Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (EARLIEST KNOWN LIVE RECORDING) [San Francisco, 1965]
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This concert is regarded by some as one of Dylan's greatest. It was recorded by Allen Ginsberg on December 11, 1965. I had uploaded this entire concert a while back, but I had to take it down, unfortunately. However, in the net week, I will upload the entire unreleased concert as well as the San Jose concert a day later, including many minutes of backstage conversation between Ginsberg, Dylan and Albert Grossman (Dylan's manager), as well as interviews Ginsberg conducts on the audience (they offer a fascinating insight into how the young people views him at this pivotal moment his career). The entire tape is nearly four hours, I believe. It'll blow your socks off!
This might be the debut performance of "Visions of Johanna." It was so new at the time that Dylan hadn't finalized a name for it yet. In the beginning, you can hear him call it "Freeze Out," and "Alcatraz to the 9th Power Revisited" (Alcatraz is a famous prison on the San Francisco Bay). An unnamed Dylanologist supposedly unearthed these tapes from a collection that Ginsberg had donated to Stanford University before he died. Here is what he said about this track: "First recorded live performance and in the conversation for definitive live version, epic, introduced as "Alcatraz to the 9th Power Revisited", has the nightingale's code line, hard to make out but he appears to tell the audience that "I sang this song last week in concert" - which would likely mean he played Visions at Berkeley."
The audio is incredibly clear for a 1965 tape recorder; Ginsberg spent $500 on this "absolutely beautiful precision machine," about $4,000 in today's money. Nonetheless, I cleaned up the sound a bit with audio software to make it even more listenable.
Enjoy this gem while you can!
Love & Peace,
~SP
Years ago my son was in a rock group. They were looking for a name. I suggested "The Ghost of 'Lectricity." They all looked at me like I was nuts. I still think it would be a great rock group name.
“Alcatraz to the 9th” would be a fantastic name for a band too
scotchie42 Absolutely! Kids these days... ;)
Amazing name it'd have been 🔥
scotchie42 I might have to take that if you don’t mind
You can have it. My son is 45 now and a school principle. No groups in his future I would guess.@@Liam-mk4wb
If the audience found something funny they laughed. If they appreciated a particular line they politely applauded. The days before that obnoxious high pitched "WOOOO" sound wasn't yelled after every f****** line!
Dylan is such a genius. Even the titles of his songs are so innovative. 🔥🔥🔥
I have loved Dylan for the first time I heard Like a Rolling Stone on the radio when I was in the 4th grade. Visions is the pinnacle of that obsession and it has never ceased. I dream about this song.
You can hear his delight in performing this new composition.
>First performance of the greatest song of all time
>witnessed by Allen Ginsberg
>greatest line of the song
“ThE BoNeS oF ELeCtRiCiTY”
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face, where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place."
Very funny comment but I think it's just the quality, sounds to me like he sings it correct
Ghost, not bones,
But Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues,you can tell by the way she smiles...
Where did He get those lines from! Pure brilliance.
I am 72 now and Bob Dylan has been a companion for a lifetime and this is one of my favorite songs. It is a great gift that you make it possible to listen to this early version, it makes it a little bit easier to come through these heavy times. Greetings from Germany: May you stay forever if not young so at least healthy!
Karl Russmeyer Thank you for your kind words. Please stay safe and happy 🙏
Dude, you're a hero for uploading this.
Thanks for this; the man's a genuis and you're awfully kind to share this with us all
Freeze out is good name as any, Alcatraz to the 9th power well glad his choice was a simple name for a complex song weaving simply in concept.🎷☕
Gee so young yet look how far he changed with the times but kept his golden heart. Wow your description gives some hope around all this sickness. Ta for your time and care can't wait for the history lesson. :)
love hearing the audience laughing at the goofy lines! they're what makes the song for me honestly
Abby Wilson
yeah
these days noone laughs at any point of the song!
how things change
i don‘t know
it‘s the same song after all, but it meant something else then!?
mario7frankielee it means something different every time you hear it.
@@mario7frankielee It's because the song was brand new. The first time we hear something interesting, strange, arresting, or profound we laugh. It's a natural response.
@@Anthony-hu3rj yes and i think at this point noone or not many knew what to do with something like this
is he serious?or is it funny?
🍀
They laughed at Abandoned Love" first time played at small club in 70's he was taken aback!
I came to SF in 1969, after Woodstock, just turned 17, bought my first Dylan boot in Berkeley, the next day at Bizzarro Music it was titled the Albert Hall concert, but perhpas it was Manchester in May of 1966. Ginsberg was a regular at the Caffe Trieste, saw him there often, alog with Lauerence Ferlinghetti and Paul Kantner from the Airplane, who became a good friend and neighbor until he died. This is fantastic, not sure I ever heard it but seem to remember 'the nightingale's code', was it used in another song?
