Bob Dylan's music is mind-altering . . . permanently . . .mind-altering. When I hear him do "It's a Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" in Japan, I feel like my soul's gonna jump out of my body, literally.
I didn't post my post three times so I don't know what is going on her! Ha! Perhaps the Father, Son and Holy Spirit want you ALL to get the message!!!
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God! John 1:1
The Word, LOGOS in Greek, is Jesus Christ!
Dylan became a Christian in 1979/80 and made some fantastic Christian songs! Praise God! God has used his servant over the years! Don't you get it? Slow train Coming? For sure! Gotta Serve Somebody? For sure!
@007Stalled ideoligies, religions and nations - the only purpose of these constructions is to divide the people and to secure the power of the "masters of war". fuck that!
@Chivalric88 Thank you for your sweet words. You must be such a nice person to know. However, I think you are mistaken. But it is such a great pity that intelligent people cannot see that all war is insanity and just a huge sacrifice to Satan as is abortion. A hard rain is surely gonna fall fairly soon. Are you all ready to face the judgement seat of Christ? Better get right with God then! How about now?
I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
I become speechless and enthralled and go into a higher consciousness when I play this for the three hundredth time . . . no drugs needed to be high hearing this masterpiece . . .
I'm getting goosebumps and doodads up and down my spine listening to this. I feel a natural high, like a real body high, plus I feel uplifted to the apex of the universe wherever that is in reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel sheer adoration for this music and this man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree Japan gives more respect to Bob Dylan. I went to his first performance in Japan back in 1978. The audience was just watching his performance silently, and I witnessed many adults were having tears in their eyes. I respect him so much.
Interesting to see and hear, thanks for posting this. Given how bad an orchestra can sound behind this kind of thing, it could be a lot worse, but I still think it sounds a bit awkward and over-the-top. My favorite is still that stomping electric version from The Rolling Thunder Revue bootleg series discs.
DAKaasa....I do believe that Bob Dylan was, and is continuing to get great respect here in America. He is, and will always be one of the great poets/song writers that this country has ever had. We are honored that he is one of our own.
This performance (incl. Ring Them Bells) certainly had the air of prophetic warning especially when one considers Tokyo suffered the Sarin Gas attacks in their subway a few months later.
Holy shit. Watch this if you think Dylan can't sing. He invents an entirely new vocal line for the song. Can't think of a single artist who could re-compose his tune decades later on the fly to perfectly match the scale of his accompaniment.
@PhysicsForTheFuture his voice was good back in the days but in this days his voice sucks i heave seen him live on a concert few monds back and it was worse his voice is no more
I think the best version is the one I saw him do at the Illinois State Fair back in 1990. Just as he started the song it started pouring. It was amazing.
Apart from Bob Dylan's version, there have been a few great covers of this song over the years, Bryan Ferry & Leon Russell in particular. Played very differently but none the less great covers. Personally I think Bryan Ferry's is my fav.
@DAKaasa I don't know if the same is true of music in Japan, but I'm also a wrestling fan and in Japan the crowds remain much quieter due to the respect they have for the performers. Of course, there is a symphony going on too though.
@MogensPeralta Matter of fact, I do think of him as Cassius Clay, as I remember laying on the floor in front of the radio, as a child, listening to the Sonny Listen-Cassius Clay fight! I'm real, not especially politically correct!
@DAKaasa fuck you. america respects bob but theyre all not on the internet like you gooks cuz theyre not all 50 year olds on the internet showing their respect like you chinks l
@stllaxer you are mean. I have been to many Bob Dylan concerts. I am American. I love Bob Dylan, and have since i was a child. I was just using my freedom of speech and thought. I see you have turned your freedom into potty mouth, free flowing diarrhea! You also could have done better with your punctuation and grammar! Your comment looks all broken, everything's broken.........................................
I never thought I would see this version again! I didn't like Dylan before I saw this back in 94, about 10 seconds in I was a different person - the pain -horror - and triumph of life
What a beautiful performance. This is a perfect example of when you see beyond the less than perfect voice (in the normal sense) to see an amazing expressive delivery of a fantastic song. The orchestra are great too.
This is the way the song was heard in his visionary minds eye, but the times were not ready for it. Many of his poem/songs were of an epic nature. He will be the Beethoven of his time.
