To have the brain to write this in the first place, and then the balls to play it live like it's just another song.

@dylanmyers3082

3 жыл бұрын

Dam right

@stephenlee1756

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention remembering all the words.

@egbun

2 жыл бұрын

I just heard a version by Grateful Dead. The power of Dylan’s lyrics busts through like a freight train.

@karriecole4606

Жыл бұрын

Cesi

@mariat4812

25 күн бұрын

Sublime 🔥

I know many will disagree but I love his voice.

@gostrum1

2 жыл бұрын

Many would agree with you. Its a unique style that would be frowned upon in a program such as The Voice.

@lkronquist

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds great here. Dylan's voice has been all over the map at various points in his career. His original album performances of "Desolation Row" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" are wonderful. But I've been to a couple of his concerts in the last 15 years that were a bit hard to take. I hear that he finally quit smoking for good a few years ago.

@markkubiak8296

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Me too. Always have. Using his real voice with no attempt to disguise it. His natural voice is sonorous ad rich!

@elijaheskin1

7 ай бұрын

Na he’s an amazing singer. Rolling thunder was his peak singing wise in my opinion but his voice, especially in the early to mid 60s was always full of richness, humour, life and integrity. Sometimes I feel like he’s stabbing me in the heart with the way he sings. Here he’s being a bit more passive because it suits the song more and this was perhaps a more lighthearted and humorous period in his career, but listen to ‘Sara’ live from rolling thunder or ‘tangled up in blue’ from the same tour, he delivers it with such intensity, it almost stabs.

I can't even conceive of how mind blowing it must have been to hear this live for the first time in 1965.

@catherine711

3 жыл бұрын

never heard something so poetic

@edwarddalton9710

2 жыл бұрын

I heard it in Providence in October 1965. And you are right to think it was mind blowing.

@majones7004

2 жыл бұрын

...or th tenth time.

@g.stephens263

2 жыл бұрын

For an old folkie, it was an epiphany!

@hraydetective

2 жыл бұрын

Hollywood Bowl Sept 1965 - was there

It's my 68th yr...and I've studied B Dylan every single day for this entire year.. all day - every day . I'm a musician and I know why he is The Song and Dance Man ..

@riproaring3140

Жыл бұрын

Also 68 here, and having the same experience. It's been a revelation. A Wonderous, Wonderful Revelation. As a bonus, I've been amazed at my capacity for memorizing lyrics (even if I can't remember why I walked into the kitchen).

The greatest song that has ever been written in my humble opinion. The crowd that are listening to that way back then most probably didn't understand what he was singing about.

@marthakaplanpoetry

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, as a wayback listener, he spoke the time, and yes, we got it. Enough of us.

@michaeldevlin79

3 жыл бұрын

@@marthakaplanpoetry I'm glad you got it but I'm sure you were one in a hundred or 5.

@davidjeffries7690

2 жыл бұрын

A truer word never spoken,magnificent .

@MinneapolisSkip

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of us got it. Look at what happened in this country between ‘65 and the end of the war in ‘75. The most significant things that were changed in that time,we’re driven by the youth. The people were listening.

@jeffaddiego3740

2 жыл бұрын

He’s probably got the top 3 songs ever written, the times they are a changing, blowing in the wind and this one! Idk which is the best!

I used to think that generation X had the best music for their generation but I was wrong. Boomers had it all, for Bob dylan alone

@disprogreavette8545

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly true but Dylan's certainly no boomer. The silent generation created the magic in more ways than one.

@AnnaLVajda

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but we still had all the 60s music in the 90s this was one of my favourite songs in my late teens. The whole album really.

@rogerjones5970

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if it matters; we are all lucky enough to alive in a time when Dylan is to music what Shakespeare is to play-writing.

@nedrobinson7490

2 жыл бұрын

Lotta good it did them, huh, having poets and prophets like this, exhorting them to ‘don’t go mistaking paradise for that home across the road’. They STILL took it all for themselves and left their children the ashes. They STILL killed the planet 😢. #sad #theworstestgeneration

@Prospect.1

2 жыл бұрын

Our generation had the very best yrs of music the introduction of rock an roll , folk , far out music everyone from Dylan to Bowie they just cannot b beat yes you where wrong gen x did not have best of music we did an I include myself with them u see my ol man is 70 an we been together since I was a child still a very lucky child them was tha daze my friend I was tellin our grandniece a story about the aunt n uncle parents tried to keep them from knowing us but well they luv us we r the cool ones

He is our poet, our Auden, our Eliot, he is our voice and our conscience. May he play on his penny whistle forever and thank you mr. Zimmerman for giving me a map!

