I’m speechless!! Two of our generational heroes in one car for a LONG casual ride/conversation 🥱 Poor Bob gets carsick (I relate) pale as a ghost as John Lennon teases him. 😊Just …we were all SO YOUNG ! We were all sure music would literally be the soundtrack of OUR lives. I believe we went thru a societal change that stuck from ‘60-‘70’s . SO glad I’ve been there through it all. ☺️🎸♥️🙏🏼🎼🎹
the way bob dylan is reduced to a grumbling eye-rubbing mess after so many failed attempts at human interaction. so funny and endearing. makes me feel less bad about my own awkwardness
Jude. That's one way to see things...the other way to see this video is like this : " This dude Bob Dylan is VERY DRUNK OR DRUGGED while the others seem more SOBER than him"....... and then you would realize this is TOTALLY NORMAL👍....
He was drug sick. After the camera stopped rolling Dylan took a turn for the worse and the driver and lennon had to all but carry him to his hotel room. Apparently Lennon was so concerned about him he was really shaken
According to the history, this was following a VERY long night of HARD partying with a LOT of pills, pot and alcohol and Dylan was a complete wreck. Lennon never went that hard on that stuff, especially in '66. After this was filmed, Lennon practically had to carry him to his hotel. Dylan was taking literally everything that existed in '66. He didn't know where he was half of the time.
I made movies & documentaries: The “idea” for this “scene” is to get Dylan & Lennon in a car & drive around London & hope some good conversations unfold. Unfortunately, Dylan is so HIGH & incoherent that it turns to gibberish. Dylan realizes it, and becomes despondent, but he also wants to throw up & is getting really sick, probably from the drugs. This was for the movie “Don’t Look Back,” but this footage didn’t make it into the Final Cut of the movie.
You mean it.wasn't included in the movie? Ok that's why I don't remember it.. although I saw the movie almost 30 years ago now.. In any case yes, this footage is a awesome gem !!
These two were at the peak of their songwriting prowess around that time, and might well be the two best songwriters in the 20th century...And yet in 30 minutes, they can't say anything remotedly witty, interesting or even coherent.
They are not performing for you or anyone. They are having a candid conversation between friends. Does every conversation have to be witty or interesting if you are famous? Use closed captions if you think it's inchoherent.
This video is absolutely hilarious in epic proportions. We always here about the stories of rock stars getting blitzed but rarely do we ever get to see it behind the scenes. It’s just priceless !
They are beyond pop,not restricted to it.Lennon was still not mature in 66. MJ and Madonna are dwarfs compared to Lennon and Bob,who are in different galaxy themselves
This is May ‘66 - Blonde on Blonde was released a month later. Revolver was released three months later. Just to put it in perspective of where they were musically.
Pretty fascinating video. This allows you to see completely through the ethereal personas they were ascribed by the press. Completely human, young, highly intelligent individuals who were not immune to being "boring" or acting like children like the rest of us do in early adulthood. If anything, I think it makes their achievements that much more compelling, knowing they weren't from an alien planet that breeds innovative musicians like it's nothing.
A lot of the people commenting are over analyzing, in my opinion. John had taken a lot of inspiration from Bob Dylan and admired him. The simple fact here is that Dylan was completely wasted and was feeling sick too. John was just humoring him as one would with a drunk friend. They both obviously had a lot of wit and imagination. Of course, John is in control here whereas Bob wasn’t.
Yep, DYlan hopefully being ironic about baseball and all night TV as the apex of western civilisation, and John rolling with it. Dylan then saying that to hear those people singing its praises you would be stunned into silence. I think.
@@ozzystar3545 I just dont have the patience when people talk too much or talk when they're on something and being stupid, makes me tense especially if im hungover
I was watching this and remembered that the other guy in the car was Bob Neuwirth, who was Dylan's friend and road Manager. I looked to see what he was doing now only to find out Bob died a few weeks ago, so sad to hear that. RIP Bob. Great film footage of two absolute legends.
Yeah, I also heard that he had died only recently. As you said, it’s sad but we all have to go some day. And at least he led a great life and met a lot of interesting people.
@@noname-by3qz Bob Dylan is very much alive yes, but his friend Bob Neuwirth unfortunately passed away in May, he was a singer songwriter, writer and artist too.
Bob can't keep his mouth shut. John is strategically listening to Bob's ramblings. This the difference between the carefree and poetic American mind and the polite Englishman. Made my day to watch my favorite artists being themselves. Doesn't look like they like each other. Dylan is getting annoyed with John's formalism. Bob wants to have a good time, but John won't have it. He even mocked Dylan's laughter. And responded sarcastically to Dylan's comment about having come from the land of paradise.
@@beachcomber4141 and Dylan was getting frustrated the whole time. I think he was trying to annoy John, but he was a few thousand steps into the I'm going to ride this one out.
I don’t think they disliked each other. All other reported interactions between them seemed rather chill and friendly. Maybe it just seems like they didn’t like each other because sometimes even your best friend just gets too much for you to handle😂
Man I would feel more safe with Lennon than with Bob. Lennon seemed to be the guy that would guide you through a trip your having and have you feel happy and relaxed. Bob would’ve been the guy that had me having a bad trip and would have been a terrible experience.
John is really uncomfortable being filmed after a wild night, he's not only on acid and a little paranoid always looking behind the car, but he's also a Beatle and he tries to be cool and calm, but I love when he tries to calm Bob Dylan.
