Yes, he is talking about Lanois and yes, the banner heading is quite misleading. This guy didn't even listen to his own interview or he's click-baiting us. In either case, not a good look.

That's what confused me at first since I had read chronicles and Bob mentioning the smashed dobro and the trainee girl crying, but this made it seem like it was about angry Bob causing trouble, then when you watch the video you realise Mark is talking about Lanois and the heading is just clickbait.

That’s what it sounded like to me too

Yes he talking about Lanois. The title isn’t misleading at all.

Hey Daniel was being real and professional and he got a great record out of Bob ...one of his last greats. Give him credit. He had to get Bob's respect and attention. Bob is a weird cat but Daniel dealt with him to make a great record.

Dylan crazy like a fox. I don't think Bob is concerned about others opinions. He's the greatest songwriter ever. Get over it!

Think of all the idiots Dylan's had to deal with throughout his career. Also, we don't know what transpired between the record company and Dylan about who was going to produce the album. Maybe Bob wanted someone else and the record company forced Lanois on him?

@@Baci302 Can’t imagine that happening. I mean, he’s Bob Dylan and he sure as hell gets to choose, who will produce his album. Yes, the record company may have some suggestions, but they won’t force him to pick anyone. He’s the maestro. ✌️

You might like the substack newsletter, Flagging Down the Double EEs by Ray Padgett. It’s all about people who have done concerts and recordings with Dylan over the years.

Well said. The sound guy is a bit annoying…

Yes, Mark was off the mark on that one. And what he was suggesting was ludicrous even aside from the obvious fact you brought up; why try to deny that Dylan wouldn't write a topical song? He used to do it all the time.

Little known fact .. While memorizing the Torah passages for his Bar Mitzvah, the young Zimmerman, in a trance-like state, also penned "Times They Are A-Changing" and, even more remarkably, "Tempest" (which he sat on for some 60 years before releasing on album of same name.) He cranked out some early metal work as well .. a welded miniature of the Titanic which helped inspire the latter songwriting effort. And he got a haircut.

I think he meant that he wrote that song a long time (i.e. ten years) before the times actually changed.

dylan himself propagates many of these myths ....he once said that he wrote boots of spanish leather when he was 13 years old but everyone knows it was actually written about Suze Rotollo whom he dated in his greenwich village days circa 62 -64........dont blame the guy telling the story he only heard that from dylan's own mouth and he seems to not really be a big Dylan fan

Thank you for repeating the book title, it wasn’t mentioned at the top or end of the interview, and I was having a hard time finding it.

Which he proved with Love and Theft and onward. 😎😃 I don’t like however how Bob has minimized Daniels involvement as producer on Time outta mind over the past 2 decades. I have hundreds of bootlegs and have been to 8 shows starting in 1986 so I love him but have been bothered by this because Daniels involvement with Oh Mercy resulted in his best overall album in the 80’s next to infidels had it been released with Foot of Pride and Blind Willie McTell and then Bob steadily went backwards til Time out of mind save for his two cover albums of blues standards almost 8 years later again thanks to Lanois involvement. Bob had great material on Oh Mercy and TOOM but without direction it wouldn’t of been the success had it not been for his production. Bob was an astute pupil as he went on to produce his own stuff after Time out of mind with great results having learned a lot from Daniels producing style. Bob should write more on Daniel if he ever gets around to releasing another volume of his Chronicles memoir because if you think Dylan deep down doesn’t credit him for steering him to brilliance since Time outta mind you would be fooling oneself.

Good glove save ! Yup.

I don't see why he couldn't have done both.

IIUC, that's Dylan, nipping at your nose.

Jack Frost is a pseudonym for Dylan himself

Sounds like one of those people who wants to work with people who will stand up to him - and will push them until they do ... or don't.

Thx sergeant obvious !

That's why Dylan eventually went electric... ( to influence the Beatles ) 😉😆😅🤣😂

No, in his autobiography Chronicles Vol. 1 Dylan writes extensively about the Oh Mercy recording experience.

In his book Chronicles he did refer the this bloke with the Harley and that the bloke organised getting a Harley for him to ride during that time, Bob said it was a Panhead Harley but this feller states a later 66 Shovel Head, but then Bob is not known for historical or technical accuracy, he tells it as he likes to see it.

Probably not, Benjamin's comment notwithstanding. In Chronicles (2004) Dylan mentions Mark on one occasion, as having gotten him a motorbike, but that's the lot in over 40 pages on Oh Mercy. The motorbike itself gets a fair few mentions, and Dylan is very positive about Lanois. Mark's track record as an engineer speaks for itself, though.

Yeah some Producers Like Bob Johnston set the sound and felt their job was basically to ensure that what came into the booth sounded good and left the music side to Bob and the musicians with the engineers in the middle, but the problem here especially early was Lanois was different and he had a compulsion to be part of the action and a need for the product to have his signature sound.

Great songs, but I think he's a jerk.

I bet he’ll be worried about that.

really ????

So why are you here.

KC .....(yawn) ..... I’ll give it a miss

That’s funny. I say the same thing about U2.

He doesn’t think much of you either.

Sort of a jumbled mix of not too bad tracks . I dig Political World and Broken cuz there movers Bells for the poetry but certainly not a great Lp especially next to the rest of his stuff . TOOM and Rough N Rowdy are very good Modern Times not bad Tempest basically abysmal production and performance wise