Most epic performance of this song ever. One of the most epic performances of Dylan's career, actually. Absolutely FIERCE. Thanks for posting this! It's not about the lyrics, and yes, he can sing. It's about his performance.
@@codydavidyates72 Steve Douglas's reeds (no, not the sax-playing single Dad that Fred MacMurray played on the tv series of my yoot, My Three Sons, that character may have been MacMurray's deep knowledge of session jazz players and Steve Douglas woulda been a cool name to lift for his otherwise very button-down character of the responsible and quiet single dad whose musical embers burned bright) added so much to this Rob Stoner-led band of Dylan's Street Legal Pacific NW tours up through Budokan and the Japanese weeklong string of outdoor gigs released as a double disc recording, which did not include Changing of the Guard. Despite these hot players, Dylan's peak performances thanks to 2 fine rehearsal captains in Steve Douglas and Rob Stoner with the presence of jazz piano\keyboard virtuoso Alan Pasqua and the remarkable women's chorus from Dylan's Valley church congregation where he was taking bible classes and marrying one other member who interchanged with one of these women chorus singers on the tours. Especially perverse is how the performance I caught down at the Universal Amphitheater when I was living in L.A. getting ready to move up to begin studies at U.C. Berkeley and the version at Universal Amphitheater of Changing of the Guard is on par with this Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte bootleg and it created an ecstatic moment in that outdoor L.A. amphitheater that even Dylan seemed to be swept up in for the rest of the performance. I still mine that evening for the latent high it gives me decades later. Not from any drugs or even grass I used back then, just the juice of inspiration and passion in Dylan when I'd been told he wasn't like that in performance. Also terrific friends capable of also receiving a very different Dylan onstage from their previous experiences where he'd often been perversely off-putting, like he was trying to out-distance Miles Davis by turning his back on his audiences. Coupla three years later I was among those who didn't walk out of his Warfield Theater SAVED Gospel band week of shows in San Francisco when promoter Bill Graham had to offer refunds to folks who didn't realize they were coming to Dylan's tent revival Christian preaching shows. Steve Douglas and a much better drummer than the one who kinda marred Dylan's otherwise ecstatic Street Legal sessions at Rundown Studios in Santa Monica after his Rolling Thunder wiz on drums (and N'Awlins piano) Howie Wyeth OD'd before Rob Stoner his NYC rhythm section partner wasn't able to intervene with others to save Wyeth from his dangerous addiction or flirtation with injection drugs that 86'd the dynamic and musically ranging Wyeth before the Street Legal sessions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street-Legal_(album) A very divorce and custody battle distracted Dylan and Rob Stoner, his hired band director for the studio sessions and later the tours, invited a real dead log from the UK to hold down drums. Well, he kept a beat and left it to the others in this grooving band to chase down the visionary and inspired strands from pieces like Changing of The Guard (where Douglas's reedy ecstasies get a pre-Calexico kind of trumpet trance from Steve Madaio that complements Dylan's reedy vocals so well). Also on the other long and serious or playfully philosophical numbers on that album like No Time to Think, True Love Tends to Forget, Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) that the Jerry Garcia Band and the Grateful Dead used to take out for their own visionary band jams and the very overlooked and rarely done at gigs even with a killer shuffle beat that session drummer and Budokan jobber the former King Crimson lead-sticked Ian Wallace couldn't damage or remove the charm from, We Better Talk This Over... Truly legendary session percussionista Bobbye Hall (of Bill Withers tremendous live recordings and sessions) brought the Street Legal and Budokan Pacific NW tour charms that matched Dylan's best material. Oddly Street Legal had a couple of tracks that are among his worst published, recorded and performed songs! Thanks to whoever posted this and was the session from Charlotte NC on the east coast? Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
@@unhans Thank you for kind feedback, Torgeir. You could have said "Get a life" and been correct! Even to myself I cannot explain or justify why I've spent so much of my life chasing songs, if not always the merely mortal singers and songmakers. Keep on listening and writing! Health and balance Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
The way he sings, "where she was born on midsummer's eve, NEAR THE TOWER!!!" is so, so spooky. The lyrics in this epic are among Bob's best. Extraordinary, luscious, sun and moonshine-soaked images pile up into a magical mountain of Music!!!
