Yah know somethings happening but your not really what it is do you mr. Piggy hahahaha what's up man

When you hear that single note 0:28 you know you're in for it. Very similar to the first guitar note, nine years later, on Wish You Were Here.

@@benjimcdonald4522 a little passive-agressive perhaps !?

@@dixonpinfold2582 you mean that B note ?

He's worried about what he's going to tell his family when he gets home.Shit,he's already home.looking at the naked dude in his living room...

Yep . I’d give £1000 to Anyone who can sing the whole of ‘sad eyed lady of the low lands’ without reading the lyrics

Coming from someone who plays and sings it is pretty impressive. Ny memory is absolute shit but somehow when I just speak the words come out right so maybe that’s how he felt too. When you practice them a couple times I think it becomes muscle memory but it’s different for everyone

From what I've read and know about Bob Dylan, I wouldn't class it as "memory" in the traditional sense of the word. He says (and I believe him) that by the time he comes to write a song out for the first time he already knows it all in his head. When answering your very query he said that the lyrics are visual to him, so I guess he doesn't have to track through them line by line like the rest of us. I think what puts him above all other songwriters and poets etc is that his poetry is born out of performance, listening and playing in turn. Perfectly matching the written poetry of the beats to the rhythms of folk and blues music surely stands as one of music's great moments. Maybe the closest thing the 20th century had to Homer

How does he remember Desolation Row???

He can remember his lyrics but judging from the first few seconds he might have trouble remembering how to play some of his songs

I’m 14 and I’m in love with this man. His words and instrumentations speak to me on so many volumes

Very true. I had never thought about it that way but you’re spot on!

I'm 62 and dealt with the general pubic most of my working life, lines from this song came to mind then, and still do on a daily basis... it's genius.

I've always thought it was 10 years ahead of it's time, a song about an anonymous man (Mr. Jones) walking into a gay "tea room" where men are engaged in various sex acts. Someone is naked, someone is a sword swallower, someone hands someone else a bone. Meanwhile Dylan is ripping the hypocrisy of a society that pretends this scene doesn't exist.

@John Walsh What a fascinating interpretation. I did once read Ginsberg introduced Bob to the underground homosexual culture that was thriving throughout Europe in the 1960s. Like you say, maybe Bob is letting us peak through the curtain into a world very few would have experienced. When I read your comment Kubrick came to mind, seems like a surreal scene from one of his films. Amazing how Bob can still blow our minds even now, it must have been truly revolutionary at the time!

I came to associate this song with Horace Judson. The interviewer from Time magazine. He’s Mr. Jones

Seriously. They don't call him a prophet for nothing.

this whole video is like a superimposition of the future onto the past...which was then the present. No wonder they booed...who had ever seen anything like this...or heard.///and once you do hear the words they stick in your ears for about 60 years until the future finally gets here,

@@mortimerzilch2608 best comment

Sheiks walking around like kings, deciding Americas future from Amsterdam into Paris" Slow Train Coming 1979

Yes that's it you found

You know it meant a lot to him, the weight and power of hushing them there

A24 year old kid. Up there with Shakespeare and newton and Einstein. And he has longer more wordy songs

Dylan sold his soul bud

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Dylan also turned them on in terms of pot, which changed their music tremendously, and in a wonderful way. Getting into that encouraged them to think more deeply, more profoundly, and we know how it went from there. Bob was a bit older as well, so they looked up to him. He had a big impact on them, musically.

@@John-xk2sd Dylan is the Man

@@lescobrandon4586 ... That's simply playing into what Dylan said in an interview about selling his soul. But if you know anything about Dylan, you know he played with the media. Not infrequently he made up stuff for the media to feed on. In fact, this is what song is about: "You know something is happening, but you don't what it is, do you Mr Jones?"

Garth Hudson on organ , Robbie Robertson guitar, Rick Danko on bass

@@tanygnatus The Band really made Bob sound so sixties. Planet Waves is a favourite of mine and Before the Flood is my favourite live album ever.

Best album ever made Blonde on Blonde

Not a Hammond, but a Lowrey Festival :) theband.hiof.no/articles/kerrin/GarthWails75.jpg

garth hudson going brazy

BABY GARTH!

Garth makes every song he plays on better.

Brilliant Garth

You are one lucky man for sure

I agree. It’s definitely his most musically brilliant.

I interpreted it as him singing to the people who clinged to his folk music and could not understand the change thats happening.

Jacobus Visser literally exactly what our teacher just told us in our history of rock and roll class at saint Xavier high in Louisville Kentucky .

To me this is a story about media figures, I guess it goes to show how fantastically it's written that there are so many interpretations

Like quite a few of Dylan's songs, it could be about several different things at the same time, so yes, it could partially be a self-portrait.

Do you mister jones?

Nailed it

Reminds me of the first words from ''Notes from the Underground'' by Dostojevski.

It’s simply transplendent.

Folkies

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He's not only standing ... he's still performing and writing songs ...

I saw him in Melbourne in 1966 too my friend.

I was born in 1966. And now my 19 year old son has turned me into a Dylan fan. We saw him 2 months ago he wasn’t even the youngest kid there. You can learn from kids if you let yourself.

Is that a serious comment?

I think i was high and my english is so so. But maybe i was serious.

⁠@@Julian-sr9dgi took you serious. i agree

Powerful. He gave it his all.

I tried desperately to get to Yale bowl; I was just 14 too, but the accident happened.

men ive been looking everywhere for that

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things were changing just as rapidly in britain in the 60s as they were in america.

@@christopherprice2235well said mate

The times were *a-changing

Sure it was. British people were under government rations until 1958 and couldn't get enough dairy products to live on or feed their children because the British government was forced into rationing these imports in order to make sure that no one in the country starved. This is why, perhaps, you find that many British people of the older generation have bad teeth. This was also due to the fact that dental care was expensive and only the rich could afford to have braces.

One of the things that's get glossed over is that Dylan only got popular in around 1965 in the UK. All of his acoustic music was in the charts during this tour. So a lot of people expected that Dylan to show up. But then again, some people probably were mad that he "sold out" or whatever

John Lennon too.

Right right right ✓✓✓✓

Funny you mention two men very close to the heart of Brian Jones. Whatever

Howlin Wolf half hearted? I don’t think …

Greg - Everyone knew that songs were supposed to be 3 minutes long and have simple lyrics about love and cars.

your right on the money sara

Glad you enjoyed it!

Haha, yep, one of my favorite parts. Thank a lot! I had a blast making it :)

Looks like a British me if I were a time traveller, which I'm not...

I suspect it's him

Mr jones is the great love of his life

You

Are you calling him a liar? He said that Mr. Jones is a pin boy at a bowling alley wearing a bow tie.

@@Lazariuk where did he said that?

Asher Fairbanks The late Mickey Jones (The First Edition, TV-Movie actor) on drums. Levin was pissed about something and didn’t make the trip.

Asher Fairbanks - Hmm well - considering they were Dylan’s backing group at the time - makes it absolutely no surprise whatsoever that he is being backed by The Band ! Any fool knows this.

Riki Newton I was being sarcastic and highlighting something I think is very cool. Maybe someone scrolling through the comments didn’t know such information! Thank you for the reply 😌

Regardless, Riki speaks the truth. I’m a fool, as comparable to any, and I knew that was The Band.

melodymakermark sick dude that’s cool

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening :)