1965 or 66: I was 22, living in a rent-controlled apt in Greenwich Village, late at night listening to public radio live interview with Dylan with call-ins from listeners. A young woman called in saying something like she remembered him from some time ago and said some insipid things -- but nice. Dylan responded in his snarky way and she replied so innocently and naively - something like: 'Oh I'm sorry, didn't mean to offend you, you were so wonderful' (can't remember exactly what she said). And then Bob Dylan suddenly reversed, apologizing in the most honest, genuinely humbled tones - as if he suddenly recalled another self. It was very moving, I will never forget that and always remember it whenever I hear him speak.
I think Bob has always had an extreme sensitivity to bullshit and when he detects it he turns off and the conversation may as well be over,but when he likes the people doing the interview and doesn't pick up any jive then he really opens up.He's actually very honest that way.
@@omansnowball8027 he told some pretty adventurous tales about his youth back in the day. Also the guy has got a great imagination when it comes to his writing sure, but as far as making a living of bullshit he's just doing what comes naturally to him. He doesn't put up with fools asking dumb questions he's had to listen to it for 60 years. I wouldn't exactly say he's been putting out bullshit music if that's what you mean but I get the impression your a fan of Dylan. He'd be the first to admit he's playing a character in public he even mentions that in the interview after all Bob Dylan is a made up character and as Buck Owens said I can play the Part so well.
I how the tone of his voice is exactly how it was in those famous 1965 interviews. Still being pressed and hammered, still doesn't give a shit. Love it.
He's spoken so rarely in the last 25 years that you wonder what he even sounds like, so it's somehow a surprise and not a surprise that he sounds like he always has.
He did get a lot more tolerant to the questions (: In the old days he could get visibly annoyed or sometimes even mad and in the end he found it hard to keep his opinions to himself, but over the years he became better at just saying yes or no. What I really find funny about the Bob Dylan interviews, opposed to interviews with any other musician is that journalist try so very hard to ask intelligent questions. Dylan is such an icon and people want to be found smart by him (:
He is really humble and it's hard for him to take people seriously who read crazy stuff into everything he writes instead of just appreciating his talent. When asked about music he is actually so honest and open and if not people asked proper questions I think he would amazing to listen to. Also love how he reminds people to not take him so seriously. But overall I find him very respectful in the face of some fairly silly questions.
His voice is so damn sexy! and his sense of humor is so appealing. I can't believe it took me this long to realize how badass cool dylan is....it's truly embarrassing.
jasonnwest doesn’t feel like disdain...just perplexed by self serving questions, that don’t speak to him...journalists looking for some kind of validation of their perception of him
You've gotta love how all these years later these interviewers ask the same lame questions. Dylan has such patience, kindness and love. Brilliant mastermind. Modern artists could learn a thing or two...
His voice is deeper, it's said that ever since ''Street-Legal'' his style of singing and phrasing changed forever. If you hear ''Silvio'' (the single just as he went on the 1988 tour) and you hear ''Tweeter & The Monkey Man'' recorded days before he went on the 1988 tour his voice had deepened and became more rustic sounding. This may have been due to nodules on his vocals which affact the singing a lot more than the spoken one. As he's aged, his voice sounded more shredded until he began to practise proper singing tecniques when he did the ''Sinartra'' songs. He learned how to sing using his diaphram and not his throat, if you heard him in 2019 he sounds less shredded. Its a combination of age, nodules from straining his voice and bad technique, all of which he's now corrected.
Poor Bob...I think it would be much more interesting to have him in a room with other musicians talking about music and song writing or whatever and just tape it. It would to me.
Last comment: he presages that last record, the Sinatra one. He says the best way to record him is "antiquated". And indeed that worked on "Shadows In The Night". I love that man! So full of understanding of what music is about. See: The Theme Time Radio Hour.