I just went to the record shop cause it was raining waiting for my brother, was about to closed so the nice gentleman told me, if you don't buy anything in 5 minutes ill close down, and i said give me something for a 5 pound, and it gave me this interesting album of Dylan which i never heard any of the songs in the album, so i went home and put the first track '' changing guards "when the needle dropped down on the record i started to fall in love 😍 thanks dylan and to the gentleman in the record shop 😉
Best song ever by Bob Dylan, followed by Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again... (just my personal opinion, out of over 7 billion other people, who's opinions are just as valid. Just LOVE THE SONG!!!
Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again is indeed a masterpiece. The way it is written, the way he sings it, everything is absolutely perfect. It's like traveling back in time, to a different place every time I listen to it !
THE ROLLING THUNDER REVIEW WAS HIS BEST TOUR, & '78 WAS HIS LAST GREAT TOUR & THIS SONG (AS AN ENCORE) WAS THE BEST SONG I'VE EVER SEEN OR HEARD MR. D PERFORM !! I DON'T BLAME YOU FOR BEING JEALOUS -- I'M JEALOUS & I WAS THERE !! @@iainfleming2853
@@ritchiecross8972 for 16 years (I first knew about Dylan's mid 70's work in 2004. Also, well, that's the opening line to the song LOL) I've been thinking I was the only person in the world to love the Rolling Thunder Revue (the 1978 could be considered its continuation IMHO) over his 1965-66 tours. I also firmly believe Blood On the Tracks - Desire - Street Legal is Dylan's best trilogy rather than Bringing It All Back Home - Highway 61 Revisited - Blonde On Blonde. Dylan never performed with as much energy as he did between 1975 through 1978 ever again. The 2000-2002 period was pretty close, though.
I was born a few years after this and discovered Bob Dylan as a teenager, but didn’t come across Street Legal until 2009 (through the magic of YT recommendations). It immediately became my favourite Dylan album. I love this song so much ❤️
The saxophone MAKES this version... It just goes MENTAL and off on it's own beam rather than sticking to the original melody from the "Street Legal" version.. I think it's unbelievable, played with such feeling.. The whole band is on fire.. But that SAX!! 10/10.. Love this tour, my favourite era of live Bob :) Davey
+David Hughes That's the magnificently talented Steve Douglas on sax. Dylan would introduce him & say,"He played on all of Phil Spector's best records !"
keepingitrandom Thanks for that my friend.. Always wondered what the man's name was! :) I just love the way he let rip during live performances of "Changing of the Guards".. You know the parts I'm on about, where he deviates from the rigid melody (which is played the same way after every verse on the studio version.) It gives the song a huge lift when he improvises the saxophone melody in my opinion. Interesting that he played on Phil Spector's stuff. To be fair, it has to be said that Spector knew a great musician when he heard one.. Thanks again. All the very best from Davey in Ireland. :)
Besides the Sax, here and there you can hear, very buried in the mix, a flute. If you do, you'll notice it's going so fast it seems to he outrunning Bob's own pace, adding to the energy of the performance. Whiever played that flute did a marvelous job. Overall, the band was on fire eveytime they played this song. I still hope that Bob Will ever revisit Street Legal on his tours.
Charlotte 1978 is probably one of the best concerts from US Tour '78 , at least for me . Sadly UA-cam erased the channel where it was posted this fantastic show .
I rate songs based on the holy trinity of Power, Grace, and Mystery, and this version scores a top grade on all three counts. Wish I'd seen it live, but I'm grateful to have it preserved. Well done, Bob & co.
I saw him once in teh mid 80s at Red Rocks with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers as the opening act and back up band the man not only writes great music he is a epic performer
This concert seems to have been pretty special. Dylan tells weird stories, and comes out with the most extreme vocal performance I have ever heard - but he is still in control of it!! Then this encore keeps on accelerating, the musicians keep up but the backing singers can't.
