Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (RARE FUNNY COMMENTARY) [Royal Albert Hall 1966]

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  • This track is priceless, and probably the best example of Dylan interacting with his audience. It was recorded on May 27, 1966 at Royal Albert Hall in London, his LAST concert on tour for many years, and the final recording of him in 1966.
    Listening to this is an experience. I really hope footage of this event will someday be released. I'm surprised it isn't more famous. The moment when his band breaks out before he gets to finish his sentence, he screams at the top of his lungs, ".....!"---Well, I don't want to spoil it for you. Please give it a listen.
    Also, if any of you have any requests, let me know!
    Enjoy this gem while you can, and please subscribe!

КОМЕНТАРІ • 471

  • @oliveeisner8964
    @oliveeisner8964 5 років тому +168

    "Go read some books. Read J.D. Salinger!" Bobby trolling the hecklers back into their seats. freaking epic. He's such a legend!

    • @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631
      @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 5 років тому

      Olive Eisner fuck Salinger. His book is only for depressed boys with mommy issues

    • @Pilrig1
      @Pilrig1 4 роки тому

      @@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 Stick to Mills & Boon.

    • @JimmyFranceable
      @JimmyFranceable 4 роки тому +3

      Joe Rodriguez Failed 9th grade English class.

    • @ryanlaurence569
      @ryanlaurence569 4 роки тому +4

      @@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 "book" implying Salinger only had one book shows your ignorance

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 роки тому +1

      once sgain once again once again

  • @bartstarr100
    @bartstarr100 5 років тому +219

    Bob is a little high. Just a little

    • @JimmyFranceable
      @JimmyFranceable 4 роки тому +7

      Speed kills.

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 4 роки тому +9

      Sounds like a downer, perhaps the same dope he shared with John Lennon around this time in a cab. As the video shows. John later confirmed it in an interview

    • @katherinekirkwood9632
      @katherinekirkwood9632 4 роки тому +4

      He had a reason people get on his nervous he's sick of them 4 sure.love
      Started on burgundy then started on the harder stuffffff. 💘

    • @cactuspot5678
      @cactuspot5678 4 роки тому +2

      @@JimmyFranceable not this man

    • @georgittesingbiel219
      @georgittesingbiel219 4 роки тому

      😅😂😄😎😂😅😄

  • @ontheBorderbytheSea
    @ontheBorderbytheSea 4 роки тому +43

    “ You’re talking to the wrong person man “

    • @nixon9346
      @nixon9346 4 роки тому +5

      Hahaha i love his interactions with audience on this tour its hillarious

  • @patrickoakley52
    @patrickoakley52 4 роки тому +8

    Bob is a little high!! What the F..k! This is genius at work and the crime is so little of this was recorded or filmed. Massive Missed Genius!!

    • @mikem668
      @mikem668 2 роки тому

      I don't think you're correct, but I'm not positive it's the same tour. A few years ago (2016?) copyright in the UK was expiring, unless the live recordings were released. So they released a 20 CD set of IIRC this tour. I think they did the same thing with some Rolling Stones recordings. You might be able to track them down, but they weren't around long.

  • @trevorwarner1322
    @trevorwarner1322 4 роки тому +27

    The Band sounds fantastic.

    • @ulpana
      @ulpana Рік тому

      Drummer is a titch confused. Who could blame that poor chap working with stix?
      Dylan finally went to the Village and got him some drummers in Howie Wyeth, Z"L Rest In Play and Gary Burke. See all the footage in Renaldo and Clara (Dylan's Rolling Blunder Revue back and frontstage mytho poetic film improv'd during that most old time stagey of Vo-De-Ville shows directed by Jacques Levy, Z"L Rest In Play, Prof!
      Tio Mitchito

  • @zoomonkeydotcom2005
    @zoomonkeydotcom2005 3 роки тому +9

    Holy cow !!!!!! Best version by far !!! I play this song live every time I can and I’m good but nothing like this !! Wow 😯. Bob is my man . Crazy vocals - all emotion - crazy lyrics - so real yet fantasy - Badass Bob

  • @Sherrie275
    @Sherrie275 Рік тому +2

    Pause became essential. Even in his darkest hours, his creative juice flow effortlessly it seems...

  • @patriciathewisher2315
    @patriciathewisher2315 2 роки тому +4

    What a dogtooth suit! Must be the best version I’ve ever heard of this great song. Thx so much. 🇮🇪🎱💜💒⏰

  • @patrickoakley52
    @patrickoakley52 3 роки тому +9

    Who can say! This is the greatest artist of the 20th century blowing the wind out of the recording industry. Who knows what this might lead to!!!

  • @ladyblue498
    @ladyblue498 4 роки тому +6

    This is a very special and interesting recording....Thank you so much Swingin' Pig!
    I especially love the 60ies Dylan.
    I can really imagine sitting at this concert...listening....being overwhelmed...being part of it...

  • @philipbunney9445
    @philipbunney9445 4 роки тому +7

    This is just wonderful. All that pent up frustration & the crowd provoking him. This is a song that needles someone (Positively 4th Street) but Dylan sings it like it is

  • @MrVincehalloran
    @MrVincehalloran 4 роки тому +10

    The band is on fire. As they tend to be when Bob is there.

  • @ReactionsToTheClassics
    @ReactionsToTheClassics 5 років тому +11

    Thanks for uploading this!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому

      Thank you for listening! Let me know if you have any requests. Cheers!

  • @nissi.k
    @nissi.k 5 років тому +7

    Such impeccable prowess! Thank you for this!!!

