@Doug Richardson I guess some people never hear the best of his lyrics or genius. Even radio only plays the same few songs over and over. If you don't go far back, people miss the most beautiful and insightful songs.
but i thought-he-was all righteous and -without -sin, after , y'know, bein' rehabilitated and repented and all churched-up'n'crap, man! am i gonna be sorry i saw this, am i gonna have to burn another cd collection? haha!!
That's why most of the '60s music was called "message music", not as though there were hidden messages in them. There were just so many things wrong with society, huge issues suchas Vietnam and not which boyfriend you just broke up with.
I rented a condo in North Hollywood for a couple years in the 90s from the mother of Ruth Tyrangal her name was Hanna , I had no idea this lady Ruth existed till she showed up one night telling us we had to move because the townhouse it was her property, apparently she sued him later ,won but only a scant million from what I’ve read, So...we didn’t move and the landlady said not to give it another thought then told me how Ruth had been with him and it broke her heart , never saw her again but I knew that hurt, that all must have really hurt. There’s a picture of Ruth on either a Life magazine or something way back then, showing her as a gf of Bob Dylan She was stunning I hope she is well heard she resides in NY would love to see an interview with her ..Oh these men like Bob Dylan, they do break hearts 💕
Oh please. She’s made up so many stories. She didn’t receive a cent. Her foul suit was a complete lie as she was married during the time she claimed to be with BD. Married to another guy. She lied to try and get his money. Lucky we knew the truth. She got nothing.
Well, you can say what you want.....Bob Dylan's music is part of my life for over 40 years....and I know that without his music, my life wouldt not have been the same.... This is the best that happened to me. So, what he did in his personal life? I do not care much....The same goes for Mozart, and would have to write many things about him too. But at the end, what count's is the music, not the person. Sorry for my poor english ( but I guess you understand).
The truth is cool to discuss or make a video of, but this video is a hit number that goes out of the way to build a case to slam Dylan's character, a guy that's been super creative and productive for over 62 years; exposed to tremendous fame from when he was barely an adult; and exposed to a worldly life most of us could not imagine. So make your videos, but criticizing his few albums that were less than stellar from a guy who's produced an unimaginable amount of great art for one individual goes too far; especially from folks who are likely not artistic enough to tie Dylan's shoes. Hysterical really, but it gets views.
His voice is smooth as silk - or fine old whisky. It has an intimacy no other singer has achieved and a passion none other has expressed. His phrasing is unmatched anywhere and his pitch is - a little shaky at times. But he invented a way of making speech rhythms into music, and of turning everyday language into poetry. And like true poets, he doesn't care for prettiness.
He marketed himself brilliantly, remember no matter how sincere you think any of these people are they are first entertainers and that's what they do, and we like it. Don't expect them to be saints, prophets or your truth.
I thought it was common knowledge that Dylan was always called Bob or Bobby as a child and he chose Dylan for a stage name for the writer Dylan Thomas.
@sgbobsg here's what Wikipedia says, indicating he thought of using Dillon first....there was a player on the Green Bay Packers at the time named Bob Dillon....they actually played an exhibition game in Hibbing when Bob was12:....Living at the Jewish-centric fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu house, Dylan began to perform at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffeehouse a few blocks from campus, and became involved in the Dinkytown folk music circuit.[24][25] During this period, he began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan."[26][a 1] In his memoir, he said he hit upon using this less common variant for Dillon-a surname he had considered adopting-when he unexpectedly saw poems by Dylan Thomas.[27] Explaining his change of name in a 2004 interview, he said, "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."[28] He also said he was not a big fan of Dylan Thomas
Im a poet and I know it.I hope I dont blow it.said Dylan,and he was right. Dylan never needed the Nobel price.I understand Dylan.He is an amarican artist like Sinatra or Elvis,but he has done somthing no one else has done .Dylan is as great as Sheakespier or Ibsen and he has done it all. Folk folkrock ,rock ,blues ,gospe l,country,and Americana.He made pop music intelectuly rich and no one reaches Dylan to his toes. People to day fear the Corona virus.I fear what will happend when Bob is no more. Thank you much Bob for beeing here in this crucial time .Terje E. Martinsen of Oslo ,Norway.
Dylan is The Man. I bought my 1st lp in 1967 when i was 12, costing 13 shillings and 6pence, from the A1 record shop in High Rd. Tottenham, London - his "Greatest Hits" album and playing it on our huge Ferguson radiogram my father said "what you go and buy that for?". I said nothing...but continue to buy his memorabilia over 50 years later.
Bob always marched to his own path, not the status quo, and for that tons of respect. He will always be a legend and one of my favorite poets. Rock on Bob!!!!
Despite of what anybody says, most of the people that watch this video will continue to make an idol of Bob Dylan. I do not vouch for any man that I do not know personally, and even for those that I do know personally it takes a long while. Cursed is the man that trusts man. As a warning for those of you who are willing to think for yourselves and discern properly, I must emphasize something stated on the video. "Bob asked me, "When you gonna record 'Heaven's Door'? And I said, 'I don't know, but we really love that song.' And he said, 'I don't give a f---. I just want the money.'" "I just want the money" Your celebrities and idols are not who they present themselves to be in public. Understand what narcissists do and can do.
He is a brilliant lyricist and has a very kind heart. He continues to reach out to delight fans and enjoys touring. I believe I have just about everything he has written and sang. I'm feeling blessed as Bob's music continues to lift me up and he is a big part of my life! I've loved his concerts, too. Thanks Bob!! Bless you, always!
Bob Dylan is somebody you cannot really sum up in words. For those of us who love Bob Dylan, you can't get near him with petty descriptions because he is too enigmatic to be judged as anything but constantly changing, amorphous and undulating. He is everything altogether... The wordsmith and poet would be summoned to play for a great King. Beyond that, he defies mere words.
He's gifted, but he also has striven over the years to create a mystique about him that has at times been unmerited. Stravinsky did the same thing. It's kinda sad that such gifted individuals can't simply rely upon their creative achievements, but instead need to strenuously burnish their images for the public.
@@maxhirsch7035 I believe the reason they do this is that, massively talented or not, they are human beings who are plagued with the same insecurities as the rest of us. John Lennon didn’t like the natural sound of his own voice and was always asking George Martin and Geoff Emerick to find ways to alter and disguise it. He also said in many interviews that he was so nervous before performing live, he vomited backstage several occasions.
