How Bob Dylan Catapulted Folk Music | Roads Rapidly Changing (Full Documentary) | Amplified
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2021
- The story of the Greenwich Village Folk Revival, and the part Bob Dylan played in it. This film tells the story of Dylan's entry into and departure from the US Folk Revival, and features new interviews with many of the big players from the scene as it unfolded, as well as an abundance of timely footage, rare performances and numerous other features.
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My father got me hooked on Dylan as a kid. He's gone now and Bob Dylans music brings my father right back by my side.
Beautiful..........
😢 tears
Exact same situation here!!! And qll 3 of my children grew up listening to him. Music is transcendent
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Scary...rrraaaaaaagh....
I loved this documentary, but I seem to like them all. Only did I do a big deep dive into Dylan in my late 20s and he is by far the most influential artist of my life. He is a gift to us all, and he seems to never stop giving.
Yes, and thank you for "A GIFT TO US ALL", your phrase which denotes how great is the IMPACT of his influence, his beauty, on each one of us.
I don’t understand how he , for one thing, have time for everything he did. It seems impossible that he was one person
@@LucyJanusz
...1 in ALL-ALL in 1...
At around age 15 , somehow I came across Dylan’s music . I was living in the country of Western Australia . It gripped me like a drug and I was hooked . I really knew nothing of who he was , or how the music came about . I was just mesmerised . No one else around me seemed to appreciate his music , if I put the tape on at a party the people would say “turn it off !”😢
I always felt a bit isolated in my love of his talent .
Over time, when I was 19 and living in Sydney , I learnt a few songs , after begging an old hip , art teacher housemate , who had a dusty guitar case under his bed , to pull that guitar out and teach me , as he knew Dylan’s songs. He taught me Mozambique , and One more cup of coffee. It was very exciting ! But still, I got that feeling of , oh that’s old time stuff , from him as well . No one seemed to share my passion . Many many years later , like 30 yrs , when I joined choirs and started mixing with music people through a folk club , some of whom also appreciate that era and genre of music , I finally found some kindred spirits . And with Internet i learnt more about the history of lots of music and the artists. Which is great !! One day I found a whole book of the album Desire!! On an guitar tabs app. Finally, I read the words of the songs , and was absolutely blown away even more . There was so much I had missed in the lyrics , which I often didn’t pick up . Very exciting , & I was refreshed in my admiration for Bob’s creativity and skill . I set about learning Hurricane 😂🤣~ a bit obsessive . I did memorise the whole song . And enjoyed singing & playing some of the others from Desire . So many gems on that album !!!
I LOVE that through documentaries like this , history is revealed, shared & explained. It’s really so priceless , for all , especially for an old fan, like me , from a far off remote place. And for future generations who will no doubt be drawn to his music .
I also loved Joan Baez , as my dad played her music , and later I especially loved diamonds and rust which is about Dylan apparently. Another song I only recently had a go at playing and singing . Thanks to easy access to music and self teaching on the internet . And , I’m a fan of Melanie too ( a hippy aunt gave me her album collection when she went to India ) but again , my peers really couldn’t hear what I heard 🤣. And it was considered so out of date in the 80s. At that stage I had 3 lovely kiwi housemates , who kindly tolerated Melanie blaring out of the record player in the mornings before I went to my very boring job for the day ! Ha . Years Later , in my choir , ‘Lay down’ was a song we did in 4 part harmony , I couldn’t believe so many people knew and loved that song ~ it was awesome !! ~ we’d belt it out with much drama & passion , finally I had found others who felt the same . Yay !
Watching this I get that same feeling , hearing people who feel passionate about Bob Dylan’s music .
So often I’d felt out of synch with my own times . Yet , I was actually only a decade or 2 out . A lot can change it seems over a short time .
Thanks for this documentary !! ❤️🔥
I really loved hearing the full story and being reminded of how awesome Bob Dylan is and how much influence his music has had on me over my lifetime . 🥰
I even dug my harmonic & harp holder out , & guitar and practised after watching this ! ( I have a chronic back and just don’t practise or play much ) however , all this inspired me . I really love Bob Dylan . I missed him in concert in Perth once , I was so close . Crazy story , my flat mate borrowed ( stole ) my only jeans and when I got home from work & went to get dressed to go , I didn’t have anything to wear ! I must have had a ticket . Unbelievable really … I was poor then . Clothes were scarce ! I moved out after that and found new house mates , who didn’t help themselves to my clothes !
Anyway ~ sorry I missed that one op to see him in concert live 😢~ fate it seems .
love you Bob !! ❤️🔥🎶🎵🎶❤️🔥 And It’s so fantastic that he’s going strong , has toured so much !!! And his painting is awesome too . I’m also a painter / artist . Kindred spirits . But like Joan Baez , I’m sure he’d have broken my heart had we met . 🤣😂🤣👋
I'm glad he inspired you to get back into it. Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing.
@@budwilcox5157 😁❤️
you had a go ..!!
