he's more than a legend. he's probably the singer greatest songwriter of the 20th century, and up there with the greatest of writers period. Probably the greatest songwriter of all time to be honest
Dylan perfectly captured the essence, of what only recently been realized by most sheeple, within the past five years. Even Dylan did not entirely comprehend, just how thoroughly he had dissected & exposed the evil nature of the "Monolithic Global Conspiracy" named by JFK. If the CIA can have the driver of the Limo turn and shoot JFK at point blank range, they certainly can force Dylan to get back on stage promoting women's lingerie & a pyramid. Illuminati are why, the Kennedy's are gunshy.
You have got to be brain dead or unconscious, failing to recognize what's impacting Dylan's present situation. Dylan is a very wealthy man, who had absolutely no need to schlep women's lingerie doing Victoria Secrets commercials..
@waketheoblivious I said that Dylan sold out long ago, that he refuses to acknowledge hso protest songs, and you insult me by saying Dylan has sold out.
He did not sell out you oblivious moron. Dylan is a very wealthy man, had become Christian was enjoying happiness raising his family. He did not come out of retirement to sell fucking panties, promote an Illuminati pyramid and scrap an entire life's work to worship the "all seeing eye" without elite members of the Satanic Music Industry exerting their influence. MJ ignored that influence and so have members of a long list of faked suicides. STFU, you complete ignoramus.
@waketheoblivious when you do sell your songs to Victoria secrets your a sell out. 2nd of all calm down. 3rd of all your all over the place with your reasons, which make no sense and come off as rantings of a child. While it's sad that you have no friends, no life and were probably bullied and abused, don't take it out on me. Get back on your medication.
You are an unconscious bastard, with your head planted so firmly up your ass you neither see nor hear the evil which you speak. The ringing in your ears is the sound of ignorance bouncing off the walls of your anal canal. Hold your breath, squeeze real hard and blow it out your ass you pathetic Nazi.
@33Thadeus actually he did dismiss them. Quoting one song to defend another song, that weak. He did say when speaking of Bringing it back home, that his older songs were one-diemnsional, that his new songs were 3 dmensional
Tis a pleasure to share the planet with you and those who share a genuine commitment to the Truth. May your hand and pen always be guided by His, as you brush aside weeds of deception.
The meaning of these songs have been forgotten/suppresed. The rich cunts in power just want you to listen to x factor/ pop pap because if you knew the truth you just may rebel. unfortunately they have won and we are fucked.
@TheNigelc8 True but seeing as only the heart-blind take any notice of things like the x factor, what does it matter? If x factor wasn't around they'd be eaten up on something equally as infantile and worthless.
Let the dogs bark at the wind, we can listen to Bob :)
@nancejo yes like most of fan by definition , i like bob dylan s song but i really have no affinity with the artist i just share some of his view in his song but tomorrow he might hit the big one that won t change my life a bit i notice that actually the greatest artist are generally not great being to live with a bit like the top model are great to watch but it s l to live with =)anyway i never been fan or supporter i dislike people that narrow their mind to one artist one sport one party etc
@poolidoor - Thanks, I have tried to have a discussion with some where I critique (not criticize) some of his work and I am practically slapped in the face by the sycophants.
@JNagarya That by technical standards Dylan isn't a good singer, but his talent of communicating by song compensates for the lack of technical talent. The "isn't a good singer" remark set off his sycophants.
@nancejo It has nothing to do with sycophants. It has to do with the uninformed who don't LISTEN. Their first reaction is their last reaction because they don't think to look beyond their fixed bias.
His voice isn't "pop pretty" -- but find me a blues singer's that is. But he certainly has brilliant technical skill as a singer; at reading a lyric.
@JNagarya - Oh I have ran across sycophants that would fawn all over Dylan even if he farted on stage.
I think we agree in principle, but differ in terminology. What you call technical skill, I call talent which he has in spades. BTW - I hate pop music and wasn't judging by those standards, but on a stardard a voice teacher would apply.
@nancejo "Talent" is innate; but it must be shaped, given form. How it is expressed, the means by which it is expressed, is the issue of skill.
As for voice teacher opinionss: Berklee School of Music teaches that rock singers sing with the throat; "proper" singing is from the abdomen. Their view is fine, if one is concerned with opera and "proper" singing. Blues, folk, and rock singers are untrained, unsophisticated in the lucky alternative of "leisure is necessary to culture".
@nancejo yes that s the problem with fans , they lost sense of criticism which is evident for justin bieber fan or lady gaga but it s a bit sad for dylan s fan shey should listen to idiot wind more closely
i m no fan even i used to have all the dylan song book and play loosely till my friend beg me to bring them back home lol, u should try beatles fan they even more aggressive, but i understand someone shoot the guitarist , i love many song of dylan but the man is just a man with hisgoodnbad =)
dylans magic is in the imagery his songs create. I can see places I've never been by just listening to his voice. His description and delivery never fails to draw me into the song, right where he wants me. This is so far beyond singing and I'm forever grateful to understand it.
@richrichrichism I wouldn't call Dylan a singer (technical limitations in his voice), but I would call him a performer. He knows how to communicate in song.
What is good to see here is the girl at 3:24 isn't screaming her mindless head off, she is actually taken by Dylan's amazing vocalization of genius poetry. You don't see that anymore
@TheTexasKid88 And yet bobby d was booed when he toured in 1966 not only becasue he had "betrayed" the folk "community" that thought it owned him, but also because he "went electric" and had a band. It seems there is always a faction of fans who hate change.
As for the screaming to which you refer: what harm did it cause?
@JNagarya Oh the screaming didn't harm anything, I just like how they actually take the music in unlike fans at a Beatles concert around this time. I can understand why some were upset, but I love Dylan before and after he went electric. Don't get me wrong though, fans that are uncontrollably excited at shows aren't a bad thing, they drive the industry. And as an artist I would love if someone cared enough about my music to call me Judas when I changed my style.
