BOB DYLAN - "BALLAD OF A THIN MAN" (reaction)

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Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan!
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@cynthiadepriest8192 3 жыл бұрын

LOVE this version! That's The Band playing with him. Great organ licks from Garth Hudson. The song is about the press & fans always following, criticizing and analyzing him.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Great version :)

@nomisnestral6956 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that (self-) critical moment when you realise you are/have become Mr. Jones...

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@falcon215 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing constant is CHANGE!

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@andrewelliott4436 3 жыл бұрын

Small change got rained on. (With his own thirty eight.)

@129robertp 2 жыл бұрын

In the early to mid 60's there were many "Mr Jones's" who were unable to see that the Times were Changing. There still are.

@subg8858 2 жыл бұрын

Mr Jones was in the closet dabbling with gay sex

@anfieldarcher8545 3 жыл бұрын

His delivery phrasing songwriting are insane he is a revolutionary who influenced people like The Beatles to Nirvana, plus how cool he looked in 66

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

So cool!

@Thomas-aka-TomD 3 жыл бұрын

Dylan performed at the 1963 March on Washington (MLK I Have a Dream). Blowin in the Wind, When the Ship Comes In and Only a Pawn in Their Game.....all before he went electric. He created a great awareness to the youth of the day about civil rights and injustices of the day..... He was substance.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Woah didn’t know he was the big that early

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Woah didn’t know he was that big that early

@peters7025 3 жыл бұрын

During this tour of UK the fans of his early stuff were really hostile to his new electric songs. You can see the anger in his performance after being booed at every concert. He’s deliberately playing this loud and the lyrics were particularly pointed at the audience. This is from the film of the tour Don’t Look Back I think. You should check it out it’s one of the best rock movies ever. This tour was a seminal moment in modern music and opened the gates for others to follow

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Legendary

@keef7224 2 жыл бұрын

The Dont Look Back tour was in ‘65 and was still solo acoustic Bob, even though he had just released an album with electric backing. This clip is from the ‘66 tour with The Band when he first brought his electric sound to the stage. There is another documentary called Eat The Document that contains this song and many other classic moments of audience confrontation

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

@@keef7224 thanks!

@oldarpanet 2 жыл бұрын

You really ought to hear the studio version of this song. It's great!

@stevedotwood 3 жыл бұрын

jeez, these effing purists. I liked his acoustic era a lot, but when he made the switch, absolutely love it - And that Highway 61 rev. album is amazing

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@FolkSongsEtAl 3 жыл бұрын

With the Band - what brilliant stuff - really good performance.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love it!

@evelynoconnor3062 3 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE OF A GREAT SONG

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

INDEED!

@woodyoffmark7944 3 жыл бұрын

This was Dylan touring with "The Band", after he went electric and many british and american folk fans turned on him. Bob was really spitting out the lyrics with vengeance.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Vengeance for sure

@oldstudent2587 11 ай бұрын

Missing the verse about the swordswallower. It's The Swordswallower comes up to you and then he kneels, He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels. And without further ado he asks you how it feels. He says, "Here is your throat back thanks for the loan." And you know somethings happening, but you don't know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones.

@davidgale7384 3 жыл бұрын

RAW.... Critics of change were the target... "Something is happening and you don't know what it is." Bob paid for going electric but the fans came back with a vengeance after they finally understood that "A change is going to come"

@sharondavid-melly1498 Жыл бұрын

Love Bob 😍!! Thanks for this!

@SightAfterDark Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Sharon!

@garlooroztox 3 жыл бұрын

There is a 60s LP no one has reacted to yet. The Electric Flag- 'A Long Time Comin' 'with Mike Bloomffield who played with Dylan and Buddy Miles who played with Hendrix. Many great songs on the LP but I recommend 'Texas' first. Dylan and Hendrix were from the future.

@dangabbert3944 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Electric Flag is kind of a forgotten gem. The entire band were great musicians. Barry Goldberg on keys, nick Gravenites on vocals and Harvey Brooks on bass.

@timpindar 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic that you’re listening to this stuff and liking it! This is the sound of Dylan inventing punk rock, fully 9 years before the Sex Pistols reinvented it. This was spring 1966, the Beatles were still singing polite 3 minute pop songs, and no one was playing loud, raucous, sneering music at maximum decibels like this. No wonder the folk crowd booed him. He was on heavy drugs to get through the tour. Within a year he’d be burnt out, became a recluse, then played Americana with the Band in the basement, reinvented himself with the austere stripped-down album John Wesley Harding, and then in 1969 his “country” album Nashville Skyline. Awesome, unique, and brilliant.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Love it! Thanks for the context Tim!

@johngriffiths6742 3 жыл бұрын

In August 66 Revolver was released by the Beatles, which included "Tomorrow never Knows", so to say The Beatles were singing "polite pop songs" is a little wrong.

@timpindar 3 жыл бұрын

@@johngriffiths6742 yes, OK. I was simplifying things a bit. I’m also a big fan of Rubber Soul and Revolver. That said, this was in May 1966 so before Revolver came out.