💙💙💙💜💙💙💙Awww man I absolutely always LOVE LOVE LOVE me some sweet, sweet Theme Time Radio Hour!! It's one of my all-time favorites. Zimmy's radio show featured some of the most wonderful, incredible music I've ever had the pleasure and the blessing to hear. Such an beautifully eclectic mix of music. It's like a party for your ears. And Bobby always has the coolest, cutest voice ever. 😊 I always enjoy hearing him share his enthusiasm for the music, his storytelling and all his lovely adorable poetry recitations too.💕💓😍💙💜🎶🎼🎸🎹🎼🎵💜💙
lol interviews with bob are so great, cause they are rare and he is an amazing artist!. Just like in the 60's accept he's "younger" now and he doesn't have to defend himself by making fools out of the interviewers who just DONT get him
This sadly sounds like an outtake from Don't Look Back... dumb ass questions from so-called journalists. Amazing that Bob still has the patience for this... I can see him rubbing his eyes and mumbling, "I just want to go home..."
Im only studying English to understand the meaning of Dylan's songs ( instead of these literal traduction), and to understand his interviews ! I need to practise more to understand this one...
The meaning of his songs will be unique to you. He's trying to tell us, we make him who we want him to be. He is not our voice but our mirror. Listen Mathis, don't go down the rabbit hole in search of meaning. He only ever wanted you to do one thing: just stay groovy, or leave, man.
@@dickslayer111 Bob Dylan is way too cool to ever allow anyone to get inside his head. I found myself trying to figure out one of his newer videos. Impossible.
It's so unfortunate that Love and Theft was released on September 11th 2001 and got lost in the dust, never fully appreciated as one of his greatest works
"My particular vocal range just goes .... it subverts the system, it always has actually, I don't know why". LOL. And there's so much more. This is the interview I've always wanted to hear from him. He is being real and funny, and as inarticulate and slow as ever, but in such a good way. I can't believe this isn't better known. Dylan being comfortable and relatively open. And he sounds so young! Awesome. Where are parts 3-5?
Wow! Thank you for that ... i just remembered after all these years that I was actually driving to the shops to buy Love and Theft when I heard the terrible news from NYC on the radio. The actual purpose of my journey was to buy this album.
I did learn why i love him live, bob does not compromise on stage. and i wanna bunny hop, twist, jump, who's next jump in? let's go! all over the up coming tour through new england with his 'dark' voice.
Hi well I chek for Robert Hanson-or was it Hansen? the person is mensioned but no sounds available ... am interested about the composer- musician or whoever B Dylan was talkin' about anyone helping?
When Bob starts asking the interviewer questions the interview is over - he will play with them as entertainers do - He’s too brilliant for such nonsense- and is now in control of all information
+Simp Simpson I thought they asked fairly good questions. At least they're not going on about the 60s and the "spokesman of a generation" and all that.
He is more sympathetic in interviews than he used to be. Some of the videos of early press conferences are just amazing, he is witty and sharp and enigmatic in his answers. I feel sorry for the old fashioned reporters who had never met such an evasive interviewee. The first real rock star.
Sorry, I haven't kept up with Dylan for a few decades, and didn't know he had an album named 'Love and Theft.' Yes I missed that early-in-the-recording interviewer question, "can you explain the name of the album. 'Love and Theft?" For this oversight, I give my TH-cam comment apologies to you and all the millions of your other overly snarky TH-cam comrades.
John Miller Its a good albulm, a mature Dylan, like you may have also matured over the last few decades and will appreciate it. Thought provoking, like his other works, its what you get out of it based on your thoughts, not his.
this is so hard to listen to his brain being picked. i love his tone, "Are they wut?" I hear his patience and love all over this interview. bob is tolerating these irritating questions. why not, "Bob, who is the inspiration for all these love songs? Is it like the Mona Lisa, where many women comprise the content or a single woman you have been in love with for a very, very long time?" perhaps that too personal a question, but that is what i want to know. i think i know the answer, not sure.