Oh shit! If only there were better qualities of this song, live that is... Thanks for the upload. Never heard this one before, better than the album version i.m.o.
Bobster looks like a lion if he's onstage doing a Butoh Theater version of George Bernard Shaw's Androcles & the Lion, where the talking lion is pained by thorn stuck in a foot of his....Thanks Rev. Pam for playing that role when you were in Grad School. The costume was to mewl then growl over... Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
there was a version of this in LA that was even more fierce. thats how i remember it at least. i think it was at the la forum. last concert of the tour?
I recall it being fiercer as the opener of one of his week of shows outdoors at the Universal Amphitheater. The womens chorus and Steve Douglas's horn along with Alan Pasqua's keyboards more than made up for a lame traps drummer, kept spinning while morphing and aloft with legendary hand percussionista Bobbye Hall. Dylan has played with some special bands (like The Band) and put together some magical combos to flesh out his mytho-poetic songs. None blendt the timber of reeds like the studio sessions and few road tours that then heart-ailing former Phil Spector Wall-of-Sound sax man Steve Douglas played on and meshed so magically with Dylan's own vocal timbre of the late 70's ragged rock and then early 80's Black Gospel R&B\Soul sound of players pulled from the Bible classes he was at as his divorce from clearly his leading human muse (Sara) and family nesting partner ground him down, from reports of some of those who were along onstage and in his Rundown Studios with him playing their souls out.... Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
I love how the backing singers can't keep up with Bob! He just flies through the song, unlike the studio recording, which is a bit prosaic in delivery, I guess to annunciate the words and get the message across, not that the message is easy to understand! Bob found the Cosmic Messager, Mithra/Christ!
"I couldn't help but FAGHLOWGH..." The earliest instance of Dylan's voice having degraded into a base growl? It's amazing how much that line sounds like every performance circa 2010-12.
The Gaslight Anthem’s version is definitely the best, and Patty Smith’s is a close second. This is an amazing song - one of Dylan’s best - and I would be fascinated to hear him talk about what it means.
He was quoted saying he had no idea where it came from. He seemed to be channeling stuff in that period, as he often did. He NEVER answered the question of what does a song mean.
Bod Dyland the greatest rocking poet of all time, ever better them my distant cousin froim way back in time William Shakespeare, I ask the question, is Bob the 13th disciple of Jesus Christ.
Man if I found that box I'd have copied the entire thing and tracked you down, keeping that is too cruel! I'm happy slowly adding to my collection when I can afford to, but it seems a lot of the great live recordings, especially 75-78, are very difficult to buy commercially. Any tips?
gerald97011 Well, at least the '75-76 tours got an official release through Hard Rain and Bootles Series 5. But I agree, we need an official release of '78. Bob's best years.
Most epic performance of this song ever. One of the most epic performances of Dylan's career, actually. Absolutely FIERCE. Thanks for posting this! It's not about the lyrics, and yes, he can sing. It's about his performance.
got to give it to the band too
Mind = Blown
@@codydavidyates72 Steve Douglas's reeds (no, not the sax-playing single Dad that Fred MacMurray played on the tv series of my yoot, My Three Sons, that character may have been MacMurray's deep knowledge of session jazz players and Steve Douglas woulda been a cool name to lift for his otherwise very button-down character of the responsible and quiet single dad whose musical embers burned bright) added so much to this Rob Stoner-led band of Dylan's Street Legal Pacific NW tours up through Budokan and the Japanese weeklong string of outdoor gigs released as a double disc recording, which did not include Changing of the Guard.
Despite these hot players, Dylan's peak performances thanks to 2 fine rehearsal captains in Steve Douglas and Rob Stoner with the presence of jazz piano\keyboard virtuoso Alan Pasqua and the remarkable women's chorus from Dylan's Valley church congregation where he was taking bible classes and marrying one other member who interchanged with one of these women chorus singers on the tours. Especially perverse is how the performance I caught down at the Universal Amphitheater when I was living in L.A. getting ready to move up to begin studies at U.C. Berkeley and the version at Universal Amphitheater of Changing of the Guard is on par with this Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte bootleg and it created an ecstatic moment in that outdoor L.A. amphitheater that even Dylan seemed to be swept up in for the rest of the performance.