Australia is about the only country I can think of, that could produce a folk rock poet in the vein of Dylan. Of course, you got Nick Cave, though I'd expect something more towards a Tom Waits type. Yet, Aussie lore got some frontier quality about it, might be the thing for inspiration
Spme chicken fryer dude at hardee its a hard its a Hardee's bob Charles taught me guitar grateful dead and layers Dylan. Found 2nd album
Freewheeling!!!!! Cheap tape at tru k stop 4 hrs from home
It was cheap! And best ever good lord now I learn Beatles loves it too . I like most of Dylan or ita mood or love i can sing 100% like him and my strum falls to Freewheeling still
I had bought Bob Dylan records, learned guitar and played woody Guthrie's songs as a young man. To this day I still am amazed by Dylans music. Thank the Lord for Mr Dylan he has changed our world for the best.
Raise the roof,get all together and just JAM 👆👌✌️🤌❤️🎶🎵🎼🎵🎶🎤👏💯🎯🎺🪕🪗🎹🛼🛼
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You can thank Satan.
@@lespetitszoiseaux3774a hack you are not Mr Zimmerman
"Giving the [Nobel Prize for Literature ]to Bob Dylan is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.”
- Leonard Cohen
Nice call , met Leonard wayyyyy back 73 UK gig what a humble guy he was.
@@hookywookywithmalarkyman704 i travelled over Europe by car, listening to Leonard Cohen, and still love them both. Xxxsusan
@@susancarolan153 Thanks, "Traveling lady " have you seen the documentary " leonard cohen picnick in the park" ??
Perfect descriptive quote about Dylan.
I don't understand this quote really -what does it mean??
Really great documentary. I went to a Dylan concert in 1966. He was into his Rock phase by then. I initially found his voice a little rough but, wow, what a word smith he was. I went out and bought most of his earlier albums and listened to them on my little inexpensive stereo at the time. I was amazed and forever transferred by BD. Thank guys for the doc.
My experience discovering Bob Dylan music very similar to this description, except in 1977 when I arrived at B.U.
I found Dylan at college & went to Newport in "64 where Joan introduced him to the world really ( outside NYC & the folks circuit). He played all acoustic...
Went back in '65 & Dylan came out acoustic ; then in second set surprised everyone & came out electric....the fans booed him like crazy 😮 if u can believe it. They settled down after a bit.😂😊 Long time ago/great memories!! He became our Pied Piper!
Never will forget the first time I heard Dylan..... So unlike anything my brother and I had heard before. I'm ironing, my brother sitting nearby, the radio on(always) and this guy starts singing. We stop and stare at each other, " do you like this?" one of us said, the other said, " yeah I think I do," we listened, electrified, and that was it! We joined the modern Era..... and never looked back.... We were gone.... he had that kind of effect!
Do you remember what song he was singing?
The more I learn about Dylan, the more in awe I am of this man.
I’m cool too! :)
Funny.....the more I learn about the bum, the more I find to detest the life and career of this man.
@@peterandreadakis3851 why?
@@peterandreadakis3851 100's of millions of people would disagree with you....He just got paid 300,000,000$ for his song book....what are you worth?
@@mysteryman9540 haters gotta hate
This is one of the best Dylan documentaries I've ever seen, and I'm only halfway through. All these educated people tell the story so well. People who were there. The beginning sets the stage so well. Everything is described perfectly. Thank you!
Something that gets overlooked most of the time with Dylan is his sense of humour. He’s very funny if you listen carefully.
And he hits all those notes
Yes !
What a time to be alive , i have been fascinated with early
Dylan for 45 years now . I guess i always will be
the sadness in "a hard rain gonna fall" immidiately drives tears in my eyes like nothin else, whenever i hear it even after all these years.
Tmi
One too many mornings does that to me
Me too. Forever Young chokes me up at times.Tangledup in Blue,. Shelter from the Storm,. Many touch my soul.
A life long fan of Dylan and this is the best biography I've seen. Nigel Williamson was great. Thanks to all.
Agreed, Tom!
You’re welcome. You owe me five bucks! Lol
Only the Biography Channel one is an attempt at Bob's whole life and when Harry Smith did the show between 2000 and 2002 right when the Biography channel began, now FYI. The Martin Scorsese one that ran on PBS was on the early years 1960-1966. Ended with the motorcycle accident. There is a different bio with a English narrator on the late 60s and 70s Dylan called After The Crash.
This is, hands down, the most incisive comprehensive presentation & critique of Dylan's early career & cultural significance I've ever seen. Just one example, the proper attention paid to his first album, often overlooked. How utterly distinct he was, the arresting quality of his performance, from the beginning. These commentators all totally get that, explain his impact expertly. Thank you.
His first album is my favorite. I've listened to other albums but the first one hits me hard.
What stands out on that record is his total comprehension and mastery of the vocal styles of that era .
Dylan changed the definition of a song. He changed the whole idea of what good singing was. He changed how you play the harmonica. He changed what the SUBJECTS of songs should be. He changed the definition of poetry. He made you laugh like Charlie Chaplin. He did all this with two albums. Then he changed what a an introspective song was, and what right and wrong was, and increased his poetic intensity into challenging the nature of perception in one album. Then he decided to take on rock and roll, and painted pages of lyrics into Chuck-Berry-style music that shot out images like a machine gun, so you didn't know if you were listening to a song or seeing a Prokofiev film or reading a Jack Kerouac novel. Then he decided to blur himself into the poetic equivalent of a Debussy piece, using old fashioned hymns and whisps of melody to create an emotional landscape that always seemed one step away from the real, yet was somehow was more intensely real than reality. Then he came out with a spare album of deeply reflective thought-poems of Biblical existentialism. Then he turned out a wonderful Country album of sad songs and happy melodies. Then he painted his self portrait by singing other people's songs! Then New Morning...a joyous romp of prayerful, exuberant, wry-humored songs, with a couple of mystical songs thrown in......all between 1962, and 1970...and we were all aghast...who is this scruffy kid? How can he be all these things at once? Is he in charge of reality? Is he real or a mirage...or both? He took a few years off....and got even better.....And no one has been able to duplicate it yet...except Bob himself.....
