I met Bob Dylan while working night shift at a hotel in KCMO where he and his band stayed. As was the case most times famous people would wander down in the middle of the night when it was less busy. There was a piano in a lounge just off the main area near front desk. Several musicians including Jon Waite and the like, would play piano for 2 or 3 hours with no audience and no one really knowing who they were. We knew they were there and while we weren't allowed to approach they, in Bob's case, he simply came down at 4am and struck up a conversation. Being night manager, I could move us to the back office. He was quite talkative and explained the stories behind several of his songs. He was just like you and me only he was very lonely it seemed. I could've listened to him for hours. I only had up until the next shift arrived. That was too soon at 7am. He was a perfect gentleman, I will add. Thanks Bob. You signed every album I brought. They were my older boyfriends, and you were his favorite songwriter singer.
@@mtsky-tc6uw I saw him smile in the Rollin' Thunder Revue documentary. He made a joke that it was "So long ago I wasn't even born yet" and he cracked a small smile
Bob played in Canberra, Australia, in about 2001. I saw him having a coffee and smoke outside of a cafe down the road from where I lived. I was going to say something and he looked at me as if to say, so I thought, 'go on, say something original's. I closed my mouth and nodded respectfully and he returned the nod. I read Chronicles when it came out in which he wrote that he liked to meet strangers and jam. Big regret for me as I lived up the road and had several guitars and amps. I wish I had of been brave enough to speak to him. None the less, I shared a nod and that was magic. Thanks for being who you are Bob.
I’m a 20 year old student. Here living in canberra never knew he came here, I think thats because i wasn’t even born yet😂. Anyway great story thanks for sharing😊
@@zkkkk.8889 thanks for reading that. I have somehow skirted on the edge of the music scene from 1975 onwards. I think Dylan played in Canberra at least twice. Also of note, Marianne Faithful and Ray Davies, of the Kinks, at different times in the 1990, played in Canberra and I didn’t get to see them
Joan Baez "found her voice" long before she met Dylan and had already recorded a couple of albums. He hitched a ride on her success, appearing on stage many times at her invitation, and hurting her deeply when he failed to return the compliment after she travelled with him on a UK tour.
@@sharonramsey715 Many hitched a ride on Dylan’s songwriting Years before that Dylan’s star rose BECAUSE of Joan’s fame and her willingness to pull him up
Joan Baez' song about her relationship with Dylan is called "Diamonds and Rust" NOT "Diamonds." It was also the name of the album. It was a top 10 Billboard hit when it was released in 1976 and rose to #5. It is considered her best composition. I am constantly amazed at how videos like this make really ignorant statements indicating that, with all the technology available, they can't take literally 2 minutes of searches to find and report accurate information.
Every fan knows that Sara was the love of Dylan's life.. but i"m amazed that this video ignores perhaps his greatest love song, dedicated to her... "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." The use of "Lowlands"was meant to hint at "Lownds." The song "Sara" has a line that states he wrote "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you."
My friend, Joan herself stated that "Diamonds And Rust" was written not about Dylan, but about her husband David Harris. The information is available in her autobiography, "And A Voice To Sing With."
@@Tribblejuice You need not be damned over that. Some internet sources declare she was only fooling when she said the above, and that later interviews may be interpreted to indicate it was indeed about Dylan. Forgive - I took Joan's word the first time. Complication makes things more mysterious, so supposedly more interesting.
@@carlmassengale1027 Just trying to be punny by quoting the first line of Diamonds and Rust song:} 30 years ago, i was testing out a Takamine in a guitar store and sang this song. The young man working there asked if I wrote it. He should know better, selling guitars. "Hey 19, don't remember Aretha Franklin." Or Steely Dan. Or Joan Baez. yeah, Sure I did, kid-me and Judas Priest. Hauntingly beautiful song in Minor. And low enough for us Alto's to sing:}
I was raised on Dylan...his lyrics and music. I am thankful. Also, see him everytime he's close. We will never have another Dylan...he's one of our treasures.
My boyfriend bought me and my dad tickets for his upcoming concert an hour away from our town. I'm so excited, it's only 2 weeks away now and it's my first time ever seeing Bob in concert ❤
@@callanightshade8079 Be prepared to be disappointed. I have rarely met someone who enjoyed them, but there are some people.....the songs will not sound like they did on his recordings, it might be difficult to understand him. He usually doesn't talk muc, although a friend who saw a fairly recent concert said he preached the whole time....He's a RECORDING ARTIST
No song ever captured the heartache I felt than Bob Dylan's 1975 song from Blood on the Tracks called A Simple Twist of Fate. The whole album is classic. I always presumed he must have truly loved whoever he wrote it for.
In my opinion, Dylan's greatest album among a lifetime of great albums. "A Simple Twist of Fate" is a masterpiece. But let's face it, the whole damn album is a masterpiece. He is the greatest American poet of the twentieth century. The Nobel Prize Committee got it right.
It's a song about a one night stand.....sounds like a prostitute....but sometimes you start writing about something and it turns into something else....
"Boots of Spanish Leather" is the quietest, most distant love song I've ever heard. That song makes me want to take a long walk...alone. Beautiful song!
“I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky When the children were babies and played on the beach. You came up behind me, I saw you go by You were always so close and still within reach.”. Growing up I was more into the sound of the music than the words of the song… till I heard Dylan (and the Beatles). This whole album is wonderful and the song Sara paints a perfect picture in my mind.
It's not just the poetry, it's not just the clever melodies, the rhymes and rhyme schemes, and interesting chords....its the performance...the man is a master actor-singer.
I got tired of his voice very soon after first hearing it. He did nothing for me at all. Now, Leonard Cohen is a different matter entirely. Much better IMO.
I've listened to Dylan's music my entire life. It's played pivotal moments in my life, songs shared between my lover and myself over 40 years. And i can tell you, they can say what they will, but the passion that connects Joan and Bob, is tight...has stood the test of time. Listen to Diamonds and Rust. (By the way this is what the bumbling narrator was trying to refer to here, gee do your homework)...."Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again, but it's not that unusual".... "Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there". You can only write lyrics like this when your mind and heart are in sync with each other. They very much loved each other. In the PBS special mentioned here...for Dylan to apologize to "Joni", after so so many years, that's a heart that's held onto passion. If only ❤❤
It was like the 60’s had an electric current that triggered a LOT of original creativity in music in the US and England. So MANY new voices and new bands!
"...he proposed to Mavis Staples, but she turned him down." Boy, thats a pretty superficial sentence to use, to dismiss what Dylan himself described as "true love".There arent a whole lot of women who Bob actually proposed to. I wonder why the video wants to overlook Mavis, when she's a heck of a lot more famous - and interesting - than any of the others mentioned.
Interesting little video. I live in Greenwich Village and my friend owns a bookstore across the street from where this photo on the album cover was taken. he had a few photos from that very day he showed me. He was, and is a good friend of Bob's. I got to know most of the guys in The Band over the years and have been friends for decades now. The Village is the place dozens of guitar players came into being. Hanging out in WSP playing around the fountain and other jams in the neighborhood are always fun.
As a working musician for over 50 years and counting, I was guided by country music, which advises never to get romantically involved with a musician. As for Dylan, I believe him to be one of the greatest poets of our time. He took gorgeous ballads and reworked them to tell contemporary stories. I was delighted when he was awarded the Nobel. The less I know about his personal life, the happier I am. Didn't know he was in a romantic relationship with Joan Baez, who I also hold in great esteem for her continuing support for Non Violent Direct action. They both deserve all the acolades they have been given over decades.
Baez was already famous in folk and music circles. She had found “her voice” when Dylan was still searching for his, and which we really don’t hear until 1965 Bring It All Back Home. Joan Baez wasn’t the reason Dylan went electric, not sure how you got that. Dylan wanted out of the entire folks scene & didn’t buy into being labeled “the voice of a generation” as he was in 1963-64. He wanted to be a songwriter/entertainer, not a prophet. Going electric was for Dylan was inevitable. Joan had little to do with it other than being in the same Folk fan camp that boo’ed him of stage at his electric gig at Newport.
Bob Dylan seems as elusive as his songs. You reach out, but contact makes him run. I've experienced enough guys like him. He can be sweet, but only when it doesn't inconvenience him. I don't know him personally, but my intuitive life experience points to these assertions.
@@CarmelaRoseRosse In a relationship, you reach out and they often run. They run their entire loves making it very difficult to reach emotionally or intellectually. Bob has been on the never ending tour for the last 35 years. That is his way of running non-stop.
He’s a Gemini and the less evolved expression of Gemini matches Dylan’s running, as you say, and surface intimacy. He seems to direct most of his intimacy into his writing, utilizing the relationships in his life as inspiration, but his closest relationship being with the poetry of the songs. Gemini, also being very good with words and collecting the inspiration of ideas and information as a palette for their own art.
A landlady of mine in the 70s told me that Dylan ran around on his wife, her niece, until he brought a girl into their home. That was too much for her and I guess she threw him out? Anyway, I just couldn’t get over this information back then. He’s not a great guy.
Dylan's married to the world. Its women and people filter through him. It's fun to amuse ourselves and get concrete, but Sara, like Suze, is also a muse, and Dylan's a myth maker. What would it be like to live with a musical genie? Who are you be falling in love with? I don't blame Sara for leaving Dylan. She's vulnerable, soft and concrete. He explores soul, and like Leonard Cohen, the soul of woman are his fables. Dylan's earthy and looks down, instead of climbing the spiritual ladder and moving up. His ballads can be dark and biting. I read he may be an aspie? If true, it explains a lot to me. I'm one too. There can be a facility with words, a critical edge, an overdeveloped conscience, alienation with a desire to hook up, lots of frustration, broad and deep perception, lots of searching and saying, a sense you're of this world, but are different and can see through its lies and deceptions. You can de-struct and re-construct with ease. You're an outlier, even an outlaw, but with a nagging conscience. I've never met Dylan, but I know him as we all do in our own way. It's easy to see why you might love Bob Dylan, why we all do, and why it might be just too much, and you, like him, have the urge to get some space.
I appreciate your characterization of him in the way I have always appreciated him. One way in which I identify with him, is as a Gemini.Not a fan of hero worship, but this started when I was young, and I never grew out of it. Now, maybe both he and I can transition out of here with peace.
and when asked what was youre inspiration - how did you write them. I really do believe that some song writers tune in and it moves through them like magic. in a way they are not really responsible. i believe that.
Dylan's song "Idiot Wind", featured on his BLOOD ON THE TRACKS album, is also about Sara, with lines like "You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe". Those who accompanied Dylan's 1976 ROLLING THUNDER tour swear Bob sang it directly to his wife in the audience, and so does his son Jakob, who once told the press "The whole BLOOD album is about my parents' divorce".
Yes but what about the line”We are idiots babe, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves” Dylan taking equal responsibility for his part. If you check every album you will find a song for Sara.
@@sharonramsey715 Agreed, Sharon. But the "we" here refers not only to Dylan and Sara but the whole country, "from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol".
@@angel4everable So very true. Yes Dylan could sum the country up in a line, that is the beauty of his writing. Look at his song Murder most foul. Amazing.
"Now everything's a little upside-down as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped. What's good is bad, what's bad is good you'll find out when you've reached the top you're on the bottom." This is my favorite line from all of Dylans songs.
