Bob Dylan's 1965 Los Angeles press conference in full, with moving pictures. Recorded on 16 December 1965. Read the full context in the book 'JUDAS!' by Clinton Heylin. www.route-onlin...
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@raindawg3 жыл бұрын
Bob was punk before punk, he didn't play the game at all. Also (seriously) there's there's such a difference between this and the L.A Press Conference about a month before where he's more playful, there could be a multitude of reasons, both are great snippets.
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
Punk and Grunge I say.... This period of time especially in Dylan's life it seems to me that the press came at him with callous and rude attitudes. Dylan always seemed to handle it but would have preferred not to talk to those men & women in their stuffed business suits. However at times even the younger press people would also be rude or passive aggressive to him. Many times he would give that vibe right back. I.E. The male reporter asking how many musicians sang protest songs... Then Dylan leads him on and answers "136 or 142 " ... The press back then really didn't do their homework before Dylan interviews or press conferences . His attitude towards the press was born out of the way the press was towards him. I give him a lot of credit for sitting before those "squares" who were rude , snide and just plain ignorant about Dylan's music and the whole world scene and trying to wrap their oxford polished limited edition brains incapable of expansion to include students that protested the wars and policies both in the US , the UK and Worldwide. Kudos Bob Dylan.
@synysterjazmyngates6 жыл бұрын
telling him he looked ill and then asking him if he was was just rude and quite stupid. they really had no idea how hard and fast this 24 year old was being worked!
@oliveeisner89645 жыл бұрын
Are you a protest singer? Dylan: Nah. What kind of songs do you sing? Dylan: "I sing all love songs"
@synysterjazmyngates6 жыл бұрын
"gee, i dunno" same
@fredfat16067 жыл бұрын
love how he plays with the journalists
@OneOffization3 жыл бұрын
The best analogy that comes to mind when I watch this; it's like watching a PhD trying to explain particle physics to kindergarteners. "I'm trying to answer your questions as good as you can ask them". Sums it up.
@jndrummer51313 жыл бұрын
I give Bob alot of credit for patiently answering some really dumb questions!
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
It's kinda like all part of the job. I do know what you mean though. I liked his attitude towards them & his replies
@PAULLONDEN6 жыл бұрын
The dude was sensational......Even when Beatle mania was sweeping the world, Bob experienced some of that too, and kept cool in the process......which is an achievement, after having been through "The Doors Of Perception" ; you can sense he experienced some serious mind bending.....we probably will never see the likes of him again......
@tarahuckle61324 жыл бұрын
That’s one hard day in the office.
@Anthony-hu3rj2 жыл бұрын
The video is scratchy that I can imagine this being a recording of Rimbaud in the 19th century.
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
Or perhaps Verlaine while they played "follow the happy trail" games
@cherrylcooke24966 жыл бұрын
I love this man's attitude so cool. And relaxed lets not forget damn sexy
@57Koba7 жыл бұрын
136. What a great answer!
@oliveeisner89646 жыл бұрын
or 142. lol
@yacovlk79245 жыл бұрын
Why did Bob do interviews he did not want to do. Did Albert tell him to do them?
@debrageger71713 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love him. Some dumb questions, that no one really cares...
@toddubow25995 жыл бұрын
They treated him as an intellectual when he was just another comedian
@quantumfizzics92653 жыл бұрын
fax
@awrogers30135 ай бұрын
I love these things. He’s brilliant
@genni1781Ай бұрын
That giggling person must have annoyed Bob, who waa already annoyed.
@Bob-fz7pd6 жыл бұрын
136..... or 142..... Really their was only one.
@MrEdkern3 жыл бұрын
He looks terrible. This was in la on december 12 , 1965. I saw him a month before in cleveland,ohio on november 12, 1965. He has about 5 more months of heavy touring still to do around the world. He is lucky he is still living. I met him in cleveland,ohio on july 17,1991. He was very nice to me.
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
As others have said.. "He's like the first Punk Rocker, and Grunge rolled into one" He's been way better than the Rocker's of late. He's still going. My wife saw him in New London , CT in June ( I forget the dates) at the Garde Theatre. So it was in either 97 or 98 because I helped the old Garde Theatre . SRO tickets were $20 each. Nice to you ? LOL.. Cuz you probably weren't talking to him as a Press agent in 1965
@MrEdkern Жыл бұрын
@@jussitikkuri6991 something like that you can say.
