Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (RARE FUNNY COMMENTARY) [Royal Albert Hall 1966]

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  • @johnwhitfield1
    @johnwhitfield1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I was there. I'm 72 now and. still listen to this stuff.Been a fan all my life

  • @bluelightproductions
    @bluelightproductions 5 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    Imagine being that high and remembering all those lyrics. I mean...dang.

    • @Toc2Rock
      @Toc2Rock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LOL

    • @elifonkonsolakis2521
      @elifonkonsolakis2521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And he would play, and deliver some killer performances being that high, umbelievable

    • @alexv1193
      @alexv1193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      coming from experience, after a while you just get used to it as your new normal. Bob was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol so he basically became numb to it all

    • @Babeiloveyouso
      @Babeiloveyouso 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sometimes it's best just to say nothing at aallll.

    • @zachcovey975
      @zachcovey975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Been that high, nobody wanted to listen to me though 😁😁😁

  • @42awww
    @42awww 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    It was a blessing in disguise that Bob got in that motorcycle accident. You can tell he is wrecked and tired by this last concert. If he had continued the planned world-wide tour, he may have died. And i don't know what our lives would be without the classics he made from that point!

    • @0otee
      @0otee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Blessing in disguise…
      🌹🌺🌹❣️🍀💥🎶🌹🌺❣️

    • @dianeriley7247
      @dianeriley7247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Absolutely, he was so close to being a member of the “27 club”.

    • @asmahism
      @asmahism 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think he manufactured the accident to save his life/ sanity. It’s a perfect excuse. People are fanatical about Dylan, if he went to the hospital someone would have found that info and as far as I can tell no one has.

    • @johnthemachine
      @johnthemachine 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This person or “persona” did die, in the motorcycle crash.

    • @cloudstar845
      @cloudstar845 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Certainly changed the trajectory of the history of music for the foreseeable future.

  • @bartstarr100
    @bartstarr100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Bob is a little high. Just a little

    • @JimmyFranceable
      @JimmyFranceable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Speed kills.

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sounds like a downer, perhaps the same dope he shared with John Lennon around this time in a cab. As the video shows. John later confirmed it in an interview

    • @katherinekirkwood9632
      @katherinekirkwood9632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He had a reason people get on his nervous he's sick of them 4 sure.love
      Started on burgundy then started on the harder stuffffff. 💘

    • @cactuspot5678
      @cactuspot5678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@JimmyFranceable not this man

    • @georgittesingbiel219
      @georgittesingbiel219 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😅😂😄😎😂😅😄

  • @tricornclub9594
    @tricornclub9594 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This show was attended by the Beatles. Dylan raising the bar for his contemporaries and for the rest of us ever since.

  • @juliet3827
    @juliet3827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He was already married at this time and father of his first child, Jesse. Hard to believe.

  • @oliveeisner8964
    @oliveeisner8964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    "Go read some books. Read J.D. Salinger!" Bobby trolling the hecklers back into their seats. freaking epic. He's such a legend!

    • @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631
      @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Olive Eisner fuck Salinger. His book is only for depressed boys with mommy issues

    • @Pilrig1
      @Pilrig1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 Stick to Mills & Boon.

    • @JimmyFranceable
      @JimmyFranceable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Joe Rodriguez Failed 9th grade English class.

    • @ryanlaurence569
      @ryanlaurence569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 "book" implying Salinger only had one book shows your ignorance

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      once sgain once again once again

  • @sandrawadsworth5173
    @sandrawadsworth5173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    He was so far ahead of his time. People just didn't get him! Some of us did!❤️

  • @myradioon
    @myradioon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    He is talking cryptically about William Burroughs in the beginning. Burroughs was a painter too. He divided his time between Mexico City and Texas for a bit. I've always felt this whole song is a montage and homage to the kind of life Jack Kerouac lived with Burroughs and chronicled in "Mexico City Blues" and "Tristessa". Kerouac would have to score heroin for Burroughs and one usually got it from female "leaders" who brought you someplace else to buy/sell it and were often prostitutes too. "They got some hungry women there and man they'll make a mess out of you". "Tristessa" of the book title, was one such leader/dealer and "Sweet Melinda" "The goddess of gloom" and "St. Annie" are her stand-ins here - "please tell her thanks a lot. I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot (probably bad/tainted heroin). I don't have the strength to take another shot. My best friend the doctor (what they called Burroughs or anybody in drug circles who knew about drugs and reactions) won't even say what it is I got". Kerouac called Burroughs "Doctor Sax". "Playing the sax" was slang for shooting up in the 50's - 60's.
    When you read Kerouac's accounts and his journals this song makes perfect sense. The crooked cops and the whole scene. Kerouac himself never touched heroin but smoked pot, drank (of course), and lived in the bathroom. He found out "On the Road" was about to be published while living there penniless, near middle aged, in such circumstances.
    And naturally - "I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough" - is something both Burroughs, Kerouac and many of the beats did when life somewhere else wasn't panning out.
    But let's not forget, at the time of writing, Dylan himself was starting to experiment with such drugs/having to score and some lines could be autobiographical.
    Going to Juarez or other Mexican border towns from Texas/Lower California to score Heroin was commonplace and chronicled so well (and painfully) by Lucia Berlin in her great short story "Carmen" from 'Manual For Cleaning Women' (the "Madame" she scores from is female too).