@markkubiak8296

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, my friend!

Along with “Gates of Eden”, this song always stops me, holds me, and then releases me a richer man.

@garrylinahan4057

2 жыл бұрын

Love Gates of Eden too.

@Twilight-cl3zc

2 жыл бұрын

Haven't heard GOE for an eternity, had forgotten it actually, gonna go try find it on here brilliant song.

@riproaring3140

Жыл бұрын

These are the first two of Dylan's songs I learned to play/sing.

Me and my mate Paul Taylor listened to this on his stereogram not realising that one speaker was gone. When the other speaker was fixed we couldn't believe it! Beautiful guitar on the the other channel. A few weeks later we were off to the Isle of Wight to see him (1969)

@asthouart

2 жыл бұрын

Who knows ... we may have passed each other or even met on that little island. Great festival that.

@d_walsh

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. !!!

@NickDuvet

2 жыл бұрын

Great version of Desolation Row at the IOW kzread.info/dash/bejne/amul2bhxf8i-nbQ.html

A poet....master craftsman with words. I saw him Earls Court Stadium in 1982. Centre stage, acoustic and harmonica..pure magic

THANK YOU. This is what the internet is for after all.

Great audience. We've heard this song many times but the audience got the humour straight off the bat.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB DYLAN 🎂💖 Thank You for sharing your Songs of Life with the world 💖. Thank You Mr. Tambourine for your work sharing Dylan's music 💖

Saw Dylan at peoples park in Berkeley ca! On a Sunday afternoon with Country Joe! They just were sitting enjoying the day while playing!! 1967!! Summer of love!

The magic of the beginning- the audience is really surprised-- you can hear that and this audience listen, they don't speak, nobody wants to miss a word!! Great doku...

Saw Dylan play this in Perth Western Australia in 1966. I was 15. Backed by what would become "The Band." What a bonus. Life changing concert, half acoustic, half electric. History in the making right before my eyes. Such imagination, and determination. Incredible.

Mr. Tambourine, we are the generation of 60th. I was born in 1949... I love all first songs of Bob Dylan. I can say we are the kind of people which live now to thank God, Dylan and the KZread and you and all fans upload this songs of the our time and remember how many things we saw, we made, we live... Thanks!

this man ... this zimmerman ... jow he likes to play this song, i can see that from his face and body language ... after all those years, it still is amazing ... yes, this song undoubtedly is my favorite one ... thanks for uploading this version !

Such a simple song to play, with words that are not so simple. Just simply amazing.

Early Bob with his very clear voice was like a poetry reading set to music.

Happy Birthday Bob Dylan thanks for all your beautiful songs an thanks to Mr tambarine the master of Bob Dylan an his songs congrats my friend

Just brilliant, thanks for sharing

Such spontaneity in his writing.

what a wonderful friend you are i love so much this song and thanks again for your frienship ...... nice week end dearest friend ♥♥♥

Happy birthday to the boy from the North Country disguised in a perfect image of a Shakespeare Mozart Rimbaud of our times! & The only sound of this Day Is Bob's poignant evocative distintive Voice & Sound! Only this personal revisite of Dante's Inferno deserved the Nobel Prize! Lord bless you Maestro & the Ones you love more! May your Art stay Forever Young! There Will be One too many mornings ahead! Wishes also for you Tamburine & your Farewell Tour!😎🤗💓

@mrtambourine1753

5 жыл бұрын

Great comment. And thanks for the support.

@nemonautilus9807

5 жыл бұрын

@@mrtambourine1753 Noblesse Oblige Mr. Tamburine!👍👍👍

@unterwant

3 жыл бұрын

yeah ... Shakespeare Mozart Rimbaud ...... and the boy on desolation row are a wonderful row of characters ...

