Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (LIVE HD FOOTAGE) [Dublin, 1966] 

The ultimate troll saying "It's a folk song" so sweetly.

“Not many pop groups like that” this guy gets it.

"This is a folk song" *Plays blues rock*

Nobody has, nor ever will, handle hecklers with such power as Bob Dylan.

One of my favorite folk songs

"this is a folk song". it never gets old! The Thin man rocking the blues. I wonder what they thought once BoB came out and the rest of the world was going nuts over it. I mean how can you not smile at Leopard Skin Pillbox Haaaaat. 😎

Dylan is so unique, he always went his own way & didn't care if people liked his music or not, he did it his way.

Love it when he says this is a folk song and hits them with pillbox hat.class.

"Not many pop groups like that." How cool must that guy feel, 55 years later?

I was at the concert in Dublin, cost £1 a ticket, i was in the balcony and saw so many people leaving in the second half, when he came back with the band. I couldn't believe it. The last time i saw him was in Motril in 2004 what a great musician and performer and still going strong

the most important and influential tour the world had ever seen nor will ever again!

To everyone wondering why the audience members have English accents instead of Irish---The performance of the song was recorded at Adelphi Cinema in Dublin on May 5, 1966, but the intro is probably from Manchester, England and the interviews are from Leicester, England. Much of this old Dylan material isn't complete, so it needs to be stitched together with footage from different locations/dates. However, it is always most appropriate to label the video as the location where the music was recorded, which is what I've done here. Enjoy!

The most talented poet entertainer singer ever, there’s some about him, it’s a God given talent and I think he knows it 🤔😀👋

He opened with this in San Diego at the Cox when I drove there with my 20 year old musician son. I played it in the car and told him about the song and how he had not been playing it lately. Then, there it was, opening song. Quite a moment that was. Still is.

Possibly his most hilarious song.

His attitude is impressive, the more attack the more creative

This video is so important for the world! Immeasurable. Dylan is still in the future. This video is from the future.

I like the photo of his Bobness wearing his brand new, over one shoulder, hounds tooth scarf.

He knew what was gonna happen, he changed things round from folk, blues, jazz, gospel, pop, like a genius xx

Who the hell did people think they were back then to decide what kind of music this man should play Bob Dylan's Bob Dylan he can pick up an acoustic and write awesome melodic stuff or he can pick up an electric and tear up the floor fluance again who do these people think they are to decide what Music a musician should play

they just flat out sound great.

Everything was working for him. Including getting the perfect (and maybe best) band of its time. These guys were born to play together

trade mark of quality .. i remember that imprint from my days of browsing bootleg vinyl ...your work is greatly appreciated by hardcore dylan freaks,,such as myself. thank you!

People today might like to think they'd be real hip and love Dylan's move into rock, but that's easy to say. Look at how he divided people! I'll always envy anyone who saw him at that time, even if they hated the show.

The intro where he says “This is a folk song” is from the May 15 performance in Leicester. The whole show is included in the Complete 1966 live recordings box set.

Bob can make anything sound fantastic..lm always amazed when I hear these for the first time .. ☺️

Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan

This is the best performance and footage I have seen Bob do of that song! It is so good and the fans (though I hesitate to call them that) are just so ruthlessly judgmental thinking they have the right to control him. But Bob plays it so cool and clears a way to quiet the crowd so he would have a chance to get the song started "This is a folk song, this is a folk song, I wanna sing a folk song now. I knew that would do it. This is called..." Love it thanks so much Swingin' P!

Wow ! Best version ever IMO.

Love everything about this!!! I can't stop watching it! Thank you for sharing.

lmao hes such a troll

Bobbylein, manchmal bist Du wie ein wunderschönes Wesen aus einer anderen Welt!

If there was the internet when i was 14 in 1980 and was able to see this in my living room, my head would have exploded! Instead of looking at the inside jacket of Blonde on Blonde for hours, days at a time. But, I was lucky enough to see my idol, (at the time), (spiritual forces took the place), at Massey Hall in Toronto for his born again tour, and it was spectacular! But what we have now, people uploading videos like this, yeah, i'd be dead right now from too much excitement...

BOB DYLAN ROCKS

this is a reverse engineered thank you to the audience for their graciousness and brilliant insight...no?

I would love to see interviews with the people that were there in 66. would love to see what they think about it now

Hysterical... such a moment...forever !

I NEVER read or hear the FACT: Even during the 66 shows when he was heckled and disrespected the most, 90% of the audience was still with him, and applauded enthusiastically.....so THERE!!!!~E

Gotta be one of the most unique death grips songs for sure

Thanks for sharing this priceless historic footage!!!

Awesome blues...my younger years😍🎶🎶

Brilliant... It *is* a folk song 🔥

May 5, 1966 was the day I was born.

I agree with John V in the comments.People don't talk like that in Dublin and I should know being from Dublin myself.They are English!So it must have been in England somewhere.I loved that Dylan changed to electric.Both ways he was amazing.You can please some people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot please all the people all the time.People really don't know what they have until it's gone.These people didn't know that they were in the presence of someone really very special.

we grew up just listening to this stuff ..no big deal..it was just what you got when you put the needle on the record...now everything's quantified and analysed and debated..it's like going backward.......choo choo said the little train that wanted ta..

Finally some decent footage of Robbie Robertson’s positions during the solo...so much of Pennebaker’s edit just follows Dylan around to my great annoyance!

Good evening, swinging with the pig tonight. Always enjoy watching bob get his point of view across in such a suttle fashion!!! Pig lover, thanks again

that blue light unreal good

Seems like the entire cast of Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction was there.

