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-online.com/all-books...
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.
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.
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!
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......
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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..... 🤔
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
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.
@@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
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.
