Bob Dylan Jamming With Eric Von Schmidt (May 1964) [RARE COMPLETE TAPE]
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- TRACKLIST AND FASCINATING INFO BELOW
Remember on "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" when Dylan was talking about the guy he learned the song from on the "green pastures of Harvard University?" This is Eric Von Schmidt! Dylan was very good friends with him for years. The photo in my video is, strangely, the only one I could find of both of them together, taken in 1962 at The Troubador Cafe in London, England (Dylan's first performance in Europe). He was only 20 years old! Richard Farina (Joan Baez's brother-in-law until he died in a tragic motorcycle accident) is on the left, a chubby Dylan is in the middle, and Von Schmidt is on the right.
Anyway, this is a jam session Dylan recorded with Von Schmidt in early 1964. The tape was lost for three decades until it was found in Eastern Europe, of all places, close to the Russian border! Here is a little information about it from the excellent website Searching For A Gem:
"Thanks to Katherine Kelly for letting me know the photo on the right was taken in Eric's studio at Siesta Key, FL, after he left the house at 532 Beach Road, then owned by her mother Kay Kelly, who was married to Eric for eight years. In his book "A Life In Stolen Moments - Bob Dylan Day By Day: 1941-1995" Clinton Heylin expresses doubts about the location and date - not only is it difficult to slot a visit to Florida into Bob's schedule for that period, but Eric, who died in 2007, told Clinton Bob never visited him at his house. This is confirmed by Katherine, who was 11-12 at the time and remembers folk stars such as Joan Baez (see the photo below right) and Geoff and Maria Muldaur visiting Eric and Kay in Siesta Key, but not Bob. On the Steve Hoffman Forum "Hollowhorn" thinks that the tape was more likely to have been recorded in New York state or New England. A woman's voice can be heard on the tape (identified in the "Telegraph" article as Kay Kelly), but Katherine says she has a Massachusetts accent and is not her mother or Joan Baez."
I ripped this recording from the limited edition vinyl release "The Copyright Collection 1964," then cleaned up the tracks with audio software. There are so many gems on this tape. It offers a unique insight into Dylan's persona when he was away from the stage. He laughs, jokes around, and seems very human in general. I highly recommend listening to this in full. Enjoy this gem while you can!
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Bob And Eric Blues #1
6:37 - Black Betty
8:00 - Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
12:47 - Florida Woman
15:46 - Johnny Cuckoo
19:33 - Money Honey
23:05 - More And More
27:04 - Mr. Tambourine Man [EARLIEST KNOWN RECORDING]
33:15 - Susie Q
38:52 - Harmonica Duet
41:18 - Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down)
44:27 - Dr. Stangelove Blues [HILARIOUS]
50:10 - Stoned On The Mountain 1
51:08 - Stoned On The Mountain 2 [HILARIOUS]
55:12 - Walkin' Down the Line
58:12 - Joshua Gone Barbados
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Places like this, that people TRULY learn.
More of them please!
This was posted I suppose because of the Birthdays coming up for both of them. I totally support the cause but I find some misinformation which I would like to address. The Dylan / von Schmidt(small v by the way) tapes played here ,LP1-side B , LP2-side C ,and LP2-side D which are all on the 50th anniversary collection 1964 , were not recorded at 532 Beach Rd. Siesta Key. This beach house was purchased in 1957 by my mother( Kay) and my then stepfather. I was 12 at the time these recordings were to have taken place...in our living room. Many wonderful talented musicians ,artists and writers came through our door but Dylan was not one of them. I also have a reel to reel with Harmonica Duet through first take of Stoned on the mountain. I discovered this 13 years after my mothers death . It had been in a dark drawer under A/C and was in great condition after a friend transferred it to CD. The big (and telling) difference between the published Sony version and mine was they cut all the "chatter" from in between the songs. My tape has it all. I believe this was recorded in Cambridge , or Boston somewhere hence the accents of the other folks in the room. This was an incredible time in my life , Club 47 , Newport Folk Fest and it will always be , musically anyway a decade that can never be duplicated . BTW: is that Geoff Muldaur second from left ? Thanks for posting this.
Thank you and Dylan has never agreed or refuted his not being there. HISTORY IS SO MUCH MORE THAN MOST REALIZE FINDING THOSE PRICELESS GEMS AS YOU HAVE IS HISTORY 🎉❤ THANK YOU
The most incredible Dylan record I ever heard, and now discovering Eric Von Schmidt's music. Thanks a lot for sharing it.