Wonderful writing.
@@uttiyadeb7583 ua-cam.com/video/TmCPKXDpS1E/v-deo.html check out this guy...he's a bit of a poet himself...and a comedian
Joe Marshall, hey, Joe 💛🕊️🥀🎶 Really nice comment. Bob Dylan Eternal
@@realskybluepink9124 Gratias, Amigo.
Like a rolling stone, the first recording I ever bought, changed and improved my life in some ways. Sold to me by a fellow high school classmate from the local record store, he was killed in Vietnam, as it goes.
At 50, I've been a lifelong fan of Dylan -when I first began hearing his music at age 17, hearing actual albums and not just the couple of staple Dylan songs you'd hear on radio like Lay Lady Lay I was completely and utterly enthralled - especially being a young musician myself, and since then, no one has taken his number one spot in my heart...this is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen on him and his music and his legacy (I've seen many) ... great work!
*You 'admire' Slim Whitman' too?*
( *'Rinse/Lather/Repeat' is Zimmerman's specialty...he hasn't had a 'Hit' in fifty-years since he ran out of source material he stole from Woody Guthrie* )
@@gerrynightingale9045 When was Arthur Rimbaud's last "hit"? Or even his first?
Anyway, Rinse/Lather/Discard would be more accurate.
@@hanscastorp7870 *Ta-Dah!* (*You improved on my jab!* *Good work* )
*Did I mention Bob stole every lick he heard from Dave van Ronk in the early days of 'hanging around' a recording studio in New York...that 'breathy open' sound followed by a plosive 'dragging blues' note?*
*Well...now I have!*
*ps...no wonder Lennon couldn't stand the 'fooker'*
( *as in..."I don't believe...in Zimmerman..."* )
@@gerrynightingale9045 Ridiculous. Of course he borrowed from all kinds of people, and all kinds of songs, but the finished product was completely unique, completely revolutionary, and completely unrivaled.
This, to me, is the finest commentary on Bob Dylan that I have ever listened to in the 60 years I have been a Dylan fan. Not only speaks of Dylan but expresses my feeling of the journey of my personal life through the sixties. In the horrible place our country is at this time, we should all realize we too have been “a pawn in their game.” I will never not stop listening to truths I came to realize when Master of War, A Pawn in Their game , and With God On Their Side blew open a door to my mind. Thanks Bob for the knowledge.✌️
I wonder what Dylan thinks of this pandemic business? and make no mistake the pandemic is a business and there is alot more going on with that business than the mere management of a virus with a 99.7% survival rate.....I wonder if Dylan wears a mask?
I think that "never not stop" is either a double or a triple negative. Either way - I know what you mean. He was truly a great writer.
Unfortunately America is in a darker place today...'Yonder stands your orphan with his gun'...a vision of Americas mass gun killings...trump as President, substance abuse, sexual abuse, the abuse of power, climate change, racial cop killings...the times have not changed.
Just think of the enormity of what Dylan has given to popular music. He transformed Folk into something greater than its parts, he virtually invented Folk Rock, he inspired every serious musician of his generation to a higher purpose (and still inspiring today's), he's written at least a hundred song standards that will be readily understandable to people riding in star ships going to other planets a millennium from now. His influence cannot be overstated.
Have a look into the meaning of the word enormity.
It does not mean large but actually evil.
Common humorous mistake.
Just YOU think about it. I already did.
So you made a conscious choice to use the incorrect word ?
Don't be the knee Jerk guy.
Just look up the meaning of the word enormity.
Funny huh?
@@allanhawes8121 Really Allan? You choose to argue about the meaning of "one" word in my comment? which has many meanings, not just your narrow interpretation. Are you that anal? Yes, quite funny. Get a life.
I have a lot of respect for Dylan, not only for his talent but because he did what he wanted to do. Bob Dylan, in my eyes, will always be the greatest.
That's exactly right, Dylan went with his instincts and interests and paid no attention to trends.
@David Wang He didn’t stick to folk music, he went electric and pissed a lot of people off. He could have taken advantage of all the young people who were looking up to him for answers but he was upfront and honest that he didn’t want to be that guy. He tried to stay out of the spotlight and just do his music however he wanted. He didn’t give into the media and he saw them for the lying manipulators we know them to be today.
Well said man
@David Wang anything he wanted to
@@SJ-ni6iy Anyone interested in how the media treated a musical trendsetter back in the 60's should check out Dylan's Press Conference in San Francisco - 1965. Dylan's responses are classic...
I believe it was Dylan's original melodies that carried him to the early heights that later defined his celebrity. His lyrics were funny, moving, hard-hitting, and persuasive, but they would never have sold as poems on their own. So many people believe Dylan's lyrics were responsible for his stardom, but, for me, his strong understanding of melody was far more significant. Songs like "A Hard Rain...", "Walkin' Down the Line", "Don't Think Twice", and "Blowin' in the Wind" (to name a few) have such captivating rhythmic atmospheres, that the lyrics could have really been anything and not diminished quality at all.
see my comment above
The melodies for the songs you mention are not Dylan's own but are standards that have been around forever.