    • @soushores495
      @soushores495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Great post. It follows very well with the "stream of consciousness" style of this song. Also a clear homage to Kerouac who captured Dylan's imagination when he found himself a genius in Hibbing, MN as a teenager and was trying to harness his intellect. I believe the line "housing project hill" is from Kerouac's writing. The idiot in the audience in Dylan's opening comments probably never got the insult when he said "go outside and read a book".He clearly decided early on that his creative expression would never be a static condition & he required the freedom to reinvent himself as often as he liked. To the great benefit of all of us, the one thing he held constant was sharing his creative output with us.

    • @myradioon
      @myradioon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thanks. Further rambling info. "I started out on 'Burgundy' but soon hit the harder stuff". Heroin was often given names of alcohol colors to differentiate it on the street. When you cooked it it turned colors depending on what it was cut with. "Cherry Wine" - "Jamaican Rum" (which Dylan fills up his shoe with in another song!) "The harder stuff" was always clearer - no color. He references so much street drug slang in his songs at this point - it usually went over the academic's heads! 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' is about a girl (Edie Sedgwick?/ type) who has overdosed (you turn blue when you o.d.) while other users steal her stuff from around/under her, 'carpet', 'clothes', 'sheets' etc. - not uncommon unfortunately.
      He himself was slipping into a speed/heroin habit - his songs getting wordier and faster - his looks paler and speech slurred (like in this performance). It all came to a head with the bike crash. I've always suspected a "Tom Thumb" was slang for someone who shot up (with your thumb duh!) or a "newbie user" a 'Little Man' on the drug scene. Maybe something Dylan made up for himself. "Picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast.....looked fine at first but left looking just like a ghost." What drugs can do to a fresh face.
      People are often uncomfortable with it but many of his songs are about street drug culture. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is full of drug slang. "...in the basement mixin' up the 'medicine'...Man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen wants 11 dollar bills you only got 10!". "..must bust in early May, orders from the D.A." - It's pretty clear once you see it in this light. The beauty is you can interpret these "obtuse slang" phrases however you want.

    • @altadelacruz4312
      @altadelacruz4312 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "Darkness at the break of noon
      Shadows even the silver spoon
      The handmade blade, the child's balloon
      Eclipses both the sun and moon"
      from "It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)" is a heroin reference. They're all over "Bringing It All Back Home".

    • @myradioon
      @myradioon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@altadelacruz4312 Spot on. Never caught that one, but yep - before "zip-loc" bags, a tied up "child's balloon" was a way to keep powdered drugs and also used for tying up your arm.

    • @oliviah4457
      @oliviah4457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I wish there was a way to save comments on yt. All of this information is really great, thank you all

  • @philipdavison1487
    @philipdavison1487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Even high, Bobby knew his song before he started singin' .... and, like Caruso, he hit all the notes. I've been singing this song for years, drunk or sober. Never once got the words right. God gave Bob the words in the first place, and reminded him of them in his time of need. Bob Dylan, chosen by whichever God you believe in.

  • @billbayh5179
    @billbayh5179 6 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    "...go read some books." There lies the best free advice anybody ever gave! More, more, more...

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      bill bayh Yes! Thanks for listening :)

    • @katherinekirkwood9632
      @katherinekirkwood9632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He just doesn't want 2 talk to them he could care less go read 📚 if u want Lear something people & figure it out 4 yourself.
      What it all meanssssss ❤

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Amorone or that's amore eh!

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's said it I couldn't quite catch up dam me

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@katherinekirkwood9632 words girl words

  • @jamescutler4515
    @jamescutler4515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    Bob could have become a cult leader with an inflated ego and enlarged sense of himself. But he chose to play down all that nonsense and actually be really humble. And for that, I personally respect him more

    • @mario7frankielee
      @mario7frankielee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      thats exactly how it is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    • @svenknutsen8937
      @svenknutsen8937 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think that Bob Dylan could have been a mathematics professor...

    • @paulsavage5057
      @paulsavage5057 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Then how he did he become famous? Did the gods of fame just drop by his house one day after he put his music on TH-cam? The guy could have sold Bibles to a chicken and they would have believed what he says is true. If he's so humble, then why won't he ever stop touring and live a quiet life?

