Meet Bob Dylan, 1986 - Part 1 of 4
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- Filmed in Bob Dylan's trailer while he was working on the Hollywood movie HEARTS OF FIRE, in which Dylan played a retired rocker called Billy Parker. This clip is part of a BBC 'Omnibus' documentary called 'Getting to Dylan' (1987)
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I used to work in a bar in Georgetown, DC. Dylan would come in every once in a while. We all agreed not to bother him in any way-no questions, no fan stuff. He ended up telling some really funny jokes and getting to know our bartenders quite well. A great guy, if treated like a real one.
That's really interesting. My brother and sister wemt to G.U. from the early '70s to about 1980. I'd hang around when I didn't have a high school day. You know, back around when they were shooting The Exorcist around the campus. I got some good stories from students who were being used as extras. What bar did you work at?
Wow. May I ask when this was and what bar? I worked in Georgetown back in the late 90s (at the now closed Houston's) and was a regular on the bar scene. I also had the privilege of getting to know the infamous restaurateur Mad Max at Chez Nous and Paris Bisou, both places that I imagine Bob would have felt at home.
He's coming to a Georgetown bar every once in a while and hang out? Like he was one of the locals? " Hey, Bob's here again! Remember to leave him alone"!
👌 Sure dude! 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
@@MrThermostatic why is that so hard to believe?
So long as you don't drop him the 'shaman' line,he's fine with most people
His eyes are memorizing, see right through you, pure genius
*mesmerizing
They're purple.
He's drawing. That's why he's staring so much.
@@RuaTheRapoet Still memorizing boy!
@@JokerM6 Heh, okay 😅
I absolutely love this man. Bob Dylan is a special kind of person in my eyes. I look forward to meeting him someday.
I wish we could. But I guess the change is less then 0,1%. I mean, its Bob Dylan.
You'd better hurry.
Same here. There's a reason he won the Nobel, and Margaret Atwood didn't.
If he has a bodyguard on duty, you will be halted and asked to forget about it. Even if you are a beautiful, sincere, young lady, you will have to find an intriguing way to peak his curiosity other than just walking toward him. He is a man of exotic charm and can even resist serendipity. He is somewhat like a Rubik's cube. Best of luck and perhaps he might have changed since these glory days.
As long as you don't refer to him as a 'shaman'.
By drawing a picture of the interviewer, he's trying to communicate to the guy what it feels like to be analyzed.
His ability to toy with and make interviewers uncomfortable is legend!
I doubt that
I read on his website, about his sketching being how he deals with chaos. It’s relaxing, or grounding, I think.
His gaze is so piercing and calculating. I would feel like he was looking right through me.
He is like the ultimate bs. detector.
Interviewing Dylan is like taking a cat for a walk
True that!
lmao.
@@teresapren3266 ha ha yeah
Perhaps that's why the interviewer died a few months after this interview. Christopher Sykes 1907-1986
Uh my cat, Meow walks on a leash. No joke
Bob Dylan really shows how fame is torture. Many people lose the ability to see a famous person as human. Physically and emotionally equal.
Your comment made me calm for some reason 😊
I see in this man a bit of every person I've ever loved. Everything is him.
He’s a good artist
Deep comment
i love how he's ignoring his questions but keeps looking at him so intensely drawing him..like he might not be answering your question....but he cares enought to draw you....so cute:)
interesting how he is drawing a portrait of the guy, wjhile at the same time the guy is trying to draw his own portrait of Dylan, trying to come to conclusions about him, I think it disarms the interviewer
CHRISTINE BURKE and i love it
It's like a war for control - whose ego is going to be at the helm of this encounter. Who cares where it's all going, just so long as the other guy isn't in charge - or, as you suggest, the one drawing the final conclusions, which is a kind of mental control. When it comes down to it, it's all just typical primitive male territorial jousting for position. Bob likes to conceal what he's doing though, because allowing it to be too obvious would make him look too much like an ordinary man. But basically, he keeps wrong-footing his opponent, in subtle ways, to keep him weak. Donald Trump plays these kinds of power games too, but in his case it's done very crudely, without any attempt to mask it.
@@papercup2517 Except Bob Dylan never grasped for fame or power but tried to keep the vultures at arm's length definitely.
@@papercup2517 your dad does it too, except Donald Trump could buy your dad a million times over.
Jealousy doesn’t look good on you. You are exactly what you describe others to be..you hate yourself and are so unhappy when you look in the mirror. You KNOW it,and now we KNOW it!!