It's not about what year it was or what he knows are what he's done it's what he gives us in his music. I would love to hear more about his life but he owes us nothing.
Dylan writes very political and controversial songs but whenever I've seen him asked about social issues specifically, he always says, "I'm just a song and dance man."
If you want to know facts about artists read their autobiography, don't waste your time on these videos. Dylan is no saint, like none of us are, but he is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) songwriters of all time.
You're right, nobody's a saint. And especially Dylan is known for his trolling and for being quite unpleasant occasionally. Autobiographies, especially by artists, as trustworthy historical sources?? Probably not...
Bob Dylan freed our minds.The times they are a changing,he's a poet and songwriter as well as a singer performer.Listen to his Music,stop listening to boy bands.
The most vital thing he MAY have done, is get saved, since I was his interview with him saying he was keeping up his end of the bargain for satan as per his agreement to become famous. I sure hope he's saved.
@Kelly T That's what I always thought, but called in 2006, I am in a five fold deliverance ministry. The leader was Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and among us have been the ten of Zechariah 8:23. I know them. I am a first fruit of the remnant. Also a veteran of ten years in combat and military intel. Yes, I know all about the black ops, off world, extreme technologies etc....
I was at a concert he had in Gothenburg. His voice is not clean but incredibly hypnotic. He captured your attention and kept every second until he was finished.
Pretty much liked Dylan for decades but I went to see him in Sheffield with an old friend as a gift for my mates 50th birthday, we had been friends since we met as 3yr old kids and both liked Dylan. My God he was crap and quite a fair number did as we did, walked out after 4 or 5 songs and went to the car, had a nice spliff and then went for a pint!
When i lived in Northern Minnesota, i did my shopping in Hibbing Mn. a zig and a zag and you can drive by the house were he was raised... The older local folks don't like him... But like they say , " you gotta be strange, to live on the range".. ( iron range) To me a lot of his songs are what i grew up with.. Have a lot of bitter sweet memories from the 60's , 70's and 80's ... Special music kind of keeps score with life, sometimes... ( Our "golden oldies" were from the 50's... LOL )
Bob Dylan never admits where he was born and raised...he says, Duluth, Minneapolis but in reality he was born and raised in Hibbing. This is the first time I heard Hibbing...I know this because my grandparents and his parents were best friends, lived right across the street from each other. My Dad and my Uncle watched him as a child when his parents and my grandparents went out...
Bob Dylan didn't need to play Woodstock, he lived there. When asked "Will you go to Woodstock?" Dylan said "Yes, sure I will", he thought they were asking if he was off home.
Dylan is like a chef who cooked the most delicious meal you ever ate. A year later you appear again and compliment him for that meal. Chef returns with what you believe will be a delicious meal once again. As he removes the top of the metal surround from the plate, you realize he has crapped on the plate.
Dylan writes "stark, simple songs"??? Wow, this narrator knows NOTHING. Tell me how songs like "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" and "It's Alright Ma" are "simple"!
Everyone should check out Dylan's latest, Murder Most Foul, a 17-minute song he supposedly recorded a long time ago but decided to release here in Spring 2020 FOR SOME REASON. Seriously, drop everything you are doing right now and look it up!
Seen Bob live in the 90’s. the concert wasn’t great. But, I’d still put him in my top 5 artists of all time and I think one of the most influential people to have lived in the last century.
The woman this clip presents as Bobs first wife (from the Renaldo and Clara footage) is NOT his wife! But the acctress Helena Kallianiotes. If you cant get a thing like that right dont bother make a video about it.
It is super peculiar how Bob Dylan became who he is. He is super f'ing talented musically and lyrically. I relate these justified observations from the lyrics of "Desolation Row". A seriously beautiful tale on modern life expressed through the spontaneous fragments of north american existence.
As frases de Dylan, inspiram, intrigam, fazem viajar ´fenomenal quando teve aqui no Brasil achei que iria perde, mas fiz um sacrifício e o momento foi único, o melhor!
He never did the Ed Sullivan show because they did not want him to play a song called "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" a satirical song about an anti-communist group. I think, and people in that time thought that it was a brave move.
Here's something most people don't know. He didn't only study with Rabbis after. His Jewish grandchildren don't only have Bar Mitzvas/Bat Mitzvas which he happily attends. He studied with a very wise, holy Rabbi at a Jewish Yeshiva when he was already a young, established artist. He wanted to keep studying there but he also wanted to work. The rule of the school was that each person had to live there, studying all day, devoted to learning, knowledge, awareness, kindness, spiritual elevation, without a career for one year (everything was provided, so that was fine). He wasn't treated differently than anyone else - the Rabbi made sure the students looked at him like a human being, like everyone else, not different because they heard his music, and they easily obliged - and though he tried to negotiate a deal in which he could continue to study without dedicating one year, the school didn't give him special privileges. So he left. He thought he had to work. I often wonder what kind of music would have been created had he spent an entire school year immersed in holy books, learning from wise, spiritual, exalted people. I'd say we'd never know, but who knows? He could do something like that at any time.
@@tetrahedron1000 okay, I got some more accurate facts. He went to a Jewish Orthodox school with Torah observant rabbis. So that's much earlier. He also went to Jewish camps. It was after putting out a bunch of albums and changes in his life he was invited as a guest to one of the parties in the week after a Jewish wedding. It took place at that Orthodox Jewish school. People knew who he was, but no one treated him differently and the school was blocked from photographers. He really liked the rabbi and atmosphere, he found it so pure, inviting, and true. He kept visiting and having conversations and enjoying all the new knowledge and ideas from this truly beautiful rabbi. He told the rabbi he's buying a house nearby to be part of the school. The rabbi actually negotiated a three month stay - not one year - so that Bob would be immersed in the learning. The rabbi also wanted to make sure it's not another phase, but real. But Bob didn't feel he could commit to it. He never stopped loving the rabbi - who was so intelligent and kind - or the school or what he learned there. He's still very close to his roots.
I like how you don’t see him and his family in the tabloids constantly....that’s a man who values his privacy and I can relate to that. It’s almost unheard of with other stars who are way less well known than he. I don’t blame him for staying on the down low.
