Musician's opinions of Bob Dylan
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- Ray Padgett shares Bob Dylan stories from his great book, Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members.
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🤔,.... Hope it reveals that Dylan himself took care of that bullying issue with Watson's daughter. .... 😉. .... In more seriousness, I've attended around 30 Dylan shows. Most of which were in the 1997 - 2007 area. With that I remember feeling like the whole scene around it was so interesting. Would see certain folks consistently. A taping duo who would travel around to most shows. One would go inside to tape & the other would convert em to CDr's & sell em in the parking lots for $20 a show. Had the pleasure to talk with him a bit & he was fascinating. LoL, he even had me do some security lookout action for him after a casino show on April 22, 2005. In exchange he gave me the 3 Boston shows from the weekend before (🎉). ... Another was a lady that ran the merch table. She did it with her young daughter who helped out. Think I conversed with her in 2003 or '04. She said that she had done it for years & that was her last. ... Also, a very interesting person. Strong willed, quick tongued, & funny.
Anyways, I recall thinking/wishing that somebody would make a documentary on it all. .. Plus, 30 Dylan shows isn't much at all. I know there's tons more out there that know a lot more about the whole scene back then & beforehand than I ever will. .... Would love a book of interviews with all those types of folks. ... Always hoped it be something documented in some sorta way at least. ... Feel like it being like that died on down in the 2013 area when he switched to mostly performing the same set of songs. ... But, before that it was definitely a unique scene that was entirely all its own.
Just throwing the idea on out there. Nevvah know & all that. .. Do love this book & look forward to whatever comes next from Mr. Padgett.
Thanks as always Otis. Excellent interview choice per usual. ... Best wishes & safe travels kind sir
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★★★★★ Otis Gibbs is known by many as a musician and song writer, but to me he is one of the best music journalists to be found. ☮
Agreed, outstanding. His style and format are top drawer. You can feel the comfort and respect given from everyone he interviews. Rare.
@@jimmyjambon9206 He lets people talk, and asks good questions
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest Americans in history to me. I could see him as a character in Blood Meridian, which should be studied in every high school across the States.
in the mid 1980s i was working part time as a university student in Calgary Canada as a ticket seller in a movie theatre...one cold rainy fall night, dead night, i had sold tickets to the two movies that were showing at 9PM and being 9:20PM thought that was it for the night so was studying for an exam i had in two days with my back to the ticket window when out of the blue that voice says " hey mister can you sell us some tickets ,,we wanna see Top Gun yeah Top Gun" - i thought i know that voice i think and turn around and there was Bob with two of his black backup gospel singers, one on each arm...i was caught off guard i mean heres Bob Dylan in front of you wanting tickets to Top Gun it was so surreal i think i just said yeah okay and handed them 3 tickets and said on the house the movie has already started"...one of the black singers said "thank you kindly sir" and off they went into the theatre...i stayed until the end of the movie to say something to Bob being ready for such an interaction but they never came out! I dont know how they got out of that theatre w/o me seeing them but they sure did somehow. I guess if yer Dylan you know those tricks haha
Dylan has been given people the slip for over 60 years ago.
Traveling Wilburys was one of my most favorite bands. As a musician that's where I want to be.
I'm still looking for their volume II album?!1!
I just got that book. It’ll be fun to talk to Jerry P. about it some day. I just saw Bob at the bowling alley in Nashville. I can’t believe I missed the show in my hometown of Akron with Tom Petty, The Grateful Dead, & Bob Dylan, but the streets of Europe weren’t going to busk themselves that Summer. Well, maybe they were, but anyway I had to leave Ohio & see the world a bit. I believe that was the Summet of ‘86. My first busking adventure overseas.
Busking is not the same in Europe these days… but what is
I was at that Rubber Bowl show. I imagined it was like seeing him with the Band. Mike Campbell is one of my favorite players. When the Dead came on, everyone started dancing, tie die was swirling around the football field.
my first time seeing the Dead, Dylan and Tom Petty…The only time the Dead played Don’t Think Twice…thanks Otis and Ray, I’ll pick up Rays book. Just finishing Sound Man
I'm from Akron, saw the Rubber Bowl show years ago, and just saw him a few months back at the Civic. His band was tight.
