"Garth... you just wastin' tape." What a perfect note to end this fine video on - it seems to me there's a lot music lovers around who owe Garth Hudson a big "thank-you" and some serious respect. He was the first person who what was going on in that basement was important.
I Shall be Released is one of my all time favorites. I was fortunate enough to have a father who was an English professor and also an enormous Dylan fan (for almost 20 years he taught an entire semester centered on Dylan’s work). I spent most of my childhood being mercilessly ridiculed for listening to Dylan, The Dead, Jaco, Django, etc. instead of the popular garbage of the time, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. My worldview was shaped from a very young age by intelligent, imaginative, challenging and sometimes abrasive people and it made me who I am today.
I think “popular garbage” diminishes your otherwise really nice piece about not only Dylan but what your father gave you. What period of time are you talking about? What was popular at the time? All if it was garbage.. Your comment serves only to make you look like a snob - utterly unlike your father, a scholar who embraced music others in his circle certainly dismissed as “popular garbage.”
It’s very possible sir. If you’ve been navigating the Dylan community from any point between say 1970 and present, you likely do indeed know my Dad and quite possibly myself as well.
I can relate! My mother was an academic and an avid fan of Dylan, Jaco, Simon and Garfunkel amongst others. Great time to grow up. We were lucky. I miss those days. Gave me a solid moral filter💯🫶🏻
A friend of mine in college loaned me the basement tapes record. Just the plastic, no sleeve, no paper, no cardboard. I listened to it a hundred times in a row, it was amazing!
I'd never known about The Basement Tapes until my brother Ron put a copy in my hand when I was about 15. I'd been a Dylan fan for a year at that point, and what a treat. It's the ultimate down home series of sessions. ❤
RIP Rick, Levon, and Richard...you are all missed beyond belief!! Man what I wouldn't give to have been in Big Pink during these recordings! Pure heaven!!
Someone needs to turn this into either a biopic documentary, or a full on documentary because it’s such a unique and incredible story. All the mythology around it and the influence it had/has on musicians for generations is unmatched and worthy of more attention
This is so funny. People always build this kind of thing up into some BIG master plan, but if you asked Dylan, I guarantee he'd say that he was "just writing songs. Just making music." Which is true. He was just being Dylan. That said I love love love this video! Thanks for uploading it for us all to see.
Bob was still under contract with Albert Grossman & he was writing songs for other artists to record. This doc doesn't tell the whole story, unfortunately. But, it makes the time seem more mythological. Bob was still paying the Hawks (Band) & they felt compelled to help him. Robertson talks about it in a documentary. Bob likes to control his myth, so he didn't make it public knowledge. A few other people said the same thing. I LOVE the Basement Tapes. I listen OFTEN. I love everything Bob has recorded, except one poorly produced album. Many songs on Empire Burlesque make Bob sound like a munchkin, especially Clean Cut Kid. Lyrics are great though. So sad. We will never have musical influence like Bob again.!!! I LOVE him, after all these decades.
Dylan was actually running away from people like in the video, and the fans and myself, for that matter. The recording room was a disaster. What was revolutionary about it was how everyone was inventing rock in 1965 - from rock and roll, pop, rockabilly. And so what is this music then? It is not rockabilly, which is what the Hawks were playing. And it was not blues which is what Bloomfield was playing. And so the music is oddly original. Yes, there is a lot of country and old fashioned folk music, but Levon Helm was doing something else, something different, and you can hear that on their own album music from Big Pink. And Dylan turned away from all this and went decidedly country and pop for some reason.
But I fear that in our age of such fast pace and technology that we are losing touch with our past. I think so much of modern music is about the recognition of this. I think Dylan had got to this point and realized that he had to slow down in order to let the past catch back up to him.
Payback for skipping out on Woodstock and still being the prolific consummate performer for 60 years.In many ways I see a parallel alter ego in Leonard Cohen.
I saw them on the 66 tour at the Academy of Music in Philly. Nobody booed. Just the opposite, in fact. Amazing concert with an acoustic set followed by an electric one.
may 66 still the best concert i have ever heard or saw. dylan i swear levitated. hearing all those blond on blond songs was maybe a highlight of my life.
The greatest statement of music in its raw form. A great musical experience. gets better with each listen. Genius. If you don't own it.... download it... get a torrent.....get a bootleg.....
Dylan had fantastic musical integrity. Still does. The Band was overflowing with creative and performing talent of their own, but thanks to their years of work with Ronnie Hawkins were able to function as Dylan's backup band. This vid is a gem.
I got John Wesley Harding for Christmas '67 and was umm underwhelmed This was the age of psycedelia Flash forward to 1975 at a listening party of the just released Basement Tapes...my best friend and I laughed our asses off all night This is where the party was really going on!
So true, people always missed his humor. There's a video on here during the 65-6 tour where it came out someone threatened to shoot him at the concert. He was in his dressing room, and after the initial surprise, "I don't mind bein' shot, I just don't like bein' be told about it" That kind of humor could only be Bob Dylan!