@Tebbek Dylan is no douuuubt the great lyricist of the 20th century. Comparitively, Beethoven was one in 3 centuries> in addition music did not evolve as rapidly as it is now. Respectfully I love ur respect of Dylan but I doubt he is as great as Beethoven
@wighto73 Beethoven was one in 3 centuries when information and ideas were relatively stagnant, floating to the top of a relatively small croud of talented people. During the 20th century, when information and ideas flowed at rates unseen before in human history, Bob Dylan floats to the top. Bob Dylan continues to stand out amongst hundreds, if not thousands, of world reknown artists. I'd venture to say Bob Dylan is on par with Beethoven.
As I watched this performance the word prophetic was moving through me- I was getting that shivery feeling as I noted the fruition of so much that he sang about. By the end I have to say I( got a few tears welling up- just because of who he is and what he has done
Recently I was listening to Union Sundown- prophetic indeed.
this performace at the place we called Todaiji one of the oldest secred temple in Nara,Japan. I guess best version ever because of some kind of forces around him and the orchestra! I dont know if its true that this song about nuclear war or not. I love this song!
my dad loves sir Bob Dylan eventhough can not speak in English. his son can understand every words what he sayin! finally I saw him on stage in one year ago, that was the most precious time of my life. dont diss him! long live Dylan!
@ohmercy I guess there were no coincidende that he came in March 2010 just one year before earthquake hit & Fukushima nuclear incident in Japan. he'd toured over 10 stages in Japan. the stage were not in stadium,was a little tiny stage that I almost could grabbed him. anyway my understanding that l dont recall him as a prophet coz freakin media made it up sort of things but certainly had something into him when he sung to us a last song called FOEVER YOUNG! awesome!
Hard Rain was written at the same time of the Cuban Missile crises in response to the nightmare of nuclear war. No coincidence that he opened with this song in Japan where the face of Atomic war was formed.
Those last two comments are by a couple of clowns with no idea of what they were watching, stick to listening to wil young and I'm sure he will fulfill your musical desire
Bob Dylan is a shape changer, for, as he said in "It's Alright Ma," "He not busy being born is busy dying." He is always reinventing his music, which is a mark of his genius. But not every experiment works. And this one definitely does NOT. This is one of those truly appalling moments that I fervently wish could be deleted and forgotten. Wow, is this awful.
sir, before you die, do like an acoustic tour again..just you.....It's funny I once avoided security like a pothead ninja, to watch you from the tracks behind the stage......"blood on the tracks." I want to meet you dammitt..you got to meet Woody
The title caught my attention. But this reminds me more of Spector ruining Let It Be than Bob 's finest performance.I think there is more in his younger voice than in those 50 violins.. Nice and surprising version anyway .. Thanks for sharing!
I have goosebumps from this! This is absolutely beautiful. Bob Dylan, you are a beautiful man who writes beautiful songs. Stay beautiful all round. <3
I have goosebumps from this! This is absolutely beautiful. Bob Dylan, you are a beautiful man who writes beautiful songs. Stay beautiful all round. <3
You´ve probably never seen Bob Dylan like that!...
Bob,they say...you did sell your soul to the devil when you were young...I am sure...even if you did so...the Lord will forgive you...and free you from that...because what you gave to the world has nothing to do with devilish destruction but outstanding poetry of human reality and love!Why not just changing your background "eye of horus" into a Cross of Jesus...?...God,please bless&forgive Bob..."here and in the world we cannot see"!
I visited to Vietnam and Kanchanaburi in this year. and also I' ve been this concert in Nara Japan. This song give me to try to think the history of 20th when had wars and too many people have die.
Why isn't there a national Bob Dylan day...no one as done so much for music in the last 100 years+. He is the sound of America - never perfect - but always beautiful and always speaking to the world through the heart. Minnesota loves its son.
Oh my goodness - time stood still for seven minutes. May God bless and keep you always Bob - and may the people of Japan continue their roads to recovery.
It's not the best version. I reserve that spot for Pete seeger's one man and a guitar. It 's probably the most dramatic version though. Just Imagine having that many musicians at your beck and call.
@vicarn1 That's one unique thing about Dylan. No one has ever made a better version than Dylan's original version. Pete Seeger didn't have anything ever on Dylan. But he was bright enough to see Dylan's talent.
Jesus is the only hope of salvation from the guilt of sin. He is God come in the flesh. And he came to wash away our sins with his blood that he shed on the cross. Salvation is a free gift, but you must repent and ask Jesus to save you from your sins and come into your heart. God is good. It is written, "The just shall live by his faith."