    • @thehockeyfan8888
      @thehockeyfan8888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@paulsavage5057 You don't choose to be famous, especially back then with the lack of mass social media. He made music and gained a very large following early in his life. His job is being a musician, so he tours.

    • @MarcelProust63
      @MarcelProust63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@paulsavage5057 He made an early vow: "cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it" True to the end.

  • @epipd5712
    @epipd5712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Bob was seriously in the know high or sober. Smart man...i learn something from Every song he sings. So happy I grew up on his music.

  • @Anthony-hu3rj
    @Anthony-hu3rj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    He gave it all for all the early years - his voice, his voice.

  • @leighcecil3322
    @leighcecil3322 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He's a survivor.. the God's smiled upon him a true legend...! Glad to have grown up listening to his lyrics ... he keep me going when I was in a dark place... thanks Bob namista 🙏

  • @jimseaton6611
    @jimseaton6611 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Bob Dylan songs well still be sung in 500 years. 2519, you just wait and see.

    • @petercordwell2258
      @petercordwell2258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only 500?

    • @normsaunders4980
      @normsaunders4980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'll meet you there.

    • @Sumotori.
      @Sumotori. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jim Seaton True! Heard George Harrison said it once!

  • @tomdale1313
    @tomdale1313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
    And it's Easter time too... i have thought on those lines for a couple of decades

    • @thebluesandothercolors6602
      @thebluesandothercolors6602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too

    • @tomdale1313
      @tomdale1313 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thebluesandothercolors6602 the theme that keeps repeating itself to me is Juarez is always portrayed as a sell your soul place, and this reference about Easter as I make it out to fit my ideal speaks of "religious" sanctity occurring in such a place

  • @henryholt1359
    @henryholt1359 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I remember in 1975 I had hichhiked up the coast and I was living with some hippies on a community near Nimbin in a plastic shack and we would sit around and listen to early Dylan and smoke chilms around the fire..I played harmonica and would play along sometimes..love early Dylan.. that series Rolling Thunder on Netflix was great.

  • @cathycrago2722
    @cathycrago2722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love everything he has ever written or recorded but the 66 Albert Hall recordings are just amazing on so many levels.

  • @ontheBorderbytheSea
    @ontheBorderbytheSea 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    “ You’re talking to the wrong person man “

    • @nixon9346
      @nixon9346 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hahaha i love his interactions with audience on this tour its hillarious

  • @patrickoakley52
    @patrickoakley52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bob is a little high!! What the F..k! This is genius at work and the crime is so little of this was recorded or filmed. Massive Missed Genius!!

    • @mikem668
      @mikem668 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think you're correct, but I'm not positive it's the same tour. A few years ago (2016?) copyright in the UK was expiring, unless the live recordings were released. So they released a 20 CD set of IIRC this tour. I think they did the same thing with some Rolling Stones recordings. You might be able to track them down, but they weren't around long.

  • @rb6338
    @rb6338 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Thanks for this gem! Dylan is now so often criticised for the lack of interaction with the audience during concerts. He used to interact a lot since end of the 80s. We must respect his attitude. Still giving us his music and poetry after so many years is an enormous gift.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speaking of amphetamine.

    • @MellowWind
      @MellowWind ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jnagarya519 Sounds more like alcohol.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MellowWind At around the time he "went electric" he was being called "an amphetamine prick". He was already a constant weed smoker.

  • @viviandarkbloom100
    @viviandarkbloom100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I hope this was the last song he played on this Tour. The last line would be perfect, "I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough."
    Thanks for almost killing me Albert.

  • @georgecoventry8441
    @georgecoventry8441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I think that's probably his best take on that song ever. And The Band sounds marvelous. Thanks for posting it!

  • @xenocampanoli815
    @xenocampanoli815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That is one damned good performance, perfect for those with the humanity to get it, as well as perfect to frustrate those who are far too shallow and thoughtless to have any hope to.

    • @wonderrob3225
      @wonderrob3225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately, the world is full of morons, fans of Disco and Billie Eilish

  • @zoomonkeydotcom2005
    @zoomonkeydotcom2005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Holy cow !!!!!! Best version by far !!! I play this song live every time I can and I’m good but nothing like this !! Wow 😯. Bob is my man . Crazy vocals - all emotion - crazy lyrics - so real yet fantasy - Badass Bob

  • @patrickoakley52
    @patrickoakley52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who can say! This is the greatest artist of the 20th century blowing the wind out of the recording industry. Who knows what this might lead to!!!

  • @toddbacon2022
    @toddbacon2022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am so fortunate, Peter, paul and Mary, the Beatles, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt...and so many more artists of the times were my inspiration to find my own voice in the arts. The sixties were very similar to the varied art movements at the turn-of-the 20th century in europe.