@JNagarya I've seen this, it is an excellent film, it captured perfectly what Dylan and his troupe experienced on the '65 tour. If you can find it, check out "Eat the Document" which is from his '66 tour, although the quality of the film is drastically lower than "Dont Look Back". If you've seen the documentary Scorsese did you will recognize some of the footage, as quite a bit was taken from both films, its called "No Direction Home". I greatly appreciate your feedback, thank you.
@TheTexasKid88 In my searches I've seen clips of "Eat the Document" (there is also an audio file from it of the "dialgoue" between drunk bobby d and John Lennon) on youtube.
Right: "Don't Look Back" was '65, not '66. (And Alan Price was an ass.)
I was intimidated into Dylan in 1965 (girlfriend). Took a bit, but he is the only one who can quench that mysterious thirst: songs that fit the throat. He is an astonishing writer ("Pawn in Their Game"!).
@TheTexasKid88 It's from Scorcese (the '66 tour) we get the awesome (as titled here) "Like a Rolling Stone (Live 1966)".
If you haven't yet: Newport performances (Pawn in Their Game," "Chimes of Freedom"; "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue") are an abolute must. Miss those, and you gon't get into Heaven!
The "Maggie's" through "Baby Blue" performance is perfect and beautiful -- articulation and voice -- beyond superlatives.
@JNagarya Haha, Alan Price, he's a classic ass, and appears to be intoxicated almost the entire film, but he is comical. I enjoyed the reoccurring Donovan joke as well, and then the broken glass scene where Donovan eventually plays with Dylan. There is a scene in Eat the Document where Dylan and Lennon are riding around, and it is very strange, I found a written version of it to help me interpret the madness.
@TheTexasKid88 I'd say intoxicated: did you note his opening of a beer bottle on the piano? Great repect for others' property. (I'm wondering if he's that jackass who threw the glass or bottle out the window.)
The Dylan-Lennon "Eat the Document" scene is available on youtube, as both video and audio. One certainly needs a transcript to determine what Dylan, especially, is say: he is plastered.
As President Lincoln said when rumors of General Grant was drinking to excess: "Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!"
@dreadzeppelindottv The comment concerned Alan Price, of The Animals (which he had left by then). In the footage shown he was an ass, which doesn't mean he impressed in any positive sense.
@JNagarya My favorite Dylan footage is him playing Mr. Tambourine man live in '66. You don't get to see the whole song but the two minute harmonica solo is so incredibly spectacular and beautiful. Thank you for your suggestions and I will be working on my pass into the holy kingdom momentarily.
@TheTexasKid88 The version of (in color) "Just Like a Woman" (described somewhere -- perhaps in comments to it -- as "intimate") is also beautiful.
Watch the Newport "goes electric" songs in the order sung: "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tamborine Man," and, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Sublime! you'll be floored!
And note: some said he was crying during the performance of the last two. I'm uncertain, but lean toward concluding that he was, as it appears so to me.
@TheTexasKid88 Also see this -- Newport -- astonishing writing (and I suspect he was laughing because someone bet he couldn't remember and sing the whole song -- note the exultation when he sings the last several lines).:
chimes of freedom bob dylan subtitulada
Once you've seen the above, and this (and, "Who Killed Davey Moore?") you'll lust after the DVD. With every good reason for doing so. I only wish they'd release the rest of his performances at Newport.
A truly bard who cast his spell upon the unrighteous. His power is his talent, his magic is his music...a magician would spell someone who had offended him, and the curse would live on and on through his children and grandchildren; a powerful bard would make a good song about it, good enough to be repeated for years, demonizing the name of the unrighteous. 50 years later, a brazilian kid knows exactly who William Zantzinger was and what he did - he was cursed, because the bard was powerful.
@GinGuilt The song is not a curse. It is a constructive -- leave out the I'm-holier-then-thou arrogant righteousness -- moral criticism. It is not limited to Zanzinger. And it is a memorial to Hattie Carrol based directly on the facts of her life -- she did exist -- and the murder -- Zanzingger did murder her.
There should be more likes than that on Jack11017's comment.. But if your not on several drugs perhaps it doesn't have the sublime and masterful ring of an orchestra contained only by truth that I heard when I read the comment. If you disagree with it likely you are deaf, dumb, and blind. If that is not the case I can only infer that you are worth less time than it took to write this and perhaps not even that. I love Bob Dylan's voice by the way; It has character.
People who dislike Bob Dylan must lack substance. the combination of his voice, melody, lyrics, musical talent....im not even a huge fan of folk/rock and he's one of my favorite artists. people who cant respect him, must not read between the lines. One of the most gifted artists of all time- i wish i was alive to witness his era.
Bob Dylan is a great singer. Tell me another singer songwriter of 50+ years who has smoked all his days, who can still tour and belt out song after song every night and believe me.....He sounds electric, i saw him 2 nights in a row in Glasgow last month his set was almost totally diffrent and he nailed it and he is 70 years old.....Anybody who disagrees listen to Infidels start to finish and try to have the same opinion after.
He sounds like shit because it was the 60's. Do you think Lil wayne or all that crap is not made to sound better.. Bob is a Poet, a Revolutionary, and a Legend.
@ruffrydag Has nothing to do with the 1960s. Name one blues singer, from the 1920s through the 1960s, who had a pretty voice. Dylan is attacked on that ground -- that he doesn't have a pretty "pop" voice -- because the attackers stay away from music not sung by whites, which is why they falsely believe that Dylan's voice is an exception to the rule.
Mr D. No More so say cuz he says it all. Listen to him and humanity might just move forwards. His words are worth a thousand pics. Just read his lyrics. Mr D. Mr Awesome.
