@@bingsinatra5283 Yes, the eyes add such emphasis, to ask anyone, "You don't know what it is, do you?" in a way that yes is not going to pass for the lie they have been floating.
I saw Bob Dylan perform this live at Cleveland Music Hall on Friday November 12, 1965.I was 14 years old! It was the single most moving musical performance I have ever witnessed!
I like the quirkiness in this song... I've listened to it many time and hear something different every single time.. really clever... and mostly I just delete the closet homo sentiment throughout
I don't think the lyrics are cryptic. I thought they describe a yuppie trying to explore the hip counter-culture world, feeling uncomfortable at their weirdness, and them feeling uncomfortable at his discomfort.
I'd have to say his very close friend Neil Young is right there with Bob Dylan lyrically and way beyond as a musician who has baffled many on guitar forever and a day...but that just me...and so many others I might add. I'm a fan of both, btw.
@@user-uo6wj9ug6u depends on what you mean by "level". Dylan agrees with my definition of level regarding NY's talent in painting pictures in one's mind when it comes to young's ability to do just that. we're pretty much talking one color apple and another color of apple here. Needle and the damage done, sugar mountain, etc, etc
@@olliheikkinen3426 He also giggles in the electric version of Blind Willie Mctell. "This land is condemned" line. I always thought that was the superior version but they scrapped it because of that.
I was just humming Counting Crows "Mr Jones" when my brain thought wait a minute, there was another Mr. Jones song a million years ago in the 60s that I thought was so freaky good as a 10 year-old. I had no idea this was the title of the the song. Man, what an absolutely brilliant song. I don't think I've heard it since I was a child so to hear the lyrics now as an adult is just that much more impressive. Bob Dylan is peerless as a lyricist in my opinion.
i love the way he delivers the line "just what you will say when you get home" little things like that make dylan much more than a great lyricist. truly underrated singer
I agree. He even complain in his "My chronicle" that people reduce his songs to lyrics, while this is not the case. He points out that some guitarist recorded album just with his version of music of Bob Dylan songs, saying that musician can understand that music of his songs has quality on its own.
@@kamilziemian995 yeah bob has a lot of my favorite instrumentals, dont think twice its alright is possibly my favorite guitar part ever, plus dont think twice also has amazing vocals from dylan
One of the greatest songs ever written. I just love it. It describes so accurately the feelings we had back in the 60s. Everything was strange and new and brilliant. Music was everywhere, all with different sounds and lyrics. Dylan was right in the middle of it. There are so many good songs on his albums. If you aren't familiar with him you should listen to some of his stuff.
Well said you. It was all so strange and different and all that stuff about growing up and then came the Beatles and Dylan. And then Cohen. Such a privileged world of music..
Applies not just 1960s but any era. I think he is talking about conspiracy. Can apply to conspiracies involving govts and the puppet masters who control elected leaders behind the scenes. How more intelligent people are figuring out the world is not run the way we think it is. That there is a secret conrolling force cotrolling all the govts and moving history forward. Hence the line for these questioning intelligent people questioning the way the world is really run and the international bankers conspiracy. How the masses are manipulated to do the bidding or Global Elites.Hence the line in the song: But something is happening and you don't know what it is do you mr jones?
Actually, no, here's the story verbatim: "During playback (of Like a Rolling Stone), Bob asked Tom Wilson to bring Kooper's organ part up in the mix. "Hey man, that cat's not an organ player," Wilson told him. "Hey, now don't tell me who's an organ player and who's not," replied Bob, who was beginning to tire of Wilson." From Down the Highway by Howard Sounes - best one I've found so far.
I've spent the last 2yrs absorbing his first 21 albums, and what an amazing investment to evolve my spirit in a true direction. I'm a big music lover from many directions. Yet, I can still say, despite my love of 'Blonde on Blonde', Desire, 'Desolation Row' etc etc etc...I am still yet to study the lyrics. I'm a lover of Bob, his energy, and I'm yet to get to his lyrics! I'm not Christian, but I think Precious Angel and Pressing On are 2 of the best tunes I've heard in many years. It proves that communication (e.g. music) is not all about words & poetry...it's about transfer of energy & spirit from author to audience. Bob Dylan was an unwitting master of this process in his early 20s.
most things are. I wrote tot he Balvenie distillery in Scotland that Michaelangelos statues, Beethoven's symphonies, and Rembrandt's paintings are the best artistic productions...but they seem better with a few fingers of Balvenie...and they mailed me their 100 anniversary book!
