The studio version of this song is quite possibly my all-time favorite Bob Dylan song. Purely perfect poetry with a peerless production. I also love that Dylan does his songs differently each time he plays. Never stale. Never will there be another songwriter like Dylan. Today's main musicians are like children to this master.
The makeup was his interpretation of those ancient street/fair performers. A gypsy violin sets the mood .☯️✌ it just came to my mind "the jugglers and the clowns playing tricks for you " from "like a rolling stone "
The makeup was something he picked up from Mick Ronson when he joined the tour after being ruthlessly discarded by David Bowie; Bowie by then had grown tired of the Ziggy Stardust persona and he wanted to move on quickly to other musical directions before he became typecast in that type of role. Ronson himself had been sceptical about the makeup when Bowie first floated it to Ronson and the other ‘Spiders’ but he quickly grew used to it and continued wearing it when he joined up with Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Review Tour. It’s been said that Dylan himself chose to wear the makeup because it masked the pain inside from his crumbling marriage. That being said however, he certainly didn’t help his own cause by going on cocaine and booze filled binges, in between shagging anything female that moved and was willing. And as has been said here, the makeup also fitted in with the image of the clowns, vaudeville and a circus troupe etc.
Thanks Hari, yes this was one of Dylan most ethnically based tunes. The melody was based on Eastern European Yiddish and creolized Roma rhythm and tone. The haunting melody was both dark and weirdly illuminating.
The song is on Dylan’s 17th album (!), Desire, 1976. It has Isis, in my top ten of all of Dylan’s songs; and Hurricane, one of his most important. Listen to the live version of Isis, from this same concert. Hurricane was written in support of champion boxer Ruben “Hurricane” Carter, who was convicted for a triple murder in 1966. He did get a second trial in 1976, but was convicted again. He was eventually released in 1985. Carter sent Dylan his autobiography as he knew of Dylan’s involvement in civil rights struggles. And indeed, Dylan wrote this magnificent song! And my third Dylan request is Tangled Up in Blue, one of his most popular songs and in my top ten. Dylan is known for writing alternative words, lines and even stanzas for many songs. Tangled Up in Blue has several versions, from different periods in his life; I love them all. That’s Scarlett Rivera on violin. She has put out much music since this song, and she is still collaborating and performing presently.
I've had the extreme HONOR and pleasure to have seen the Master Song Writer Bob Dylan Live 3 times. Always an experience like none other.... "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" will blow you mind.
Desire is an astounding album, my second favourite after Bringing It All Back Home. Hard to believe they were recorded eleven years apart and that by 1980 he had already released TWENTY albums!!! Emmylou Harris sings harmony vocals on the studio version of this song. What an incredible and prolific artist Dylan was!! And as far as I'm concerned he was a much better singer than he's been given credit for.
@@captaincrooch3821 Yes, he's alive ... but what difference does it make? I put him in the past tense because his best years are far behind him. I saw him perform live about 15 years ago and he could barely stand or speak. He was once a genius, but that ended more than 40 years ago.
No it didn't, he's been making 5* albums in the last few decades and his old voice can be extremely impactful and moving, if rough. Still an incredible vocalist.
This song takes me on a trip to a Western movie.Sun,dust,small border town and that girl daughter of an outlaw,who can throw the blade,see the future and so.Great one!
Dylan is my idol, I wasn't fussed on a lot of the Netflix documentary but all the music is fantastic. That's David Bowie's main man Mick Ronson playing the guitar.
I loved his performances on the 'Mockumentary' tho. The people weren't the characters they portrayed, they acted. That's why it's called a Bob Dylan 'story' lol ☺️
From his masterpiece album, Desire. Highly recommend you check out "Hurricane," "Isis," and "Mozambique." Thanks for your many great reaction vids Harri :-)
Marie! This is such a great song from my favorite Dylan album! I wore out my vinyl copy of “Desire” and later wore out the CD! I believe Emmylou Harris did backup vocals on the album. Just amazing! Great choice! Thanks Harri. 🌺✌️
Every Dylan album is genius is some way or another. 11 years old when I heard Dylan for the first time "I Shall Be Released" I was mesmerized. Still listning more than ever I'm 55 now!