I still mine that evening for the latent high it gives me decades later. Not from any drugs or even grass I used back then, just the juice of inspiration and passion in Dylan when I'd been told he wasn't like that in performance. Also terrific friends capable of also receiving a very different Dylan onstage from their previous experiences where he'd often been perversely off-putting, like he was trying to out-distance Miles Davis by turning his back on his audiences.
Coupla three years later I was among those who didn't walk out of his Warfield Theater SAVED Gospel band week of shows in San Francisco when promoter Bill Graham had to offer refunds to folks who didn't realize they were coming to Dylan's tent revival Christian preaching shows. Steve Douglas and a much better drummer than the one who kinda marred Dylan's otherwise ecstatic Street Legal sessions at Rundown Studios in Santa Monica after his Rolling Thunder wiz on drums (and N'Awlins piano) Howie Wyeth OD'd before Rob Stoner his NYC rhythm section partner wasn't able to intervene with others to save Wyeth from his dangerous addiction or flirtation with injection drugs that 86'd the dynamic and musically ranging Wyeth before the Street Legal sessions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street-Legal_(album)
A very divorce and custody battle distracted Dylan and Rob Stoner, his hired band director for the studio sessions and later the tours, invited a real dead log from the UK to hold down drums. Well, he kept a beat and left it to the others in this grooving band to chase down the visionary and inspired strands from pieces like Changing of The Guard (where Douglas's reedy ecstasies get a pre-Calexico kind of trumpet trance from Steve Madaio that complements Dylan's reedy vocals so well). Also on the other long and serious or playfully philosophical numbers on that album like No Time to Think, True Love Tends to Forget, Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) that the Jerry Garcia Band and the Grateful Dead used to take out for their own visionary band jams and the very overlooked and rarely done at gigs even with a killer shuffle beat that session drummer and Budokan jobber the former King Crimson lead-sticked Ian Wallace couldn't damage or remove the charm from, We Better Talk This Over... Truly legendary session percussionista Bobbye Hall (of Bill Withers tremendous live recordings and sessions) brought the Street Legal and Budokan Pacific NW tour charms that matched Dylan's best material. Oddly Street Legal had a couple of tracks that are among his worst published, recorded and performed songs!
Thanks to whoever posted this and was the session from Charlotte NC on the east coast?
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@@ulpana Good lord what a treasure trove of information!
@@unhans Thank you for kind feedback, Torgeir. You could have said "Get a life" and been correct! Even to myself I cannot explain or justify why I've spent so much of my life chasing songs, if not always the merely mortal singers and songmakers.
Keep on listening and writing!
Health and balance
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This is the greatest song of all time, been obsessed with it for two years now!
It's hard to argue with that!
Street Legal, the most magical album ever recorded.
Street Legal through Infidels, my favorite period.
I saw the 78 show in Toledo Ohio.
The way he sings, "where she was born on midsummer's eve, NEAR THE TOWER!!!" is so, so spooky. The lyrics in this epic are among Bob's best. Extraordinary, luscious, sun and moonshine-soaked images pile up into a magical mountain of Music!!!
I just went to the record shop cause it was raining waiting for my brother, was about to closed so the nice gentleman told me, if you don't buy anything in 5 minutes ill close down, and i said give me something for a 5 pound, and it gave me this interesting album of Dylan which i never heard any of the songs in the album, so i went home and put the first track '' changing guards "when the needle dropped down on the record i started to fall in love 😍 thanks dylan and to the gentleman in the record shop 😉
I've taken many a punt on random albums/artists in record shops (when they existed). So glad I did. Algorithms are destroying music.
Just the weekly listen, don’t mind me
Next upgrade is weekly to daily!
Best song ever by Bob Dylan, followed by Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again... (just my personal opinion, out of over 7 billion other people, who's opinions are just as valid. Just LOVE THE SONG!!!
