the Beatles - Positively 4th Street

[gustavin1984]

I DON´T UNDERSTAN WHY DYLAN COULD´T SAY PRESENT IN THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE, ALL THE FRIENDS OF GEORGE WAS THERE AND HE MUST SING "IF NOT FOR YOU"

[BobDylansDream3]

Dylan is the greatest voice, and greatest artist who will ever live. His voice may not be perfect, but its way more interesting than a pretty boys voice.

[KREEPNASTY1]

John and Yoko look like conjoined twins on this album cover.

[jimsom45]

My first Dylan record is Bob Dylan's first record. I'll give you the fact that he was no Pavarotti but he had no problem with being heard or understood. He wrote the poetry for the Sixties and we loved him for it.

[gingervytis]

pure overrated burned out beatle beat off session.

[tabber87]

Wow. That sucked.

[HORACECOPE2]

Im not really sure what to say about this, as the Beatles and Bob Dylan are and should be ( in my opinion ) what music is all all about...hell i love them both.

[DeBillie58]

Yoko.... urgh

[skywardism]

Dylan is one of the elements. Like fire, water..

[sirwob]

you'd be hard-pressed to find someone that knows or loves the Beatles better than I do, never heard this, it is too hot

[ethanstomp]

THE FAB FIVE!! together they shaped the sixties

[siouzsie]

imitation - the greatest form of flattery from a pop band who aspired but could never hope to achieve the heights our Bob did.

[GabrielTD1]

@siouzsie, yeah, the fab four didn't reach junkie Dylan's heights "your" Bob did. That's because the Beatles surpassed them. Get Back now!

[Dave897456]

@GabrielTD1  LOL! What have you been smoking?

[mrbiggles9999]

for all those saying dylan can't (i say can't cause he's STILL touring) sing, you've never really heard or understand dylan, or music in general, could you imagine justin beiber singing "delia"? i think this cover is awesome even if they were just messing around.....being something we never "should" have heard too......I love the beatles

[oobah2]

They look absolutely miserable in the picture.

[kingsuji]

Can you imagine "being there"?

Kinsuji

[septip123]

I'd be interested in hearing John's version of this Dylan tune...if one exists.

[drmoonrat]

This sounds like it was about to be "Don't Pass Me By"

[residentevlidead]

Ironically this is the best version on youtube

[donniedilley]

it's just George and somebody else having a good time. playin' around.

[thatcrazeerandomgirl]

bob ylan described himself as a poet, not a singer, he knew he din't have a perfect voice, but that's the beauty of his songs, not a single one of them says anything about perfect being a good thing

[Jouwl]

This sucks?

[PeaceFriend88]

do any of you people honestly enjoy flawless trained singing more?

[papercutpictures]

the wierd thing is, why can't I find Bob's studio version of this on YT? all seems to be covers... some of them very good, I might add.

[sublimeruca27]

very cool. some freaked out tape left behind from another age, eh?

[flipper803]

I have many hours of this stuff on old bootlegs I bought. I don't understand why EMI could not clean some of this up and release it. Anthology 4 the Get Back tapes! 

[superman11978]

I don't think Dylan taught Lennon how to write - at all. I remember an interview where John said he developed his writing style way before Dylan even made the scene. Even as a kid he was into wordplay and writing all sorts of crazy lyrics and poems. Just check out his book In His Own Write.

[superman11978]

@superman11978 And the way I see it, John looked up to Dylan but later became disillusioned by him. John took a lot of jabs at him over the years, basically implying that he could do Dylan better than Dylan could if he felt like it. Just string together a bunch of nonsense. He did I Am The Walrus and left it at that. There are a bunch of demos of John imitating Dylan. One has him apparently just reading the newspaper politics section and making a song of it, and it does sound like a Dylan song.

[xrockangelx]

Beatles doing Dylan?! ....O_O... AWESOME!!!

[lucasiskewl]

The music just flows out of them. It's quite amazing actually.

[burf69]

Quote of the Week: "Droll is the tragedy of your yearnings." - Some Idiot

[Pandemonium44]

cool, but wish they recorded it with better audio...

[discos22]

Its a bit of a drag, I was hoping for something a bit clearer- but still a gem for Beatles fanatics

[burf69]

This is crap. Let's just call a spade a spade here...

[MrAngemystere]

@burf69, given that the Beatles are merely doing a sound check here, your view is "crap." Let's just call a spade a spade here..."

[snowfairy13]

Paul says he admires bob dylan ^^

[G0K3001]

John was still learning song writing --- crafting and on the same level as him plus he was inspired by him. George dug him cause he knew where he was coming from....Ringo would have "sat in" with him and "gotten off" with some amazing drumming. Peace

[willihamma]

who doesn't? :)

[PersonTV]

Is it George singing? With Paul singing backup? It's hard to tell. Where did you get this from? I'm always interested in this kinda stuff.

[bunrei]

Bob Dylan has not a voice. Bob Dylan IS a voice

[MJLatora]

That' sone of the most brilliant things I've ever heard about Dylan. Bravo. I wish I'd said it....and I probably will.

[mitsvahgum]

@bunrei Bob Dylan is a pen. a hairy pen.

[abluesman100]

this needs massive remixing

[Glen2k1]

it was just a small demo

[stoberto06]

not a patch on the original

:P;)

[S2Cents]

well clearly not intended for release. lol. Thanks for putting this up

[superman11978]

Oh, and John would have done the best cover of this one. It's sort of a pissed off song, and John was better than anyone at that acidic, biting voice that could just tear someone apart.