He did, along with a lot of stars a cross Canada tour called the Rolling Thunder Tour. They all often wore make up and strange clothes. Joan Baez, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Leonard Coen, Roger Gwen, Joni Mitchell and more 57 dates
They played in New England before they got up to Canada, and I saw them in Augusta, Maine. I was 15 it was one of my first concerts, and it was the best.
I interpret the lines "you've never learned to read or right, there's no books upon your shelf and "your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark" as contrasting (presumably his ex-wife Sara) as remarkably shallow, yet profoundly deep at the same time. As a 25 year old Dylan Fan, these videos are great. Appreciation of Dylan is few and far between amongst my peers, though of no fault of their own seeing his Fame "peak" was a good 30 years before their existence.
You can have the gift and do nothing or little with it. I would say Bob worked extremely hard . To me the presence they all portrayed on this tour and like most of his was extremely theatrical and is like a painting with sound coming to life . Animated would be an understatement. His vocals in this especially the first few lines and the way it just bleeds into the arrangement and he delivers it is very reminiscent of an Orthodox cantor rabbi singing in his synagogue in prayer .
He said this song came to him in a dream after spending time in France during the High Holiday listening to a fantastic guitarist all night around a campfire. Can't recall the guitarist that influenced it but I'll find it. 🌺 When asked where his talent came from he said "From the wellspring of creativity I guess". He was in a car & saw Scarlett Rivera walking with violin case, he stopped & asked if she played. That's how she became a member of his band.
It goes way back to the Minstrel shows in the nineteenth century, itinerant shows around USA. People one the stage used to paint their faces black. Dylan's face is painted white but I guess the idea comes from there.
If you watch the film, Rolling Thunder Review, she explains how Dylan saw her walking with violin case and asked if she could play. He took her to a blues club and invited her to join his tour. Her violin made a big contribution to the tour and the Desire album... couldn't imagine "Hurricane" without that violin filling in the spaces between the vocals.
Scarlet the violinst is an interesting story. Bob was riding by a street and saw this incredibly gypsylike violinist performing on the street. He picked her up and the rest is history...
Thank you for a great review...I would suggest you listen to all of this album Desire written while heartbroken about his divorce from his first wife Sara...One of his most enjoyable albums...Just a great easy listen ..
Bob is like a preacher. His expressiveness. The make up is due to the film "Renaldo and Clara" modeled after french style. The french would wear fhe makeup. Bob, in typical Bobness, rejected this deep explaination and says "I wanted the people in the upperdeck to see my face.
He said he wore the pancake make up etc so people especially in the back rows would be able to see his face… but I recall him giving other reasons for wearing it as well .
I believe an inspiration for this song is the opera Carmen - about a beautiful gypsy fortune teller who drove the military officer, who loved her, to his death
I've always loved this. Had every tape of Dylan at one time. Thank you for sharing Dylan. Some think he can't sing. He has a style all his own and wrote most all his songs. He was a poet so was Lenorad Cohen. Could you play Avalanche by Cohen? It's one of the best poetic songs Cohen wrote. But that's only my opinion. I love seeing your reactions brother. Music is a gift from God. I love everything from Dylan, Cohen, Hank Williams Sr, and Queen. Even Ernest Tubb. Music lifts a sad heart, a worried mind and tames the savage beast. God bless you for sharing a great variety of sounds including Pasty Cline. God bless you for just being you. ❤
I dare anyone to sing: "...and how to thrrowaaah the blade" as thrillingly as Bob does here. It's one of my favourite live performances of any song - ever. 'Romance in Durango' from the Rolling Thunder Revue is also very good...
An interesting film, not all of it is “documented,” some of it is a crafted story. This concert with The Band was the first time I saw Dylan, at Madison Square Garden, NYC. I fell in love with The Band, as a group and the individual musicians, and never fell out of love. They went to a house known as Big Pink, right outside of Woodstock, and wrote The Basement Tapes. Awesome! Am I recalling correctly that you listened to Rhiannon Giddens from a multi-artist collaboration at that house, using lyrics by Dylan that has been “found” and they wrote music during a two-week stay. Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes. Elvis Costello and Marcus Mumford are 2 more of the 5 musicians. I love Rhiannon Giddens. I had never seen her in her Carolina Chocolate Drops band, but after seeing the documentary of the just mentioned collaboration, I saw she was performing (NYC) and I grabbed a ticket. It was her first solo performance I believe. Since then she has done so much: her voice, banjo skills, and entire body of work is astonishing.