I've always been curious of this relationship. Let us not forget Von Schmidt's album in the Bring it All Back Home album cover.
Ha! Forgot about that.
Sounds like New Orleans stuff.
Rick's a blues guitar player...I met 'm one day in the green pastures of Harvard University...
😂👍👍👍
Best introduction to a song I’ve ever heard.
Great vocal harmony in "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies". I also enjoyed a lot "More and More", it's a perfect song. Thanks SP for this incredible session.
i don't know why but listening this reminded me of "life before the internet". when "in real life" seemed, well, so much more real. unpredictable, exciting. when we were weren't living in a permanant state of distraction. so art, love, relationships seemed so different. anyway, not sure why, but just the sheer joy of this video made me feel intensely nostalgic for a phone free life.
"A permanent state of distraction" is a good description for life in the 21st century. For a lot of people, anyway.
"We have lost the ability to linger" - Byung Chul Han (check him out mate)@@AttilatheNun-xv6kc
All Right! I don't want to know where you are digging this great stuff up,,, but I am digging it! Thank You!!!!!!!!!!
Highlight is around minute 20 when Dylan sings “Money, Honey” and early, rough version of Tambourine Man at minute 27 (he’d just written the song and didn’t record it for almost another year… and he includes the line that is left out of all his versions of this song about the ragged clown, “and if to you he looks blind, I wouldn’t pay it any mind”….not sure why he edited it out later, except that it’s a bit unwieldly…but very evocative)…you can hear him mixing up some of the other lyrics too, so either he wasn’t entirely sure yet of what he wanted the exact words to be, or he just couldn’t remember them all…in any case the rawness and lack of polish are wonderful. Susie Q the old Dale Hawkins which follows (and was also done by the Stones and Creedence) is interesting, I’d never heard this before, but it’s indicative of the direction he was going, embracing rock even if he was still singing a song like this in a folk blues idiom
Just came across this - hadn't heard it before; love it. Haven't yet read all the comments etc but just wondered why it is posted with the photo of Bob & co. (including Martin Carthy) at the Troubadour club in London.
Another diamond in the rough , Great work thanks
I met Eric in 1988 on a trip to Viet Nam. He was doing research about a mural that he wanted to do about the battle of Hue in 1988. I was travelling with a group of Vietnam vets who were making return trips back to their former battle grounds. We roomed together in Bangkok while waiting for the visas to be approved to enter Viet Nam. At that time Viet Nam was still considered an enemy nation and we were forbidden by the Foreign Assets Control Act to take US Dollars to an enemy nation. Then in 1990 I went back to D.C. to participate in a press conference about the government threatening veterans who returned to Viet Nam. Since I was so close to Westport I took a but up to Erics place and spent a few days with him and his friends. I feel so fortunate to have met Eric and spend a lot of time with him. His songs and paintings we just a small part of who he was a s a person. He could bring people together with his music. Once in a small village outside of Da Nang we were invited into a local's 'house'. We didn't know how to speak Vietnamese and they didn't know any English but when Erik pulled out a handful of kazoos we all came together. It was an amazing experience. I sincerely miss him but am grateful for the time I was able to spend with him and certainly will never forget him.
tanks for sharing...
Okay, AI!
We really don't believe you, ya know.
@@TaoAntonL But you probably believe Trump.
@@klevengregAnd you probably believe the Russian collusion hoax.
What a gem!!! Thank you for sharing!
Thx for listening ♥️♥️♥️
Thanks for posting this. Met and had a long conversation with Eric in Westport in the mid 90's about his art mural project on Custer Battle field. Heard him strum a little guitar too.. I reminded him of a two person concert he performed at New College Sarasota in 1968 where I was attending Ringling. A pleasant soul.
That’s amazing!!! You were so lucky to talk with him.
Brings back wonderful memories of our Dad RIHP. Dallas Tx
time travel to 1964 ...Fair and Tender and Tambourine Man got the feeling
Yet another treasure for any Bob Dylan fan ! thank you indeed !
A REAL TREASURE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Thanks for listening!!
Thanks so much for sharing this gem!!!
You’re very welcome! Thanks for listening :)
Great posting, thank you !
Swinging Pig is the Howard Carter of Dylan gem hunting. Unsurpassable. Thank you!
Love this! Thanks so much for posting it :)
thank you so much for putting this up! Awesome.
The subtle harmonica is Mr. Tambourine man is just so evocative. I love it.