Bob Dylan...you either love him or hate him. There is no in between. I love this man and his music. If not for him, I would've lost my mind along time ago after the deaths of my husband and father, both a year ago.
I have traveled the world over and have seen many things in my life, And in that time I have carried this song in my head which I am so grateful to Bob for as it has made both the hard times and goods much easier for me....Thank You Bob!!
and the world stood silent, as this awe inspiring legend took the stage, and breathed into the microphone. he always claimed that he wasnt the innovator that people made him out to be, instead that he was simply "Bob" but we all know that isnt true, he very well may not have intended to be the powerful time changing prophet that he is, but it couldnt be helped, he simply is
A Prophet never knows he is a prophet-He or she just tells the truth as s/he sees it-) or as it is given to them?) Some on the outside can feel it though- others don't see it at all- (poor things! LOL) I think a sure sign of a false prophet is their claim to being one!
It is only later when what they saw and spoke of come more and more to fruition that their prophetic/visionary gift is known by more and more people.
Wonderful lyricist, wonderful activist, very good performer, pretty good guitar player, awful singer. You can't have it all! But Dylan isn't about the singing, he's about the beauty of the words and the message. I respect that.
@lupischuckle He is not an awful singer. He is an amazing singer. His voice is more special than all the singers mainstream says are good. His voice can't be compared, no other voice could sing these songs like him.
@marieview You're confusing originality and style with talent. He himself (as well as almost every objective person in the world) has agreed that he cannot sing. Yes his voice has a certain quality to it that fits perfectly with his songs, but that doesn't change the fact that from a purely objective stand point- he cannot sing well. Try getting him to sing The Queen of Night for example. He doesn't have any range or pitch control. Yes he sings his songs well. No, he doesn't sing well.
senza parole...
Cecilia32313 20 hours ago
its like some divine source is channeling through Bob Dylan on this song. This is the greatest song ever written.
theone456 6 days ago
what a total joy listening to this version JUST AMAZING TOTALLY MAGIC,just dont get any better.GOD BLESS YOU BOB..
daylefreddie 1 week ago
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i have never heard in my life anything like this! AMAZING!
fedejimbo 1 week ago
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i have never heard in my life anything like this! AMAZING!
fedejimbo 1 week ago
i have never heard in my life anything like this! AMAZING!
fedejimbo 1 week ago
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fedejimbo 1 week ago
Beautiful. Thanks for posting! Though I still think the October 1962 Gaslight Cafe recording tops this.
chillroom 1 week ago
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Oh THANK YOU!
WSGZM 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
A new approach to this song, and it is wonderful
thejollylama1 2 weeks ago
A very very special performance. The arrangement of the music is beautiful.
sixtieswarbler 2 weeks ago
Like . . . ad infinitum.
awhiz57 3 weeks ago
Bob Dylan's music is mind-altering . . . permanently . . .mind-altering. When I hear him do "It's a Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" in Japan, I feel like my soul's gonna jump out of my body, literally.
awhiz57 3 weeks ago
Makes me feel like I'm listening to a divine human. Sends tingles up and down my spine. Makes my heart swell with inspiration.
awhiz57 3 weeks ago
This gave me chills. Thanks for posting!
tygerlilygem 3 weeks ago in playlist Bobby D
Yes, this is really grt !
jawbella 3 weeks ago
I didn't post my post three times so I don't know what is going on her! Ha! Perhaps the Father, Son and Holy Spirit want you ALL to get the message!!!
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God! John 1:1
The Word, LOGOS in Greek, is Jesus Christ!
Dylan became a Christian in 1979/80 and made some fantastic Christian songs! Praise God! God has used his servant over the years! Don't you get it? Slow train Coming? For sure! Gotta Serve Somebody? For sure!
007Stalled 1 month ago
@007Stalled ideoligies, religions and nations - the only purpose of these constructions is to divide the people and to secure the power of the "masters of war". fuck that!
Chivalric88 1 week ago
@Chivalric88 Thank you for your sweet words. You must be such a nice person to know. However, I think you are mistaken. But it is such a great pity that intelligent people cannot see that all war is insanity and just a huge sacrifice to Satan as is abortion. A hard rain is surely gonna fall fairly soon. Are you all ready to face the judgement seat of Christ? Better get right with God then! How about now?
007Stalled 1 week ago
D#のキーでの演奏なのにディランはカポを使わないのがカッコイイです！
mizusaya0130 1 month ago
Extraordinary, and beautiful. Did he once say he is an opera singer?