I don't know how anybody could ever say that Bob Dylan didn't have a good voice! He also didn't play his instruments well either but his music is great not bad;) He is his own person. He is passionate,and a spicy old dog,lol Unigue is his middle name<3
i simply love this guy <3 saw him live the day before yesterday and all i can say is that he was just great! i mean hes 70 years old.
this song is soo good. and he just does not have a "singvoice" he has his own style and he wants you to listen to the lyrics, the voice isnt the important thing. maybe nowadays yes, but those arent songs with a message, only to "party" without sense!
@barrybuttery im not a hater. but im gonna be serious. Screaming Jay Hawkings got much more power in his pipes. I Love bob dylan, but you dont have to have the best voice to be the best fucking artist.
@barrybuttery you sound like bob dylan is the only artist you ever heard. Stop ass kissing bob dylan fans just beacuse im arguing about his alent. hes not the greatest but hes not bad.
Voted by Rolling Stone the Third of the top 100 singers of the Rock Era... It is not a pretty voice... It is the soulful voice of a wellspring of talent that changed everything that followed... or as Springsteen said... Elvis freed your body ... Bob Dylan freed your mind... I doubt that a young Bob Dylan would make it in our American Idol instant voter appeal entertainment world we live in ... and i say thank God he snuck in the back door when no one was watching... Thanks Bob 4 your Voice...
You'll never see someone like this on American idol or any other program that manufactures cookie-cutter, well packaged, pretty, thin, "perfect voice", homoginized(sp?) puppets. The American public duped, glossed over, can't pay attention for more than 3 minutes. Look at all the "popular" "musicians" Here today (unfortunatly) and gone tomorrow (fortunatly)
I am only 18 years old but no matter how ''bad'' Dylans voice may have sounded, I can't stop listening to him. Something better and deeper lies within him. But that's just my opinion.
@IAreHeadingForTheSun Watch the video of "Pawn in Their Game," if it's up. Otherwise, get and watch the Newport Folk Festival performances on the DVD "Other Side of the Mirror".
@IAreHeadingForTheSun I've converted several friends to bobby d. with the video of "Pawn in Their Game" on that disk. That song and performance are as serious as a heart attack. And "Who Killed Davey Morre?" impressed them also.
Let's just say the DVD convinced them that there was something huge they'd been missing as result of believing the "He can't sing" falsehood.
@herbigame It's an existential loneliness endemic to blues, and folk blues. When I first learned of him, when in high school, he was naming influences I'd never heard of, and so many that I've still not found time to get to.
He's steeped in American (not commercial) musics, musics of the ordinary and unsophisticated, and seems to "hang out" mostly in the 1920s.
How exactly is this a "bad voice"? It's way better than I could sing and it's way better than most others could as well. Dylan has that charm when he sings and that's what establishes him from any other singer. This is also a great example that you don't have to be blessed with a great voice to do something you may love.
@piggybankvillan I agree. You sing Good Most times People Hear your Sound Before Your Words,Before Your Message. Most People Will only Listen once If that. Your Message If Important Need be Heard by the ignorant first.
there is no bad voice or good voice... music is an art we all have our own styles. some dont like peoples work some like somepeoples work but there is no good or bad. once again poetry music singing guitar music its all an art.so please stop arguing. were never going to achive anything sitting around arguing. its rather foolish to be negative so pleasr stay positive. and build eachother up where they need it instead of proving people wrong and cutting their ideas down.
@Hofsteder - Your point is so obvious it didn't need saying. Of course he likes it that way or he wouldn't keep it that way, duh. My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? There can be more dept to a question than your infantile intrepretation.
Do me a favor and stop arguing with people who disregard a persons' message regardless of how poetic and beautiful simply because they of how they look or how they sound. These people are not meant to appreciate this music because they don't have the faculty to understand it. Just pity them and the superficial emptiness of their souls that may never allow the light to enter nor know the comforting warmth of its feeling. Thanks!
@cutthecrapalready - My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? Don't you understand that a person can appreciate and critique at the same time or do you only think in black and white?
@nancejo According to YOU an "unkept" appearance. What do you know of the context? Nothing. What do you know of the history? Nothing. And you've certainly not seen his Newport perfromances of "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
And what do you know of image-making? Nothing worthwhile outside of context and history.
It took me a long time to find the album that had this song but i finally found one. "the bootleg Series Vol. 6" great album with tons of Dylan songs. uncut as well which is a plus.
@300daysandnights It is on Vol. 6 of the "Bootleg" series, and the title is the same. But the original offical release is on the "The Times They Are A-Changin'" LP. As is "Pawn in Their Game" -- which is up here, and I recommend, especially if you've not seen it or heard the song.
music and poetry are not all about what they sound like really. thissong/bob dylans music is not supposed to sound like frank sanatra or elvis pressley. bobs music is full of souland feeling. it is supposed to sound ragged and heartfelt. what makes bob so special is that like most folk singers he is just a man playing songs that are stories. he gets across the feelings that he is trying to. this is genius music. they dont make it like this anymore. truly a musical genius. best lyricist ever.
@nancejo because he's not a hooker, he's a poet, he's a singer. If you want "combed" artists, look for justin bieber, who is a piece of shit by the way.
Dylan is poetry, not beauty, not the best hair of the week!
@ricksonlira3653 My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? There can be more dept to a question than your infantile intrepretation.
whats the key of the harmonica? is it E or D?
tavomurilo 1 day ago
@tavomurilo e im pretty sure
Music100Quality 10 hours ago
he's more than a legend. he's probably the singer greatest songwriter of the 20th century, and up there with the greatest of writers period. Probably the greatest songwriter of all time to be honest
musicismylife442 3 days ago
I love u bob then and more now and forever my love
goddaddytoo 4 days ago
I love this song
chill66blog 1 week ago
The most beautiful song ever in the world.
satinhell818 1 week ago
What's with the grey bar ?