True. Sounds very faithful to the words. Von Schmidt did a good job with it.
Eric does his best to keep up, but I’ll bet he’s thinking he’s never heard anything like this before.
I think Von Schmidt is playing the harmonia on Tambourine man. True?
I had no idea this recording existed, and I’m speaking from 50 years of listening/reading about Dylan. I don’t know where you get what you find but thank you for being to go-to for Dylan rarities.
This recording is priceless - thanks so much for posting. Bob performed many styles but not blues jamming very often and only in his earliest recordings.
The photo is not of Dylan's first performance in Europe, although many books say it is. His first performance was the Friday before this at Martin Carthy's folk club at the King & Queen, Foley Street (of which there's a photo). He and Martin then went to The Singer's Club at the Pindar Of Wakefield (now The Water Rats), where there's also a photo of Bob performing for an unimpressed Ewan MacColl. After that they went to The Troubadour where this pic was taken.
Although they became instant buddies and spent the next two weeks being badly behaved in the folk clubs of London, Martin had always told people he'd never actually played with Dylan, until he was shown this photo where he can be seen second from left. He had no memory of it (although he claims not to have partaken in memory erasing substances!)
Wow, thanks so much! This is fascinating :)
@@SwinginPig Well thank you for saying so.
In 2012 I hosted a night at the King & Queen to commemorate 50 years since Bob's arrival in Britain so went back over the details and interviewed some of the people who met him then, including Martin Carthy (who confirmed what day Bob sang at his club.) Then Brian Shuel came and showed the photos he took of Bob from that time and it turned out he meticulously dated them all, so we were able confirm that the King & Queen performance was when Martin thought it was.
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ain't history good?
and it sounds like they're having agood time...
Oh, I did love Ewan MacColl..... what a voice!
Thank you so much for these classics! They are making my day 🙏🙏
So glad you’re enjoying them :)
THANK YOU i have been really getting into bob again lately ! had like 1500 bootlegs when i quit collecting in 2000 lol oddly at around the time of my daughter Dylan/s birth ......The stuff that is becoming available are a lot of my holy grails thank you again,,,,still looking for Rainbow connection ..... the live Jack of hearts and Too Late made my year
Wow! Thank you!
You rock me with this too
Wow fabulous blues style from the start. Outta his skull ! Thanks so much, Swingin' Pig.
Thank You! ❤️
his music always sounds so immediate. like raw sounds coming from a heaven and hell
If you're just getting into Eric Von Schmidt, check out "Folk Blues of" on Prestige/International. Album cover on the coffee table on "Bringing It All Back Home". That's how I discovered him 57 (?) years ago. This is great! Also, Dick Farina and Eric Von Schmidt w/occasionally "Blind Boy Grunt".
Great!! Thanks!!
I liked hearing Dylan singing traditional blues.I know he had some heavy blues tunes.But,this nice , raw & rare.Fantastic!
Tres emouvant d!enrendre la voix Mr Dylan jeune...
Incredible! You did it again, Pig!
Thank You!
Thank you really like “More and More” and “Walking down the line”
if you listen very closely you will hear that this is some of the greatest music ever recorded.
To say I love Dylan is a magnificent understatement. He's to poet/singers what the North pole is to a compass. But a phenomenon rarely mentioned and that I don't fully grasp is how exactly like Eric Anderson Dylan sounds. So Eric deserves a mention in this appraisal of how it all went down.
Or, how much like Dylan Eric Anderson sounded -- heard the Birkenstock Man a decade(?) ago at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage, & he'd taken good care of his voice.
@@gilchasin1022 Freight and Salvage! So it's still there. I used to play there in the 70's.
Listen the the very first album of Anderson s in the early 60's . He sounds more like Dylan than Dylan!
Another early example of Dylan’s skill at absorbing and assimilating other singer’s styles.
What à gem
Eric and Bob sound good together
YES PLEASE!!!! More of this sound!!! More of what you do Mr. Pig!!! WE NEED THIS SOOOO BAD!!!
I’m going to add that Money Honey shows that Dylan was still in touch with his rock-and-roll roots during the folk scene.
Swingin’ Pig,
Thanks so much for posting this extraordinary music that touches us so deeply... Dylan isn't the guy in the center. He is behind him with the smile on his face. The guy up front is too clean cut, his posture is way off & he doesn’t look like Dylan. The guy next to Von Schmidt has Dylan’s smile & his face, he’s thin, disheveled & he has Dylan’s distinctive presence. That’s the way I see it. Let me know what you think… Thanks again for sharing this incredible music…
Yeah, that’s what I meant haha. The guy in the center of the three facing the camera. Should’ve been more specific. Glad you enjoyed it!