  • @trevorwarner1322
    @trevorwarner1322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The Band sounds fantastic.

    • @ulpana
      @ulpana ปีที่แล้ว

      Drummer is a titch confused. Who could blame that poor chap working with stix?
      Dylan finally went to the Village and got him some drummers in Howie Wyeth, Z"L Rest In Play and Gary Burke. See all the footage in Renaldo and Clara (Dylan's Rolling Blunder Revue back and frontstage mytho poetic film improv'd during that most old time stagey of Vo-De-Ville shows directed by Jacques Levy, Z"L Rest In Play, Prof!
      Tio Mitchito

  • @marchfool
    @marchfool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Well yeah. Isn’t this pretty much perfect? A refreshing breath of truth in sadly false times. Thank you Bob for always being there.

    • @NoCountryforBadMovies
      @NoCountryforBadMovies ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean, he was drugged out of mind and I don’t think he even knew what he was talking about.

  • @Sherrie275
    @Sherrie275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pause became essential. Even in his darkest hours, his creative juice flow effortlessly it seems...

  • @philipbunney9445
    @philipbunney9445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is just wonderful. All that pent up frustration & the crowd provoking him. This is a song that needles someone (Positively 4th Street) but Dylan sings it like it is

  • @davidphelps2121
    @davidphelps2121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Whilst all the pontificators pour over the "meanings" of Mr. Dylans lyrics, and the Intellects post their "insightful" takes on Swingin' Pig's marvelous post, I wallow in the sweet sounds of Bobby, Robbie, Rick, Mickey, (Richard?), and Garth, shred this classic, sounds like the band Television! Such a punk rock version (reminds me of the Dewey Cox Story) Not always a huge backer of Robbie, but his licks in this tune are sublime. Thanks my friend for posting. Can't wait to see Dylan at Frost Amphitheater on the 14th! Saw him on the exact same day in 2016 when he opened for the Stones in Indio, CA. the night he won his Pulitzer!

  • @MrVincehalloran
    @MrVincehalloran 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The band is on fire. As they tend to be when Bob is there.

  • @patriciathewisher2315
    @patriciathewisher2315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a dogtooth suit! Must be the best version I’ve ever heard of this great song. Thx so much. 🇮🇪🎱💜💒⏰

  • @murraycowie9234
    @murraycowie9234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am just so delighted to be inundated with so many terrific Dylan moments... Deeply grateful!

  • @srg123ify
    @srg123ify 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Love this rare Dylan performance he was so tired by the end he could barely sing

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sergio Moreno I know, he was exhausted and needed a break. Still witty though!

    • @thesongtowoody
      @thesongtowoody 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this is not a dis on dylan but yes while he was ie tired....its fair to say he was overwhelmed with his own fame and fell into a spell of drugs....stay away from drugs you will lose! bob would tell you that...but...tired and drugs here...

    • @ardalla535
      @ardalla535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thesongtowoody He didn't 'fall' into a spell of drugs. The drugs were there and he wanted them. Don't make a victim out of Bob Dylan. Whatever he did, he did it because he wanted to.

    • @thesongtowoody
      @thesongtowoody 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ardalla535 perhaps your right. he obviously did them of his own free will. i cant deny that. perhaps i should condemn him for using drugs? that could very well be a justified position unless you see the world through a nihilist lense, then nothing is good or bad right or wrong it just is. What i was getting at is that i have sympathy for the soul that falls into a ditch even if it is by their own evil choices , i dont take pleasure in that i sympathize with their precarious plight. some people end up homeless cause of one off the cuff casual ignorant curious try of drugs....are they victims ultimately no, but i feel for them, that is my nature and we will all ultimately answer to God and his son Jesus Christ.

    • @brittbeck9158
      @brittbeck9158 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thesongtowoody
      The God I believe in, is the forgiving creator of you and me. God loves sinners, which redeem. The vengeance is mine, said our Creator. Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil..Praise the Lord 🙏💙🦋

  • @puri6546
    @puri6546 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What a tour, 1966... I was months old, thanks that we have the recordings!

  • @4711StGermain
    @4711StGermain ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sure would be a bummer to have the rare chance to see Dylan - and he's bombed out of his F'kn mind! Sad. Saw Rod Stewart once, he was so drunk he couldn't stand, but his warm-up band, The Eagles, were GREAT! girlfriend & I walked out on Stewart. (performing in this condition... is theft, and I've loved Dylan for 60 yrs!

    • @spyder2383
      @spyder2383 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dylan at his acerbic best.

  • @DirkRevised
    @DirkRevised 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "priceless", indeed the last thing one can say about this clip.
    Thank you for sharing.
    Thank you for being there and whoever you were back then mister singer.