[mussman717word]

I'd say that Bob Dylan had the best voice to "needle somebody," as he once said, for certain. John mastered that style, though, on tracks like "Working Class Hero," though. I do love the Beatles cover of this song, it just feels so right. If given proper remastering, it could be the best Dylan cover since Hendrix covered "All Along the Watchtower."

[superman11978]

George always did the best Dylan covers.

But yeah, I'm tired of hearing people say Dylan couldn't sing. He could sing just fine, and he did hit the notes otherwise the music would have been terrible. He just didn't have a mellifluous voice, but that was part of his character, that was his signature. All the flaws in his voice contribute to the song.

[PAULFC93]

Agreed , Its that distinctive grovelly tone that got me listening to Dylan in the first place . Just because he hasn't got the most melodic of voices Dosen't mean he's not a great singer.

But id like to see Bob stop touring from now on. His voice has realy gotten progressively worse over the last few years , Its starting to get so low and grovelly, its hard to understand what he is actually saying

Some people like the new voice. im not one of them

Id rather remember him the way he was

[Beatlegirl4eva]

IDk, I`d like him to keep touring, just because his voice has gotten rusty doesn`t mean people don`t want to see him, I`d still pay to see him, I haven`t yet and I`d be a little upset if he stopped befor I do get to.

I do agree though, that his voice is getting rusty.

[letsgocubs13]

I saw a few months ago and I'm going to see him again in a week. Definitely worth it, even if his voice isn't that great. His band is great, so it's worth it just to see the arrangements they come up with. Dylan still puts on a great show.

[Triassicc]

if anything his voice has taken on another form as it has for the past couple decades,and i like it,its aged,and its world weary

[Beatlegirl4eva]

Agreed

[kyannos]

yes he did hit the notes

[phred03]

@superman11978 . Exactly! Perfectly imperfect

[aer0smith1]

@superman11978 he doesn't have the best voice ever but the writing is just so awesome, but ya i couldn't imagine a bob dylan song any other way than what they are now

[gnomit]

@superman11978 agreed. i love dylan's voice. it is was it is, and it suits his style perfectly. His songs were full of sarcasm and spite in a witty way and his voice helped project that. Someone like Harrison or McCartney could try singing "Like a rolling stone" and it might sound nice but it would lose all the bite that Dylan's voice gave the lyrics.

[magdaszabo]

@superman11978 for me not Flaws at all, its just so him, so honest. like neil young. hey told him he coldnt sing either.....so fckng what, they aint nat king cole in the throat....they are who they are, & their voices are perfectly perfect to me.....always have been i love them, many like them. i wish i could find some oringinal zimmie here to share around.....

[FetaCheese222]

@superman11978 Maybe it's because he was good friends with Dylan.

[BrandonNorth1120]

@superman11978 No one's said it better man. That's precisely it about Dylan's voice. He could sing and was in tune (for the most part) but he just didn't let the melody flow as perfect as other, more trained singers. But the visceral nature of it was what got me. I mean, who doesn't get chills when he snarls the How does it feel?" lines in "Like a Rolling Stone?"

[aaron234567890987643]

dylan hits the notes people dont realise this

[diln5]

Yeah, and i am a Dylan fan, but one of the main reasons people dont like his voice is because he slides from one note to the next, instead of short pauses like most singers do. Its just less conventional.

[aaron234567890987643]

hit the nail on the head

[OrangeHotRocks]

Right. It's not all about being a good technical singer. It's all about passion and raw emotion, which Dylan achieved miraculously

[phre33k]

george was the better beatle

[youvexme]

oh, thank you! This song has been a favorite of mine for a long time!

[yousech]

Thank you for posting this... :-)

[youvexme]

George is great, but John Lennon would have had just the right amount of sneer for this song.

[hanghang71]

i know george had spent a lot of time around then with bob,they became good buddys.Ithink its cos they both seem pretty shy people

[juliusgwyer]

The Beatles are amazing as this clip demonstrates... they are effortlessly delivering a superb version of Bob Dylan's song.

[RSleepy]

I think it was Dylan Thomas who was asked who was the best poet. He replied "I didn't know it was a competition"

[stoberto06]

read mindfodders comment, then remove yours.

[mindfodder]

A lot of people want everything to sound like it's straight from the studio album. These guys are just jamming. It's not a "version", it's some musicians playin' around in the studio. Good post.

[jmitch30tube]

Exactly, if it was a cover then they might have released it. For anyone who has actually made music before it will be understandable that you mess around, this is them messing around that just happens to have been recorded. One of the downsides of the internet is that this can be heard and people will volley vitriol at it like it was meant to stand up on its own.

[Rentzoo]

It's nice to come across something like this. Always good.

[hmsdonovan]

yeah, George is singing

[aleclse]

ha i'm view 2,009

[Gallo97798]

Hendrx did some good covers

[stuckwiththeblues]

this don't work for me at all.

this is song filled with hatred, you don't feel it. Dylans songs should be song only by dylan, even though some coverversions works. For example Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith made some pretty interesting covers.

[sublimeruca27]

@stuckwiththeblues boo at this even tho it's a year old. dylan shud be sung by one and all! great timeless songs in his collection.

[2197reina]

the combination of a really good band and a really good song doesn't really work out, I think. If it would've been a bit clearer I would have loved it. Thanks anyway :).

[awaggenspack]

ya i know what you mean. its got a cool fly on the wall feel though. i've always wondered what it was like in the studio with them.

[bigjer88]

@2197reina Awww c'mon....they're just screwing around. If they had wanted to nail it, they could have. I mean...can you imagine how good John would have sounded singing those lyrics with conviction?