Fascinating. Three years later I would buy my first Dylan record through the Columbia Record club because I had a Peter Paul and Mary album and noticed that some of the songs were written by someone named Bob Dylan. What a surprise!
I was 9 years old. 4 years later (13 going on 14 ) I asked for a guitar and Peter Paul And Mary’s In the Wind album with Blowin in the wind and don’t think twice on it for Christmas. I got the album and a red Stella guitar. I was hooked and a year later was listening to Dylan’s first album. I am 70 going on seventy one now and just started working out an arrangement for just like Tom Thumb’s Blues! Thank you, S. P. !
It was right at this time my brother, Guy, was spending a lot of time with Bob and Suze. I have a bunch of great photos of them all together. My brother and Bob spent time together throughout the '60s. Our house was one of the first places he spent time at, when he came up from NYC, in January, '61. This is a great recording of a wonderful concert!
All of your work to get these tapes online and all the descriptive bio info of the setting where performed are so appreciated. Listening to the earliest Bob performing his "Woody Guthrie legacy" and the Blues icons is priceless to me.
It has come to my attention that there are many ads throughout the video. As one of the commenters pointed out, "Drag the slider to end of video and restart it, the ads will be gone!" These ads are because it has been claimed and monetized by the owners of this recording. I realize they’re annoying so I apologize. I hope they don’t take away too much from this amazing concert though. Much love and stay well 🦋
I was six years old when my 18 year old sister brought Dylan's words home to my ears. My soul bursts with the honesty, compassion and truth that these early songs spoke to me so long ago.
The first record where i heard a few of his songs - though not quite in his own versions - was Pete Seeger's classic 1963 "Live at Carnegie Hall", an album my parents loved and had bought a few years after it was released (I'm from Sweden). Seeger's sculptural, rhythmic, careful yet passionate take of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" caught my attention very early on, I still think it's beautiful almost half a century after I first heard it. Great album, recorded just three months before MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech it really lives and breathes of musical history.
Astounding that at 20 years old Bob was that great. Some of the best performances ever. And people say Dylan can’t sing. They should try singing just ONE of the lines in this concert. Mind blowingly good.
I met an older guy from Hibbing Minnesota that said Bob played in his brothers rock band in High School and he 'sucked so bad they kicked him out after the second show,. He never was any good until he got that harmonica." Thus proving a prophet is never welcome in his home town.
www.amazon.com/dp/109178289X/ I have known The Pig as long as I have known Bob Dylan, but he has to be a shadowy person hidden from view. You don't name your dealer online, Prince Andrew does not name his supplier of underage pals, spaghetti westerns do not grow on trees. If you are in Greenwich Village at the White Horse Inn ask at the bar if you can buy Swingin' Pig a drink. See who winks. It is all part of the myth that is Bob Dylan! Ray (Gooch, not Sting) ;-)
What makes you think Swingin' does not altready have a Knighthood? You do not think he is criminal enough to have gained Conservative honours or to have bought them? He may be a Lord? Not a serious Lord like Lord Buckley, but as a crooked Lord, as in the House of Lords. (782 Lords, much larger than the Commons where members are elected by the public. Some day the English might prefer to become a democracy and change to a majority of elected people in Parliament. Maybe not. They have class! ;-) ) -- Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea Sing of the lakes and the nymphs in the forest Sing your hearts out - all you women of the chorus Sing of honour and fame and of glory be Mother of Muses, sing for the Swingin' Pig!
Your honored by all these commentors Swingin’ How’s that💫💥 I think there so right!The love for Dylans’ music goes deep and Swingin’ brings it to us❣️🌺👌🎶 And thanks Dylan❤️🌹👌🌞btw. I was having my 11th birthday the day Dylan performed there at Carnegie Chapter Hall💥🌻🌷❣️😊🌹 And he did it So goooood❤️
55:14 This is the pure Bob Dylan, and who says that he never laughs?? Dylan is and will be a legend of music, a part of music... Thanks you Bob for this eternal dedication for music, you are a living myth!! Greatings from Barcelona, Catalonia ❤ you
Barely 20 years old when he played this concert. Within a few years, he would go on to change popular music and songwriting forever. It's Dylan... nuff said.
... there is one very interesting germanism :: ' Ein Fruevollendeter " ) s.o. having achieved a state of some kind of complete-ness early in life ( ...
Been a while since I had goosepumps listening to this fella (regardless of the all the tremendous performances I've been listening too thanks to SP and Elston) - this one is astounding by so many ways !
So thank you for writing the best songs Thank you for righting a few wrongs You're a savage gift on a wayward bus But you stepped down and you sang to us.... -Joan Baez
swinging pig has been around for many years. recordings were known for quality. how sp comes up with these gems is amazing for any musicologist or just finding your favorite artist. keep up the good work.
Well, it is not so amazing how Swinging Pig is coming up with these gems..... he just copied CD #3 from the 10 CD box "Man on the Street" issued by Reel-to-Reel in 2017. So this gem is just for sale for a couple of bucks.
Had his pills advantage of easy speed diets available at that time and even a benzo like drug for sleep sold otc Janis Joplin loved or used a lot. Thinks he used speed a lot for recording. Funny and loved to write for sure
The quality of this recording is amazing. I found this CD maybe thirty years ago, felt lucky to have it and didn’t care the sound was rough. Par for the course.
Amazing someone actually taped this off of the board. What are the odds? Great quality and of much historic significance. This is just the best account. Thank you! Please keep it up.
