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And he would play, and deliver some killer performances being that high, umbelievable

coming from experience, after a while you just get used to it as your new normal. Bob was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol so he basically became numb to it all

Sometimes it's best just to say nothing at aallll.

Been that high, nobody wanted to listen to me though 😁😁😁

Speed kills.

Sounds like a downer, perhaps the same dope he shared with John Lennon around this time in a cab. As the video shows. John later confirmed it in an interview

He had a reason people get on his nervous he's sick of them 4 sure.love Started on burgundy then started on the harder stuffffff. 💘

@@JimmyFranceable not this man

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Blessing in disguise… 🌹🌺🌹❣️🍀💥🎶🌹🌺❣️

Absolutely, he was so close to being a member of the “27 club”.

Olive Eisner fuck Salinger. His book is only for depressed boys with mommy issues

@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 Stick to Mills & Boon.

Joe Rodriguez Failed 9th grade English class.

@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 "book" implying Salinger only had one book shows your ignorance

once sgain once again once again

bill bayh Yes! Thanks for listening :)

He just doesn't want 2 talk to them he could care less go read 📚 if u want Lear something people & figure it out 4 yourself. What it all meanssssss ❤

Amorone or that's amore eh!

He's said it I couldn't quite catch up dam me

@@katherinekirkwood9632 words girl words

Hahaha i love his interactions with audience on this tour its hillarious

thats exactly how it is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I think that Bob Dylan could have been a mathematics professor...

Then how he did he become famous? Did the gods of fame just drop by his house one day after he put his music on KZfaq? The guy could have sold Bibles to a chicken and they would have believed what he says is true. If he's so humble, then why won't he ever stop touring and live a quiet life?

@@paulsavage5057 You don't choose to be famous, especially back then with the lack of mass social media. He made music and gained a very large following early in his life. His job is being a musician, so he tours.

@@paulsavage5057 He made an early vow: "cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it" True to the end.

Great post. It follows very well with the "stream of consciousness" style of this song. Also a clear homage to Kerouac who captured Dylan's imagination when he found himself a genius in Hibbing, MN as a teenager and was trying to harness his intellect. I believe the line "housing project hill" is from Kerouac's writing. The idiot in the audience in Dylan's opening comments probably never got the insult when he said "go outside and read a book".He clearly decided early on that his creative expression would never be a static condition & he required the freedom to reinvent himself as often as he liked. To the great benefit of all of us, the one thing he held constant was sharing his creative output with us.

Thanks. Further rambling info. "I started out on 'Burgundy' but soon hit the harder stuff". Heroin was often given names of alcohol colors to differentiate it on the street. When you cooked it it turned colors depending on what it was cut with. "Cherry Wine" - "Jamaican Rum" (which Dylan fills up his shoe with in another song!) "The harder stuff" was always clearer - no color. He references so much street drug slang in his songs at this point - it usually went over the academic's heads! 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' is about a girl (Edie Sedgwick?/ type) who has overdosed (you turn blue when you o.d.) while other users steal her stuff from around/under her, 'carpet', 'clothes', 'sheets' etc. - not uncommon unfortunately. He himself was slipping into a speed/heroin habit - his songs getting wordier and faster - his looks paler and speech slurred (like in this performance). It all came to a head with the bike crash. I've always suspected a "Tom Thumb" was slang for someone who shot up (with your thumb duh!) or a "newbie user" a 'Little Man' on the drug scene. Maybe something Dylan made up for himself. "Picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast.....looked fine at first but left looking just like a ghost." What drugs can do to a fresh face. People are often uncomfortable with it but many of his songs are about street drug culture. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is full of drug slang. "...in the basement mixin' up the 'medicine'...Man in a coonskin cap in a pigpen wants 11 dollar bills you only got 10!". "..must bust in early May, orders from the D.A." - It's pretty clear once you see it in this light. The beauty is you can interpret these "obtuse slang" phrases however you want.

"Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon" from "It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)" is a heroin reference. They're all over "Bringing It All Back Home".