The song was seems like a freeze out. Dylan changed it to visions of johanna.
17 in High school 12th grade and what a time it was to be around with all the good music...
He had me at “ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin to be so quiet “ ? And the harmonica playing ..wow. I’m going through an early Dylan obsession. This is the encore !
An amazing singer
Àn àwesome early version. Thanks SP for this.
I’ve been going through that obsession for 15 years 😊❤
His genius is breathtaking to me at times ... It is difficult to wrap my mind around if I think about it too hard or too often ..
He Got The Stuff They'll Bust Yo Brains Out ...
This is such a great performance, every word is delivered perfectly, it sounds so effortless, Bob Dylan is the best.
You do a great job, right down to the specifics in the artwork. Thanks so much dude
The only artist who is/was interesting...even at his less good performances. The man with several voices and a genius mind. The artist how gives me really abstinence while not listening in a few days. The artist how made me cry,laugh and feel. The only one. All others are below..even when they are at best. Just my personal opinion 💕😉
I saw dylan about a month before this concert on november 12,1965 at the cleveland music hall. He did not do visions of joanna.
Lucky son of a bitch
@@Alex-km7so yeah I was lucky. I got alot locker on july 17, 1991 when I was walking down by lake erie on the day of his concert. I look up and dylan was walking toward me. I stood still and he stopped and shook my hand. Never said a word to me. Google " bob dylan concert cleveland november 12,1965" you will see one of the eight pictures of him. I have seen him 35 Times. Good health to you.---Sonny
Yayyyy, thank you for taking the time to accompany this with a few notes ❤️❤️❤️
Great post , Swingin' . I think your amazin' channel had a debt with this first ''freeze out'' live performance because u have uploadin' a lot of recordings from this wonderful decade and specially another outtakes and live versions of Visions of Johanna (i love one that you overdubbed the vocals with live footage ) . Dylan say on Murder Most Foul ''Play something for the Birdman of Alcatraz'' (a 1962 Burt Lancaster film) the real prisioner who talked only with nightindales ...
Wow this is so good has a special simpler feel to it! Thanks Swingin’ and also for your description notes!👌🏻🤍💫
What I love is that, unlike many artists and bands whose music will not stand the test of time (no shame in that), I fully hope and expect that 50, 100, even 200 years from now new generations will be discovering and enjoying Dylan’s genius (up there with Mozart, et al., if I may be so bold; I think the same likely will be true of The Beatles).
I started getting into Dylan, and finally really listening to his immense catalogue, later in life than many (late 30s, early 40s). But I then made sure to expose my kids to Dylan, and-like the Beatles and much jazz-they took it and ran with it on their own, and now almost certainly know even more than me. And I’m sure they will pass it on to their children, and so on and so forth. (Thank God we were able to see him in concert for our first, and likely only, time this year, at age 80. Now that’s something that future generations won’t be able to experience.)
So grandparents, play Dylan for your grandkids and talk about his lyrics and songs. Parents, do the same for your kids and nephews/nieces. Older brothers and sisters, pass it on to your siblings and cousins and friends. Keep the love and knowledge going for future generations. And a special thanks for the people keeping this amazing content on UA-cam for everyone to enjoy and share together
good way to start a sunday morning
thanks 💃🏻🐖
This is absolutely delightful, thank you so much for this.
Thanks so. One of my favorites along with desolation row and hundreds of others
Thank you so much I needed this . Love to you and yours and all the best from Canada !
Priceless. Thank you.
Interesting to hear him play through the verse melody on the harmonica.
JOan cHANdos bAez Thanks to Don Mac for making it all too concise and too clear.
we all know now that visions... is a serious 🥳song but these folks laughed at some strange places like they didn’t knew how to take it🤔
do we know now?😎
but i would sell my grandma to be able to go back and watch!
even as a 🐛 🕷!
even in the last row!
Thank you Swinging pic you convey a feeling for these years.. we can share the expectationsof the audience at that time- we are a late part of it
This was a few days after his Dec. 3 KQED SF news conference.
Love the song, love my granddaughter Joana and I like your channel very much, it is unique and different from the others. Thanks SP.
His best song! Thank you very much Mr. Pig.
I'v got the Ginsberg downloads but it is nice to have this individual Visions to enjoy all by itself ...enjoying the sound and the humour and laughs that must have pleased Bob that people were listening and appreciating his thoughts.
Thanks so much, Swingin Pig. Can't wait to hear rest of the tape!
When I was 14, this and the Beatles "happiness is a warm gun" informed me of another world. I started reading books. Opened my provincial mind like no other. Wonderful x
This is a delight all the way through.
oh forgot😓
i already sold her!
for the rolling thunder tour!
Never mind his age or posture, this young man moves fast.
When I first saw this I thought Bob was holding a violin, lol
Is this from the “the cutting edge collector's edition”?