JNagarya 1 month ago
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I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
007Stalled 1 month ago
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I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
007Stalled 1 month ago
I am a big Dylan fan and he is warning what was and still is to come. Interesting that Japan just had their 'Hard Rain' on March 11th, 9 years to the day after the lights for the twin towers memorial were switched on in NYC. Count the digits in BOTH dates. They both add to 9. Since 9/11 war and more war in the Middle East and now Iran is in their sights. Who can we run to in these times of terror? Why, Jesus Christ of course - our Lord and Saviour! Don't you think so? Keep tuned! Jesus saves!
007Stalled 1 month ago
@007Stalled Thankfully we aren't all suckers for superstition -- and excuses to run away from reality and responsibility.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@007Stalled at citybank, Shut up.
paddymourinho 1 month ago
@paddymourinho good one. Cat's demented.
strandwolf 1 week ago
何度見ても感動的です ディランとオケを合わすのは至難の技だったはず フィーチュアされてる浮世絵顔の女性も、メガネのバイオリンおじさんも、可愛い！そして何より、ディランがかっこよすぎる
saraba9oibito 1 month ago
wow wasnt expecting that
vonkiser 1 month ago
I become speechless and enthralled and go into a higher consciousness when I play this for the three hundredth time . . . no drugs needed to be high hearing this masterpiece . . .
awhiz57 1 month ago
Divine human singing/prophecying . . .
awhiz57 1 month ago
I FEEEL LIKE CRYING!!
oh bob <3
SweetGunKiss 1 month ago
love the build up of the orchestra,rousing! long live bob!
1979RMD 1 month ago
I'm getting goosebumps and doodads up and down my spine listening to this. I feel a natural high, like a real body high, plus I feel uplifted to the apex of the universe wherever that is in reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel sheer adoration for this music and this man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awhiz57 1 month ago
fantastic all i can say
daylefreddie 1 month ago in playlist Bob Dylan
I agree Japan gives more respect to Bob Dylan. I went to his first performance in Japan back in 1978. The audience was just watching his performance silently, and I witnessed many adults were having tears in their eyes. I respect him so much.
Tedonuma 1 month ago
I believe the best live version was at the Concert for Bangladesh.
gearedup4U 1 month ago
maybe im just old and set in my ways but something about Dylan performing with a philharmonic orchestra is just wrong.
mrbfbklyn 1 month ago
wish I was their,But I will say this he was off the charts when he played in the playhouse Downtown Cleveland.
Reillyforcongress 1 month ago
Brilliant, just brilliant
Croutonza 1 month ago
Interesting to see and hear, thanks for posting this. Given how bad an orchestra can sound behind this kind of thing, it could be a lot worse, but I still think it sounds a bit awkward and over-the-top. My favorite is still that stomping electric version from The Rolling Thunder Revue bootleg series discs.
8stringfan 2 months ago
Sir Bob Dylan...Brilliancy personified !!
wrathofdiablo 2 months ago
DAKaasa....I do believe that Bob Dylan was, and is continuing to get great respect here in America. He is, and will always be one of the great poets/song writers that this country has ever had. We are honored that he is one of our own.
Johnnysgurl 2 months ago
This performance (incl. Ring Them Bells) certainly had the air of prophetic warning especially when one considers Tokyo suffered the Sarin Gas attacks in their subway a few months later.
rootstockca 2 months ago
gave me goose bumps...
sirkickassalot123 2 months ago
Holy shit. Watch this if you think Dylan can't sing. He invents an entirely new vocal line for the song. Can't think of a single artist who could re-compose his tune decades later on the fly to perfectly match the scale of his accompaniment.
PhysicsForTheFuture 2 months ago
@PhysicsForTheFuture his voice was good back in the days but in this days his voice sucks i heave seen him live on a concert few monds back and it was worse his voice is no more
poseidon26ful 2 months ago
its sad but true, a great singer song writer loved all over the world except here at home
saulalfoso 2 months ago 2
Awesome Version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jonnysoze 2 months ago
I think the best version is the one I saw him do at the Illinois State Fair back in 1990. Just as he started the song it started pouring. It was amazing.
qcitypunk 2 months ago
If you read the whole text, you almost can't deny that Bob Dylan is genial person. This song makes me feel really quiet, so impressive...