@johngriffiths6742 2 жыл бұрын

@@timpindar but that still doesnt really reflect what music was around during this period. The Who had released "My Generation" in '65, The Kinks had numerous hits by this time & The Stones with "Satisfaction".

@subg8858 2 жыл бұрын

Sex Pistols didnt invent punk man. Punk music was around in US many years prior to the Sex Pistols

@oleggorky906 2 жыл бұрын

His voice is amazing here. He really gets his emotions over: the scorn, the sarcasm and just actually trying to show the victim something they don't understand about their self but everyone else does.

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@danfate6862 2 жыл бұрын

Bob number 1

@wagstaff6135 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of handful of songs that most drew me in as a youngster -- I hadn't a clue what it was all about, but it was just such mystery, such an enchantment.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@cojaysea 2 жыл бұрын

Highway 61 Revisited and blond on blond are two of the most amazing albums ever listen to just like a woman or stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis blues again

@-R.Gray- 3 жыл бұрын

The first thing I noticed/recognized was Robbie Robertson's guitar playing, so Garth Hudson on organ was a big part of their sound back then. Have you seen Hendrix at Monterey Pop singing "Like A Rolling Stone"? He was a huge fan. Another great Dylan cover is Johnny Winter's "Highway 61 Revisited" from the 1969 album Second Winter, or the live performance at the 1992 Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden.

@129robertp 2 жыл бұрын

The great songsmith.

@damonhines8187 3 жыл бұрын

Used to love playing this. I wish this had been a different experience -somehow - for him, but the way his voice drips contempt, the swirling organ..it's priceless. The Band in particular look so young, I didn't recognize Levon at all. I couldn't decipher the "on the street" interlude at all, trying to find a sweet spot for late-night listening, but thanks for confirming some at least of what I suspected was going on. WHAT a FIND, btw, I've only seen excerpts from Pennebaker's film before. Again, priceless, imo. ✌😘🎶🎸🎹💞

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Damon!

@bobschenkel7921 3 жыл бұрын

D.A. Pennabaker say "Don't Look Back, In Anger".A cool film of a young master taking it to the world. BTW Mr. Zimmerman WAS a denizen of Greenwich Village, Cafe Wha?, etc.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe we’ll see him around!

@bellindj 2 жыл бұрын

Side note. I read a book about Dylan back in the eighties. Dylan used to have people stalking his house to get words of wisdom since "they" labeled Dylan a prophet. He hated that label. Dylan says I do not want to be know as a prophet, I just like to entertain!. Request please Slow Train Coming

@tonyrowland4479 Жыл бұрын

I love the awww

@woodyoffmark7944 3 жыл бұрын

You should try "Things have changed" by Bob

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@robertdyer8322 3 жыл бұрын

Great Dylan track! Keep them coming! I just discovered your channel recently land I am damn impressed! I am a huge Zappa fan and I am so enamoured of the fact that you have chosen some of the best tracks to react to. Watermelon in Easter Hay, Ocean is the solution, Chunga's revenge, Andy..... DAMN! You have good taste. How about INCA ROADS or Pojama People? Billy the Mountain would be another great one. My thanks to you for bringing this music to the YOutube audience. Respect! I am subscribing to this channel!

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks so much for subscribing Robert! As much as we would love to take credit, our patrons on patreon choose all the songs we react to. Big shoutout to them!

@nostalga44jo 3 жыл бұрын

Bob Dylan to me is an outlaw !

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@robertasirgutz8800 2 жыл бұрын

Nobel Laureate poet. A genius.

@robertasirgutz8800 2 жыл бұрын

Dig in. Singing is dreadful, but you can't beat the lyrics.

@richardrobinson4020 2 жыл бұрын

Great reaction! Idiot Wind or Hurricane next.

@jamesobrien7338 2 жыл бұрын

He sushed the crowd because they were booing him for not being acoustic folk that year, it's way deeper than that, saw him life in 2017 when I was 17 and saw this live front row was vey surreal

@danl.909 3 жыл бұрын

There is a (possibly apocryphal) tale about this song and the Beatles. The story has it that Lennon and McCartney, upon hearing it on the “Highway 61 Revisited” album, threw away an album’s worth of songs they were about to take to the studio and started over. The result was their “Revolver” album. The folkies on both side of the Atlantic hated him for going electric. Two years later, they were standing in line to buy his “Blonde on Blonde” double album.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Love it

@markamos1911 3 жыл бұрын

That's a story I've never heard about The Beatles, and it's also fake. If you know your Beatles there's too much wrong with it. For a start, "Highway 61 Revisited" was released in August 1965, and with it being impossible that The Beatles didn't hear it close to its release date (if not before), the next album they recorded (in October/November 1965) was "Rubber Soul", not "Revolver". Could this tale be about "Rubber Soul" rather than "Revolver"? Again, it seems unlikely. While the album shows the increasing influence of Dylan on Lennon (in particular) and McCartney, it was also an album they struggled to find enough songs for, to the degree that they overdubbed the "Help!" album outtake "Wait" to make it sound more recent. It seems unlikely they had written a bunch of songs they'd written only to fall back on outtake from their previous album to make up the numbers. There's also the problem that the writing of several songs on "Rubber Soul" predate "Highway 61". And had it been about "Revolver", it would seem even more unlikely, as the big influences on that album were The Beach Boys and the new psychedelic artists starting to come out of San Francisco. "Revolver" was the opposite to how Dylan recorded, and something he dismissed with the words, "I get it, you're trying not to be cute anymore." An apocryphal story that Beatles fans who know their stuff would reject without a second thought because all the evidence goes against there being anything to support it.