@Treble Clef: a pity no one among the question people noticed love and theft is really "LOVE AND THEFT" ... and why is it between guillemets, comas ... only reason plausible is a quote from black minstrel book of the same title ... so why does "LOVE AND THEFT" only resembles black minstrel creator of the original version of LOVESICK BLUES, the one and only EMMETT MILLER .... (check skorecki7 to hear some of miller's fabulous forgotten ancient sophisticated music ...)
hmmmmmmmm,no recent love songs and poetry indikate a fiery woman, not a fluid scorpio entity! both sara and suze were scopios. he is past that now. I think something much more explosive and dynamic may be on the horizon in his love department!
BOB is just a weird dude who writes poetry and plays music. He knows it and can’t figure out why anyone would try to figure it out. He can’t figure it out himself. He does enjoy manipulating people with his skills though. 😉
Trump couldn’t handle Bob’s unwillingness to lie. They are from completely different worlds. Bob’s world is about searching for and then telling the truth. Trump’s world is about subversion of the truth, megalomania, self aggrandizement and greed. Trump has revealed something about the current state of America though. He is something like a canary in a coal mine. He is revealing how toxic we have become as a people. And how willing we have become to embrace the worst parts of ourselves. And the saddest part, how enthusiastically willing he is to make us sicker.
And you know or believe this how /why? I hate when people act like they know this sort of thing. So you've met him or spent time with others who have known him?
1965 or 66: I was 22, living in a rent-controlled apt in Greenwich Village, late at night listening to public radio live interview with Dylan with call-ins from listeners. A young woman called in saying something like she remembered him from some time ago and said some insipid things -- but nice. Dylan responded in his snarky way and she replied so innocently and naively - something like: 'Oh I'm sorry, didn't mean to offend you, you were so wonderful' (can't remember exactly what she said). And then Bob Dylan suddenly reversed, apologizing in the most honest, genuinely humbled tones - as if he suddenly recalled another self. It was very moving, I will never forget that and always remember it whenever I hear him speak.
I think Bob has always had an extreme sensitivity to bullshit and when he detects it he turns off and the conversation may as well be over,but when he likes the people doing the interview and doesn't pick up any jive then he really opens up.He's actually very honest that way.
he just wants to be treated as a fellow perhaps hehe.
I agree absolutely with bluesborn ! myself am the like . cant make me happy I mean : bullshit ..
Discernment. Knows not to cast his pears to the swine.
“Sensitive to bull shit” Come on the man makes a living on it.
@@omansnowball8027 he told some pretty adventurous tales about his youth back in the day. Also the guy has got a great imagination when it comes to his writing sure, but as far as making a living of bullshit he's just doing what comes naturally to him. He doesn't put up with fools asking dumb questions he's had to listen to it for 60 years. I wouldn't exactly say he's been putting out bullshit music if that's what you mean but I get the impression your a fan of Dylan. He'd be the first to admit he's playing a character in public he even mentions that in the interview after all Bob Dylan is a made up character and as Buck Owens said I can play the Part so well.
Gotta love Dylan. He's put out so many great albums and songs. Plus the guy's just effortlessly cool.
I how the tone of his voice is exactly how it was in those famous 1965 interviews. Still being pressed and hammered, still doesn't give a shit. Love it.
As first time reader I sense ths is true. I sense integrity in him, and wisdom, discernment.
He's spoken so rarely in the last 25 years that you wonder what he even sounds like, so it's somehow a surprise and not a surprise that he sounds like he always has.
This is a HUGE bit of recording and I am delighted to see it up here. Thank you!
Thanks for posting this. Delightful to hear Mr. D speaking, as well as singing.
Super interesting.
Thanks very much for uploading!
He did get a lot more tolerant to the questions (: In the old days he could get visibly annoyed or sometimes even mad and in the end he found it hard to keep his opinions to himself, but over the years he became better at just saying yes or no.
What I really find funny about the Bob Dylan interviews, opposed to interviews with any other musician is that journalist try so very hard to ask intelligent questions. Dylan is such an icon and people want to be found smart by him (:
He is really humble and it's hard for him to take people seriously who read crazy stuff into everything he writes instead of just appreciating his talent. When asked about music he is actually so honest and open and if not people asked proper questions I think he would amazing to listen to. Also love how he reminds people to not take him so seriously. But overall I find him very respectful in the face of some fairly silly questions.