MrEnterthehole 1 week ago
magnetica2288, point taken, i was just being flippant,
TheNigelc8 1 week ago
Just the best poetry I've ever come across
ConDaddyPop 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
God bless hattie
MrNormaltoo 2 weeks ago
Arguing on Youtube is lame. Bob is legend.
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Dylan perfectly captured the essence, of what only recently been realized by most sheeple, within the past five years. Even Dylan did not entirely comprehend, just how thoroughly he had dissected & exposed the evil nature of the "Monolithic Global Conspiracy" named by JFK. If the CIA can have the driver of the Limo turn and shoot JFK at point blank range, they certainly can force Dylan to get back on stage promoting women's lingerie & a pyramid. Illuminati are why, the Kennedy's are gunshy.
waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
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waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
One of Dylan's finger pointing songs. Hasn't he completely repudiated this era of his catalogue?
trulysarcastic 2 weeks ago
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You have got to be brain dead or unconscious, failing to recognize what's impacting Dylan's present situation. Dylan is a very wealthy man, who had absolutely no need to schlep women's lingerie doing Victoria Secrets commercials..
waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
@waketheoblivious I said that Dylan sold out long ago, that he refuses to acknowledge hso protest songs, and you insult me by saying Dylan has sold out.
trulysarcastic 2 weeks ago
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He did not sell out you oblivious moron. Dylan is a very wealthy man, had become Christian was enjoying happiness raising his family. He did not come out of retirement to sell fucking panties, promote an Illuminati pyramid and scrap an entire life's work to worship the "all seeing eye" without elite members of the Satanic Music Industry exerting their influence. MJ ignored that influence and so have members of a long list of faked suicides. STFU, you complete ignoramus.
waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
@waketheoblivious when you do sell your songs to Victoria secrets your a sell out. 2nd of all calm down. 3rd of all your all over the place with your reasons, which make no sense and come off as rantings of a child. While it's sad that you have no friends, no life and were probably bullied and abused, don't take it out on me. Get back on your medication.
trulysarcastic 2 weeks ago
@trulysarcastic
You are an unconscious bastard, with your head planted so firmly up your ass you neither see nor hear the evil which you speak. The ringing in your ears is the sound of ignorance bouncing off the walls of your anal canal. Hold your breath, squeeze real hard and blow it out your ass you pathetic Nazi.
waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
@trulysarcastic Absolutely not, you sodding cunt. He did say 40+ years ago that "not much is really sacred."
33Thadeus 2 weeks ago
@33Thadeus actually he did dismiss them. Quoting one song to defend another song, that weak. He did say when speaking of Bringing it back home, that his older songs were one-diemnsional, that his new songs were 3 dmensional
trulysarcastic 2 weeks ago
@trulysarcastic Just go have a peanutbutter and dick sandwich and call it a night buddy.
33Thadeus 2 weeks ago
@33Thadeus
Tis a pleasure to share the planet with you and those who share a genuine commitment to the Truth. May your hand and pen always be guided by His, as you brush aside weeds of deception.
waketheoblivious 2 weeks ago
The meaning of these songs have been forgotten/suppresed. The rich cunts in power just want you to listen to x factor/ pop pap because if you knew the truth you just may rebel. unfortunately they have won and we are fucked.
blobhead12135565 2 weeks ago
@blobhead12135565 They haven't won. You wouldn't be aware of their game if they had :)
MrEnterthehole 2 weeks ago
HAhah what a classic tragic and beautifull song ,,,, i also hear from little things big things grow ... :)
Tamarikoa1 3 weeks ago
my brother gave me this when he came home from viet nam. still love the times they are a changin but the best to me is North Country Blues.
kabooki09 3 weeks ago
Awesome. Censorship is fucking lame.
strono 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
he isnt good, he is perfect. P E R F E C T
sarahassadoi 3 weeks ago
One of the greatist songs ever written, brilliant, but sadly it wont win the x factor,
TheNigelc8 4 weeks ago 14
@TheNigelc8 True but seeing as only the heart-blind take any notice of things like the x factor, what does it matter? If x factor wasn't around they'd be eaten up on something equally as infantile and worthless.
Let the dogs bark at the wind, we can listen to Bob :)
MrEnterthehole 2 weeks ago
@TheNigelc8 would u want it too....
magnetica2288 1 week ago
Such an amazing song... I have been listening to this one since the 1960's and even now it brings me to tears every time I hear it.
alcest35 1 month ago
This song is so good that I just feel like crying .
leonardoamorimmm 1 month ago
William Zantzinger didn't like this video.
Bfdidc 1 month ago 55
@Bfdidc It is spelled, "Zanzinger".
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya No, his real name was Zantzinger. The song removed the "t".
Bfdidc 1 month ago
@Bfdidc I read the newpaper article on which the song is based. It is "Zanzinger".
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya It is spelled "newspaper."
Bfdidc 1 month ago
@Bfdidc haha. The bastard died a few years back.
DannyHusk82 1 month ago
While I like Dylan, some of his fans approach a cult-like worship of him. It is kinda scary, like they would drink the kool-aid if he offered it.
nancejo 1 month ago
@nancejo yes like most of fan by definition , i like bob dylan s song but i really have no affinity with the artist i just share some of his view in his song but tomorrow he might hit the big one that won t change my life a bit i notice that actually the greatest artist are generally not great being to live with a bit like the top model are great to watch but it s l to live with =)anyway i never been fan or supporter i dislike people that narrow their mind to one artist one sport one party etc
poolidoor 1 month ago
@poolidoor - Thanks, I have tried to have a discussion with some where I critique (not criticize) some of his work and I am practically slapped in the face by the sycophants.
nancejo 1 month ago
@nancejo What was your critique?