Don't know why, but Bobby wore clown makeup for the entire length of the Rolling Thunder Review. "Your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark," like the sound of this song. I love it.
Harri, way back in the beginning when Joan Baez wanted Bob Dylan to be the titular head of the anti-war movement he repeatedly said I only want to be a Minstrel musician and apparently the makeup is like a carnival sideshow. Oh and Harri, his live at Budokan, Japan album is the absolute best of this period.
In the movie "Pat Garret & Billy the Kid" in which he performed the sound track and played a small part, he was asked his name by Billy and he replied, Alias. Hence, ever since he swapped his birth name to Bob Dylan he can play out many personas in word, voice and deed. The makeup emphasis's the mystery of the many masks, of Alias.
“Desire” is my favourite Dylan album of all time. I’m not sure if you’ve reacted to the song Isis from the same album. I strongly suggest you do so if you haven’t.
I read that while he was in Northern Italy he went to a play and all the actors wore this face paint. The actors knew the plot of the play but there was limited written dialogue and the actors adlibed as they went along but trying to stay within the structure of the play.
Much prefer the studio cut from the album Desire ('76), which also had some great songs, like - BLACK DIAMOND BAY, ISIS, MOZAMBIQUE, HURRICANE, ROMANCE IN DURANGO, etc.
Dylan sang about a lot of historical events, this i think is about the mexical revolution against the spanish when they posesed mexico, the fighters were uneducated, so no books, had seen their families murderd so their hearts were like the sea, misterious and deap, history tels us you cant keep people down only so long, every nation under a forced ocupation will eventualy rise up, the world is wondering when America will do it :)
I think the line one more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee before i go, to the valley below, was they hid in the mountains, and then attacked the spanish in the valleys, geurilla warfare.
Fun fact: The sticker on Rivera’s violin is the skeleton violinist from the cover of The Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah album. This tour was legendary and anyone lucky enough to catch it should be very happy.
This is cool. But the studio version with Emmylou Harris harmonizing is something you need to hear. Dylan's vocal in the studio version is one his best.
One More Cup of Coffee is a tremendous song. This version is very good but the album version has a more intimate gravity. There are many angles to the artist and the mask he's wearing here (white face paint) is essential to his evening's performance character.
He met her in a saloon at the edge of the desert. Throughout the night, she wrapped him in her spell, and, in the morning, told him of her sister, held captive by her cruel father. She and her sister foresaw that a stranger would be enticed to ride to their aid. He said they would ride out to the ranch and free her sister and kill the man holding her. At the edge of the plateau he prepared himself for what would happen after he rode into the valley. He never suspected the depths to which true evil could descend.
Who is Bob Deelan? Of course he's not talking about the books, but is in fact talking about a woman and the breakdown of his relationship. And yes, you're right about that line, but it's taken out of context just mentioning that bit of the line. The entire line is 'Your pleasure knows no limits, your voice is like a meadow lark but your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark'. He's basically saying that on the surface she is sweet, but go deeper and she is anything but.
Hi Harri....if you want something new that will really make you think? Your subscribers will really React to these songs from the great Bob Dylan….. “Who Killed Davey Moore”…. “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”…. “Ballad Of A Thin Man”…. “Desolation Row”
Album version better as harmonies are beautiful (Emmylou Harris). Desire is a masterpiece. Check out ' Oh Sister' from same album. Also features Emmylou Harris. Beautiful
she is the daughter of a small mob boss it seems & she is bereft of ... something and the Dylam chsracter sounds like he is going off to do something illegal. the Sex doesn't quite cleanse or enliven him as we might hope. she's there for that but not for him. and the coffee braces him -- he needs it he's going to the valley below
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The studio version of this song is quite possibly my all-time favorite Bob Dylan song.
Purely perfect poetry with a peerless production.
I also love that Dylan does his songs differently each time he plays. Never stale. Never will there be another songwriter like Dylan. Today's main musicians are like children to this master.
Bob Dylan is the best ever. Research and find art work welded gate art...on and on. Most genius person on earth.