@@altadelacruz4312 Spot on. Never caught that one, but yep - before "zip-loc" bags, a tied up "child's balloon" was a way to keep powdered drugs and also used for tying up your arm.

I wish there was a way to save comments on yt. All of this information is really great, thank you all

Me too!

me too

@@thebluesandothercolors6602 the theme that keeps repeating itself to me is Juarez is always portrayed as a sell your soul place, and this reference about Easter as I make it out to fit my ideal speaks of "religious" sanctity occurring in such a place

Only 500?

I'll meet you there.

Jim Seaton True! Heard George Harrison said it once!

I mean, he was drugged out of mind and I don’t think he even knew what he was talking about.

Drummer is a titch confused. Who could blame that poor chap working with stix? Dylan finally went to the Village and got him some drummers in Howie Wyeth, Z"L Rest In Play and Gary Burke. See all the footage in Renaldo and Clara (Dylan's Rolling Blunder Revue back and frontstage mytho poetic film improv'd during that most old time stagey of Vo-De-Ville shows directed by Jacques Levy, Z"L Rest In Play, Prof! Tio Mitchito

Unfortunately, the world is full of morons, fans of Disco and Billie Eilish

Speaking of amphetamine.

@@jnagarya519 Sounds more like alcohol.

@@mellow5123 At around the time he "went electric" he was being called "an amphetamine prick". He was already a constant weed smoker.

I wonder if Bob would recommend that to a young Mark David Chapman. Yikes. Roll on John. The odd coincidences.

@@viviandarkbloom100 ikr?

@@viviandarkbloom100 Millions have read Catcher in the Rye without becoming fucking psychos.

@@Pilrig1 yes and we read it in middle or high school as well

Colors of the rains and Niely says Word word words

I don't think you're correct, but I'm not positive it's the same tour. A few years ago (2016?) copyright in the UK was expiring, unless the live recordings were released. So they released a 20 CD set of IIRC this tour. I think they did the same thing with some Rolling Stones recordings. You might be able to track them down, but they weren't around long.

Sergio Moreno I know, he was exhausted and needed a break. Still witty though!

this is not a dis on dylan but yes while he was ie tired....its fair to say he was overwhelmed with his own fame and fell into a spell of drugs....stay away from drugs you will lose! bob would tell you that...but...tired and drugs here...

@@thesongtowoody He didn't 'fall' into a spell of drugs. The drugs were there and he wanted them. Don't make a victim out of Bob Dylan. Whatever he did, he did it because he wanted to.

@@ardalla535 perhaps your right. he obviously did them of his own free will. i cant deny that. perhaps i should condemn him for using drugs? that could very well be a justified position unless you see the world through a nihilist lense, then nothing is good or bad right or wrong it just is. What i was getting at is that i have sympathy for the soul that falls into a ditch even if it is by their own evil choices , i dont take pleasure in that i sympathize with their precarious plight. some people end up homeless cause of one off the cuff casual ignorant curious try of drugs....are they victims ultimately no, but i feel for them, that is my nature and we will all ultimately answer to God and his son Jesus Christ.

thesongtowoody The God I believe in, is the forgiving creator of you and me. God loves sinners, which redeem. The vengeance is mine, said our Creator. Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil..Praise the Lord 🙏💙🦋