@@LosBerkos Just saw your reply. There's worldly power and then there's personal/psychological power. I think it was the latter I was referring to in relation to Bob. I seem to remember there was a distinct powerplay going on, back and forth between the two men, but certainly, others may see it differently.
imagine having the honor of meeting bob dylan, him draw a picture of you, and sign it. And you ask the most cliche questions, why dont they ever send an interviewer that actually care,know and understand his music
He basically asked "where'd you get your ideas from?" Lmao
haven't seen this since it was broadcast. wow.second only to his decimation of the 'time' reporter in 'don't look back'! so intimidating! the constant glance back and forth to the interviewer and his sketch. the fact he won't sit down. the squints. the sly smile. he's fucking with the guy, but at the same time giving him the most honest answers he can. what a guy!
"i just write 'em coz nobody says you can't write 'em"...
"You know how people think you're some kind of shaman, don't they?"
Imagine getting asked this kind of shit for 20 years.. and this was 30 years ago.
yep ! I just need the moccasins and feathers I've got all the answers don't cha know...Bob hates that shit
Dylan knew how the media would love to twist his words and thoughts and threw it back at them! Genius
I love the way Bob royally fucks with journalists who go in thinking they *know*, like they stayed up til' 4am pouring over Blonde on Blonde and came away some great, profound insight that *must* be right, and think they're the first person to tell Bob he does something in *this* way, and this bit must be significant because of *this* reason and how do you write a song, Bob?
I think it's hilarious that people keep doing this shit after that Beatnik looking fellow (probably the Zodiac Killer) went on about album covers and motorcycles or some shit in that San Francisco press conference.
Lol, Zodiac killer, yeah rite-aid. You mean that old beat looking guy wasn't Ginsberg messing with everyone, especially the press, & Dylan enjoying the silliness? Guess the Zodiac fooled me, too. Maybe will go back & watch my old teacher once more to pretend like so many others, won't get fooled again.
@@SNAFU78 You know how to pay attention. A too uncommon talent.
His songs are whatever they are to whoever listens to them, so true, everybody get's touched in different ways.
Over 20 years after Don't Look Back and he's still the same conniving little smartass, never giving straight answers. I love this man.
I don't think a lot of journalists understand the way musician's, poets, etc create art. You can't ask him questions like, "Where do your songs come from?" I mean, you either have it or you don't. Either you're creative or you're not. You can't expect Dylan to answer that.
But if the interviewer frames the question as such: "What inspired you to write [artwork's name]?", then this question could be easily answered. When it comes to Bob Dylan, it's more about his willingness to answer, because it gives power to the interviewer to steer the conversation. And as he said in this video, he isn't too keen on being pupperteered.
can't believe this is 20 years old...I love this man more after watching this than i ever did before...be creative y'all...don't be afraid of being wrong..feel the fear and do it, just do it anyways. Amen
your math is off by a decade!
I love the way he talks♥♥
Dylan's eyes in the video are insane.❤🔥
Everybody acting like this interview is asking dumb questions. No. This interviewer is excellent.
#1 rule of interviewing an artist in any medium:
DO NOT ask where they get their ideas from.
Dylan is very spiritual , a free spirit and the leave me alone type.
Amen
Then why do an interview?
Make no mistake, there is no person that wants to perpetuate the dylan mystique more than dylan.
Bob: "I don't write stories"
Bob's song "Hurricane" lyric: "This is the story of the Hurricane." Hahaha
jordpies He didn't actually write that story...
jordpies He hasn't wrote too many stories. Hurricane is the only one. I guess...
jordpies He hasn't wrote too many stories. Hurricane is the only one. I guess...
jallakk 'Tangled Up in Blue'?
Christopher Sykes It doesn't have a beginning, middle and end;) Like maybe The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest.
Bob is documenting the documentary with his portrait , he is leaving the interviewee vulnerable, ultimately... like he is
I think Dylan's response and ploy is amazing! Just brilliant (Yes, he does indeed look totally coked up) and actually amazingly responsive. I feel he gives some incredibly (for him) honest answers. I love this interview
one in a million.
"yeah, I can talk while I'm doing it" LOL oh Bob!
Interviewer: "We're making a documentary on hearts of fire WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE to Bob Dylan"..
Bob Dylan: EXACTLY! 😂
I love the way he takes a single word and works it round and round to squeeze out its different meanings.
"I had less money than anybody I know. I had no money! I mean, if you're talking about paper money, or or money in the bank, value, wealth, what-dyah ah.... possessions and all that stuff..."
The man oozes words
I love Bob Dylan, but I'd hate to interview him. It's like he just tries to find a way to disagree with or discredit everything you say or every question you ask him
He does do that but if you notice the interviewer doesn't always ask a question, he gives his opinion and every once in a while says something that begs for a response.