@@carolynzaremba5469 And mine at 77. Plus it takes me back to when I was just a girl tucked up in my bedroom playing Bob Dylan and driving my mum mad!!!
"And you say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?" I feel this way more than I probably should when I am around the people in my life. Perhaps I need new people.
One of the most intelligent and courageous songs about seeming and being, plays openly with all taboos 1965!!!!!And what a great piano and singing style...
Imagine if Dylan was strictly a poet. Bob's genius is that he is also a musician, which made his poetry more accessible. I am happy he won the Nobel Prize. I can only imagine what they talked about behind closed doors. Someone had a lot of gall.
Notice how few words we need to know it's Dylan: Pawn it, babe; famous long ago; you got a lotta nerve; it's life and life only; he not busy being born. . .and so on and so on
Possibly about Rolling Stone reporter Jeffrey Jones, who was at the time was working for TIME. Said he tried to interview Dylan right before he went electric at Newport in 65 and Bob didn't care much for his line of questioning. After the show Dylan saw him in the diner of the hotel lobby and asked him "Mr. Jones! Gettin' it all down, Mr. Jones? "But really it sums up 99% of reporters, that don't follow the artist or like their music or know anything about it, that ask dumb or offensive questions about the artist.
🎸🎹 Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party was formulated. Bobby Seale writes about this song in his book "Seize the Time". There's a couple pages about it... I'll just give an excerpt: Bobby Seale wrote" ".... in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan. Now that melody was in my mind. I actually heard it. I could hear the melody of this record. I could hear the sound and the beat to it. But I really didn't hear the words. This record played after we stayed up late laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up late laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over. Lots of brothers stayed right over there with lots of shotguns for security. Huey P Newton made me realize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record but what the lyrics meant in the record. This song is hell. You've got to understand that this song is saying a hell of alot about society." Bobby Seale of BPP... Breakfast Program Power... (really Black Panther Party)
I’m 32 now listened to this when I was 19 and expected music to evolve on a conscience level and it sadly never did. Bob dylan was cooking some sh*t back in his time but I long for a voice to speak on our current times the way he did back in the 60s 😢 ✌🏽
I saw him in concert in Dallas Texas at SMU. I was a Sophomore in High School at the time. I am now 75. It was that tour when the first set was acoustic and the second set was this stuff. It was so awesome (and I argue the word is not hyperbolic in this context). His career too has been awesome but to me this era was his peak!
@@deeclark8769 That's amazing, dude! I'm only 18 now. I'd kill to have seen Dylan in his prime especially on the legendary 75 tour. Was it the Rolling Thunder Revue tour? Dang, you got to see some Gods in their prime. I envy your generation in that regard.
@@that_trans_dude942 No it was in 1965 ('66?) and he was playing with a group of musicians who later became The Band (minus drummer Levon Helm). He was so young. We were so young. And it was quite a time to be alive.
@@michaelgibbons8229 Yes, I looked it up. That tour was in 1965 and 1966. It was just after the 1965 tour in England documented in the great D.A. Pennebaker documentary, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (released in 1967). That film is a must see for Dylan fans.
Only Bob Dylan: “You raise up your head And you ask, ‘Is this where it is?’ And someone points to you and says, ‘It’s his’ And you ask, ‘What’s mine?’ And somebody else says, ‘Where what is?’ And you say, ‘Oh my God, am I here all alone?’” Still hurts my head after all these years.
@@nrich5127 It most definitely was not, it was about clueless reporters asking dumb questions about Dylan and not getting the counterculture at the time. If it was one person it most likely was about TIMES music reporter Jeffrey Jones.
I bought this album when it was brand new in 1965, I was either 11 or 12, I had no idea what he was singing about but I loved the whole thing, the music, the vocals and the mysterious feeling I got when I listened to it, I knew something was going on there but I didn't know what it was but I had an excuse, I was so young, haha!
Exactly the same here with me; same age when I bought this album and half the time did not have a clue what he was singing about (still do not in some cases). Then I bought Blonde On Blonde and I was lost even more. A magical poet.
As a classic rock fan, i plead guilty of not paying this man the attention he merits all these years. He's a beast. Scorsese's documentary brought me here. The live performance of this song got my absolute attention. When i found out that song currently on a commercial, the one that goes "oooooo ooooo la la la la la la la," was by dylan i was blown away as well. My respects to you Mr. Dylan.