This is simply stunning - so, the best song to jump to right after listening to this debut concert is "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)", I'm a'headin over there
I had this album, but the poor quality one. What a tune Young But Daily Growin' is. There's a slightly different version of it on the Minnesota tapes I think. How does a 19yr old sing with such emotions. Genius.
Excellent & weird observation. Strikes me as a fan since Blood on the Tracks (which my older sister played upstairs bedtime) just how many of Bob's earliest songs had the kernel of later one's...
Yeah'Leadbelly recorded that song from a prison down in the south.He was recorded by the Library of the Congress.Around either 1927 or by 1933..But, Leadbelly's version tells a very sad story..It is worth getting what the real meaning isthe meaning was
Bill MONROE, the father of bluegrass, did it, too, neither in the beginning nor at the end of his time, but right in the middle. Monroe, with his FIFE HUNDRED RECORDINGS, was in his own way a much more crucial artist than Dylan, as already in the forties he refined to an unbelievable degree the Americana catalogue, he had a unique voice, was a stunning mandolin virtuoso and had the best oiled band machine in Bluegrass, the Bluegrass Boys. He reinvented Americana basically 20 years before Zimmerman came along. I'm like Lennon, I don't believe in Zimmerman, but I like his great music. Gotta give it to him. There's one thing most people including Dylan fans forget: HE'S A MUSICIAN! I KNOW, IT MUST BE PRETTY SURPRISING TO SOME , BUT WATCHAGONNADOABOUTIT. AND, YES, THIS RECORDING HERE IS A WONDERFUL THING! Listening to this I understand that without The Bob there wouldn't have been The Paul Simon!
1961...I was a girl with eleven years age...and I lived in countryside. I didn't know nothing beyond the small farm of my father... I didn't know there was others countries, I didn't know there was a country named United States of America and a boy named Bob Dylan that was predestined to be the most important songwriter of the world... But I had a dream: to study... and today I am an old Bob Dylan brasilian fan...
@@alberto-os1bx Hello, Alberto. What a good new! We are two good old Bob Dylan's fans...Yo hablo español, pero comprendo el Italiano un poco. I love that song "Ciao, amore".
yeah - what a moment. what a voice. full of natural life… i just started to listen. for me its great. what about rambling jack at this time? somebody knows more? thank you for uploading this swinging jewel…
Swingin' Pig, if you don't realize what you did I'll tell ya. You made available a treasure trove full of Dylan gems heretofore unavailable. Thank you so much!!
very interesting, 1961 wow, Fascinating Thanks a lot. I've got CD recorded October 26 1963 Live at Carnegie Hall, so I was 2 years out, Thank you again for this.
Wait a minute! I recognize that logo: back in 1972 I bought a bunch of Dylan bootlegs when I was in L.A. I think they were the product of Poopoo Productions or something like that, with the Pig logo.
Thanks so much Swingin’ really great premiere! Listening again from the start! Love that you saved those Sad-eyed-Lady notes! You hit it right doing that for sure plus it honours SEL too! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🤍
Anyone sayin' Bob Dylan doesn't have a good singing voice,(not even gonna make a weird comment), listen to him sing duet w/Johnny Cash: "The Girl from North Country'!
it is half past 4 i made fire in my stowe washed myself and dress fresh clothes now I am drinking coffee and listening to you young Bob you are the best
Been on a Bob hunt this last couple of weeks and found some excellent posts, so thank you Swingin' Pig. btw as a side note, are you responsible for Neil Young's Damage Done '87 radio broadcast - I have a "trade mark of quality" vinyl copy but would love to hear it on your channel
contrasted w/the concert in Paris--where Bobby took the extended attention to tuning the guitar--worth it. The "genius" vocalizing, the superb mouth harp work, the phrasing, the commentary, etc. All goes south with the jingle-jangle strings conflict...
You can tell Presley was one of his idols. It's got conatations of him throughout but what makes Dylan so great and brilliant is that mouth organ again brilliance in itself then you've got BOB what more can i say NOTHING except THANK-YOU 💎
I think this show is is amazing !!!! It's fantastic ...unique. I was only 9 in 1961, but I was right here in NY. I wish my mother took me to this show..and the one at the Gaslight also in N Y. Where is this Voice coming from ...?
You show a bit of potential, son. You might have a bit of a career ahead of you .. Don't give up the day job though. And lastly get yourself some new trousers.
I have decided to take time this year getting acquainted with all that Dylan has to offer - the great, the good, and the rest...this is a fantastic place to start. What an awesome recording....
Find this historically very interesting. "You sound like a hillbilly. Need folksingers here..." Who said that ? No harm meant - thx thx 4 posting. Greetz fr Cete - Herzl
When I was a kid (I'm almost Bob's age), my parents and others thought he couldn't sing. Listen to this, and you realize that, even at that age, Bob was the greatest singer of the 20th Century. And I'm including the best opera singers here. I sincerely hope I die before Bob. I couldn't take it.
...He got to keep you blueheuuuu!!!!!!...,...OOHHoooohh, I hope you all have a good night, and never forget to Dance hearing this one man Tks for ths Swingin`Pig
The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in Old Church Slavonic as vlachu, and applied to the Rumanians, hence Wallachia.
Just discovered this gem, thanks for sharing and for including Lady Sad Eye's description with yours. Born in 1961, I didn't know previously that Bob Dylan actually went to NYC that year. Always fascinated by him, I sang "Blowing In The Wind" for a 5th grade talent show. Time was running out, and I was told to just sing the first verse. I opened my mouth, and the third verse came out. ❣️ I love, respect and admire Bob more than I can say. Prolific. Just this week I heard him compared to Shakespeare. Bob Dylan is the Shakespeare of our times. ❣️✌️🥀
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