  • @janepiepes2243
    @janepiepes2243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And this is the trip he banged out BALLAD OF A THIN MAN ...after a quiet speech ...he retaliated with the most fantastic version of that song.
    How great that must've felt.
    Standing up
    Waving one hand
    Tapping out the rythmn within his boots.

  • @elizaanderson8909
    @elizaanderson8909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    This is such an incredible performance!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right, it’s one of his stand-outs

  • @cindybradley3543
    @cindybradley3543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thanks so much for this! I just can't say it enough how much I love ANYTHING that is "YOUNG DYLAN"! I was only 10 years old back in 1966. My Uncle used to like to listen to Dylan. I looked up to my uncle & I would pay close attention to the stuff he liked 'cause I always seem to like, what he liked. He was about 9 yrs. older than me. At home I didn't have a record player or albums yet for that matter. My older brother did, but I didn't get a chance to use his until I was a couple years older. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll be waiting and watching for more!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cindy Bradley thanks so much for listening!! And I love hearing stories like that. I wish I grew up in that generation. Like your uncle was then, I’m 19. Cheers!

    • @cindybradley3543
      @cindybradley3543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow, your only 19? Your still a "Baby"!! It's great that someone as young as you, actually loves and appreciates, the genius of our beloved Mr. D.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Michele Minick Of course I'll answer! I'm an open book haha. I guess my dad got me into him. He was into all sorts of stuff, but Dylan really stuck with me. Then after hearing him play Tambourine Man in Newport '64 on TH-cam when I was 10, I was hooked. I learned guitar and harmonica, and I'm still playing his stuff at local coffee houses. He inspired me to write my own stuff too (if you wanna see some of it and my Dylan covers, visit my personal page: Ross Wylde). I've always thought that if you want to be a good songwriter, listen to Dylan, because he pulled from so many genres and is a wealth of information. The videos I post are just me curating the wealth of performing knowledge, poetic ability, and just inspiration. Look who's rambling now. Have a great day.

    • @cindybradley3543
      @cindybradley3543 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Swingin' Pig....if I may be so bold as to interrupt but, you are 1 REALLY SMART GUY!!! And talented too! Unbelievable! Thanks so much again, for all your cool Bobstuff!!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cindy Bradley awe, thank you!! Means a lot. I’m just an old soul who appreciates Dylan’s work. The Shakespeare of our generation haha. Cheers.

  • @markj.8491
    @markj.8491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Folks, I love Bob Dylan, and his music is part of my daily life. I came here to listen to this precious live recording and for the MILLIONTH time, against my will, I was forced to hear that hateful "audible - audiobook" advertisement. It's good that someone is promoting books, People needs to read but I can't take it anymore, of it, and all the advertisements and double ads on TH-cam. I tried to get rid of those but it didn't work apparently. Hope you Bob Dylan's people can understand my vent about this. Love

    • @1DaTJo
      @1DaTJo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mark J you should watch TH-cam on Brave browser. It eliminates all the ads.

  • @pbesmer
    @pbesmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Did not have a huge ego, but a sense off humor humbleness and eventually later on a bit in security. I’ve watched him since 1963.