I oddly knew exactly what you were talking about with "ooooooooo lalalalala", "the man in me" lives consistently rent free in my head.. what a set of tracks!🤌💥
I grew up with this album in France as a kid, spent nights to translate every words and finally saw him live in Brittany 2010 and you know what? It was a disaster in term of voice but I was dancing and crying all long thinking about the monument this man is
Many ppl know only Blowin in the Wind or Like a Rolling Stones but he had many hidden gems. Here One of his best songs, an emotionin surrealistic self portrait.. Genius
Bob blew up the public school system's presentation of poetry as well as the pop radio music that preceded him. And I was amazed, set free, and overjoyed.
I bought the LP, "Highway 61 revisited " when it first came out back in the 60s, and this song is one of Dylan's that I always thought meant something different from my original thought..Brilliant songwriter.
I was 17 or 18 when l first caught glimpse of this record in a record store. Listening to this tune gave me goosebumps and got me stuck on Dylan. What a powerful delivery n to my teenage angst ears of the time..
surely one of the greatest of all modern songs.....nobody has touched the quicksilver genius lyric writing of Dylan in this period since; possibly the apex
How about the sword swallower who kneels and clicks his hi heels; gives you your throat back and says thanks for the the loan. You walk into that room with your pencil in your hand.. see a naked man and a one eyed midget..
The greatest poet of our times. You’re my idol since I was kid, Bob, and I’ve been writing about your music and poetry for almost fifteen years. I hope that one day I will be able to meet you. Now I’m focused about the next concert at Hyde Park, which will mark my 12th Bob Dylan gig of my life! See you soon, genius!
Walking thru Harvard Square heard this tune coming out of the Braddle theater asked at the box office what was going on Bob Dylan just stopped to play a concert to celebrate his start at this theater for anyone that was on the street at the time the guy is sensational
Love it love it love it!!! I've always loved this whole album but this song really gets to me. I truly don't know what it's about but I remember singing it in my head at one of my jobs... Sort of like"you know something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you MRS. . JONES". IT'S JUST TOO MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG AND ALWAYS WILL. THANK YOU!!!
Being a poet I like to think this song has many meanings: *abstract, situational, self reflective and zeitgeist."* I find myself reflecting on the title at certain times.
Bob Dylan was all about change, within and without, how one must change to grow. Mr. Dylan did this when he left folk music for rock and what happened to him is vivid reading. In any event, Bob Dylan is still rockin and stylin and profilin. Need more to be said?
I cry every time I heard this song, such powerful lyrics and music; I dedicate this song to all mr. jones of the world; who will never see and understand what beauty is, and will always be in the wrong side
I had to find bob Dylan on my own. But at least my dad threw this song out for me. Hadn't heard it before he mentioned it. Definitely in my top 3 of Bob's music.
I thought the application and delivery of this song in "A Huey P. Newton Story" perfectly sums up this song and that film. Spectacular connection, as if they were made for eachother.
Lucky you . Wish I could hear Dylan for the first time again . Such an amazingly talented man and so so witty , not sure that’s the right word . I mean the way he dealt / deals with the media . The “ Oh is that what you think “ answers to the question’s “ I never thought of it like that “ . Not that keen on “ intellectual’s “ ain’t Bob . It’s a wonder they can even feed themselves . A true genius .
You’d have to be Bob Dylan to have the words describe how great Bob Dylan is
indeed!
Seems to me that he has already taken care of that little detail, IYKWIM!
Or Muhammad Ali
Exactly!
I'd say BoB would tell you how great he is ? ?
The sheer amount of contempt in his voice and that little chuckle, tells you all you need to know about his thoughts on the media. What a masterpiece
Your so wrong mr jones
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Look at his eyes on the album cover, speaks volumes. This song is genius.
@@bingsinatra5283 Yes, the eyes add such emphasis, to ask anyone, "You don't know what it is, do you?" in a way that yes is not going to pass for the lie they have been floating.
It's a wonder that he can be so monotone and yet emotionally distinct at the same time
That laugh at “you try so hard” is fantastic
0:27
It was a cry not a laugh
I saw Bob Dylan perform this live at Cleveland Music Hall on Friday November 12, 1965.I was 14 years old! It was the single most moving musical performance I have ever witnessed!
A week later he married Sara Lownds in a completely clandestine wedding.
I bet it was, that must have been such an amazing experience! I am jealous not gonna lie 😂
Why the quotes around live
I came to comment this same thing
Oh wow Frank, lucky you!