@@jeffclement2979 People are so dull..I mean here they had all these great songs he had given them and yet the only question they can muster is "Can we have a word?" How absurd.
For us Down Under or anyone who lives a long way from the US It is a privilege to have seen Bob Dylan live. Even accomplished musicians bend over backwards just so they can work with him.Dylan's the man and in the centuries to come he'll be revered for his great work,
I saw Dylan (not knowing who the guys who his Band were) at the Arie Crown theater in Chicago’s McCormick place. It was at the time of his great transition from folk to electric rock. They were booed without mercy at this concert. I don’t remember what my reaction to the music was as I was reacting more to the audience’s response. At any rate, I was disappointed. Little did I know that I was witnessing rock history and the growing pains of a great BAND!
i own well over 40 officially released bob dylan albums in formats ranging from 8-track to mp3, a handful of bootlegs, et al. i must admit, i never had the inclination to listen to, much less, own a copy of "the basement tapes". like many moments in my appreciation for all things dylan, it appears it has taken me thirty-one years and this twenty-four minute documentary to catch on to how beautiful, how extraordinary and how important these sessions were. bob? if you read this? mea culpa.
i bought my first 'basement tapes' in 1976...it took going through forty complete albums before finding an upwarped copy!!! best investment of my time!!
They were all LETTING LOOSE WITH THEIR MUSIC, AND BECAUSE OF THE FREEDOM THEY HAD because they DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT! I GOT IT RIGHT! IF YOU'RE LISTENING, YOU CAN FEEL IT MAN ! YEAH! GO BABY GO!
At maybe the most prolific and artistically inspired period of Bob Dylan’s life he isn’t on the road, he isn’t in the studio recording an album, he’s at home with his friends having fun.
this is without a doubt my favorite story in music... my favorite story in fine art is that of Dada movement in Zurich moving around the world. they were both ahead of their time and did not worry about what the outside thought of them.
Ill never forget the Christmas morning I ripped into this gift from my older brother. The Basement Tapes . I think the first song was Orange Juice blues.
Is there anything funnier than Bob sarcastically pleading with the booing audience, "This is a folk song. Come on, this is a folk song"? And the crowd cheers.
I've still got my Great White Wonder vinyl album I bought when it first came out. And the early versions had no markings on them whatsoever, no stamp on the cover- nothing. Just a white album cover with two unmarked disks inside.
Can you imagine people trying to force to their will. Like the crusade in Europe. They think he's a heritic. In reality he "IS" the poet prophecy. Thanks Bob for showing me that I should "ALWAYS" follow "My" convictions. And fuck those whom are killing you forcing theirs. No one should be a falsely idolized, including jesus christ. The never ending tour shows me you are an increadable human.
One thing for certain... Blonde On Blonde didn't need a tour to sell it. 1. any new Dylan album was gonna go straight up the charts in mid-'60s 2. it would have sold like wild fire by word of mouth just for the attitude in its unique sound
Joan introduced Bob at Newport in '64 & he did whole night acoustic. I went back to Newport in '65 ; he started out acoustic then came out electric 2nd set.....& the crowd booed him like crazy. If u can believe it!!😮
Robbie Robertson's stories about the '66 tour are really good. He talks about being booed every night and Bob telling them after each show how great they were. That must have been strange.
Amazing, transitional Dylan makes THE 1st lo fi record! He gets stronger by shrinking from it all. Backward is fwd and totally anti anti establishment. The protest to the protest.
The brilliantly talented folksinger Paul Clayton will forever be remembered because of the singularly effective performance of Peter Oyloe in the title role of the musical drama “Search: Paul Clayton,”which opens at the Triad Theater in New York on May 6. The play is about the tangled up in blue relationship of Bob Dylan and his friend and mentor the late Paul Clayton. Peter Oyloe brings to his portrayal an empathy for the character that rivals anything currently on Broadway. In addition to his empathetic portrayal, Peter Oyloe is a highly talented musician and vocalist whose renditions of folk music popular in the early 60s should make him an in-demand singer for many venues. Don’t miss the premiere of this stunning play and witness for yourself a great new talent whose future on stage and in music is sure to be a highlight for years to come. Tickets for “Search:Paul Clayton” are available from Brown Paper Tickets. I have recommended this play to everyone I know. Don’t miss it! It is an historical and theatrical event of the first magnitude.
1965/66 tour - Levon did most of the American dates, Australia and the Far East. Mickey Jones joined on the European dates. Check out ‘Testimony’ for Robbie Robertson’s memories - he was there! Marcus Greil has done fine research too.
Cynthia Carter no no no, you have to re-check it. levon quit at the beggining of the dylan’s tour and rejoined at big pink (when some of the basement recordings already started.)