No. The electric set of the San Jose concert was. As I understand it, this tape was only shortly before the release of the cutting edge, so there wasn't enough time to put it all on there, I'm assuming. I've learned that Sony isn't great with archiving and labeling either, as the concert that was included in the boxset was labeled as Berkeley when it was actually San Jose. Moreover, they only released the second half of the concert when the entire concert exists. Very confusing, but there you go.
Thank you, i didn't know that 👍🏼👍🏼
The Heat Pipes Cough...
not half bad for a jewish kid from Hibbing, a phenom
Thank you Swingin Pig! It's always a highlight to hear from you😊!
I love this song and i'm often thinking about the meaning of all these lines. Thanks for the description, because I didn't understand what Bob is saying.
Stay safe and healthy!🐷🍀
Recent channel subscriber and long time Dylan fan. Thanks for uploading all of this in one place! Keep rockin it!
Is this around the same time as the San Fran press conference video?
How come, do you suppose?... Rye or Scotch?
Ever since you first uploaded the full concert, I still think the audience response to the Mona Lisa/Moustache verse is the most endearing audience reaction ever. In most of the 1966 live performances, no one can be heard laughing anymore once it became a popular album track. Same deal in Desolation Row with the hands in pants line. It got a big laugh in every early live version. I just love listening to people’s reactions of hearing these lines for the first time.
Yes, there were some funny images, but
by the evocative final line, "And these visions of
Johanna are now all that remain," it had become
clear that "Everything stays down
where it's wounded."
None of the audiences in any the 1966 shows would have heard Visions before their respective concerts. Blonde On Blonde wasn't released until August 1966, and all the shows were only up through May 1966.
@@dearprudence2001 My bad, thanks for the correction
Okay, time travel is real. This is a wonderful recording.
Thank you so much for uploading these, this is a treasure! Can someone tell me what Dylan is saying before the song? (I can’t hear and English is not my first language)
I can’t either and English is my first language
Anyone else notice that he tends to leave out the “o” in Johanna?
I'm glad this is out but i noticed that another concert that he played on this channel was copyright striked and no longer exists. Very sad about that since I was learning that version
FloppyBopNop FloppyBopNop What concert were you looking for?
1966 Sheffield visions of johanna
FloppyBopNop FloppyBopNop ua-cam.com/video/uW9_2r3raHE/v-deo.html this might not be the one, but if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s beautiful.
Incredible. Thank you.
What great find
Gonna assume he bought a nagra
Thanks for the upload.
ADORE BobbysHarmonica Playing..( Seems t LUV Trainsto) Beautiful tho. xxxooo
Beat that Mr elston gunn
Andrew Henderson come on, it's no competition, we need both.
@@joopbekkema6490 what ever do you mean a bit of friendly competition never hurt anyone
@@joopbekkema6490 Not when one (Elston Gunn) is responsible for having other Dylan fan channels taken down for incorrect copyright issues, false accusations.
@@oliveeisner8964 exactly
Andrew Henderson Elston Gunn is a fool
This song grabbed my heart the first time I heard it and never let go. When our daughter was born there was no hesitation as my wife and I looked at her, then each other, and no questions needed to be asked or answered. She was holding Johanna Marie.
Two days earlier on December 3 1965, Dylan gave and interview where he mentions this song: ua-cam.com/video/wPIS257tvoA/v-deo.html
Allen was always recording & taking pictures of everything . God bless him & Mr. Zimmerman .
💔
¡Qué maravilla!❤🎵
IS DYLAN GOD ??? .....
Nice.
Can someone tell me what Dylan is saying before the song? (I can’t hear and English is not my first language)
I think he says “something like a freeze out, or Alcatraz to the 9th power revisited”
WTF is he saying at the beginning?
Utterly Utterly Fantastic thank you so much
“Redwing” duo..Sydney 1972..
🎵🎶⭐️
Good song for a quarantine.
Good lord, man. Thank you.
nice work sp ... thanks
Really great, thanks!
YEAH YOUNG BOB YOU ARE THE BEST
they think it’s funny
but it isn’t 🤠
What’s he saying at the beginning and audience laughs?
Thanks ! Great moments!
CHILLS!
Portable audio cassette?
Almost as good as Post Malone
Apples and oranges. Post Malone has a Dylan tatoo.
This is Pre Malone
@@oliveeisner8964Bob Dylan has a Post Malone tattoo
Thank you :)
🙂🙂🙂👍
karuna baby!
yes this song it's a great gem ......it's my fav Bobby song but his one is really terrific phenomenal.......thanks to you SP nice sunday ♥♥♥
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face. . . . . . "
Nobel Prize for Literature.
Sure 'nuff.
Thank you 🙏
lovely !
Thanks Swingin’ this is so good, and all the notes you have written we have more to look forward to in these lockdown times. Except my British people are letting me down big time, what do you not understand of #stayathome. Seriously!!!
I sing this song like the record since I always go by the record