Cryptic lyrics - a haunting melody - a lilting blues rythym - a vocal dissertation that only Bob could give ... a classic that never gets old.
man all his songs are still goin on resonating
I like the quirkiness in this song... I've listened to it many time and hear something different every single time.. really clever... and mostly I just delete the closet homo sentiment throughout
Not that cryptic, Mr. Jones. 🙂
Pretty much an attack on the media and reporters writing nonsense, Mr Jones being the media.
I don't think the lyrics are cryptic. I thought they describe a yuppie trying to explore the hip counter-culture world, feeling uncomfortable at their weirdness, and them feeling uncomfortable at his discomfort.
Dylan was able to do with words what Hendrix did with a guitar .....best lyricist ever,no one else even comes close
Dylan is my mentor, of sorts, my goal is to write songs like he has.
I'd have to say his very close friend Neil Young is right there with Bob Dylan lyrically and way beyond as a musician who has baffled many on guitar forever and a day...but that just me...and so many others I might add. I'm a fan of both, btw.
I love Neil Young but lyrically Bob is on a completely different level.
@@user-uo6wj9ug6u depends on what you mean by "level". Dylan agrees with my definition of level regarding NY's talent in painting pictures in one's mind when it comes to young's ability to do just that. we're pretty much talking one color apple and another color of apple here. Needle and the damage done, sugar mountain, etc, etc
morrissey
An album that includes this, "Highway 61," and "Desolation Row" has a valid claim to greatness.
And Like A Rolling Stone?
I'm with you on that one
The best album ever
Ya think?
.....with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield as back up
Always loved the little giggle.
0:27 for those who missed it
The timing is perfect.
I was wondering if the same giggle lives forever in any other songs. Can you name a few?
@@olliheikkinen3426 He also giggles in the electric version of Blind Willie Mctell. "This land is condemned" line. I always thought that was the superior version but they scrapped it because of that.
I've tried for years to work that damned laugh into my covers.
I adore this man's writing abilities. No wonder he's the voice of a generation. Brilliant.
Hoping I live long enough to make it two generations.
I think Dylan is the voice of many generations. Past, present and future.
He ain’t a voice for no one but the music lovers
Hola
He didn't like that title and i'm sure a lot of ppl out there either.
I was just humming Counting Crows "Mr Jones" when my brain thought wait a minute, there was another Mr. Jones song a million years ago in the 60s that I thought was so freaky good as a 10 year-old. I had no idea this was the title of the the song. Man, what an absolutely brilliant song. I don't think I've heard it since I was a child so to hear the lyrics now as an adult is just that much more impressive. Bob Dylan is peerless as a lyricist in my opinion.
Hearin this live was 1 of the best experince ever
i love the way he delivers the line "just what you will say when you get home" little things like that make dylan much more than a great lyricist. truly underrated singer
He’s in no way an underrated singer
@@idt1442 literally everyone i know says he sucks bro
@@big_gamer1234 you should get new friends
I agree. He even complain in his "My chronicle" that people reduce his songs to lyrics, while this is not the case. He points out that some guitarist recorded album just with his version of music of Bob Dylan songs, saying that musician can understand that music of his songs has quality on its own.
@@kamilziemian995 yeah bob has a lot of my favorite instrumentals, dont think twice its alright is possibly my favorite guitar part ever, plus dont think twice also has amazing vocals from dylan
A reporter breaks and enters the room of a gifted songwriter, and the world gets this. Thank the Lord for "Mister Jones"!
One of the greatest albums of all time! A real game changer.
I agree...but so many put it down. I think it is a great album.
@@michaelmiller2397 Those who put it down know not of what they speak
Beat poet prose set to music. Nothing ever like it then and nothing ever like it now.
If it’s him apart of all this messed up stuff happening to me also. I have to say this….u wig’ga
One of the greatest songs ever written. I just love it. It describes so accurately the feelings we had back in the 60s. Everything was strange and new and brilliant. Music was everywhere, all with different sounds and lyrics. Dylan was right in the middle of it. There are so many good songs on his albums. If you aren't familiar with him you should listen to some of his stuff.
Kind of like how I feel now as a 27yr old. Except everything is “smart”. Far from brilliant
Well said you. It was all so strange and different and all that stuff about growing up and then came the Beatles and Dylan. And then Cohen. Such a privileged world of music..
I think this song is appropriate for our times now as well. I love how loose the band is and yet the song would not sound like this any other way.