Don't know the timeline, but I'm sure it is available. I know Robbie wrote in his book that Levon knocked on his hotel room one night, and then told him, I can't do this anymore I'm quitting, going down to Louisiana to work on an oil rig (which Robbie thought sounded like the worst idea in the world). He had been on tour with them, but the booing got to him, and he upped and quit. Robbie was really upset, he looked upon Levon like his older brother. Levon asked Robbie to tell the other guys.@@cynthiacarter4649
I am a 32 year old hip hop artist and I love studying and appreciating this legendary music from an era my parents were lucky enough to live through! Plus I am from Saugerties, NY! Where the Basement Tapes were recorded! #BigPink
The naivety of youth got in the way of a lot of people enjoying some of the greatest ever music played. As Joan Baez said "He was their darling, their folk hero...". I turned down a good few gigs when I was 16, because they didn't 'fit' my narrow tastes at the time - and I look back go "idiot". It is what it is. At least we have lots of film and recordings to show how great it was.
I wonder what direction Dylan and his music would have gone had his audience embraced him? But he was so ahead of his time like all great artists are that by the time the audience catches up the artist and his time has come and gone. At that point it only remains for history to record it's impact. It's not hard to understand why so many great artists feel so alienated.
There were people that stayed loyal to Dylan throughout. I come from outer London, near Windsor. Without exception, the entire community of Dylan admirers in my circle, from before the time "Times They Are A Changing" was a re-released hit single in early 1965, right through to "the period" and John Wesley Harding, school friends, drinking friends, family friends and relations, continued to be enthralled by all his recordings. Of course we were a minority, only two or three people in my class at school bought his records, and we had to put up with all the anti Dylan hysteria just as Bob did! But this was from people who had no interest in Dylan anyway. It was just a case of hysteria whipped up by a hard core bunch of acoustic only folkies that was the trouble. My point is that I take exception to the guy saying at 1:53 "people did feel that something had been taken away...." It wasn't like that where I come from. WE felt that the people protesting, in a very arrogant way, not an aggrieved way at all, were just a bunch of knobs!
It all seems so much fuss about nothing now but it was a different world I guess. The guy who shouted 'Judas' when Dylan played Manchester claimed that he was pissed off by the terrible sound system which made the electric tunes just sound like mush and you couldn't make out the lyrics...apparently that was what happened at the Newport Folk Festival as well. From 50+ years distance who knows?
just way too fantastic, amazing never seen footage...i am probably the most greatest Dylan s french fans ever...i own about fifteen old vinyl bootleg and i am glad the entire basement recording sessions of that period being at last released......before i die...lol
What an incredible synergy Bob and the Band had....they seemed to truly inspire each other to greater heights as writers and musicians. As great and timeless as the Basement Tapes still are, to think two of the best albums (and my personal favorites) ever recorded "John Wesley Harding" and "Music from BIg Pink" came out of that, whoo!!
I haven't even watched this video yet, but, I already know that it's GREAT because...It's heading in the direction of "The Last Waltz", which is a rock & roll goldmine!!
Funny but I loved "Bringing It all Back Home" right from the moment I heard it. I still listen to it periodically. I never could understand the so-called "sellout." Good music is good music.
Yeah, I always liked that one a bit more than Highway 51. I believe they both came out in '65. I also love other 'oldies' like Nashville Skyline, Billy The Kid, Freeweelin', The-Times-They-Are-A-Changing, enz... I love a lot of music, but Dylan is one of a kind... -The Electric Bard :)
Where is the "complete" basement tapes vinyl set? It drives me nuts to have only 38 of 138 songs. Many would fork out the dough for the whole vinyl set.
It wasn't the motorcycle crash that caused him to step back from the chaos. It was Sara. They were already together and she already had a child (whom he adopted), so they were a family. The rest is history/herstory.
The Basement Tapes are my favorite chapter of the Dylan saga. I love the music and I love the stories that are attached to it. The chapter that has worn thinnest, though, is what they start out with here: the negative reactions to his going electric. That has always been overplayed by the rock press, it seems to me. Maybe I have just payed too much attention to the rock press...
I'm huge fan, can play 10 Dylan's off the top of my head. Never knew UK gave him a hard time. I like his country, his folky chord changes his blues, his hymms, his prayers. I don't know if he actually ever rocked. The Dead never rocked either. Just an opinion. Funny when he went on tour again in 1974, the only folk left was John Denver. And he had more in common with James Taylor, Cat Stevens than Woodie Guthrie. People were sick of corny politic anthems before the war ended.
This is not holy writ. It is one great songwriter, with a great band containing 5 great musicians with 3 great voices and good songwriter or two. There is no mystery here, only obsessives hungering after demo tapes that Dylan did not want to be released. Some of the songs are good, some are throwaway junk. They are experiments. I hear a Clancy Brothers song (Johnny Todd) and a Hank Snow song (I Don't Hurt Any More) among them. Dylan was a wide-ranging folkie who couldn't play electric guitar well initially and did not know how to play in a band, backed by the Band, the best bar band in the world. They each learned a lot from the other.
He was on the beginning and left in the middle of the night only telling Robbie. He went back to Arkansas and at one point worked on a Oil Rig. Mickey Jones was the drummer to replace Levon
Sam Peterson On that note, ... Mickey Jones, ... Has a [ Treasure trove of, 8mm Video &, Audio] That is , UNREAL , I've Seen it ! ... [ Where is it ..Now .] ?