    • @ulpana
      @ulpana ปีที่แล้ว

      You've nailed a paradox in Dylan that keeps twisting back on itself through the years. As he says in "My Back Pages"
      "I was so much older then\I'm younger than that now..." I got to know the Mayor of McDougal Street, Big Dave Van Ronk, Z"L Rest In Play, who along with his wife\partner\manager Teri Thal at the time Dylan first hit NYC from the Minnesota Iron Range and then college in Minneapolis, Van Ronk & Thal extended their ratty apartment floor to this kid from the open mic nights at the Greenwich Village cafes (never the bars where you'd need a cabaret license in corrupt NYC to perform). Dylan didn't even give them his real name, they had to find it out by accident. But the kid was so funny that they loved having him around. By around, usually under the folding table that was like their only furniture and over which Van Ronk and Thal's Village pals came weekly to play cards with Dylan under the table typing away and occasionally passing typed sheets table-top for Van Ronk to critique). Read Van Ronk's memoir completed after Dave passed away about a decade ago by one of Dave's guitar students from the neighborhood, Elijah Wald: Truly one of the great Musical Memoirs (a genre invented later by Bay Area based poet
      ovelist\ lit inventor and U.C.-Berkeley prof as well as occasional club performer, Al Young. Get his paperback Musical Memoirs to learn much about how one can braid their lives with the songs floating by in the air):
      litkicks.com/mayorofmacdougalstreet/
      The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk
      By Levi Asher
      January 7, 2014
      African-American, American, Beat Generation, Biography, Comedy, Film, Indie, Jazz Age, La Boheme, Love, Music, New York City, Reviews, Summer Of Love, Tributes
      The Great Lost Rock Memoir
      12 Comments
      neglectedbooks.com/?p=205
      Al Young’s Musical Memoirs
      4 June 2008
      Mitchito Ritter
      27 October 2014 at 5:56 am
      soundcloud.com/tags/a%20jazz%20life
      Carlton Jackson, the multi-dimensional drummer in Portland, Oregon. Po’town is a hotbed of fine and color-filled drumming and percussion across musical styles and global vocabularies, but few if any are as varied in what they play well as Carlton. He has a Sunday night radio show called THE MESSAGE. His Play-Lists reflect the varied and tasteful, not to mention exploratory scope of the bands, combos and larger ensembles he plays out with and the recording session work he’s done. Carlton Jackson’s unique aspect brought to KMHD’s weekly THE MESSAGE is his musical imagination, as he’s brought to the broadcast range of one of the few jazz radio stations left on the U.S. airwaves a spectrum of styles and types of recorded music that skate well above any genre or marketing categories superimposed onto what is and should ideally remain non-classifiable, if yet widely discussed and savored.
      Tonight, Sunday 10/26/14 Carlton played an oral history feature of KMHD that is archived on SoundCloud and retrievable for
      your delight and the delight of others here: soundcloud.com/kmhd-radio/andre-st-james
      This 21st C. revival of free-form and expanding community and public radio arts builds on the Al Young culture-building project he well-titled MUSICAL MEMOIRS that you so righteously celebrate here on your web page NEGLECTED BOOKS.com. Hopefully with the death of so many music appreciation ‘zines or the moving of the rolled-up back pocket variety to the internet as web sites, the vision Al Young brought into the world, that I would nutshell as a way to both spread musical enthusiasm and create the necessary community-market base to support musical expression that is essentially deemed unworthy by the “Hidden Hand of the Market” this Young-ian concept of the MUSICAL MEMOIR may live on and travel farther on as Joy Harjo might phrase it “Winding through the Milky Way” via public and community radio shows like THE MESSAGE and via web sites that replenish musical enthusiasm by retrieving it from the dustbin of the fashion industry like your wonderful NEGLECTED BOOKS.com web site. Long may y’all run!
      PS - The Andre St. James entry into the above-referenced A Jazz Life musical memoirs features reminiscences of Bay Area music educator and hot pianist of choice Ed Kelly bringing the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk into a college music class for a hands-on nose-in philosophical lecture with vivid musical illustration. Student Andre was invited to sit in on bass with musical adept Rahsaan Roland Kirk and after the lecture and presentation the young lion-in-training wigged out. Terrific story to be shared and Carlton Jackson & The Message ought to be commended for weaving that oral history into a splendidly wide-ranging set of sounds over KMHD, the FM radio station licensed to Mt. Hood Community College and being put to good use as part of the OPB state-wide public radio imperium. Let us now retreat to the PURPLE GROTTO…
      Mitchito

  • @moricwilson
    @moricwilson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    JAYY DEE SAAALINGERRRR!!!!!

    • @viviandarkbloom100
      @viviandarkbloom100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wonder if Bob would recommend that to a young Mark David Chapman. Yikes. Roll on John. The odd coincidences.

    • @nancybennett8839
      @nancybennett8839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@viviandarkbloom100 ikr?

    • @Pilrig1
      @Pilrig1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@viviandarkbloom100 Millions have read Catcher in the Rye without becoming fucking psychos.

    • @Jerry11201
      @Jerry11201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Pilrig1 yes and we read it in middle or high school as well

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Colors of the rains and Niely says Word word words

  • @ladyblue498
    @ladyblue498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is a very special and interesting recording....Thank you so much Swingin' Pig!
    I especially love the 60ies Dylan.
    I can really imagine sitting at this concert...listening....being overwhelmed...being part of it...

  • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
    @Piggy-Oink-Oink 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    They are laughing..when he says it just means NOTHING> he always tells the truth.he isn;t sure what it all means..never did.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Agreed. He's been trying to find himself out with his songs, and it's a never ending journey.

    • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
      @Piggy-Oink-Oink 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SwinginPig Exactly...lol

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Michele Minick Wow, thanks for much for that insightful comment! I had a blast reading it. I agree with you; he must’ve been out of his head by the end of the tour, and fed up with what was being demanded of him. Thanks for listening! And let me know about that request whenever. I’ll see what I can do. Cheers!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Michele Minick Same here, my friend.

    • @ardalla535
      @ardalla535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Of course he's right. This particular song means absolutely nothing. I doubt if he had anything at all in mind when he wrote it. He just sat down at the keyboard and played a blues riff and filled in the lyrics as they occurred to him. And what was on his mind was something about Mexico, so that became the framework it was built around. Sometimes Bob put a lot of hidden stuff in his songs that he didn't want to be clear about for one reason or another (Visions of Johanna), but sometimes there really is just nothing there. But just because it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's not a great song.