" We gotta do something about that girl," man, I loved hearing that story. I know alot of people and most of the time they tell me a story and I'm like yea, uh-huh but when a little kid tells you something it's new it's fresh and it really means something (maybe just to them) but the fact they chose to tell it to you means alot. I loved hearing that Dylan understood that, means alot to me. Again leave up to Otis to interview the interviewer. Rock on my brother, and keep up the good work !
Captivating interview. Once again Otis & Guest hit it out of the park. Thanks brothers, you're appreciated.
Young man has a good memory of backstage stories. Enjoyed the conversation.
This is excellent, 💯. .... Sincere thanks to both you guys.
I’ve probably read half a hundred books about Dylan over the past sixty years and I gotta tell you Ray’s book is in the top five. It’s entertaining and illuminating, simultaneously revelatory and confirming regarding the greatest artist of our time. Here’s to Ray and to you Otis for getting it and sharing it.
I will definitely buy this. I love to support self-publishers. I am doing my own cookbook the same way.
Thanks for the interview Otis! Excellent!
Some of the best anecdotes I've heard about the Great One! Thanks, Otis!
This brings back memories of when I saw Dylan and Petty together at the 1986 California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles.
Damn,what a treat
Fabulous. Thank you. Honor when Honor is Due. Is my take. God Bless your all Bob, in Jesus Name.
I’m reading this book right now and enjoying it so much. Thanks for telling us about it Otis.
That's sweet, do you like what you're reading but it's kind if shy for me knowing you're reading about me... I hope you like that you read ❤
With my girlfriend, Andy, thanx to her older brother, Bruce, the two of us lived our young lives thru Highway 61. Thank goddess for Dylan's help to instruct me then....and still.
Interesting that Tom always held Bob above him. NOTE: When Tom and his first wife Jane got divorced it was well known that Bob Dylan was crushed by it. He took it super hard - Tom & Jane were okay with the whole split. It was apparently long over for their marriage. But Bob was devastated
bob is such a kind soul✌️❤️
@@RebekkaEngelsawwn! I have a great career but not a great love story❤
Great interview Otis .People really enjoy talking with you - your interest in the subject and above all , your ability to listen . Thanks mate.
Fabulous content here! Thanks Otis!!!
Great interview Otis! Love your channel!
Awesome interview. Mil Gracias!!
Such a great interview... So insightful! Thank you:)
Otis Gibbs. You are amazing on interviewing interesting people and sharing interesting content. I'm so glad I found your channel 👍😄
Thanks for another great interview !
Love this, Otis! Thanks!
Thanks for the insights !
I love both of your TH-cam channels. I'm happy to see this collaboration!
Great interview! Thank you!!
Excellent interview- Thanks👍
Great stories! I saw Benmont with the Watkins Family a few years ago with Fiona Apple . It was mind blowing. Fiona and Benmont did a song together that nearly brought me to tears.
Wow! What a gig!
Great interview, Otis! I'm reading Ray's book right now and would have loved to have chatted with him at the Brooklyn Bowl shows here in town.
Thank you both.
Great talk, thank you! Added Ray's book to my wishlist.
Thoroughly enjoyed your book Ray and gave it as gifts this last holiday to AND always enjoy hanging in your world Otis. Wonderful interview thx
Wait, John Brown?
How about Hollis Brown
@@poochpalace627Dylan wrote John Brown before Hollis Brown.
Another great one. Thank you Otis
Yet another great interview Otis, thanks for this. This guy really does know his stuff…. Have to grab that book methinks…. ❤️
a lot of love expressed here for Bob Dylan. the interviewer and the interviewee.
Great stuff Otis thanks.
That was excellent. I’ll be getting the book and signing up for the newsletter
I've still got my $20(!!!) ticket stub from the Grateful Dead, Dylan, Petty concert RFK July 6, 1986. Great show! Them was the days.
Ahahahah, you can save that for the next concert or tour❤
@@BobDylan-091 Sadly, there will be no more Tom & Jerry shows 😞. Thankful to still have Bob.
Excellent, Otis...keep em comin
Thanks for all the insights, Snoop! Keep it up!!
