Yep, you can hear the irritation for sure. The moment when Bob slips from singing to sneering "What the -" is priceless : only the "beep" sound is missing! :)

Might have been some amphetimines in the mix during this period, watching film and clips he looks like Johnny Cash with his arms flailing around all the time. Might have cause some short tempers while gnawing their teeth down.

@@hammer44head Yep, Dylan certainly had a drug addiction problem around this time. He was doing outstanding music, live and in the studio, but also caught in a long-term frenzied "gotta keep running fast or the wind will knock me over" situation. In a sense the motorcycle crash may have saved his life by freeing him from inhuman expectations (his manager had already booked him up for a new US tour in the fall of 1966!) and allowing him to take a step back out of the spotlight.

@@louise_rose - Yeah, another tour after the earlier one probably would have jacked him up. Besides, we got a lot of great stuff on the Basement Tapes recordings that are still being collected. I love those songs every bit as much as anything 66 and pre 66.

@@hammer44head Yes - and without Dylan's sabbatical year of 1967 and the Basement Tapes, the Band wouldn't have emerged the way they did either. The guy is one of the essential singer-songwriters of modern times. He totally deserved his Nobel Prize. :)

These moments in the video would have been "early in the morning" indeed - long past midnight, perhaps at 2 a.m. Everybody's a bit tired but determined to lay down this song too (it's amazing how little studio time was booked back then, even for a superstar of Dylan's stature)

I'm not even hearing *what* it is that makes Dylan suddenly break off and ditch the take (somebody being too slow at that point?) but I still break into laughter every time I hear it happening: "what the -".😄 The funny thing is how seamlessly he breaks the fourth wall, he doesn't even change his tone of voice!

It is, actually: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMWklpuctZ-dg40.html

Do you know what he meant by that?

@@SwinginPig No! I wonder who said it as well. I had to look it up ... In "She's Your Love Now" Dylan sings, "She'll be standing on the bar soon / With a fish head and a harpoon." That was recorded on January 21, 1966. While "Obviously Five Believers" was recorded 7 weeks later, on March 10, 1966. So maybe whoever said it remembered it and ... Oh, hell, I don't know!

@@Anthony-hu3rj for all we know whoever said it might have had a mouth full of harpoons at the time of this recording. Maybe he was even thrown in jail for carrying them around.

@@joanvega2177 haha

@@Anthony-hu3rj Ah, that's an interesting theory. Good detective work. I was thinking it might be a nickname for harmonica if the guy who said it was the harmonica player. Either way, the phrase sounds like it should be in a Dylan song haha.

On the anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock, at the start of the rich set of bonus tracks, there's an engineer's voice saying, in a VERY educated and polite "Oxford English" tone: "Kneel and Pray - take one!". Kneel and Pray was the working title for Speed King, but the band were told by EMI they could not call it KAP (allusion to oral sex). 😄

Yep, these photos are great - also the one at 1:22. As Paul Simon pointed out in an interview a few years later, around the mid-sixties "Dylan was the coolest thing in the country".

Thank you so much, that's a huge compliment :) Hmm my favorite from B.o.B. would prob have to be 4th Time Around. Just such a beautifully constructed melody and that nylon string is spellbinding. One of Us Must Know is a close second. Stuck Inside A Mobile is next. God this is hard. Visions, Just Like a Woman and Sad-Eyed are all masterpieces but I've heard it too much. What about you?

@@SwinginPig You’re welcome SP & great picks. My top would have to be Just Like A Woman as it shows Dylan’s softer side and how things like that affect him just as much as any of us. That moment just after the chorus where the nylon guitar plays those chords and then the organ comes in has to be one of my favourite moments on the album. Stuck Inside of Mobil has verses that are worthy of being compared to Shakespeare and I love how after the end of every repeat of the chorus the drummer does a different fill to introduce the next verse each time, it’s awesome. & for my third I’d have to say Sad Eyed Lady as it is a feat of lyrical magnificence and has to be one of the greatest love songs of all time.

@@SwinginPig Fourth Time Around was written "for"John Lennon right? I believe he wanted to write his own song to the tune of Norwegian Wood. The open verse is one of my favorite thing Bob ever wrote.

Actually, after further searching I was able to find the version I was looking for! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7qoZMpyvLq1d6M.html I know nothing about where the recording was or anything of that nature though, so if you know anything that would be super cool.