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  • i love this song!!!

  • nah just changed my mind fickelicity

  • that woulda been one hekll of a show to see

  • hahahahahha cool song!!! but painfully obvious that good ol' Bobby was on something when he sang it......

  • @meshi1990 you guys piss me of who say hes on coke just cus he sings in his own way, how do think he should have sang to not get branded as narcotic.. =/

  • @narnode He was on coke. This whole tour was fueled by coke. That's why the performances are so upbeat and high in energy compared to other tours.

  • @LedZRush how you know? now dont tell me you "just know"

  • @narnode I read it in a Bob Dylan biography. Everyone was on coke on this tour.

  • @LedZRush and who wrote the biography? you? i mean it dont has to be true cuz it says in a book. if His Bobness himself said it, i would believe it

  • @narnode Yes. I learned it from reading a book I wrote. You are such a stupid fuck. If Bob Dylan was addicted to speed and quoted saying he doesn't mind opium why is it so hard to believe he was on coke for a while?

  • @LedZRush its not so hard to believe he was on coke, but you say he was. reminds me of when everybody said john lennon wrote lucy diamonds about coke cuz the first letters woere LSD, and in a interview he said he had no idea about it. you are the stupid person here

  • @narnode I'm not the one who thinks that LSD is coke. Dumb shit.

  • cocaine

  • cocaine is a hell of a drug! haha just kiddin :P

  • @TheThroney

    why kid? it's the truth and everybody depicted in this vid is on a lot of good coke ;)

  • anyone know where the FULL video is? this starts in around the 4th stanza...

  • Pretty sure this is how it is in Renaldo and Clara.. Good luck finding a full version.

  • For those who do not know. ISIS IS the GO'VT in Vermont! The 'Green Mountain State'. Now when you see corps with the name ISIS, you will know it most likely has GOVT ties

    In the movie 'I AM LEGEND', Will Smith met a woman and child. She had a Vision the Safe Haven was in VT. She said it was too cold for the virus. Out of all the places, she said to 'GO to Vermont', simply GO'VT. Look at the VT quarter. There you will see "ISIS standing between TWO pillars". -Manly P. Hall 33rd degree Mason

  • That was some mad stuff! Going to see him in March! I hope he does this song!

  • this performance scares me, seriously

  • check 1960hollis ... posting same video

  • GREAT MUTHAFUGGEN PERFOMANCE!. check out my shit on my channel if you so wish people!

  • Good shots of Mick Ronson, former Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars guitarist. He joined Dylan for this tour.

  • "Isis oh isis, you're a mystical child. What drives me to you is what drives me insane. I can still remember the way that you smiled, on the fifth day of may in the drizzle and the rain." ~ possibly my favorite phrase from any song.

  • GODDAMN

  • whooooooow, you know, thats strong stuff comin from somewhere else...magical performance

  • 2:57 to 3:00 hahaha

    scary guy

  • there's so many sides to bob, this one is my most favorite, the rolling thunder era.

  • @dirge75 I like how he sort of just doesn't give a...Bob does it his way, and that makes him a consummate artist of the highest calibre! Looking forward to the show!

  • Fiery performance! Or coke-fueled, one or the other...

  • ...or both

  • ...both!

  • GAWD, THE SEVENTIES WERE COOL!

  • graaaaa

  • this is for leonard if hes still here...

  • His bass player on this tour is awesome.

  • i belive his name is Rob Stoner. An awesome player, possibly the funkiest I recall ever playing with Dylan. His style really brings life into the tunes.

  • The guy at 2:58 scares me.

  • yeah, whats with that guy O.o

  • I like how he walks away from the microphone when he plays the harmonica.

  • WHY??

  • great song

  • this pwns the studio version.

  • I love how his persona and style changes so much throughout time yet when he walks off stage you can see that it's still the same Dylan all these years.

  • amazing performance

  • There all coked out pretty hard. Must have been a long night, makes the song sound soo great though

  • Amazing song, one of dylan's best, even better than the studio version!

  • This is gonna sound kind of weird, but I love his teeth.

  • Story teller. song and dance man,20 & 21 Century Pioneer.... All poets wrapped into 1...all musicians wrapped into 1....Many Many lives wrapped into 1...

  • Bob Dylan wears Corpse Paint ^^

    Amazing !

  • Everybody looks strung out on acid.

  • This is like My favorite song ever! I love every single Bob Dylan album, but Desire is definitely the best in my mind.

  • The band is amazing too!

  • absolutely brilliant

  • The range, longevity, volume, and numerous innovations in Dylan's work over the career has but one rival figure in the modern age, and you have to go outside the field of music to find him: Picasso.

  • i LOVEEEEE MY BOBBY

  • Mind blowingly good. He stands head and shoulders above any artist in popular music.

  • If i could go use a time machine and go back and watch ANY band or musician at any time in their lives i would choose the rolling thunder revue this to me is awsome he is so close and feels his music in his soul ,,,,,,1974 pink floyd comes close also lol

  • for me itd be a coin flip between the 75 dylan and the 1966 dylan!

  • woah, bob dylan invented corpsepaint!

  • Whats up with his band here?

