"Garth... you just wastin' tape." What a perfect note to end this fine video on - it seems to me there's a lot music lovers around who owe Garth Hudson a big "thank-you" and some serious respect. He was the first person who what was going on in that basement was important.

I Shall be Released is one of my all time favorites. I was fortunate enough to have a father who was an English professor and also an enormous Dylan fan (for almost 20 years he taught an entire semester centered on Dylan’s work). I spent most of my childhood being mercilessly ridiculed for listening to Dylan, The Dead, Jaco, Django, etc. instead of the popular garbage of the time, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. My worldview was shaped from a very young age by intelligent, imaginative, challenging and sometimes abrasive people and it made me who I am today.

Happy birthday Bob, caught up with me again after two months. Both now 80 and your music has genuinely been the sountrack to my life.

Someone needs to turn this into either a biopic documentary, or a full on documentary because it’s such a unique and incredible story. All the mythology around it and the influence it had/has on musicians for generations is unmatched and worthy of more attention

Imagine buying tickets to boo and then walk out of the tour for the greatest lyrical rock album in history.

The first basement tapes album was pure collaborative genius.

Half a century later and Bob is still performing, he wins.

What a fantastic close look at the history of the Basement Tapes.

A friend of mine in college loaned me the basement tapes record. Just the plastic, no sleeve, no paper, no cardboard. I listened to it a hundred times in a row, it was amazing!

RIP Rick, Levon, and Richard...you are all missed beyond belief!! Man what I wouldn't give to have been in Big Pink during these recordings! Pure heaven!!

I saw them on the 66 tour at the Academy of Music in Philly. Nobody booed. Just the opposite, in fact. Amazing concert with an acoustic set followed by an electric one.

“If the past isn’t alive in you, the future will be empty”. Best thought I heard during this clip, and spoken at the last minute.

This is so funny. People always build this kind of thing up into some BIG master plan, but if you asked Dylan, I guarantee he'd say that he was "just writing songs. Just making music." Which is true. He was just being Dylan. That said I love love love this video! Thanks for uploading it for us all to see.

"I want the names of all the people who booed me". Bob was always funny.

I have loved the music from the basement since i first heard as a teenager. It never gets old, it just breathes and gets better.

The Basement Tapes have become an important part of my life. The best music I have literally ever heard.

The greatest statement of music in its raw form. A great musical experience. gets better with each listen. Genius. If you don't own it.... download it... get a torrent.....get a bootleg.....

I want more! Please, make a three hour documentary

Thanks for sharing! Dylan is an enigmatic genius.

I saw Dylan (not knowing who the guys who his Band were) at the Arie Crown theater in Chicago’s McCormick place. It was at the time of his great transition from folk to electric rock. They were booed without mercy at this concert. I don’t remember what my reaction to the music was as I was reacting more to the audience’s response. At any rate, I was disappointed. Little did I know that I was witnessing rock history and the growing pains of a great BAND!

Dylan had fantastic musical integrity. Still does. The Band was overflowing with creative and performing talent of their own, but thanks to their years of work with Ronnie Hawkins were able to function as Dylan's backup band. This vid is a gem.

What an incredible synergy Bob and the Band had....they seemed to truly inspire each other to greater heights as writers and musicians. As great and timeless as the Basement Tapes still are, to think two of the best albums (and my personal favorites) ever recorded "John Wesley Harding" and "Music from BIg Pink" came out of that, whoo!!

Beautiful footage of Richard and Rick!

Some of the most inspiring Dylan performances on film, shows what a true talent he is....

At maybe the most prolific and artistically inspired period of Bob Dylan’s life he isn’t on the road, he isn’t in the studio recording an album, he’s at home with his friends having fun.

Thank you, Sid Griffin, for your terrific music and your Band scholarship.

this is without a doubt my favorite story in music... my favorite story in fine art is that of Dada movement in Zurich moving around the world. they were both ahead of their time and did not worry about what the outside thought of them.

i own well over 40 officially released bob dylan albums in formats ranging from 8-track to mp3, a handful of bootlegs, et al. i must admit, i never had the inclination to listen to, much less, own a copy of "the basement tapes". like many moments in my appreciation for all things dylan, it appears it has taken me thirty-one years and this twenty-four minute documentary to catch on to how beautiful, how extraordinary and how important these sessions were. bob? if you read this? mea culpa.