@@neilmclennan7191 Nope. Dylan had had it before them, in May1964. Remember, it got popularised in America first, even if it was discovered in Switzerland in the late 30’s. Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Neil Cassidy, the inspiration for Dean Moriarity in On the Road, took a school bus, which was painted psychedelic, with their friends, ‘The Merry Pranksters,’ all the way across America in 1964, offering people the ‘Kool-aid Test’. This was a powdered sachet soft drink which you added water to, then they spiked it with lsd (and I don’t mean pound, shillings and pence! 😂😂) The Beatles, or at least John, George and Ringo first had it in 1965 and they didn’t even know that they had had it until they were told that they had been spiked. Paul McCartney didn’t take it until 1966, a year after the other three. John, George and Ringo went to a nightclub on that first trip, believing it to be on fire, under the influence of the drug.
this is cool because this is a side of dylan and lennon you dont get to see in press interviews of that time. feels like a rare insight into them just chillin out without anything significant happening
Lennon has been quoted as saying To Jann Werner of Rolling Stone, 1970 “We were both in shades and both on fucking junk (heroin), and all these freaks around us. I was anxious as shit. … In the film, I’m just blabbing off and commenting all the time, like you do when you’re very high or stoned. I had been up all night. We were being smart alecks, it’s terrible. But it was his scene, that was the problem for me. It was his movie. I was on his territory, that’s why I was so nervous.”
@@WillStephensArt I believe Dylan had a fling with h, and he's probably snorted it, yeah. I always did (hated the spike). John didn't get on h until November ''68, after Yolo's miscarriage and they both were on junk until October of '69. So, in LET IT BE film, John is functional heroin addict. One day he was "sick". came in late. After he and Yoko kicked they released COLD TURKEY, about the horror of heroin withdrawal.
Apparently John didn't try heroin until he met Yoko on the 7th of November '66, this was filmed 27th May '66. Bob is clearly drunk though, you can see the bottle.
@@michaelg1060 You lost me at "Yoko's miscarriage". lol you might wanna go down a few rabbit holes fren. The official narrative is such a drag and lacks imagination anyhow.
Well, you got one half of the equation correct. Later in the early 70s, the roles would be reversed with John and Keith. It's in his bio Life. Infamously called his lost weekend with Keith, not the weekend in LA that we all know about.There were no cameras there so we'll never get to see John wasted and "trying to become a Rolling Stone".
Thanks for this. This is so beautiful, so amazing. How amazing is Bob. I’m so sorry for his hurt about John. This pair is incredible. Thanks for sharing this. I love these two so much
The magic is in the work they produced and the art they made and performed all the rest is your imagination and expectations which are of your own doing
Oscar Wilde said that geniuses place everything charming or charismatic about themselves into their work. There’s no greater sign of a thoroughly agreeable man than his having published a volume of mediocre verse.
This is just a little magical to see, one of the two greatest influential musical and lyrical artists of all time at the peak of their powers in a wild car ride together.
It’s sad to see bob was rly sick and clearly embarrassed by it, and it got all awkward. These two definitely respected eachother but sometimes when you meet someone so big it’s hard to know how to act. I remember when I saw my first Dylan concert I was so psyched but I somehow got sick immediately when he took the stage and was sick like the worst cold/flu and sore throat ever suddenly came on had to lay on the grass the whole time trying not to throw up. It was so weird.
He wasn't "sick". As the others in the car have said, Dylan had literally been up for 4 days straight on speed and cocaine. He was a drug-splattered wreck.
This is quite telling for me.. The Beatles felt awkward around other people than the Beatles. They were strong together, but not as individuals. You can see that John is very guarded here. He would have been more relaxed if Paul, George or Ringe were sitting next to him instead of Bob Dylan. John never hanged. After he split with the Beatles it changed to Yoko.. He felt awkward around everybody else than her, even with other members of the beatles, and especially Paul. Paul has always been very guarded too. The Beatles only allowed themselves to feel free, when they were around other Beatles, or people they really knew. Paul and Ringo are still extremely close, and share a very special bond that nobody else can explain or understand.. Bob Dylan was always a drifter. He is close to Bob Dylan, and nobody else. He was never a part of a band, and stood on his own.
yeah, within the Beatles J was the guy doing the "orgy jokes" on AHDN, yet here it looks like wants to just be left alone, even when he admires Dylan's writing style... 😅 J: "...feling melancholia" B: "melon what?"
@@yellyman5483 John was very well spoken, just not hear because he seems like the only person not out of his mind on drugs or alcohol. Every time I see John Lennon on tv or in interviews he is always very funny and quick witted. There isn't really much you can say to people when they are like "that" and you aren't
This is historical.. Two of worlds greatest song writers. Notice how subdued & lay back John is and he looks like he just came from filming the Paper back rider' music video.
John is not laid back, here, he is very on edge because of the camera, and he can't handle the situation (intoxicated Dylan) the way he wants to (because of the camera)
“Everybody said they’d stand behind me When the game got rough But the joke was on me There was nobody even there to call my bluff I’m going back to New York City I do believe I’ve had enough” Bob Dylan 1965 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
This was at Noontime May 27th , Dylan and Lennon went from Surrey to the Mayfair Hotel , Stratton Street. This was six days after John got his new haircut
Thank You cause that is what I took from this footage. Dylan sounds hungover to boot and even says he would like to vomit. He really looks like he just wants to get back to the hotel and lay down.