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya That by technical standards Dylan isn't a good singer, but his talent of communicating by song compensates for the lack of technical talent. The "isn't a good singer" remark set off his sycophants.
nancejo 1 month ago
@nancejo It has nothing to do with sycophants. It has to do with the uninformed who don't LISTEN. Their first reaction is their last reaction because they don't think to look beyond their fixed bias.
His voice isn't "pop pretty" -- but find me a blues singer's that is. But he certainly has brilliant technical skill as a singer; at reading a lyric.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya - Oh I have ran across sycophants that would fawn all over Dylan even if he farted on stage.
I think we agree in principle, but differ in terminology. What you call technical skill, I call talent which he has in spades. BTW - I hate pop music and wasn't judging by those standards, but on a stardard a voice teacher would apply.
nancejo 1 month ago
@nancejo "Talent" is innate; but it must be shaped, given form. How it is expressed, the means by which it is expressed, is the issue of skill.
As for voice teacher opinionss: Berklee School of Music teaches that rock singers sing with the throat; "proper" singing is from the abdomen. Their view is fine, if one is concerned with opera and "proper" singing. Blues, folk, and rock singers are untrained, unsophisticated in the lucky alternative of "leisure is necessary to culture".
JNagarya 1 month ago
@nancejo yes that s the problem with fans , they lost sense of criticism which is evident for justin bieber fan or lady gaga but it s a bit sad for dylan s fan shey should listen to idiot wind more closely
i m no fan even i used to have all the dylan song book and play loosely till my friend beg me to bring them back home lol, u should try beatles fan they even more aggressive, but i understand someone shoot the guitarist , i love many song of dylan but the man is just a man with hisgoodnbad =)
poolidoor 4 weeks ago
2:11...Bob Dylan's guitar is censored by William Zantzinger's buddy, The Man. lol.
eddystone333 1 month ago
@eddystone333 It is spelled, "Zanzinger".
JNagarya 1 month ago
Was Steve Allen show in U.S. ?
satinhell818 1 month ago
@satinhell818 Yes.
JNagarya 1 month ago in playlist 1960'S DYLAN TV CLIPS
dylans magic is in the imagery his songs create. I can see places I've never been by just listening to his voice. His description and delivery never fails to draw me into the song, right where he wants me. This is so far beyond singing and I'm forever grateful to understand it.
redneckchewer 1 month ago 18
@redneckchewer calling dylan a singer is like calling jesus a talker
richrichrichism 1 month ago
@richrichrichism I wouldn't call Dylan a singer (technical limitations in his voice), but I would call him a performer. He knows how to communicate in song.
nancejo 1 month ago
@nancejo Poetry is song. Even when it isn't set to music or "sung".
Thus bobby d is twice the singer: first as poet, and second as skilled reader of his poetry.
In addition to which he is a skilled singer with a voice beautifully suited to his material.
Songs that fit the throat.
JNagarya 3 weeks ago
@richrichrichism And some who knew him say Jesus was a talker.
JNagarya 3 weeks ago
What is good to see here is the girl at 3:24 isn't screaming her mindless head off, she is actually taken by Dylan's amazing vocalization of genius poetry. You don't see that anymore
TheTexasKid88 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 And yet bobby d was booed when he toured in 1966 not only becasue he had "betrayed" the folk "community" that thought it owned him, but also because he "went electric" and had a band. It seems there is always a faction of fans who hate change.
As for the screaming to which you refer: what harm did it cause?
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya Oh the screaming didn't harm anything, I just like how they actually take the music in unlike fans at a Beatles concert around this time. I can understand why some were upset, but I love Dylan before and after he went electric. Don't get me wrong though, fans that are uncontrollably excited at shows aren't a bad thing, they drive the industry. And as an artist I would love if someone cared enough about my music to call me Judas when I changed my style.
TheTexasKid88 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 See "Don't Look Back," which is essentially footage of his 1966 British tour. In that you'll see the same "squealing" from the girls.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya I've seen this, it is an excellent film, it captured perfectly what Dylan and his troupe experienced on the '65 tour. If you can find it, check out "Eat the Document" which is from his '66 tour, although the quality of the film is drastically lower than "Dont Look Back". If you've seen the documentary Scorsese did you will recognize some of the footage, as quite a bit was taken from both films, its called "No Direction Home". I greatly appreciate your feedback, thank you.
TheTexasKid88 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 In my searches I've seen clips of "Eat the Document" (there is also an audio file from it of the "dialgoue" between drunk bobby d and John Lennon) on youtube.
Right: "Don't Look Back" was '65, not '66. (And Alan Price was an ass.)
I was intimidated into Dylan in 1965 (girlfriend). Took a bit, but he is the only one who can quench that mysterious thirst: songs that fit the throat. He is an astonishing writer ("Pawn in Their Game"!).
Sorcese has much of the '66.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 It's from Scorcese (the '66 tour) we get the awesome (as titled here) "Like a Rolling Stone (Live 1966)".
If you haven't yet: Newport performances (Pawn in Their Game," "Chimes of Freedom"; "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue") are an abolute must. Miss those, and you gon't get into Heaven!
The "Maggie's" through "Baby Blue" performance is perfect and beautiful -- articulation and voice -- beyond superlatives.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya Haha, Alan Price, he's a classic ass, and appears to be intoxicated almost the entire film, but he is comical. I enjoyed the reoccurring Donovan joke as well, and then the broken glass scene where Donovan eventually plays with Dylan. There is a scene in Eat the Document where Dylan and Lennon are riding around, and it is very strange, I found a written version of it to help me interpret the madness.