MultiGollie 2 months ago
9 without a heart.
imamymay 2 months ago
After hearing this, I can now die and go to Heaven.
fadmacat 2 months ago 4
lol does anyone else notice in 5:55-5:57 the guy trying to sneak away for a second?? i've watched this great version alot and never noticed that...
dablueman21 2 months ago
:,)
adriaansmit81 3 months ago
loveeeeeee
ilovekurtcobain17 3 months ago
who the hell could possibly dislike this? this is beautiful
kacotchen 3 months ago
I much prefer the 1963 Carnegie Hall version to this, "hard rains gonna fall means somethings gonna happen..."
arru23 3 months ago
nevermind
JHfromWS 3 months ago
probaly one of the best songs ever written....anti war...the man is a genius and legend
TheShark1962 3 months ago
Apart from Bob Dylan's version, there have been a few great covers of this song over the years, Bryan Ferry & Leon Russell in particular. Played very differently but none the less great covers. Personally I think Bryan Ferry's is my fav.
mcgyver01 3 months ago
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retepnalon 3 months ago
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retepnalon 3 months ago
Is it just me, or does it appear that Japan gives Bob Dylan Zimmerman, the respect and honor he deserves, more so than America?
DAKaasa 4 months ago 33
@DAKaasa I don't know if the same is true of music in Japan, but I'm also a wrestling fan and in Japan the crowds remain much quieter due to the respect they have for the performers. Of course, there is a symphony going on too though.
BroWyant 2 months ago
@DAKaasa
Absolutely.....but he plays for no ones respect but his own............
ablestar88 2 months ago
@DAKaasa its all big in Japan
strawwoodclaw 2 months ago
@DAKaasa well up here in Canada, hes our fucking saviour :)
IN5OMN1AKK 2 months ago
@DAKaasa His name is Dylan and not Zimmerman. Please have some respect.
MogensPeralta 2 months ago
@MogensPeralta Why is his real last name, *Zimmerman, disrespectful in your mind?
DAKaasa 1 month ago
@DAKaasa He changed his name in 63 I think? Do you call Muhammed Ali Cassius Clay also?
MogensPeralta 1 month ago
@MogensPeralta Matter of fact, I do think of him as Cassius Clay, as I remember laying on the floor in front of the radio, as a child, listening to the Sonny Listen-Cassius Clay fight! I'm real, not especially politically correct!
DAKaasa 1 month ago
@DAKaasa Has nothing to do with political correctness. And you´re not real, just ignorant.
MogensPeralta 1 month ago
@MogensPeralta ah, so I know you :D
DAKaasa 1 month ago
@DAKaasa It's just you...
dahniuru 1 month ago
@DAKaasa fuck you. america respects bob but theyre all not on the internet like you gooks cuz theyre not all 50 year olds on the internet showing their respect like you chinks l
stllaxer 1 month ago
@stllaxer you are mean. I have been to many Bob Dylan concerts. I am American. I love Bob Dylan, and have since i was a child. I was just using my freedom of speech and thought. I see you have turned your freedom into potty mouth, free flowing diarrhea! You also could have done better with your punctuation and grammar! Your comment looks all broken, everything's broken.........................................
DAKaasa 1 month ago
@stllaxer Troll harder.
TimmyTheRapper 1 month ago
@DAKaasa Why'd you call him Zimmerman? :/
edwardLRS 3 weeks ago
@edwardLRS They say that's the name he got when he was born in Minnesota, *Duluth
DAKaasa 3 weeks ago
@DAKaasa I know but he goes by Bob Dylan, so why would you call him that? To show that you know his real name id Zimmerman? Most people know that.
edwardLRS 3 weeks ago
@edwardLRS okie dokie then
DAKaasa 3 weeks ago
hey this is realy nice, who is this guy?
jms805 4 months ago in playlist jms805's favorites
Even with no voice he can sing his songs well. I have no idea how he seems to be the only one who can do this. Maybe because he's a living legend...
dablueman21 4 months ago
If you haven't seen it, watch No Direction Home by Scorsese, for an interesting glimpse of Dylans early years.
tommywormwood 4 months ago
I never thought I would see this version again! I didn't like Dylan before I saw this back in 94, about 10 seconds in I was a different person - the pain -horror - and triumph of life
f33d4ward 4 months ago
I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that this song's even more perfect for today than it was when he wrote it.
Prophetic indeed.
Don't know if he's our time's Beethoven (as a poster up-thread suggested) -- but he's definitely our Jeremiah.