His voice is so damn sexy! and his sense of humor is so appealing. I can't believe it took me this long to realize how badass cool dylan is....it's truly embarrassing.
nikkiejanee1972 welcome to the club..my dream lover since 1966
Love this interview; he sounds like he's having a fairly good time, even accounting for the usual disdain he takes towards interviews.
jasonnwest doesn’t feel like disdain...just perplexed by self serving questions, that don’t speak to him...journalists looking for some kind of validation of their perception of him
Bob is being really tolerant and cooperative here.
Patient. Wise.
I think having a bunch of children instills patience like that
You've gotta love how all these years later these interviewers ask the same lame questions. Dylan has such patience, kindness and love. Brilliant mastermind. Modern artists could learn a thing or two...
He sounds perfectly coherent, and reasonable. Why am I shocked?
Perhaps it's because you've bought the lie that the media has told over and over again for the past 30 years, that Bob Dylan is unintelligible.
Am I the only one totally envisaging young 60s Dylan while he's talking?
@Benjamin Shulman nailed it..... dont look back..... same cat for sure
He sounds exactly the same doesn't he? Hilarious. And they're still asking strange questions!
He explained just how different he sounds to making records and singing live concerts great interview nice one Bob thanks I love both ha
this wonderful interview IS available on CD/MP3 through amazon....
As much as all his interviews are incredibly amusing and entertaining. People are just dense.
"Exactly."
His speaking voice hasnt changed much. Its odd that his singing one has changed completely.
His voice is deeper, it's said that ever since ''Street-Legal'' his style of singing and phrasing changed forever. If you hear ''Silvio'' (the single just as he went on the 1988 tour) and you hear ''Tweeter & The Monkey Man'' recorded days before he went on the 1988 tour his voice had deepened and became more rustic sounding. This may have been due to nodules on his vocals which affact the singing a lot more than the spoken one. As he's aged, his voice sounded more shredded until he began to practise proper singing tecniques when he did the ''Sinartra'' songs. He learned how to sing using his diaphram and not his throat, if you heard him in 2019 he sounds less shredded. Its a combination of age, nodules from straining his voice and bad technique, all of which he's now corrected.
Eromeda Records he hasn’t corrected it? Why would you lie?
Poor Bob...I think it would be much more interesting to have him in a room with other musicians talking about music and song writing or whatever and just tape it.
It would to me.
I second that
have you seen this? th-cam.com/video/RAaCczUt7tk/w-d-xo.html
Sure it would for us. But why would they want to record it?
Last comment: he presages that last record, the Sinatra one. He says the best way to record him is "antiquated". And indeed that worked on "Shadows In The Night". I love that man! So full of understanding of what music is about. See: The Theme Time Radio Hour.
💙💙💙💜💙💙💙Awww man I absolutely always LOVE LOVE LOVE me some sweet, sweet Theme Time Radio Hour!! It's one of my all-time favorites. Zimmy's radio show featured some of the most wonderful, incredible music I've ever had the pleasure and the blessing to hear. Such an beautifully eclectic mix of music. It's like a party for your ears. And Bobby always has the coolest, cutest voice ever. 😊 I always enjoy hearing him share his enthusiasm for the music, his storytelling and all his lovely adorable poetry recitations too.💕💓😍💙💜🎶🎼🎸🎹🎼🎵💜💙
lol interviews with bob are so great, cause they are rare and he is an amazing artist!. Just like in the 60's accept he's "younger" now and he doesn't have to defend himself by making fools out of the interviewers who just DONT get him
His interviews are always amazing because of his uniqueness and this dylan charisma that's on a different level than anybody else
+nikkiejanee1972 ...DYLAN....lives in a spiritual consciousness....& these knuckleheads do not. .....Like children trying to groak a real adult.
Thanks, sure love me a Bob Dylan press conference. Nothing quite like it. 👍
"My particular vocal range subverts the system." LOL - Nice diss to Danny
You been dancin' all morning? said with the entire curiosity of the universe.