  • @helenbostock2350
    @helenbostock2350 2 роки тому +2

    Just like the old days love and peace man

  • @majones7004
    @majones7004 2 роки тому +1

    One of th first Bob Dylan songs I was exposed to...'70-'71; a decade later I planned a cross-country thing with Juarez on my itinerary...luckily I didn't go there. Thanks, Bob, for our 5+ decades.

  • @MrEdkern
    @MrEdkern 2 роки тому +2

    Saw him in cleveland,ohio on November 12,1965 and he did this song but was not as wild.

  • @mexicansmell
    @mexicansmell 4 роки тому +4

    Magic....Garth Hudson adding the butter....

  • @freevue
    @freevue 5 років тому +5

    Bob's Mondo Scripto art exhibition at Halcyon Gallery London - Highly recommended and free entrance !

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +1

      I’ve always wanted to go there! I’ve heard great things. I’m most excited for the Tulsa museum.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +2

      Michele Minick yep, I cant travel to the UK right now either. Hopefully someday 🤞

    • @oliveeisner8964
      @oliveeisner8964 5 років тому +2

      Michele. Oh my, we should try to coordinate. I'm super psyched to see Tulsa. I'm in Texas but it's still far. Dallas is a good place. Airports. Shorter drive (or bus) to Tulsa.

  • @anotherjoshua
    @anotherjoshua 5 років тому +3

    1966 -- and they still had trouble mic'ing rock and roll.

  • @laurarodriguezdiaz6489
    @laurarodriguezdiaz6489 Рік тому

    Gracias for this jewel

  • @littleitalyblogspot
    @littleitalyblogspot 3 місяці тому

    The band does sound 'marvellous' as does Bob when he's high.

  • @EricScottBloom
    @EricScottBloom 5 років тому +6

    No, it DOESN'T mean "nothing," Robert....you know that!

  • @brozbro
    @brozbro 5 років тому +59

    Mozart lasts because his music can be played by today's orchestras. Nobody can sing Dylan like Dylan.

    • @turretstudios9907
      @turretstudios9907 4 роки тому +2

      Hold my wine

    • @klausrain111
      @klausrain111 4 роки тому +5

      Profound. Thing is, Mozart and Brahms, et al, didn't make records.

    • @glenwreggitt4142
      @glenwreggitt4142 3 роки тому

      @@klausrain111 I have many records by Mozart and Brahms.

  • @stephenstpierre4728
    @stephenstpierre4728 5 років тому +1

    man bob is just great.

  • @dombrunelli5082
    @dombrunelli5082 5 років тому +2

    Thanks, Bob..My nom de plume is Sonny DELRIO.

  • @janepiepes2243
    @janepiepes2243 3 роки тому +1

    Oh, I know this clip, well. It is fantastic !
    " It just means nothing. "
    This was that English trip !
    " ... RUBBISH.. isn't even my vocabulary "

  • @questionblock8949
    @questionblock8949 5 місяців тому

    💎

  • @fionafinch348
    @fionafinch348 2 роки тому +1

    This was less than a month after Richard Farina, Mimi Baez's husband, was killed on a motorcycle & about a month away from his own motorcycle accident.

  • @JacksonBetz
    @JacksonBetz 5 років тому +10

    Love this so much!! Thanks so much for posting!! He was in peak form for this tour, and his interactions with the audience are so funny!
    (Not sure if they'll let you put it up because copyright, but do you have that version of I'll Keep It With Mine from the Blonde on Blonde session? An edited version of it came out on the first Bootleg Series in 1991, and then a longer version came out in 2015 - I've been looking for that longer one forever! But if you don't have it, no big deal! Thanks for this awesome version of Tom Thumb's Blues!)

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +2

      Jackson Betz I’ll see what I can do! Yes, they probably won’t allow me to upload it because it’s copyrighted, but I’ll edit it, and maybe it gets through. Cheers!

    • @edlispartiesgatherings7163
      @edlispartiesgatherings7163 5 років тому +2

      musicmp3.ru/search.html?text=I%27ll%20Keep%20It%20With%20Mine&all=songs
      Not all countries value money over art. ;-)

  • @anatolyFedotov
    @anatolyFedotov 4 роки тому +1

    Браво!

  • @luciferstaxi
    @luciferstaxi 3 роки тому +4

    Isn't this- just after Mr. Dylan went electric- and pissed off all the folkies?

    • @georgecoventry8441
      @georgecoventry8441 2 роки тому +1

      Yes. But he only pissed off about *half* of the folkies at that time. The other half loved what he was doing. They got it right away. And the rest had to catch up, which took them awhile. All that the press covered was the people who booed and objected to his new sound. They liked the controversy, just like they always do, and did a lot to encourage it.

  • @danbotha3471
    @danbotha3471 3 роки тому

    Good on ya, SP x

  • @garyhosty
    @garyhosty 5 років тому

    thanks Man

  • @connorbrady8002
    @connorbrady8002 4 роки тому +1

    I don't think Bob is belligerent here nor is he high or whatever and if he is it makes no difference to the line he straddles between being a showman and at the same time an artist in the truest sense of the word. It's a positive feedback loop of him digging his own grave, getting in, burying himself and then getting out, filling in the hole and then starting all over again

  • @geebud1880
    @geebud1880 4 роки тому

    omg..after some rusty intro this....really bbblllaaassstss. zzzzz...jeezzz this electric guitar solo ar 9 min. This is ROCKkkk

  • @andymacc
    @andymacc 4 роки тому

    Genius

  • @kelvinkloud
    @kelvinkloud 3 роки тому +1

    now you know why the motor cycle wreck story was bs... dylan was on the verge of a nervous breakdown & his body was racing 5 days ahead of his body. 3 more months of this & the hearse wouldve been heading to hibbing.