It is my favorite one too. :)
Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again is indeed a masterpiece. The way it is written, the way he sings it, everything is absolutely perfect. It's like traveling back in time, to a different place every time I listen to it !
Cool
That line "Eden is burning" always sends a chill right up through my brain.
Who’s got the nerve to start a fire in heaven
@@hillelknobel8241 if you're asking something like that, you probably know already
"The Burning Of The Bridge"
Is a song too
@@hillelknobel8241 "I want to be with you in Paradise, and it seems so unfair. I can't go to Paradise no more, I killed a man back there"
The sound quality doesn't have to be perfect to get the amazing power of this performance.
Been coming back to listen to this version for like a decade
Same
I would pay so much to go back in time and experience this
+Fysh i was there in 1978 at Madison Square Garden as the encore. It was THE song everyone had come to hear. Utterly FABULOUS !!
@@ritchiecross8972 WOW!! that's absolutely amazing, so jealous😩 hahaha
THE ROLLING THUNDER REVIEW WAS HIS BEST TOUR, & '78 WAS HIS LAST GREAT TOUR & THIS SONG (AS AN ENCORE) WAS THE BEST SONG I'VE EVER SEEN OR HEARD MR. D PERFORM !! I DON'T BLAME YOU FOR BEING JEALOUS -- I'M JEALOUS & I WAS THERE !! @@iainfleming2853
@@ritchiecross8972 for 16 years (I first knew about Dylan's mid 70's work in 2004. Also, well, that's the opening line to the song LOL) I've been thinking I was the only person in the world to love the Rolling Thunder Revue (the 1978 could be considered its continuation IMHO) over his 1965-66 tours.
I also firmly believe Blood On the Tracks - Desire - Street Legal is Dylan's best trilogy rather than Bringing It All Back Home - Highway 61 Revisited - Blonde On Blonde.
Dylan never performed with as much energy as he did between 1975 through 1978 ever again. The 2000-2002 period was pretty close, though.
Nothing like this. A poet spelling the letters behind músic. Changing of the guards and the times, they are a changing. Forever Young for us.
Peace will come
With tranquility and splendour!
ON THE WHEELS OF FIRE !!
I was born a few years after this and discovered Bob Dylan as a teenager, but didn’t come across Street Legal until 2009 (through the magic of YT recommendations). It immediately became my favourite Dylan album. I love this song so much ❤️
This version the best recording of off best hand claps on UA-cam
The saxophone MAKES this version... It just goes MENTAL and off on it's own beam rather than sticking to the original melody from the "Street Legal" version.. I think it's unbelievable, played with such feeling.. The whole band is on fire.. But that SAX!! 10/10.. Love this tour, my favourite era of live Bob :) Davey
+David Hughes That's the magnificently talented Steve Douglas on sax. Dylan would introduce him & say,"He played on all of Phil Spector's best records !"
keepingitrandom
Thanks for that my friend.. Always wondered what the man's name was! :) I just love the way he let rip during live performances of "Changing of the Guards".. You know the parts I'm on about, where he deviates from the rigid melody (which is played the same way after every verse on the studio version.) It gives the song a huge lift when he improvises the saxophone melody in my opinion. Interesting that he played on Phil Spector's stuff. To be fair, it has to be said that Spector knew a great musician when he heard one.. Thanks again. All the very best from Davey in Ireland. :)
Besides the Sax, here and there you can hear, very buried in the mix, a flute. If you do, you'll notice it's going so fast it seems to he outrunning Bob's own pace, adding to the energy of the performance. Whiever played that flute did a marvelous job.
Overall, the band was on fire eveytime they played this song. I still hope that Bob Will ever revisit Street Legal on his tours.
Crazy! The original sounds so slow after listening to this. Love it.
It's on speed😉👌⚡ and sounds awesome,
´till today i have collected ca. 5000 dylan songs,This one is new for me.
Thank you so much
Saw him in concert only a few days before this recording in Memphis. Wow. Very powerful song and performance.
I was lucky enough to see Bob's tour when he preformed this live. Would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to hear this one added back into the repertoire.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN !!
a bit late, but maybe you mean this one? ua-cam.com/video/5WysTswyjcI/v-deo.html
Me too . At Blackbushe , 1976. Brilliant!