I disagree about the lyrics. I think that they would stand on their own.
I think the trick with Bob is the way that he speaks these lyrics, almost hammering them home in some songs or spitting them at us on others. They way he articulates certain words such Identify on Hurricane is a skill all of his own.
The words do stand up. Hence the Nobel prize
YEs, and those who say 'Dylan can't sing' should try singing his songs.. as you say, the melodies are wonderful and combined with the phrasing, not 'easy' stuff.
This is the best Dylan doco since "No Direction Home". I remember hearing Dylan songs on AM radio being covered by other artists.
Bob Dylan is my favorite! Love his voice @ his great songs he wrote. I wasn't upset when he went electric! I was like sooo? Anyway thanks for this wonderful film! In 1961 I was 7 yrs old ! Been listening to his records a long time!
Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time. I’ve been listening to him since 1963. I will never get tired of his songs. The first album I bought was Freewheelin Bob Dylan. I was 9 years old. I did not know what lyrics were. I would ask my self, how does he come up with these words? Bob Dylan is an absolute Legend.
I think Paul Simon and Joni Mitchel are as good as Dylan
He was but then so was Joan Baiz she had a much better voice and her way of expressing and also quality of words and singing was and allways be brilliant She became soft but strong Bob became hard but effective they were and allways be regarded as brilliant musicians of their time 💟☮️☸️🕉️🌈🌈☔️☔️🍀🦋🌻🧡🌹🇦🇺🇮🇩🇺🇦🦋💙💙💙💙💙🙏🙏🍀😍
Yes and theres no denying the “the sound of silence “ and bridge over troubled waters Nd the boxer and mrs robinson and more by simon and garfunkle anyway there so many brilliant songs at that time and they were all incredibly meaningfull and as i got older mean more to me now then ever before like Janis Joplin singing that absolutely tear jerker “ the rose “ !!!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹☮️💟☸️🕉️♥️😇😍🌻🌈🌈☔️☔️🦋🍀🧡🙏🙏🇦🇺🇮🇩🇺🇦
Joni and Paul Simon are both great singer songwriters. But in my eyes Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time. Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon had great voices to go with their fantastic lyrics.
I was 13 years old and in HS and a writer of poetry when I 'discovered' Dylan. I loved his lyrics first and then loved the entire songs. I've loved Dylan ever since. I was always bothered by those who wouldn't bother to listen to his lyrics.
“You got a lotta nerve, to say you are my friend. You say to me ‘Good luck’ but you don’t mean it!”
@@rokyericksonroks what? Don't fit here!
Never knew that there was a connection of folk music and communism. First song I remember was ‘Good night Irene’ song by the Weavers back in 1948 when I was all of 6 years old. It was such a refreshing sound when Tin Pan Alley dominated the airwaves. Simple, centered on the sorrows of living and song with passion. There was nothing sentimental about it, just a kaleidoscope of images summing up life. Then along came the song writers and it was fair game to put your hand and guitar to make new sounds. What a time to live through. I’m almost 80 now and feel blessed to have lived when I did and played guitar on my dad’s Martin D-18 for most of those years. WHAT A TIME!!
PETE SEEGER enjoyed the riches of capitalism while croaking out songs of socialism and cranking out a steady stream of nonsense about life and justice. Long gone and happily forgotten.
@@peterandreadakis3851 Pete had family money, no doubt. But you have to give him credit for Where Have All the Flowers Gone? And he did one hell of a job on Dylan's Who Killed Davey Moore? Which Socialist songs did he sing?
"There are records of touring minstrel shows performing a song called “Irene, Goodnight” in the 1880s." The Weaver's version you heard in 1948 was probably the one called “Irene, Good Night”, written in 1886 by Gussie Lord Davis, one of Tin Pan Alley’s first black songwriters. Many of the "folk songs" you heard during the "folk revival" that began in the 1940''s and peaked in the mid-1960's had actually been recorded by blues and country music singers in the 1920's. and many of them were old popular or minstrel songs from the 1800's. I am now 82 and have been a big fan of recorded music of all genres all my life. I agree that the popular music of the 1940's was pretty insipid. the country music of the day was much better.
In the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home, Dylan says he was not into communism or left wing politics but admitted it was there. He just wanted to sing and perform.
I’ve listened to his songs thousands of times and they are still delivering the goods !
The times they are a changing where he says don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond you command...his early songs held powerful influence over all the young ears who were listening. Brilliant lyrics in every song. Dylan was and is a master song writer. Luv him.
The fact that Dylan embraced change in his music (several times) is what contributed to the length of his career. His poetry has always been way up there.
Where? I don’t see it! Point to it!
@@dionst.michael5818 maybe you should listen to all of Bob Dylan's albums before you comment
@@dionst.michael5818 you're offended that I pointed you in the right direction? I'll be your Princess
@@kretincooper I was under the mistaken impression you were being insulting. I took it the wrong way. Please, accept my humble apology friend. Some days I don’t take this social media bunk very seriously. Was just stirring the pot. I know of Dylan’s work. I’m sorry. Take care.
Icon of my generation. Overwhelming well-deserved.