  • @dickslayer111
    @dickslayer111 5 років тому +2

    I don't want anyone to think there missing!

  • @marydee1946
    @marydee1946 4 роки тому +1

    The negative comments are so dumb. Enraging

  • @karmenjazbec7743
    @karmenjazbec7743 5 років тому

    i am empty handed painter from your stree t bob do not ignore me

  • @edited7382
    @edited7382 2 роки тому

    He told practically the same jibberish story when he introduced Senior in 1978.

  • @classicrocklover1234
    @classicrocklover1234 7 місяців тому

    LYRICS:
    When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, and it's Easter time too
    And your gravity fails, negativity don't pull you through
    Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
    They got some hungry women there, and they'll really make a mess outta you
    If you see Saint Annie, please tell her thanks a lot
    I cannot move, my fingers they are all in a knot
    I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot
    And my best friend, the doctor, won't even tell me what it is I've got
    Sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom
    She speaks good English, invites you up into her room
    And you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon
    And she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon
    Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame
    You must pick one or the other, neither of them are what they claim
    If you're lookin' to get silly, you better go back to from where you came
    Because the cops don't need you, and man, they expect the same
    All the authorities, they just stand around and boast
    How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post
    And picking up Angel, who just arrived from the coast
    Who looked so fine at first, but left looking just like a ghost
    I started out on Burgundy, but soon hit the harder stuff
    Everybody said they're right behind me when the game got rough
    But the joke was on me, there was nobody even to call my bluff
    I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough

  • @johnwhitfield1
    @johnwhitfield1 Рік тому +40

    I was there. I'm 72 now and. still listen to this stuff.Been a fan all my life

  • @bluelightproductions
    @bluelightproductions 5 років тому +244

    Imagine being that high and remembering all those lyrics. I mean...dang.

    • @Toc2Rock
      @Toc2Rock 4 роки тому +2

      LOL

    • @elifonkonsolakis2521
      @elifonkonsolakis2521 4 роки тому +13

      And he would play, and deliver some killer performances being that high, umbelievable

    • @alexv1193
      @alexv1193 4 роки тому +13

      coming from experience, after a while you just get used to it as your new normal. Bob was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol so he basically became numb to it all

    • @Babeiloveyouso
      @Babeiloveyouso 4 роки тому +2

      Sometimes it's best just to say nothing at aallll.

    • @zachcovey975
      @zachcovey975 4 роки тому +4

      Been that high, nobody wanted to listen to me though 😁😁😁

  • @42awww
    @42awww 3 роки тому +57

    It was a blessing in disguise that Bob got in that motorcycle accident. You can tell he is wrecked and tired by this last concert. If he had continued the planned world-wide tour, he may have died. And i don't know what our lives would be without the classics he made from that point!

    • @0otee
      @0otee 3 місяці тому +1

      Blessing in disguise…
      🌹🌺🌹❣️🍀💥🎶🌹🌺❣️

    • @dianeriley7247
      @dianeriley7247 2 місяці тому +2

      Absolutely, he was so close to being a member of the “27 club”.

    • @asmahism
      @asmahism Місяць тому +1

      I think he manufactured the accident to save his life/ sanity. It’s a perfect excuse. People are fanatical about Dylan, if he went to the hospital someone would have found that info and as far as I can tell no one has.

    • @johnthemachine
      @johnthemachine Місяць тому +1

      This person or “persona” did die, in the motorcycle crash.

  • @billbayh5179
    @billbayh5179 5 років тому +155

    "...go read some books." There lies the best free advice anybody ever gave! More, more, more...

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +8

      bill bayh Yes! Thanks for listening :)

    • @katherinekirkwood9632
      @katherinekirkwood9632 4 роки тому +2

      He just doesn't want 2 talk to them he could care less go read 📚 if u want Lear something people & figure it out 4 yourself.
      What it all meanssssss ❤

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 роки тому +1

      Amorone or that's amore eh!

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 роки тому +1

      He's said it I couldn't quite catch up dam me

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 роки тому +1

      @@katherinekirkwood9632 words girl words

  • @myradioon
    @myradioon 4 роки тому +136

    He is talking cryptically about William Burroughs in the beginning. Burroughs was a painter too. He divided his time between Mexico City and Texas for a bit. I've always felt this whole song is a montage and homage to the kind of life Jack Kerouac lived with Burroughs and chronicled in "Mexico City Blues" and "Tristessa". Kerouac would have to score heroin for Burroughs and one usually got it from female "leaders" who brought you someplace else to buy/sell it and were often prostitutes too. "They got some hungry women there and man they'll make a mess out of you". "Tristessa" of the book title, was one such leader/dealer and "Sweet Melinda" "The goddess of gloom" and "St. Annie" are her stand-ins here - "please tell her thanks a lot. I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot (probably bad/tainted heroin). I don't have the strength to take another shot. My best friend the doctor (what they called Burroughs or anybody in drug circles who knew about drugs and reactions) won't even say what it is I got". Kerouac called Burroughs "Doctor Sax". "Playing the sax" was slang for shooting up in the 50's - 60's.
    When you read Kerouac's accounts and his journals this song makes perfect sense. The crooked cops and the whole scene. Kerouac himself never touched heroin but smoked pot, drank (of course), and lived in the bathroom. He found out "On the Road" was about to be published while living there penniless, near middle aged, in such circumstances.
    And naturally - "I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough" - is something both Burroughs, Kerouac and many of the beats did when life somewhere else wasn't panning out.
    But let's not forget, at the time of writing, Dylan himself was starting to experiment with such drugs/having to score and some lines could be autobiographical.
    Going to Juarez or other Mexican border towns from Texas/Lower California to score Heroin was commonplace and chronicled so well (and painfully) by Lucia Berlin in her great short story "Carmen" from 'Manual For Cleaning Women' (the "Madame" she scores from is female too).