The guy in front with the cap on is Richard Farina
yeah boys
Just making sure everyone knows Eric Von Schmidt wrote "Joshua Gone Barbados."
It is nice to hear this recording cleaned up. It's strange that Von Schmidt has a nicer voice and is, technically, a far better singer, but Bob's singing goes right to the heart, so many of us prefer his voice(s) and semi-singing. These songs are mostly rooted in the old-world (pre-1810ish) and have a special ambience that few composers can come close to. These two men can.
Semi is a truck.
Fantastic, thank you very much for sharing.
Back then you would have to wait to hear it now.
Thanks so much Pig...love it.
Journey Bear, agreed. Joshua Gone Barbados is truly amazing! Thank you Swingin' Pig. I collect all of those profile pig TMOQs, colored vinyl. Hard to find those old Dylan boots with the stamped covers, original inserts and gold or silver stickers.
Love love love
Farina was a huge talent too .
Careful with Black Betty song Certain groups don’t approve of a comment about it b/c historical information varies but Thanks for this gift it is quite exquisite
The Basement Tapes' Joshua Gone Barbados four years later has very similar melodic line - must have stuck in his mind...
Joshua Gone Barbados nicest version ever
Fantastic
I think this is what he wanted “rolling Thunder Review “ to be more like . He says so in the film ,he wanted it to be like a musicians jam but it didn’t turn out that way .
lol they were into some heavy weird shit..
Jackson Browne wrote For Everyman about this very subject. He said in an interview his inspiration was certain people buying boats to escape in or something like that.
All you tender ladies... Is other worldly, just fucjing amazing.
fantastic glimpse of his roots in the folk scene. I also make a lot of connections with the sounds and folk approach of Koerner Ray and Glover. He'd known them in Dinkytown MN before he went to nyc.
interesting..koerner ray and glover did leadbellly's black betty a yr or so earlier..lot of music passed around...i was around the washington sq on sundays scene..cafe wha and gerdes..
Never more War !
Hey Pig - longtime listener, first time posting: thanks so much! Quite the precious artifact. Do you have the authors of the posted songs? It is incredible that Bob during this period of creativity, was also grounded in the most obscure, yet defining folk songs. And beautifully delivered.
Are you making the connection?
@@DinorwicSongwriter Nope. Ever hopeful.
GREAT!LOVE IS THE KEY....
♥♥♥
For the history !
If you haven’t yet, you desperately need to read Positively 4th Street by David Hadju
JimmyJazz332 will do! Thanks for the suggestion :)
It's an awesome book. It really goes into Bob, Richard Farina, Joan and Mimi Baez, the trip to England, etc. It's very sad about Farina. This audio is awesome SP!
someone please make a cut of that fair and tender ladies. it blows my mind nad could do with it on a single youtube video.
just the other day, i got to thinking it's true time goes bye so fast, can only wonder what will come down my side of the street...it's near the end of summer 2019 here in Seattle, the rolling stones played here on wednesday...Bob used to shoot pool/billards in the day in seattle at places long gone, the 211, green felt, ben paris
2023 Bob is out on his never ending tour, here in "Freeattle" "Things Have Change"
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Good thing he waited for bringing it all back home to fully realize Mr. Tambourine Man
First song ‘Bob and Erik Blues’ is nicely like:
Ain’t no monkey but I know what I like
I like the cool why you look at me
If you want me, honey babe I’ll be here
Yesss. Same tune💥💫👌❣️🌞🌹
Nice Swingin’ Thanks Dylan and those German nice jamming blokes💃🕺🌺🌷🌻🌷❤️
This sounds as though it’s before ‘64, considering the albums Bob had already released, what do I know?
❤
Has anyone been able to find this recording for download on Apple or Spotify?
No coment! Feliz cumpleanos a bobby!
I think that's Richard Farina in the dark sweater and cap.
Yes it is.
Now if someone can find the lost Hendrix tapes left in the taxi...
Hello SP and every body, is anybody know who is playing harmonica?
Merci d’avance
Finally I understand who is this guy.
Who is playing the armonica? It's a bit strange to hear the armonica played throughout Mr Tambourine but it sounds very good.