So cool.
This sadly sounds like an outtake from Don't Look Back... dumb ass questions from so-called journalists. Amazing that Bob still has the patience for this... I can see him rubbing his eyes and mumbling, "I just want to go home..."
For anyone to say Dylan is irrelevant as he get's older hasn't got a body of work that will speak for his revelance in rock and roll
A. Bob's voice - what I have fantasize talking me to sleep for years.
B. Bob does not suffer fools
Im only studying English to understand the meaning of Dylan's songs ( instead of these literal traduction), and to understand his interviews ! I need to practise more to understand this one...
The meaning of his songs will be unique to you. He's trying to tell us, we make him who we want him to be. He is not our voice but our mirror. Listen Mathis, don't go down the rabbit hole in search of meaning. He only ever wanted you to do one thing: just stay groovy, or leave, man.
@@dickslayer111 Bob Dylan is way too cool to ever allow anyone to get inside his head. I found myself trying to figure out one of his newer videos. Impossible.
this is quite entertaining!! too bad it wasn't released on a disk. it would be worth the price of an album. he is SO fascinating!!
It's so unfortunate that Love and Theft was released on September 11th 2001 and got lost in the dust, never fully appreciated as one of his greatest works
"My particular vocal range just goes .... it subverts the system, it always has actually, I don't know why". LOL. And there's so much more.
This is the interview I've always wanted to hear from him. He is being real and funny, and as inarticulate and slow as ever, but in such a good way. I can't believe this isn't better known. Dylan being comfortable and relatively open. And he sounds so young! Awesome. Where are parts 3-5?
Love and Theft was released on Sept. 11, 2001
Wow! Thank you for that ... i just remembered after all these years that I was actually driving to the shops to buy Love and Theft when I heard the terrible news from NYC on the radio. The actual purpose of my journey was to buy this album.
he changes his singing voice because he wants to, mostly. he also changes his speaking voice at times.
ha ha the questions are just as insipid as they were in the 60s lol
Daniel you're a star.
Awesome
Life is a choice and a progression. We chose where we chose to be on that line.
Exactly yeah!
I did learn why i love him live, bob does not compromise on stage. and i wanna bunny hop, twist, jump, who's next jump in? let's go! all over the up coming tour through new england with his 'dark' voice.
love Bob...always consistent doesn't give a spit.
This is really no fun without the video
What I said was there on the same lines just opposite sides. In the middle you find all the motivation.
I remember Dylan saying that he did not grant interviews because they ask the wrong questions .
Hi well I chek for Robert Hanson-or was it Hansen?
the person is mensioned but no sounds available ...
am interested about the composer- musician or whoever B Dylan was talkin' about
anyone helping?
planetaterra it's Robert Johnson
Why do the reporters interrupt him so often? I'm a reporter and the man starts talking, I'd STFU!
Thank You. Remember Fay Fishman? and her son. A time ago. Your words are.
Very good Dylan interview, Bob very relaxed and open, very interesting. Long live His Bobness!
If I had a chance to interview Bob.. I’d just ask him what he wants to talk about…
When Bob starts asking the interviewer questions the interview is over - he will play with them as entertainers do - He’s too brilliant for such nonsense- and is now in control of all information
nineteen and sixty one...nice language. bob is from a by gone era.
Rick Nowels ya think? ....some people r timeless..” i have an audience”!!
God he must get so sick of all those moronic questions.. He does well though.. Hes funny -
+Simp Simpson I thought they asked fairly good questions. At least they're not going on about the 60s and the "spokesman of a generation" and all that.
He is more sympathetic in interviews than he used to be. Some of the videos of early press conferences are just amazing, he is witty and sharp and enigmatic in his answers. I feel sorry for the old fashioned reporters who had never met such an evasive interviewee. The first real rock star.
He's hilarious :)
Terry O - das ist eine Anspielung auf den Beginn unseres Gespräches, vermute ich.....
I think he’s one funny dude! People seem to call intolerant, rude but it’s more sarcastic. A British sense of humour!
