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Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows | Blank on Blank
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8 жыл бұрын“I‘m never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962.
Dylan was just 20 years old when he appeared on the Folksingers Choice radio program on WBAI FM in New York City. He'd arrived in Manhattan just a few years earlier and was playing in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village, at one in particular he was paid "a dollar plus a cheeseburger."
During this hour-long interview with Cynthia Gooding, Dylan played some of his own songs ("The Death of Emmett Till", "Standing on the Highway") and covers of classics by Howlin' Wolf, Hank Williams, and Woody Guthrie. We scored this Blank on Blank with Dylan tuning up his guitar and playing his harmonica.
It's a wonderful snapshot in time, with a young Dylan before he was famous and before he even released his debut album. He's nervous and funny. He's just a guy with a guitar with a little mischief underneath.
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@InsertCleverNameHere0 7 жыл бұрын
"I'm never gonna become rich and famous" *wins a Nobel Prize*
@carterj.rutkoski5402 7 жыл бұрын
doesn't acknowledge it
@InsertCleverNameHere0 7 жыл бұрын
TheOunceler yeah but he's got a much cooler hat now
@BABYWOLF_ 7 жыл бұрын
And damn it.. it almost worked
@imannonymous7707 5 жыл бұрын
Give him a break man im tired of dylan bashing if i misunderstood...i apologize to ya. But he earned that award And he didnt ask for it or alot of other things that were hung on him
@subg8858 4 жыл бұрын
Who gives a shit about a Nobel prize anyway. Just some award some inbred royalty arbitrarily hand out, as if they have some authority on the matter
@misternateee1905 5 жыл бұрын
1962 bob dylan: "i'm never gonna become rich and famous" 1965 bob dylan: hol' my beer
@Nominay Жыл бұрын
Just one year after this interview he was famous.
@TimmyScreamingChild1 7 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, its before even his first album...
@albertcamus6214 6 жыл бұрын
Lee Oliver How did you get out of the dam?
@imannonymous7707 5 жыл бұрын
Ya its a classic interview prior to a performance he had in nyc , before columbia signed him Ive heard part of it in his documentary
@frankwest4057 5 жыл бұрын
He does a lot of songs on this youcan find it on here
@Zephead10 8 жыл бұрын
Bob made the carnival thing up. It was part of the character he was making for himself.
@jared6728 8 жыл бұрын
No, I think he did work in a carnival (if not for six years)... He said so in No Direction Home. Course, he might have been mythologizing himself then too, but I would hope not.
@jacklondon295 8 жыл бұрын
He made that story up.
@puppylovergirl303 8 жыл бұрын
+Jared Suchomel nah, he was lying then too. The whole thing was made up.
@larryraley8709 8 жыл бұрын
he liked to make up stories about himself early on. i feel there's no harm especially because nothing he ever made up came close to comparing with what he became.
@mikepiercey3845 8 жыл бұрын
That's very weird, what an odd fellow. One of my favorites but still an odd duck at times, lol
@HappyMediumProject 7 жыл бұрын
I love Bob Dylan, genuinely do, but I didn't even know he knew how to laugh this much ;)
@anywaythewindblows8912 5 жыл бұрын
Blue Jay same
@87ventus 5 жыл бұрын
Blue jay, just found this, first thing I thought was, ' Man, he's laughing, he's laughing a lot, that's so weird' .but that kind of nervous, fun laughter is youth. Sadly I must confess.. As I grew older, the world grew colder.. Laughter comes less & less. Anyway, so cool we thought the same thing. Dylan fan all my life. ☮️
@paulgalligan1916 5 жыл бұрын
Hes got great wit always had.. check out his midsixtes press interviews pure comedy .. he just got sick of all the press jargon.. Bob's got a real warm heart he's a giggler
@gaillight7501 4 жыл бұрын
A lot younger. I can see him smile and laugh early in his career, sometimes at other people's expense (reporters in particular) but as he has aged and some fanatic fans harassed him day and night, he's become guarded. He also seems to get a little more eccentric as he ages. Makes him more interesting but I wonder if he's happy. He has his painting and sculpture so maybe that helps.
@Insofaras 4 жыл бұрын
I feel like people take him more seriously than he does...Kinda silly that, considering his message has always been not to trust your pop stars and leaders...
@ictoan444 8 жыл бұрын
Really cool to hear him so young with his whole life ahead of him. Great job bringing it to life as usual guys.
@RobertSlover 8 жыл бұрын
" the song was there long before i came around with a pencil" awesome.
@ChristinaGina 8 жыл бұрын
The animations and people you do for this is just EXCEPTIONAL. BEST youtube channel by miles.
@PatrickSmithAnimation 8 жыл бұрын
Thx so much.. reading comments is always a gamble, lots of haters.