Dylan wasn't "antagonistic", he was drug sick. According to the history, Dylan was taking literally everything that existed during this period - cocaine, benzadrine, methamphetamine, weed, alcohol - he was just a wreck. Lennon in '66 was a lot more in control of himself.
John, even while very high, knows not to ruin his own reputation on camera. We dont get to see his real personality as he stays low profile and avoids outright mocking his wasted friend.
because sound was recorded on a Nagra, by a sound recordist , double system is always the way to go. and imagine this shooting with vertical video like nowaday🤮
@@JoshLousk I wouldn’t say “fan boy” because that’s a bit condescending. But don’t underestimate how much bigger the Beatles were than Bob. More so, don’t forget that Bob LOVED rock way more than folk. Folk worked for a kid from MN. Hibbing / Deluth? Even Neil Young growing up in Winnipeg is a way bigger city than what Bob Dylan grew up in. So he had no choice to form a band and I had to do it on his own. I think Bob Dylan very much respected rock ‘n’ roll guys in bands… Rock ‘n’ roll was dead until the Beatles brought it back to life
This gives me the feeling of anxiety I would get after staying up all night partying, while masking it with the insanity of having stayed up all night partying.
@@marcosgomes7681that happened after this car ride . Lennon , despite all that we know about him, enjoys a better status than Dylan who, because he still lives, has become a has being . Still Dylan solo work is better than Johns solo work
@hustlecrowe84Dylan had very little influence over the Beatles. Elvis and Little Richard had more influence . How is a song like I want to hold your hand remotely inspired by Dylan. ? My god Americans are grossly uneducated
@@gavintuesday4959 lol you are joking ,only better?You cant find another songwriter to come to the same level with Dylan,but this is my opinion and other people chose Bieber or 50 cent,😂
Great filmhistory. Dylan ought to write a song about this journey: 'Drivin With Dr. Winston'. ...'was weary to my bones, drunk and tired and wanna sleep, but tambourine man is sittin beside me, so i just follow him'...
It’s true John looks cool and composed next to a drunken Bob. But let’s recall too those photos of an angry drunken John getting thrown out of LA bars about a decade later…
Bob grew up in Duluth & Hibbing, Minnesota. Duluth was a big port city on Lake Superior. Hibbing was known for Iron Ore. They moved there after his father became ill with polio..
Dylan was 25 here. Can you inagine the kind of pressure he was feeling at this time? When he talks about being sick, it probably has to do with the pressure he was under by the media, questioning his every move, being booed for playing plugged in songs with a band. Everyone looking to him for answers to solve the world's problems. Can you blame him for taking something to take the edge off? To simply dismiss him as a drunk asshole is just plain ignorant.
Plus the amphetamines were legal and doctor prescribed and his manager was pushing the relentless touring & allegedly supplying extra substances to keep him going. There are very valid reasons that Dylan drops out of the public eye for years after this, doesn't tour, raises his family and waits out his Grossman contract. The pressure of people wanting him to be their voice and/or consciousness was a terrible burden too.
Lennon seems sober and appears to somewhat brush off Dylan, who is high on something and/or hungover and out of it. All in all, possibly the best video of the non-staged interaction between two of the greatest singers of all time.
I saw the Scorsese Rolling Thunder, and I don't know Dylan's personality that much, but either way I thought that he was very quiet and serious, for example in that scene where Patti Smith talks to him. Maybe in that context he had a sense of responsability for the tour, and tried to take it easy but I really don't know much about him besides his music.
I have a different takeaway... to me it sounds as though John is a bit perturbed with Bob, as John’s acting like he’s babysitting an obnoxious cousin. Greetings from Illinois!
yup. Notice how far away John is sitting in his nice suit. He doesn't want to get thrown up on. And Bob isn't being warm and friendly - asking John if he's ever been to Texas (because George Harrison has!) and calling it 'The Mighty Thames!' Evidently unpleasant when drunk.
The account that Bob Spitz describes of this incident in his bio of Dylan is great. He captures all the awkwardness and backstory to what’s going on in the car that day.
Bob could not be higher. Produced some great conversation though. How valuable getting Dylan Lennon on camera in a car ride talking about other stars like cash stones and other Beatles.
"Some great conversation".??! Wow you're easily pleased! It put me in mind of Derek & Clive's gem 'Back of the Cab' where they compare the worst passengers they've ever had 😂🤣
this is literally a vlog from 1966 with 2 of the greatest musicians that lived
Fr, that's a bit crazy
u coulndt described better... i mean the kind of treassure never exists
I’m speechless!! Two of our generational heroes in one car for a LONG casual ride/conversation 🥱 Poor Bob gets carsick (I relate) pale as a ghost as John Lennon teases him. 😊Just …we were all SO YOUNG ! We were all sure music would literally be the soundtrack of OUR lives. I believe we went thru a societal change that stuck from ‘60-‘70’s . SO glad I’ve been there through it all. ☺️🎸♥️🙏🏼🎼🎹
Fact. I’m speechless.
in their primes
Bob: "Im feeling sick".
John thinking: "Please don't puke on me shoes"
lol
2:40 Bob Dylan: ''I wish I can talk English'', John Lennon: ''Me too Bobby''
😂😂
Is he trippin?
@@rwydeven yes lol. probably drunk too
Lennon said in an interview he was very paranoid about this and they were both on "junk"
Speed.@@rwydeven
Style wise, this mid 60's period was the coolest.
blond on blond この時代に 素晴らしいです。
@david natzel I say the same thing
@david natzel Absolutely! The music and fashion was the best during that time. Wish I was around.