TheTexasKid88 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 I'd say intoxicated: did you note his opening of a beer bottle on the piano? Great repect for others' property. (I'm wondering if he's that jackass who threw the glass or bottle out the window.)
The Dylan-Lennon "Eat the Document" scene is available on youtube, as both video and audio. One certainly needs a transcript to determine what Dylan, especially, is say: he is plastered.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya
As President Lincoln said when rumors of General Grant was drinking to excess: "Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!"
dreadzeppelindottv 3 weeks ago
@dreadzeppelindottv The comment concerned Alan Price, of The Animals (which he had left by then). In the footage shown he was an ass, which doesn't mean he impressed in any positive sense.
JNagarya 3 weeks ago
@JNagarya My favorite Dylan footage is him playing Mr. Tambourine man live in '66. You don't get to see the whole song but the two minute harmonica solo is so incredibly spectacular and beautiful. Thank you for your suggestions and I will be working on my pass into the holy kingdom momentarily.
TheTexasKid88 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 The version of (in color) "Just Like a Woman" (described somewhere -- perhaps in comments to it -- as "intimate") is also beautiful.
Watch the Newport "goes electric" songs in the order sung: "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tamborine Man," and, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Sublime! you'll be floored!
And note: some said he was crying during the performance of the last two. I'm uncertain, but lean toward concluding that he was, as it appears so to me.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@TheTexasKid88 Also see this -- Newport -- astonishing writing (and I suspect he was laughing because someone bet he couldn't remember and sing the whole song -- note the exultation when he sings the last several lines).:
chimes of freedom bob dylan subtitulada
Once you've seen the above, and this (and, "Who Killed Davey Moore?") you'll lust after the DVD. With every good reason for doing so. I only wish they'd release the rest of his performances at Newport.
JNagarya 1 month ago
My all time favorite song by Dylan. Long time Gone is in the top as well.
300daysandnights 1 month ago
A truly bard who cast his spell upon the unrighteous. His power is his talent, his magic is his music...a magician would spell someone who had offended him, and the curse would live on and on through his children and grandchildren; a powerful bard would make a good song about it, good enough to be repeated for years, demonizing the name of the unrighteous. 50 years later, a brazilian kid knows exactly who William Zantzinger was and what he did - he was cursed, because the bard was powerful.
GinGuilt 1 month ago
@GinGuilt The song is not a curse. It is a constructive -- leave out the I'm-holier-then-thou arrogant righteousness -- moral criticism. It is not limited to Zanzinger. And it is a memorial to Hattie Carrol based directly on the facts of her life -- she did exist -- and the murder -- Zanzingger did murder her.
JNagarya 1 month ago in playlist 1960'S DYLAN TV CLIPS
@JNagarya You're right, but I was being metaphorical.
GinGuilt 1 month ago
@GinGuilt It is spelled, "Zanzinger".
JNagarya 1 month ago
His poems are beautiful, like the echo of a ghost searching for his past while haunting the walls of an old mansion...
BluesYourAss 1 month ago
Dylan's vocal performances had more feeling and passion than a legion of lame top 40 singers
simplee67 1 month ago
Bobs voice was the voice of JUSTICE...Theres no better voice than this....
Dyln19 1 month ago
We need another Bob Dylan to point what ails our society with such mastery that it haunts you.
dmarkham123 2 months ago
Bob Dylan FOREVER!!!!!
Jolie028 2 months ago
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markprater4231 2 months ago
There should be more likes than that on Jack11017's comment.. But if your not on several drugs perhaps it doesn't have the sublime and masterful ring of an orchestra contained only by truth that I heard when I read the comment. If you disagree with it likely you are deaf, dumb, and blind. If that is not the case I can only infer that you are worth less time than it took to write this and perhaps not even that. I love Bob Dylan's voice by the way; It has character.
Hexein 2 months ago
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Hexein 2 months ago
People who dislike Bob Dylan must lack substance. the combination of his voice, melody, lyrics, musical talent....im not even a huge fan of folk/rock and he's one of my favorite artists. people who cant respect him, must not read between the lines. One of the most gifted artists of all time- i wish i was alive to witness his era.
TheJwv123 2 months ago
....and she never did nothin' to William Zanzinger.
TheRoob420 2 months ago 2
@jack11017 several drugs ant got shit on your grammar
usernameofagod 2 months ago 2
no chords or guitar for you just grey bar
usernameofagod 2 months ago 2
why is the guitar censored?
suddenuprising 2 months ago
@suddenuprising I think it's the text that is censored and not the guitar
RadioactiveTurtle 2 months ago in playlist Bob Dylan
great! So young BDylan... thanks, Jonathan
RosaBarroca 2 months ago
The most skilled voice could not tell his story with more emotion.
lustre5 2 months ago
He is good at playing the harmonica badly
KeeganMcCallumMusic 2 months ago
@KeeganMcCallumMusic yeah he is good at being the greatest genius of modern times too
richrichrichism 2 months ago
And you who philosophize disgrace
And criticize all fears,
Take the rain away from your face,
Now ain't the time for your tears.
...
Seriously, it can't get better than that!!! Just PERFECT!
freewheelinQ 3 months ago
@freewheelinQ take the RAG away from your face
InnocenceExperience 3 months ago
@freewheelinQ The word is "rag".
JNagarya 1 month ago
it;s William Zanzinger not Williams and Zinger
MissMelanie2006 3 months ago
best song, in my opinion
TakeyoLifebitch 3 months ago
I'm an atheist , and bob dylan is my jesus
richrichrichism 3 months ago 2
Bob Dylan is a great singer. Tell me another singer songwriter of 50+ years who has smoked all his days, who can still tour and belt out song after song every night and believe me.....He sounds electric, i saw him 2 nights in a row in Glasgow last month his set was almost totally diffrent and he nailed it and he is 70 years old.....Anybody who disagrees listen to Infidels start to finish and try to have the same opinion after.