Bob Dylan is my all-time favorite and a fellow Gemini. There's something to be said of Geminis' eccentricities. I totally get the multiple lives of Bob Dylan thing. I can feel these different chapters/lives in my own life. Strike another match, go start anew, cause it's all over now, baby blue. I love originality, but I must say, if I ever got better at playing guitar and got famous, it would be terribly hard not to be influenced by Dylan.
Gn'R's version of Knocking on Heaven's Door is so cringy. The whole two Axl's doing a duet is embarrassing for anyone with even the slightest amount of taste.
Anyone who has lived through the sixties with this kind of wealth and adoration is going to be a bit weird. At least there will be times when the wheels left the road. Sooner or later we’ll finally embrace the idea that a few people with guitars changed the course of human history for the better. We need a few icons like them for the ages. At least Dylan has managed to survive. Lennon’s naivety was tragic. Surviving in the limelight is probably way harder than any of us know.
Dylan had some good songs, but nobody should be idolized because of media attention. Parents, friends, teachers and other people close in our lives are more important than celebrities.
A lot of loud mouth nothings on here. Spiteful and thankless. Dylan changed the narrow way in which people used to think. Apparently did not help them.
I would eat a mile of his shit just to see where it came from.. His music brings so much to my soul..His mind is something else and to create his poetry into music I love it...He's got a privet life and if he doesn't let anybody in oh well DONT THINK TWICE ITS ALRIGHT......Lol
@@libertyprime619 Anyone would look bad, if they just cherry-picked certain incidents from your past (incidents that my or my not be true) and just spun them to make you look bad......
First off Dylan deserved the nobel prize and Patti Smith's faltering when performing her tribute was vr moving. My Dad loved the acoustic protest period and going electric was not greeted by all with unabashed enthusiasm. Also his born again Christian period followed by his born again Jewish period did not produce his best work. His biggest fan Tom Petty was dismayed at how bad he sounded during one of Geldorf's we are the world fundraisers and the 2 yr world tour with the Heartbreakers was one of his best decisions. Like Jean Paul Sartre he was a bit of a mythomane in his self-recreation process. I can't agree with Tom that Shakespeare pales in comparison to Dylan but I treasure his comment, well you just have to get past his Bobness ,,,, words to remember. My favorite live recording was My Back Pages, still gives me shivers - who wasn't there; Clapton George Harrison Neil Young, Tom, Jim Keltner Roger McGuinn still have left someone out pure gold.
As for drugs, my impression is that their effect was almost completely negative, simply removing people from meaningful struggle and engagement. Just the other day I was sitting in a radio studio waiting for a satellite arrangement abroad to be set up. The engineers were putting together interviews with Bob Dylan from about 1966-7 or so (judging by the references), and I was listening (I'd never heard him talk before -- if you can call that talking). He sounded as though he was so drugged he was barely coherent, but the message got through clearly enough through the haze. He said over and over that he'd been through all of this protest thing, realized it was nonsense, and that the only thing that was important was to live his own life happily and freely, not to "mess around with other people's lives" by working for civil and human rights, ending war and poverty, etc. He was asked what he thought about the Berkeley "free speech movement" and said that he didn't understand it. He said something like: "I have free speech, I can do what I want, so it has nothing to do with me. Period." If the capitalist PR machine [term used in the question] wanted to invent someone for their purposes, they couldn't have made a better choice. -Noam Chomsky, Reply (via email) to Douglas Lain, June 1994 Hmmm...
What do you think of Murder Most Foul? Bob himself says that this was recorded a while back. Why release it now? I remember seeing an interview of Dylan in which he claimed to have "made a bargain...with the Chief Commander...of this earth and the world we can't see". But he never says exactly "Satan" or "The Devil", nor does he say exactly what he had to do to "hold up his end". I'm just speculating, but we know that poets and artists speak in metaphors and hints. Perhaps in exchange for earthly fame and riches, Dylan agreed to be a part of the hedonistic world of show business, what Leonard Cohen called "Boogie Street", but in his role as entertainer he would NOT publicly go into exploring the JFK assassination. A smart and creative man like Dylan could have swayed millions into a less hedonistically distracted worldview, but he didn't do this. Is Dylan no longer holding up his end of the bargain? Does he have a terminal disease? Is he fearing imminent death in this time of pandemic?
TH-cam videos are starting to feel like TV movies. The longer I watch, the more it feels like I'm watching a compilation of ads with bits of documentary thrown in. Giving your viewer that many chances to lose interest in what they're watching seems like a weird model.
Dylan lived in Woodstock NY. The concert took place 71 miles away in Bethel, NY. So how could he see hordes of people gathering an hour and half drive from his home?
He backed out weeks before the concert, preferring to play in England at an outdoor concert there (Isle of Wight?).....The original site for Woodstock ws near Woodstock, but they had to relocate at the last minute, and Max Yasger came through...it was known as the "White Lake Music and Art Fair" for a while
Woodstock was a mass social engineering event , the CounterCulture was an inside joke that hipsters still don't get , and Dylan is not so dumb as not to know that .
What do you think of Murder Most Foul? Yours is an excellent post! Bob himself says that this latest song on JFK was recorded a while back. Why release it now? I remember seeing an interview of Dylan in which he claimed to have "made a bargain...with the Chief Commander...of this earth and the world we can't see". But he never says exactly "Satan" or "The Devil", nor does he say exactly what he had to do to "hold up his end". I'm just speculating, but we know that poets and artists speak in metaphors and hints. Perhaps in exchange for earthly fame and riches, Dylan agreed to be a part of the hedonistic world of show business, what Leonard Cohen called "Boogie Street", but in his role as entertainer he would NOT publicly go into exploring the JFK assassination. A smart and creative man like Dylan could have swayed millions into a less hedonistically distracted worldview, but he didn't do this. Is Dylan no longer holding up his end of the bargain? Does he have a terminal disease? Is he fearing imminent death in this time of pandemic?
What he truly believes , that I do not know . Such a discussion is further made complex by context of whether 20th century ideas are examined with 20th century default perspectives , or from a deeper understanding of history and the supernatural being the basis of authority of law . I don't think he is a secularist atheist , I think he loves his country , the United States .