Right, it’s one of his stand-outs

You've nailed a paradox in Dylan that keeps twisting back on itself through the years. As he says in "My Back Pages" "I was so much older then\I'm younger than that now..." I got to know the Mayor of McDougal Street, Big Dave Van Ronk, Z"L Rest In Play, who along with his wife\partner\manager Teri Thal at the time Dylan first hit NYC from the Minnesota Iron Range and then college in Minneapolis, Van Ronk & Thal extended their ratty apartment floor to this kid from the open mic nights at the Greenwich Village cafes (never the bars where you'd need a cabaret license in corrupt NYC to perform). Dylan didn't even give them his real name, they had to find it out by accident. But the kid was so funny that they loved having him around. By around, usually under the folding table that was like their only furniture and over which Van Ronk and Thal's Village pals came weekly to play cards with Dylan under the table typing away and occasionally passing typed sheets table-top for Van Ronk to critique). Read Van Ronk's memoir completed after Dave passed away about a decade ago by one of Dave's guitar students from the neighborhood, Elijah Wald: Truly one of the great Musical Memoirs (a genre invented later by Bay Area based poet ovelist\ lit inventor and U.C.-Berkeley prof as well as occasional club performer, Al Young. Get his paperback Musical Memoirs to learn much about how one can braid their lives with the songs floating by in the air): litkicks.com/mayorofmacdougalstreet/ The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk By Levi Asher January 7, 2014 African-American, American, Beat Generation, Biography, Comedy, Film, Indie, Jazz Age, La Boheme, Love, Music, New York City, Reviews, Summer Of Love, Tributes The Great Lost Rock Memoir 12 Comments neglectedbooks.com/?p=205 Al Young’s Musical Memoirs 4 June 2008 Mitchito Ritter 27 October 2014 at 5:56 am soundcloud.com/tags/a%20jazz%20life Carlton Jackson, the multi-dimensional drummer in Portland, Oregon. Po’town is a hotbed of fine and color-filled drumming and percussion across musical styles and global vocabularies, but few if any are as varied in what they play well as Carlton. He has a Sunday night radio show called THE MESSAGE. His Play-Lists reflect the varied and tasteful, not to mention exploratory scope of the bands, combos and larger ensembles he plays out with and the recording session work he’s done. Carlton Jackson’s unique aspect brought to KMHD’s weekly THE MESSAGE is his musical imagination, as he’s brought to the broadcast range of one of the few jazz radio stations left on the U.S. airwaves a spectrum of styles and types of recorded music that skate well above any genre or marketing categories superimposed onto what is and should ideally remain non-classifiable, if yet widely discussed and savored. Tonight, Sunday 10/26/14 Carlton played an oral history feature of KMHD that is archived on SoundCloud and retrievable for your delight and the delight of others here: soundcloud.com/kmhd-radio/andre-st-james This 21st C. revival of free-form and expanding community and public radio arts builds on the Al Young culture-building project he well-titled MUSICAL MEMOIRS that you so righteously celebrate here on your web page NEGLECTED BOOKS.com. Hopefully with the death of so many music appreciation ‘zines or the moving of the rolled-up back pocket variety to the internet as web sites, the vision Al Young brought into the world, that I would nutshell as a way to both spread musical enthusiasm and create the necessary community-market base to support musical expression that is essentially deemed unworthy by the “Hidden Hand of the Market” this Young-ian concept of the MUSICAL MEMOIR may live on and travel farther on as Joy Harjo might phrase it “Winding through the Milky Way” via public and community radio shows like THE MESSAGE and via web sites that replenish musical enthusiasm by retrieving it from the dustbin of the fashion industry like your wonderful NEGLECTED BOOKS.com web site. Long may y’all run! PS - The Andre St. James entry into the above-referenced A Jazz Life musical memoirs features reminiscences of Bay Area music educator and hot pianist of choice Ed Kelly bringing the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk into a college music class for a hands-on nose-in philosophical lecture with vivid musical illustration. Student Andre was invited to sit in on bass with musical adept Rahsaan Roland Kirk and after the lecture and presentation the young lion-in-training wigged out. Terrific story to be shared and Carlton Jackson & The Message ought to be commended for weaving that oral history into a splendidly wide-ranging set of sounds over KMHD, the FM radio station licensed to Mt. Hood Community College and being put to good use as part of the OPB state-wide public radio imperium. Let us now retreat to the PURPLE GROTTO… Mitchito

Cindy Bradley thanks so much for listening!! And I love hearing stories like that. I wish I grew up in that generation. Like your uncle was then, I’m 19. Cheers!

Wow, your only 19? Your still a "Baby"!! It's great that someone as young as you, actually loves and appreciates, the genius of our beloved Mr. D.