The19763 3 months ago
@The19763 I prefer "Oh Mercy".
JNagarya 1 month ago
bury the rag most deep in your face for now is the time for your tears
LUCKas1212 3 months ago
the soul of our time
enriqueromerobasarra 3 months ago
He sounds like shit because it was the 60's. Do you think Lil wayne or all that crap is not made to sound better.. Bob is a Poet, a Revolutionary, and a Legend.
ruffrydag 3 months ago 2
@ruffrydag Well said!
kruegs2525 3 months ago
@ruffrydag Has nothing to do with the 1960s. Name one blues singer, from the 1920s through the 1960s, who had a pretty voice. Dylan is attacked on that ground -- that he doesn't have a pretty "pop" voice -- because the attackers stay away from music not sung by whites, which is why they falsely believe that Dylan's voice is an exception to the rule.
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JNagarya 1 month ago
Mr D. No More so say cuz he says it all. Listen to him and humanity might just move forwards. His words are worth a thousand pics. Just read his lyrics. Mr D. Mr Awesome.
Bluejay1968 3 months ago
i like bob dylan and i like when jerry garcia covers
HerbMaster13 4 months ago
I don't know how anybody could ever say that Bob Dylan didn't have a good voice! He also didn't play his instruments well either but his music is great not bad;) He is his own person. He is passionate,and a spicy old dog,lol Unigue is his middle name<3
TheSnowsbeauty5 4 months ago
nobody can do this magic better than him.
" may you stay forever young " and thanks Bob
rbg191 4 months ago
i simply love this guy <3 saw him live the day before yesterday and all i can say is that he was just great! i mean hes 70 years old.
this song is soo good. and he just does not have a "singvoice" he has his own style and he wants you to listen to the lyrics, the voice isnt the important thing. maybe nowadays yes, but those arent songs with a message, only to "party" without sense!
NomiFee 4 months ago
@NomiFee Some have pleasant voices. Some know how to sing a lyric. Some have both.
Dylan's voice doesn't have the rough edges sandpapered off, and it is perfectly suited to his material.
And his reading of lyics is brilliant.
JNagarya 1 month ago
I'd hate to have to be William Zantzinger after this: hit by the full, unmitigated force of Dylan's genius.
paddygilbert 4 months ago 3
Bobs voice is perfect, i don't care what anyone says, his voice, is the best voice there has ever been in my opinion.
Wish i could of seen him during the 60's
barrybuttery 4 months ago 63
@barrybuttery I agree!!!!!!!
jtdylan1 1 month ago
@barrybuttery im not a hater. but im gonna be serious. Screaming Jay Hawkings got much more power in his pipes. I Love bob dylan, but you dont have to have the best voice to be the best fucking artist.
MisQSC 1 month ago
@MisQSC
That may be, but Dylan is the better artist
barrybuttery 1 month ago
@barrybuttery you sound like bob dylan is the only artist you ever heard. Stop ass kissing bob dylan fans just beacuse im arguing about his alent. hes not the greatest but hes not bad.
MisQSC 1 month ago
@MisQSC Name one better writer.
We knew you couldn't, else you would have.
Clue: bobby d's compassion in this song has no top and no bottom.
JNagarya 1 month ago in playlist 1960'S DYLAN TV CLIPS
@MisQSC His voice is perectly suited to his material. His material is songs that fit the thoat.
JNagarya 1 month ago in playlist 1960'S DYLAN TV CLIPS
@MisQSC Is "power" all that matters?
JNagarya 1 month ago
No one gives a shit how young you are just keep it real like dylan did don't try to impress
voidinggenerations 4 months ago
What bad voice?
AsaelInAZ480to420 4 months ago
Voted by Rolling Stone the Third of the top 100 singers of the Rock Era... It is not a pretty voice... It is the soulful voice of a wellspring of talent that changed everything that followed... or as Springsteen said... Elvis freed your body ... Bob Dylan freed your mind... I doubt that a young Bob Dylan would make it in our American Idol instant voter appeal entertainment world we live in ... and i say thank God he snuck in the back door when no one was watching... Thanks Bob 4 your Voice...
kcdudedave 4 months ago
thanks for uploading ;-)
odcnb 4 months ago
WOW
thegreatest430 4 months ago
It's a Dylan video, guys, nobody gives a shit about how young you are.
truedude86 4 months ago 2
Is this grey bar for people to not see how he plays the guitar? hahahaha good one
herbigame 4 months ago
You'll never see someone like this on American idol or any other program that manufactures cookie-cutter, well packaged, pretty, thin, "perfect voice", homoginized(sp?) puppets. The American public duped, glossed over, can't pay attention for more than 3 minutes. Look at all the "popular" "musicians" Here today (unfortunatly) and gone tomorrow (fortunatly)
shotofdylan 4 months ago
Dylan's is the ONLY voice
shroompicker23 4 months ago 3
thanks for uploading! :D
Jaumur 4 months ago
never seen this. awesome
TomThumbsBlues1965 4 months ago
I am only 18 years old but no matter how ''bad'' Dylans voice may have sounded, I can't stop listening to him. Something better and deeper lies within him. But that's just my opinion.
IAreHeadingForTheSun 4 months ago
@IAreHeadingForTheSun Watch the video of "Pawn in Their Game," if it's up. Otherwise, get and watch the Newport Folk Festival performances on the DVD "Other Side of the Mirror".
You will not be disappointed.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya Thanks for the tip man. I already got the Newport Folk Festival DVD. Love it!
IAreHeadingForTheSun 1 month ago
@IAreHeadingForTheSun I've converted several friends to bobby d. with the video of "Pawn in Their Game" on that disk. That song and performance are as serious as a heart attack. And "Who Killed Davey Morre?" impressed them also.