    • @soushores495
      @soushores495 4 роки тому +16

      Great post. It follows very well with the "stream of consciousness" style of this song. Also a clear homage to Kerouac who captured Dylan's imagination when he found himself a genius in Hibbing, MN as a teenager and was trying to harness his intellect. I believe the line "housing project hill" is from Kerouac's writing. The idiot in the audience in Dylan's opening comments probably never got the insult when he said "go outside and read a book".He clearly decided early on that his creative expression would never be a static condition & he required the freedom to reinvent himself as often as he liked. To the great benefit of all of us, the one thing he held constant was sharing his creative output with us.

    • @myradioon
      @myradioon 4 роки тому +20

      Thanks. Further rambling info. "I started out on 'Burgundy' but soon hit the harder stuff". Heroin was often given names of alcohol colors to differentiate it on the street. When you cooked it it turned colors depending on what it was cut with. "Cherry Wine" - "Jamaican Rum" (which Dylan fills up his shoe with in another song!) "The harder stuff" was always clearer - no color. He references so much street drug slang in his songs at this point - it usually went over the academic's heads! 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' is about a girl (Edie Sedgwick?/ type) who has overdosed (you turn blue when you o.d.) while other users steal her stuff from around/under her, 'carpet', 'clothes', 'sheets' etc. - not uncommon unfortunately.
      He himself was slipping into a speed/heroin habit - his songs getting wordier and faster - his looks paler and speech slurred (like in this performance). It all came to a head with the bike crash. I've always suspected a "Tom Thumb" was slang for someone who shot up (with your thumb duh!) or a "newbie user" a 'Little Man' on the drug scene. Maybe something Dylan made up for himself. "Picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast.....looked fine at first but left looking just like a ghost." What drugs can do to a fresh face.
      People are often uncomfortable with it but many of his songs are about street drug culture. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is full of drug slang. "...in the basement mixin' up the 'medicine'...Man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen wants 11 dollar bills you only got 10!". "..must bust in early May, orders from the D.A." - It's pretty clear once you see it in this light. The beauty is you can interpret these "obtuse slang" phrases however you want.

    • @altadelacruz4312
      @altadelacruz4312 4 роки тому +7

      "Darkness at the break of noon
      Shadows even the silver spoon
      The handmade blade, the child's balloon
      Eclipses both the sun and moon"
      from "It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)" is a heroin reference. They're all over "Bringing It All Back Home".

    • @myradioon
      @myradioon 4 роки тому +7

      @@altadelacruz4312 Spot on. Never caught that one, but yep - before "zip-loc" bags, a tied up "child's balloon" was a way to keep powdered drugs and also used for tying up your arm.

    • @oliviah4457
      @oliviah4457 4 роки тому +13

      I wish there was a way to save comments on yt. All of this information is really great, thank you all

  • @tricornclub9594
    @tricornclub9594 2 роки тому +32

    This show was attended by the Beatles. Dylan raising the bar for his contemporaries and for the rest of us ever since.

  • @jamescutler4515
    @jamescutler4515 5 років тому +257

    Bob could have become a cult leader with an inflated ego and enlarged sense of himself. But he chose to play down all that nonsense and actually be really humble. And for that, I personally respect him more

    • @mario7frankielee
      @mario7frankielee 5 років тому +5

      thats exactly how it is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    • @svenknutsen8937
      @svenknutsen8937 5 років тому +9

      I think that Bob Dylan could have been a mathematics professor...

    • @paulsavage5057
      @paulsavage5057 4 роки тому +5

      Then how he did he become famous? Did the gods of fame just drop by his house one day after he put his music on UA-cam? The guy could have sold Bibles to a chicken and they would have believed what he says is true. If he's so humble, then why won't he ever stop touring and live a quiet life?

    • @thehockeyfan8888
      @thehockeyfan8888 4 роки тому +20

      @@paulsavage5057 You don't choose to be famous, especially back then with the lack of mass social media. He made music and gained a very large following early in his life. His job is being a musician, so he tours.

    • @MarcelProust63
      @MarcelProust63 4 роки тому +5

      @@paulsavage5057 He made an early vow: "cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it" True to the end.

  • @epipd5712
    @epipd5712 4 роки тому +53

    Bob was seriously in the know high or sober. Smart man...i learn something from Every song he sings. So happy I grew up on his music.

  • @philipdavison1487
    @philipdavison1487 3 роки тому +21

    Even high, Bobby knew his song before he started singin' .... and, like Caruso, he hit all the notes. I've been singing this song for years, drunk or sober. Never once got the words right. God gave Bob the words in the first place, and reminded him of them in his time of need. Bob Dylan, chosen by whichever God you believe in.

  • @sandrawadsworth5173
    @sandrawadsworth5173 2 роки тому +21

    He was so far ahead of his time. People just didn't get him! Some of us did!❤️

  • @juliet3827
    @juliet3827 Рік тому +9

    He was already married at this time and father of his first child, Jesse. Hard to believe.