Applies not just 1960s but any era. I think he is talking about conspiracy. Can apply to conspiracies involving govts and the puppet masters who control elected leaders behind the scenes. How more intelligent people are figuring out the world is not run the way we think it is. That there is a secret conrolling force cotrolling all the govts and moving history forward. Hence the line for these questioning intelligent people questioning the way the world is really run and the international bankers conspiracy. How the masses are manipulated to do the bidding or Global Elites.Hence the line in the song: But something is happening and you don't know what it is do you mr jones?
Sorry about your railroad.
Never gets old. Finding this song more and more relevant now in my life in 2023.
"Somethings happening and I don't know what it is..."
Oh, sure you do. Otherwise you wouldn't be here! Cheer up comrade!
Dylan toured England in '65, and hung out with the Stones. This song totally freaked out Brian Jones.
The organ flies through this thing like a screeching ghost.
Al Kooper’s organ haunts this whole album
@@faro8784 I thought it was Al Kooper!
@@ferociousgumby fuck you’re right lemme fix that
@@faro8784 In one of the many Dylan bios I've read, someone said Kooper wasn't much on keyboard - he was the only one available at the time.
Actually, no, here's the story verbatim: "During playback (of Like a Rolling Stone), Bob asked Tom Wilson to bring Kooper's organ part up in the mix. "Hey man, that cat's not an organ player," Wilson told him. "Hey, now don't tell me who's an organ player and who's not," replied Bob, who was beginning to tire of Wilson." From Down the Highway by Howard Sounes - best one I've found so far.
A surreal nightmare masterpiece.
It really does feel like David Lynch in song form 😂
W Russia
Only Bob Dylan can chuckle at his own lyrics about seeing someone naked as hes singing and still have the bit make the final cut.
I've spent the last 2yrs absorbing his first 21 albums, and what an amazing investment to evolve my spirit in a true direction. I'm a big music lover from many directions. Yet, I can still say, despite my love of 'Blonde on Blonde', Desire, 'Desolation Row' etc etc etc...I am still yet to study the lyrics. I'm a lover of Bob, his energy, and I'm yet to get to his lyrics! I'm not Christian, but I think Precious Angel and Pressing On are 2 of the best tunes I've heard in many years. It proves that communication (e.g. music) is not all about words & poetry...it's about transfer of energy & spirit from author to audience. Bob Dylan was an unwitting master of this process in his early 20s.
My favourite Dylan song, just sheer brilliance. Even better with a dram of whisky.
Plus a blunt.
most things are. I wrote tot he Balvenie distillery in Scotland that Michaelangelos statues, Beethoven's symphonies, and Rembrandt's paintings are the best artistic productions...but they seem better with a few fingers of Balvenie...and they mailed me their 100 anniversary book!
Agreed. Well, bourbon for me, sir😊
How about the whole bottle? 😈
@@michaelmiller2397 I live in Scotland, I've been to that very distillery 👍
Bob Dylan, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the last true poets.
Yeah Dylan and Morrison.
Clearly you've not heard Monsieur Biden speak
one of the very first strand type poets
There are so many great poets today. Maybe not many in music, but there are some incredible books out there.
In music
Blew my mind when I was 18 and still blows my mind at 42 ❤
Still blows my mind at 74.
@@carolynzaremba5469 And mine at 77. Plus it takes me back to when I was just a girl tucked up in my bedroom playing Bob Dylan and driving my mum mad!!!
iam 18 and it blows my mind
One of the best Dylan songs
Magic! He got the Nobel Priize for a reason.
wow the studio version is back. yay!
"And you say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?" I feel this way more than I probably should when I am around the people in my life. Perhaps I need new people.
Yes completely agree
I agree to disagree with myself all the time
Is it you or is Bob talking about your fellow man,did we make God?or did God make us?
And you have no God to wow theres a book called the word @@michael-lt3jh
@@bethnewman7701well your just plainly fked up or albino....
One of the most intelligent and courageous songs about seeming and being, plays openly with all taboos 1965!!!!!And what a great piano and singing style...
Well said friend!!
Imagine if Dylan was strictly a poet. Bob's genius is that he is also a musician, which made his poetry more accessible. I am happy he won the Nobel Prize. I can only imagine what they talked about behind closed doors. Someone had a lot of gall.
They had a lot of nerve!