This Wheel's on Fire always gives me chills.Please,Mrs.Henry is Bob just being a dirty ass fucking dude.I love it.

Just amazing stuff. As massive and great as it is you wish there was still more.

Ill never forget the Christmas morning I ripped into this gift from my older brother. The Basement Tapes . I think the first song was Orange Juice blues.

I really appreciate this, thank you so very much for this wonderful show, God bless you all, Elizabeth ❣️

i bought my first 'basement tapes' in 1976...it took going through forty complete albums before finding an upwarped copy!!! best investment of my time!!

This was really enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.

People needed to catch up to Dylan. “Better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.”

The person who deserves the most credit is Garth Hudson.

I was young then, but I love the music of all the Band and Dylan at that time.

Wow from my basement to yours - Magic still and always gets created down there!!

Awesome peek into cool basement tape processes

I am so scared to lose this man I love.

I've still got my Great White Wonder vinyl album I bought when it first came out. And the early versions had no markings on them whatsoever, no stamp on the cover- nothing. Just a white album cover with two unmarked disks inside.

This is so great!!

Always adore your nature, and your creative ways! The future is bright and filled with life, love and success for you!

Amazing, very interesting 👌 Great to hear all this...WOW!!

I haven't even watched this video yet, but, I already know that it's GREAT because...It's heading in the direction of "The Last Waltz", which is a rock & roll goldmine!!

Outstanding stuff from very outstanding Guys!!

Absolutely marvellous

They hated him but the tickets were being sold so fast they couldn't print them fast enough.

i LOVED THE BAND AS AN ENITY OF THEIR OW2N AND JOINING BOB DYLAND WAS A PERFECT FIT,TOO,BAD THEY DIDN'T RECORDE MORE.

One thing for certain... Blonde On Blonde didn't need a tour to sell it. 1. any new Dylan album was gonna go straight up the charts in mid-'60s 2. it would have sold like wild fire by word of mouth just for the attitude in its unique sound

This is extremely well done. Any time you have Griel Marcus on Dylan I'm in!

The big Pink Can you just imagine if her walls could talk, the music and history.

I wonder what direction Dylan and his music would have gone had his audience embraced him? But he was so ahead of his time like all great artists are that by the time the audience catches up the artist and his time has come and gone. At that point it only remains for history to record it's impact. It's not hard to understand why so many great artists feel so alienated.

This period is my favorite sound of bobs voice

just way too fantastic, amazing never seen footage...i am probably the most greatest Dylan s french fans ever...i own about fifteen old vinyl bootleg and i am glad the entire basement recording sessions of that period being at last released......before i die...lol

The brilliantly talented folksinger Paul Clayton will forever be remembered because of the singularly effective performance of Peter Oyloe in the title role of the musical drama “Search: Paul Clayton,”which opens at the Triad Theater in New York on May 6. The play is about the tangled up in blue relationship of Bob Dylan and his friend and mentor the late Paul Clayton. Peter Oyloe brings to his portrayal an empathy for the character that rivals anything currently on Broadway. In addition to his empathetic portrayal, Peter Oyloe is a highly talented musician and vocalist whose renditions of folk music popular in the early 60s should make him an in-demand singer for many venues. Don’t miss the premiere of this stunning play and witness for yourself a great new talent whose future on stage and in music is sure to be a highlight for years to come. Tickets for “Search:Paul Clayton” are available from Brown Paper Tickets. I have recommended this play to everyone I know. Don’t miss it! It is an historical and theatrical event of the first magnitude.

This is great.

I am a 32 year old hip hop artist and I love studying and appreciating this legendary music from an era my parents were lucky enough to live through! Plus I am from Saugerties, NY! Where the Basement Tapes were recorded! #BigPink

I remember now how I loved Peter, Paul and Mary... My God! How time has passed...

It took resolve and courage to go out there and get booed by fools

Awesome doc, nice to see what went on in Big Pink in those incredible days. Bob wasn’t much older, but he sure set the Band on the right track.