I have a personal theory about a lot of Dylan songs like Idiot Wind, Ballad of a Thin Man and others where he is being hyper-critical of someone (nobody does that better "I can't even touch the books you've read is perhaps the most damning music lyric of all time). I think that the songs begin being about the person he is angry with but at some point he turns the song back on himself. I think he is sufficiently self-aware to realize that the flaws he sees in others are actually flaws he knows exist within him.
It was rather Joan Baez who promoted him, in this time she was already famous as a folk singer, but no one knew him, she invited him to sing on stage at the Newport folk festival, his first stage in front of a large audience, without her he would have had much more difficulty, I even think she gave him a guitar, her legendary Martin 0-45JB...
Outside of knowing he sold his entire catalogue, the rest of your content was News to me. I only know he was a prolific Songwriter and many of his works were hits for other artists. “My Back Pages,” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” by the Byrds, “It Ain’t Me Babe” by the Turtles, and the Amazing rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimmy Hendrix. I actually remember the first time I heard “Like a Rolling Stone” in the Summer of 1965. I was in my backyard getting my gear ready for a Boy Scout camping trip. That song blew me away from the very beginning! And over 6 minutes long?!!! Thanks to KRLA in Los Angeles for playing it!!! I have never tired of the song either. Can’t get past the lyrics and the organ parts! On a personal note, my Sisters favorite artist was Bob Dylan. She actually got to meet him at Cal Berkeley. I was on the phone with the nurse that told me she was just leaving this earth. What are the odds on that one? After telling my Wife and young Daughter that Aunt Susan went to Heaven, we turned on the TV, which happened to be on MTV and “Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heavens Door” video was playing!!! This was Jan 1, 2000. I’ve never met Bob Dylan, but I will ALWAYS be connected to him! Thanks again for your great work Mr. Blaine! ❤
I only want to add that Sarah was 5 or 6 months pregnant when she married Bob. Bob seems to not believe in abortion, to wit the line, “they kill babies in the cribs and say only the good die young.” On the other hand, Suze terminated a child she and Bob had conceived. Although, we think that Bob betrayed her with Joan, I wish I knew which betrayal came first.
Bob Dylan's greatest album remains "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," recorded when he was not yet 22 years old. Suze Rotolo, his girl friend at the time, was his muse on that album. She, more than anyone, helped him to develop his style.
Haha. It "remains" his "greatest" does it? According to you, great... but not according to lots and lots of others (including me)! And hopefully they don't think that their 'greatest' choice "remains" as definitively as you do ;)
Dylan's "greatest" album is usually the most recent peak of a wave that punctuates Dylan's career. Highway 61 Revisited, then Blonde on Blonde, then Blood on the Tracks, then ..., then ..., then ..., up through Time out of Mind (IMHO). Calling the first his "greatest" is confusing "first" with "best".
The six albums that began with Freewheelin" are all amazing. Anyone of them could be picked for the top spot. Times They ARe A-Changin', Another Side of Bob Dyaln, Bringin' It All Back Home, Highway 61, Then the double album, Blonde on Blonde. NEw Morning Came close to those. Desire was really good, but the only album that rivalled the early ones was Blood On The Tracks.
@@joemarshall4226 That is, of course, just your opinion, but Dylan didn't stop putting out generation-defining music in 1975. Time out of Mind especially is widely considered to be a masterpiece to stand right alongside his others.
@@taivo55 I think a lot of that came from the attention that came when Bob Almost died at the time. Bob's name had been on the back burner for a while, and then suddenly, his desperate situation gave him a lot of attention. I don't think that the album rates with the others. This is my opinion of course,a all of it. But those early albums are so DEEP with poetry, ideas, and lovely tunes.....it's really hard for the later ones to measure up.
It's true that for many of us, there is a "love of our life" but in most cases, that is the last love of one's life. I had two marriages and lots of lovely love affairs, but my greatest love was my soul mate husband of twenty-five years. When I met him - the man I consider "the love of my life" - it did not end until his passing, and even then, he is still and always will be, the love of my life. Think about it: if this is true, why would you/they be with anyone else?
Suze Rotolo left New York in June 1962, and moved to Italy with her mother. Bobby composed "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", for Suze, not for Ian Tyson as he claims.
Dylan is a genius. He is more than a great songwriter. He is a great storieteller and the greatest living poet and the one of the greatest poet of all the times. He continues to perform well now, in the stages around the world and writing books and song. All with the same quality as always.
@@writereducator try listening to the songs listed below and you'll understand. I hope Mrs tambourine man, changing of guards, man in the long black coat, chimes of freedom, precious angel, is not dark yet, sweetheart like you, the times they are changing, like a rolling stones, knocking on havens doors, jokerman, idiot wind, senor, simple twist of fate, my back pages, shelter from the storm, a hard rain a gonna fall, girl from north country, blind willie mctell, mamma youve been on my mind, all along the watchtower, forever young. Just to start.
@@mariodonizetepelissaro9923 Just choose one and tell me why it is greater than any poem by say, William Shakespeare. Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed, whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
He's one of the great singer/songwriters for sure, up there with Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, and his song lyrics are often very good within the context of the songs, but as a poet he barely makes the grade. Yep, he writes great songs, but not great poetry. Great poets? Yeats, Eliot, and Auden, for example, are high level poets.
If you look at the album credits for "Desire", Emmylou Harris sings the backup harmonies, not the two women cited in this video. The one exception is "Hurricane", whereon Ronnie Blakely sings harmony. Maybe they added extra backup, but they are not cited, and it's definitely Emmylou's voice that one hears on that album harmonizing with Dylan...
I grew up, listening to my brothers blasting Bob Dylan I Albums, since I was very young. I know every word of every song on every album. My brothers and I went to all of his concerts in NYC I always wish I could have met him. ❤ I’m 65 years old now, and still one of his greatest fans. During those years, though, my oldest brother Charles, also introduced us to The Band & I Phil Ochs. Their music is what I listen to most all the time.
I had the same experience. My oldest brother is a few months older than Bob and came home to NYC from the Berkeley Free Speech movement with a copy of Freewheeling under his arm. Then my third oldest brother got hooked and played him relentlessly. Both are gone now. The younger one ordered that the Dylan albums would play at his wake, which they did.
@@FactsVerse I am obsessed with Harry and Meghan because they are living or rather going down such a destructive path. If you could take your expertise and explain what you think, that would be great. I love Lady Colin Campbell who explains Harry and Meghan. I love British Royal Rising who is comical and informative but unfortunately does not give his name or background. I like Black Belt Barrister who explains the law from the English perspective. Take a look at the backdrop of Lady Colin and how she dresses and places jewelry on. The aesthetic look is very important.
@@FactsVerse Another youtuber who I adore his writing of, who describes Meghan and Harry is "George the Slayer". Meghan and Harry are like a Medieval Play or Greek Tragedy.
@@sail1292 Dear Sail, Greetings. I guess you are saying it does not matter whether a relative married his relative. I could see that. Sincerely, Melinda
This is an easy one- his song Sara is one of the most genuine romantic songs ever written, beautiful and inspiring; one can feel the muse Sara was to him.
I absolutely believe Sara was the love of Bob’s life. He created 4 beautiful children with her. I don’t understand how she didn’t melt hearing the song Sara. She must have been deeply hurt.
I think she wanted to leave, but stayed with him for about 2 more years after hearing Sara before she finally left for good. He called her to the studio the day he recorded Sara.
Dylan always put himself #1. He used every woman he was with in one way or another. He hand-picked Sara to produce designer babies, the attachment to her came afterwards. He never intended to be loyal to any woman.
Arguably his most passionate song, Sara, off the Desire album tells the whole story. The song reeks with honest, direct emotion without mincing of words. Unlike a lot of his work, there is no guessing about what he is singing about here.
@@Soffenoffe it might be my favorite of his. It was, hands down, my favorite- until I heard Dark Eyes, which causes me doubt. Just thinking of that song sends chills through me. He wrote it on demand from his producer who wanted him to flesh out the album Empire Burlesque, which was mainly an attempt to go along with the slick musical times. The producer wanted a tune that was more traditional Dylan. Amazingly, on demand, he wrote it in his hotel room the night before recording it. As a songwriter myself, I have to wonder, how can someone come up with such a beautifully wondrous song on demand in one night and be ready to perform it perfectly the next day? Where did he find the inspiration???
Wow, I actually had never heard "Dark Eyes" in spite having been a huge fan of Dylan since my early teens, for over 20 years, but I had to listen to it after reading what you wrote about it, and it is indeed immensely beautiful! I was immediately touched by it. Thank you for telling me about it!
True that. I understood completely when Dylan tried to explain the songs just "be"", they just "exist", almost on their own.A poet I spoke to once said, "...the words just come. They come constantly. They come to him so insistently it almost drives him crazy.
@@FactsVerse personally just like a woman and I love Knocking on heaven's door plus, Don't think twice! There are many songs that I love that Robert Zimmerman does! ✌🏼
Sarah Lownds was Bob’s wife for seven (?) years, or longer. They had 5 children together. His second wife was one of his “backup” group and he also had a child with her. Suze Rotolo was in a much younger time. And he did love her, but she had what we use to call “emotional problems.”
I don't really care. I always liked his music, but there are are a lot of singers-musicians, actors, etc that I liked too. What they did in their lives is their business.
There weren’t too many half way attractive women of that era I wouldn’t have left Joan Baez for. Who wants a weird woman who swings both ways and thinks she’s Joan of Arc?
@@edandmjohnson8636 or Elvis Costello or Van Morrison etc. But Dylan has to be the most important songwriter ever individually for his profound importance to Civil Rights and Like A Rolling Stone.which made practically everything that hit top 40 before that even The Beatles catchy hits sound like How Much Is That Doggie in the window lyrically.
Yes, from the very moment you asked the question " who was the love of his life .... obviously Sara, as he wrote " Desire " after their breakup. He brought a woman home , INTO THEIR kitchen, sat at the table, with this woman, wearing Sara's Bathrobe.... He gave no explanation for the woman being there...... that's when Sara had enough. Which I don't blame her a bit , 💖👑🌻✡
@@CarmelaRoseRosse Bob cares about his children deeply. He takes care of their person lives, & how do you think Jacok became a great guitarist….his father gave him “ time”. Sara and Bib still have a friendship, as they have children together, this is like many of our generation…. Sara raised the children, and Bob spent time with them. I won’t go into personal details, however he & Sara support one another when it comes to the children, all these years ago. Most Mother’s that are divorced are the “ caregivers “ of their children. She is beautiful ( a model when she met Bob). Yet he has played a part in her life after his winds healed a bit. Listen to “ Desire “ and tell me how sorry he is for what he has done to Sara …. He begs her to let him come home…
Dylan, the ever cryptic bard. He’s not going to leave us laughing as he goes. And to think that I, the Queen of Florida Folk music wrote that I still harbored the desire to play in his band…I’d bring my resonator, banjo, a diddly stick, a hand made in 1968 dulcimer, a cajon (sit on drum with foot pedal), and more..Of course the obligatory rack with harmonicas in many keys. And I’ll be wearing my “Boots of Spanish Leather”…
Yes Sarah is the love of his life. She is also the subject of Red River Shore, in which he quotes the advice she famously gave him "Go home and lead a quiet life". And we get an expression of the enduring regret at losing her, and acknowledgement of her anchoring presence - "Sometime I think nobody ever saw me here at all except the girl form the red river shore." and why 'red river' - that is the (perhaps subliminal) awareness of her soft pink aura. Many do not know that song - have a listen!