Yeah I think it works too. Von Schmidt is playing it!
@@SwinginPig I wonder if Farinã's playing harp on any of the tunes? Looks like he might be holding one in the pic.
YEAH I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND I HAVE WASH UP MY LONG HAIR IN A POTT NOW I FEEL MUCH BETTER YEAH BOYS YOU ARE THE BEST
Was Richard Farina participating in this jam? I see him on left with guitar player - what was participation in tour?
on the cover of highway looking like dylan on the cover of skyline
I wonder how many of these guys predicted Dylan would release 50+ albums, perform 2,500 concerts and sell his song rights for $380 million.
MONEY COMES AND GOES
Turn off your tv and throw away your phone and set up a coffee house.
Bring your own wine!
MY HAIR IS ALMOST DRY I AM DRYING IT WITH A TOWEL AND I AM SITTING NEAR THE STOWE
i am not sleepy and here is no place to go to so mr tambourine man take me home with you
Who wrote 'Florida Woman'?
Probably Eric Von Schmidt. He's singing it. And it's on his 1965 album, "Eric Sings von Schmidt."
Yes, that song was actually about my mother who Eric married in 64'. alwats loved it.
Her name was Kay , as in Kay is the month of May.
@@alientrouble Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
shit hot, sir_
Black betty sounds so much like JJ Cale no?
I don't believe that story of the Russian border high flyer I think this came in from outer space. F.......g glorious 😎😎😎
Ha! Sounds accurate to me. Straight from the cosmos.
Someone had to do this shit. Ode to the Whalebone Café and Salute to China.
"I first heard this [song] from Ric Von Schmidt..." famous quote on Dylan on may have been his first album. MAGA
YEAH BOYS YOU BOB HONEY AND ERIC ARE THE BEST I STILL HAVE RUNNING NOSE BUT NO TEMPERATURE I HAVE AN ICE ON MY HEEP AND IT IS BETTER
Last Monday 22/04 i've been in Piazza Grande ( Locarno - Switzerland - ) where Dylan gave a concert (one more) his Neverending Tour ... Dylan did ... hmmm , how could i say ? ... a good concert ??? . Yeah , tha's it ,only a good concert , that in these times is more than deserve . Maybe he gave the best concert i've seen in the last years here in Swiss , but the problem is that the others were a disaster , Dylan was overly aphonic , more than usual , almost not heard him , sitting on that old gospel piano pounded the keys more than playing and begging for at least take out the harp of the pocket , which he did only a couple of times . Luckily his group was fantastic as always does . Which is the point of this comment ? Dylan said one time that he expected playin on stage with 90 years old . I hope that this wish no turns a threat . I'm so happy only with to see Dylan , playin' or not , but i'm suffer when an artist like Dylan cannot defend his legacy as we would expect , time does not treat us equally. Anyone would like to do what he does with 77 years ; today he begins his tour in my country Spain where he will give 7 concerts , I find it very praiseworthy and great but it's a mistake . Dylan should select this appearances as well as the months or the saisons or something similar . We would all win . Dylan should end his Neverending Tour before the tour will end Dylan himself . Un saludo para quien lo lea .
Nicolas Garcia Gonzalez I hate to say it but I definitely agree with you. Dylan is, in my opinion, a terrible performer now. He’s given up it seems and doesn’t care anymore. Not much emotional nowadays in his concerts. That being said, I’d be willing to spend money just to say I’ve seen him in person.
Gold is not gold because it's a metal , but because of what it represents . As well Dylan is not a musician for the simple fact of making music , is for everything that he represents and does it more than well . This is what I meant , regardless of wether Dylan should be the only one who has the right to decide for himself how he wants to manage that impressive legacy that belongs to all of us who have left a part of our lives to follow him , support him and also criticizing it when it should be done . I can be wrong or not , but it's a right that i think i've earned 'cause my passion for Dylan has no end . I don't understand which is the point of those recordings in crooner style that provide little bit more than a mere anecdote in his career or that obsessive mania of giving endless tours with repetitive set list sitting on that old gospel piano that go to the detriment of what Dylan always represented and made us fall in love with him . At this point in the movie the best thing is not what may come but it's hidden in the drawers of the bedside table in his bedroom . The Bootleg Series are for me a kind of hommage that Dylan does himself and to all his fans , the penultimate of his genalities , with which he covers our mouths to those like me who have the audacity to criticize him at some point . God bless all of us .
També una salutació per a tu, Nicolás.