Most of the fans are idiots/ am not saying all / , who does not have a clue about artistry , evolution , reinvention , creating process etc . Bob Dylan is great artist , and whatever touches turns into the art . Even when he dies , his music and words will live forever . Positive .
It goes: TOOM, BOB, BOTT, HWY61, JWH, BT, “L&T”, MT, Desire, STC, FW, BIABH, WGW, GAIBTY, OM, Temp, RARW etc...but the Bootleg Series, each and every volume is ESSENTIAL DYLAN!!!
Above and beyond any other cover of The Weight, and there's plenty of those to be sure. The Allman's brought respect and honor to the Band by covering this one so well.
These Lovely🌺 sounding Basementtapes.. “Look here you Bunch of Basement Noise” Lucky Dylan found the ideal place where those Gems came about ánd he had these 5 guys Loving same music🌺 Most Lovely is how a lot of these songs are still being sung by Dylan at live performances in several versions...Ànd now the Basement Tapes Bootleg Series Vol.11❤️💥🌹👌🌞
One major factual error that I only recently learned is at 2:52: Levon Helm wasn't on the tour. I'll leave it to you if you want to discover his name. He has a cool documentary with home movies of the tour on TH-cam. Seems that Bob likes a particular type of drumming on his songs.
I am wondering if Albert Grossman’s terrible 50% publishing stake of Dylan influenced Bob to avoid recording songs to cut Albert off until he could straighten out the deal. My understanding is they were in litigation for many years over this deal. It also might explain Dylan releasing his covers album, Self-Portrait to effectively deny Grossman revenue off his writing and help him fulfill Columbia’s album requirement without having to give Grossman more of his publishing royalties.
I thought it was Rick that sang with Dylan on Too many Mornings, at least there's video from when they were in Scotland where it is Rick that steps up to the microphone and sings "behind".
i bought „little white wonder“ 1970 in a small town in switzerland never thought to see and hear all this info that’s now available! i’m not shure if it was better then⭐️
If I say that "Million Dollar Bash" is the greatest rock and roll song of all time, does that mean I like Dylan and the Band? Ha ha! Yeah. I doubt there will ever again be that kind of beautifully peculiar musical chemistry. They just caught something.....
"Garth... you just wastin' tape." What a perfect note to end this fine video on - it seems to me there's a lot music lovers around who owe Garth Hudson a big "thank-you" and some serious respect. He was the first person who what was going on in that basement was important.
thank g-d we still have Garth
I Shall be Released is one of my all time favorites. I was fortunate enough to have a father who was an English professor and also an enormous Dylan fan (for almost 20 years he taught an entire semester centered on Dylan’s work). I spent most of my childhood being mercilessly ridiculed for listening to Dylan, The Dead, Jaco, Django, etc. instead of the popular garbage of the time, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. My worldview was shaped from a very young age by intelligent, imaginative, challenging and sometimes abrasive people and it made me who I am today.
I think “popular garbage” diminishes your otherwise really nice piece about not only Dylan but what your father gave you.
What period of time are you talking about? What was popular at the time? All if it was garbage.. Your comment serves only to make you look like a snob - utterly unlike your father, a scholar who embraced music others in his circle certainly dismissed as “popular garbage.”
I know you, don't I?
It’s very possible sir. If you’ve been navigating the Dylan community from any point between say 1970 and present, you likely do indeed know my Dad and quite possibly myself as well.
I can relate! My mother was an academic and an avid fan of Dylan, Jaco, Simon and Garfunkel amongst others. Great time to grow up. We were lucky. I miss those days. Gave me a solid moral filter💯🫶🏻
Garbage at the time please. There are literally hundreds of artists in that era who produced volumes of timeless classics.
Happy birthday Bob, caught up with me again after two months. Both now 80 and your music has genuinely been the sountrack to my life.
Happy birthday stranger. You have amazing taste in music
@@idontknowmuch3441😅
A friend of mine in college loaned me the basement tapes record. Just the plastic, no sleeve, no paper, no cardboard. I listened to it a hundred times in a row, it was amazing!
I'd never known about The Basement Tapes until my brother Ron put a copy in my hand when I was about 15. I'd been a Dylan fan for a year at that point, and what a treat. It's the ultimate down home series of sessions. ❤
RIP Rick, Levon, and Richard...you are all missed beyond belief!! Man what I wouldn't give to have been in Big Pink during these recordings! Pure heaven!!
And now John Prine....RIP
AND RIP RICK DANKO😢
& now Robbie. 1943-2023...
Someone needs to turn this into either a biopic documentary, or a full on documentary because it’s such a unique and incredible story. All the mythology around it and the influence it had/has on musicians for generations is unmatched and worthy of more attention
Anyone but Martin Scorsese!
@@michaelb.9548 What's wrong with Scorsese?
@@american_cosmic He destroyed the Netflix doc. about the RTR! I don’t trust him doin’ films about Bob anymore.
@@michaelb.9548 RTR?