It's wonderful listening to! I've been a fan of his since I was 11 or 12 and "Lay Lady Lay" was playing on AM radio. Thank you so much! I love it!!!

I don't know how but this stops me in my tracks.

Dylan packs more into one song than most/all other artists barely get into an album. He is just as rapier sharp now as he was then

Thank you, sincerely. Great find. 💜 I hope Bobby had a great bday. Wow! 78 and still rolling

You gotta love the crowd reactions to the genuinely funny lines in here “one hand tied to the tightrope walker, and the other’s in his pants” 😆

Thank You Mr. Dylan

54 yrs ago and already American folklore.

Aside rom everything , this acoustic guitar, the steady and strong beat , is perfectly reassuring . It always is. This is what I think people were mad about .when he left it behind, it's so damn good..both are great,. But this acoustic rhythmn guitar goes right through one' s gut.

He knows his song well, before he sings them.

Incredible song

Love this....and I also enjoy the MCR cover ...

Such a great song ! Incredible lyrics. I still prefer the Highway 61 album version best with the incredible musicians. Love you Bob.

One of my favorites of Dylan's > 10 min songs.

Over 1000 times played on my MP3.

Gracias desde Madrid

Nonsensical lyrics but love them. One of the worlds greatest songwriters .

Mr T!!! I never knew you uploaded 60s material. That's Swingin' Pig's job 😂😂😂😂

I much prefer the live versions. Bob and his guitar is good enough for me.

The opening lines are about the 1920 Duluth Minn Lynchings.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY ♥♥♥

A whole auditorium turned into full blown hippies immediately after this performance

DESOLATION ROW Bob Dylan They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row Cinderella, she seems so easy “It takes one to know one,” she smiles And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning “You Belong to Me I Believe” And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend You better leave” And the only sound that’s left After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide The fortune-telling lady Has even taken all her things inside All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love Or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing He’s getting ready for the show He’s going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid To her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession’s her religion Her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah’s great rainbow She spends her time peeking Into Desolation Row Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row Dr. Filth, he keeps his world Inside of a leather cup But all his sexless patients They’re trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser She’s in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read “Have Mercy on His Soul” They all play on pennywhistles You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains They’re getting ready for the feast The Phantom of the Opera A perfect image of a priest They’re spoonfeeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know Casanova is just being punished for going To Desolation Row” Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About Desolation Row Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the doorknob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can’t read too good Don’t send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row

10 seconds in and already several orders of magnitude superior to the studio version

I've long thought that this is Bob Dylan's version of TS Eliot's "The Wasteland". A random heap of cultural clippings all tossed together somewhat randomly. The song even name-checks TS Eliot!

⭐️🎼🎵

The Watchmen credits made me do this post! 😁🤞

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Happy birthday Bob Dylan Knocking on heaven door 🚪.

"And I'll know my song well before I start singing." RZ aka BD, "Hard Rain"

Desolation Row..? Been there done that, got the postcard... sigh

@alanlabudde5041

Жыл бұрын

ROWHOUSE POWER!1!

The only way one can know this song is if your on desolation row most are not

and fisherman hold flowers

Anyone know what open guitar tuning he’s using here?

[Verse 8] At midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping

couldn't he vary the melody a bit when the chords are all the time the same?

omg do i prefer the Dead playing this song.

cada um gosta do que gosta ; eu gosto da filosofie do meu bobd;m j:m j;jp!!!!!!!!!!!!? gosto de seres que tentào mud, o um pè na t; outro no ;par!!!!!

The riot squad they're restless they need somewhere to goooo....

Trump has made this hallucination all too real.

@TransRoofKorean

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to just make a comment about Trump's free real estate in your brain, but then I realized, this is Bob Dylan, Zionist extraordinaire, and you're talking of Donald Trump, the most Zionist President we've had since Israel was founded, with literally half of his own family being Jewish and his policies to match. You really upset that he got a few "allies" in the Middle East to recognize Israel's legitimacy as a country? is that the hallucination you're so offended by?? more than Biden will ever do.

@brianwesley28

2 жыл бұрын

This comment didn't age too terribly well, did it Biden? It's going to get worse before it gets better. That Hart-Celler Act from 1965 and the constant flow of Third Worlders across the border will ensure that.