The makeup was his interpretation of those ancient street/fair performers. A gypsy violin sets the mood .☯️✌ it just came to my mind "the jugglers and the clowns playing tricks for you " from "like a rolling stone "
Masked and anonymous
The makeup was something he picked up from Mick Ronson when he joined the tour after being ruthlessly discarded by David Bowie; Bowie by then had grown tired of the Ziggy Stardust persona and he wanted to move on quickly to other musical directions before he became typecast in that type of role.
Ronson himself had been sceptical about the makeup when Bowie first floated it to Ronson and the other ‘Spiders’ but he quickly grew used to it and continued wearing it when he joined up with Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Review Tour.
It’s been said that Dylan himself chose to wear the makeup because it masked the pain inside from his crumbling marriage. That being said however, he certainly didn’t help his own cause by going on cocaine and booze filled binges, in between shagging anything female that moved and was willing. And as has been said here, the makeup also fitted in with the image of the clowns, vaudeville and a circus troupe etc.
Nice one
Love Dylan forever. Thank you 😊
Proof if proof was needed that Dylan is a genius. Just love this record.
Thanks Hari, yes this was one of Dylan most ethnically based tunes. The melody was based on Eastern European Yiddish and creolized Roma rhythm and tone. The haunting melody was both dark and weirdly illuminating.
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Song by Bob Dylan you will loved
The song is on Dylan’s 17th album (!), Desire, 1976. It has Isis, in my top ten of all of Dylan’s songs; and Hurricane, one of his most important. Listen to the live version of Isis, from this same concert.
Hurricane was written in support of champion boxer Ruben “Hurricane” Carter, who was convicted for a triple murder in 1966. He did get a second trial in 1976, but was convicted again. He was eventually released in 1985.
Carter sent Dylan his autobiography as he knew of Dylan’s involvement in civil rights struggles. And indeed, Dylan wrote this magnificent song!
And my third Dylan request is Tangled Up in Blue, one of his most popular songs and in my top ten. Dylan is known for writing alternative words, lines and even stanzas for many songs. Tangled Up in Blue has several versions, from different periods in his life; I love them all. That’s Scarlett Rivera on violin. She has put out much music since this song, and she is still collaborating and performing presently.
Th entire 'Desire' album is pure GOLD.
I've had the extreme HONOR and pleasure to have seen the Master Song Writer Bob Dylan Live 3 times. Always an experience like none other.... "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" will blow you mind.
Desire is an astounding album, my second favourite after Bringing It All Back Home. Hard to believe they were recorded eleven years apart and that by 1980 he had already released TWENTY albums!!! Emmylou Harris sings harmony vocals on the studio version of this song. What an incredible and prolific artist Dylan was!! And as far as I'm concerned he was a much better singer than he's been given credit for.
@@captaincrooch3821 Yes, he's alive ... but what difference does it make? I put him in the past tense because his best years are far behind him. I saw him perform live about 15 years ago and he could barely stand or speak. He was once a genius, but that ended more than 40 years ago.
No it didn't, he's been making 5* albums in the last few decades and his old voice can be extremely impactful and moving, if rough. Still an incredible vocalist.
This song takes me on a trip to a Western movie.Sun,dust,small border town and that girl daughter of an outlaw,who can throw the blade,see the future and so.Great one!
every video of this channel is a piece of gold, if Harry doesn´t give me a new perspective about the song, he show me a new beautiful one, tanks
Dylan is my idol, I wasn't fussed on a lot of the Netflix documentary but all the music is fantastic. That's David Bowie's main man Mick Ronson playing the guitar.
I loved his performances on the 'Mockumentary' tho. The people weren't the characters they portrayed, they acted.
That's why it's called a Bob Dylan 'story' lol ☺️
From his masterpiece album, Desire. Highly recommend you check out "Hurricane," "Isis," and "Mozambique." Thanks for your many great reaction vids Harri :-)
Sarah ❤
I like to spend some time in Mozambique
The sunny sky is aqua blue
Thanks to Marie for passing this one along, bravo! Brilliant Uncle Bobby.....
I agree, he has a gift
Scarlet was a street musician playing the violin that Bob Dylan heard busking and Bob loved her violin playing,
The violin stole that performance, a feat in itself.