@wtangodelta1715 7 жыл бұрын
Total Gamble!!!
@Funz2022 7 жыл бұрын
Bob's making stuff up here, he never travelled around and played in Carnivals, ha ha ha. Part of Bob being Dylan is telling tall tales, associating himself with giants & larger themes. Truth is subjective
@jonathanholland8434 4 жыл бұрын
Trying to be like Guthrie
@blackmore4 4 жыл бұрын
Truth is subjective? Great. Then you, and every other Che Guevara poster owner, don't exist.
@nickphilkill818 3 жыл бұрын
He never lived in South dakota either lol. Maybe he stayed there.
@25-keys44 3 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 poor little sad angry man. you'll see someday buddy. happy travels.
@blackmore4 3 жыл бұрын
@@25-keys44 Poor love, I've already seen.
@discountramblepants9320 8 жыл бұрын
Its pretty interesting to hear Bob before the motorcycle crash. I know he is 20 here, but you can really see his youthfulness in how he talks and responds to questions. Great episode, keep up the good work!
@ElwoodDowd 8 жыл бұрын
Patrick Smith's animations are so good... and they just keep getting better... Amazing work, as always!
@PatrickSmithAnimation 8 жыл бұрын
too kind! we got some killer episodes coming up, stay tuned!
@whitleybayman123 5 жыл бұрын
Dylan made all of that up. That folks is why we love him :)
@DannyMars37 8 жыл бұрын
That carnival idea for a song he talks about here might have been what ended up becoming Ballad of a Thin Man
@oliveeisner8964 5 жыл бұрын
or Desolation Row
@broscosmoline 2 жыл бұрын
i thought the banter might have been leading up to a rendition of "dusty old fairgrounds"
@Mrvioleto 8 жыл бұрын
0:34 subterranean homesick blues reference ftw!
@BlankonblankOrg 8 жыл бұрын
+Emilios Antoun ;)
@LattoSideWest 6 жыл бұрын
You mean Talkin' New York?
@geraldhiggens8283 6 жыл бұрын
God I was about to type that :(
@lewstone5430 4 жыл бұрын
In this interview (longer version) he mentions traveling all around the country and playing in Gallup, NM, among other places, before going to New York in '62. I played a gig in Gallup and I thought damn! Me and Bob played in the same town, at different times. Then I found out he never played in Gallup, he made up all that stuff to help create a mystique. LOl, oh well, can't blame Bob. That was a great idea.
@broscosmoline 2 жыл бұрын
(from No Direction Home doc): “...in the house that my father bought... [t]here was a great big mahogany radio with a 78-rpm turntable...I opened it up one day and there was a record on it, a country record, a song called ‘Driftin’ Too Far From the Shore.’ The sound of the record made me feel like I was someone else - that maybe I wasn’t born to the right parents or something"
@ncooty 4 жыл бұрын
The man has been a comet blazing across the sky for 60 years.
@brazni 8 жыл бұрын
These are just so lovely, really charming animation. Thanks so much for making these :)
@VARIOUShorses 8 жыл бұрын
I love you guys and what you're doing, keep it up!
@mynamejeff9027 6 жыл бұрын
He’s a great musician and storyteller
@Tonetwisters 5 жыл бұрын
Playing strings that shoulda had last rights said over 'em, and buried in the cold, cold ground. But I was into Dylan at a very early age, back when other people were singing his songs and no one ever even heard of him ... unless you looked over a record, and checked out the songwriter ... Became a born-again Christian many years ago, and recorded several Gospel-related albums. I never saw anyone sing with the kind of timing he had ... you always thought he was vocally going to be late to deliver the next line, but he ALWAYS finished the current line in and on time, like no one I have ever seen. Almost magical.
@carpalcrusaders 2 жыл бұрын
This is an adorable interview. They both seem like they are having a lot of fun :))
@MrGrandpabaker 8 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan is the best. Thank you for making this :~)
@simple22travel11 6 жыл бұрын
The greatest artist of the 20th century, a true creative genius with uncanny uniqueness. I salute you mr Bob Dylan.
@feltfriends 6 жыл бұрын
How can you not smile when hearing Bob Dylan speak
@anobody6234 7 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan is one of my heroes
@danielgreen2788 7 жыл бұрын
its always nice to hear his voice
@LuckyDogDave 5 жыл бұрын
love Bob's music, this is a gem.
@annaalbury7748 7 жыл бұрын
I love this and the choice of which words to animate is inspired. I hope Bob finds this on you tube. He would love it.
@waz3128 6 жыл бұрын
I once had a friend who looked, dressed, acted, spoke and laughed exactly like cartoon Dylan here. Except with a Scottish accent
@poorimageonyoutub100 8 жыл бұрын
James Dean Next ?