Another underappreciated artist who hung out with Dylan in the NYC folk revival scene was David Blue. Maybe someone could do a documentary on him now. RIP David Blue.
Sara Dylan dated David Blue after her divorce from Bob
Also known as David Cohen. I believe Joni Mitchell named her beautiful album BLUE after him.
@@janeewalker Yes, a fellow member of the Tribe! And yes she did
Terrific! Great to see you talk to Peter Stampfel and Maria Muldaur. One of the best docs I've seen. Thank You.
I’ve followed Dylan most of his lifetime and he depict so much of what was happening back in the sixties definitely makes a statement on every turn and have seen him in concert too… no one like Dylan ❤️🎆
Great documentary. It deserves millions of views.
No it doesn't. "Bob Dylan" was a money-seeking little shit who robbed music from everyone, used everyone, lacked an iota of graciousness, and spent a life promoting his own fame and fortune. Everyone made lots of money hanging on to the weasel.
No, it doesn't. Why continue to propagate bullshit about a thieving narcissist.
Things don't "deserve." Dumb.
Tell me about it.
Thank you for this documentary! FINALLY somebody puts it altogether for us about just what DID happen to Mr. Dylan in his monumental transformation from skinny jeans-clad folky, to skinny, perm-frizzed-hair, black suit wearing "Mod" of the ever-growing Pop/Rock music scene. For years I couldn't find it, and Bob said nothing about this transformation in his autobiography...so thanks agin for spelling it all out for me at your doc's end--MUCH OF THE MYSTERY IS OVER FOR ME!
Really really well done! Got me to screw up my days schedule and sit here and watch it! A life long listener of Bobby D, it nonetheless gave me a new insight: Bob's electric change was the creation of his own garage band. Al Kooper was the secret sauce that made it grow...
I will always admire love and respect bob. vikki in makaha
Oh thank God I am not alone.
Thanks to Mike Bloomfield, who is on fire during this performance.
Seeing him when I had just turned 18 at the Cafe' Wha in Greenwich pronounced Grenich Village New York, I think Jimmy Hendrix and Janet Joplin all played that same night, no one heard of them, yet. We didn't realize the time, we left at sunup and didn't get home till 7 am, ooooeeee did I get in trouble that memorable morning!
Cool story.
Thnx for posting.
Dylan's first album came out in simulated stereo, one side vocal, and the other side guitar, discrete separation. Sounded odd but man it chilled me to the spine. Where I come from everyone and their dog played guitar so I tuned mine and hit the joints. I never made it big but the experience was priceless, I don't play anymore, no one to hear. Greenwich and old town Chicago died, the nails in the coffin were hammered in by bad record companies, MTV, karaoke, and Apple Music. There won't be any such good music anymore, not happinin, the culture was killed. Now this video has succeeded in helping to turn it into legend, and soon I'll be dead. Well, there is really good weed I guess, that's something…
Thanks for sharing.
As an NYC resident, I'd just say there's a ton of great music being played and performed here, but from a lot more styles than the old days. And the folkies could never afford GV these days, they'd all be in Brooklyn, which is and has been for a little while the capitol of roots/alternative music in America.
And yes, the weed is better than ever.
None of these people are Brooklyners, but an old folky guitarist should be able to enjoy it, just to show some good music is still being made. There is only one Dylan, of course, though. Don't look through that lens:
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@@shardanette1He is good
as long as i have fingers i'll play guitar, how could you stop? Im compelled to play altho few hear me, I dont care, I dont even like to play in front of an audience anymore. Im back into distorted electric again after yrs of acoustic. In fact, I kind of hate acoustic guitar all the sudden and remember electric is what made me want to learn to play. Im a badass too, Idve been the hero of my town if Id been this good in high school.
When you say Apple Music, I trust you mean the Steve Jobs cancer that is in violation of its trademark dispute with Apple Records, back when it was only a computer company, and the agreement said they could use Apple as long as they stayed out of music which was the product realm of Apple Records.
Serve those bas--ds right if Apple Records released a tablet computer just to eff with the S. Jobs memorial company.
ua-cam.com/video/TmCPKXDpS1E/v-deo.html here's a guy still out there doin' it.....
Was fortunate to see Bob play live with The Dead. On the further festival tour back in the late 90s. He was such a great entertainer. Stage presence was phenomenal.
That guitar sound in Maggie’s Farm in the first song of the Newport show couldn’t be any better….amazing bite that cuts through everything!
Mike Bloomfield on guitar was the best choice he ever made.
Amazing that Dylan' s voice sounds good in the video.
People in the audience like Pete Seeger later on said that it sounded distorted.
@@lesterpaul9657 from the direct recording it sounds good, but the speakers at that festival were set up for acoustic music so there was a lot of peaking unfortunately. as for pete, for some reason this idea that he was genuinely angry about the music on some ideological level formed and became a popular narrative. pete himself on the other hand, explained repeatedly until he died that his father was in the front row right in front of the speakers and his hearing aids were giving crazy feedback that was hurting him as a result of the volume.
In Britain Dylan was really popular. Out of his first 11 albums 6 reached #1 in the album charts. In 1965 his debut album which did not chart in the USA got to #13. Blowin in the Wind became a song that all the folk groups had in their repertoire.
What are you talking about?
His debut album was released in 1962.
Blowing in the wind is on The freewheelin' Bob Dylan from 63.