Notice how few words we need to know it's Dylan: Pawn it, babe; famous long ago; you got a lotta nerve; it's life and life only; he not busy being born. . .and so on and so on
Possibly about Rolling Stone reporter Jeffrey Jones, who was at the time was working for TIME. Said he tried to interview Dylan right before he went electric at Newport in 65 and Bob didn't care much for his line of questioning. After the show Dylan saw him in the diner of the hotel lobby and asked him "Mr. Jones! Gettin' it all down, Mr. Jones? "But really it sums up 99% of reporters, that don't follow the artist or like their music or know anything about it, that ask dumb or offensive questions about the artist.
Easy to forget how insanely outrageous this was at release and in every way possible. Today it just sounds like really good classic rock.
🎸🎹
Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party was formulated. Bobby Seale writes about this song in his book "Seize the Time".
There's a couple pages about it... I'll just give an excerpt:
Bobby Seale wrote"
".... in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan. Now that melody was in my mind. I actually heard it. I could hear the melody of this record. I could hear the sound and the beat to it. But I really didn't hear the words. This record played after we stayed up late laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up late laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over. Lots of brothers stayed right over there with lots of shotguns for security. Huey P Newton made me realize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record but what the lyrics meant in the record.
This song is hell. You've got to understand that this song is saying a hell of alot about society."
Bobby Seale of BPP... Breakfast Program Power... (really Black Panther Party)
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 The Weathermen got their name from the Dylan line "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing"
yup Zappa too was "riling up the youth"
Saw him play this live, 1966. I was 15. Simply awesome, backed by what would become " The Band."
Today, it's TRUE Bob Dylan, your songs are truly prophetic. These songs, touches on humanity.
RIP Yoda, you were a good egg in our hearts
I don’t get it
God, this is exactly how i found this song
I’m 32 now listened to this when I was 19 and expected music to evolve on a conscience level and it sadly never did. Bob dylan was cooking some sh*t back in his time but I long for a voice to speak on our current times the way he did back in the 60s 😢 ✌🏽
light speed hasn't yet been achieved
Oliver Anthony?
Jesse Welles, @wellesmusic
Jesse is not quite there yet but getting closer. More like Woody Guthrie.
his voice speaks to all generations...they mean the same thing now as they did now...human nature doesn't change...just my two cents...
Can you imagine how epic it would be if Dylan released a new song about the world now.
For real
It would be like Monty Python's Killer Joke sketch, only not funny, and deadlier.
He has a newer album out now. He says he is no false prophet he just knows what he knows so he is not like Mr. Jones who doesn't know...
hed sound like a old man with a cold
I think this song applies to the last 60 years really, it's relevant today 💯
Bob, the best composer in the USA. I love him
I saw Bob Dylan perform this live: greatest moment of my life
I saw him in concert in Dallas Texas at SMU. I was a Sophomore in High School at the time. I am now 75. It was that tour when the first set was acoustic and the second set was this stuff. It was so awesome (and I argue the word is not hyperbolic in this context). His career too has been awesome but to me this era was his peak!
@@deeclark8769 That's amazing, dude! I'm only 18 now. I'd kill to have seen Dylan in his prime especially on the legendary 75 tour. Was it the Rolling Thunder Revue tour? Dang, you got to see some Gods in their prime. I envy your generation in that regard.
@@that_trans_dude942 No it was in 1965 ('66?) and he was playing with a group of musicians who later became The Band (minus drummer Levon Helm). He was so young. We were so young. And it was quite a time to be alive.
In the mid to late 60s is when I'm guessing.
@@michaelgibbons8229 Yes, I looked it up. That tour was in 1965 and 1966. It was just after the 1965 tour in England documented in the great D.A. Pennebaker documentary, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (released in 1967). That film is a must see for Dylan fans.
the way he wrote this song is genius.
he truly is an inspiration of mine.
Just blows me away how amazing he is.
Now I understand why Bob Dylan was such a great influence on John Lennon.
this was the song that opened my eyes and mind to the sheer genius of Dylan.
This Song describes the entire Album. Keyboardist are the unsung heroes,Those dudes are immaculate. Of course 3 songs to follow...
4 songs to follow..
Only Bob Dylan:
“You raise up your head
And you ask, ‘Is this where it is?’
And someone points to you and says, ‘It’s his’
And you ask, ‘What’s mine?’
And somebody else says, ‘Where what is?’
And you say, ‘Oh my God, am I here all alone?’”
Still hurts my head after all these years.
I dont understand it :(
It’s definitely a mind bender.
@@TeamTaylor1114 do you know what he means by that?
Simple.