This is so funny. People always build this kind of thing up into some BIG master plan, but if you asked Dylan, I guarantee he'd say that he was "just writing songs. Just making music." Which is true. He was just being Dylan. That said I love love love this video! Thanks for uploading it for us all to see.
Bob was still under contract with Albert Grossman & he was writing songs for other artists to record. This doc doesn't tell the whole story, unfortunately. But, it makes the time seem more mythological.
Bob was still paying the Hawks (Band) & they felt compelled to help him. Robertson talks about it in a documentary.
Bob likes to control his myth, so he didn't make it public knowledge. A few other people said the same thing.
I LOVE the Basement Tapes. I listen OFTEN. I love everything Bob has recorded, except one poorly produced album.
Many songs on Empire Burlesque make Bob sound like a munchkin, especially Clean Cut Kid.
Lyrics are great though. So sad.
We will never have musical influence like Bob again.!!! I LOVE him, after all these decades.
@@michelenodespairbear1268 Nobody tries to control their own myth more than Robertson.
Michele NoDespair Bear ... 100% true
Dylan was actually running away from people like in the video, and the fans and myself, for that matter. The recording room was a disaster.
What was revolutionary about it was how everyone was inventing rock in 1965 - from rock and roll, pop, rockabilly. And so what is this music then? It is not rockabilly, which is what the Hawks were playing. And it was not blues which is what Bloomfield was playing.
And so the music is oddly original. Yes, there is a lot of country and old fashioned folk music, but Levon Helm was doing something else, something different, and you can hear that on their own album music from Big Pink.
And Dylan turned away from all this and went decidedly country and pop for some reason.
he is part of William Blake prophecy .
Half a century later and Bob is still performing, he wins.
I was 16 & he was great to me. He still is great!!!🇺🇸🌠🙏🗽🐎🌉
“If the past isn’t alive in you, the future will be empty”.
Best thought I heard during this clip, and spoken at the last minute.
Yeah that’s a good one !
thats awesome - im gonna keep that one!
But I fear that in our age of such fast pace and technology that we are losing touch with our past. I think so much of modern music is about the recognition of this. I think Dylan had got to this point and realized that he had to slow down in order to let the past catch back up to him.
Imagine buying tickets to boo and then walk out of the tour for the greatest lyrical rock album in history.
silly boomers can only complain
Payback for skipping out on Woodstock and still being the prolific consummate performer for 60 years.In many ways I see a parallel alter ego in Leonard Cohen.
Thats so true
It's like the same liberals to leftists today. Morons.
@@JamesMinerTattoo sounds like a complaint.
What a fantastic close look at the history of the Basement Tapes.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
I saw them on the 66 tour at the Academy of Music in Philly. Nobody booed. Just the opposite, in fact. Amazing concert with an acoustic set followed by an electric one.
may 66 still the best concert i have ever heard or saw. dylan i swear levitated. hearing all those blond on blond songs was maybe a highlight of my life.
Oh I’m about five yrs to young
Maybe they didn't boo in Philly,, but I think Europe is well documented.
My own theory is that booing Dylan just was the thing to do. They weren't folk purists, more like they were following the popular trend.
I was at the Royal Albert Hall in 66,I don’t remember any booing.
I have loved the music from the basement since i first heard as a teenager. It never gets old, it just breathes and gets better.
I know you could listen to it for hundreds of years and it just is just forever endless fresh garden of delights.
@@vefisher well said...3 years later, watching this again. Forever endless fresh garden of delights!!!!!
I really appreciate this, thank you so very much for this wonderful show, God bless you all, Elizabeth ❣️
The greatest statement of music in its raw form. A great musical experience. gets better with each listen. Genius. If you don't own it.... download it... get a torrent.....get a bootleg.....
The Basement Tapes have become an important part of my life. The best music I have literally ever heard.
Thank you , tears streaming down my eyes.. Bob & loyal Boys❤
Dylan had fantastic musical integrity. Still does. The Band was overflowing with creative and performing talent of their own, but thanks to their years of work with Ronnie Hawkins were able to function as Dylan's backup band. This vid is a gem.
I got John Wesley Harding for Christmas '67 and was umm underwhelmed
This was the age of psycedelia
Flash forward to 1975 at a listening party of the just released Basement Tapes...my best friend and I laughed our asses off all night
This is where the party was really going on!
The first basement tapes album was pure collaborative genius.
"I want the names of all the people who booed me". Bob was always funny.
yes!
So true, people always missed his humor. There's a video on here during the 65-6 tour where it came out someone threatened to shoot him at the concert. He was in his dressing room, and after the initial surprise, "I don't mind bein' shot, I just don't like bein' be told about it" That kind of humor could only be Bob Dylan!
"Can we have a word.Bob?"
"A word? Astronaut"
@@jeffclement2979 People are so dull..I mean here they had all these great songs he had given them and yet the only question they can muster is "Can we have a word?" How absurd.
@@jeffclement2979That’s a very good and useful word for any type of conversation, I would say…
Thank you, Sid Griffin, for your terrific music and your Band scholarship.