@yacovlk79245 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan was a millionaire at this stage. He did not need to do anything. He choose too
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
Wow ! .... This period of time especially in Dylan's life it seems to me that the press came at him with callous and rude attitudes. Dylan always seemed to handle it but would have preferred not to talk to those men & women in their stuffed business suits. However at times even the younger press people would also be rude or passive aggressive to him. Many times he would give that vibe right back. I.E. The male reporter asking how many musicians sang protest songs... Then Dylan leads him on and answers "136 or 142 " ... The press back then really didn't do their homework before Dylan interviews or press conferences . His attitude towards the press was born out of the way the press was towards him. I give him a lot of credit for sitting before those "squares" who were rude , snide and just plain ignorant about Dylan's music and the whole world scene and trying to wrap their oxford polished limited edition brains incapable of expansion to include students that protested the wars and policies both in the US , the UK and Worldwide. Kudos to you Bob Dylan.
@felixthelmocevallosmorales4110 ай бұрын
Bob Dylan (Duluth, Minnesota; 24 de mayo de 1941), registrado al nacer como Robert Allen Zimmerman. 82 años.
@axiomist10766 жыл бұрын
The questions are so stupid. Do they ak these questions of the Beatles or the Stones?
@robharding19576 жыл бұрын
You can see the non appreciation of the questions, he keeps being asked the same old crap, no wonder he comes across as uninterested..Some of the questions are really quite stupid.
@arricammarques195511 ай бұрын
16mm transfer to multi-generation NTSC VHS.
@MrEdkern2 ай бұрын
I would love to have a 16mm print of this interview.
@davidzimmerli4893 жыл бұрын
I swear that the people who do the closed captioning on these videos must be on acid .....
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
I know right ! I can understand the voices better at times
@limeplasterer2766 Жыл бұрын
'What are you gonna to do next, something new and different?'. Dylan: 'I'm gonna to write a symphony; a symphony of words.' Blonde on Blonde, anybody?
@iloveweezer696 ай бұрын
more like a surrealist masterclass, true poets work of art. Painterly imo.
@simonedevlin77103 жыл бұрын
This was a gruelling biased interview. Bob has so much courtesy and respect for the press conference. He uses humor to deflect the tension and seriousness.The comment about his" looking ill was disrespectful but he handled himself with a lot of self control.The atmosphere was as anachronistic as the Spanish Inquisition.
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
I've seen him get snippy & defensive with some of the uptight press people
@CooManTunes7 жыл бұрын
Look how high and tired...and high Dylan looks here. :'D Worn the ffff out. No wonder he escaped the spotlight for eight years.
@oogemsquagger914 жыл бұрын
well that and he almost died in a motorcycle crash in 1966
@nolanwolfeАй бұрын
The biggest reason for him leaving for 8 years was the motorcycle crash in July 1966. But yeah he was also tired I suppose
@johnnylightning093 жыл бұрын
Hilarious and entertaining.
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
He had that great straight face. A real dry sense of humor which was and still is in Upstate NY and in Minnesota . I wonder if he had some "Kind & Familiar" faces in the crowd he could lean on at times..... 🤔
@Vibeagain2 жыл бұрын
The fact is he's uncommunicative and not ingratiating, those of you who keep leaping to his defense notwithstanding. Look to the example of David Bowie in terms of how to lift others up in interviews
@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын
That was not Dylan's job to uplift the press in interviews . He did them a courtesy just by showing up. Most of the press was rude to him, and almost clueless of the world scene and ignorant of why would people want to protest against the wars and social injustices both in the US, UK, and worldwide. I think the gave Dylan lots of passive aggression because they were not understanding those scenes. So Dylan enters "Live" and he's the target.
@Vibeagain Жыл бұрын
@@jussitikkuri6991 everyone knows Dylan was a genius but he was not ingratiating with people who really cared about his process, what was meaningful to him, Etc. That's just poor manners as far as I'm concerned