This, my friends, is called "epicness".
This song takes me to a time where I wasn't even alive. Like a magical medieval place. Just brilliant.
You were torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A love song that is also a history of humanity.
underbart, fantastiskt, finner inga ord egentligen.....älskar hans röst
Charlotte 1978 is probably one of the best concerts from US Tour '78 , at least for me . Sadly UA-cam erased the channel where it was posted this fantastic show .
One of my favourites. Lyrically magnificent.
I rate songs based on the holy trinity of Power, Grace, and Mystery, and this version scores a top grade
on all three counts. Wish I'd seen it live, but I'm grateful to have it preserved. Well done, Bob & co.
So well put!
@@robinhaar7738 Thank you for your kind words.
Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous TIIIIIIIIIIIMES!
This band was so tight! He sounds great here. High in the running for favorite song.
the Dark Souls of Bob Dylan songs
Bod Dyland the greatest rocking poet of all time, ever better them my distant cousin of way back in time William Shakespeare
I saw him once in teh mid 80s at Red Rocks with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers as the opening act and back up band the man not only writes great music he is a epic performer
This version is amazing.
YEAH DAD THIS SONG I FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU WHEN I WAS 13 teenager school girl the most beautifuul child in hometown
Saw him in Lakeland, Florida on this tour in '78. Thanks for sharing this, great memories.
bob dylan chante magnifiquement il nous amene a reflechir la vie est bele j aimes son physique si poetique en fait toute sa musique et ses mots merci
I appreciate you keeping this up. Makes it easy for me to share with folks.
It'll stay up forever if it's up to me.
Amen to that!
c magnifique merci incroyable
Never thought I'd hear this again.. Another one I had on bootleg which is now sadly lost..
Best I've heard of this awesome, multi-faceted song!
My first of many Dylan concerts was in 78 way to young to appreciate behind stage.Next one 88 front row center.What a fucking awsum show.
This stage was a different person a drastic change from 76 and he never is the same from year to year love him at all his stages
This is a top 5 Dylan song.
I do believe, this is the best version!!! G.reatttttttttttttt!!!!!!!! Thanks!
This concert seems to have been pretty special. Dylan tells weird stories, and comes out with the most extreme vocal performance I have ever heard - but he is still in control of it!! Then this encore keeps on accelerating, the musicians keep up but the backing singers can't.
THE SONG OF TAROT.....UNIQUE ¡¡¡¡
Bob's got the spirit in him on this tour! Why do I think he listened to Clarence Clemons tenor sound for this arrangement?
Thank you unhans for this version. This is my favorite song of Dylan of all time!!!! Fantastic lyrics!!
Man, this so truly awesome ..REALLy rock' n 'out!! I love the fast beat.
IT REALLY IS THE BEST VERSION !!
electric ! - love the original, but also love the pace and urgency in this version
God bless you for posting !!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this one, big time.
great version thanks a lot!!!
His greatest song. Strange he never does it in concert, as it is a fan favorite. Could it have anything to do with "Christian Companion?"
acousticvillage, this was recorded on December 10th 1978 in Charlotte N. Carolina and is available on a bootleg called Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
never heard this live before, thanks!!! something old still sounds new
Fortune CAAAAAAALLS
Oh shit! If only there were better qualities of this song, live that is... Thanks for the upload. Never heard this one before, better than the album version i.m.o.
unique, so absolutely unique
Bob and the black nightingales-
a slice of heaven.
Single favorite Dylan vocal ever.
I love this song.
Bob looks like a lion in that picture XD
Bobster looks like a lion if he's onstage doing a Butoh Theater version of George Bernard Shaw's Androcles & the Lion, where the talking lion is pained by thorn stuck in a foot of his....Thanks Rev. Pam for playing that role when you were in Grad School. The costume was to mewl then growl over...
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u r talkin' 'bout the coolest man in the world....
Looooove this. What an awesome performance!