@BlankonblankOrg 8 жыл бұрын
that would be cool
@Ayush-vr3xh 3 жыл бұрын
@@BlankonblankOrg still waiting for James dean
@Mr.Banerjee_with_a_Camera 7 жыл бұрын
This KZfaq Channel is truly a gem! thank you for sharing such things!
@WonderTuff 8 жыл бұрын
A genius.
@mytubeworldmayhem 8 жыл бұрын
ivnt see a video as nice this lately, this was just...beautiful
@Mussido 8 жыл бұрын
This made me happy
@charleshabanec8471 6 жыл бұрын
One of the best channels on KZfaq.
@goodmanross 8 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh how fulfilling. I've been waiting for a Dylan episode since I first started watching Blank on Blank two years ago or whenever.
@gnome7292 4 жыл бұрын
"I had just come there from South Dakota" X Doubt
@musicisbrilliant 8 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is brilliant. You are amazing. Love it.
@thebacons5943 5 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan is the greatest ever
@lom218 2 ай бұрын
I love Dylan. It was so easy to lie back then. They have no idea
@georgecoventry8441 3 ай бұрын
Yeah, this is fun. Hadn't heard it in quite a while. The cartoons look like Bob in 1966, not Bob in 1962 when he had conventional short hair, looked very young, and wore a hat and working class clothes. He had kind of almost a Huck Finn look to him in those days, and it helped give some believability to the stories he told about traveling around with the carnival and all that. He was really trying to emulate the Woody Guthrie life story at that time, because Guthrie was one of his idols when he was young. Some others were Buddy Holly, Elvis, and Little Richard. He had gone from country (Hank Williams) to electric rock n' roll to acoustic folk and blues already by the time he was 20 years old! And that gave him a very solid musical foundation to work from. He probably did not believe he was headed for either fame or riches, but he did know exactly what he wanted to do...and he did it.
@imalright2837 8 жыл бұрын
Love your channel guys! Keep up the great work!
@FilmSwitch 4 жыл бұрын
I love the harmonica story. I've done similar things trying to play guitar and harmonica at the same time and I also remember stacking piles of books to rig a mic stand. Couldn't afford the equipment. Maybe it was just another Dylan tall tale, but it seems too small to be.
@Sassifrassilassi 8 жыл бұрын
He sounds so young. Love this.
@hookywookywithmalarkyman704 3 жыл бұрын
What a gem of history .
@REM1956 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic animation. It really adds richness to the interview.
@mattkaustickomments 3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea Bob made up stuff in interviews before watching this... I’m thinking “Carnival, 6 years? Whaaa? - Wasn’t he was actually in a fraternity at college at one point?” What a nut.
@arru23 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome, was hoping you'd do a Dylan episode. Do Leonard Cohen next!
@wilhelmcooning 8 жыл бұрын
Fascinating as always! Keep it up guys.
@sylvemason6509 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty Cool Interesting Blast From The Past 🌸🧡🧡🌸
@iemandmusica 5 жыл бұрын
“Yeah I must be tweny” 😂
@SamHarrisonMusic 4 жыл бұрын
I love this interview. He sounds so high, but the music he played was so good! Worth looking up the whole thing x
@tonyhall3365 8 жыл бұрын
How about River Phoenix or Thom Yorke
@PadraigMeh 7 жыл бұрын
Let me Eat cake THOMM
@andreeamariailiescu9256 6 жыл бұрын
Thommmm yes💛💛💛
@merkee01 8 жыл бұрын
This is so amazing! Thank you so much for putting this up
@elduderino3995 7 жыл бұрын
damn I'm almost 20 and I'm still in school..
@Samizsm23 5 жыл бұрын
They didn't have school in 62
@timbryant1621 5 жыл бұрын
He graduated from high school and went to new York when he was 19. He told some whoppers.
@viviandarkbloom100 5 жыл бұрын
He did attend the Univ. of Minnesota for one semester. He talks about it in Chronicles Vol. 1.
@madelinerain1595 8 жыл бұрын
DUDE.... THIS HAS JUST BECAME MY FAVORITE VIDEO.
@PogieJoe 8 жыл бұрын
This was delightful!
@flyingboxcow8724 8 жыл бұрын
I love this! And the homesick blues cards!
@marsimus13 4 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this i love it to bits
@jacksongash2067 7 жыл бұрын
"It was all there before I came along.." So much class :-)
@HaraldVALOHilding 7 жыл бұрын
holy fucking shit!!! I love you so much for making these small animations! Keep it up
@glennkavanagh6266 7 жыл бұрын
b.d a giant of the 20th century..respect xx
@tirtha11 7 жыл бұрын
I love the interviews on your channel. I really do!