Thank you so much for your sharing your knowledge and insight, and for suggesting we listen to Red River Shore. Thanks to you I did listen and was moved and humbled once again by Bob Dylan's great courage to be emotionally honest and wisely musical at the same time. Listening to Red River Shore helps me realize anew that I'm not the only one with regrets about my mistakes in relationships, especially one mistake in particular.
It’s easy to feel privileged having lived in the 60s listening and seeing so many fantastic events in human history Mr Dylan being one of those greater. It may however have had a price both for them as for them being close. Being a human is very complexed, Mr Dylan has proven that in his work of art better than most.
@@janelliott679 Yeah, I was gonna say this. Watch the classic video of her singing "Coyote" in Gordon Lightfoot's living room, with Bob attempting to strum along with her crazy chords. Bob clearly knows he's in the presence of genius. In terms of sheer output of words, Bob wins, but as a singer, musician and live performer, Joni is obviously more talented. Not sure if the Nobel prize committee would consider that.
@@janelliott679 Should have been Joni-her work overwhelms his "poetry." That year, might have been a good one for Ursula K. Le Guin too. He absolutely did not deserve that particular honor. As a song-writer, sure, not as a writer.
Joan Baez made Dylan's career by introducing him to record producers and the core folk music legends that she knew and that he did not. She introduced him to Pete Seeger who is the one who connected him to the Newport Folk Festival which catapulted his career. He treated Joan Baez like a groupie (in a bad way) when they went to England together. He was booked but did not want her to sing at the same venues. He wanted her waiting for him in the wings or at their hotel as if she, herself, was not a valued and massively popular singer/songwriter at the time. In fact, her name was more recognizable than his. She hated how he treated her and after that the break up happened -- tell that to your robot voice on this video.
Of course you only present a one sided and bias version of the story. Did you also know that Joan Baez was incredibly controlling and constantly harrassing Dylan to be a social warrior just like she was, Baez could never accept the fact he wrote the songs and that was enough, she could never accept him for who he was and she had admitted this herself.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I did Not know that because "incredibly controlling" is an extremely subjective opinion and backed by zero facts. The same could be said of anyone on the planet. No, your opinion is your opinion. Not mine.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I know she later realized that Dylan could not be the man she hoped he could be. I have heard her get very critical of herself and if I were her friend I would tell her not to blame herself. She is and was a lovely and sensitive soul.
@@clearfield2009 Hahaha a lovely and sensitive soul who knowingly cheated with Dylan while he was still with his previous girlfriend and then got upset when he dumped her for constantly pressuring him into political activism against his will. You claim that there are "zero facts" about Baez being controlling, yet she totally was. This can be easily found in not only Dylan biographies but also her own book. I saw a documentary when she flat out admitted that Bob suffered greatly under her constant attempts to dictate what he did with his own music.
I've always been a big fan of Bob's I do a tribute to him and sing many of his hits the insight he has into mankind is other worldly. Of course he is the best songwriter, and deserves all the awards he's gotten. He changed the poetry of song from I love you ,you love me, oh how happy we could be.. to You'd rather see me paralyzed, why don't you just come out once and scream it! That takes balls but was groundbreaking and opened the door to reality songs of deep feelings . He's the man in my book.
There are many talented lyric writers who predated Bob Dylan. Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Hart, Sammy Cahn - these guys did more than sing about the moon in June etc. Dylan did write some of the most intelligent lyrics of my generation but he did not invent songs with meaningful lyrics he continued an established process. Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastor scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouths Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rut, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop
Thank you, couldn't have said it better. I am 62 and have read, felt, and interpreted poems by the likes of Blake, Synder, Baudelaire, Koch, Dickinson, Neruda, Milton, Poe, Angelou, Verlaine, Hugo, Frost, Whitman, Bridges, Hardy, Plath, Keats, Elliot, Pound Sappho, Rumi, and yes, Shakespeare, and more: and of course, I have reread some of their poems many many times over, and I love and cherish every single piece of their genius, but one thing is for sure I have listened to a single Dylan's song (and there are hundreds) more times than all the other poets combined, I have put some of his masterpieces on replay for hours (not just listening to the song, but reading the dripping intense lyrical poetry of his genius, and never ever getting tired of it. The thing about Dylan's ingenuity is that his Lyrics (the words, the poem, the story) speak to you equally if you are a sixth grader as if you are Anton Chekhov. His prose (if you don't value Dylan's phrasing and eloquence as real poetry) reaches you wherever you are, a thing that none of the Poetry Greats (mentioned above, and more) has done. Think of that! Merci @alanhoxie6950
Just an interesting side story... Around 1964 my Art Teacher Al Beck, told my class that he was a summer camp counselor for young people earlier in the 60's. Bob Dylan rode into the camp on his motorcycle with Joan Baez sitting on the back. If I remember correctly 1 of them was also working at the camp. He said the campfire music was exemplary.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I'm glad that you think you. I suspect that when we're all long gone, and the cult of personality has passed, the 60's and 70's material will be forever remembered. The clunky rhymes of the dirge, I Contain Multitudes, not so much. I'm delighted that you can convince yourself it's great.
@@Firefoxy-rz1nw Its not like I am the only one who recognizes how great the album is. It received criticial acclaim upon release from virtually everyone, that alone says something. I mean how can you listen tracks as fantastic as My Own Version of You, Key West and I Made Up My Mind and try to say he has lost it. His writing and his vocals are on point, you can believe it or not but that will not stop the majority of us giving Bob due credit for an amazing late career album. You speak very arrogantly for someones whos opinion is in the minority.
Four decades ago I walked away from the love of my life when he confessed he’d got someone else pregnant. Lay lady lay was playing on the bus station speakers. Stay lady stay…
In the mid 1980s in Calgary Canada i worked in the ticket office at a downtown movie theatre and one cold mid week night ended up selling Bob Dylan and his two very attractive black female backup singers tickets to....Top Gun ! haha, never will forget the way Bob said " yeah mister we want 3 tickets for,,,,top gun!" haha
I spent 3 hours at a party in NYC circa 2008, speaking in a corner with Sally Kirkland. I always had a crush on her. She said she was involved with Bib for over 15 years. Once it ended it was almost impossible to reach him.
Bob Dylan had many women indeed. To many people it may sound amusing, but without women, a poet couldn’t be musing .behind every great man, there is a woman, or more than one , in the case of Bob Dylan.
By the time Dylan came around to his senses, Sara had it up to her nose with Dylan. I think she was just plain done, and had had already emotionally divorced him.
I knew about Sara Lownds. Also his album Blood on the Tracks, many of the songs were about Sara as well. His son said listening to that album was like watching his parents' relationship unravel. Sara also brought Dylan back to his Jewish roots.
Bob is my hero, and inspired me to write songs with a meaning. I’m a Christian too the truth never changes, a spiritual birth never dies. Physical does but not the spirit. Love you Bob and will see you as we roll on the streets of gold and rock the cradle of love, forever.
He sounds like a nightmare of a partner if you ask me. It would be easier to nail jello to a tree than to keep him grounded. "Just like a rolling stone" suits him well. lol 🧚♀
My beautiful sister gave Dylan his first gig at the Gaslight He has never recognize her. She owned the Gaslight Café in MacDougal street in the west village that used to belong to John Mitchell, who had to leave town in a hurry.
Many loved Bob Dylan. I adored him as a teen and still do. What an icon! I think he was one of those who had a special SA. Leonard Cohen also had that charisma and many who fell under that special spell.
I absolutely fell in love with that song when I was pregnant. I felt both the melody and lyrics so deeply, that I named my baby Sarah after it. For some reason it had to have an 'h' at the end. I'm instantly back in 1978 when I hear this song.
I used to have this neighbor who was a christian musician.......I never did find out if she made money at it or not but she was really good. She sounded a lot like Joan Baez and played a portable organ. She would practice in her bathroom often not knowing I was sitting at my desk listening in on the other side of the wall. When she moved out I kept thinking I still heard her voice sometimes....it was so strange. I guess I missed hearing her voice.
Interesting, of all the women mentioned, they did not include Barbara Streisand, whom which Bob admitted within the last several years that he had written "Lay Lady, Lay", although maybe never a love interest, but a passing desire over the years, or at least during the time in which the song was written, recorded and released.
@BobDylan-official I am a big Beatles fan & my #2 fav band of all time is Led Zeppelin. I am a retired woman living on a fixed income no money to meet anyone. I believe the person behind this official address to be a poser. So I'm calling you out. I don't for one minute to believe this is Bob Dylan. So who ever YOU are have a good evening & 👋 good bye. Sincerely Deb Klingler retired in good Ole NJ.
Narcissists can never be true to anyone but their own neurotic egos but that does not negate Dylan’s outsized talent as a great songwriter and there is no question that these varied relationships fed that eclectic and brilliant song catalog.
I'm not sure this guy should have a UA-cam channel. I've found not all his " facts " are anywhere close to accurate. Should be taken with a grain of salt
Yes I knew Sara L was the love of his life. He said in his bio that had he not met her he probably would have ended up a drunk/drug addict on the streets. She gave him the comfort & safety of a loving home & being a father was what really saved him.
@@susannapretzel3180 the one Martine Scorsese did on Netflix. He also did one on The Band but Robbie Robertson basically told the story from his perspective. according to Wiki Susan Elizabeth Rotolo was his greatest love, but they only dated for 3yrs. He gives her credit for having the greatest influence on his music, but to me that doesn’t count as being his greatest love who he had 6 children with!
I often wondered about whom Bob wrote "Idiot Wind." That's one of the most brutal musical take-downs ever; way more harsh than the line from "Don't Think Twice, . . ." "You just sorta wasted my precious time."
For me he's the best songwriter of all time by some distance. Saw him in Zurich and Sheffield and the shows were a tad disappointing though as Bob mumbled and was lost in the rhythm of his backing band.
@@RadiantStar8997 Saw him live a few years ago in Wallingford CT. Had never seen him live before and figured as a child of the sixties myself it was a show I just had to see. Scored a single ticket in the third row. Could not understand a word he said. Recognized a few songs only by the tune. Was hoping for an intermission so I could get up and leave without being too obvious but, alas, he played straight through. It was painful.
It sounds to me like he never really made his mind up, working on the old adage of 'When I'm not with the one I love, then I love the one I'm with ….'.
Look, I love, love, love Bob Dylan and his music. A bit obsessed even. But let’s not idolize the man; he’s fallen and flawed like all of us, and he wouldn’t want it IMO. Dylan acted terribly at times while married - if you’re cheating on your spouse and getting drunk often, etc., you’re not an ideal spouse (to put it mildly) and are not being a good person at those times. But here’s the thing: I don’t think Bob would disagree with any of that, so why should his fans try to excuse it? The big silver lining, of course, is that without the failed marriage, we wouldn’t have one of the greatest albums ever: Blood on the Tracks. Edit to add one other thing: I think there’s something to be said for not trying to know too much about your musical or literary heroes in their private lives. There’s something to be said for a bit of mystery, and just focusing on the art. Which is why I appreciate Dylan largely refusing to explain any meaning behind his songs (we all *know* that BOTT was largely written about his failing marriage (even his son confirms it), but Bob likely will deny it till his dying day. Bob seems very content to let each listener put their own meaning and interpretation on his songs and lyrics.