One of my favourite aspects of Bob is his utter unpredictability. Whenever he's not on the road, he seems to be one of those people who'll just
"appear" at random places without warning. A bit like Bill Murray. Someone has a wedding.....and there he is. A small restaurant in a small
village in Alaska? Sure enough, Bob shows up on a bike, because he's hungry. He's a total nomad.
Almost like a regular person.
Otis as a musician mostly solo and a conissuer of music history i really appreciate your videos and insight sir. Thank you sir. Keep it up man! 🕺🎸🕺
Bought the book after watching this video . Really great one . Thanks .
Great commentary! I'm going to have to check out your book. I've been a Dylan fan since the beginning (there are advantages to being old lol).
Just bought the book! great interview!
I saw Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in June of 1986 at the Southern Star Amphitheater in Houston. It was a moderately long show, possibly 3 hours or more. Going from memory, I believe Tom Petty opened with about a 30-45-minute set of his greatest hits. Then Dylan came out and joined them, playing Dylan songs for an hour or more. At some point the band left the stage and Dylan did a solo acoustic set for about 30-45 minutes. Then Petty and the Heartbreakers came back out and they all played Dylan and Petty songs for another hour or so. It was a fantastic show.
One thing I remember that was kind of weird and awkward was, after 2 or 3 of Dylan’s songs he brought out his harmonica. When he played his first harmonica note the crowd went wild with a standing ovation. Dylan didn’t even have a chance to play a tune or anything on the harmonica, literally just one note, and the crowd drowned him out for 60 seconds or more with applause. It seemed to me he was irked, or maybe he was just being funny, but I guess he thought, if they liked that, that’s what I’ll give them. He proceeded to just stand there, blowing one sustained note for a minute or two with the Heartbreakers baking him. It was very strange to me but, any sense of facetiousness seemed to go right over the heads of half the audience and many people thought it was great.
I saw that tour 3 times in Portland, Tacoma and in Calgary - but it was not one of my favorite tours of Bob. Never was a big fan of Tom Petty and thought they were pretty dull as Dylans band- Dylan himself was not in a good phase either, he just seemed apathetic and burned out, lyrics sung in a big slur - i heard later he was having some drug problems but whatever - so combined they were not good shows at all. I saw him in the Slow Train Coming tour and that was fantastic and luckily i saw Dylan a couple of times in mid 1990s when he was much revived and caring about his shows and was simply amazing; seeing bob play lead guitar was mind blowing , just great shows.
@julianciahaconsulting8663: I was surprised to see a few comments here, both yours and others, who said they were disappointed with that tour. Mabey I just caught him on a good night. With Dylan, every show can be quite different. The show I saw in Houston was really good. Also, I am a big Tom Petty fan, and maybe that affected our distinctive perceptions of the shows. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were at the top of their game, between the Southern Accents and Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) albums, and they were rockin and maintaining a high energy level throughout the night. Dylan was in good form too, doing a lot of material from Infidels and Empire Burlesque. Knocked Out Loaded, which was a disappointment, was not out yet.
@@williamfarr8807 idk i just found Tom Petty's band gave Dylan's songs no matter what song it was the same sort of generic FM radio friendly treatment which treatments of course Petty had mastered for himself hence his numerous hits around that time you would hear on FM radio....Dylan himself to me was in auto pilot mode in that tour for the most part , I mean even a hard core fan like myself who knows the lyrics for most of his songs by heart had problems deciphering what song he was doing at times because of the way Dylan was singing at the time; he wasnt enunciating clearly in his singing; it just felt like he only had half if that of his heart in it ; probably the result from touring too much maybe? i dont know but i do know you can see in a second if Dylan's heart is in it or that he is interested again in his performances and is truly enjoying performing live - thats when he blows you away . And on that Petty & Heartbreakers tour - despite a moment here and there - Dylan did not seem he was particularly enjoying playing live or just not caring that much - kind of like all of us , me for sure, are like at a job we dont particularly like or hate or have become totally bored with that we are just doing because we need the money or somehow have become trapped in doing that job versus how people are like in a job when they absolutely love the work they are doing you know?
got the kindle version based on your recommendation Otis - very solid read thanks, from Ontario
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I lived next door to Bo in Malibu in the mid 80's...we shared a tall tree line..couldn't really see but I used to spend hours just listening to Bob and Tom rehearsing
Great stuff Otis..! I think anyone who doesn’t find at least one facet of Bobby Dylan’s enigma wrapped up in a mystery utterly fascinating must be totally deficient in the imagination department…😳
It’s very cool knowing that you’re here Otis… but no pressure…😳🤣✌🏼❤️
Hi Ottis love anything on the master his lord himself…hope you are keeping well and looking forward to your next visit to Wales Uk 🏴✌️❤️
This is great. Good to see someone who wants to know about the songs and various versions, the people involved, rather than in Bob's private life. Great interview. Thanks!