Wish they brought realise some of these officially,just to get the best sound
incredible treasure!
how FETZIG (German for: ROCKS!)
Thanks and Love
C.
Mountain laurel and rolling rocks.....
there was a version of this in LA that was even more fierce. thats how i remember it at least. i think it was at the la forum. last concert of the tour?
I recall it being fiercer as the opener of one of his week of shows outdoors at the Universal Amphitheater. The womens chorus and Steve Douglas's horn along with Alan Pasqua's keyboards more than made up for a lame traps drummer, kept spinning while morphing and aloft with legendary hand percussionista Bobbye Hall. Dylan has played with some special bands (like The Band) and put together some magical combos to flesh out his mytho-poetic songs. None blendt the timber of reeds like the studio sessions and few road tours that then heart-ailing former Phil Spector Wall-of-Sound sax man Steve Douglas played on and meshed so magically with Dylan's own vocal timbre of the late 70's ragged rock and then early 80's Black Gospel R&B\Soul sound of players pulled from the Bible classes he was at as his divorce from clearly his leading human muse (Sara) and family nesting partner ground him down, from reports of some of those who were along onstage and in his Rundown Studios with him playing their souls out....
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You FORGIT it?! Holy crap!
merchants and thieves, hungry for power!
This performance is insane!
I love how the backing singers can't keep up with Bob! He just flies through the song, unlike the studio recording, which is a bit prosaic in delivery, I guess to annunciate the words and get the message across, not that the message is easy to understand! Bob found the Cosmic Messager, Mithra/Christ!
"I couldn't help but FAGHLOWGH..."
The earliest instance of Dylan's voice having degraded into a base growl? It's amazing how much that line sounds like every performance circa 2010-12.
And then, when in the very next line he downright yells: "lifted up her veeeiil!", we have what may be Bob's best sung line EVER.
near the toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Where they... lifted up her veeeeeeeeeeeeil!
Great! Real Bob Dylan, hard to find around the site. :)
Wicked stuff man,he's really givvin it some!! :)
Peace
Fenomenal!!!!
Ahoy! SIXTEEEEEEEN YEAH'S; how far into subliminality can a man venture?
RATTLESNAKE BITCHES BE HISSIN'
I don't know what this means but ... fuck yeah.
***** haha
Magnus Werg ?
This is the best comment on youtube.
I got to say as a live performer he was so much more interesting and exciting before this so called never-ending tour got started
Freaking Fantastic!
Grooving
Incroyable ❤
this is insane
The Gaslight Anthem’s version is definitely the best, and Patty Smith’s is a close second. This is an amazing song - one of Dylan’s best - and I would be fascinated to hear him talk about what it means.
He was quoted saying he had no idea where it came from. He seemed to be channeling stuff in that period, as he often did. He NEVER answered the question of what does a song mean.
Eden is burning.................
The background singers are having a hard time keeping up! Great version, maybe aided by a little something, would hate to speculate though.
Holy cow!
Yes!
いゃぁ~外国語ばかりのコメントに言うのも気が退けるけど、当時のディランの心意気みたいなもんが伝わる？まぁあの人ならではのぶっきらぼうさとか投げやりさ・・なんかにぃ~~俺は信仰とかはよぅ判らんけど、つき進む凄みって、この人には必要なんやろうと改めて思ぅた(^o^;)
Bod Dyland the greatest rocking poet of all time, ever better them my distant cousin froim way back in time William Shakespeare, I ask the question, is Bob the 13th disciple of Jesus Christ.
The best!
Absolutely vicious.
toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooower
loose, but driven.
yeah! that's what I call breakneck speed \m/
"The organization" should have never quit their day job. Golden Locks doesn't need them. anymore.
❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
that howl
Man if I found that box I'd have copied the entire thing and tracked you down, keeping that is too cruel! I'm happy slowly adding to my collection when I can afford to, but it seems a lot of the great live recordings, especially 75-78, are very difficult to buy commercially. Any tips?
gerald97011 Well, at least the '75-76 tours got an official release through Hard Rain and Bootles Series 5. But I agree, we need an official release of '78.
Bob's best years.