Its not that simple, the cheating and drinking started after he fell into a deep depression about the fact his marriage was already falling apart and him and Sara were growing distant. He genuinely made a serious effort for her when they first got married when he dissapeared and moved into the country to raise a family.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane that does not follow what *Dylan himself* has admitted and lamented about. Where are you getting this info? Bob is human. He’s been open about his own failings and regrets over the years. With respect, no need to paint Bob as a victim of circumstance when he himself has rejected that explanation. (This is not to say that he alone is responsible for his marriage or relationships failing-life usually isn’t that simple-just that his actions were a significant contributing factor, which he’s talked about.) In any event, at least we have a silver lining to the breakdown of his marriage. While I wouldn’t wish divorce on anyone, especially a couple with a kid, I think we can all agree that if they were going to divorce anyway, then-as I said before -we were very fortunate to get an absolute classic album out if it (probably my favorite Dylan album). And as I edited the above comment to add: it’s probably better to just focus on the art rather than the artist’s personal life. So I’ll take my own advice and stop here. Feel free to have the last word. Great taste in music. Cheers.
@@HoyaSaxaSD When did I ever say that Bob was not human? everyone has issues and regrets including him. But you made it sound like he was cheating and drinking too much the minute he and Sara got married, those issues came later during his 1974 tour and were a product of a much deeper issue becase he and Sara were already seperated all but legally by then, this is something nobody seems to metion. Nobody really knows what caused them to grow apart, all I was trying to say was that cheating and drinking were not what caused them to grow distant and seperate because those things were just results of the breakdown of their marriage. Nobody is painting Bob as a victim and he is far too intelligent to ever paint himself as one but its not like he was the sole reason they grew apart
Unfortunately, that lifestyle breeds infidelity and dishonesty. I'm forever surprised at the super models who marry rock stars and then later get a divorce because he was fooling around on her. Hey, you knew he was a rock star when you married him and you married him anyway. No matter how good the sex is or how attractive they can be there is always one better in the sack and in the mirror and guys are only gonna say no so many times. That's reality.
Same, it's more of a surprise when rock stars DONT cheat since it's so common. I can never understand why people will marry hard partying celebrities, best case scenario the relationship is over once the Honeymoon period ends and worst case scenario things explode in their faces or someone cheats on someone else.
A person is only as good as their options. Rock stars have many options all the time and they get bored. Plain and simple. They cheat because it’s easy for them. Because they can! Non celebrities too. To think that if someone cheated on someone else for you that they won’t do it to you is just stupid and naive. Truth!
I have a friend who is a bit of a Dylanologist and he's convinced that the Blonde on Blonde album is largely about a love triangle, with songs depicting how Bob was torn at the time between his feelings for Sara Lownds and Edie Sedgwick.
That's what I've always got from it. It's obvious that the songs "Fourth Time Around/Most Likely You Go Your Way" and "Sad Eyed Lady" are not about the same girl.
@@maryoconnor9360 If she’s the girl in Like A Rolling Stone, and I think she is, it doesn’t sound like he was crazy about her…..although it sounds like he mourned her later on after her tragic passing
@@joemarshall4226 Interesting. Could be. The songs of his past relationships are full of sorrow and regret. It's as tho many years have to pass before he realizes how much he may have lost and/or how much a person actually meant to him. That's usually what happens to most of us. Oh ya - he's human . And a great one at that.
I think Dylan is a unique kind of a spirit relentlessly confident and comfortable in his own skin at whatever time hes in.... Never afraid of not pleasing everyone he may have appeared to be accepting his faults ,mistakes ,and defeats too casually when I believe he was. only embracing the role of a mere mortal man.... With all the his incredible and remarkable accomplishmets and achievements - he is far ahead of normal in so many ways. He is simply an extremely well read genious with a deeply sensitive soul who wildly envisions great ideas, happenings ,and places - and who has been chosen to be given the most beautiful and prophetic words by a cosmos only he traveled to ......and then he magically puts those words to music and THEN it was decided he would spread ALL OF THAT throughout the land for all to hear. So try to be a regulart guy , who laughs and loves and only wants to be loved back and like everyone else is trying to find the happiness , contentment and love - that he so well deserves amidst all of that....I bet that was quite the ride and I bet it isnt and wasnt easy. ❤
Excellent profile of an artist as a human being. But an anomaly as one of the most significant as well as strategic leading creative force’s of nature. Well done.
As it was said earlier. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Sara, Blood on the Tracks. We did not need this video to know the answer to the question. But a good job on the video none the less.
he's a great poet who learned his craft by studying and borrowing other great artists' work. it's all good. who he loved is his business alone. p.s. his photo looks just like him and isn't airbrushed like martha stewart's. bet you didn't think those 2 names would be used in the same sentence!
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Then he shouldn't have cheated on her over and over, or beat her. He was scum.
Creative men can be very egotistical. Most creative women have a more balanced attitude. Or am I being sexist !!
Seemed to be a lot of overlapping of women.
@@jan_phd Unfortunately creative geniuses tend to love on the edge. I've known a few in my time.
@@deegeraghty9426 you're being sexist. Thanks for asking, though!
I met Bob Dylan while working night shift at a hotel in KCMO where he and his band stayed. As was the case most times famous people would wander down in the middle of the night when it was less busy. There was a piano in a lounge just off the main area near front desk. Several musicians including Jon Waite and the like, would play piano for 2 or 3 hours with no audience and no one really knowing who they were.
We knew they were there and while we weren't allowed to approach they, in Bob's case, he simply came down at 4am and struck up a conversation. Being night manager, I could move us to the back office. He was quite talkative and explained the stories behind several of his songs. He was just like you and me only he was very lonely it seemed. I could've listened to him for hours. I only had up until the next shift arrived. That was too soon at 7am.
He was a perfect gentleman, I will add. Thanks Bob. You signed every album I brought. They were my older boyfriends, and you were his favorite songwriter singer.
Let's hear the stories!
has anybody ever seen this guy smile? he has a grey cloud that follows him everywhere
@@mtsky-tc6uw I saw him smile in the Rollin' Thunder Revue documentary. He made a joke that it was "So long ago I wasn't even born yet" and he cracked a small smile
I would have believed you if you did not say he signed the albums.
@@mattdavis911 there are no stories. This is completely fabricated and never happened
Bob played in Canberra, Australia, in about 2001. I saw him having a coffee and smoke outside of a cafe down the road from where I lived. I was going to say something and he looked at me as if to say, so I thought, 'go on, say something original's. I closed my mouth and nodded respectfully and he returned the nod. I read Chronicles when it came out in which he wrote that he liked to meet strangers and jam. Big regret for me as I lived up the road and had several guitars and amps. I wish I had of been brave enough to speak to him. None the less, I shared a nod and that was magic. Thanks for being who you are Bob.
I’m a 20 year old student. Here living in canberra never knew he came here, I think thats because i wasn’t even born yet😂. Anyway great story thanks for sharing😊
@@zkkkk.8889 thanks for reading that. I have somehow skirted on the edge of the music scene from 1975 onwards. I think Dylan played in Canberra at least twice. Also of note, Marianne Faithful and Ray Davies, of the Kinks, at different times in the 1990, played in Canberra and I didn’t get to see them
Joan Baez had her voice long before she met Bob Dylan. Her first album is a singing and guitar masterpiece.
EXACTLY. She NEVER needed Bob to help her career. SHE made sure he got his foot in the door of success. Voice of an angel. Love her
On the contrary, it's bob who needed her to make him known to audiences who didn't know him at that time.
Before she became a political mouthpiece, she had a special gift. Her first two albums are even as good as Bob's best performances of folk songs.
@@malemsaid6699 Exactly! Joan was the established one at 17 years of age. Bob used her to launch HIS success..
Just have to listen to the song: ‘Sara’,, and you can hear the love he has for her.. 🫶
Joan Baez "found her voice" long before she met Dylan and had already recorded a couple of albums. He hitched a ride on her success, appearing on stage many times at her invitation, and hurting her deeply when he failed to return the compliment after she travelled with him on a UK tour.
Yes but she hitched a ride on his song writing.
Perhaps but she paid a high price. I think it is true to say he was the love of her life.
He was the love of her life and he hurt her bad,y.,
@@sharonramsey715 Many hitched a ride on Dylan’s songwriting Years before that Dylan’s star rose BECAUSE of Joan’s fame and her willingness to pull him up
Yes, he used her to move on ahead. But Sara is the one who provided a real love irrespective of his fans and he never got over her leaving him.
Joan Baez' song about her relationship with Dylan is called "Diamonds and Rust" NOT "Diamonds." It was also the name of the album. It was a top 10 Billboard hit when it was released in 1976 and rose to #5. It is considered her best composition.
I am constantly amazed at how videos like this make really ignorant statements indicating that, with all the technology available, they can't take literally 2 minutes of searches to find and report accurate information.
Every fan knows that Sara was the love of Dylan's life.. but i"m amazed that this video ignores perhaps his greatest love song, dedicated to her... "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." The use of "Lowlands"was meant to hint at "Lownds." The song "Sara" has a line that states he wrote "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you."
My friend, Joan herself stated that "Diamonds And Rust" was written not about Dylan, but about her husband David Harris. The information is available in her autobiography, "And A Voice To Sing With."
@@carlmassengale1027 Well, I'll be damned!
@@Tribblejuice You need not be damned over that. Some internet sources declare she was only fooling when she said the above, and that later interviews may be interpreted to indicate it was indeed about Dylan. Forgive - I took Joan's word the first time. Complication makes things more mysterious, so supposedly more interesting.
@@carlmassengale1027 Just trying to be punny by quoting the first line of Diamonds and Rust song:}
30 years ago, i was testing out a Takamine in a guitar store and sang this song. The young man working there asked if I wrote it. He should know better, selling guitars.
"Hey 19, don't remember Aretha Franklin." Or Steely Dan. Or Joan Baez.
yeah, Sure I did, kid-me and Judas Priest.
Hauntingly beautiful song in Minor. And low enough for us Alto's to sing:}
I was raised on Dylan...his lyrics and music. I am thankful. Also, see him everytime he's close. We will never have another Dylan...he's one of our treasures.
Joey Dugan is the closest….
My boyfriend bought me and my dad tickets for his upcoming concert an hour away from our town. I'm so excited, it's only 2 weeks away now and it's my first time ever seeing Bob in concert ❤
@@callanightshade8079 Be prepared to be disappointed. I have rarely met someone who enjoyed them, but there are some people.....the songs will not sound like they did on his recordings, it might be difficult to understand him. He usually doesn't talk muc, although a friend who saw a fairly recent concert said he preached the whole time....He's a RECORDING ARTIST
@@joemarshall4226Bollocks! Dylan stopped preaching in 1980. 😂
@@callanightshade8079 Enjoy 🙂
Suze Rotolo was a childhood playmate. She was one of the sweetest and most talented kids I knew. Our parents were also good friends. RIP Suze.