@theholyearthgod1363 18 күн бұрын

Two complex words Garth and Hudson

@ronrobbins2737 3 жыл бұрын

wow

@vtxrider838 Жыл бұрын

You should be made at all times to be carrying a telephone❤

@fredkrissman6527 3 жыл бұрын

This is from the film Don't Look Back, which is a pretty good peak behind the Bob Dylan door right an the onset of the counterculture's Summer of Love, which the doc is indeed documenting. I also greatly prefer his singing here to the Isis vid (yikes!) recently reacted to... Thanx for the latest time capsule.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks for watching!

@timothyfoley3000 2 жыл бұрын

Hammond B-3 organ.

@WinneganFake 3 жыл бұрын

big folky backlash when Dylan went electric, my parents were lucky enough to be at a show during this era and managed to walk right up front when half the crowd cleared out when the 2nd (electric) set started

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@oleggorky906 2 жыл бұрын

It was a Frankie Lee/Judas Priest moment - their loss was your gain! ;-)

@deeg8849 2 жыл бұрын

Dylan wrote this about Brian Jones

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

☺️really?

@subg8858 2 жыл бұрын

Check out Tales of Yankee Power live 1978 los angeles if youre into live Dylan.

@subg8858 2 жыл бұрын

Actually listed as “Señor” on yt vid

@gratefulkm Жыл бұрын

"what is"

@hansvandermeulen5515 3 жыл бұрын

What year is this? I hear a descending bass against an arpeggiated minor chord....someone should tell Spirit.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Lol this was 66 maybe?

@mrysedeers 3 жыл бұрын

the back up group (playing the other instruments) is The Band...just sayin':)

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Yeahhhh

@bartstarr100 2 жыл бұрын

Dylan is on his own level. maybe Shakespeare. Dickens. TS Elliott

@ronreynolds1610 3 жыл бұрын

They would call this Folk Rock , Dylan would not really like it labeled that way, of course after he crashes from this era , Bob essentially blends country and folk music and another ''style'' of rock... emerges ...

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense!

@markcasserly3992 3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys it would be amazing if you could react to Bob Dylan's 'Murder Most Foul', thanks!!!!

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

@davehagi9883 3 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark Well hello there, just popped over from the Zappa lounge, totally agree with Mark....Murder Most Foul.

@hollybeat6901 2 жыл бұрын

Man this is absolutely EVIL!!

@possumslim5542 2 жыл бұрын

Would have really preferred to see a reaction to the song--while the lyrics appeared onscreen. I was really late in my even being willing to give Dylan a chance in my life, because I was soooo turned off by that nasal whine of a "voice" that he sings in. But, later in life--after I trained my mind to filter out his voice and concentrate on what was being SAID--my mind was blown away by his lyrical prowess. This song is worthy of social introspection (then, and now) in how it asks the question: "Who is the actual freak...the naked man inside the cage at a circus, who lives on the live chickens he eats; or...the people who pay money to throw to him live chickens to eat--for their own sadistic pleasure?"

@mrysedeers 3 жыл бұрын

1966 was a bad tour for Bob Dylan because he introduced his music in the electric instrument mode...where those 'critics' were remembering the acoustic/folkish Bob Dylan whom they fell to adore previously...just sayin':)

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

Lol can’t believe they would boo him

@davetothebeard 2 жыл бұрын

Been liking and following Bob for years but his music still fails to find room inside my heart. I keep trying tho.

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

It’s cool that you’re open!

@FolkSongsEtAl 3 жыл бұрын

The big thing with some of those tours was the folk purists all yelling at Dylan because he went electric, and they took that as selling out. In truth he was just finished with what he'd been doing, and was doing something else. He had no inclination to join up with other movements, or do what people expected. The most totally individual human being - and probably too complex to really get a handle on.

@SightAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

He’s a true artist

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 жыл бұрын

For some reason, the music you upload is out of phase, leading to a "flanger" effect. Anybody else hear that on their vids, or is it just me?

@SightAfterDark 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah we noticed that on a few videos, but we’ve been working on it and we think we figured out what it is

@williampatterson5067 3 жыл бұрын

Dylan is just not my cup of tea he is hard to get into. I noticed someone below me mentioned Mike Bloomfield now he was a great guitarist on the bluesy side.