Dylan like the rest of us is a human being. Do anyone of have some truths that we don’t want to reveal? His music is his gift, and he more then shared that with us all, so let’s just enjoy it!
He completely, single-handedly, revolutionised song-writing/poetry. Nobody comes close. He influenced The Beatles, The Stones, Tom Petty, Ray Davies, Warren Zeavon, all the best songwriters..... Even me.... Lol ..... If anybody thinks any different, then you are either extremely young and inexperienced, or thick as a plank, or both......
I was a large Dylan fan from around 1965 until the '70's when I heard he cheated on Sara. He admitted it in the song 'Sara', I think. which is honesty. Jakob Dylan said he was a good parent. I was S.F. just before the '67 Monterey Pop and met a woman who was the girlfriend of Bobby Neurwith, who worked with Dylan. Her apartment was filled with posters saying "No one sings Dylan like Dylan." She can be seen on the video's on Monterey Pop as a camera girl. Pennypacker produced the film and was the producer of Dylan's first albums. Bob can be seen sitting in the audience. You can't classify him. I think if you did, his unique talent would be destroyed. I don't think he matches his early talent but with Dylan you have to listen to his songs a number of times to 'get' them. I don't have the time. He missed his Nobel Prize Award but he thanked them later, very eloquently. With my high school crowd, only me and other other kid were fans of Dylan, the Beatles and Stones were more popular. Dylan, I think, is more enduring. He is extremely well read. Did I miss you mentioning his role as "Alias" in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,?" You didn't mention his art. As a songwriter and poet, he is great. His acting and paintings are only O.K. I love the Gun's 'n' Roses version of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" but the image which pops into my head is the Peckenpaugh film I mentioned before when the old Sheriff is fatally gun shot. The Sheriff is played by Chill Wills.
@@sharonlubin5515 Yet one wonders why the song is being released now? Why did he not release this any other time in the last 57 years? Every Dylan fan knows that he has spoken of making a bargain with some source of power in exchange for being allowed to be successful. Was his silence about this event part of that bargain?
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What do you like about Dylan?
@Edward st.antoine you first bitch
He went to the crossroads.
He sounds like he has plugs in his nose holes
Everything
That he was a big fan of Woody Guthrie and that he gave us the answer to all world problems, being that the answer was somewhere blowing in the wind.
My journey with the words and music of Bob Dylan is the one thing I’ll never regret.
Amen
@Doug Richardson I guess some people never hear the best of his lyrics or genius. Even radio only plays the same few songs over and over. If you don't go far back, people miss the most beautiful and insightful songs.
@ What's wrong with a boring life??. Although I like to call it a quiet life.
@sgbobsg "It takes one to know one, " she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style
Good one....Sara is one of my all time favorite songs :)
The Beatles and Stones also didn't play Woodstock.
Neither did I.......
Neither did Elvis, Frank Sinatra or Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
Neither Mozart
Stones played Altamont. Well you know how that ended.
Or The Doors
Axl Rose is not someone I'd take as a legit source
but i thought-he-was all righteous and -without -sin, after , y'know, bein' rehabilitated and repented and all churched-up'n'crap, man! am i gonna be sorry i saw this, am i gonna have to burn another cd collection? haha!!
Or touch with a barge pole.
Axl rose is a schmuck.
Yay
@Chris Eggleton a chicken sings better tha....
Dylan has never been a crowd pleaser as the concerts I have attended proved. But he was the voice of my generation. ✊
His genius..no one wrote such smart words..that are not boring messages..and some great music.
He is so unique..its amazing he made it ..
That's why most of the '60s music was called "message music", not as though there were hidden messages in them. There were just so many things wrong with society, huge issues suchas Vietnam and not which boyfriend you just broke up with.
He sold his soul for fame money and musical talent.
The revealing truth about Bob Dylan = he's awesome :)
I loved the 70s. Every week it seemed a new album was coming out. Went to countless concerts and I'm glad I survived all the partying.......
Mark Peden coke much??
It’s like that now, just a different genre and era of music and drugs as well
Me too
I rented a condo in North Hollywood for a couple years in the 90s from the mother of Ruth Tyrangal her name was Hanna , I had no idea this lady Ruth existed till she showed up one night telling us we had to move because the townhouse it was her property, apparently she sued him later ,won but only a scant million from what I’ve read, So...we didn’t move and the landlady said not to give it another thought then told me how Ruth had been with him and it broke her heart , never saw her again but I knew that hurt, that all must have really hurt. There’s a picture of Ruth on either a Life magazine or something way back then, showing her as a gf of Bob Dylan She was stunning I hope she is well heard she resides in NY would love to see an interview with her ..Oh these men like Bob Dylan, they do break hearts 💕
Oh please. She’s made up so many stories. She didn’t receive a cent. Her foul suit was a complete lie as she was married during the time she claimed to be with BD. Married to another guy. She lied to try and get his money. Lucky we knew the truth. She got nothing.
Well, you can say what you want.....Bob Dylan's music is part of my life for over 40 years....and I know that without his music, my life wouldt not have been the same.... This is the best that happened to me. So, what he did in his personal life? I do not care much....The same goes for Mozart, and would have to write many things about him too. But at the end, what count's is the music, not the person. Sorry for my poor english ( but I guess you understand).
Just when u think there cannot be a better song booooom I find another one. Bob is the greatest of all time.
Jackross7_11 Exactly! I only recently discovered Senor and I love it
@@gostrum1 that whole street legal album is amazing.
The fact that Dylan is not more than what he is doesn't change the fact of what he is - UNIQUE.
Bob Dylan falls asleep every night smiling and saying "I just can't believe these people all fell for it for all these years".
I doubt you would know what Bob Dylan is saying when he falls asleep. 😌
Fell for it Voluntarily Probably Hmm??
What the shit??
"Art is what you can get away with", - Andy Warhol
The truth is cool to discuss or make a video of, but this video is a hit number that goes out of the way to build a case to slam Dylan's character, a guy that's been super creative and productive for over 62 years; exposed to tremendous fame from when he was barely an adult; and exposed to a worldly life most of us could not imagine. So make your videos, but criticizing his few albums that were less than stellar from a guy who's produced an unimaginable amount of great art for one individual goes too far; especially from folks who are likely not artistic enough to tie Dylan's shoes. Hysterical really, but it gets views.