Do you blame him? The media are idiots
I doubt he'd do that to non-media figures. An official interview is a different(and maybe annoying) thing. If you were to ask him stuff I think he'd be all right with you, he just didn't really like the whole revering of artists thing I think.
Keith Fitzsimons ; so's he
When will they know, Bob has and always will do what he wants !
It's like adolescence, impossible to overlook, impossible to forget.
The most difficult man to interview ever. A journalists nightmare. But guess what - I still love him and his music
this 10 minute portion of this interview has made me like dylan much more
I love it he's trying to distract the guy so he's drawing a picture of him I love it
It always baffles me when interviews go like this. Start slow. Ask the man how his day or week is going. See if he’s in good health. Starting with broad cliches clearly annoyed an already annoyed man.
The most notable thing about this painful 'interview', is that Bob, is, by and large, pretty much the same guy he was in the 1965 press conference he gave, 21 years before. Sure, he's more self assured in this, wiser by far - like anyone would hope to be - but there's nothing mysterious here. He's Bob. He was Bob back then, he's Bob here.
What we have is a man with exceptional talents and an aura & charisma of epic proportions - he just exudes it. Was born with it. Doesn't question it - why?
Sure, it helps he's smart as a whip, but so are many humans.
I just get the overriding impression that it is exactly - and I mean *exactly* as he tells it - he really doesn't know why there's all this fixation about what he does - and what's so odd about that?
It's totally human. And so is he.
It must get so damn annoying having people fawning all over you, trying to read into every damn word, when all you really are is just another human trying to have a good time, trying to create some cool stuff ... but, how the heck do you equate that with how the media has reacted, how people have reacted?
All I can say, is he is a very level headed and grounded guy to be able to take this onboard - but heck, by accounts, he got wounded by it. Wounded pretty bad. Some nasty nasty fuckers are out there in this world.
All I can say is he has given us some great music - he has used the talents he was given to the upmost of his ability, why do we need to know anymore than that?
Real good, what you say here...
@@ChristopherSykesDocumentaries Thanks. I am constantly amazed by what humans can do when they pass that barrier we know as complacency. I never managed it myself, probably never will - most of us don't. I still continuously question, seek out answers and on the rare occasion may come close to what I could be. But damn, the sheer amazement I get from people who have actually done that - pushed the boat out, burned that candle from both ends, I can exist on just that...
Dylan was a very private person. He did not let anyone in his life . He is a very humble man.
Was?
Your a genius, thank you so much! I'm saving this before someone takes it down!
Enjoyed this video! All the best!!
Absolutely fantastic ,Dylan at his aloof best .
Dylan: "I'll be RIGHT back"
Producer: "Heh heh... ten years later ..."
When he left the trailer in the beginning, he believe he went and did a line...
...sniff..sniff...
don't think dylan could have been able to stand the interview without drawing, it puts the interviewer on the defense and the psychological field is leveled and he's able to speak.
I really just think Bob likes f*cking with British people. This is like "Don't Look Back," 20 years on.
I want to buy whatever the hell he is drawing.
Bob is not just a wonderful artist, the greatest, he's hilarious. I don't blame him for laughing or being guarded. I think he's very honest and open. Honestly, the way people treat him is appalling sometimes.
I’ve waited 44 years for you.
All i see is that the more annoyed he gets by the questions, the harder he scribbles that paper.
He looks pretty rough here! I can’t believe he just stayed in his trailer here in 🇨🇦! That’s Awesome!
He is getting so close to the TRUTH in his interviews, which makes some people very uncomfortable, especially if they are hiding from the TRUTH all their life. Rarely the opponent is on the same level of consciousness. And we can enjoy real conversation between two equally intelligent human beings.
He's like a walking talking work of art to me.
His voice sounds exactly the same as it did in his interviews in the 60s.
"Short attention span things that happen in a crowd of people, that happen so fast the normal eye wouldn't see them"
Robbie Hart from Wedding Singer stole his look!
So did Adam Sandler in that movie about 9/11
Bob just considered himself a musician, not a music God. He just wanted to lead the press on a goose chase. Didn't appreciate the public's perception of him as a music prophet which he thought was absurd.
I believe if Dylan had tuned into him and actually liked him that this interview would have gone a lot better. For instance, Dylan is laughing and the journalist is not. Bottom line, Dylan likes honesty in the people he is working with, or someone who knows how to be honest without hype.
I've admired the fact that LIZ TAYLOR PHOTO is DISPLAYED ON HIS TRAILER WALL. :)))
As familiar I am with Dylan.... I have never heard of Hearts of Fire movie........ Stay Forever Young bob!
Not a great movie tbh
Imagine, (at this point), 20 plus years of being asked the same question of how you write a song? 😭
It’s like the guy watched every hopeless interviewer in Don’t Look Back and thought, ‘Yeah…that line of questioning worked.’