@Michele Minick Of course I'll answer! I'm an open book haha. I guess my dad got me into him. He was into all sorts of stuff, but Dylan really stuck with me. Then after hearing him play Tambourine Man in Newport '64 on KZfaq when I was 10, I was hooked. I learned guitar and harmonica, and I'm still playing his stuff at local coffee houses. He inspired me to write my own stuff too (if you wanna see some of it and my Dylan covers, visit my personal page: Ross Wylde). I've always thought that if you want to be a good songwriter, listen to Dylan, because he pulled from so many genres and is a wealth of information. The videos I post are just me curating the wealth of performing knowledge, poetic ability, and just inspiration. Look who's rambling now. Have a great day.

Swingin' Pig....if I may be so bold as to interrupt but, you are 1 REALLY SMART GUY!!! And talented too! Unbelievable! Thanks so much again, for all your cool Bobstuff!!!

Cindy Bradley awe, thank you!! Means a lot. I’m just an old soul who appreciates Dylan’s work. The Shakespeare of our generation haha. Cheers.

You have a good friend

Yes sir.

@Mark J you should watch KZfaq on Brave browser. It eliminates all the ads.

Dylan at his acerbic best.

I believe this was just before his motorcycle accident. I've read that the accident, resulting in him hospitalized for weeks, actually saved his life.as per your comments.

@@roncarpenter7240 there was no accident he got burnt out and had to take a break. He played it off as an accident

He's not slurring and he's an adult he can do what he wants he still put on a good show that's all that matters. Strange how people want to reject any artists who ever took a drink or smoked a joint now considering that is the majority of artists especially in the 60s.

That's probably the only case in which i prefer a cover to Bob's original, or other Bob's versions... Nina paint those 6 pictures so vividly, like not even Bob could, maybe for the sparsity of the arrangement and the composed intensity of Nina's performance.

Leocadia333 Thanks for listening!! Lemme know if you have any requests :)

@@SwinginPig Okie Dokie.

Thank you for listening! Let me know if you have any requests. Cheers!

Agreed. He's been trying to find himself out with his songs, and it's a never ending journey.

@@SwinginPig Exactly...lol

Michele Minick Wow, thanks for much for that insightful comment! I had a blast reading it. I agree with you; he must’ve been out of his head by the end of the tour, and fed up with what was being demanded of him. Thanks for listening! And let me know about that request whenever. I’ll see what I can do. Cheers!!

Michele Minick Same here, my friend.

Of course he's right. This particular song means absolutely nothing. I doubt if he had anything at all in mind when he wrote it. He just sat down at the keyboard and played a blues riff and filled in the lyrics as they occurred to him. And what was on his mind was something about Mexico, so that became the framework it was built around. Sometimes Bob put a lot of hidden stuff in his songs that he didn't want to be clear about for one reason or another (Visions of Johanna), but sometimes there really is just nothing there. But just because it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's not a great song.

Thank you for listening! I wouldn't be uploading them if they weren't appreciated :)

Swingin’ Pig Absolutely appreciated! Please, don’t stop. These need to be here, available and listened to. It’s important. Thank you again.

Well they shouldn't bother with innocent people then.

Supposedly it was heroin during this tour. But you gotta read a lot of Dylan books to find out anything.

When the white boy has to be taught about the police

I think it's more that he's high as fuck

@@boppob1343 both

No, he's talking to the audience, when some fucking fucks open their fucking mouths full of hatefulness and entitlement, like just because they paid for a ticket, they own an artist like he's their puppet. What a bunch of fucking jerks.

I’ve always wanted to go there! I’ve heard great things. I’m most excited for the Tulsa museum.

Michele Minick yep, I cant travel to the UK right now either. Hopefully someday 🤞

Michele. Oh my, we should try to coordinate. I'm super psyched to see Tulsa. I'm in Texas but it's still far. Dallas is a good place. Airports. Shorter drive (or bus) to Tulsa.