It’s something that’s happening here, Mr. Jones.
its actually "well, what is" which sorta makes more sense. I suggest you research the lyrics next time
Rip Brian Jones, this song always made me think of him.
God Rest Brians soul.
You do know that Brian was fired by the Stoes for getting too stoned all the time?
Maybe this song was about him ... we'll never know ....
@@nrich5127 It most definitely was not, it was about clueless reporters asking dumb questions about Dylan and not getting the counterculture at the time. If it was one person it most likely was about TIMES music reporter Jeffrey Jones.
Love the album. Love the song. Love Dylan's music...Love Highway 61; I grew up and live on Highway 61 in Missouri.
This is a fabulous song, lyrics , singing and musicianship of a brilliant album. The last verse is a killer
Another 60's Favorite!
I bought this album when it was brand new in 1965, I was either 11 or 12, I had no idea what he was singing about but I loved the whole thing, the music, the vocals and the mysterious feeling I got when I listened to it, I knew something was going on there but I didn't know what it was but I had an excuse, I was so young, haha!
In 1966 I was a 12 yr old paperboy I bought this LP for “Like a Rolling Stone” I played the LP over and over in my room on my old Zenith Record player
You were Mr Jones therefore?! Too many Mr Jones still unaware. Especially in UK and USA
@@geoffbaxter1509 Not many people understood Mr Jones when they were 12 years old.
Exactly the same here with me; same age when I bought this album and half the time did not have a clue what he was singing about (still do not in some cases). Then I bought Blonde On Blonde and I was lost even more. A magical poet.
As a classic rock fan, i plead guilty of not paying this man the attention he merits all these years. He's a beast. Scorsese's documentary brought me here. The live performance of this song got my absolute attention. When i found out that song currently on a commercial, the one that goes "oooooo ooooo la la la la la la la," was by dylan i was blown away as well. My respects to you Mr. Dylan.
That's "The Man in Me"... Also well-known for being in The Big Lebowski.
I oddly knew exactly what you were talking about with "ooooooooo lalalalala", "the man in me" lives consistently rent free in my head..
what a set of tracks!🤌💥
Could be the greatest blues song ever. Yes, after another listen, I'm gonna make the call.
my literature methodology professor picked this for our first class and I think she's my favorite :)
I love Sabbath, Purple, AC/DC, but this is just... beautiful. Awesome.
I'm nearly 60 years young and this song has been with me for at least 45 years but still makes my blood curds. What a composition it is!
First time hearing it. I have heard of other Bob Dylan songs but when I heard this one put me at a whole new level.
Awesome!
Have a listen to his album "Blood On The Tracks", it'll blow your mind. 😊
Never too late.
I first heard it in 1967 when I was 18 years old.
I grew up with this album in France as a kid, spent nights to translate every words and finally saw him live in Brittany 2010 and you know what? It was a disaster in term of voice but I was dancing and crying all long thinking about the monument this man is
Bob Dylan saved the world so far as it goes.
"Feel so suicidal just like Dylan's Mr. Jones."
:)
Yes I’m Lonely!
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Want to Die!
Yer blues
even hate my rock n roll
Timeless... the mark of a true genius....
A masterpiece.
5:00 is so iconic…. Chills and goosebumps everytime I hear the song
I absolutely love this song and the lyrics. A masterpiece truly. Bob Dylan is a poet in his own right. ✌
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Many ppl know only Blowin in the Wind or Like a Rolling Stones but he had many hidden gems. Here One of his best songs, an emotionin surrealistic self portrait.. Genius
It took me a long time to find this Dylan classic, now I'm here listening to this brilliant song
Where have you been 😊
Thats difficult to answer probably hanging around to many non Dylan fans
Highways 61 his best album
Dylan I'd so poetic.
I find myself lying in the dark listening to him every night .
Bob blew up the public school system's presentation of poetry as well as the pop radio music that preceded him. And I was amazed, set free, and overjoyed.
I bought the LP, "Highway 61 revisited " when it first came out back in the 60s, and this song is one of Dylan's that I always thought meant something different from my original thought..Brilliant songwriter.
I was 17 or 18 when l first caught glimpse of this record in a record store. Listening to this tune gave me goosebumps and got me stuck on Dylan. What a powerful delivery n to my teenage angst ears of the time..
Simply brilliant.
surely one of the greatest of all modern songs.....nobody has touched the quicksilver genius lyric writing of Dylan in this period since; possibly the apex
I love bob Dylan’s voice
Not any more.