We need to be listening to him -- and to the voices of all the people he's singing about & for.
Thank you Librarian, for sharing it here.
smartalek180 4 months ago
What a beautiful performance. This is a perfect example of when you see beyond the less than perfect voice (in the normal sense) to see an amazing expressive delivery of a fantastic song. The orchestra are great too.
sixtieswarbler 4 months ago
AWE TAE WHIT. I JIST FELL ON THAT GEORGIS WIT A MAN
showaddy11 4 months ago
No words for this man!
lustre5 4 months ago
somebody please upload Mississippi
benjamin7438 4 months ago
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Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.. A Rock Angel!
eljamay2 5 months ago
This is the way the song was heard in his visionary minds eye, but the times were not ready for it. Many of his poem/songs were of an epic nature. He will be the Beethoven of his time.
Tebbek 5 months ago 17
@Tebbek "the Beethoven of his time", thats interesting :-) I love them both they're my heros. Bob was first though, almost 20 years ago :-)
EnnieRocks 2 months ago
@Tebbek Dylan is no douuuubt the great lyricist of the 20th century. Comparitively, Beethoven was one in 3 centuries> in addition music did not evolve as rapidly as it is now. Respectfully I love ur respect of Dylan but I doubt he is as great as Beethoven
wighto73 2 months ago 6
@wighto73 Beethoven was one in 3 centuries when information and ideas were relatively stagnant, floating to the top of a relatively small croud of talented people. During the 20th century, when information and ideas flowed at rates unseen before in human history, Bob Dylan floats to the top. Bob Dylan continues to stand out amongst hundreds, if not thousands, of world reknown artists. I'd venture to say Bob Dylan is on par with Beethoven.
bigemf5 2 days ago
@Tebbek Epic is defiently the word that best describes this and many other Dylan songs; certainly a living legend!
Roll on Bob, A Hard Rain is Goin' Fall!
emriederekify 1 month ago
@Tebbek so true....relevant even today...
kathrynj60 1 month ago
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dablueman21 5 months ago
@dablueman21 I know exactly what you are talking about. The man has GLORY written across his brow
dav1492 5 months ago
As I watched this performance the word prophetic was moving through me- I was getting that shivery feeling as I noted the fruition of so much that he sang about. By the end I have to say I( got a few tears welling up- just because of who he is and what he has done
Recently I was listening to Union Sundown- prophetic indeed.
ohmercy 5 months ago
This is great for someone sappy, like, oh, I don't know, Josh Groban or Celine Dion, but Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan?
What the heck was he thinking?
steebes2002 5 months ago
this performace at the place we called Todaiji one of the oldest secred temple in Nara,Japan. I guess best version ever because of some kind of forces around him and the orchestra! I dont know if its true that this song about nuclear war or not. I love this song!
my dad loves sir Bob Dylan eventhough can not speak in English. his son can understand every words what he sayin! finally I saw him on stage in one year ago, that was the most precious time of my life. dont diss him! long live Dylan!
akamaxful 5 months ago
@akamaxful
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
ohmercy 5 months ago
@ohmercy I guess there were no coincidende that he came in March 2010 just one year before earthquake hit & Fukushima nuclear incident in Japan. he'd toured over 10 stages in Japan. the stage were not in stadium,was a little tiny stage that I almost could grabbed him. anyway my understanding that l dont recall him as a prophet coz freakin media made it up sort of things but certainly had something into him when he sung to us a last song called FOEVER YOUNG! awesome!
akamaxful 5 months ago
Hard Rain was written at the same time of the Cuban Missile crises in response to the nightmare of nuclear war. No coincidence that he opened with this song in Japan where the face of Atomic war was formed.
Abrown465 5 months ago
possibly the best song he ever wrote, certainly the worst performance
Nick
thamesclipper 5 months ago
Those last two comments are by a couple of clowns with no idea of what they were watching, stick to listening to wil young and I'm sure he will fulfill your musical desire
chumkui999 5 months ago
Stopped it after the first bar. ridiculous. sorry, just my opinion.
PennsyltuckyBucky 5 months ago
Bob Dylan is a shape changer, for, as he said in "It's Alright Ma," "He not busy being born is busy dying." He is always reinventing his music, which is a mark of his genius. But not every experiment works. And this one definitely does NOT. This is one of those truly appalling moments that I fervently wish could be deleted and forgotten. Wow, is this awful.