Some of the most inspiring Dylan performances on film, shows what a true talent he is....
For us Down Under or anyone who lives a long way from the US It is a privilege to have seen Bob Dylan live. Even accomplished musicians bend over backwards just so they can work with him.Dylan's the man and in the centuries to come he'll be revered for his great work,
I saw Dylan (not knowing who the guys who his Band were) at the Arie Crown theater in Chicago’s McCormick place. It was at the time of his great transition from folk to electric rock. They were booed without mercy at this concert. I don’t remember what my reaction to the music was as I was reacting more to the audience’s response. At any rate, I was disappointed.
Little did I know that I was witnessing rock history and the growing pains of a great BAND!
Thanks for sharing! Dylan is an enigmatic genius.
John Smith and
i own well over 40 officially released bob dylan albums in formats ranging from 8-track to mp3, a handful of bootlegs, et al. i must admit, i never had the inclination to listen to, much less, own a copy of "the basement tapes". like many moments in my appreciation for all things dylan, it appears it has taken me thirty-one years and this twenty-four minute documentary to catch on to how beautiful, how extraordinary and how important these sessions were. bob? if you read this? mea culpa.
i bought my first 'basement tapes' in 1976...it took going through forty complete albums before finding an upwarped copy!!! best investment of my time!!
They were all LETTING LOOSE WITH THEIR MUSIC, AND BECAUSE OF THE FREEDOM THEY HAD because they DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT! I GOT IT RIGHT! IF YOU'RE LISTENING, YOU CAN FEEL IT MAN ! YEAH! GO BABY GO!
Beautiful footage of Richard and Rick!
More footage of Richard here in the Last Waltz!
I want more! Please, make a three hour documentary
YES!
Gteat
Griel Marcus (guy in the video) wrote a great book on this whole thing!
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
At maybe the most prolific and artistically inspired period of Bob Dylan’s life he isn’t on the road, he isn’t in the studio recording an album, he’s at home with his friends having fun.
this is without a doubt my favorite story in music... my favorite story in fine art is that of Dada movement in Zurich moving around the world. they were both ahead of their time and did not worry about what the outside thought of them.
Ill never forget the Christmas morning I ripped into this gift from my older brother. The Basement Tapes . I think the first song was Orange Juice blues.
People needed to catch up to Dylan. “Better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.”
I was young then, but I love the music of all the Band and Dylan at that time.
Is there anything funnier than Bob sarcastically pleading with the booing audience, "This is a folk song. Come on, this is a folk song"? And the crowd cheers.
I've still got my Great White Wonder vinyl album I bought when it first came out. And the early versions had no markings on them whatsoever, no stamp on the cover- nothing. Just a white album cover with two unmarked disks inside.
Can you imagine people trying to force to their will. Like the crusade in Europe. They think he's a heritic.
In reality he "IS" the poet prophecy. Thanks Bob for showing me that I should "ALWAYS" follow "My" convictions. And fuck those whom are killing you forcing theirs. No one should be a falsely idolized, including jesus christ. The never ending tour shows me you are an increadable human.
This Wheel's on Fire always gives me chills.Please,Mrs.Henry is Bob just being a dirty ass fucking dude.I love it.
One thing for certain...
Blonde On Blonde didn't need a tour to sell it.
1. any new Dylan album was gonna go straight up the charts in mid-'60s
2. it would have sold like wild fire by word of mouth just for the attitude in its unique sound
I am so scared to lose this man I love.
We already lost a few that hurts, Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson
Joan introduced Bob at Newport in '64 & he did whole night acoustic. I went back to Newport in '65 ; he started out acoustic then came out electric 2nd set.....& the crowd booed him like crazy. If u can believe it!!😮
Wow from my basement to yours - Magic still and always gets created down there!!
Robbie Robertson's stories about the '66 tour are really good. He talks about being booed every night and Bob telling them after each show how great they were. That must have been strange.
The person who deserves the most credit is Garth Hudson.
Amazing, transitional Dylan makes THE 1st lo fi record! He gets stronger by shrinking from it all. Backward is fwd and totally anti anti establishment. The protest to the protest.
I remember now how I loved Peter, Paul and Mary... My God! How time has passed...
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This was really enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.
4:05 Saw the band, allman
BROS and the dead at Watkins Glen in
1973 WOW
No Greil Marcus, you are wrong. Levon Helm did not accompany Dylan and his band mates on the 65-66 world tour.
Amspacher.. it was micky jones
1965/66 tour - Levon did most of the American dates, Australia and the Far East. Mickey Jones joined on the European dates. Check out ‘Testimony’ for Robbie Robertson’s memories - he was there! Marcus Greil has done fine research too.
Cynthia Carter no no no, you have to re-check it. levon quit at the beggining of the dylan’s tour and rejoined at big pink (when some of the basement recordings already started.)