  • @henryholt1359
    @henryholt1359 5 років тому +29

    I remember in 1975 I had hichhiked up the coast and I was living with some hippies on a community near Nimbin in a plastic shack and we would sit around and listen to early Dylan and smoke chilms around the fire..I played harmonica and would play along sometimes..love early Dylan.. that series Rolling Thunder on Netflix was great.

  • @cathycrago2722
    @cathycrago2722 4 роки тому +22

    I love everything he has ever written or recorded but the 66 Albert Hall recordings are just amazing on so many levels.

  • @jimseaton6611
    @jimseaton6611 5 років тому +48

    Bob Dylan songs well still be sung in 500 years. 2519, you just wait and see.

  • @tomdale1313
    @tomdale1313 3 роки тому +16

    When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
    And it's Easter time too... i have thought on those lines for a couple of decades

    • @thebluesandothercolors6602
      @thebluesandothercolors6602 3 роки тому +1

      me too

    • @tomdale1313
      @tomdale1313 Рік тому

      @@thebluesandothercolors6602 the theme that keeps repeating itself to me is Juarez is always portrayed as a sell your soul place, and this reference about Easter as I make it out to fit my ideal speaks of "religious" sanctity occurring in such a place

  • @moricwilson
    @moricwilson 5 років тому +105

    JAYY DEE SAAALINGERRRR!!!!!

    • @viviandarkbloom100
      @viviandarkbloom100 4 роки тому +3

      I wonder if Bob would recommend that to a young Mark David Chapman. Yikes. Roll on John. The odd coincidences.

    • @nancybennett8839
      @nancybennett8839 4 роки тому +1

      @@viviandarkbloom100 ikr?

    • @Pilrig1
      @Pilrig1 4 роки тому +6

      @@viviandarkbloom100 Millions have read Catcher in the Rye without becoming fucking psychos.

    • @Jerry11201
      @Jerry11201 4 роки тому +1

      @@Pilrig1 yes and we read it in middle or high school as well

    • @benjaminmcdonald9558
      @benjaminmcdonald9558 4 роки тому +2

      Colors of the rains and Niely says Word word words

  • @rb6338
    @rb6338 5 років тому +48

    Thanks for this gem! Dylan is now so often criticised for the lack of interaction with the audience during concerts. He used to interact a lot since end of the 80s. We must respect his attitude. Still giving us his music and poetry after so many years is an enormous gift.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 2 роки тому

      Speaking of amphetamine.

    • @MellowWind
      @MellowWind Рік тому

      @@jnagarya519 Sounds more like alcohol.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 Рік тому

      @@MellowWind At around the time he "went electric" he was being called "an amphetamine prick". He was already a constant weed smoker.

  • @4711StGermain
    @4711StGermain Рік тому +5

    Sure would be a bummer to have the rare chance to see Dylan - and he's bombed out of his F'kn mind! Sad. Saw Rod Stewart once, he was so drunk he couldn't stand, but his warm-up band, The Eagles, were GREAT! girlfriend & I walked out on Stewart. (performing in this condition... is theft, and I've loved Dylan for 60 yrs!

    • @spyder2383
      @spyder2383 2 місяці тому

      Dylan at his acerbic best.

  • @Anthony-hu3rj
    @Anthony-hu3rj 5 років тому +65

    He gave it all for all the early years - his voice, his voice.

  • @srg123ify
    @srg123ify 5 років тому +56

    Love this rare Dylan performance he was so tired by the end he could barely sing

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +11

      Sergio Moreno I know, he was exhausted and needed a break. Still witty though!

    • @thesongtowoody
      @thesongtowoody 5 років тому +5

      this is not a dis on dylan but yes while he was ie tired....its fair to say he was overwhelmed with his own fame and fell into a spell of drugs....stay away from drugs you will lose! bob would tell you that...but...tired and drugs here...

    • @ardalla535
      @ardalla535 5 років тому +8

      @@thesongtowoody He didn't 'fall' into a spell of drugs. The drugs were there and he wanted them. Don't make a victim out of Bob Dylan. Whatever he did, he did it because he wanted to.

    • @thesongtowoody
      @thesongtowoody 5 років тому +6

      @@ardalla535 perhaps your right. he obviously did them of his own free will. i cant deny that. perhaps i should condemn him for using drugs? that could very well be a justified position unless you see the world through a nihilist lense, then nothing is good or bad right or wrong it just is. What i was getting at is that i have sympathy for the soul that falls into a ditch even if it is by their own evil choices , i dont take pleasure in that i sympathize with their precarious plight. some people end up homeless cause of one off the cuff casual ignorant curious try of drugs....are they victims ultimately no, but i feel for them, that is my nature and we will all ultimately answer to God and his son Jesus Christ.

    • @brittbeck9158
      @brittbeck9158 5 років тому +1

      thesongtowoody
      The God I believe in, is the forgiving creator of you and me. God loves sinners, which redeem. The vengeance is mine, said our Creator. Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil..Praise the Lord 🙏💙🦋

  • @georgecoventry8441
    @georgecoventry8441 2 роки тому +10

    I think that's probably his best take on that song ever. And The Band sounds marvelous. Thanks for posting it!

  • @xenocampanoli815
    @xenocampanoli815 3 роки тому +13

    That is one damned good performance, perfect for those with the humanity to get it, as well as perfect to frustrate those who are far too shallow and thoughtless to have any hope to.