Thank you Dylan for starting to play rock and roll!

Mr Bob 🎶 rocking out the home place ♥ ✌️😎 🎸 🇮🇪 2020

Something Is happened here/ But you Don't Know What Is/ Dedicated to all the Mr. Jones of everytime & Place! Ohhhhh a Folk ballad!😂😂😂 Why not? Dear Swingin', the Beauty & Gold of His Art & his titanic willing along to a laugh have buried them! Long Life to Bobby!😃😃😃

One of my favorites !! ....and what a look!!!

Fabulous!

Thanks

Great stuff. Another Dylan fave of mine with footage from the famous '66 tour. Fantastic!

Crazy for this song

Wonderfull job on this, thanks Swingin' Pig. I was at the Cardiff show a week before this. Only a small % of the audience made any 'protests' ( one wouldn't really call it a protest by the way) A shock maybe !..My sister and i loved it !

Damn I cant believe you posted this!!! Thanks! Bloomfield on guitar!

great , he was never the same after the live66 tours. The output was there but hed changed . il listen to any record he makes ..long live dylan.

MAGNUM!!!!!!!!!

This is when Bob at least acted like the audience was there. Maybe he needs more hecklers today.

Fantastic thank you for this rarity

Go Dylan ahead of your time....such an evolved human love ❤ and peace✌ to all reading this

Bob was punk before punk

Just love him somethings never change...

Robbie’s guitar… Wow!

favourite folk song ever

awww , that sure is nice, you can see bob thinkin damn , what a great band i got behind me, this is so easy

Always njoy your posts, Pig. 💗 This really made me smile.

can Dylan rock, can he...moves me to tears the direction and just how cool his appearance not to mention how it was said by him so cool so cool...if they were casting someone to play that part, they sure found more than what they could imagine...some of us didn't get it and man it was our lost for sure, those who got it, got the greatest show on earth.. BOB DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC ON A NEVER ENDING TOUR

"Can I jump on it sometime?" (Inspired me to buy one at a Philadelphia vintage store)

HOW GREAT IS THIS!!!? right at the top near SUPREME!!

I love this!!!🎸🎸🎸

LOVE this song !!

Wish you had the entire song here it sounds great! to my ears at least ...maybe more realized than the version on BonB ....I remember reading something in the liner notes on Bringing it all Back Home where Bob had given up on attaining perfection yet in moments like this one he has no problem attaining Queen Jane approximately.

“Hey guys, we are gonna be a backing band” “No way man, we wanna be on our own!” “It’s for Dylan” “OK”

Last line of the video “not many pop groups like that”… indeed.

This was when he went electric and some fans could not deal

UNIQUE!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎼⭐️

"this is a folk song"

Such a shame. But it is a spectacular moment to see in music and it adds a lot texture to music history and bob dylan's career. I can show this to my friend and say "something like this happened in a bob dylan concert and in music and bob dylan history" and it would make it a really exciting story.

Keep on keepin' on ❤️❤️

Seen this guy twice once...

2024 CLASSIC DYLAN. So sweet, so funny, so good ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Bob does it all❤

Great job. I may have said something to that crowd that was a bit too much. Excellent performance Bob Dylan ❤ (sweet face)

freaking amazing

NOT MANY POP GROUPS LIKE THAT HOW FUCKIN RIGHT YOU ARE SIR WELL DONE

Brilliant,love all your posts, you’ve the best

A statement to the fashion industry.

Black and white tele with maple, best combo

It’s hard to realize how upset many of Dylan’s early fans were when he went electric and moved from folk to rock. He largely abandoned folk music and protest songs around that time and he alienated a lot of his fans by doing so. So when Dylan says “this is a folk song” before launching into an uptempo blues number, he’s basically making fun of those fans or just telling them to piss off.

Thank you.

That’s not the Dublin crowd afterwards… I think it’s Sheffield. In the full clip there’s a guy who says “Bob Dylan were a bastuhd in that second ‘alf!”

[30 April 2021] This is *REALLY* what I'd call the *MUTANT BLUES* ...

Such a great song... how could those supposed Dylan ‘fans’ not enjoy this wonderful rendition?!

Greatness

My son, my son was born to ...rock and play them low down dirty subterranean blues...Dylan's lyrics affectionately ridicule a female "fashion victim" who wears a leopard-skin pillbox hat. The pillbox hat was a fashionable ladies' hat in the United States in the early to mid-1960s, most famously worn by Jacqueline Kennedy. Dylan satirically crosses this accessory's high-fashion image with leopard-skin material, perceived as more downmarket and vulgar. The song was also written and released after pillbox hats had been at the height of fashion. Some journalists and Dylan biographers have speculated that the song was inspired by Edie Sedgwick, an actress and model associated with Andy Warhol. It has been suggested that Sedgwick was an inspiration for other Dylan songs of the time as well, particularly some from Blonde on BlondeThe song melodically and lyrically resembles Lightnin' Hopkins's "Automobile Blues",[ with Dylan's opening line of "Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," echoing Hopkins's "I saw you riding 'round in your brand new automobile," and the repeated line of "...brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," melodically descending in the same manner of the Hopkins refrain "...in your brand new fast car". The Dylan reference to "the garage door" in the final verse of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" may also be an allusion to the automobile of Hopkins's song. In 2013 experimental hip-hop group Death Grips released a song titled "You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" named after one of the lines in the song. Dylan began to include "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" in his live concerts with the Hawks in late 1965, and the song was one of the first compositions attempted by Dylan and the Hawks when in January 1966 they went into Columbia recording studios in New York City to record material for the Blonde on Blonde album.

Sweet