  • @dannypound7626
    @dannypound7626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Goodness he's wasted here. It's a wonder he could even get through these shows. However, the band is kicking ass.

    • @roncarpenter7240
      @roncarpenter7240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe this was just before his motorcycle accident. I've read that the accident, resulting in him hospitalized for weeks, actually saved his life.as per your comments.

    • @christopherbent2359
      @christopherbent2359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@roncarpenter7240 there was no accident he got burnt out and had to take a break. He played it off as an accident

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's not slurring and he's an adult he can do what he wants he still put on a good show that's all that matters. Strange how people want to reject any artists who ever took a drink or smoked a joint now considering that is the majority of artists especially in the 60s.

  • @petercapewell1573
    @petercapewell1573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    FAN BLOODYTASTIC THANK SO MUCH YOU ARE THE MAN

  • @Bluzian74
    @Bluzian74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    absolutely beeeaaauuuutifulllll!! Thank you for the upload! Wow!

  • @helenbostock2350
    @helenbostock2350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just like the old days love and peace man

  • @joankearns4490
    @joankearns4490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love you Bob. Wish I was that high right now.

  • @nissi.k
    @nissi.k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Such impeccable prowess! Thank you for this!!!

  • @keepitwitmine
    @keepitwitmine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a gem!

  • @davidpearn2484
    @davidpearn2484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The most God given talent ever

  • @Leocadia333
    @Leocadia333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Damn, this is far out! Thank you much.

  • @JennyWren333
    @JennyWren333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love ❤️ Bob’s lectures!

  • @majones7004
    @majones7004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of th first Bob Dylan songs I was exposed to...'70-'71; a decade later I planned a cross-country thing with Juarez on my itinerary...luckily I didn't go there. Thanks, Bob, for our 5+ decades.

  • @mortimerzilch2608
    @mortimerzilch2608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Bob sounds really ripped.

  • @StacyLankford
    @StacyLankford 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic!!

  • @georgeesau3943
    @georgeesau3943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A special time in the life of a special artist.

  • @dixieflatline8750
    @dixieflatline8750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Cops like this song just because they appreciate that someone finally said: "the cops don't need you and man they expect the same."
    ...Even though Dylan is obviously loaded to the gills on who knows what...

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well they shouldn't bother with innocent people then.

    • @ms-iz9ye
      @ms-iz9ye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Supposedly it was heroin during this tour. But you gotta read a lot of Dylan books to find out anything.

    • @brendanmccabe8373
      @brendanmccabe8373 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      When the white boy has to be taught about the police

  • @Leocadia333
    @Leocadia333 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you Swingin' Pig. This is out of sight!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Leocadia333 Thanks for listening!! Lemme know if you have any requests :)

    • @Leocadia333
      @Leocadia333 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SwinginPig Okie Dokie.

  • @anna45679
    @anna45679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A friend recommended this song to me and I enjoyed it.

  • @tommoran4457
    @tommoran4457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He really sounds like he doesn't have the strength to get up and take another shot

  • @Tmonkjazz
    @Tmonkjazz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These are simply amazing. Thank you so much!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for listening! I wouldn't be uploading them if they weren't appreciated :)

    • @Tmonkjazz
      @Tmonkjazz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Swingin’ Pig Absolutely appreciated! Please, don’t stop. These need to be here, available and listened to. It’s important. Thank you again.

  • @ReactionsToTheClassics
    @ReactionsToTheClassics 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thanks for uploading this!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for listening! Let me know if you have any requests. Cheers!

  • @gudlisner501
    @gudlisner501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He once told everyone what his songs are about “some are about 3 minutes, some are about 4 minutes and some are about 5 minutes long”. Or something like that. If you can remember you weren’t there.

  • @MB-wk4sb
    @MB-wk4sb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just listened to Nina Simone's cover of this favourite of mine, very beautiful, very soulful, but I must say nothing beats hearing it from the man himself while he sounds ready to beat me to death with his Telecaster

    • @familytreemusic
      @familytreemusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's probably the only case in which i prefer a cover to Bob's original, or other Bob's versions... Nina paint those 6 pictures so vividly, like not even Bob could, maybe for the sparsity of the arrangement and the composed intensity of Nina's performance.

  • @gerardhaubert8210
    @gerardhaubert8210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Band is on point!

  • @paularora5086
    @paularora5086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just love this man form 13 years old through...

  • @thebluesandothercolors6602
    @thebluesandothercolors6602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mickey Jones just killing it on this tour

  • @johnhamilton5290
    @johnhamilton5290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been to Del Rio. It is in an amazingly remote part of the county. Dylan really got around.

  • @tallilaholzel4677
    @tallilaholzel4677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bob, Du warst die richtige Person, zu der man sprach! Der beste Zeuge!!

  • @brozbro
    @brozbro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Mozart lasts because his music can be played by today's orchestras. Nobody can sing Dylan like Dylan.