His voice is smooth as silk - or fine old whisky. It has an intimacy no other singer has achieved and a passion none other has expressed. His phrasing is unmatched anywhere and his pitch is - a little shaky at times. But he invented a way of making speech rhythms into music, and of turning everyday language into poetry. And like true poets, he doesn't care for prettiness.
or pettiness
True!
I beg to disagree. He was a great songwriter but his voice was just bad, to nasally and not at all soothing.
Great comment.
I agree with you- that is why he gave off many of his songs to others.
Bob Dylan is a poet for a all times. That's what his truth is!
He marketed himself brilliantly, remember no matter how sincere you think any of these people are they are first entertainers and that's what they do, and we like it. Don't expect them to be saints, prophets or your truth.
I thought it was common knowledge that Dylan was always called Bob or Bobby as a child and he chose Dylan for a stage name for the writer Dylan Thomas.
@Fintan "Beatles" isn't the best name for a rock group.
@sgbobsg here's what Wikipedia says, indicating he thought of using Dillon first....there was a player on the Green Bay Packers at the time named Bob Dillon....they actually played an exhibition game in Hibbing when Bob was12:....Living at the Jewish-centric fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu house, Dylan began to perform at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffeehouse a few blocks from campus, and became involved in the Dinkytown folk music circuit.[24][25] During this period, he began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan."[26][a 1] In his memoir, he said he hit upon using this less common variant for Dillon-a surname he had considered adopting-when he unexpectedly saw poems by Dylan Thomas.[27] Explaining his change of name in a 2004 interview, he said, "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."[28] He also said he was not a big fan of Dylan Thomas
@sgbobsg here's another article: wmgk.com/2018/05/24/bob-went-zimmerman-dylan/
@sgbobsg another: Dillon, then Dylan: www.liveabout.com/how-bobby-zimmerman-became-bob-dylan-1322036
Im a poet and I know it.I hope I dont blow it.said Dylan,and he was right. Dylan never needed the Nobel price.I understand Dylan.He is an amarican artist like Sinatra or Elvis,but he has done somthing no one else has done .Dylan is as great as Sheakespier or Ibsen and he has done it all. Folk folkrock ,rock ,blues ,gospe l,country,and Americana.He made pop music intelectuly rich and no one reaches Dylan to his toes. People to day fear the Corona virus.I fear what will happend when Bob is no more. Thank you much Bob for beeing here in this crucial time .Terje E. Martinsen of Oslo ,Norway.
His lyrics..open ended and relatable
Dylan is The Man. I bought my 1st lp in 1967 when i was 12, costing 13 shillings and 6pence, from the A1 record shop in High Rd. Tottenham, London - his "Greatest Hits" album and playing it on our huge Ferguson radiogram my father said "what you go and buy that for?". I said nothing...but continue to buy his memorabilia over 50 years later.
Bob Dylan died.
@@brodie2005thegamer says who?
@@butlincat1507 Wikipedia
@@brodie2005thegamer they get it wrong often
Bob always marched to his own path, not the status quo, and for that tons of respect. He will always be a legend and one of my favorite poets. Rock on Bob!!!!
Satan wrote all his music.
DUH !!
Despite of what anybody says, most of the people that watch this video will continue to make an idol of Bob Dylan. I do not vouch for any man that I do not know personally, and even for those that I do know personally it takes a long while.
Cursed is the man that trusts man.
As a warning for those of you who are willing to think for yourselves and discern properly, I must emphasize something stated on the video.
"Bob asked me, "When you gonna record 'Heaven's Door'? And I said, 'I don't know, but we really love that song.'
And he said, 'I don't give a f---. I just want the money.'"
"I just want the money"
Your celebrities and idols are not who they present themselves to be in public. Understand what narcissists do and can do.
He is a brilliant lyricist and has a very kind heart. He continues to reach out to delight fans and enjoys touring. I believe I have just about everything he has written and sang. I'm feeling blessed as Bob's music continues to lift me up and he is a big part of my life! I've loved his concerts, too. Thanks Bob!! Bless you, always!
He's racist
I concur with Jeff Bridges the actor who said,” We’re lucky to be living in the time of Bob Dylan.” Or something like that.
My father in 1963 had a record shop, in Italy , when I saw the cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album i was ...torn apart
Bob Dylan is somebody you cannot really sum up in words. For those of us who love Bob Dylan, you can't get near him with petty descriptions because he is too enigmatic to be judged as anything but constantly changing, amorphous and undulating. He is everything altogether... The wordsmith and poet would be summoned to play for a great King. Beyond that, he defies mere words.
Spot on comments!
What is a great king? A despot?
He's gifted, but he also has striven over the years to create a mystique about him that has at times been unmerited. Stravinsky did the same thing. It's kinda sad that such gifted individuals can't simply rely upon their creative achievements, but instead need to strenuously burnish their images for the public.
@@maxhirsch7035 I believe the reason they do this is that, massively talented or not, they are human beings who are plagued with the same insecurities as the rest of us. John Lennon didn’t like the natural sound of his own voice and was always asking George Martin and Geoff Emerick to find ways to alter and disguise it.
He also said in many interviews that he was so nervous before performing live, he vomited backstage several occasions.
Bob Dylan = real cool cat. Don’t throw glass out his hotel windows.
i think that might of been Pete Seeger that did that?
It's not about what year it was or what he knows are what he's done it's what he gives us in his music. I would love to hear more about his life but he owes us nothing.
The greatest story teller in my life.
@Fred Flintstone Wilma said shut up Fred.
@Fred Flintstone Oz said 'in his life', and he sure has told some whoppers ...
Bob was a missionary, saving souls as he toured non-stop. I saw him in 1987, it was spiritual, and I wasn't the only one
So true
An amazing poet who, luckily for us, also plays the guitar 😊
and harmonica
Satan writes his songs
"I only want the money" well, if you listen to his music live, you knew that earlier
Dylan writes very political and controversial songs but whenever I've seen him asked about social issues specifically, he always says, "I'm just a song and dance man."
If you want to know facts about artists read their autobiography, don't waste your time on these videos. Dylan is no saint, like none of us are, but he is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) songwriters of all time.