    • @wonderrob3225
      @wonderrob3225 2 роки тому +1

      Unfortunately, the world is full of morons, fans of Disco and Billie Eilish

  • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
    @Piggy-Oink-Oink 5 років тому +45

    They are laughing..when he says it just means NOTHING> he always tells the truth.he isn;t sure what it all means..never did.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +6

      Agreed. He's been trying to find himself out with his songs, and it's a never ending journey.

    • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
      @Piggy-Oink-Oink 5 років тому

      @@SwinginPig Exactly...lol

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +3

      Michele Minick Wow, thanks for much for that insightful comment! I had a blast reading it. I agree with you; he must’ve been out of his head by the end of the tour, and fed up with what was being demanded of him. Thanks for listening! And let me know about that request whenever. I’ll see what I can do. Cheers!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +3

      Michele Minick Same here, my friend.

    • @ardalla535
      @ardalla535 5 років тому +5

      Of course he's right. This particular song means absolutely nothing. I doubt if he had anything at all in mind when he wrote it. He just sat down at the keyboard and played a blues riff and filled in the lyrics as they occurred to him. And what was on his mind was something about Mexico, so that became the framework it was built around. Sometimes Bob put a lot of hidden stuff in his songs that he didn't want to be clear about for one reason or another (Visions of Johanna), but sometimes there really is just nothing there. But just because it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's not a great song.

  • @dixieflatline8750
    @dixieflatline8750 5 років тому +21

    Cops like this song just because they appreciate that someone finally said: "the cops don't need you and man they expect the same."
    ...Even though Dylan is obviously loaded to the gills on who knows what...

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 5 років тому +3

      Well they shouldn't bother with innocent people then.

    • @ms-iz9ye
      @ms-iz9ye 5 років тому +5

      Supposedly it was heroin during this tour. But you gotta read a lot of Dylan books to find out anything.

    • @brendanmccabe8373
      @brendanmccabe8373 4 роки тому

      When the white boy has to be taught about the police

  • @marchfool
    @marchfool 4 роки тому +27

    Well yeah. Isn’t this pretty much perfect? A refreshing breath of truth in sadly false times. Thank you Bob for always being there.

    • @NoCountryforBadMovies
      @NoCountryforBadMovies Рік тому

      I mean, he was drugged out of mind and I don’t think he even knew what he was talking about.

  • @davidphelps2121
    @davidphelps2121 5 років тому +6

    Whilst all the pontificators pour over the "meanings" of Mr. Dylans lyrics, and the Intellects post their "insightful" takes on Swingin' Pig's marvelous post, I wallow in the sweet sounds of Bobby, Robbie, Rick, Mickey, (Richard?), and Garth, shred this classic, sounds like the band Television! Such a punk rock version (reminds me of the Dewey Cox Story) Not always a huge backer of Robbie, but his licks in this tune are sublime. Thanks my friend for posting. Can't wait to see Dylan at Frost Amphitheater on the 14th! Saw him on the exact same day in 2016 when he opened for the Stones in Indio, CA. the night he won his Pulitzer!

  • @cindybradley3543
    @cindybradley3543 5 років тому +23

    Thanks so much for this! I just can't say it enough how much I love ANYTHING that is "YOUNG DYLAN"! I was only 10 years old back in 1966. My Uncle used to like to listen to Dylan. I looked up to my uncle & I would pay close attention to the stuff he liked 'cause I always seem to like, what he liked. He was about 9 yrs. older than me. At home I didn't have a record player or albums yet for that matter. My older brother did, but I didn't get a chance to use his until I was a couple years older. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll be waiting and watching for more!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +3

      Cindy Bradley thanks so much for listening!! And I love hearing stories like that. I wish I grew up in that generation. Like your uncle was then, I’m 19. Cheers!

    • @cindybradley3543
      @cindybradley3543 5 років тому +3

      Wow, your only 19? Your still a "Baby"!! It's great that someone as young as you, actually loves and appreciates, the genius of our beloved Mr. D.

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +7

      @Michele Minick Of course I'll answer! I'm an open book haha. I guess my dad got me into him. He was into all sorts of stuff, but Dylan really stuck with me. Then after hearing him play Tambourine Man in Newport '64 on UA-cam when I was 10, I was hooked. I learned guitar and harmonica, and I'm still playing his stuff at local coffee houses. He inspired me to write my own stuff too (if you wanna see some of it and my Dylan covers, visit my personal page: Ross Wylde). I've always thought that if you want to be a good songwriter, listen to Dylan, because he pulled from so many genres and is a wealth of information. The videos I post are just me curating the wealth of performing knowledge, poetic ability, and just inspiration. Look who's rambling now. Have a great day.

    • @cindybradley3543
      @cindybradley3543 5 років тому +5

      Swingin' Pig....if I may be so bold as to interrupt but, you are 1 REALLY SMART GUY!!! And talented too! Unbelievable! Thanks so much again, for all your cool Bobstuff!!!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +3

      Cindy Bradley awe, thank you!! Means a lot. I’m just an old soul who appreciates Dylan’s work. The Shakespeare of our generation haha. Cheers.

  • @dannypound7626
    @dannypound7626 5 років тому +18

    Goodness he's wasted here. It's a wonder he could even get through these shows. However, the band is kicking ass.

    • @roncarpenter7240
      @roncarpenter7240 5 років тому +1

      I believe this was just before his motorcycle accident. I've read that the accident, resulting in him hospitalized for weeks, actually saved his life.as per your comments.

    • @christopherbent2359
      @christopherbent2359 4 роки тому +3

      @@roncarpenter7240 there was no accident he got burnt out and had to take a break. He played it off as an accident

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 3 роки тому +3

      He's not slurring and he's an adult he can do what he wants he still put on a good show that's all that matters. Strange how people want to reject any artists who ever took a drink or smoked a joint now considering that is the majority of artists especially in the 60s.