1965 was the year he recorded two albums with an electric band.
Bring it all back home and Highway 61 revisited.
@@lesterpaul9657 his debut album although released in 62 did not chart until 65 in the UK.
He was inspired by a lot of English folk songs!
This is really great, thanks for posting. Massive Dylan fan here from Scotland! C
Hello from Florida, USA 🤚
@@robertcronin6603 Hi from Adelaide, Australia :-)
I was in a band and I could sing the most like Dylan so I did some of his songs, always got good response but I didnt enjoy the songs and never sensed any greatness in them, what am I missing?
hello from Minnesota. This is pretty legt.
i live 2 miles away from the studio that Blood On The Tracks was recorded at.
I was born in the 40's so I enjoyed all the memories this production brought. Thanks.
I love Bob Dylen he opened my eyes when I was young. I'm 71 now.
I used to love Dylan too, but have matured in my tastes, and realize now he wasn't really that good, he was "puffed" into a "rock god" by the media. I didn't learn anything from Dylan, even though I liked some of his songs they don't compare to the great works of John Prine, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, many others.
Being an amateur musician and from a musical family I named my little girl after Dylan. Dylan Rose. She's learning to play uke and guitar. Loves to sing. I hope she sticks with it. Nothing would make me prouder.
Me too,Dylan.
& a Joshua.
Two amazimg sons
Bob Dylan another one off,a real legend.
The mutual influence of Dylan and the Beatles is fascinating. THey gave him permission to reach back to his own roots; he further stimulated their song-writing, esp Lennon's. "The Beatles opened up the aesthetic" of many folkies. "House of the Rising Sun" by Animals is possibly the first "folk-rock" song.
The Animals are criminally under rated however some of their songs are brilliant and Eric Burdon is one of the true greats out of England in the 60s but his later albums from around 2010 are brilliant, very mature and his voice is as good as ever.
The hardest part is playing and remembering all them lyrics.
Totally agree. That is a skill in itself.... remembering all the lyrics. 👍
That is the hardest thing for me.
Not When your'e young. I still know many of them. And slowly lost every lyric I sang when I got older.
The story of Dylan's journey from obscurity to super-stardom has always fascinated me since I read one of his biographies when I was in Jr. Highschool, 1968...
It's funny that everyone is saying his early work is the pinnacle of his career, then he comes out with a definitive album like the one he made LAST YEAR at the age of 79. Probably the best thing he has ever done, lyrically, musically, vocally, and in every way. He gives us hope in a time of despair. Now and forever.
@@ferociousgumby what is the title?
@@clydekimsey7503 Rough and Rowdy Ways. Available free on UA-cam on the Bob Dylan channel. No more Elston Gunn!
As a singer he was pretty good, but what made Bob Dylan was that he was a brilliant and gifted poet...
Good is a word i wouldn't when describing his voice. The way he uses it Its much better then that.
@@Bob-fz7pd I think so too. But in this period his voice was often mediocre and annoying as it hadn't developed the rich roundness that it would in the 70s. For example, that live Blowin' in the Wind we were subjected to.
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I was at a live concert in Sweden for many years ago.
His voice was really hypnotic.
It captured your soul.
"'Bob Dylan" was and remains total bullshit.
@@peterandreadakis3851 im guessing by your use of parentheses your referring to his use of a stage name and by total you must have a list. Care to share it?
He writes Hard Rain and When the Ship Comes In in his twenties, and pushing 80 he writes Murder Most Foul. I continue to be dumbfounded by that enduring creative fire; by the sheer length of time he has kept it burning.
Don't you love that line at 34:07: "when his voice really began to give out" (likely he meant in the '80s or '90s!) As usual, so many "experts" don't have ears to hear.
@@ferociousgumby Dylan's voice gave out from the start. He was a creative genius, but a singer? Nope.
Mike Clark, the Byrds' original drummer, was my friend. After our summer spent in North Beach coffee houses, we were both back at university in southern California when Mike & I drove from the beach to Gene Clark's mom's house where the Byrd's were rehearsing Mr. Tamborine Man, for the first time... in the basement. That moment, standing on a cold cement floor, it was as if folk song became Rock Opera... Joey Tranchina. Sète France
What a cherished memory THAT must be!
Really enjoyed the variety of commentary. They all had really valid stuff to say about our hero. I remembered going out years ago and buying 4 of Dylan’s first 5 albums all at one time.
Whenever I get out my harp holder a do some Bob it goes over really well. I'm a bag of bones like Dylan and I do a good imitation of his voice (of younger years like Rolling stone) his fans get a huge kick out of it and tip well. Other young people seem to be a bit confused but the college crowds know Bob. Even the Beatles were inspired by Bob. Long live Dyan!
And Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin, and, like almost every singer songwriter since Greenwich Village days, except a few that don't matter, or who haven't heard his material, YET.
Subterranean Homesick Blues got me interested & more!
Then the documentary on Dylan's life, career & work with the Band @ Big Pink...he was lambasted for bringing rocknroll to Folk music but I loved it.
He is a poet that was gifted to make his lines sing, a very simple loving human !!!
Those that say Dylan can't sing have never heard his lyrics. After all, he's a poet that clearly didn't blow it. In that way, I consider Dylan a grandfather of punk, he's always done his own thing regardless of critique. His legacy proves the value in that. There's a documentary of the first electric performance that saw him booed off stage where an attendee says, "he's not the same as he was"... I beg to differ, he's always been exactly as he is. It's just that noone really knows him... And he's free to change; that's called progression.