  • i dont care whether is the 50's,60's,70's etc. voice of dylan. coz 1 of his greatest talents is havin hundreds of personalities in his voice, that what makes him so good on what he's doin. u got the folk dylan,the rock dylan,ballad dylan.....that what makes him hauntingly amazing!

  • Think you got a bit of the cocaine on your face there Bob.

    Brilliant!!!!!

  • 2:57-3:01.. scary

  • where can i get this on dvd?

  • BTW, the only dvd I know of this really isn't a dvd, it comes on a bonus disc when you purchase The Rolling Thunder Review, along with live Tangled up in Blue

  • It's one thing to remember the words ... try righting (sic) them

  • sexy face makeup FTW! ♥

  • 60s voice was so much better

  • You might think that Bob Dylans sound in the '60s was better, but he wouldn't have been able to do this then. It's also rare to see Bob Dylan play a song with such intensity as here.

  • his voice is generic? how so, theres a lot of words you can use to describe dylan but generic is surely an odd choice no? hes anything but...and i think this is a great performance, but i do agree with KDoc21 in that he could have done somethin like this in the 60's, it just wouldnt have been as good cos he wouldnt have been feelin it surely? dylans best music is the stuff that reflects his true character? who knows, im not saying right and wrong here, just raising points

  • Ooo now we have a disagreement right there..(time magazine interview) 62-66 is great, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't even imagine my life without Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Street Legal, Infidels, Oh Mercy, World Gone Wrong, Good as I Been to You, Time out of Mind, Love and Theft, and of course, All of the bootlegs. They're all just so moving and powerful, whether from the scream of 'YES!' in Isis live, or the sentimental 'Ohhhhh' in the new york version of your a big girl now. I love dyla

  • bob oh bob, come back to 1975

  • words are phenomenal, delivery even better

  • Amazing, simply amazing.

  • That's just [no word]

  • yes...

  • this performance is so good that it drives me crazy

  • Yeah its amazing, i loved his voice in the 70s, he kinda grew out of that young 60s voice and matured. Amazing

  • best concert-tour in the history of mankind.......

  • better than Van Halen 84' ?

  • Yes Sir, because its not only about what happened on stage...but also what happened off stage. Long time ago I read a book about the RTR and about the movie they were filming during it. For example: One night at 3 am Dylan took off in a old Volkswagen and returned 3 houres later with a small dog. I think Dylan is the only one who could get the Idea of buying a dog at 4am in the morning....and then actually do it. So many things happened of stage (in one scene Dylan married Joan ^^)

  • rock and roll in true form

  • I just found God.. I've been playing the white stripes key of A version.. love of em both, but Dylan voice is AMAZING here. He's completely INSIDE that moment. 5/5

  • Favorite outfit.

  • I dressed up exactly like that last Holloween, including flowers on the hat. I wished I would have had a harmonica to play every where I went.

  • thats awesome!

  • Great, man! ;)

  • I think I'm gonna copy that this Halloween.

    It's just too good of an idea.

  • I saw this performance in Springfield Mass in Nov-1975(??) Since then I have talked to a number of folks who caught Rolling Thunder Revue's first tour back then , and most people remember it as the most incredible thing they have ever seen. Me too. Incredible band.. first time I ever saw T-Bone Burnett, Scarlet Rivera, et al. He would typically finish off his first full-band set with Isis, and it sure did leave the whole house abuzz for quite a while.

  • Wow, were you there back then?

    I'm pretty sure today's BD would also impress you as much as he did in 1975.

    Thouh he isn't young any more, he is more attractive now, I think.

  • Yes. I've seen Bob plenty of times and pretty much I have enjoyed them all. But the RT shows always stand out ; the performance level was off the chart; this Isis video clip is IMHO the best evidence of that. Plus, many RT tour dates were announced just a day or two before the performance, and they played their share of smaller venues all over the place. Bob had been so reclusive for so long, and then all of a sudden he was playing in your home town, like tomorrow. It was exciting & big fun.

  • he's coked out his nut, look at his clenched hands etc, and the agression, quality performance

  • this performance is incredible.

  • greatest tour of all time- born about 20 years too late!

  • i like his hat

  • WOW Bob's voice is very good in this concert

  • I was just watching an early dylan performance of girl from the north country

    Jesus, this couldn't be the same guy.

    Two incredibly different yet brilliant performances, songs and personas

  • Possessed is what we'd say but of a friendly spirit

  • this is the version on biograph

  • 2:59 LOL he's hungry

  • Does anyone know who the crazy looking guy that's biting the air on Bob's left at around 2:50 is??

  • Rob Stoner

  • Rob Stoner's the guy at 3:30

  • it's not Stoner this guys playing guitar. Anyone?

  • Bob Neuwirth, I thought you meant the guy at 3:30.

  • Thanks!

  • Looove it. This is why Dylan is just plain amazing.

  • Loving this! Dylan rocked it here!

  • this is fcking great

  • This is pure genius.

  • Look at the energy and passion--who is like that today.

  • animal collective

  • the nightman

  • I love Bobbbbbb:-)

  • is that coke all over his face?