Don't know the timeline, but I'm sure it is available. I know Robbie wrote in his book that Levon knocked on his hotel room one night, and then told him, I can't do this anymore I'm quitting, going down to Louisiana to work on an oil rig (which Robbie thought sounded like the worst idea in the world). He had been on tour with them, but the booing got to him, and he upped and quit. Robbie was really upset, he looked upon Levon like his older brother. Levon asked Robbie to tell the other guys.@@cynthiacarter4649
This period is my favorite sound of bobs voice
Just amazing stuff. As massive and great as it is you wish there was still more.
i LOVED THE BAND AS AN ENITY OF THEIR OW2N AND JOINING BOB DYLAND WAS A PERFECT FIT,TOO,BAD THEY DIDN'T RECORDE MORE.
They hated him but the tickets were being sold so fast they couldn't print them fast enough.
Awesome peek into cool basement tape processes
I am a 32 year old hip hop artist and I love studying and appreciating this legendary music from an era my parents were lucky enough to live through! Plus I am from Saugerties, NY! Where the Basement Tapes were recorded! #BigPink
Dylan invented hip hop and rap
damash ani Absolutely right on about that! ...the best...eg, "Johnny's in the basement...."
@@damashani8654 Hip hop and rap is music of the working class the same way folk is
@@damashani8654 subterranean homesick.
The naivety of youth got in the way of a lot of people enjoying some of the greatest ever music played. As Joan Baez said "He was their darling, their folk hero...".
I turned down a good few gigs when I was 16, because they didn't 'fit' my narrow tastes at the time - and I look back go "idiot".
It is what it is. At least we have lots of film and recordings to show how great it was.
I wonder what direction Dylan and his music would have gone had his audience embraced him? But he was so ahead of his time like all great artists are that by the time the audience catches up the artist and his time has come and gone. At that point it only remains for history to record it's impact. It's not hard to understand why so many great artists feel so alienated.
There were people that stayed loyal to Dylan throughout. I come from outer London, near Windsor. Without exception, the entire community of Dylan admirers in my circle, from before the time "Times They Are A Changing" was a re-released hit single in early 1965, right through to "the period" and John Wesley Harding, school friends, drinking friends, family friends and relations, continued to be enthralled by all his recordings.
Of course we were a minority, only two or three people in my class at school bought his records, and we had to put up with all the anti Dylan hysteria just as Bob did! But this was from people who had no interest in Dylan anyway.
It was just a case of hysteria whipped up by a hard core bunch of acoustic only folkies that was the trouble.
My point is that I take exception to the guy saying at 1:53 "people did feel that something had been taken away...." It wasn't like that where I come from. WE felt that the people protesting, in a very arrogant way, not an aggrieved way at all, were just a bunch of knobs!
It all seems so much fuss about nothing now but it was a different world I guess. The guy who shouted 'Judas' when Dylan played Manchester claimed that he was pissed off by the terrible sound system which made the electric tunes just sound like mush and you couldn't make out the lyrics...apparently that was what happened at the Newport Folk Festival as well. From 50+ years distance who knows?
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Awesome doc, nice to see what went on in Big Pink in those incredible days. Bob wasn’t much older, but he sure set the Band on the right track.
just way too fantastic, amazing never seen footage...i am probably the most greatest Dylan s french fans ever...i own about fifteen old vinyl bootleg and i am glad the entire basement recording sessions of that period being at last released......before i die...lol
wish i could have your collection too!!!!
My Dylan collection is stored in my heart and soul.
letsif as is mine, brother!
What an incredible synergy Bob and the Band had....they seemed to truly inspire each other to greater heights as writers and musicians. As great and timeless as the Basement Tapes still are, to think two of the best albums (and my personal favorites) ever recorded "John Wesley Harding" and "Music from BIg Pink" came out of that, whoo!!
The big Pink Can you just imagine if her walls could talk, the music and history.
if the walls could talk !? the walls are singing , and they’re on tape !
You can stay at Big Pink but the basement is off limits.
This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road.
[It's all of us.]
Notify my next of kin: This wheel shall explode.
I haven't even watched this video yet, but, I already know that it's GREAT because...It's heading in the direction of "The Last Waltz", which is a rock & roll goldmine!!
🤨Wow, what idiots booing!! Art is art. Wish I was older. Didn't meet "The Band" until "75", what wonderful men, and funny as Hell!
The Band was born. Short-lived but extraordinary.
Funny but I loved "Bringing It all Back Home" right from the moment I heard it. I still listen to it periodically. I never could understand the so-called "sellout." Good music is good music.
fakking great album, I never heard it called a sell out, but then again I was never a folkie and just a kid who dug the electric right off the bat
Yeah, I always liked that one a bit more than Highway 51. I believe they both came out in '65. I also love other 'oldies' like Nashville Skyline, Billy The Kid, Freeweelin', The-Times-They-Are-A-Changing, enz... I love a lot of music, but Dylan is one of a kind... -The Electric Bard :)
It was amazing how so many of Dylan's "fans" believed they owned the artist. How utterly arrogant.
Absolutely marvellous
Where is the "complete" basement tapes vinyl set? It drives me nuts to have only 38 of 138 songs. Many would fork out the dough for the whole vinyl set.