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I have her book freewheelin ❤
Bob and she were 19 and 17 when they got started.
@@joemarshall4226 I think he means that he (not Bob) knew Suze from his childhood.
Thank you that. I always thought that she was a sweetheart. She gave so much to Dylan. She introduced him to Verlaine and Rimbaud.
No song ever captured the heartache I felt than Bob Dylan's 1975 song from Blood on the Tracks called A Simple Twist of Fate. The whole album is classic. I always presumed he must have truly loved whoever he wrote it for.
In my opinion, Dylan's greatest album among a lifetime of great albums. "A Simple Twist of Fate" is a masterpiece. But let's face it, the whole damn album is a masterpiece. He is the greatest American poet of the twentieth century. The Nobel Prize Committee got it right.
@@nocoz007 If you see her say hello.
I've always thought Sara was and is his true love.
It's a song about a one night stand.....sounds like a prostitute....but sometimes you start writing about something and it turns into something else....
His first wife Sara Lowdes.
"Boots of Spanish Leather" is the quietest, most distant love song I've ever heard. That song makes me want to take a long walk...alone. Beautiful song!
“I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky
When the children were babies and played on the beach.
You came up behind me, I saw you go by
You were always so close and still within reach.”.
Growing up I was more into the sound of the music than the words of the song… till I heard Dylan (and the Beatles). This whole album is wonderful and the song Sara paints a perfect picture in my mind.
You think that's " great poetry "..???! Never heard of Yeats ,
Shelley , Tennyson , Keats , Eliot
etc etc..?? Unbelievable !!
One of the greatest love songs ever written.
What a musical genius Bob Dylan is. One never tired of listening to his music.
It's not just the poetry, it's not just the clever melodies, the rhymes and rhyme schemes, and interesting chords....its the performance...the man is a master actor-singer.
@@joemarshall4226 well yes, Dylan never tired of listening....to himself......hes on permanent replay
I got tired of his voice very soon after first hearing it. He did nothing for me at all. Now, Leonard Cohen is a different matter entirely. Much better IMO.
I did.
the Picasso of Rock Music
I've listened to Dylan's music my entire life. It's played pivotal moments in my life, songs shared between my lover and myself over 40 years. And i can tell you, they can say what they will, but the passion that connects Joan and Bob, is tight...has stood the test of time.
Listen to Diamonds and Rust. (By the way this is what the bumbling narrator was trying to refer to here, gee do your homework)...."Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again, but it's not that unusual"....
"Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there".
You can only write lyrics like this when your mind and heart are in sync with each other. They very much loved each other. In the PBS special mentioned here...for Dylan to apologize to "Joni", after so so many years, that's a heart that's held onto passion. If only ❤❤
Yeah, but you left out the last line -- "I've already paid." The deep hurt was still there for her.
Bob has been a lifetime enigma, but his songwriting will always be a window into his soul thoughts.
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Agree! His lyrics took my heart at a very young age. Love him. ❤
Yes the songs that Bob actually wrote are memorable
Some songs credited to him that he did not actually write...are even more memorable.
"Lifetime Enigma" is appropriate. True that.
It was like the 60’s had an electric current that triggered a LOT of original creativity in music in the US and England. So MANY new voices and new bands!
"...he proposed to Mavis Staples, but she turned him down."
Boy, thats a pretty superficial sentence to use, to dismiss what Dylan himself described as "true love".There arent a whole lot of women who Bob actually proposed to.
I wonder why the video wants to overlook Mavis, when she's a heck of a lot more famous - and interesting - than any of the others mentioned.
Interesting little video. I live in Greenwich Village and my friend owns a bookstore across the street from where this photo on the album cover was taken. he had a few photos from that very day he showed me. He was, and is a good friend of Bob's. I got to know most of the guys in The Band over the years and have been friends for decades now. The Village is the place dozens of guitar players came into being. Hanging out in WSP playing around the fountain and other jams in the neighborhood are always fun.
He wrote Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for Sara - all 14 minutes of it! Joan Baez wrote Diamonds and Rust for him...
never tire of that song
Joan was the diamond and he was obviously the rust.
I believe Jackson Browne wrote D and R
I am wrong.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lownds
As a working musician for over 50 years and counting, I was guided by country music, which advises never to get romantically involved with a musician. As for Dylan, I believe him to be one of the greatest poets of our time. He took gorgeous ballads and reworked them to tell contemporary stories. I was delighted when he was awarded the Nobel. The less I know about his personal life, the happier I am. Didn't know he was in a romantic relationship with Joan Baez, who I also hold in great esteem for her continuing support for Non Violent Direct action. They both deserve all the acolades they have been given over decades.
If you want to talk about poetry, you need to read Jim Morrison‘s book of poetry called The American Night
That’s interesting you didn’t know about Baez, in my young romantic mind I just assumed they were together
He was indeed a great poet, but he had an absolutely awful voice!
You are right on, sistuh...
You are correcto, sistuh! Gracias...
Amazing the guy had any time to write music .
He is different from you and I
He is driven!
Hahahahaha
I can only wonder his body count
😂,
Baez was already famous in folk and music circles. She had found “her voice” when Dylan was still searching for his, and which we really don’t hear until 1965 Bring It All Back Home. Joan Baez wasn’t the reason Dylan went electric, not sure how you got that. Dylan wanted out of the entire folks scene & didn’t buy into being labeled “the voice of a generation” as he was in 1963-64. He wanted to be a songwriter/entertainer, not a prophet. Going electric was for Dylan was inevitable. Joan had little to do with it other than being in the same Folk fan camp that boo’ed him of stage at his electric gig at Newport.
Bob Dylan seems as elusive as his songs. You reach out, but contact makes him run. I've experienced enough guys like him. He can be sweet, but only when it doesn't inconvenience him. I don't know him personally, but my intuitive life experience points to these assertions.
@@CarmelaRoseRosse In a relationship, you reach out and they often run. They run their entire loves making it very difficult to reach emotionally or intellectually. Bob has been on the never ending tour for the last 35 years. That is his way of running non-stop.
You have to do a bit of living to have that kind of insight.
He’s a Gemini and the less evolved expression of Gemini matches Dylan’s running, as you say, and surface intimacy. He seems to direct most of his intimacy into his writing, utilizing the relationships in his life as inspiration, but his closest relationship being with the poetry of the songs. Gemini, also being very good with words and collecting the inspiration of ideas and information as a palette for their own art.
A landlady of mine in the 70s told me that Dylan ran around on his wife, her niece, until he brought a girl into their home. That was too much for her and I guess she threw him out? Anyway, I just couldn’t get over this information back then. He’s not a great guy.
Dylan's married to the world. Its women and people filter through him. It's fun to amuse ourselves and get concrete, but Sara, like Suze, is also a muse, and Dylan's a myth maker. What would it be like to live with a musical genie?
Who are you be falling in love with? I don't blame Sara for leaving Dylan. She's vulnerable, soft and concrete. He explores soul, and like Leonard Cohen, the soul of woman are his fables. Dylan's earthy and looks down, instead of climbing the spiritual ladder and moving up. His ballads can be dark and biting.
I read he may be an aspie? If true, it explains a lot to me. I'm one too. There can be a facility with words, a critical edge, an overdeveloped conscience, alienation with a desire to hook up, lots of frustration, broad and deep perception, lots of searching and saying, a sense you're of this world, but are different and can see through its lies and deceptions. You can de-struct and re-construct with ease. You're an outlier, even an outlaw, but with a nagging conscience. I've never met Dylan, but I know him as we all do in our own way. It's easy to see why you might love Bob Dylan, why we all do, and why it might be just too much, and you, like him, have the urge to get some space.
it is interesting and I like to know more about Asperger.
WOW interesting and frightening in a good way!
I appreciate your characterization of him in the way I have always appreciated him. One way in which I identify with him, is as a Gemini.Not a fan of hero worship, but this started when I was young, and I never grew out of it. Now, maybe both he and I can transition out of here with peace.
One of the true song writers of our time!!! Way beyond genius level!!!!!!
and when asked what was youre inspiration - how did you write them. I really do believe that some song writers tune in and it moves through them like magic. in a way they are not really responsible. i believe that.
Dylan's song "Idiot Wind", featured on his BLOOD ON THE TRACKS album, is also about Sara, with lines like "You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe". Those who accompanied Dylan's 1976 ROLLING THUNDER tour swear Bob sang it directly to his wife in the audience, and so does his son Jakob, who once told the press "The whole BLOOD album is about my parents' divorce".
Yes but what about the line”We are idiots babe, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves” Dylan taking equal responsibility for his part. If you check every album you will find a song for Sara.
@@sharonramsey715 Agreed, Sharon. But the "we" here refers not only to Dylan and Sara but the whole country, "from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol".
@@angel4everable So very true. Yes Dylan could sum the country up in a line, that is the beauty of his writing. Look at his song Murder most foul. Amazing.
"Now everything's a little upside-down as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped. What's good is bad, what's bad is good you'll find out when you've reached the top you're on the bottom." This is my favorite line from all of Dylans songs.
I have a personal theory about a lot of Dylan songs like Idiot Wind, Ballad of a Thin Man and others where he is being hyper-critical of someone (nobody does that better "I can't even touch the books you've read is perhaps the most damning music lyric of all time). I think that the songs begin being about the person he is angry with but at some point he turns the song back on himself. I think he is sufficiently self-aware to realize that the flaws he sees in others are actually flaws he knows exist within him.
It was rather Joan Baez who promoted him, in this time she was already famous as a folk singer, but no one knew him, she invited him to sing on stage at the Newport folk festival, his first stage in front of a large audience, without her he would have had much more difficulty, I even think she gave him a guitar, her legendary Martin 0-45JB...
Outside of knowing he sold his entire catalogue, the rest of your content was News to me. I only know he was a prolific Songwriter and many of his works were hits for other artists. “My Back Pages,” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” by the Byrds, “It Ain’t Me Babe” by the Turtles, and the Amazing rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimmy Hendrix. I actually remember the first time I heard “Like a Rolling Stone” in the Summer of 1965. I was in my backyard getting my gear ready for a Boy Scout camping trip. That song blew me away from the very beginning! And over 6 minutes long?!!! Thanks to KRLA in Los Angeles for playing it!!! I have never tired of the song either. Can’t get past the lyrics and the organ parts! On a personal note, my Sisters favorite artist was Bob Dylan. She actually got to meet him at Cal Berkeley. I was on the phone with the nurse that told me she was just leaving this earth. What are the odds on that one? After telling my Wife and young Daughter that Aunt Susan went to Heaven, we turned on the TV, which happened to be on MTV and “Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heavens Door” video was playing!!! This was Jan 1, 2000. I’ve never met Bob Dylan, but I will ALWAYS be connected to him! Thanks again for your great work Mr. Blaine! ❤
how about his throaways like Wagon Wheel and the ballad of easy rider both of which were based on his partial but integral input
@tpatrick44
Springsteen said " the first time i heard _Like a Rolling Stone_ it felt like someone kicked open the door to my mind"
Bob is an amazing Painter too!
Hi. Fellow KRLA listener. Grew up in Southern California also.