He is the greatest songwriter of all time.
A biography, maybe. Definitely not an autobiography. People lie a lot about themselves.
You're right, nobody's a saint. And especially Dylan is known for his trolling and for being quite unpleasant occasionally. Autobiographies, especially by artists, as trustworthy historical sources?? Probably not...
Blood on the Tracks - COME ON!!!
Also Greatest Volume 2.
My favorite album
Greatest Hits Volume two...my band does the song you Ain't Goin' Nowhere like that version....
Saw Dylan here in Shreveport, La back in 2016. He was great...
Bob Dylan freed our minds.The times they are a changing,he's a poet and songwriter as well as a singer performer.Listen to his Music,stop listening to boy bands.
The most vital thing he MAY have done, is get saved, since I was his interview with him saying he was keeping up his end of the bargain for satan as per his agreement to become famous.
I sure hope he's saved.
@Kelly T That's what I always thought, but called in 2006, I am in a five fold deliverance ministry. The leader was Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and among us have been the ten of Zechariah 8:23. I know them. I am a first fruit of the remnant. Also a veteran of ten years in combat and military intel. Yes, I know all about the black ops, off world, extreme technologies etc....
As a kid I always wondered why he changed his name. Zimmerman seemed like such an awesome sounding name for an artist. I understand why now of course.
his creativity, unique singing style!
Lets dig up a load of uninteresting crap on one of the greatest talents who has ever lived.
@Kelly T Blah blah blah. FOAD
You're like a dull knife Grunge, You just ain't cuttin'. Talkin' loud sayin' nothing.
He is a legend
Bro that thumbnail be lookin like bob Dylan be droppin a new mixtape
I was at a concert he had in Gothenburg.
His voice is not clean but incredibly hypnotic.
He captured your attention and kept every second until he was finished.
Robinsinpost what like a foghorn!? Bless.
Pretty much liked Dylan for decades but I went to see him in Sheffield with an old friend as a gift for my mates 50th birthday, we had been friends since we met as 3yr old kids and both liked Dylan. My God he was crap and quite a fair number did as we did, walked out after 4 or 5 songs and went to the car, had a nice spliff and then went for a pint!
I love Bob Dylan especially 60s and 70s Bob Dylan
He was also in the movie, “Pat Garret and Billy the Kid”.
And wrote the music including knocking on heavens door
@@stever4128 and the chorus of the song 'wagon wheel' made famous by The Old Crow Medicine Show
Who was he in movie?
Chris Havener His character was named, “Alias” according to IMDB
Love Bob Dylan, he is a master of words. Bob Dylan has a Nobel Prize in Literature for his genius.
When i lived in Northern Minnesota, i did my shopping in Hibbing Mn. a zig and a zag and you can drive by the house were he was raised... The older local folks don't like him... But like they say , " you gotta be strange, to live on the range".. ( iron range) To me a lot of his songs are what i grew up with.. Have a lot of bitter sweet memories from the 60's , 70's and 80's ... Special music kind of keeps score with life, sometimes... ( Our "golden oldies" were from the 50's... LOL )
If there is ever a movie about Bob Dylan
Adam sandler should play him
Have a movie already played by Cate blanchet
"When are you going to record Heavens door?"
"Idgaf I just want the money."
I mean it's a solid business tactic. 🤷♀️
Bob Dylan never admits where he was born and raised...he says, Duluth, Minneapolis but in reality he was born and raised in Hibbing. This is the first time I heard Hibbing...I know this because my grandparents and his parents were best friends, lived right across the street from each other. My Dad and my Uncle watched him as a child when his parents and my grandparents went out...
I just love the work and wish him well. Beyond that I don't care.
he was named after dylan tomas the peot "I HEARD A SONG OF A POET WHO DIED IN THE GUTTER"
No, he took the name from Forrest Delon` Gump who he passed on "Highway 61"
Bob Dylan didn't need to play Woodstock, he lived there. When asked "Will you go to Woodstock?" Dylan said "Yes, sure I will", he thought they were asking if he was off home.
That tumbnail tho
Dylan is like a chef who cooked the most delicious meal you ever ate. A year later you appear again and compliment him for that meal. Chef returns with what you believe will be a delicious meal once again. As he removes the top of the metal surround from the plate, you realize he has crapped on the plate.
Dylan writes "stark, simple songs"??? Wow, this narrator knows NOTHING. Tell me how songs like "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" and "It's Alright Ma" are "simple"!
Or Changing of the Guards, A Hard Rain, Jokerman, Frankie Lee and Juda's priest, Shelter from the Storm and at least 100 other immense songs.
Or Ballad of a thin man
Everyone should check out Dylan's latest, Murder Most Foul, a 17-minute song he supposedly recorded a long time ago but decided to release here in Spring 2020 FOR SOME REASON. Seriously, drop everything you are doing right now and look it up!
So what exactly has been revealed here. The overall negative innuendo tone of this piece of work just makes it trash, ie no value.
Seen Bob live in the 90’s. the concert wasn’t great. But, I’d still put him in my top 5 artists of all time and I think one of the most influential people to have lived in the last century.
The woman this clip presents as Bobs first wife (from the Renaldo and Clara footage) is NOT his wife! But the acctress Helena Kallianiotes. If you cant get a thing like that right dont bother make a video about it.
It is super peculiar how Bob Dylan became who he is. He is super f'ing talented musically and lyrically. I relate these justified observations from the lyrics of "Desolation Row". A seriously beautiful tale on modern life expressed through the spontaneous fragments of north american existence.
As frases de Dylan, inspiram, intrigam, fazem viajar ´fenomenal quando teve aqui no Brasil achei que iria perde, mas fiz um sacrifício e o momento foi único, o melhor!
He never did the Ed Sullivan show because they did not want him to play a song called "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" a satirical song about an anti-communist group. I think, and people in that time thought that it was a brave move.
How is his stage name a mystery? He explained it in his autobiography...
