"The Legendary Tales" is a deeper look at Bob Dylan’s ‘The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.' Available Now: smarturl.it/BD_basement_amzn?I...
"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.
I think “popular garbage” diminishes your otherwise really nice piece about not only Dylan but what your father gave you. What period of time are you talking about? What was popular at the time? All if it was garbage.. Your comment serves only to make you look like a snob - utterly unlike your father, a scholar who embraced music others in his circle certainly dismissed as “popular garbage.”
It’s very possible sir. If you’ve been navigating the Dylan community from any point between say 1970 and present, you likely do indeed know my Dad and quite possibly myself as well.
I can relate! My mother was an academic and an avid fan of Dylan, Jaco, Simon and Garfunkel amongst others. Great time to grow up. We were lucky. I miss those days. Gave me a solid moral filter💯🫶🏻
Payback for skipping out on Woodstock and still being the prolific consummate performer for 60 years.In many ways I see a parallel alter ego in Leonard Cohen.
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
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.
may 66 still the best concert i have ever heard or saw. dylan i swear levitated. hearing all those blond on blond songs was maybe a highlight of my life.
So true, people always missed his humor. There's a video on here during the 65-6 tour where it came out someone threatened to shoot him at the concert. He was in his dressing room, and after the initial surprise, "I don't mind bein' shot, I just don't like bein' be told about it" That kind of humor could only be Bob Dylan!
@@jeffclement2979 People are so dull..I mean here they had all these great songs he had given them and yet the only question they can muster is "Can we have a word?" How absurd.
But I fear that in our age of such fast pace and technology that we are losing touch with our past. I think so much of modern music is about the recognition of this. I think Dylan had got to this point and realized that he had to slow down in order to let the past catch back up to him.
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!
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.
Bob was still under contract with Albert Grossman & he was writing songs for other artists to record. This doc doesn't tell the whole story, unfortunately. But, it makes the time seem more mythological. Bob was still paying the Hawks (Band) & they felt compelled to help him. Robertson talks about it in a documentary. Bob likes to control his myth, so he didn't make it public knowledge. A few other people said the same thing. I LOVE the Basement Tapes. I listen OFTEN. I love everything Bob has recorded, except one poorly produced album. Many songs on Empire Burlesque make Bob sound like a munchkin, especially Clean Cut Kid. Lyrics are great though. So sad. We will never have musical influence like Bob again.!!! I LOVE him, after all these decades.
Dylan was actually running away from people like in the video, and the fans and myself, for that matter. The recording room was a disaster. What was revolutionary about it was how everyone was inventing rock in 1965 - from rock and roll, pop, rockabilly. And so what is this music then? It is not rockabilly, which is what the Hawks were playing. And it was not blues which is what Bloomfield was playing. And so the music is oddly original. Yes, there is a lot of country and old fashioned folk music, but Levon Helm was doing something else, something different, and you can hear that on their own album music from Big Pink. And Dylan turned away from all this and went decidedly country and pop for some reason.
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.....
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.
I got John Wesley Harding for Christmas '67 and was umm underwhelmed This was the age of psycedelia Flash forward to 1975 at a listening party of the just released Basement Tapes...my best friend and I laughed our asses off all night This is where the party was really going on!
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.
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.
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!!
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 bought my first 'basement tapes' in 1976...it took going through forty complete albums before finding an upwarped copy!!! best investment of my time!!
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.
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
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.
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!!
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.
Can you imagine people trying to force to their will. Like the crusade in Europe. They think he's a heritic. In reality he "IS" the poet prophecy. Thanks Bob for showing me that I should "ALWAYS" follow "My" convictions. And fuck those whom are killing you forcing theirs. No one should be a falsely idolized, including jesus christ. The never ending tour shows me you are an increadable human.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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❤️💥🌹👌🌞
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.
Yeah, I always liked that one a bit more than Highway 51. I believe they both came out in '65. I also love other 'oldies' like Nashville Skyline, Billy The Kid, Freeweelin', The-Times-They-Are-A-Changing, enz... I love a lot of music, but Dylan is one of a kind... -The Electric Bard :)
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 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.
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...
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.
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.
It goes: TOOM, BOB, BOTT, HWY61, JWH, BT, “L&T”, MT, Desire, STC, FW, BIABH, WGW, GAIBTY, OM, Temp, RARW etc...but the Bootleg Series, each and every volume is ESSENTIAL DYLAN!!!
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.
1965/66 tour - Levon did most of the American dates, Australia and the Far East. Mickey Jones joined on the European dates. Check out ‘Testimony’ for Robbie Robertson’s memories - he was there! Marcus Greil has done fine research too.
Cynthia Carter no no no, you have to re-check it. levon quit at the beggining of the dylan’s tour and rejoined at big pink (when some of the basement recordings already started.)
Don't know the timeline, but I'm sure it is available. I know Robbie wrote in his book that Levon knocked on his hotel room one night, and then told him, I can't do this anymore I'm quitting, going down to Louisiana to work on an oil rig (which Robbie thought sounded like the worst idea in the world). He had been on tour with them, but the booing got to him, and he upped and quit. Robbie was really upset, he looked upon Levon like his older brother. Levon asked Robbie to tell the other guys.@@cynthiacarter4649
as BOB says 2020 'I cant write THAT MUSIC NOW" 'that was a hundred years ago' I HAVE CHANGED!!!!!!!!! cant do that NOW LOVE YOU MY BOBBY SO DOES YOUR LOVELY HANNAH 5yrs and u love HER just like I will always be 'EMOTIONALLY YOURS" YOUR ANNIELEE [all ur kids/g/kids/g/gkids love you