How about the sword swallower who kneels and clicks his hi heels; gives you your throat back and says thanks for the the loan. You walk into that room with your pencil in your hand.. see a naked man and a one eyed midget..
The greatest poet of our times. You’re my idol since I was kid, Bob, and I’ve been writing about your music and poetry for almost fifteen years. I hope that one day I will be able to meet you. Now I’m focused about the next concert at Hyde Park, which will mark my 12th Bob Dylan gig of my life! See you soon, genius!
I like Frank Zappa plus Frank did not have to steal words from poem's written in the 17 & 1800's to fool young people into thinking he wrote it lol
Masterpiece! Bob Dylan ❤ forever
Inarrivabile, inimitabile, geniale. Grandissimo Bob Dylan. Imbattibile! :-)
Indutatibly. Phawk who can spell that?!? Jah Herb from Tucson Arizona Sonoran 🏜️ desert 🍄🌵🇯🇲🇺🇸🌍...
thank you mister Bob Dylan, for putting your great music on TH-cam. You are a legend, the best
Walking thru Harvard Square heard this tune coming out of the Braddle theater asked at the box office what was going on Bob Dylan just stopped to play a concert to celebrate his start at this theater for anyone that was on the street at the time the guy is sensational
No way 2 years in Boston?? Live?
Love it love it love it!!!
I've always loved this whole album but this song really gets to me.
I truly don't know what it's about but I remember singing it in my head at one of my jobs... Sort of like"you know something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you MRS. . JONES". IT'S JUST TOO MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG AND ALWAYS WILL. THANK YOU!!!
Being a poet I like to think this song has many meanings: *abstract, situational, self reflective and zeitgeist."* I find myself reflecting on the title at certain times.
Pluto girl I’m pretty sure it’s about the media constantly questioning Bob and never understanding him
Sean Bass ding ding ding!
There is no right or wrong way to interpret anything
Bob Dylan was all about change, within and without, how one must change to grow. Mr. Dylan did this when he left folk music for rock and what happened to him is vivid reading. In any event, Bob Dylan is still rockin and stylin and profilin. Need more to be said?
I cry every time I heard this song, such powerful lyrics and music; I dedicate this song to all mr. jones of the world; who will never see and understand what beauty is, and will always be in the wrong side
like my dad!
I had to find bob Dylan on my own. But at least my dad threw this song out for me. Hadn't heard it before he mentioned it. Definitely in my top 3 of Bob's music.
And I still have that album. The original. Play it every couple of months.
So awsome, fenominal
AND ME
#metoo
Me to cost £1.13s sterling great investment
The way to navigate through this world for me for past 30 years. Never fails.
My favorite song of his.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Happy birthday 82, Mr. Robert (Dylan)
💙💙💙🖖🏼👏🏻
Yes I do and I love this old song
This might be my favorite song by Bob Dylan, although I love them all. He is 82 today!
Masterpiece Mr. Dylan!
Bob Dylan, génie du siècle, 79 ans et il déchire toujours.
Paroles et Musiques.
Do you Mister Dylan !
Du grand génie oui
Mais oui, n'est pas?
This is the sound of genius.
I love how timeless this song is
The best song ever written of all time.
Sorry, LFB, that song would be "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead.
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First song that got my attention. I was about 1 and 1/2 years old singing along with Uncle Bob.
brano fantastico. album superlativo.
I thought the application and delivery of this song in "A Huey P. Newton Story" perfectly sums up this song and that film. Spectacular connection, as if they were made for eachother.
Don’t know how this is the first time I heard this, but it BLEW my mind!! A lot more Dylan in my future!
Lucky you . Wish I could hear Dylan for the first time again . Such an amazingly talented man and so so witty , not sure that’s the right word . I mean the way he dealt / deals with the media . The “ Oh is that what you think “ answers to the question’s “ I never thought of it like that “ . Not that keen on “ intellectual’s “ ain’t Bob . It’s a wonder they can even feed themselves . A true genius .
That's so cool! I'm 58 and somehow just discovered the White Stripes... It's a beautiful world we live in, don't ever stop looking for hidden gems.
its taken me nearly 45 years but I'm finally onboard ...this is fantastic
Sounds so crisp and just pure
the first Dylan song I watched was 115th Dream and as soon heard it fell in love the song and I have watched loads more Dylan music
Keep the faith Mr.Jones 🤠
Indelibly etched in my brain 60 plus years later.
Still sing along .
Crazy .
No, enduring.