Here's something most people don't know. He didn't only study with Rabbis after. His Jewish grandchildren don't only have Bar Mitzvas/Bat Mitzvas which he happily attends. He studied with a very wise, holy Rabbi at a Jewish Yeshiva when he was already a young, established artist. He wanted to keep studying there but he also wanted to work. The rule of the school was that each person had to live there, studying all day, devoted to learning, knowledge, awareness, kindness, spiritual elevation, without a career for one year (everything was provided, so that was fine). He wasn't treated differently than anyone else - the Rabbi made sure the students looked at him like a human being, like everyone else, not different because they heard his music, and they easily obliged - and though he tried to negotiate a deal in which he could continue to study without dedicating one year, the school didn't give him special privileges. So he left. He thought he had to work. I often wonder what kind of music would have been created had he spent an entire school year immersed in holy books, learning from wise, spiritual, exalted people. I'd say we'd never know, but who knows? He could do something like that at any time.
When did he study with the rabbi? Was that in the 60s or 70s?
@@tetrahedron1000 i think the 60s (I can ask to tell you for sure).
@@tetrahedron1000 okay, I got some more accurate facts. He went to a Jewish Orthodox school with Torah observant rabbis. So that's much earlier. He also went to Jewish camps. It was after putting out a bunch of albums and changes in his life he was invited as a guest to one of the parties in the week after a Jewish wedding. It took place at that Orthodox Jewish school. People knew who he was, but no one treated him differently and the school was blocked from photographers. He really liked the rabbi and atmosphere, he found it so pure, inviting, and true. He kept visiting and having conversations and enjoying all the new knowledge and ideas from this truly beautiful rabbi. He told the rabbi he's buying a house nearby to be part of the school. The rabbi actually negotiated a three month stay - not one year - so that Bob would be immersed in the learning. The rabbi also wanted to make sure it's not another phase, but real. But Bob didn't feel he could commit to it. He never stopped loving the rabbi - who was so intelligent and kind - or the school or what he learned there. He's still very close to his roots.
I like how you don’t see him and his family in the tabloids constantly....that’s a man who values his privacy and I can relate to that. It’s almost unheard of with other stars who are way less well known than he. I don’t blame him for staying on the down low.
Bob Dylan is my all-time favorite and a fellow Gemini. There's something to be said of Geminis' eccentricities. I totally get the multiple lives of Bob Dylan thing. I can feel these different chapters/lives in my own life. Strike another match, go start anew, cause it's all over now, baby blue. I love originality, but I must say, if I ever got better at playing guitar and got famous, it would be terribly hard not to be influenced by Dylan.
@Lloyd Gittens Might as well. We're two people in one body.
Bob Dylan is a genre.
Gn'R's version of Knocking on Heaven's Door is so cringy. The whole two Axl's doing a duet is embarrassing for anyone with even the slightest amount of taste.
Dats wat day lick
@@silveradotow957Who licks what?
@@jonathanmosher72 day licking dat sing songs
@johnathan mosher: tastes are learned
@@daieast6305 You won't learn any taste from Axl, he's an idiot.
Anyone who has lived through the sixties with this kind of wealth and adoration is going to be a bit weird. At least there will be times when the wheels left the road. Sooner or later we’ll finally embrace the idea that a few people with guitars changed the course of human history for the better. We need a few icons like them for the ages. At least Dylan has managed to survive. Lennon’s naivety was tragic. Surviving in the limelight is probably way harder than any of us know.
I am sure it is a heavy load and God bless them they persevered.
I think Bob Dylan is just trolling everyone lol
I expect you're right!
Dylan had some good songs, but nobody should be idolized because of media attention. Parents, friends, teachers and other people close in our lives are more important than celebrities.
A lot of loud mouth nothings on here. Spiteful and thankless. Dylan changed the narrow way in which people used to think. Apparently did not help them.
You can be a good musician and be a dick
I would eat a mile of his shit just to see where it came from.. His music brings so much to my soul..His mind is something else and to create his poetry into music I love it...He's got a privet life and if he doesn't let anybody in oh well DONT THINK TWICE ITS ALRIGHT......Lol
@@libertyprime619 Anyone would look bad, if they just cherry-picked certain incidents from your past (incidents that my or my not be true) and just spun them to make you look bad......
Artists absolutely need to experiment. And we're all human, even the best artists among us.
Even those who make "expose" vids for youtube.
I saw him in a cab once. He glanced at me in a meaningful way.
There is no truth about Bob Dylan, he never tried to sell you the truth, only the music is all you need to feel.
This is silly especially "creeping people out walking in the rain" just silly
First off Dylan deserved the nobel prize and Patti Smith's faltering when performing her tribute was vr moving. My Dad loved the acoustic protest period and going electric was not greeted by all with unabashed enthusiasm. Also his born again Christian period followed by his born again Jewish period did not produce his best work. His biggest fan Tom Petty was dismayed at how bad he sounded during one of Geldorf's we are the world fundraisers and the 2 yr world tour with the Heartbreakers was one of his best decisions. Like Jean Paul Sartre he was a bit of a mythomane in his self-recreation process. I can't agree with Tom that Shakespeare pales in comparison to Dylan but I treasure his comment, well you just have to get past his Bobness ,,,, words to remember. My favorite live recording was My Back Pages, still gives me shivers - who wasn't there; Clapton George Harrison Neil Young, Tom, Jim Keltner Roger McGuinn still have left someone out pure gold.
As for drugs, my impression is that their effect was almost completely negative, simply removing people from meaningful struggle and engagement. Just the other day I was sitting in a radio studio waiting for a satellite arrangement abroad to be set up. The engineers were putting together interviews with Bob Dylan from about 1966-7 or so (judging by the references), and I was listening (I'd never heard him talk before -- if you can call that talking). He sounded as though he was so drugged he was barely coherent, but the message got through clearly enough through the haze. He said over and over that he'd been through all of this protest thing, realized it was nonsense, and that the only thing that was important was to live his own life happily and freely, not to "mess around with other people's lives" by working for civil and human rights, ending war and poverty, etc. He was asked what he thought about the Berkeley "free speech movement" and said that he didn't understand it. He said something like: "I have free speech, I can do what I want, so it has nothing to do with me. Period." If the capitalist PR machine [term used in the question] wanted to invent someone for their purposes, they couldn't have made a better choice.
-Noam Chomsky, Reply (via email) to Douglas Lain, June 1994
Hmmm...
What do you think of Murder Most Foul?