Marie! This is such a great song from my favorite Dylan album! I wore out my vinyl copy of “Desire” and later wore out the CD! I believe Emmylou Harris did backup vocals on the album. Just amazing! Great choice! Thanks Harri. 🌺✌️
Every Dylan album is genius is some way or another. 11 years old when I heard Dylan for the first time "I Shall Be Released" I was mesmerized. Still listning more than ever I'm 55 now!
He did, along with a lot of stars a cross Canada tour called the Rolling Thunder Tour. They all often wore make up and strange clothes. Joan Baez, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Leonard Coen, Roger Gwen, Joni Mitchell and more 57 dates
They played in New England before they got up to Canada, and I saw them in Augusta, Maine. I was 15 it was one of my first concerts, and it was the best.
@@lizmil I bet it was. I envy you.
@@lizmil Yes, the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour. I (and 12 or so of my closest friends) saw them in Springfield Mass or maybe Providence RI...Great show!
I interpret the lines "you've never learned to read or right, there's no books upon your shelf and "your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark" as contrasting (presumably his ex-wife Sara) as remarkably shallow, yet profoundly deep at the same time.
As a 25 year old Dylan Fan, these videos are great. Appreciation of Dylan is few and far between amongst my peers, though of no fault of their own seeing his Fame "peak" was a good 30 years before their existence.
You can have the gift and do nothing or little with it. I would say Bob worked extremely hard . To me the presence they all portrayed on this tour and like most of his was extremely theatrical and is like a painting with sound coming to life . Animated would be an understatement. His vocals in this especially the first few lines and the way it just bleeds into the arrangement and he delivers it is very reminiscent of an Orthodox cantor rabbi singing in his synagogue in prayer .
Give it up to the Violinist. She was sublime 👏
I remember reading that Mr. Dylan was concerned about the audience seeing his face, particularly his eyes and that's the reason for the makeup.
He said this song came to him in a dream after spending time in France during the High Holiday listening to a fantastic guitarist all night around a campfire.
Can't recall the guitarist that influenced it but I'll find it. 🌺
When asked where his talent came from he said "From the wellspring of creativity I guess".
He was in a car & saw Scarlett Rivera walking with violin case, he stopped & asked if she played.
That's how she became a member of his band.
Would love to see you react to "Slow Train" by Bob Dylan.
It goes way back to the Minstrel shows in the nineteenth century, itinerant shows around USA. People one the stage used to paint their faces black. Dylan's face is painted white but I guess the idea comes from there.
I remember reading that the violin player was someone he heard playing on the street
He invited her to play and then kept her on the tour
That's what I heard, too.
If you watch the film, Rolling Thunder Review, she explains how Dylan saw her walking with violin case and asked if she could play. He took her to a blues club and invited her to join his tour.
Her violin made a big contribution to the tour and the Desire album... couldn't imagine "Hurricane" without that violin filling in the spaces between the vocals.
Scarlet Rivera was the violinist. Jim
My favorite Dylan song along with New Pony!
This guy's the best!
Scarlet the violinst is an interesting story. Bob was riding by a street and saw this incredibly gypsylike violinist performing on the street. He picked her up and the rest is history...
Love your reaction man
Thank you for a great review...I would suggest you listen to all of this album Desire written while heartbroken about his divorce from his first wife Sara...One of his most enjoyable albums...Just a great easy listen ..
Bob is like a preacher. His expressiveness. The make up is due to the film "Renaldo and Clara" modeled after french style. The french would wear fhe makeup. Bob, in typical Bobness, rejected this deep explaination and says "I wanted the people in the upperdeck to see my face.
He was probably so high 😂😆 Dylan!!!
He said he wore the pancake make up etc so people especially in the back rows would be able to see his face… but I recall him giving other reasons for wearing it as well .
I believe an inspiration for this song is the opera Carmen - about a beautiful gypsy fortune teller who drove the military officer, who loved her, to his death
Your commentary is always great Harri
Love this performance!
Desire was a masterpiece of an album. Jim
Great reaction. Love this song! Bob Dylands make-up was inspired by the French 1945-flim "children of paradise."
Bob invented the goth look. When asked about the make-up Bob said, 'It's so people will hear the music better'.
Check out “ Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” by Dylan, it’s got a great story and that classic Dylan style.
Yes, love that track - and there's so much humour in it too.