FluffTCat 5 months ago
@FluffTCat You are one dimensional and you are lost. My sympathies to you. He not busy being born is busy dying. Sorry.
souljahtite17 4 months ago
holy shit!!! this is unbelievable :)
WAAAAAAAAAAAY 5 months ago
sir, before you die, do like an acoustic tour again..just you.....It's funny I once avoided security like a pothead ninja, to watch you from the tracks behind the stage......"blood on the tracks." I want to meet you dammitt..you got to meet Woody
stovism 5 months ago
The title caught my attention. But this reminds me more of Spector ruining Let It Be than Bob 's finest performance.I think there is more in his younger voice than in those 50 violins.. Nice and surprising version anyway .. Thanks for sharing!
pouidg 5 months ago
I have goosebumps from this! This is absolutely beautiful. Bob Dylan, you are a beautiful man who writes beautiful songs. Stay beautiful all round. <3
BeatlesFanCharsh 5 months ago
I have goosebumps from this! This is absolutely beautiful. Bob Dylan, you are a beautiful man who writes beautiful songs. Stay beautiful all round. <3
BeatlesFanCharsh 5 months ago
You´ve probably never seen Bob Dylan like that!...
Bob,they say...you did sell your soul to the devil when you were young...I am sure...even if you did so...the Lord will forgive you...and free you from that...because what you gave to the world has nothing to do with devilish destruction but outstanding poetry of human reality and love!Why not just changing your background "eye of horus" into a Cross of Jesus...?...God,please bless&forgive Bob..."here and in the world we cannot see"!
LancelotHighlands 5 months ago
a classic.../
MrMpvincent69 5 months ago
words are important if you consider what we are subject to everyday..
chjarvi 5 months ago
I love how Dylan never plays a song the same way twice. That's what makes his life stuff so great.
MJM00100 5 months ago
I visited to Vietnam and Kanchanaburi in this year. and also I' ve been this concert in Nara Japan. This song give me to try to think the history of 20th when had wars and too many people have die.
komedakazuhiko 5 months ago
Almost 8 minutes of brilliance.
dablueman21 5 months ago
magical and moving as only his Bobness can do, ring them bells from this show was amazing as well/
shotofdylan 5 months ago
long live bob dylan
AhYaOk 5 months ago
That last verse. Wow.
Voodoochil111111 5 months ago
Its nice that the other nations can post his stuff, since he is not allowed to in his own country.. whatta shame, but THIS IS GREAT! thanks.
TREYOLDHIPPIE 5 months ago
absolutely amazing!!!
FloyDylaN 5 months ago
Epic.
zodiacbluesbaby 5 months ago
Gave me goose bumps. What an amazing soung. Thanks Bob
robitsme 5 months ago
Just when I thought there was no more brilliant new surprising Dylan left for me to discover....
Glorious!
dave5511 6 months ago
R.I.P., Rick Danko
johnpilecki 6 months ago
R.I.P Ricky Danko
johnpilecki 6 months ago
HOLY SHIT!! headphones on,turn it up & melt into it... I reckon Im a Dylan fan & Ive never heard anything like that.. AWESOME
whqqsh 6 months ago
Why isn't there a national Bob Dylan day...no one as done so much for music in the last 100 years+. He is the sound of America - never perfect - but always beautiful and always speaking to the world through the heart. Minnesota loves its son.
EricDavidFloyd 6 months ago
Magnificant!
ohiodixiechick2 6 months ago
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The worst singer of all time
Chevelles396 6 months ago
Oh my goodness - time stood still for seven minutes. May God bless and keep you always Bob - and may the people of Japan continue their roads to recovery.
DD5975 6 months ago
He is probably the blue-eyed son...
dablueman21 6 months ago
It's not the best version. I reserve that spot for Pete seeger's one man and a guitar. It 's probably the most dramatic version though. Just Imagine having that many musicians at your beck and call.
vicarn1 6 months ago
@vicarn1
best version, is the one where dylan sings it, doesnt matter which time
poeticreject 6 months ago
@vicarn1 That's one unique thing about Dylan. No one has ever made a better version than Dylan's original version. Pete Seeger didn't have anything ever on Dylan. But he was bright enough to see Dylan's talent.
MogensPeralta 6 months ago
@MogensPeralta Well, it's just personal preference then. I didn't say Pete was a better songwriter. Just that IMO it's a better version.
vicarn1 6 months ago
Holy Fucking Shit that was amazing!