@@davidnatzel240185-95 too
Swag to the max
the way bob dylan is reduced to a grumbling eye-rubbing mess after so many failed attempts at human interaction. so funny and endearing. makes me feel less bad about my own awkwardness
Jude. That's one way to see things...the other way to see this video is like this : " This dude Bob Dylan is VERY DRUNK OR DRUGGED while the others seem more SOBER than him"....... and then you would realize this is TOTALLY NORMAL👍....
He was drug sick. After the camera stopped rolling Dylan took a turn for the worse and the driver and lennon had to all but carry him to his hotel room. Apparently Lennon was so concerned about him he was really shaken
Dylan is tripping his brains out. having a tough time. John is messing with him at first.
According to the history, this was following a VERY long night of HARD partying with a LOT of pills, pot and alcohol and Dylan was a complete wreck. Lennon never went that hard on that stuff, especially in '66. After this was filmed, Lennon practically had to carry him to his hotel. Dylan was taking literally everything that existed in '66. He didn't know where he was half of the time.
The thing is Bob will wake up sober up and write BLOOD ON THE TRACKS , the man is a songwriting Genius
It’s great seeing something so candid and unstaged. It really feels as if you’re there with them when you watch this.
This footage needs badly to be "peterjacksoned".
Deffo.
I think criterion collection restored the footage for a Bob Dylan doc they did.
haha
I prefer it as it is
I mean did you don’t look back?
So glad someone decided to film this!!
I made movies & documentaries: The “idea” for this “scene” is to get Dylan & Lennon in a car & drive around London & hope some good conversations unfold. Unfortunately, Dylan is so HIGH & incoherent that it turns to gibberish. Dylan realizes it, and becomes despondent, but he also wants to throw up & is getting really sick, probably from the drugs. This was for the movie “Don’t Look Back,” but this footage didn’t make it into the Final Cut of the movie.
You mean it.wasn't included in the movie? Ok that's why I don't remember it.. although I saw the movie almost 30 years ago now..
In any case yes, this footage is a awesome gem !!
These two were at the peak of their songwriting prowess around that time, and might well be the two best songwriters in the 20th century...And yet in 30 minutes, they can't say anything remotedly witty, interesting or even coherent.
U ever tried to talk on acid bud
@@etiennemarshallthach3736 Might just give the acid a miss then....on that evidence
Why do you assume every word uttered by these people has to have some philosophical significance?
'66 was a tough year for the Beatles and I'm sure they wanted to leave the US for England.
They are not performing for you or anyone. They are having a candid conversation between friends. Does every conversation have to be witty or interesting if you are famous? Use closed captions if you think it's inchoherent.
This video is absolutely hilarious in epic proportions. We always here about the stories of rock stars getting blitzed but rarely do we ever get to see it behind the scenes. It’s just priceless !
Not blitzed...Frying...
John doesn't seem wasted .
may be priceless but it's mostly nonsense
this is like a really weird dream.
I swear
Underrated
This is the longest car ride on UA-cam lol
The ride Paul had with "Lovely Rita" in late 1966, was on the long and winding road.
Perhaps the two most influential artists in pop music, both at their peak in 1966. Mind-blowing how much influence they had on the world.
Especially as the could hardly string a sentence together!
@@randybackgammon890 👍🤣
I'd probably say the two most influential artists in Pop would be MJ and Madonna
@@4tk37 yes much better musicians
They are beyond pop,not restricted to it.Lennon was still not mature in 66. MJ and Madonna are dwarfs compared to Lennon and Bob,who are in different galaxy themselves
This is May ‘66 - Blonde on Blonde was released a month later. Revolver was released three months later. Just to put it in perspective of where they were musically.
Pretty fascinating video. This allows you to see completely through the ethereal personas they were ascribed by the press. Completely human, young, highly intelligent individuals who were not immune to being "boring" or acting like children like the rest of us do in early adulthood. If anything, I think it makes their achievements that much more compelling, knowing they weren't from an alien planet that breeds innovative musicians like it's nothing.
Humanity has hope with responses like this. Too often now respondees sound like conservative, McCarthyite scumbags who wish they were in church.
Mornings on earth are hard. Aliens suck at poetry. Coffee.
👍👍👍and we can clearly see one of these guys is VERY WASTED...while the others are not....
Simple put, to much of the grape followed by copious amounts of herb left poor Bobby car sick. Lennon surpassed that a long time before that.
@@davidthompson62 They were both on Heroin.
John knows how to hide his high.
he just had a tolerance
Exactly what I thought! lmao. Ironic that Bob was the one to introduce them to weed and somehow it made Bob more belligerent.
you've got to hide your high away
John hides it in the bathroom
A lot of the people commenting are over analyzing, in my opinion. John had taken a lot of inspiration from Bob Dylan and admired him. The simple fact here is that Dylan was completely wasted and was feeling sick too. John was just humoring him as one would with a drunk friend. They both obviously had a lot of wit and imagination. Of course, John is in control here whereas Bob wasn’t.
Rumor has it this was Bob’s 1st or 2nd time going horse-back. Seems John was a pro by then.
They were both on heroin. Lennon talked about it during a Rolling Stone interview. Look it up.
@@soundzzzz93 Lennon seems and looks so sober though
People can seem very sober on heroin. Especially with sunglasses on.