Lots of memories
I only want to add that Sarah was 5 or 6 months pregnant when she married Bob. Bob seems to not believe in abortion, to wit the line, “they kill babies in the cribs and say only the good die young.” On the other hand, Suze terminated a child she and Bob had conceived. Although, we think that Bob betrayed her with Joan, I wish I knew which betrayal came first.
Bob Dylan's greatest album remains "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," recorded when he was not yet 22 years old. Suze Rotolo, his girl friend at the time, was his muse on that album. She, more than anyone, helped him to develop his style.
Haha. It "remains" his "greatest" does it? According to you, great... but not according to lots and lots of others (including me)!
And hopefully they don't think that their 'greatest' choice "remains" as definitively as you do ;)
Dylan's "greatest" album is usually the most recent peak of a wave that punctuates Dylan's career. Highway 61 Revisited, then Blonde on Blonde, then Blood on the Tracks, then ..., then ..., then ..., up through Time out of Mind (IMHO). Calling the first his "greatest" is confusing "first" with "best".
The six albums that began with Freewheelin" are all amazing. Anyone of them could be picked for the top spot. Times They ARe A-Changin', Another Side of Bob Dyaln, Bringin' It All Back Home, Highway 61, Then the double album, Blonde on Blonde. NEw Morning Came close to those. Desire was really good, but the only album that rivalled the early ones was Blood On The Tracks.
@@joemarshall4226 That is, of course, just your opinion, but Dylan didn't stop putting out generation-defining music in 1975. Time out of Mind especially is widely considered to be a masterpiece to stand right alongside his others.
@@taivo55 I think a lot of that came from the attention that came when Bob Almost died at the time. Bob's name had been on the back burner for a while, and then suddenly, his desperate situation gave him a lot of attention. I don't think that the album rates with the others. This is my opinion of course,a all of it. But those early albums are so DEEP with poetry, ideas, and lovely tunes.....it's really hard for the later ones to measure up.
It's true that for many of us, there is a "love of our life" but in most cases, that is the last love of one's life. I had two marriages and lots of lovely love affairs, but my greatest love was my soul mate husband of twenty-five years. When I met him - the man I consider "the love of my life" - it did not end until his passing, and even then, he is still and always will be, the love of my life. Think about it: if this is true, why would you/they be with anyone else?
I know Bob did not meet that woman who undertands him and his special needs yet.
Why ... why, indeed?!!
Suze Rotolo left New York in June 1962, and moved to Italy with her mother. Bobby composed "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", for Suze, not for Ian Tyson as he claims.
As well as "Spanish boots of Spanish Leather"
Dylan is a genius. He is more than a great songwriter. He is a great storieteller and the greatest living poet and the one of the greatest poet of all the times. He continues to perform well now, in the stages around the world and writing books and song. All with the same quality as always.
What is an example of one of his greatest poems ever written?
@@writereducator try listening to the songs listed below and you'll understand. I hope
Mrs tambourine man, changing of guards, man in the long black coat, chimes of freedom, precious angel, is not dark yet, sweetheart like you, the times they are changing, like a rolling stones, knocking on havens doors, jokerman, idiot wind, senor, simple twist of fate, my back pages, shelter from the storm, a hard rain a gonna fall, girl from north country, blind willie mctell, mamma youve been on my mind, all along the watchtower, forever young. Just to start.
@@mariodonizetepelissaro9923 Just choose one and tell me why it is greater than any poem by say, William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
He's one of the great singer/songwriters for sure, up there with Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, and his song lyrics are often very good within the context of the songs, but as a poet he barely makes the grade. Yep, he writes great songs, but not great poetry. Great poets? Yeats, Eliot, and Auden, for example, are high level poets.
Agree, but NOT the nicest man in the world. .
If you look at the album credits for "Desire", Emmylou Harris sings the backup harmonies, not the two women cited in this video. The one exception is "Hurricane", whereon Ronnie Blakely sings harmony. Maybe they added extra backup, but they are not cited, and it's definitely Emmylou's voice that one hears on that album harmonizing with Dylan...
I grew up, listening to my brothers blasting Bob Dylan
I Albums, since I was very young. I know every word of every song on every album. My brothers and I went to all of his concerts in NYC I always wish I could have met him. ❤ I’m 65 years old now, and still one of his greatest fans. During those years, though, my oldest brother Charles, also introduced us to The Band & I Phil Ochs. Their music is what I listen to most all the time.
I had the same experience. My oldest brother is a few months older than Bob and came home to NYC from the Berkeley Free Speech movement with a copy of Freewheeling under his arm. Then my third oldest brother got hooked and played him relentlessly. Both are gone now. The younger one ordered that the Dylan albums would play at his wake, which they did.
His daughter Ann Dylan, married a Lerman who is my second cousin. He was aloof at the wedding and told his entourage that no one could stare at him.
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@@FactsVerse I am obsessed with Harry and Meghan because they are living or rather going down such a destructive path. If you could take your expertise and explain what you think, that would be great.
I love Lady Colin Campbell who explains Harry and Meghan.
I love British Royal Rising who is comical and informative but unfortunately does not give his name or background.
I like Black Belt Barrister who explains the law from the English perspective.
Take a look at the backdrop of Lady Colin and how she dresses and places jewelry on. The aesthetic look is very important.
@@FactsVerse Another youtuber who I adore his writing of, who describes Meghan and Harry is "George the Slayer". Meghan and Harry are like a Medieval Play or Greek Tragedy.
WTF!?
@@sail1292 Dear Sail, Greetings. I guess you are saying it does not matter whether a relative married his relative. I could see that. Sincerely, Melinda
What a man. He would be the first to confirm that he lived a full life and the best part is, he's still alive and playing. Go Bob GO!!
The best thing he ever said was that Elvis sun sessions are the most creative and best music ever .
This is an easy one- his song Sara is one of the most genuine romantic songs ever written, beautiful and inspiring; one can feel the muse Sara was to him.
I absolutely believe Sara was the love of Bob’s life. He created 4 beautiful children with her. I don’t understand how she didn’t melt hearing the song Sara. She must have been deeply hurt.
I agree, I think she was the love of his life. I know he begged her not to leave, but I think she was hurt too deeply by his constant cheating.
Coming downstairs to the dining room table and finding Bob and his new girlfriend there probably put a damper on her feelings for a while.
I think she wanted to leave, but stayed with him for about 2 more years after hearing Sara before she finally left for good. He called her to the studio the day he recorded Sara.
Don't know him much but sounds narcissistic...
Dylan always put himself #1. He used every woman he was with in one way or another. He hand-picked Sara to produce designer babies, the attachment to her came afterwards. He never intended to be loyal to any woman.
Arguably his most passionate song, Sara, off the Desire album tells the whole story. The song reeks with honest, direct emotion without mincing of words. Unlike a lot of his work, there is no guessing about what he is singing about here.
I absolutely agree and I love that song so much!
@@Soffenoffe it might be my favorite of his. It was, hands down, my favorite- until I heard Dark Eyes, which causes me doubt. Just thinking of that song sends chills through me. He wrote it on demand from his producer who wanted him to flesh out the album Empire Burlesque, which was mainly an attempt to go along with the slick musical times. The producer wanted a tune that was more traditional Dylan. Amazingly, on demand, he wrote it in his hotel room the night before recording it. As a songwriter myself, I have to wonder, how can someone come up with such a beautifully wondrous song on demand in one night and be ready to perform it perfectly the next day? Where did he find the inspiration???
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@@bobdylanrobertzimmerman5803 of course I would. How much are you going to charge me? LOL.
Wow, I actually had never heard "Dark Eyes" in spite having been a huge fan of Dylan since my early teens, for over 20 years, but I had to listen to it after reading what you wrote about it, and it is indeed immensely beautiful! I was immediately touched by it. Thank you for telling me about it!
Many creative people are on a different wave length from the moment they are born.
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Yes, they often have massive egos
True that. I understood completely when Dylan tried to explain the songs just "be"", they just "exist", almost on their own.A poet I spoke to once said, "...the words just come. They come constantly. They come to him so insistently it almost drives him crazy.
I love him It wasn't til I was 50 that I grew to appreciated his writing and music.Hes had a rich life indeed ❤
Glad to know that you're a fan of Bob. In your opinion, what is his finest song?
When we are young we listen to the music... as we grow older we listen to the words!
@@FactsVerse personally just like a woman and I love Knocking on heaven's door plus, Don't think twice! There are many songs that I love that Robert Zimmerman does! ✌🏼
Sarah Lownds was Bob’s wife for seven (?) years, or longer. They had 5 children together. His second wife was one of his “backup” group and he also had a child with her.
Suze Rotolo was in a much younger time. And he did love her, but she had what we use to call “emotional problems.”
I don't really care. I always liked his music, but there are are a lot of singers-musicians, actors, etc that I liked too. What they did in their lives is their business.
The true love of Dylan was Dylan
Stupid remark! He love Sara they had 5 kids and he written many songs about her and how he feels
There weren’t too many half way attractive women of that era I wouldn’t have left Joan Baez for. Who wants a weird woman who swings both ways and thinks she’s Joan of Arc?
All his loves were noting more than GOYUM.....
@@JamesMiller-q9w that’s a bit unkind don’t you think , didn’t Dylan himself convert at one point .
Well if that’s true he has excellent taste.
He's beyond the best . Absolutely love him . Man of many talents . Great at all . There will never be another Bob Dylan . ❤
Leonard Cohen should've gotten the Pulitzer and Dylan knew so well he didn't go get it.
No, but then there never was another Woody Guthrie either...
except Burt Bacharach. or antonio jobin. or carol king. or ............
@@edandmjohnson8636 or Elvis Costello or Van Morrison etc. But Dylan has to be the most important songwriter ever individually for his profound importance to Civil Rights and Like A Rolling Stone.which made practically everything that hit top 40 before that even The Beatles catchy hits sound like How Much Is That Doggie in the window lyrically.
@@vernpascal1531 Agree so much. 💯
Yes, from the very moment you asked the question " who was the love of his life .... obviously Sara, as he wrote " Desire " after their breakup. He brought a woman home , INTO THEIR kitchen, sat at the table, with this woman, wearing Sara's Bathrobe.... He gave no explanation for the woman being there...... that's when Sara had enough. Which I don't blame her a bit , 💖👑🌻✡
That's a real ass.
Still. The prettiest love song of all time. Sara
Also, Wedding Song "Gave me babies one, two, three" has cool lyrics
@@rossosbornfamilyfoundation3536
Roos, fabulous notation of Bob’s great music. 🎶🎸🎶⭐️🧡⭐️
@@CarmelaRoseRosse
Bob cares about his children deeply. He takes care of their person lives, & how do you think Jacok became a great guitarist….his father gave him “ time”. Sara and Bib still have a friendship, as they have children together, this is like many of our generation…. Sara raised the children, and Bob spent time with them. I won’t go into personal details, however he & Sara support one another when it comes to the children, all these years ago.
Most Mother’s that are divorced are the “ caregivers “ of their children. She is beautiful ( a model when she met Bob). Yet he has played a part in her life after his winds healed a bit.
Listen to “ Desire “ and tell me how sorry he is for what he has done to Sara …. He begs her to let him come home…
I doubt he ended the romance with Joan Baez over musical differences. Love so much of his music that was a big part of so many lives and that era.