36clashfan77 6 months ago
GREAT, T4P !!!
zorbazig 6 months ago
A powerful event which makes me cry for the meaningful message it conveys.
It sounds like the real anthem of the whole mankind. When are we given the chance to meet a young girl who will give us a rainbow?
brentavecchiaFAB 6 months ago
Pure Lyrics and Perfect Sound.
This powerful event makes me cry.
brentavecchiaFAB 6 months ago
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Jesus is the only hope of salvation from the guilt of sin. He is God come in the flesh. And he came to wash away our sins with his blood that he shed on the cross. Salvation is a free gift, but you must repent and ask Jesus to save you from your sins and come into your heart. God is good. It is written, "The just shall live by his faith."
FaithEntertainment 6 months ago
Bob Dylan...you either love him or hate him. There is no in between. I love this man and his music. If not for him, I would've lost my mind along time ago after the deaths of my husband and father, both a year ago.
Katragew 6 months ago 3
I guess his voice is an acquired taste. I hope I get to like it!
napalm5 6 months ago
@napalm5
It's not about his voice
poeticreject 6 months ago
bobby would have been better if hed stuck to the studio,
beans1308 6 months ago
I have traveled the world over and have seen many things in my life, And in that time I have carried this song in my head which I am so grateful to Bob for as it has made both the hard times and goods much easier for me....Thank You Bob!!
AdayInMylife 6 months ago
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AdayInMylife 6 months ago
Not gonna lie. Almost cried.
ipwndcancer 6 months ago
What!
This is the elevator music version of Hard Rain.
Violins? Egad.
TheGranule 6 months ago
Bob Dylan was in Glasgow and I gave him one of his greatest hits with the needle that the damage done to all the drug addicts
jamesthelord1 6 months ago
btw, i do not see or hear, what this orchestra made better than bob alone!
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phlogopit 6 months ago
yes, he sings his songs well. that`s what counts, am i right?
phlogopit 6 months ago
and the world stood silent, as this awe inspiring legend took the stage, and breathed into the microphone. he always claimed that he wasnt the innovator that people made him out to be, instead that he was simply "Bob" but we all know that isnt true, he very well may not have intended to be the powerful time changing prophet that he is, but it couldnt be helped, he simply is
poeticreject 6 months ago 23
@poeticreject
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A Prophet never knows he is a prophet-He or she just tells the truth as s/he sees it-) or as it is given to them?) Some on the outside can feel it though- others don't see it at all- (poor things! LOL) I think a sure sign of a false prophet is their claim to being one!
It is only later when what they saw and spoke of come more and more to fruition that their prophetic/visionary gift is known by more and more people.
ohmercy 5 months ago
@ohmercy
are you Jesus? ha that was very lovely, bravo
poeticreject 5 months ago
@poeticreject well put fame is not all its cracked up to be
yoyohomey 5 months ago
that was breathtaking... think I just had a spiritual experience
dylazimm 7 months ago
70 YEARS OF LEGEND MUSIC....
roalziroalzi 7 months ago
not even close to the 'best version ever'... see Rolling Thunder Revue era.
jnc07res 7 months ago
Bob's not always good at doing his old songs (to put it mildly), but this is really kickass!
MeatTycoonDevious 7 months ago
extremely perfect harmony of a very sad & painful song.
It must be mercy to have such a poet in our generation !
GOD BLESS YOU BOB.
LeeRightStone 7 months ago
Aoniyoshi.
carrywet 7 months ago
Magnificent. Thank you, Mr Dylan.
Swanka 7 months ago
Wonderful lyricist, wonderful activist, very good performer, pretty good guitar player, awful singer. You can't have it all! But Dylan isn't about the singing, he's about the beauty of the words and the message. I respect that.
lupischuckle 7 months ago
@lupischuckle He is not an awful singer. He is an amazing singer. His voice is more special than all the singers mainstream says are good. His voice can't be compared, no other voice could sing these songs like him.
marieview 6 months ago
@marieview You're confusing originality and style with talent. He himself (as well as almost every objective person in the world) has agreed that he cannot sing. Yes his voice has a certain quality to it that fits perfectly with his songs, but that doesn't change the fact that from a purely objective stand point- he cannot sing well. Try getting him to sing The Queen of Night for example. He doesn't have any range or pitch control. Yes he sings his songs well. No, he doesn't sing well.
lupischuckle 6 months ago