Petty and band had dropped in ticket sales by 1987 when I saw them at LA’s relatively small Universal Amphitheater with Georgia Satellites and Del Fuegos. Bigger than ever just a few years later.
now it would be good to see a book on Dylan's paintings , maybe there's one out there already ? gotta search
This guy is RICH !!! Awesome interview !!1
Cool! I still have the actually groovy concert tshirt from the Dylan/Petty tour. Saw it in San Diego. 😁
I bet it looks good on you each time you rock it!❤
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Thanks Otis and Ray for the stories. The mid-late 80s period was when I got into Dylan. Empire, Infidels, Knocked Out Loaded. Great to hear stories about that era and with the Dead and TP.
One of the best concert movie/videos I've ever seen was the Bob Dylan/Heartbreakers show that appeared on HBO in the late/mid-80's. I wish that it would get remastered and re-released.
He reminds me of a grown up William Miller from Almost Famous. Great stuff
Awesome 😎
👌Great book 😎
Thank you Otis
Bob’s spontaneous: he’s not into rehearsal. Most of his recordings are first take.
A fan since I was a young girl, and Bob was a folk singer 💖
Love you, Bob
Thank you, your words are so kind and sweet.. I don't really enjoy rehearsals because I know I get a different aura whenever I'm the stage.
Damn this was time well spent.
Great channel!
I was at the Farm Aid show in Buffalo on July 4, 1986. Three of my all time favorites, what a day and what a strange, loose, weird show. We had a great time and the Dead were great but everyone on stage just seemed a bit off.
Otis - thanks as always for the great interview.
was that when Bob did Maggies Farm with Willie Nelson? around the time of Empire Burlesque?
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 I don't know but that has more to say about my memory than anything else. It was '86 so definitely around the time of Empire Burlesque.
Another great interview...done in the same dodgy motel room that a fugitive might hang out in if on the lam.
Ray's book is so good!!
Many thanks Otis. I'll pick up the book for sure. I'm curious if there's a Traveling Wilbury thread continuing the Dylan-Petty tale, and maybe a maturing of that relationship?!
I've always liked Stan Lynch. Like him even more now.
The 'like jazz' comment rang a bell with me. Over the decades, two different friends of mine played for Jerry Lee Lewis, one all through the late 70s & 80s, the other for the last 25 years. They both said they never knew what songs they would play, in what key they'd play them, or what tempo or beat. Maybe they'd swing it one night in D, then straight ahead in C the next night. It was always spontaneous that way.
Great stuff! I came here by way (indirectly) of Padgett's Tom Waits newsletter, "Every Tom Waits Song." If you're a fan of Waits, check that out... Padgett's already in the D's (it's alphabetical).
Nice and serious guy; good to see.
I saw them in Mansfield MA
Really, you should have stopped bye to say Hello❤
Bob Dylan is a genius, but not a virtuoso musician by conventional standards. And yet, highly accomplished musicians jump at the chance to play with Bob. I remember reading a quote - it may have been in the Biograph booklet - from one of the great guitarists who said that when you play with Bob, there are no charts and no set list, and he keeps changing the songs with every performance. You just have to keep watching his hands and trying to guess what he is going to do next. The amount of respect that Bob gets from other artists is extraordinary. That's why he's Bob Dylan, and we're not. 😀
I would say that Dylan is rather average as a musician himself but totally brilliant as an overall artist and leader of a band
I saw the tour Tom Petty and band backed Dylan at MSG. My girlfriends parents took us when we were 18. Great show. Than I saw The Dead and Dylan at Giants stadium. I'd have to say the Dead with Dylan was more exciting and fun but both were really great playing with him.