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Dylan, the ever cryptic bard. He’s not going to leave us laughing as he goes. And to think that I, the Queen of Florida Folk music wrote that I still harbored the desire to play in his band…I’d bring my resonator, banjo, a diddly stick, a hand made in 1968 dulcimer, a cajon (sit on drum with foot pedal), and more..Of course the obligatory rack with harmonicas in many keys.
And I’ll be wearing my “Boots of Spanish Leather”…
To him Joan was goyim, not allowed in his religion.
@@wildforjesus5806 I doubt that very much.
@@wildforjesus5806 I also doubt that. Too many of his love interests, such as Suze Rotolo and Joan Baez, were not Jewish born.
Yes Sarah is the love of his life. She is also the subject of Red River Shore, in which he quotes the advice she famously gave him "Go home and lead a quiet life". And we get an expression of the enduring regret at losing her, and acknowledgement of her anchoring presence - "Sometime I think nobody ever saw me here at all except the girl form the red river shore." and why 'red river' - that is the (perhaps subliminal) awareness of her soft pink aura. Many do not know that song - have a listen!
might also be a reference to the the song "Red River Valley"
That’s one of my favourite all time songs of his.
"her soft pink aura". . . . well, well . . .
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Thank you so much for your sharing your knowledge and insight, and for suggesting we listen to Red River Shore. Thanks to you I did listen and was moved and humbled once again by Bob Dylan's great courage to be emotionally honest and wisely musical at the same time. Listening to Red River Shore helps me realize anew that I'm not the only one with regrets about my mistakes in relationships, especially one mistake in particular.
Bob Dylan was not "one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time," he was the greatest and no one else comes close
Totally agree !
he is the greatest without a doubt
Or not.
I believe I would take John Lennon over Bob Dylan
Don t you mean he is?His music is still played and sung by everyone
It’s easy to feel privileged having lived in the 60s listening and seeing so many fantastic events in human history Mr Dylan being one of those greater. It may however have had a price both for them as for them being close. Being a human is very complexed, Mr Dylan has proven that in his work of art better than most.
the more human you are the more hurt you get
He changed popular music overnight..because he had something to say
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I sort of agree. Dylan did have something to say, but I would never put him above John Lennon. He did more than change music.
No other musician can recieve the Nobel literature prize. Extraordinary talent.
Joni Mitchell is next. she is totally awesome and more telented in my opinion.
Leonard Cohen should have
@@janelliott679 Yeah, I was gonna say this. Watch the classic video of her singing "Coyote" in Gordon Lightfoot's living room, with Bob attempting to strum along with her crazy chords. Bob clearly knows he's in the presence of genius.
In terms of sheer output of words, Bob wins, but as a singer, musician and live performer, Joni is obviously more talented. Not sure if the Nobel prize committee would consider that.
@@aquamarine99911 person ooh send a link? I've tried to find it.. I'm 🧓
@@janelliott679 Should have been Joni-her work overwhelms his "poetry." That year, might have been a good one for Ursula K. Le Guin too. He absolutely did not deserve that particular honor. As a song-writer, sure, not as a writer.
Joan Baez made Dylan's career by introducing him to record producers and the core folk music legends that she knew and that he did not. She introduced him to Pete Seeger who is the one who connected him to the Newport Folk Festival which catapulted his career. He treated Joan Baez like a groupie (in a bad way) when they went to England together. He was booked but did not want her to sing at the same venues. He wanted her waiting for him in the wings or at their hotel as if she, herself, was not a valued and massively popular singer/songwriter at the time. In fact, her name was more recognizable than his. She hated how he treated her and after that the break up happened -- tell that to your robot voice on this video.
Of course you only present a one sided and bias version of the story. Did you also know that Joan Baez was incredibly controlling and constantly harrassing Dylan to be a social warrior just like she was, Baez could never accept the fact he wrote the songs and that was enough, she could never accept him for who he was and she had admitted this herself.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I did
Not know that because "incredibly controlling" is an extremely subjective opinion and backed by zero facts. The same could be said of anyone on the planet. No, your opinion is your opinion. Not mine.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I know she later realized that Dylan could not be the man she hoped he could be. I have heard her get very critical of herself and if I were her friend I would tell her not to blame herself. She is and was a lovely and sensitive soul.
Guy has an EGO on him… 😒
@@clearfield2009 Hahaha a lovely and sensitive soul who knowingly cheated with Dylan while he was still with his previous girlfriend and then got upset when he dumped her for constantly pressuring him into political activism against his will. You claim that there are "zero facts" about Baez being controlling, yet she totally was. This can be easily found in not only Dylan biographies but also her own book. I saw a documentary when she flat out admitted that Bob suffered greatly under her constant attempts to dictate what he did with his own music.
I've always been a big fan of Bob's I do a tribute to him and sing many of his hits the insight he has into mankind is other worldly. Of course he is the best songwriter, and deserves all the awards he's gotten. He changed the poetry of song from I love you ,you love me, oh how happy we could be.. to You'd rather see me paralyzed, why don't you just come out once and scream it! That takes balls but was groundbreaking and opened the door to reality songs of deep feelings . He's the man in my book.
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There are many talented lyric writers who predated Bob Dylan. Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Hart, Sammy Cahn - these guys did more than sing about the moon in June etc. Dylan did write some of the most intelligent lyrics of my generation but he did not invent songs with meaningful lyrics he continued an established process.
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastor scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouths
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rut, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Thank you, couldn't have said it better. I am 62 and have read, felt, and interpreted poems by the likes of Blake, Synder, Baudelaire, Koch, Dickinson, Neruda, Milton, Poe, Angelou, Verlaine, Hugo, Frost, Whitman, Bridges, Hardy, Plath, Keats, Elliot, Pound Sappho, Rumi, and yes, Shakespeare, and more: and of course, I have reread some of their poems many many times over, and I love and cherish every single piece of their genius, but one thing is for sure I have listened to a single Dylan's song (and there are hundreds) more times than all the other poets combined, I have put some of his masterpieces on replay for hours (not just listening to the song, but reading the dripping intense lyrical poetry of his genius, and never ever getting tired of it. The thing about Dylan's ingenuity is that his Lyrics (the words, the poem, the story) speak to you equally if you are a sixth grader as if you are Anton Chekhov. His prose (if you don't value Dylan's phrasing and eloquence as real poetry) reaches you wherever you are, a thing that none of the Poetry Greats (mentioned above, and more) has done. Think of that! Merci @alanhoxie6950
It Ain't Me, Babe, the antithesis of a love song.
Joan Baez's song about Bob is titled "Diamonds and Rust", not just "Diamonds".
Actually the song was written about her ex-husband David Harris. David and Joan were activist together during the Vietnam War.
@@almorris171 no, she teased Dylan that it was, but of course they both knew it wasn't
Just an interesting side story... Around 1964 my Art Teacher Al Beck, told my class that he was a summer camp counselor for young people earlier in the 60's. Bob Dylan rode into the camp on his motorcycle with Joan Baez sitting on the back. If I remember correctly 1 of them was also working at the camp. He said the campfire music was exemplary.
His last album,”Rough and Rowdy Ways” is an absolute masterpiece. I highly recommend listening to it if you haven’t heard it..
I've heard it. It's sad to me. It's like watching Muhammad Ali before he died and comparing him to the days when he was a champ.
@@Firefoxy-rz1nw No you're wrong, there are some great songs on it.
@@Firefoxy-rz1nw His writing and vocals on that album are amazing, get a clue.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane I'm glad that you think you. I suspect that when we're all long gone, and the cult of personality has passed, the 60's and 70's material will be forever remembered. The clunky rhymes of the dirge, I Contain Multitudes, not so much. I'm delighted that you can convince yourself it's great.
@@Firefoxy-rz1nw Its not like I am the only one who recognizes how great the album is. It received criticial acclaim upon release from virtually everyone, that alone says something. I mean how can you listen tracks as fantastic as My Own Version of You, Key West and I Made Up My Mind and try to say he has lost it. His writing and his vocals are on point, you can believe it or not but that will not stop the majority of us giving Bob due credit for an amazing late career album. You speak very arrogantly for someones whos opinion is in the minority.
He wrote Tomorrow Is A Long Time for Suze, a very poetic song.
Four decades ago I walked away from the love of my life when he confessed he’d got someone else pregnant. Lay lady lay was playing on the bus station speakers. Stay lady stay…
"Fighting over home improvements"........... a Dylan tidbit I just love.
In the mid 1980s in Calgary Canada i worked in the ticket office at a downtown movie theatre and one cold mid week night ended up selling Bob Dylan and his two very attractive black female backup singers tickets to....Top Gun ! haha, never will forget the way Bob said " yeah mister we want 3 tickets for,,,,top gun!" haha
I spent 3 hours at a party in NYC circa 2008, speaking in a corner with Sally Kirkland. I always had a crush on her. She said she was involved with Bib for over 15 years. Once it ended it was almost impossible to reach him.
Bob Dylan had many women indeed. To many people it may sound amusing, but without women, a poet couldn’t be musing .behind every great man, there is a woman, or more than one , in the case of Bob Dylan.
Suze Rotolo's book A Freewheelin Time is highly recommended!
I believe that Sara the Mother of his Children was Bob's True love❤ and regrets ever splitting up
By the time Dylan came around to his senses, Sara had it up to her nose with Dylan. I think she was just plain done, and had had already emotionally divorced him.
He looks happy in the few public pictures we see of him with Sara. He didn't look happy once his career took off, until her.
I believe that Sara was Bob's true love and the mother of his children ❤️
didnt know anything about his private life just know he's one of the best singer/ songwriters of our time
ONE of the best singer-songwriters? THE greatest singer-songwriter. Full stop.
Beautiful words, thank you for your message for Bob. Which of his songs appealed to you the most?
Long story short Dylan was too busy being Dylan, he was in such a successful place to where he just couldn't love these women the way they should 🤷🏽
I knew about Sara Lownds. Also his album Blood on the Tracks, many of the songs were about Sara as well. His son said listening to that album was like watching his parents' relationship unravel. Sara also brought Dylan back to his Jewish roots.
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even if he sold his soul, still love the guy and wish him wellness as always. Thank you for sharing
@@CarmelaRoseRosse yes of course it could be mere myth, just like this so called matrix we find ourselves in :). Best wishes
Bob is my hero, and inspired me to write songs with a meaning. I’m a Christian too the truth never changes, a spiritual birth never dies. Physical does but not the spirit. Love you Bob and will see you as we roll on the streets of gold and rock the cradle of love, forever.
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@@FactsVerseKnocking on Heavens Door.
He sounds like a nightmare of a partner if you ask me. It would be easier to nail jello to a tree than to keep him grounded. "Just like a rolling stone" suits him well. lol 🧚♀
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I didn't know I was that lethal. lol 🧚♀@@FREDGRASS-vz8ez
"It would be easier to nail jello to a tree" LOL Gotta remember that one!
My beautiful sister gave Dylan his first gig at the Gaslight He has never recognize her. She owned the Gaslight Café in MacDougal street in the west village that used to belong to John Mitchell, who had to leave town in a hurry.
Hello Paulina
How are you doing?