  • seriously - I think they were doing speed - check out the guy to his left at around 2:50 - 3:00 he's like biting the air....fing crazy. I am addicted to this video lately.

  • well its a fact that bob was doing speed in the 60s. i dont know about here. probably though.

  • AHAHAHAAHAHHAAH thats good shit man.. hhahahahaha

  • haha i wouldnt be surprised, but ive always read it was paint so he could conceal himself, but, coke does sound better

  • ya I'm sure he just walked around with coke caked all over his face....you would have to be an idiot to do that....not to mention how expensive it would be

  • He wore white makeup around this time because he felt washed up. It's strange, because this was one of his best vocal performances I've heard.

  • little john has the worlds biggest necklace and bobby d likes cocoa paste on his face

  • awesome

  • cocaine is a helluva drug. great video though

  • Odd Bob...

  • the greats live dylan performance ever

  • what a performance . . what lyrics . . . what a genius

    Bob=God

    Paul

    (singer/songwriter)

    OLD RED

  • coke!!

  • Nooooo doubt. 2:55. I suspect a peak right about there.

  • it was speed.

  • HAHA!

  • did you check out the guy to his left - what goes on with his head?

  • so different from dylan of dont look back

  • I love watching him singing without an instrument in his hand..well technically he does but you get it

  • I quite like this song on the album...but this live version absolutely OWNS! :)

  • Oh yeah... this live version of Isis is clearly the definitive version! So much passion... it kicks ass over the studio version.

    3:08 ....."If you want me too.... YESSS!"

  • Saw the RTR 2 weeks into the tour In Nov 75 at the Boston Music Hall. A Fri. nite they did 2 shows, 4 & 8 pm. I was lucky enuf to get a 4 pm tkt when the radio station said "Dylan tkts for tomorrow nite go on sale at 1 pm today at the box office". 1 day notice, LOL. What a mob scene at the B.O. Isis had not been recorded or heard by anyone. It was amazing when the band played it.  The hi-lite of the show. It is the only time I have ever seen a major artist debut a great song in concert.

  • I love dylan but i can't decide if i like this or not, i keep lsitening to it but lyrically its not like his others and him singing without a guitar a weird and the white face lol.

  • I see where you are coming from, I personally think the RTR '75 version of Isis is about as good as Dylan gets.

    The white face is weird and all, but he rocks so hard. And Scarlett Rivera on the violin, she is something else.

  • Dylan Rocks

  • freaky awesome!

    love it.

  • Awesome! Never seen him so charged... loved it. This and Shelter from the Storm Live 1976

  • You know, you really shouldn't put on such stunning performances if you don't want to be seen as a Messianic figure. If I had seen this live there's a possibility I might've claimed, yep, Dylan turned water in wine or healed someone right before my eyes..

  • To jen268827: GREAT COMMENT!!! JUST GREAT!

  • but after seein this i'm wondering if the guitar was holding him back or something. he looks possessed or somethin its great

  • Dylan was trying on some acting with the Desire songs, so, yeah, the guitar might've been seen as in the way, or "holding him back," as you say..

  • its weird seeing him without a guitar..

  • true or a piano

  • jatsar -

    If you like this, then you need to get the CD 'Desire' because the organ, drumming, and the violin combine for a great sound. Check out the violin on Hurricane...it's awesome.

    Story has it that Dylan was driving down the street, saw this woman playing violin on the street corner, and asked her to join the tour.

  • Love This!!!!

  • I said a quick prayer,

    just to feel satisfied

    And i went back to Isis

    Just to tell her, I love her.

    One of Dylan's few "romantic" songs.

    Bloody fabulous.

  • scary crazy version. love it

  • Great song, great performance, great musician and poet. Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody!

  • Is this available on dvd? and if so which dvd?

  • it isn't. There are copys of the video uploaded onto torrents here and there

  • it comes with the rolling thunder revue cds.

  • Oh yeah! He's the best

  • poetry + lots of cocaine

  • this is terrifyingly brilliant

  • Nah. Dylan is better than you and any stupid reasoning you can come up with, duh.

  • bob could still sing the different ways he used to if he pleased , he could sing the melodies like the records. its not always to my taste when he changes things , but hes not on that 'greatest hits' route yet thankfully.

  • i don't think you realise just how well he sings every verse in this performance. Granted, he did lose his voice about 20 years ago, but around this period his voice is beautiful, just listen to the 'desire' album

  • 'Even though he's still a superb musical communicator'

    Yeah...and nothing else matters.

    I don't care for his voice, for his shouting or his lack of quality in his voice.

    To be or not to be a good musical communicator. This is what is important, and no more than this.

  • you have no clue what your talking about you dr. dipshit

  • That's your best? Blow goats? Run along to homeroom junior...

  • go fuck your mother

  • Must be time to head back to the trailer park for you now, after your shift at the Dollar General. Can you stop at the Kwik Fill on your way home? Mama needs a carton of smokes...

  • i hope you die in a terrible fire

  • your mama torched the trailer. She shouldn't smoke in bed you hump

  • Nicely roasted man.

    I always love to see a good flame well executed.

  • you blow goats