Dylan and the Dead should have been a match made in heaven but for whatever reasons they sucked playing together - i think it was the hard drugs that dylan and garcia were doing but thats just speculation. Dylan and Dead was a major disappointment.
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 Maybe for you but the show at Giants stadium was great. Tom Petty and his band were really good backing Dylan but I'd way rather hear the Dead backing him any day. The Dead had already been playing a bunch of Dylan tunes over the years and it was way more fun seeing them back him after the Dead's first two sets. Everyone at MSG was sitting the entire show for Dylan and Petty. While everyone at Giants stadium was dancing their asses off for all 3 sets.
@@mbass718 I totally agree with you that i would rather see the Dead back Dylan than Tom Petty.I just dont think Dylan himself was fully engaged in his live performances in those years, mid to late 1980s roughly - and w/o a fully engaged inspired Dylan at the helm per se I dont think the backing band whoever it is is going to give fully engaged inspired musical support. I have come to the conclusion that with Dylan's live shows you are either going to leave somewhat bummed out and disappointed or leave utterly blown away. Like his studio albums post 1980 where you might listen to an album of his 3 times, maybe like one song on it and then file away and never or very rarely listen to that album again or just for that one song on it....or...you will play it regularly for the rest of your life.
The parting glass at Sinatra’s birthday is one of my favorites, just wish it had better sound
Cool!
Thank you, Otis 🙏🏻
It's nice to have a recorded history and a great interview.
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PS... It rains @ every outdoor show in Denver. Usually only for 10-20 minutes. 🤘🤩
This book is great
You keep wanting it will not finish because the interviews are mostly great.
VHS cassette. AUS/NZl feb-March ‘86 Stevie Nicks was there too for a couple of shows.
G. E. Smith has a hilarious story about how Dylan recruited him.
I wonder how long the mythology behind Dylan will last throughout history?
To experience the Bobster being the most Bobsterish listening to his Theme Time Radio show is about as close as I’m gonna get..Truly stands up to his reputation as a song and dance man…And a master of the Borsht Belt one liners.🤠🤡🤠
I saw a few of the shows Bob Dylan did with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They opened for the Grateful Dead on the East Coast. Bob's sets were the same song list. The video of them playing in Australia is great. "In the Garden" is an incredible version.
It just seemed to me that Bob was going thru the motions when he toured with Tom Petty. Not one of his live tour peaks thats for sure .
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 In the Australian video Bob,Tom, everyone is just going full on!. There is an album "Dylan and the Dead" that has selection from the shows they did together. They used four Black women for backup singers. Those ladies were amazing. I know the Deadheads enjoyed them. I wish they would have done some songs with the Grateful Dead. I've seen Bob live with several different road bands. I think you're right about Bob just "coasting" along on the US tour. They had done Japan, Australia,etc..Maybe it was just for the money.
Damn. That was interesting.
I saw one of the Dylan/Heartbreakers shows in Sydney , the band were great and Bob appeared to be s**tfaced drunk ... A huge fan , I was severely disappointed , saw him again in the 90s with his own band and Patty Smith as support and it was effing brilliant .
TAKE THINGS LESS SERIOUSLY!!!! booya there it is thats it 42 love love love - SJOCR
I love Bobby.
I saw Dylan and Petty open for the Grateful Dead at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.
Can i give this two thumbs up????
It’s too bad they never released a live album of this tour. I saw them in 1986 and they were great.
Memory fuzzy on this, but I considered myself a real "pro" at mailing away for Dead Tix. I had a post office that I would go to because I always got good seats when I got the postal money order there. Anyway, I'm approximately 5 rows back in Foxboro, Mass and I can hear them without a mic. They break into a song and Bob is way off key. What I figured out was he was trying to get the band to play the arrangement on a different scale, and Bill K was staring at Bob, just trying to figure out, on the fly, the tempo. No one figured out where Bob wanted to go, and it quite obviously pissed off Bob. I wasn't a good "Bob" performance after that moment. Weird to remember that moment after hearing this interview.❤
It hit while listening to these stories. That because every person in America. Has such a infatuation with astectic perfection. We may never have a prolific song writer/ performer like Bob or Niel Young , because we can't get past our perception of what a star should look like