It's nice to have you here!
Bob's ways appear to me as having more than one love of his life, but my guess is Sara really came close.
Many loved Bob Dylan. I adored him as a teen and still do. What an icon! I think he was one of those who had a special SA. Leonard Cohen also had that charisma and many who fell under that special spell.
He is a special kind of songwriter whom has the uncanny ability to write music that is extremely universal
Yes I knew. Sara was a wonderful song.
We absolutely agree! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Be safe and have a great weekend!
I absolutely fell in love with that song when I was pregnant. I felt both the melody and lyrics so deeply, that I named my baby Sarah after it. For some reason it had to have an 'h' at the end. I'm instantly back in 1978 when I hear this song.
Very interesting story.
A man who has loved
many women who were
inspiration for many a love song.
I used to have this neighbor who was a christian musician.......I never did find out if she made money at it or not but she was really good. She sounded a lot like Joan Baez and played a portable organ. She would practice in her bathroom often not knowing I was sitting at my desk listening in on the other side of the wall. When she moved out I kept thinking I still heard her voice sometimes....it was so strange. I guess I missed hearing her voice.
Like most guys, he really loves women but is clueless what to do about it. Drinking, cheating, fighting is how we all mess up our marriages.
no doubt about that
So many of his songs bring back memories of a past love from so long ago.
Interesting, of all the women mentioned, they did not include Barbara Streisand, whom which Bob admitted within the last several years that he had written "Lay Lady, Lay", although maybe never a love interest, but a passing desire over the years, or at least during the time in which the song was written, recorded and released.
ive b een following bob dylan all my life ffrom 1972 as a teen now im 64.his music will play at my funeral.❤
Which songs?
When I listen to Dylan's love songs, I think they are a composite of all the women he loved in his life.
Hello, how're you doing? Thank you for your support over the years.
Will you like to have a private conversation with Bob Dylan?
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@BobDylan-official
I am a big Beatles fan & my #2 fav band of all time is Led Zeppelin.
I am a retired woman living on a fixed income no money to meet anyone.
I believe the person behind this official address to be a poser.
So I'm calling you out.
I don't for one minute to believe this is Bob Dylan.
So who ever YOU are have a good evening & 👋 good bye.
Sincerely Deb Klingler retired in good Ole NJ.
Hello Jean how are you doing 😊
Narcissists can never be true to anyone but their own neurotic egos but that does not negate Dylan’s outsized talent as a great songwriter and there is no question that these varied relationships fed that eclectic and brilliant song catalog.
Are you positive that Bob Dylan is a narcissist ?
It takes one to know one😊...my goodness..your bitterness is showing...grow old gracefully.
@@marymckay7154 So you can diagnose other people, as well…good for you.
How is Bob a narcissist? they tend to have god complexes and never admit a fault which is the total opposite of Dylan.
I'm not sure this guy should have a UA-cam channel. I've found not all his " facts " are anywhere close to accurate. Should be taken with a grain of salt
Yes I knew Sara L was the love of his life. He said in his bio that had he not met her he probably would have ended up a drunk/drug addict on the streets. She gave him the comfort & safety of a loving home & being a father was what really saved him.
Which bio?
God bless Sara.
@@susannapretzel3180I think he means Chronicles.
@@susannapretzel3180 the one Martine Scorsese did on Netflix. He also did one on The Band but Robbie Robertson basically told the story from his perspective. according to Wiki Susan Elizabeth Rotolo was his greatest love, but they only dated for 3yrs. He gives her credit for having the greatest influence on his music, but to me that doesn’t count as being his greatest love who he had 6 children with!
I often wondered about whom Bob wrote "Idiot Wind."
That's one of the most brutal musical take-downs ever; way more harsh than the line from "Don't Think Twice, . . ." "You just sorta wasted my precious time."
For me he's the best songwriter of all time by some distance. Saw him in Zurich and Sheffield and the shows were a tad disappointing though as Bob mumbled and was lost in the rhythm of his backing band.
Yep. He was a great song-writer but he couldn't sing as great.
as usual. hahahahaha...gotta love Bob!
@@RadiantStar8997 Saw him live a few years ago in Wallingford CT. Had never seen him live before and figured as a child of the sixties myself it was a show I just had to see. Scored a single ticket in the third row. Could not understand a word he said. Recognized a few songs only by the tune. Was hoping for an intermission so I could get up and leave without being too obvious but, alas, he played straight through. It was painful.
If you're into copy and paste yeah he's good
It sounds to me like he never really made his mind up, working on the old adage of 'When I'm not with the one I love, then I love the one I'm with ….'.
Look, I love, love, love Bob Dylan and his music. A bit obsessed even. But let’s not idolize the man; he’s fallen and flawed like all of us, and he wouldn’t want it IMO. Dylan acted terribly at times while married - if you’re cheating on your spouse and getting drunk often, etc., you’re not an ideal spouse (to put it mildly) and are not being a good person at those times. But here’s the thing: I don’t think Bob would disagree with any of that, so why should his fans try to excuse it? The big silver lining, of course, is that without the failed marriage, we wouldn’t have one of the greatest albums ever: Blood on the Tracks.
Edit to add one other thing: I think there’s something to be said for not trying to know too much about your musical or literary heroes in their private lives. There’s something to be said for a bit of mystery, and just focusing on the art. Which is why I appreciate Dylan largely refusing to explain any meaning behind his songs (we all *know* that BOTT was largely written about his failing marriage (even his son confirms it), but Bob likely will deny it till his dying day. Bob seems very content to let each listener put their own meaning and interpretation on his songs and lyrics.
Its not that simple, the cheating and drinking started after he fell into a deep depression about the fact his marriage was already falling apart and him and Sara were growing distant. He genuinely made a serious effort for her when they first got married when he dissapeared and moved into the country to raise a family.
@@Timur_aka_Tamerlane that does not follow what *Dylan himself* has admitted and lamented about. Where are you getting this info? Bob is human. He’s been open about his own failings and regrets over the years. With respect, no need to paint Bob as a victim of circumstance when he himself has rejected that explanation. (This is not to say that he alone is responsible for his marriage or relationships failing-life usually isn’t that simple-just that his actions were a significant contributing factor, which he’s talked about.)
In any event, at least we have a silver lining to the breakdown of his marriage. While I wouldn’t wish divorce on anyone, especially a couple with a kid, I think we can all agree that if they were going to divorce anyway, then-as I said before -we were very fortunate to get an absolute classic album out if it (probably my favorite Dylan album).
And as I edited the above comment to add: it’s probably better to just focus on the art rather than the artist’s personal life. So I’ll take my own advice and stop here. Feel free to have the last word. Great taste in music. Cheers.
@@HoyaSaxaSD When did I ever say that Bob was not human? everyone has issues and regrets including him. But you made it sound like he was cheating and drinking too much the minute he and Sara got married, those issues came later during his 1974 tour and were a product of a much deeper issue becase he and Sara were already seperated all but legally by then, this is something nobody seems to metion. Nobody really knows what caused them to grow apart, all I was trying to say was that cheating and drinking were not what caused them to grow distant and seperate because those things were just results of the breakdown of their marriage. Nobody is painting Bob as a victim and he is far too intelligent to ever paint himself as one but its not like he was the sole reason they grew apart
Unfortunately, that lifestyle breeds infidelity and dishonesty. I'm forever surprised at the super models who marry rock stars and then later get a divorce because he was fooling around on her. Hey, you knew he was a rock star when you married him and you married him anyway.
No matter how good the sex is or how attractive they can be there is always one better in the sack and in the mirror and guys are only gonna say no so many times.
That's reality.
Same, it's more of a surprise when rock stars DONT cheat since it's so common. I can never understand why people will marry hard partying celebrities, best case scenario the relationship is over once the Honeymoon period ends and worst case scenario things explode in their faces or someone cheats on someone else.
Male entertainers crave attention from beautiful women and its never enough.
A person is only as good as their options. Rock stars have many options all the time and they get bored. Plain and simple. They cheat because it’s easy for them. Because they can! Non celebrities too. To think that if someone cheated on someone else for you that they won’t do it to you is just stupid and naive. Truth!
He always made it clear that Sara was the greatest love of his life and there's no reason to doubt it.
Check out Spanish is the Loving Tongue song with Bob and Joan. Bob is in great denial if he said Sara was the love of his life......
I have a friend who is a bit of a Dylanologist and he's convinced that the Blonde on Blonde album is largely about a love triangle, with songs depicting how Bob was torn at the time between his feelings for Sara Lownds and Edie Sedgwick.
Wasn't Visions of Joanna about Baez?
That's what I've always got from it. It's obvious that the songs "Fourth Time Around/Most Likely You Go Your Way" and "Sad Eyed Lady" are not about the same girl.
I don't think he was too enamored by Edie Sedgwick. I don't know why. Strange -huh?
@@maryoconnor9360 If she’s the girl in Like A Rolling Stone, and I think she is, it doesn’t sound like he was crazy about her…..although it sounds like he mourned her later on after her tragic passing
@@joemarshall4226 Interesting. Could be. The songs of his past relationships are full of sorrow and regret. It's as tho many years have to pass before he realizes how much he may have lost and/or how much a person actually meant to him. That's usually what happens to most of us. Oh ya - he's human . And a great one at that.
I think Dylan is a unique kind of a spirit relentlessly confident and comfortable in his own skin at whatever time hes in....
Never afraid of not pleasing everyone he may have appeared to be accepting his faults ,mistakes ,and defeats too casually when I believe he was.
only embracing the role of a mere mortal man....
With all the his incredible and remarkable accomplishmets and achievements - he is far ahead of normal in so many ways.
He is simply an extremely well read genious with a deeply sensitive soul who wildly envisions great ideas, happenings ,and places - and who has been chosen to be given the most beautiful and prophetic words by a cosmos only he traveled to ......and then he magically puts those words to music and THEN it was decided he would spread ALL OF THAT throughout the land for all to hear.
So try to be a regulart guy , who laughs and loves and only wants to be loved back and like everyone else is trying to find the happiness , contentment and love - that he so well deserves amidst all of that....I bet that was quite the ride and I bet it isnt and wasnt easy. ❤
Hello how're you doing today? thank you for the support over the years. will you like to have a private conversation with Bob Dylan?
@@bobdylanrobertzimmerman5803 Hello
You are so very welcome for the support. It was quite easy and most enjoyable.
Thank you for that offer. How fun !
It sounds like Dylan generally had two or three lovers at the same time, whether he was married or not.
always hedge your bets Davie boy!
I never knew who it was he had written "Sara" about. Thanks!
Excellent profile of an artist as a human being. But an anomaly as one of the most significant as well as strategic leading creative force’s of nature. Well done.
As it was said earlier. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Sara, Blood on the Tracks. We did not need this video to know the answer to the question. But a good job on the video none the less.
Like so many have to regretfully say "Sorry Bob, you had your chance."
he's a great poet who learned his craft by studying and borrowing other great artists' work. it's all good. who he loved is his business alone. p.s. his photo looks just like him and isn't airbrushed like martha stewart's. bet you didn't think those 2 names would be used in the same sentence!
And why would you put them in the same sentence??? Your comment is ridiculous. 🙄
WTF?
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love takes lots of work, working on yourself with forgiveness.