I like his song Hurricane, it makes good use of the violin also, and it tells the story of Ruben Carter
dylan is the heavyweight champ of lyrics. no one is even close
I've always loved this. Had every tape of Dylan at one time. Thank you for sharing Dylan. Some think he can't sing. He has a style all his own and wrote most all his songs. He was a poet so was Lenorad Cohen. Could you play Avalanche by Cohen? It's one of the best poetic songs Cohen wrote. But that's only my opinion. I love seeing your reactions brother. Music is a gift from God. I love everything from Dylan, Cohen, Hank Williams Sr, and Queen. Even Ernest Tubb. Music lifts a sad heart, a worried mind and tames the savage beast. God bless you for sharing a great variety of sounds including Pasty Cline. God bless you for just being you. ❤
Those who think he can't sing haven't a clue.
I dare anyone to sing: "...and how to thrrowaaah the blade" as thrillingly as Bob does here. It's one of my favourite live performances of any song - ever. 'Romance in Durango' from the Rolling Thunder Revue is also very good...
And 'Senor' from Street Legal has a similar vibe - love that one too.
This is real poetry. Really creates imagery.
This is from the Rolling Thunder Review which was released last year, a document of the 1975 tour.
This movie/documentary is well worth viewing.
An interesting film, not all of it is “documented,” some of it is a crafted story. This concert with The Band was the first time I saw Dylan, at Madison Square Garden, NYC. I fell in love with The Band, as a group and the individual musicians, and never fell out of love. They went to a house known as Big Pink, right outside of Woodstock, and wrote The Basement Tapes. Awesome!
Am I recalling correctly that you listened to Rhiannon Giddens from a multi-artist collaboration at that house, using lyrics by Dylan that has been “found” and they wrote music during a two-week stay. Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes. Elvis Costello and Marcus Mumford are 2 more of the 5 musicians. I love Rhiannon Giddens. I had never seen her in her Carolina Chocolate Drops band, but after seeing the documentary of the just mentioned collaboration, I saw she was performing (NYC) and I grabbed a ticket. It was her first solo performance I believe. Since then she has done so much: her voice, banjo skills, and entire body of work is astonishing.
The first Dylan song I ever fell in love with as a kid ❤️
Great song. I love to play this one on piano.
Why the make-up ? Who knows. He also made everyone wear a funny hat on this tour too. Great reaction. Thanks
The violinist is an unknown woman he saw carrying a violin on the street in the West Village NYC and asked her to play on his new album...
I told you that you can never figure him out!!! He's always changing his music as I have heard him in concert and didn't recognize his popular songs!
Very good interpretation of the lyrics, excellent reaction!
he was filming "Renaldo and Clara" at the time. It's a bit long but interesting. His white face makeup is a part of that ( Dylan plays Renaldo).
the vocal on the studio version is the one to listen to .Its one of his best performances.cheers
I also read that the white face and dark liner made his eyes visible to the audience further back.
Don't know why, but Bobby wore clown makeup for the entire length of the Rolling Thunder Review. "Your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark," like the sound of this song. I love it.
White face. Was a twist on blackface.
I think he claimed it was so people in the back could see him better….
Bingo!! You tapped into one of Dylan's best albums. All winners on his 'Desire' album. Check it out.
How he know they had a sister like me I only have a brother and I have books All over my house 😁😂
Harri, way back in the beginning when Joan Baez wanted Bob Dylan to be the titular head of the anti-war movement he repeatedly said I only want to be a Minstrel musician and apparently the makeup is like a carnival sideshow. Oh and Harri, his live at Budokan, Japan album is the absolute best of this period.
Desire brilliant album.
In the movie "Pat Garret & Billy the Kid" in which he performed the sound track and played a small part, he was asked his name by Billy and he replied, Alias. Hence, ever since he swapped his birth name to Bob Dylan he can play out many personas in word, voice and deed. The makeup emphasis's the mystery of the many masks, of Alias.
“Desire” is my favourite Dylan album of all time. I’m not sure if you’ve reacted to the song Isis from the same album. I strongly suggest you do so if you haven’t.
Wearing "white face" was a commentary by Dylan on the old Minstrel shows which featured white people wearing "black face".
Man when you get into BOB DYLAN'S lyrics you end up going deep, it grips you
I read that while he was in Northern Italy he went to a play and all the actors wore this face paint. The actors knew the plot of the play but there was limited written dialogue and the actors adlibed as they went along but trying to stay within the structure of the play.