  • @viviandarkbloom100
    @viviandarkbloom100 4 роки тому +27

    I hope this was the last song he played on this Tour. The last line would be perfect, "I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough."
    Thanks for almost killing me Albert.

  • @puri6546
    @puri6546 5 років тому +8

    What a tour, 1966... I was months old, thanks that we have the recordings!

  • @mortimerzilch2608
    @mortimerzilch2608 5 років тому +13

    Bob sounds really ripped.

  • @murraycowie9234
    @murraycowie9234 4 роки тому +6

    I am just so delighted to be inundated with so many terrific Dylan moments... Deeply grateful!

  • @DirkRevised
    @DirkRevised 4 роки тому +6

    "priceless", indeed the last thing one can say about this clip.
    Thank you for sharing.
    Thank you for being there and whoever you were back then mister singer.

  • @petercapewell1573
    @petercapewell1573 5 років тому +10

    FAN BLOODYTASTIC THANK SO MUCH YOU ARE THE MAN

  • @toddbacon2022
    @toddbacon2022 Рік тому +2

    I am so fortunate, Peter, paul and Mary, the Beatles, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt...and so many more artists of the times were my inspiration to find my own voice in the arts. The sixties were very similar to the varied art movements at the turn-of-the 20th century in europe.

  • @leighcecil3322
    @leighcecil3322 Рік тому +3

    He's a survivor.. the God's smiled upon him a true legend...! Glad to have grown up listening to his lyrics ... he keep me going when I was in a dark place... thanks Bob namista 🙏

  • @Telecasterluvr
    @Telecasterluvr 5 років тому +8

    Lmaoo he is just fucking with them so hard. Vintage Bob

    • @boppob1343
      @boppob1343 3 роки тому

      I think it's more that he's high as fuck

    • @Telecasterluvr
      @Telecasterluvr 3 роки тому

      @@boppob1343 both

    • @sherrybirchall8677
      @sherrybirchall8677 2 роки тому

      No, he's talking to the audience, when some fucking fucks open their fucking mouths full of hatefulness and entitlement, like just because they paid for a ticket, they own an artist like he's their puppet. What a bunch of fucking jerks.

  • @MB-wk4sb
    @MB-wk4sb 3 роки тому +5

    I just listened to Nina Simone's cover of this favourite of mine, very beautiful, very soulful, but I must say nothing beats hearing it from the man himself while he sounds ready to beat me to death with his Telecaster

    • @familytreemusic
      @familytreemusic 2 роки тому +1

      That's probably the only case in which i prefer a cover to Bob's original, or other Bob's versions... Nina paint those 6 pictures so vividly, like not even Bob could, maybe for the sparsity of the arrangement and the composed intensity of Nina's performance.

  • @tommoran4457
    @tommoran4457 3 роки тому +4

    He really sounds like he doesn't have the strength to get up and take another shot

  • @blessedevreyday
    @blessedevreyday 4 роки тому +3

    Even shitfaced, its crazy how Dylan 50+ years on can still capture listeners individually while millions share the same experience.

  • @Bluzian74
    @Bluzian74 5 років тому +6

    absolutely beeeaaauuuutifulllll!! Thank you for the upload! Wow!

  • @pbesmer
    @pbesmer 2 роки тому +3

    Did not have a huge ego, but a sense off humor humbleness and eventually later on a bit in security. I’ve watched him since 1963.