I feel like Dylan is still drunk while John is coming down off of LSD
I love John's reaction to Dylan bragging he comes from the land of paradise. "sounds great". Hahaha ha.
Yep, DYlan hopefully being ironic about baseball and all night TV as the apex of western civilisation, and John rolling with it. Dylan then saying that to hear those people singing its praises you would be stunned into silence. I think.
Two giants who changed music.
John is so uncomfortable and Bob is too stoned too notice lmao. I love it when we get to see these famous types just be lame and dorky
you know nothing
I even feel uncomfortable w the conversation lol id ask to be dropped off and picked up in another car
@@rods7746 your boring tf
@@ozzystar3545 I just dont have the patience when people talk too much or talk when they're on something and being stupid, makes me tense especially if im hungover
i did never see lennon uncomfortable.
Lennon and Dylan both wearing the hardest fits of the 60s
God is this so relatable. Thank you to whoever posted this raw gem.
I know right? These guys act like me and my friends while stoned 😂
@@pauljenkins6807 Yes !! reminds me the same period with mine too.. and yes, that's great, we're all more.or less the same.when stoned ! 😂
So glad this exists.
I was watching this and remembered that the other guy in the car was Bob Neuwirth, who was Dylan's friend and road Manager. I looked to see what he was doing now only to find out Bob died a few weeks ago, so sad to hear that. RIP Bob. Great film footage of two absolute legends.
Yeah, I also heard that he had died only recently. As you said, it’s sad but we all have to go some day. And at least he led a great life and met a lot of interesting people.
I'm just hearing this. No wonder! He's still alive! 🤣
@@noname-by3qz Bob Dylan is very much alive yes, but his friend Bob Neuwirth unfortunately passed away in May, he was a singer songwriter, writer and artist too.
I almost paid $150 to get a shotty copy of this. This is 1000% better quality.
Back in the day?
John is so cool
Heroin does that
To think that John was only 25 and Dylan 24. Let that sink in.
@@blankfrank25 wow u sound so clever,.
People were expected to be adults quicker back then
Why is it such a big deal that they're 24 and 25, lol? Two stoned guys babbling.
Oh my..
Sort of a fair point. Young but not teenagers 16,17 or 18. Most people by 25 have matured to adulthood without the machismo.
John is so handsome here !!! 😍😍😍
#YeahYeahYeah !!!
Always was very handsome until he started to diet to the point of anorexia.
Oh my god, YES!! I’ve always had a massive crush on John!
Yes and his voice and accent are so beautiful as well.
Lennon looks like such a cool cat!
John Lennon was so cool.
Stoned famous pair. Bobby looking human but Johnny looking cool & composed. A great historical insight.
Bob can't keep his mouth shut. John is strategically listening to Bob's ramblings. This the difference between the carefree and poetic American mind and the polite Englishman. Made my day to watch my favorite artists being themselves. Doesn't look like they like each other. Dylan is getting annoyed with John's formalism. Bob wants to have a good time, but John won't have it. He even mocked Dylan's laughter. And responded sarcastically to Dylan's comment about having come from the land of paradise.
When Bob said that about paradise, he in inferring that there (John's home) sucks. I can see why John was coy about that!
@@beachcomber4141 and Dylan was getting frustrated the whole time. I think he was trying to annoy John, but he was a few thousand steps into the I'm going to ride this one out.
@@saraswatisky3119 John was cool as cool can be! LOL!!
@@beachcomber4141 yeah, I'm going to copy him when I'm in a situation like this. Now, I saw how it's done.
I don’t think they disliked each other. All other reported interactions between them seemed rather chill and friendly. Maybe it just seems like they didn’t like each other because sometimes even your best friend just gets too much for you to handle😂
I just got stoned with John and Bobby. This film is awesome-thanks for letting me come along and have a "laugh" with these fine boyos.
Man I would feel more safe with Lennon than with Bob. Lennon seemed to be the guy that would guide you through a trip your having and have you feel happy and relaxed. Bob would’ve been the guy that had me having a bad trip and would have been a terrible experience.
Interesting! I kind of get the vibe that John is surrounded by yanks and is just a bit uncomfortable!
THIS 😂
@@beachcomber4141 But they are in London. I get the feeling John has had asid a few times and is chill, but this is Bob's first trip.
John is really uncomfortable being filmed after a wild night, he's not only on acid and a little paranoid always looking behind the car, but he's also a Beatle and he tries to be cool and calm, but I love when he tries to calm Bob Dylan.
@@neilmclennan7191 Nope. Dylan had had it before them, in May1964. Remember, it got popularised in America first, even if it was discovered in Switzerland in the late 30’s.
Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Neil Cassidy, the inspiration for Dean Moriarity in On the Road, took a school bus, which was painted psychedelic, with their friends, ‘The Merry Pranksters,’ all the way across America in 1964, offering people the ‘Kool-aid Test’. This was a powdered sachet soft drink which you added water to, then they spiked it with lsd (and I don’t mean pound, shillings and pence! 😂😂)
The Beatles, or at least John, George and Ringo first had it in 1965 and they didn’t even know that they had had it until they were told that they had been spiked. Paul McCartney didn’t take it until 1966, a year after the other three. John, George and Ringo went to a nightclub on that first trip, believing it to be on fire, under the influence of the drug.