Much prefer the studio cut from the album Desire ('76), which also had some great songs, like - BLACK DIAMOND BAY, ISIS, MOZAMBIQUE, HURRICANE, ROMANCE IN DURANGO, etc.
Don't forget Sara. That is an epic love song.
Dylan sang about a lot of historical events, this i think is about the mexical revolution against the spanish when they posesed mexico, the fighters were uneducated, so no books, had seen their families murderd so their hearts were like the sea, misterious and deap, history tels us you cant keep people down only so long, every nation under a forced ocupation will eventualy rise up, the world is wondering when America will do it :)
I think the line one more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee before i go, to the valley below, was they hid in the mountains, and then attacked the spanish in the valleys, geurilla warfare.
DYLAN said this song came to him in a dream after being up all night at a Gypsy wedding in Europe
Fun fact: The sticker on Rivera’s violin is the skeleton violinist from the cover of The Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah album.
This tour was legendary and anyone lucky enough to catch it should be very happy.
This video is from the Rolling Thunder documentary. It's great. Watch it and all your questions will be answered, and you will be hugely entertained
This is cool. But the studio version with Emmylou Harris harmonizing is something you need to hear. Dylan's vocal in the studio version is one his best.
I'm pretty sure that Dylan explained that he wore makeup because he was inspired by the band Kiss.
Whaaaaat!!!??? 😂
I’m pretty sure Dylan was playing when he said that. White face was a twist on black face. He was inspired by old minstrel shows.
That's true too. You can see Dylan explain it in the Rolling Thunder Review documentary.
One More Cup of Coffee is a tremendous song. This version is very good but the album version has a more intimate gravity. There are many angles to the artist and the mask he's wearing here (white face paint) is essential to his evening's performance character.
YOU GOTTA DO JOKERMAN!!!!!!!
You like the violin you should listen to hurricane from the same album .
If you love Dylans lyrics listen to his masterpiece Masters of War! It's not dated. It could be played 20 yrs from now
He met her in a saloon at the edge of the desert. Throughout the night, she wrapped him in her spell, and, in the morning, told him of her sister, held captive by her cruel father. She and her sister foresaw that a stranger would be enticed to ride to their aid. He said they would ride out to the ranch and free her sister and kill the man holding her. At the edge of the plateau he prepared himself for what would happen after he rode into the valley. He never suspected the depths to which true evil could descend.
Hey Harri, you have another Good Friend here in Up-State N.Y. If you were my neighbor I'd hang out with you daily, I'm buying.
Who is Bob Deelan? Of course he's not talking about the books, but is in fact talking about a woman and the breakdown of his relationship. And yes, you're right about that line, but it's taken out of context just mentioning that bit of the line. The entire line is 'Your pleasure knows no limits, your voice is like a meadow lark but your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark'. He's basically saying that on the surface she is sweet, but go deeper and she is anything but.
Hi Harri....if you want something new that will really make you think?
Your subscribers will really React to these songs from the great Bob Dylan….. “Who Killed Davey Moore”…. “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”…. “Ballad Of A Thin Man”…. “Desolation Row”
The violinist was Scarlett Rivera
hi harri could you please play murder most foul. it is a dylan classic.
I hear Scarlet in my sleep
Listen to a cover version of “One More Cup Of Coffee” by Sertab. Your ears will thank you.
The problem with Desire is the plodding Joey. The rest of the record is very good
Album version better as harmonies are beautiful (Emmylou Harris). Desire is a masterpiece. Check out ' Oh Sister' from same album. Also features Emmylou Harris. Beautiful
Could it be king david writing a psalm to bathsheba?
To me it sounds like he is singing of a Romany family and in a sort of Romany style.
The make up was used to mask the coke he had up his nose
Bob's gypsy song
I was told it about King David from the Bible.. your Daddy rules his kingdom......
yo re-make up: he said he wanted people to hear the songs, not see the famous person 'bob dylan'
she is the daughter of a small mob boss it seems & she is bereft of ... something
and the Dylam chsracter sounds like he is going off to do something illegal.
the Sex doesn't quite cleanse or enliven him as we might hope. she's there for that but not for him.
and the coffee braces him -- he needs it
he's going to the valley below
Eric burdons cover of this song sounded better