Dylan's music may be sold in boxes that will never fit him.
I agree with the guy who says that Mr Tambourine Man was/is the greatest Dylan song. It takes your breath away. And the melody is just lovely. Each verse is astounding, but each verse tops the one before it....that's the amazing part. I was seven when my older brother, who was 21, brought Freewheelin" to our Brooklyn home. One by one, each of my three older brothers were captivated, and I heard these songs in the background of my consciousness growing up. When I was in High School, becoming a musician, and guys started raving about Neil Young, I was listening and thinking, "there's nothing here". They had never really heard Dylan. They were musicians. They didn't understand. My friends who wanted to be writers understood. So Tambourine Man was the greatest song ever....but then there were Subterranean Homesick blues, Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Highway 61, Visions of Johanna, Forever Young, Sign on the Window, and Lilly, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts and Blind Willie McTell......each of which was the best song ever......
and Like A Rolling Stone, of course.
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@@maijaliepa119 nothing else like it......except maybe Joey Dugan's The King Has No Clothes
Excellent overview... helped me rediscover Bob Dylan, the greatest singer song writer of our time...
Started with highway 69 in 6th grade my young friends told me that nobody understand dylans lyrics- i was hooked in Enjoying and try to get a grip of it until i understand it was poetry i am very grateful for that🤩
great artists create their own market.
A giant in artistry, genius and one of a kind in the world of culture and multitude of talents ❤
Loved this, thank you for posting. That's the fabulous Maria Muldaur (hits: Midnight At the Oasis, Don't Ya Feel My Leg) being interviewed. I did not see her identified like the others.
Wonderful doco
People who don’t like Dylan’s singing are NOT understanding his AMAZING phrasing
Wonderful documentary... I had no idea he was so young at the time. I was also unaware that there was so much controversy over his playing the "electric" guitar.
Wonderful what an absolutely eye opening Anthology of the folk genre and a sixties legend of the music a real eye opener to me. Thank you
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One of the best, if not the best documentaries of the subject.
So happy yo have found this Doc...truly great a tribute to the greatest.
Bob Dylan, 24 of may he'll be 80 years but forever young..
Right on August!!!☮️☮️☮️🌈🌈🌈🌈💕cool times!!!!!!!
Brilliant documentary. Thanks!
This documentary captures the spirit of the scene. Eric Anderson put it plainly, "The Good guys lost" and the 'Dominion' of capitalism now communism (lets call it fascism) won the time. However, I'm still writing folk songs and singing them when I can. Thank you Bob!
Fascism lives a vibrant existence....ON THE LEFT!
@@lamper2 Don't kid yourselves...it's quite bright on the right side too. Divide & Conquer funded by George Soros and his CCP/UK cabal. 'The answer is blowing in the wind'...as a VIRUS!
@@hollylynnoverin6126 I choose Conservativism, Capitalism and free markets, we need to follow the Constitution.
@@lamper2 Yes, very good but money has a dark side and paid off capitalists are as bad as these paid off communists. We've got a global enemy we need to watch out for.
@@lamper2 He does so through a focus on the Royal African Company, and a detailed examination of the long-running debates over monopoly versus free trade, debates that flared up frequently from the late seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Colonies enacted harsher slave codes lessening Whites’ fears, colonial courts upheld the chattel principle, and the supply of white indentured servants shrank which combined to raise demand for enslaved laborers. Colonists joined the call for free trade in opposition to the Company creating a broad Atlantic coalition. As a result, in 1698 Parliament opened the African trade to all comers who would pay a 10 percent duty (the “ten percent men”) Pettigrew interprets these battles as a clash of ideologies. The pro-Company party saw a monopoly as a companion to the state, and the best way to defend the national interests in Africa and against rival states, while its opponents celebrated free trade and the idea that economic growth was best achieved by entrepreneurial merchants. Everyone agreed, however, that the slave trade was “legitimate, moral, and of national strategic importance” (p. 179).
well done.... one thing not mentioned in dylans early period, wh/ ties to guthrie is who dylan chose to meet when he first moved to nyc... it wasnt a singer, it was the rail riding, tough as nails hero to guys like guthrie when he was a kid: the legend boxer, jack dempsey. who himself crawled out of the West, on his own since age16, riding the rails & fighting in colorado saloons & mining camps of the 1910's. kid blackie, is what he was called then. half cherokee & morman. raised dirt poor in southern colorado, manassas.... a lot of people dont know, but dylan is a huge boxing fan. I found it fascinating & fitting, he was driven to meet dempsey when he came into the city. dempsey thought he was a young boxer & gave him advice accordingly. I dont think dylan ever forgot that. dylan was always wiry tough career wise.
Play my music of today because of what you did. Thank you much Bob
So many great songs ! Some feel blessed to write a couple of slam dunks ! Dylan turned them out by the dozens.
Thank you for uploading this magnificent video! 💖💖👍👍
This is an amazing channel and all I have watched each one gets better than the last.
Please do one on Zappa.
Like others here, I discovered both of Dylan’s mid sixties electric LPs and listened hard.
You can’t be a word person without having both those LPs blow your mind with what’s possible.
You make a good point.
Thnx for posting.