Kind of a must see at least once every 2 years or so.
this is cool because this is a side of dylan and lennon you dont get to see in press interviews of that time. feels like a rare insight into them just chillin out without anything significant happening
Bob was on an exhausting tour and at his limit. John knew this and shepherd him. Poignant.
Lennon has been quoted as saying To Jann Werner of Rolling Stone, 1970 “We were both in shades and both on fucking junk (heroin), and all these freaks around us. I was anxious as shit. … In the film, I’m just blabbing off and commenting all the time, like you do when you’re very high or stoned. I had been up all night. We were being smart alecks, it’s terrible. But it was his scene, that was the problem for me. It was his movie. I was on his territory, that’s why I was so nervous.”
Do you think they snorted it?
@@WillStephensArt I don't know, that would sound likely to me. We'll probably never know for sure.
@@WillStephensArt I believe Dylan had a fling with h, and he's probably snorted it, yeah. I always did (hated the spike). John didn't get on h until November ''68, after Yolo's miscarriage and they both were on junk until October of '69. So, in LET IT BE film, John is functional heroin addict. One day he was "sick". came in late. After he and Yoko kicked they released COLD TURKEY, about the horror of heroin withdrawal.
Apparently John didn't try heroin until he met Yoko on the 7th of November '66, this was filmed 27th May '66. Bob is clearly drunk though, you can see the bottle.
@@michaelg1060 You lost me at "Yoko's miscarriage". lol you might wanna go down a few rabbit holes fren.
The official narrative is such a drag and lacks imagination anyhow.
I'm imagining Keith Richards sitting between John and Bob. Now that would have been a TRIP and back.
Richards wasn't very good at writing lyrics,
@@lewisc215 he contributed to a lot of songs lyrically. He’s just modest about his songwriting
@@leonconnelly5303 Not true.
have any more dumb fantasies?
Well, you got one half of the equation correct. Later in the early 70s, the roles would be reversed with John and Keith. It's in his bio Life. Infamously called his lost weekend with Keith, not the weekend in LA that we all know about.There were no cameras there so we'll never get to see John wasted and "trying to become a Rolling Stone".
You can feel how much energy was in that car. Like two magnets
17:45 John Lennon: ''C'mon Bob you're on film PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER''
Thanks for this. This is so beautiful, so amazing. How amazing is Bob. I’m so sorry for his hurt about John. This pair is incredible. Thanks for sharing this. I love these two so much
It only proves what anyone who's in show business always says: once you meet and talk with an "idol", the magic goes up in a puff of smoke.
And this is why you shouldn’t idolize other human beings
The magic is in the work they produced and the art they made and performed all the rest is your imagination and expectations which are of your own doing
Oscar Wilde said that geniuses place everything charming or charismatic about themselves into their work. There’s no greater sign of a thoroughly agreeable man than his having published a volume of mediocre verse.
@@JeddorianJalapeno so true,and this socalled Idols have the right to do some foolish things,why not?Some people dont get it,they were only 24 and 25.
This is just a little magical to see, one of the two greatest influential musical and lyrical artists of all time at the peak of their powers in a wild car ride together.
At 1:35 - “Hello kids, JOHN’S GONNA SHIT AGAIN” 🤣🤣🤣
John. I want to go home. Bob. I just wish that I had a home.
yeah boys you are the best we all miss you John
I’ve watched this many times over the last year it still doesn’t feel like it should be real.
The amount of coolness in that car at that exact time
It’s sad to see bob was rly sick and clearly embarrassed by it, and it got all awkward. These two definitely respected eachother but sometimes when you meet someone so big it’s hard to know how to act. I remember when I saw my first Dylan concert I was so psyched but I somehow got sick immediately when he took the stage and was sick like the worst cold/flu and sore throat ever suddenly came on had to lay on the grass the whole time trying not to throw up. It was so weird.
I got sick at a Dylan concert too and I passed out.
He wasn't "sick". As the others in the car have said, Dylan had literally been up for 4 days straight on speed and cocaine. He was a drug-splattered wreck.
I’m sure John was stoned or high but it just made him reserved while Dylan seems drunk, stoned and maybe some other stuff. Hilarious.
Dylna junked off heroin here 100%
Throw-in that Bob is a little bit of a jerk also.
Bob seemed unwell, but as we all do sometimes, he acted like is was cool.
@@kyleciarrocchi yeah
@@kyleciarrocchi have you done opiates? He's drunk
Bob - baseball games on my teevee I come from paradise man
John - That’s great
All night TV...
Dylan can be so full of ironie and sarcasm thats why i like him so much.
That moment when the crazy Beatle is the sane one of the group!
This is quite telling for me.. The Beatles felt awkward around other people than the Beatles. They were strong together, but not as individuals. You can see that John is very guarded here. He would have been more relaxed if Paul, George or Ringe were sitting next to him instead of Bob Dylan. John never hanged. After he split with the Beatles it changed to Yoko.. He felt awkward around everybody else than her, even with other members of the beatles, and especially Paul. Paul has always been very guarded too. The Beatles only allowed themselves to feel free, when they were around other Beatles, or people they really knew. Paul and Ringo are still extremely close, and share a very special bond that nobody else can explain or understand.. Bob Dylan was always a drifter. He is close to Bob Dylan, and nobody else. He was never a part of a band, and stood on his own.
@@yellyman5483 ehh idk about that. George hung out with Kirk everyone including Dylan
yeah, within the Beatles J was the guy doing the "orgy jokes" on AHDN, yet here it looks like wants to just be left alone, even when he admires Dylan's writing style... 😅
J: "...feling melancholia" B: "melon what?"