@brunozadro 5 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this!
@rt_aue 8 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy you did Bob Dylan :D
@themangoman9315 Жыл бұрын
it's crazy that I'm the same age as he was in this interview he speaks as if he has lived though a lot despite his young age
@ritahall6628 4 жыл бұрын
Great job -Loved it !!
@travisbickle3881 8 жыл бұрын
Yay! I got what I asked for...thank you!
@josephinegrech6076 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@yourmomisthegameandimalrea8518 8 жыл бұрын
I dig this
@DagaanGalakticos 5 жыл бұрын
"The sword swallower comes up to you and then he kneels . . .' The beauty parlor is filled with sailors F C The circus is in town / Here comes the blind commissioner F C They've got him in a trance / One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker/ the other is in his pants. That's circus images from just two songs. I'm sure if I searched I'd find a lot more. Below a number of comments say he made up the circus thing as part of his myth. But I think he really did work in a carnival. If only for a day. I did when I was a 16 year old runaway in '67. I was hitching cross country and saw a carnival going up and asked did they have any work and I helped unload some trucks. Dylan did hitch hike out to Gallup, New Mexico where he had relatives and could have come across a carnival going up. At that age everything hits you in technicolor and has incredible symbolic meaning if you're a symbol kind of person. I can see that such images of freaks and outcasts would have provided the perfect symbols for what he was about to try and express. Which was people living inside Montgomery Ward clothes with the wrong narrative by which they defined themselves to one another and themselves. Now the clothes have changed but the narrative is again the wrong one so, young poets, take heart! There's oracular poetry yet to dig up. He also said he was Bobby Vee's (The Night Has A Thousand Eyes) piano player. Could be - for one gig or two or three. At some point Dylan saw that the metaphor was more real than the actuality and in self preservation, he decided to stick with a metaphorical life rather than learn the words everyone else learned so as to buried in the wrong description of things.
@ElstonsGun 8 жыл бұрын
thank you
@rosavera7 8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!!!!
@SharpDesign 7 жыл бұрын
when I see people like Dylan talk about working minor jobs like running the ferris wheel, I always wonder how often we may have passed by a future celebrity and never realized it. I remember meeting Wayne Brady when he was Winston on the Ghostbusters ride at Universal. (He had his unique voice then) unfortunately, had a chance to get ghostbuster's autograph but never got it.. would be so worth it now.
@MrRoboGames 6 жыл бұрын
These young artist even in their time talk like how teenagers talk now and they're so down to earth
@BlankUberEverybody 7 жыл бұрын
thanks for this
@Manishfrom1992 8 жыл бұрын
ohh,i am never gonna get rich and famous - Bob dylan (:)
@stevehodges9851 5 жыл бұрын
Your best work will always stand taller than you
@HELLADJ 8 жыл бұрын
Blank on blank on blank
@TheSpider42b 7 жыл бұрын
I love the drawing keep up the good work
@JessicaWaterston Жыл бұрын
♥
@rojothe2nd 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@jasonkleinhanss4681 6 жыл бұрын
great animation
@asjocker32 8 жыл бұрын
It is an incredible channel!!!!!! would be fantastic to do a video of bill hicks or lenny bruce
@coolkoi7999 4 жыл бұрын
damn, happy 79th bob
@erwinwoodedge4885 8 жыл бұрын
NICE JOB!
@keristly 8 жыл бұрын
It doesn't really sound as he does like in later in the 60s
@hansklok3243 7 жыл бұрын
nep
@L33TZER 6 жыл бұрын
Cause later in the 60s the Nigga was on drugs
@boriskarloff9992 5 жыл бұрын
Its bcos it's the early 60s
@aaronhaupert3015 4 жыл бұрын
He’s had many sounds
@Goatchild90 7 жыл бұрын
One of my hero's
@evanwake9126 3 жыл бұрын
i watched this and then ellliot smith i thought he's like our genrations bob dylan in a way
@grotesque76 8 жыл бұрын
do one on the ramones or joe strummer
@oxidasic 8 жыл бұрын
awesome
@silaswrisley2113 8 жыл бұрын
Great video! You guys should do Marc Bolan with The T. Rex Electric Warrior Interview!
@CHlEFFIN 8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@SimonRobeyns 8 жыл бұрын
thne he went on to become the biggest songwriter of our recent history
@ethangalloway7342 4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Dylan!
@bradgauger1596 6 жыл бұрын
Hard times for the country living up in New York town
@Bldz 8 жыл бұрын
This is nice
@laheina4170 2 жыл бұрын
That interviewer's voice is very handsome by the way
@darby_hudson 6 жыл бұрын
over the years, bob dylan became a bob dylan
@naobieeyendrembam1699 4 жыл бұрын
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