Bob himself says that this was recorded a while back. Why release it now? I remember seeing an interview of Dylan in which he claimed to have "made a bargain...with the Chief Commander...of this earth and the world we can't see". But he never says exactly "Satan" or "The Devil", nor does he say exactly what he had to do to "hold up his end". I'm just speculating, but we know that poets and artists speak in metaphors and hints. Perhaps in exchange for earthly fame and riches, Dylan agreed to be a part of the hedonistic world of show business, what Leonard Cohen called "Boogie Street", but in his role as entertainer he would NOT publicly go into exploring the JFK assassination. A smart and creative man like Dylan could have swayed millions into a less hedonistically distracted worldview, but he didn't do this. Is Dylan no longer holding up his end of the bargain? Does he have a terminal disease? Is he fearing imminent death in this time of pandemic?
Dave Von Ronk? No. Van Ronk. Let's at least get that right.
Well said. See my comment above.
Assembling things that you find from a quick Google search is no way to make a serious documentary.
You can't tell me the "ok boomer" shit didn't help push this video out
TH-cam videos are starting to feel like TV movies. The longer I watch, the more it feels like I'm watching a compilation of ads with bits of documentary thrown in. Giving your viewer that many chances to lose interest in what they're watching seems like a weird model.
"death is not the end". LOL Dylan left some good clues. That's why he's timeless
Now I'm 54 and I like he's songs more then ever, for me he is the number one.
Dylan lived in Woodstock NY. The concert took place 71 miles away in Bethel, NY. So how could he see hordes of people gathering an hour and half drive from his home?
They probably stalked his home
There was half a million people there. Lol.
He backed out weeks before the concert, preferring to play in England at an outdoor concert there (Isle of Wight?).....The original site for Woodstock ws near Woodstock, but they had to relocate at the last minute, and Max Yasger came through...it was known as the "White Lake Music and Art Fair" for a while
the whole video is just meaningless dribble
Bob Dylan...the number 1 of the world
Why this thumbnail out of ALL the pictures of Bob Dylan there is 🤣🤣🤣.
D God because they are trying to paint him as a fraud and imposter (which isn’t true)
Woodstock was a mass social engineering event , the CounterCulture was an inside joke that hipsters still don't get , and Dylan is not so dumb as not to know that .
What do you think of Murder Most Foul?
Yours is an excellent post! Bob himself says that this latest song on JFK was recorded a while back. Why release it now? I remember seeing an interview of Dylan in which he claimed to have "made a bargain...with the Chief Commander...of this earth and the world we can't see". But he never says exactly "Satan" or "The Devil", nor does he say exactly what he had to do to "hold up his end". I'm just speculating, but we know that poets and artists speak in metaphors and hints. Perhaps in exchange for earthly fame and riches, Dylan agreed to be a part of the hedonistic world of show business, what Leonard Cohen called "Boogie Street", but in his role as entertainer he would NOT publicly go into exploring the JFK assassination. A smart and creative man like Dylan could have swayed millions into a less hedonistically distracted worldview, but he didn't do this. Is Dylan no longer holding up his end of the bargain? Does he have a terminal disease? Is he fearing imminent death in this time of pandemic?
What he truly believes , that I do not know . Such a discussion is further made complex by context of whether 20th century ideas are examined with 20th century default perspectives , or from a deeper understanding of history and the supernatural being the basis of authority of law . I don't think he is a secularist atheist , I think he loves his country , the United States .
Poor guy, sold his Soul to the devil
How do you know ?
diego Cred ....he said it in a Rolling Stone interview
Dylan like the rest of us is a human being. Do anyone of have some truths that we don’t want to reveal? His music is his gift, and he more then shared that with us all, so let’s just enjoy it!
He completely, single-handedly, revolutionised song-writing/poetry.
Nobody comes close. He influenced The Beatles, The Stones, Tom Petty, Ray Davies, Warren Zeavon, all the best songwriters..... Even me.... Lol ..... If anybody thinks any different, then you are either extremely young and inexperienced, or thick as a plank, or both......
Satan did it all
I was a large Dylan fan from around 1965 until the '70's when I heard he cheated
on Sara. He admitted it in the song 'Sara', I think. which is honesty. Jakob Dylan
said he was a good parent.
I was S.F. just before the '67 Monterey Pop and met a woman who was the
girlfriend of Bobby Neurwith, who worked with Dylan. Her apartment was filled
with posters saying "No one sings Dylan like Dylan." She can be seen on the
video's on Monterey Pop as a camera girl. Pennypacker produced the film and
was the producer of Dylan's first albums. Bob can be seen sitting in the audience.
You can't classify him. I think if you did, his unique talent would be destroyed.
I don't think he matches his early talent but with Dylan you have to listen to
his songs a number of times to 'get' them. I don't have the time.
He missed his Nobel Prize Award but he thanked them later, very eloquently.
With my high school crowd, only me and other other kid were fans of Dylan,
the Beatles and Stones were more popular. Dylan, I think, is more enduring.
He is extremely well read.
Did I miss you mentioning his role as "Alias" in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,?"
You didn't mention his art. As a songwriter and poet, he is great. His acting
and paintings are only O.K.
I love the Gun's 'n' Roses version of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" but the
image which pops into my head is the Peckenpaugh film I mentioned before
when the old Sheriff is fatally gun shot. The Sheriff is played by Chill Wills.
Bob Dylan is a living legend.
Oh my God am I here all alone ~ on Desolation Row ? 😎👍
Thumbnail future Anthony Kiedis or alternate past Vincent Price.🤔
I would love to know more about Dylan and Edie Sedgwick
I love his voice he feels like a friend...love his face and messed up hair...aged look the best...joan baez's laugh
What do you think of Murder Most Foul?
@@Torgo1969 he was telling the truth for history...it was murder and of course I like honesty
@@sharonlubin5515 Yet one wonders why the song is being released now? Why did he not release this any other time in the last 57 years? Every Dylan fan knows that he has spoken of making a bargain with some source of power in exchange for being allowed to be successful. Was his silence about this event part of that bargain?
@@Torgo1969 you obviously don't know him at all...he wouldn't "sell out" for anything
@@sharonlubin5515 Guilty as charged. I don't know him, but I know what he said on CBS in an interview th-cam.com/video/jNn72qnp6kI/w-d-xo.html .
Bob Dylan is an icon