@@yellyman5483 John was very well spoken, just not hear because he seems like the only person not out of his mind on drugs or alcohol. Every time I see John Lennon on tv or in interviews he is always very funny and quick witted. There isn't really much you can say to people when they are like "that" and you aren't
@@rodog9465 good point
This is historical.. Two of worlds greatest song writers. Notice how subdued & lay back John is and he looks like he just came from filming the Paper back rider' music video.
John is not laid back, here, he is very on edge because of the camera, and he can't handle the situation (intoxicated Dylan) the way he wants to (because of the camera)
Yah I think you hit it..
@@Talisman09 I'm a huge fan of both musicians and they changed my life... But I think John handles a weird impossible situation wonderfully here...
@@AZDC99 There's not much else he could do. He was being smart because he knew that things like this could be used against them
John said in an interview both he and dylan were on heroin here
"You're just interested in the big chick. (Mama Cass) She's got you too."
“Everybody said they’d stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to call my bluff
I’m going back to New York City
I do believe I’ve had enough”
Bob Dylan 1965
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Lay Down All Thoughts
Surrender To The Void
It Is Shining
It Is Shining
As I remember it, he says there was 'nobody even there to bluff', not 'nobody even there to *call my* bluff'....if it matters.
@@petiewheat82 there's two versions of the song
He wrote truth about himself and others and it was called great song
John is basically tired but sober and stuck in the car with someone who's probably been up for 3 days and drunk. I can imagine his annoyance.
Pointless gibberish
What about Bob is Jet lagged, that’s what it seems to me
No, John is laced up with heroin, just like Bobby.
They are both tripping on mushrooms Lennon is just more experienced and is having fun with someone less experienced
@@tedbundy8082this sounds nothing like psychedelics lol
John Lennon got "stuck inside a mobile with Dylan drunk again"
Very funny!
Bullseye! And I'll second that "Very funny!".
This was at Noontime May 27th , Dylan and Lennon went from Surrey to the Mayfair Hotel , Stratton Street. This was six days after John got his new haircut
Two best composers in the history of pop music
Those hungover Dylan laughs are the best thing ever 😂
I believe both were on heroin.. take a look to this back on 27 may, both high as kite
He’s on heroin…
Thank You cause that is what I took from this footage. Dylan sounds hungover to boot and even says he would like to vomit. He really looks like he just wants to get back to the hotel and lay down.
Sleepy time for Dylan :)
My two heroes!!
Let s b honest Dylan was off his head and Lennon looks embarrassed and is lost for words (unusually) because Bob is making no sense for the most part
This is fascinating..
Fascinating. About half way through the video, John just takes complete command, and with very few words he quiets a very antagonistic Dylan down
at that moment the character of a dylan who was insulting and trying to outwit lennon falls out
Time stamp please
Lennon didn't suffer fools
True
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And dylan did not as well
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Dylan wasn't "antagonistic", he was drug sick. According to the history, Dylan was taking literally everything that existed during this period - cocaine, benzadrine, methamphetamine, weed, alcohol - he was just a wreck. Lennon in '66 was a lot more in control of himself.
John, even while very high, knows not to ruin his own reputation on camera. We dont get to see his real personality as he stays low profile and avoids outright mocking his wasted friend.
John does not seem high.
How the hell is he high?
He ruined it later with that weirdo Yoko
@@m.e.d.7997They were both on heroin here. Lennon admitted it later.
"Man, I wish I could talk English" had me dying 🤣🤣🤣 2:42
This video is amazing to watch! Love it ✌🏻❤️
The sound is really really good for a camera 50 plus years ago
because sound was recorded on a Nagra, by a sound recordist , double system is always the way to go. and imagine this shooting with vertical video like nowaday🤮
Have you never seen a movie made before 1967 or something? lol
@15:45 "Oy vay shit" says Bob Dylan while rubbing his eyes feeling really unwell. I love that he said it so naturally. 😊
Lennon is the only dude Bob could fan boy out on, so good
other way around moreso. they had massive respect for each other though
@@JoshLousk I wouldn’t say “fan boy” because that’s a bit condescending. But don’t underestimate how much bigger the Beatles were than Bob. More so, don’t forget that Bob LOVED rock way more than folk. Folk worked for a kid from MN. Hibbing / Deluth? Even Neil Young growing up in Winnipeg is a way bigger city than what Bob Dylan grew up in. So he had no choice to form a band and I had to do it on his own.
I think Bob Dylan very much respected rock ‘n’ roll guys in bands… Rock ‘n’ roll was dead until the Beatles brought it back to life
@@ryanflett4613 It's simply a fact that The Beatles were much more fans of Dylan than the other way around, no way to spin it.
Dylan is so high, it makes some feel high too.
Bob seems stoned. He riffs while John plays off him. Fascinating.
Everybody must get stoned
I look at this clip and the universal question just pops in my mind: Has John Lennon ever given a straight answer? This is absolute GOLD!!!😊
This must’ve been around the time the Beatles recorded Revolver
Yup. April to June. And this was in May.
thank you Major Kong, Revolver is greatest Beatles album in my opinion
@@spooky.luis809 I agree, I think the Rubber Soul/Revolver era was their best
Iconic era
@@MCO18 Those two albums were definitely their peak. More-so with Rubber Soul.
That trip is kicking in Bob
"AIN'T THAT RIGHT, TOM??"