Dylan has been so good for so long ,this made me dig out his records again it reminded me just how brilliant he is , a master wordsmith .
Danke for the upload/ great channel and I subed. Music unites more then anything.
At Monterey....gone electric......hey, Bob that act alone actually makes me LOVE you.
One of the best clips on UA-cam is when Dylan, Harrison, Young and Clapton do My Back Pages, fantastic!
I used to think dylan was a terrible guitar player, as some of his songs were the first (easy) songs I learned... how wrong I was, just goes to show, GREAT songs can be simple songs, as simple as G C D.... then when I heard don't think twice, I was blown away by his guitar playing... since picking up a guitar I have idolised Dylan
Nothing new here but it's still good to reminisce. Took me back some decades and it fills me w/joy to see he's still at it just like always he's largely doing it for himself. Keep it up my dear friend.
Superb, simply the best! Steve Mooney
Thanks a great documentary.
That is mostly definitely a matter of opinion!
Flamin' excellent!
Thank you Mazzy and Happy New Year 2023!
From the videos I have watched over the last year or so, I do gather that we're probably on opposite sides of the political fence. But I don't let things like that bother me and I enjoy your content and learning from your channel as well. Not everybody has to think the same way to get along and I wish the rest of the world would remember that. At least in the USA anyhow :-)
You have opened me up to some music I've never heard before and likely wouldn't have heard. So thank you for that also.
I just wanted to say thanks for putting out the videos and I look forward to seeing what you have in store in 2023!
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
When Bob came out with his first release of "Just Like a Person" you could tell he was going to be a global superstar.
Wonderful. Thank you!
Scorsese's 'No Direction Home' implies much the same, but still I'm glad to hear Nigel Williamson offer a more direct assessment here on BD's safety concerns after the end of '63. I'm sure Bob didn't want to go the same way as Jack Kennedy and he had plenty of reasons for taking seriously the idea that he might. Here though, the film's narrator says that Bob shifted his focus "from political to aesthetic concepts and ideas" during '64, which is just little simplistic I would say. Anyone who's really listening to the 3 albums that followed 'The Times they are a 'changin'' can still hear evidence of his social conscience cleverly sewn in between all that poetic expression. I don't doubt that he was also getting sick of being expected to play a role on behalf of a 'movement' instead of being true to himself also. I've often wondered though whether these intelligent and self-protective moves of '63/'64 also resulted in some criticisms from one or two of his Greenwich Village contemporaries that may have rankled, especially after Mark Lane's 'Rush to Judgement' was released in '66 (the same year as his motorcycle accident) . Is this perhaps why we are seeing, as he now approaches the end of his life, that he still felt the need, after all these decades, to make sure to 'set the record straight' by releasing 'Murder Most Foul' in 2020(?)
Great doc! Very illuminating interviews
glad you found your way. he’s the master.❤
What a great doc. Looking forward to revisit Dylan from this era. Again.
And nice to see a mention of Richard Farina. He is way too forgotten. Don't know why.
His music with wife Mimi Baez should be a lot better known.
She was married to Richard when he died coming back from a party celebrating the paperback publication of his classic novel
"Been down so long it looks like up to me". He died on his motorcycle.
Yes Mimi was no longer Joan's younger sister,but Farina's wife.
Let's settle this once and for all: Bob Dylan CAN SING! He just doesn't have a conventional vocal quality, he has a nasal tone and delivers the melody in a rollicking, rap like style BUT he can sing! Trust me, if you wanna hear people who truly can't sing, UA-cam is full of them. Theres alot of character in Dylans voice. He sings just fine 🙂
And more important he makes you believe the words he is singing.
No, he really can’t.
I agree w JWalsh below, but would add his vocalization was fantastic but overlooked by many due to his voice. His covers of Moonshiner and Man of Constant Sorrow show his mastery of singing emotively, and those songs show songwriting equal to his own.
I think Lay Lady Lay, was his first big one that he performed, is when I took note of Dillon. Didn't realize he'd been around for years already. Must get stoned and a couple others were there right after. I was a teenager in the 70s. Joan Biaze the parking lot song, I think was when I first took note of her, and she was actually before Bob. I'm 65 years old now and, still just learning about some of the artists with these Biographies about people from when I was a kid! It's really quite interesting, informative and, entertaining! 🙂
Dylan made it look easy! His music encouraged me to learn guitar and write songs. Never came close! Lol 😝
You forgot to steal other musicians' music, like your hero "Dylan," maybe that's why your hero made it look easy. Jezz, don't you people research the false icons in your lives that you throw your money at and enrich beyond belief. "Dylan" was a narcisstic thief and all-around skunk from day one. Much disliked except by a clueless fandom and parasites living off his income.
@@peterandreadakis3851 if you hate him then why are you watching this video
Surviving the period between Dylans first "hyped" concert on Sept. 29, 1961, and the release of Freewheelin' on May 27, 1963, may be the artist's greatest personal accomplishment of all.
For me he is a true American icon like Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix or Howling Wolf or Prince. All total geniuses.
Its good that they mentioned that Bobs first album was mostly proper covers, but his second album, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, was an album of covers with new lyrics (a practice he continued to a lesser extant with each album, finding his own variations that were more original). They're almost all older folk melodies that those familiar with folk music history recognize. It was a shrewd move to take all those public domain songs and gain ownership with great, more relevant words.
Wonderful.