It wasn't the motorcycle crash that caused him to step back from the chaos. It was Sara. They were already together and she already had a child (whom he adopted), so they were a family. The rest is history/herstory.
The Basement Tapes are my favorite chapter of the Dylan saga. I love the music and I love the stories that are attached to it. The chapter that has worn thinnest, though, is what they start out with here: the negative reactions to his going electric. That has always been overplayed by the rock press, it seems to me. Maybe I have just payed too much attention to the rock press...
I'm huge fan, can play 10 Dylan's off the top of my head. Never knew UK gave him a hard time. I like his country, his folky chord changes his blues, his hymms, his prayers. I don't know if he actually ever rocked. The Dead never rocked either. Just an opinion. Funny when he went on tour again in 1974, the only folk left was John Denver. And he had more in common with James Taylor, Cat Stevens than Woodie Guthrie. People were sick of corny politic anthems before the war ended.
This is not holy writ. It is one great songwriter, with a great band containing 5 great musicians with 3 great voices and good songwriter or two. There is no mystery here, only obsessives hungering after demo tapes that Dylan did not want to be released. Some of the songs are good, some are throwaway junk. They are experiments. I hear a Clancy Brothers song (Johnny Todd) and a Hank Snow song (I Don't Hurt Any More) among them. Dylan was a wide-ranging folkie who couldn't play electric guitar well initially and did not know how to play in a band, backed by the Band, the best bar band in the world. They each learned a lot from the other.
Levon was not on that tour.. I am sick of G Marcus not bothering to point that out.
he actually was but only for the beginning of it, then he left
marcus is a know nothing dipshit
He was on the beginning and left in the middle of the night only telling Robbie. He went back to Arkansas and at one point worked on a Oil Rig. Mickey Jones was the drummer to replace Levon
yes I am aware..he did a few gigs but he did not travel abroad (and there was another drummer in there briefly if I recall from Robbie's book)
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Amazing, very interesting 👌 Great to hear all this...WOW!!
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Most of the fans are idiots/ am not saying all / , who does not have a clue about artistry , evolution , reinvention , creating process etc . Bob Dylan is great artist , and whatever touches turns into the art . Even when he dies , his music and words will live forever . Positive .
Nashville Skyline & John Wesley Hardìng are the best Dylan albums ever.!!!👍👍👍
JWH is definitely top ten (and that’s sayin A LOT!!!) but Nashville Skyline? Are u drunk?
It goes: TOOM, BOB, BOTT, HWY61, JWH, BT, “L&T”, MT, Desire, STC, FW, BIABH, WGW, GAIBTY, OM, Temp, RARW etc...but the Bootleg Series, each and every volume is ESSENTIAL DYLAN!!!
Above and beyond any other cover of The Weight, and there's plenty of those to be sure. The Allman's brought respect and honor to the Band by covering this one so well.
These Lovely🌺 sounding Basementtapes.. “Look here you Bunch of Basement Noise” Lucky Dylan found the ideal place where those Gems came about ánd he had these 5 guys Loving same music🌺 Most Lovely is how a lot of these songs are still being sung by Dylan at live performances in several versions...Ànd now the Basement Tapes Bootleg Series Vol.11❤️💥🌹👌🌞
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This is extremely well done. Any time you have Griel Marcus on Dylan I'm in!
Outstanding stuff from very outstanding Guys!!
One major factual error that I only recently learned is at 2:52: Levon Helm wasn't on the tour. I'll leave it to you if you want to discover his name. He has a cool documentary with home movies of the tour on TH-cam. Seems that Bob likes a particular type of drumming on his songs.
He did start the tour, before leaving to work on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico
I think he got tired of being booed.
Looks like in the spread of products around 22.33 there is what seems to be a photo book. Is this something one can buy separately from the music?
This is so great!!
Absolutely love The Band. Blast those electrics
Everything passes... only the Love remains...
I am wondering if Albert Grossman’s terrible 50% publishing stake of Dylan influenced Bob to avoid recording songs to cut Albert off until he could straighten out the deal. My understanding is they were in litigation for many years over this deal. It also might explain Dylan releasing his covers album, Self-Portrait to effectively deny Grossman revenue off his writing and help him fulfill Columbia’s album requirement without having to give Grossman more of his publishing royalties.
I thought it was Rick that sang with Dylan on Too many Mornings, at least there's video from when they were in Scotland where it is Rick that steps up to the microphone and sings "behind".
Much Gratitude
You can really hear the action of the Wurli on that first bit.
It took resolve and courage to go out there and get booed by fools
i bought „little white wonder“
1970 in a small town in switzerland
never thought to see and hear all this info that’s now available!
i’m not shure if it was better then⭐️
If I say that "Million Dollar Bash" is the greatest rock and roll song of all time, does that mean I like Dylan and the Band? Ha ha! Yeah. I doubt there will ever again be that kind of beautifully peculiar musical chemistry. They just caught something.....
Bret Fisher We understand each other brother.
It never fails to make me giggle, along with many other songs on the album.
Does anyone know where this tour footage is from? I would love to know! :)