John and Bob highly respected each other. Ive heard interviews from late 70s from each praising the other.
This gives me the feeling of anxiety I would get after staying up all night partying, while masking it with the insanity of having stayed up all night partying.
Bob slowly realising he's journeying with someone 'above' him
Above him? you have no clue, John let a weirdo (Yoko)take the command on his life, how was he above? Dylan is still there,and I hope for many years
@@marcosgomes7681that happened after this car ride . Lennon , despite all that we know about him, enjoys a better status than Dylan who, because he still lives, has become a has being . Still Dylan solo work is better than Johns solo work
@hustlecrowe84Dylan had very little influence over the Beatles. Elvis and Little Richard had more influence . How is a song like I want to hold your hand remotely inspired by Dylan. ? My god Americans are grossly uneducated
@@gavintuesday4959 lol you are joking ,only better?You cant find another songwriter to come to the same level with Dylan,but this is my opinion and other people chose Bieber or 50 cent,😂
Ironically Dylan introduced The Beatles to marijuana. John is far less stoned.
Lennon looked like the adult.
In 1964 The Beatles had never tried pot until Bob Dylan introduced them to it when they came to America.
John's a year his senior.
LOL!! He really does.
Not something to aspire to.
Great filmhistory. Dylan ought to write a song about this journey: 'Drivin With Dr. Winston'. ...'was weary to my bones, drunk and tired and wanna sleep, but tambourine man is sittin beside me, so i just follow him'...
2:40 “really, Bob?” Ha ha always gets me
I feel the same way prog Bob is wasted and John is thinking hey! Can you stop the car?
ASSumptions from a fool.
Apparently paradise is just baseball games and all-night TV.
It’s true John looks cool and composed next to a drunken Bob. But let’s recall too those photos of an angry drunken John getting thrown out of LA bars about a decade later…
You're what? A teenage girl?
Funny how different Dylan's speaking voice is from how he sings. You can really hear his midwestern accent.
It's like hearing Wayne Coyne speak and carrying on a conversation with him. There's a definite sweet"TWANG"
Bob grew up in Duluth & Hibbing, Minnesota. Duluth was a big port city on Lake Superior. Hibbing was known for Iron Ore. They moved there after his father became ill with polio..
@@Skypie61 lol. I've hung around with people from USA, and the first thing after a few drinks we lose is the letter 'R'😄
Dykan was in the middle of an exhausting tour at this point.
Bob’s feelings are on show, John keeps his well hidden. John could disapprove silently like no one else.
Dylan was 25 here. Can you inagine the kind of pressure he was feeling at this time? When he talks about being sick, it probably has to do with the pressure he was under by the media, questioning his every move, being booed for playing plugged in songs with a band. Everyone looking to him for answers to solve the world's problems. Can you blame him for taking something to take the edge off? To simply dismiss him as a drunk asshole is just plain ignorant.
he’s sick because he’s on junk
Well said.
Plus the amphetamines were legal and doctor prescribed and his manager was pushing the relentless touring & allegedly supplying extra substances to keep him going. There are very valid reasons that Dylan drops out of the public eye for years after this, doesn't tour, raises his family and waits out his Grossman contract. The pressure of people wanting him to be their voice and/or consciousness was a terrible burden too.
Excellent film. Excellent
Lennon seems sober and appears to somewhat brush off Dylan, who is high on something and/or hungover and out of it. All in all, possibly the best video of the non-staged interaction between two of the greatest singers of all time.
Dylan I’m sure has seen this and other clips of his conversations and actions, which led him to clam up later on in life. Now he hardly even smiles.
I was thinking that also
Wild speculation
I saw the Scorsese Rolling Thunder, and I don't know Dylan's personality that much, but either way I thought that he was very quiet and serious, for example in that scene where Patti Smith talks to him.
Maybe in that context he had a sense of responsability for the tour, and tried to take it easy but I really don't know much about him besides his music.
Read recently he was very gregarious on the pop in 80s sum 90s and when he went off the buz that went away
I have a different takeaway... to me it sounds as though John is a bit perturbed with Bob, as John’s acting like he’s babysitting an obnoxious cousin. Greetings from Illinois!
Joliet, Illinois here.
exactly me too
Definetely
yup. Notice how far away John is sitting in his nice suit. He doesn't want to get thrown up on. And Bob isn't being warm and friendly - asking John if he's ever been to Texas (because George Harrison has!) and calling it 'The Mighty Thames!' Evidently unpleasant when drunk.
Greetings from Transylvania. 🧛♂️
The account that Bob Spitz describes of this incident in his bio of Dylan is great. He captures all the awkwardness and backstory to what’s going on in the car that day.
So sound cuts out at 18:45 And then it freezes at 20:20? Just want to make sure it’s not my device
'In 6 decades people are gonna see this and think I'm John Cooper Clarke.'
Bob could not be higher. Produced some great conversation though. How valuable getting Dylan Lennon on camera in a car ride talking about other stars like cash stones and other Beatles.
What of interest did they say? I didn’t hear anything.
"Some great conversation".??! Wow you're easily pleased!
It put me in mind of Derek & Clive's gem 'Back of the Cab' where they compare the worst passengers they've ever had 😂🤣
They spoke about Mama's and the Papa's
B.S.
He’s coming down from a high actually.
Looks like Bob was out of his skull, and John was bored shitless with him.... probably thinking oh gawd don't barf on me..