    • @ulpana
      @ulpana Рік тому

      You've nailed a paradox in Dylan that keeps twisting back on itself through the years. As he says in "My Back Pages"
      "I was so much older then\I'm younger than that now..." I got to know the Mayor of McDougal Street, Big Dave Van Ronk, Z"L Rest In Play, who along with his wife\partner\manager Teri Thal at the time Dylan first hit NYC from the Minnesota Iron Range and then college in Minneapolis, Van Ronk & Thal extended their ratty apartment floor to this kid from the open mic nights at the Greenwich Village cafes (never the bars where you'd need a cabaret license in corrupt NYC to perform). Dylan didn't even give them his real name, they had to find it out by accident. But the kid was so funny that they loved having him around. By around, usually under the folding table that was like their only furniture and over which Van Ronk and Thal's Village pals came weekly to play cards with Dylan under the table typing away and occasionally passing typed sheets table-top for Van Ronk to critique). Read Van Ronk's memoir completed after Dave passed away about a decade ago by one of Dave's guitar students from the neighborhood, Elijah Wald: Truly one of the great Musical Memoirs (a genre invented later by Bay Area based poet
      ovelist\ lit inventor and U.C.-Berkeley prof as well as occasional club performer, Al Young. Get his paperback Musical Memoirs to learn much about how one can braid their lives with the songs floating by in the air):
      litkicks.com/mayorofmacdougalstreet/
      The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk
      By Levi Asher
      January 7, 2014
      African-American, American, Beat Generation, Biography, Comedy, Film, Indie, Jazz Age, La Boheme, Love, Music, New York City, Reviews, Summer Of Love, Tributes
      The Great Lost Rock Memoir
      12 Comments
      neglectedbooks.com/?p=205
      Al Young’s Musical Memoirs
      4 June 2008
      Mitchito Ritter
      27 October 2014 at 5:56 am
      soundcloud.com/tags/a%20jazz%20life
      Carlton Jackson, the multi-dimensional drummer in Portland, Oregon. Po’town is a hotbed of fine and color-filled drumming and percussion across musical styles and global vocabularies, but few if any are as varied in what they play well as Carlton. He has a Sunday night radio show called THE MESSAGE. His Play-Lists reflect the varied and tasteful, not to mention exploratory scope of the bands, combos and larger ensembles he plays out with and the recording session work he’s done. Carlton Jackson’s unique aspect brought to KMHD’s weekly THE MESSAGE is his musical imagination, as he’s brought to the broadcast range of one of the few jazz radio stations left on the U.S. airwaves a spectrum of styles and types of recorded music that skate well above any genre or marketing categories superimposed onto what is and should ideally remain non-classifiable, if yet widely discussed and savored.
      Tonight, Sunday 10/26/14 Carlton played an oral history feature of KMHD that is archived on SoundCloud and retrievable for
      your delight and the delight of others here: soundcloud.com/kmhd-radio/andre-st-james
      This 21st C. revival of free-form and expanding community and public radio arts builds on the Al Young culture-building project he well-titled MUSICAL MEMOIRS that you so righteously celebrate here on your web page NEGLECTED BOOKS.com. Hopefully with the death of so many music appreciation ‘zines or the moving of the rolled-up back pocket variety to the internet as web sites, the vision Al Young brought into the world, that I would nutshell as a way to both spread musical enthusiasm and create the necessary community-market base to support musical expression that is essentially deemed unworthy by the “Hidden Hand of the Market” this Young-ian concept of the MUSICAL MEMOIR may live on and travel farther on as Joy Harjo might phrase it “Winding through the Milky Way” via public and community radio shows like THE MESSAGE and via web sites that replenish musical enthusiasm by retrieving it from the dustbin of the fashion industry like your wonderful NEGLECTED BOOKS.com web site. Long may y’all run!
      PS - The Andre St. James entry into the above-referenced A Jazz Life musical memoirs features reminiscences of Bay Area music educator and hot pianist of choice Ed Kelly bringing the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk into a college music class for a hands-on nose-in philosophical lecture with vivid musical illustration. Student Andre was invited to sit in on bass with musical adept Rahsaan Roland Kirk and after the lecture and presentation the young lion-in-training wigged out. Terrific story to be shared and Carlton Jackson & The Message ought to be commended for weaving that oral history into a splendidly wide-ranging set of sounds over KMHD, the FM radio station licensed to Mt. Hood Community College and being put to good use as part of the OPB state-wide public radio imperium. Let us now retreat to the PURPLE GROTTO…
      Mitchito

  • @davidpearn2484
    @davidpearn2484 4 роки тому +6

    The most God given talent ever

  • @stevefaure415
    @stevefaure415 2 роки тому +1

    Boy are they ever rocking. Band is just lit up and loose, you don't hear anything like this for years and years to come, it's not how professional musicians would usually play.

  • @terrikayy
    @terrikayy 4 роки тому +3

    Check out Nina Simone's version here on UA-cam. A very different version, pure Nina. It is beautiful!

    • @apexxxx10
      @apexxxx10 4 роки тому +1

      *Totally agree!*

    • @waynehawkins7581
      @waynehawkins7581 2 роки тому +1

      Check out Gordon lightfoot’s rendition....great of course

  • @elizaanderson8909
    @elizaanderson8909 5 років тому +36

    This is such an incredible performance!

    • @SwinginPig
      @SwinginPig  5 років тому +2

      Right, it’s one of his stand-outs

  • @gudlisner501
    @gudlisner501 5 років тому +3

    He once told everyone what his songs are about “some are about 3 minutes, some are about 4 minutes and some are about 5 minutes long”. Or something like that. If you can remember you weren’t there.

  • @joankearns4490
    @joankearns4490 4 роки тому +4

    Love you Bob. Wish I was that high right now.

  • @thebluesandothercolors6602
    @thebluesandothercolors6602 3 роки тому +3

    Mickey Jones just killing it on this tour

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch Рік тому +1

    Then I heard the story of Magdalena Solis, all over the newspapers back in the day, and understood some of the horrifying depth of the nothing this song was about.

  • @Leocadia333
    @Leocadia333 5 років тому +8

    Damn, this is far out! Thank you much.

  • @JennyWren333
    @JennyWren333 4 роки тому +5

    I love ❤️ Bob’s lectures!

  • @janepiepes2243
    @janepiepes2243 3 роки тому +2

    And this is the trip he banged out BALLAD OF A THIN MAN ...after a quiet speech ...he retaliated with the most fantastic version of that song.
    How great that must've felt.
    Standing up
    Waving one hand
    Tapping out the rythmn within his boots.

  • @keepitwitmine
    @keepitwitmine 4 роки тому +7

    What a gem!

  • @Raymantico
    @Raymantico 5 років тому +5

    He was very tired by this show---the weary genius

  • @Katarinatorn
    @Katarinatorn Рік тому +1

    He is sick of people asking what does this meeeeaaan? lol

  • @markj.8491
    @markj.8491 3 роки тому +3

    Folks, I love Bob Dylan, and his music is part of my daily life. I came here to listen to this precious live recording and for the MILLIONTH time, against my will, I was forced to hear that hateful "audible - audiobook" advertisement. It's good that someone is promoting books, People needs to read but I can't take it anymore, of it, and all the advertisements and double ads on UA-cam. I tried to get rid of those but it didn't work apparently. Hope you Bob Dylan's people can understand my vent about this. Love

    • @1DaTJo
      @1DaTJo 2 роки тому

      @Mark J you should watch UA-cam on Brave browser. It eliminates all the ads.