Have these people ever heard of Bob Dylan
❤❤Bob Allen Dylan ❤❤Heart ❤
what's the album he's promoting at this press conference?
Nevermind, I figured it out: "Love and Theft"
Do some process of elimination. . Its 01 What album do YOU think?
O R are they sayin Love and Theft at the beginning? You speak english?
Sorry, I haven't kept up with Dylan for a few decades, and didn't know he had an album named 'Love and Theft.' Yes I missed that early-in-the-recording interviewer question, "can you explain the name of the album. 'Love and Theft?"
For this oversight, I give my TH-cam comment apologies to you and all the millions of your other overly snarky TH-cam comrades.
John Miller Its a good albulm, a mature Dylan, like you may have also matured over the last few decades and will appreciate it. Thought provoking, like his other works, its what you get out of it based on your thoughts, not his.
this is so hard to listen to his brain being picked. i love his tone, "Are they wut?"
I hear his patience and love all over this interview. bob is tolerating these irritating questions. why not, "Bob, who is the inspiration for all these love songs? Is it like the Mona Lisa, where many women comprise the content or a single woman you have been in love with for a very, very long time?" perhaps that too personal a question, but that is what i want to know. i think i know the answer, not sure.
stupid questions wasted interview!!! You might have prepared some background on Bob, wtf lads!! totally missed opportunity.
That hair in his lip reminds me of my father in 1950s you were it we’ll !
Agreed with all. Ha. Keep it short. That’s it. Bob. Great artist
His voice sounds the same
My mind is out of time again But Don Juan is eternal
Clark Gable
Steeling love no love is given you don't have to be a thief. That's no love it's vainty
What is it with the press and shit questions. They get money for nothing. Dylan has the patience of a Saint here.
ery funy he is getting looser it seems easier for him now to give interviews
@Treble Clef: a pity no one among the question people noticed love and theft is really "LOVE AND THEFT" ... and why is it between guillemets, comas ... only reason plausible is a quote from black minstrel book of the same title ... so why does "LOVE AND THEFT" only resembles black minstrel creator of the original version of LOVESICK BLUES, the one and only EMMETT MILLER .... (check skorecki7 to hear some of miller's fabulous forgotten ancient sophisticated music ...)
I liked t mustache With t gotee
what?. . . .excuse me?
He hates these interviews just as much as he did in the 1960s, haha
good morning.... lets bunny hop. type in team groovy bunny hop
hmmmmmmmm,no recent love songs and poetry indikate a fiery woman, not a fluid scorpio entity! both sara and suze were scopios. he is past that now. I think something much more explosive and dynamic may be on the horizon in his love department!
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this is so flipping awkward
WAY too many women, and all muses. Though no doubt Suze and Sara comprise a lot. I sometimes think he writes about them both in the same songs.
You don't talk in England
His second wife got a good settlement? Love and Theft.....
This could have been 66
bob dylan's track in which the elephant left the room enthrals the counter-claims against which he rides
BOB is just a weird dude who writes poetry and plays music. He knows it and can’t figure out why anyone would try to figure it out. He can’t figure it out himself. He does enjoy manipulating people with his skills though. 😉
doesn't seem to know himself what any of it means, meh
I wish he was trump's press secretary that would be so awesome
Bobs double speak actually makes sense.
Trump couldn’t handle Bob’s unwillingness to lie. They are from completely different worlds. Bob’s world is about searching for and then telling the truth. Trump’s world is about subversion of the truth, megalomania, self aggrandizement and greed.
Trump has revealed something about the current state of America though. He is something like a canary in a coal mine. He is revealing how toxic we have become as a people. And how willing we have become to embrace the worst parts of ourselves. And the saddest part, how enthusiastically willing he is to make us sicker.
DONT BE FOOLED BY THIS MAN WHO IS A DECEPTIVE EVIL WARLOCK , BOB DYLAN SOLD HIS SOUL A LONG TIME A GO
And you know or believe this how /why? I hate when people act like they know this sort of thing. So you've met him or spent time with others who have known him?