Dylan after he smoked a really good joint. I love it!
Ok .Just hold on for a second,I'll be right back. 🤣👏👏Dylan came back with his humor with him.
I do believe he is being for real. I like that.
He's an artist he's a poet he's whatever you want him to be whatever the song is it's your interpretation
He's a bad ass, haha but i like because puts media and interviewers into his place!
I understand the way he answers stuff so cryptically. I'm an artist and musician. When I solo, I don't think about what I'm making. When I write songs, I don't think about what I'm writing. I think all good art is just streams of consciousness or creativty or emotion. You don't think when you create genuinely, things just come to you. People chalk his answers up to "Dylan being Dylan" but I think it's more "an artist being an artist."
This interviewer is really good. Finally someone who can interview Dylan
It's funny that we all say 'shame on the interviewer' and yet we are all here watching this, 30 years later. That's the thing about Dylan, we want whatever we can get of him. Even in his evasive ways here, we still want to know what he thinks about things. Talking about money, yeah, I can really get behind that. Maybe it's a throwaway line or something, but it has meaning, real meaning. I'm ranting. But in a way so is Dylan, so it's ok.
He looked very servere with eyeliner...I've loved this guy for 33 years and seen him try to field such ridiculous and unanswerable questions from so many interviewers and generally he comes off as rude and uninterested - I don't think it's always the case, I think he reacts directly to the depth and significance of the questions he's being asked, which are generally vague and unanswerable - great clip 🔥
At first, I want to think that Dylan is just kind of a manipulative jerk but then Ihear the kinds of questions these journalists ask and I realize that I would probably treat them the same way.
My god, he was 45 years old in this interview and he looks 65. Love his music though.
Yeah, it's kind of terrifying, especially considering that ten years prior to this he looked very much like 35. I think it had something to do with chain smoking, and binge drinking, and amphetamine use, and not getting much sleep.
GINGERmediceSPIDER you took the words right out of my mouth. He wasnt very handsome either.
Bob is absolutely brilliant and truly a beautiful person!❤
The BBC interviewer missed a trick he should have started to draw Dylan at the same time.
If you wanna get down, you have to take a round of Bob Dylan.
I wish Dylan would draw my fucked up face & look at me like it was worth drawing.
Anything with Bob Dylan gets two thumbs up!
This was shot in The Hammer!! Hamilton Ontario. I was studying Radio Broadcasting at Mohawk College at this time, and was an extra in the movie... the concert scenes that were shot at Copps Coliseum
Dylan granted the interview because he was promoting the BBC documentary that was partly filmed here, in Hamilton, Ontario. It was during the time of making the film, Hearts of Fire.
This is Dylan's way of showing us what the interviewer looks like as he's talking to him and how gulpy lookin he is xD
simultaneously the worst, & the best Dylan interview out there.
😀🕊
This is a man right here :) I want one like this
I would just interview him without questions while he’s just making his art musical craft. A bit like recording the Sculptor Rodin while the master is sculpting. No talk just the markings of their genius
I think that is so cool that, Michael Judge just let Bob Dylan be a human and sit in your bar, are you going to listen to his 82 Birthday party on TH-cam tomorrow?, Elizabeth ❤️ I Love Bob Dylan Greatest of all
Intelligent, creative people on shit loads of drugs are always fascinating.
I just love this man. although he does not reveal himself. because he does not need to be famous He is as he is . A good human being.
anybody else think bob might be high here? yes... I love him...
+Andrew Power LOL... I wonder what bob was taking......could he write great songs that high?
There's a light in his eye, I've never seen before but been after all my life.
He's a lucky guy.
Great interview. Looks a little scary.
I hadn't thought of that! How effective! I think Bob smells blood, and is going for it. Reminds me of the scene from "Don't Look Back" with the writer that he devours. I am surprised the interviewer did say, Thanks, Bob, I've got to be going", and run away!
Imagine a fucking over/under interview by pitchfork with this guy.
keep talking dylan.....love listening to you..
sooo funny and bad ass...how can't people see that when they watch this
reminds me of the interview with the science student in don't look back, 20 years earlier.
"can you grow your beard a little more...yeah groooow it'. I love you Dylan. I would like him to 'confound me'.....Dylan is forever cool
Bob Dylan always hated the media, they always wanted to pin 📍 something on him. He was quite positive and polite and I 😍 love you Bob Dylan, Elizabeth ❣️💞
@stingray333999 He always liked/fancied her. He mentions her in his sixties song about his personal fantasies, 'I Will Be Free': "I make love to Elizabeth Taylor / Catch hell from Richard Burton!".