These Lovely🌺 sounding Basementtapes.. “Look here you Bunch of Basement Noise” Lucky Dylan found the ideal place where those Gems came about ánd he had these 5 guys Loving same music🌺 Most Lovely is how a lot of these songs are still being sung by Dylan at live performances in several versions...Ànd now the Basement Tapes Bootleg Series Vol.11❤️💥🌹👌🌞

i bought „little white wonder“ 1970 in a small town in switzerland never thought to see and hear all this info that’s now available! i’m not shure if it was better then⭐️

The Basement Tapes are my favorite chapter of the Dylan saga. I love the music and I love the stories that are attached to it. The chapter that has worn thinnest, though, is what they start out with here: the negative reactions to his going electric. That has always been overplayed by the rock press, it seems to me. Maybe I have just payed too much attention to the rock press...

Funny but I loved "Bringing It all Back Home" right from the moment I heard it. I still listen to it periodically. I never could understand the so-called "sellout." Good music is good music.

You can really hear the action of the Wurli on that first bit.

Amazing, transitional Dylan makes THE 1st lo fi record! He gets stronger by shrinking from it all. Backward is fwd and totally anti anti establishment. The protest to the protest.

I'm watching this and at the 6:10 mark a building I worked on located in Kingston, New York pops up! Trippy!

Is there anything funnier than Bob sarcastically pleading with the booing audience, "This is a folk song. Come on, this is a folk song"? And the crowd cheers.

Much Gratitude

Everything passes... only the Love remains...

Listening again..

A saw him w The Band. It was at Radio City Music Hall NYC right around this time period

Looks like in the spread of products around 22.33 there is what seems to be a photo book. Is this something one can buy separately from the music?

Above and beyond any other cover of The Weight, and there's plenty of those to be sure. The Allman's brought respect and honor to the Band by covering this one so well.

It is good see the emotions in their eyes...

The naivety of youth got in the way of a lot of people enjoying some of the greatest ever music played. As Joan Baez said "He was their darling, their folk hero...". I turned down a good few gigs when I was 16, because they didn't 'fit' my narrow tastes at the time - and I look back go "idiot". It is what it is. At least we have lots of film and recordings to show how great it was.

It just adds to the mythology of bob.

No Greil Marcus, you are wrong. Levon Helm did not accompany Dylan and his band mates on the 65-66 world tour.

Love his song

For us Down Under or anyone who lives a long way from the US It is a privilege to have seen Bob Dylan live. Even accomplished musicians bend over backwards just so they can work with him.Dylan's the man and in the centuries to come he'll be revered for his great work,

How good is to have good things to remember... God bless you...

Interesting video.

4:05 Saw the band, allman BROS and the dead at Watkins Glen in 1973 WOW

In love with Dylan;)

more of that never before seen footage please!! 6:21

Where is the footage from. Especially the Band backed dylan movie "worked on" in 1967

This is not holy writ. It is one great songwriter, with a great band containing 5 great musicians with 3 great voices and good songwriter or two. There is no mystery here, only obsessives hungering after demo tapes that Dylan did not want to be released. Some of the songs are good, some are throwaway junk. They are experiments. I hear a Clancy Brothers song (Johnny Todd) and a Hank Snow song (I Don't Hurt Any More) among them. Dylan was a wide-ranging folkie who couldn't play electric guitar well initially and did not know how to play in a band, backed by the Band, the best bar band in the world. They each learned a lot from the other.

Nashville Skyline & John Wesley Hardìng are the best Dylan albums ever.!!!👍👍👍

The Band was born. Short-lived but extraordinary.

This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road. [It's all of us.] Notify my next of kin: This wheel shall explode.

great stories

It wasn't the motorcycle crash that caused him to step back from the chaos. It was Sara. They were already together and she already had a child (whom he adopted), so they were a family. The rest is history/herstory.

Where is the "complete" basement tapes vinyl set? It drives me nuts to have only 38 of 138 songs. Many would fork out the dough for the whole vinyl set.

Change is good! Change is hard to accept!

Joan introduced Bob at Newport in '64 & he did whole night acoustic. I went back to Newport in '65 ; he started out acoustic then came out electric 2nd set.....& the crowd booed him like crazy. If u can believe it!!😮

Robbie Robertson's stories about the '66 tour are really good. He talks about being booed every night and Bob telling them after each show how great they were. That must have been strange.

the 'boooo' part at 2:42 makes me laugh out loud

Brava! Cyrilla and Papinta born in Hibbing Minnesota.

Was Van Morrison ever present during any of the recordings? He was a neighbor of the Band and Big Pink around that time.