Let's just say the DVD convinced them that there was something huge they'd been missing as result of believing the "He can't sing" falsehood.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya I'm pleased to hear that :) I personally believe that Bob is a living example of someone who is able to sing with more than just a voice :)
IAreHeadingForTheSun 4 weeks ago
Going seeing Dylan at the MEN tomorrow. Wish I had seen him at this point in his career! BOB IS GOD
Ctye1 4 months ago
I hear a very deep and disturbing loneliness in the way he sings.
herbigame 4 months ago
@herbigame: which is what set it apart from all the others who just sing with a guitar. bingo.
quad1000 4 months ago
@quad1000 Actually, he is probably just stoned as hell
herbigame 4 months ago
@herbigame It's an existential loneliness endemic to blues, and folk blues. When I first learned of him, when in high school, he was naming influences I'd never heard of, and so many that I've still not found time to get to.
He's steeped in American (not commercial) musics, musics of the ordinary and unsophisticated, and seems to "hang out" mostly in the 1920s.
JNagarya 1 month ago
Now aint the Time for Your tears.
Hustis1 5 months ago in playlist Liked
How exactly is this a "bad voice"? It's way better than I could sing and it's way better than most others could as well. Dylan has that charm when he sings and that's what establishes him from any other singer. This is also a great example that you don't have to be blessed with a great voice to do something you may love.
piggybankvillan 5 months ago 2
@piggybankvillan I agree. You sing Good Most times People Hear your Sound Before Your Words,Before Your Message. Most People Will only Listen once If that. Your Message If Important Need be Heard by the ignorant first.
Hustis1 5 months ago in playlist Liked
awesome! :)
blackmanz1000 5 months ago
people can say he can't sing, play guitar, harmonica, WHATEVER. but he can write a hell of a song and nobody can deny that. his music is beautiful.
warclassics 5 months ago
@Hofsteder - Thanks. When I am done with my research I will be sure to publish it here.
nancejo 5 months ago
there is no bad voice or good voice... music is an art we all have our own styles. some dont like peoples work some like somepeoples work but there is no good or bad. once again poetry music singing guitar music its all an art.so please stop arguing. were never going to achive anything sitting around arguing. its rather foolish to be negative so pleasr stay positive. and build eachother up where they need it instead of proving people wrong and cutting their ideas down.
Music100Quality 5 months ago
@Hofsteder - Your point is so obvious it didn't need saying. Of course he likes it that way or he wouldn't keep it that way, duh. My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? There can be more dept to a question than your infantile intrepretation.
nancejo 5 months ago
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JNagarya 1 month ago
Do me a favor and stop arguing with people who disregard a persons' message regardless of how poetic and beautiful simply because they of how they look or how they sound. These people are not meant to appreciate this music because they don't have the faculty to understand it. Just pity them and the superficial emptiness of their souls that may never allow the light to enter nor know the comforting warmth of its feeling. Thanks!
cutthecrapalready 5 months ago
@cutthecrapalready - My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? Don't you understand that a person can appreciate and critique at the same time or do you only think in black and white?
nancejo 5 months ago
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@nancejo According to YOU an "unkept" appearance. What do you know of the context? Nothing. What do you know of the history? Nothing. And you've certainly not seen his Newport perfromances of "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
And what do you know of image-making? Nothing worthwhile outside of context and history.
JNagarya 1 month ago
It took me a long time to find the album that had this song but i finally found one. "the bootleg Series Vol. 6" great album with tons of Dylan songs. uncut as well which is a plus.
300daysandnights 5 months ago
@300daysandnights The original is on "The Times They Are A-Changin'". Which also contains the amazing tribute to Medgar Evers, "Pawn in Their Game".
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya I got the CD with all the bootlegs, so it might have different titles.
300daysandnights 1 month ago
@300daysandnights It is on Vol. 6 of the "Bootleg" series, and the title is the same. But the original offical release is on the "The Times They Are A-Changin'" LP. As is "Pawn in Their Game" -- which is up here, and I recommend, especially if you've not seen it or heard the song.
JNagarya 1 month ago
@JNagarya That's the one! Vol.6! You know a lot about Dylan albums.
300daysandnights 1 month ago
@Hofsteder - Because he looks like he crawled out from under a dumpster.
nancejo 5 months ago
@nancejo The Beats weren't about pleasing middle class limitations, manifest as bigotries about appearances and the like.
Read about the ERA; read about the history of folk music as a socially-transforming force. Read about Woodie Guthrie. Read about Pete Seeger.
JNagarya 1 month ago
music and poetry are not all about what they sound like really. thissong/bob dylans music is not supposed to sound like frank sanatra or elvis pressley. bobs music is full of souland feeling. it is supposed to sound ragged and heartfelt. what makes bob so special is that like most folk singers he is just a man playing songs that are stories. he gets across the feelings that he is trying to. this is genius music. they dont make it like this anymore. truly a musical genius. best lyricist ever.
MrElgooooog 5 months ago
wtf? the voice aint even that bad
ManMyCandy 5 months ago
Why doesn't he comb his hair?
nancejo 5 months ago
@nancejo because he's not a hooker, he's a poet, he's a singer. If you want "combed" artists, look for justin bieber, who is a piece of shit by the way.
Dylan is poetry, not beauty, not the best hair of the week!
ricksonlira3653 5 months ago
@ricksonlira3653 My point isn't purile fascination, but trying to understand the complexities of a man who is considered great. What is the rational for such a man to keep an unkept apperance? Is it a form of rebellion, indifference, lack of respect, or is there a mental illness or drug addiction? There can be more dept to a question than your infantile intrepretation.
nancejo 5 months ago