about money. Nail on the head moment.
Hey, thanks for the very cool comment
No It isn’t
He moved there to leave the scene and raise a family and get clean - how is it all about money? It’s about survival, inspiration and necessity to continue on
@Paul Schnyder what’s your point?