    • @turretstudios9907
      @turretstudios9907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hold my wine

    • @klausrain111
      @klausrain111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Profound. Thing is, Mozart and Brahms, et al, didn't make records.

    • @glenwreggitt4142
      @glenwreggitt4142 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@klausrain111 I have many records by Mozart and Brahms.

  • @maryoconnor9360
    @maryoconnor9360 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive seen this before many times but just now realized what he says just before they play those first few notes and then hit the first chords -
    what a genius thing to yell out -
    but not surprised at all !!!

  • @Raymantico
    @Raymantico 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He was very tired by this show---the weary genius

  • @pyroed7044
    @pyroed7044 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video just subscribed to your channel

  • @mexicansmell
    @mexicansmell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Magic....Garth Hudson adding the butter....

  • @PeteFeet29
    @PeteFeet29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was there!

  • @blessedevreyday
    @blessedevreyday 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even shitfaced, its crazy how Dylan 50+ years on can still capture listeners individually while millions share the same experience.

  • @Telecasterluvr
    @Telecasterluvr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lmaoo he is just fucking with them so hard. Vintage Bob

    • @boppob1343
      @boppob1343 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's more that he's high as fuck

    • @Telecasterluvr
      @Telecasterluvr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@boppob1343 both

    • @sherrybirchall8677
      @sherrybirchall8677 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he's talking to the audience, when some fucking fucks open their fucking mouths full of hatefulness and entitlement, like just because they paid for a ticket, they own an artist like he's their puppet. What a bunch of fucking jerks.

  • @freevue
    @freevue 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bob's Mondo Scripto art exhibition at Halcyon Gallery London - Highly recommended and free entrance !

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve always wanted to go there! I’ve heard great things. I’m most excited for the Tulsa museum.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Michele Minick yep, I cant travel to the UK right now either. Hopefully someday 🤞

    • @oliveeisner8964
      @oliveeisner8964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Michele. Oh my, we should try to coordinate. I'm super psyched to see Tulsa. I'm in Texas but it's still far. Dallas is a good place. Airports. Shorter drive (or bus) to Tulsa.

  • @jannepelindberg7439
    @jannepelindberg7439 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He is playing with the phrasing just like a jazz musician

  • @anotherjoshua
    @anotherjoshua 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1966 -- and they still had trouble mic'ing rock and roll.

  • @tenparab
    @tenparab 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was at both Melbourne, Australia concerts in 1966 and Bob talked a lot at those concerts. Probably more during the acoustic set than after the interval.

  • @MrEdkern
    @MrEdkern 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw him in cleveland,ohio on November 12,1965 and he did this song but was not as wild.

  • @Katarinatorn
    @Katarinatorn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He is sick of people asking what does this meeeeaaan? lol

  • @janepiepes2243
    @janepiepes2243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh, I know this clip, well. It is fantastic !
    " It just means nothing. "
    This was that English trip !
    " ... RUBBISH.. isn't even my vocabulary "

  • @EricScottBloom
    @EricScottBloom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    No, it DOESN'T mean "nothing," Robert....you know that!

  • @dombrunelli5082
    @dombrunelli5082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks, Bob..My nom de plume is Sonny DELRIO.

  • @cindybradley3543
    @cindybradley3543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    By the way, I just googled "Rue Morgue Avenue" and they have a few short clips of this. You might want to have a look.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cindy Bradley Love it! There’s also an excellent HD version from “No Direction Home,” also on TH-cam.

    • @michele-33
      @michele-33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bob read Poe, he put a melody to a poem of his & performed it at the coffeehouses, don't recall which but read it in Chronicles I.
      I'm starting
      *The Murders in Rue Morgue* by Poe, said to be the first modern detective story.
      Looking forward to find any connections or similarities to this amazing song.
      Edit;. Was banned from Utube, it appears everything connected with my username was also deleted, comments included. Good to be back !! 😎

  • @karmenjazbec7743
    @karmenjazbec7743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YEAH YOUNG BOB YOU ARE THE BEST

  • @freevue
    @freevue 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bobby with The Baand !

  • @questionblock8949
    @questionblock8949 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whoa, what a performance! 👏

  • @DMBfan36
    @DMBfan36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't want anyone to think there missing!

  • @0otee
    @0otee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was great.. still is❣️👌

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Then I heard the story of Magdalena Solis, all over the newspapers back in the day, and understood some of the horrifying depth of the nothing this song was about.

  • @Deliquescentinsight
    @Deliquescentinsight 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't explain it because it is a slice of someone's life on a sunday afternoon, and they feel that weird way sometimes on sunday afternoons when the light is a certain way, and want to drink a gallon of red wine and consider all the angles, and that is just verse 1, so shaddup and siddown.