Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (Audio) Reaction 

“The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.” That line needs its own video review.

I am 77 years old and have been listening to Bob since I was 21. I have been watching you and am very surprised that you really get Bob after such a short time. You even laugh at the right time. I think you're a Bobcat. I would recommend Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again.

As a lifelong Dylan fan I’m really enjoying seeing the reaction of someone enjoying him for the first time. You’re making great selections and your commentary is 10/10

Good to see someone reacting to Dylan. He's a genius.

I don't see anyone listening to Dylan's classic "Just Like a Woman"

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) and/or Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin'

My fave of this absolutely astonishing album

One of my fave Dylan songs ♥

Thank you!!! Keep playing Dylan. I have great admiration for people that "get" DYLAN for the genius he is!!!

One of the greatest rock albums of all time, up there with the Velvet Underground and Nico

Hi Teez- Its a pleasure watching you get acquainted with & become a Bob Dylan appreciator. Im 75 years old -(about 6 years younger than him) and like many of the 60's generation feel so blessed to hear Dylan & listen to his remarkable words and phrasing, which are unbelievably precise. Obviously he does not have a great voice, but his brain and acting ability allow him to sell each phrase to every listener. His songs have been covered by more artsts than any other singer in history, His Nobel prize for Literature was the 1 and only for a pop- Artist in history- Keep listening to him and please read about his career. Dr. King asked him to perform at The March on Washington in 1963- of course he accepted and sang his song Blowin' in the Wind- a major anthem of the Civil Rights Movement- My Best Wishes- Bruce

His voice back then was sublime.

_Desolation Row_ You're welcome.

One of the greatest songs of all time. Beautiful. Good to see someone hear it for first time.

Always one of my Dylan favorites. I love this whole Blonde On Blonde album. Good call. Thanks - i enjoyed this a lot -

Broke up with the first wife with a lot of bad feelings, saw her for the first time in 15 years about 2 years ago.. first thing that came to mind when I saw her.."ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face".

“Louise she’s alright she’s just near / she’s delicate and seems the like mirror / but just makes it all concise and too clear / that Joanna’s not here / the ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face / but these visions of Joanna / have now taken her place”. No none else could have come close to writing this.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's all right, she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall How can I explain? It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees" Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" But like Louise always says "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, prepares for him And Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (This song is also from ‘Blonde on Blonde’)

I've been listening to this since June, 1966. Many considered it his greatest song until "Blood On the Tracks".

That's about the funkiest Telecaster I've ever heard. I think we have a major Dylan fan being born! Peace of Christ.

You made my day, thank you so much! It's my all-time favourite song, and nobody reacts to it.

You are correct sir. People should light a candle a really listen to the man . God must’ve touched him somehow because the words are gripping and penetrating to the soul. It’s phenomenal! Really!

One of his best.

Note the progression in the lyrics from "conquer my mind" to . . . "have now taken my place," and then beyond that.

THE HARMONICAS PLAY THE SKELETON KEYS AND THE RAIN

I love Bob Dylan

There are so many great Dylan songs. You’ll like Fifth Time Around

Mona Lisa must’ve heard the highway blues, your can tell by the way she smiles...

Yo you have the some of the best reviews on here my dood! You should check out The Band. They played with Dylan in the 60s and 70s. One of the tightest groups ever.

I’ve been listening to Dylan for 30 years. It’s interesting to me to watch what aspects of the song grab your interest. You will often highlight something about the song that I don’t notice so much.

Always one of my favorite Dylan songs. Thanks!

Yes, eyes closed for sure!

Bob Dylan is one of my deciples I AM

Described by Bono as the greatest opening verse to any song, who am I to argue with that. The best closing lines are of course “The pump don’t work caus the vandals took the handles”.

Teez McGee you are awesome! So cool. thank you for doing this. This song is from my childhood. I want it played ay my funeral.

One of my fav Dylan songs. It's rather opaque and hard to understand in parts but it flows so well and casts such feelings

Teez, "Blond on Blond" literally changed my life when it first came out, It changed how I saw life and listened to music, to this day it is my #1 desert Island pick. You shoould be commended for going down the Dylan rabbit hole,you have reacted to more of his music than any other reactor on RU-vid and believe me you will be a better person for taking that journey.

Blond On Blond the first double album to come out on rock and Roll I listen to this song at least 3 times a week and I love the second song on that album sooner or later one of us must know

Joe South on that bass.. hell yeah

Probably the best song Dylan ever wrote which would make it the best song ever written by anybody! You gotta give this song multiple listens to fully appreciate it.

wow one made it through!!!! i see that your reacts to Dylan keep getting shut down (so maddening!!). but I would love for you to try Subterranean Homesick Blues (both the song and the video had huge cultural impact, before videos were even a thing, let alone had that kind of impact). I'll have my fingers crossed that it survives.

This is one of my favorite Dylan tracks ever. Thanks for doing it.

Blonde on Blonde is awesome.... Every song.

Its 3am here in England and i am loving this!! This is absolutely my favourite song ever. You should listen to the live version of it from 66/67 while on tour in the uk. :)

A masterpiece by a Nobel Laureate.

Seen him do this live in Liverpool in 1966, amazing.

"Hear the one with the mustache say, 'JEEEEEEZE, I can't find my kneeees!''"

My favorite, thanks

Love this song

Blond on Blond is one hell of an album bro

lets goo. Great reaction, love this song

Once the Bob bug bites you that’s it, it’s with you for life.

The Marianne Faithful cover of this is worth a listen/reaction. You know , she was on Mick Jagger’s arm for a bit back when. And she’s a diva in her own right. Still today she’s a true icon. Maybe ? Thx .

its not Dylan blocking you...he just sold his music to Universal for 400M

"Shakespeare was the Dylan of his time" - Sir Paul Castagna

Killer stuff. Been listening for decades since a kid. Love to see people discover Dylan.

Love Dylan I think he's one of the best songwriters that ever came around maybe the best songwriter in America for sure

Beautiful

He's not the only one from Portugal ahah

Thank you for doing this one!

Noticing your Beatles poster. It was Dylan who turned the Beatles onto weed and lsd.

Listen to his Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

Props for Tiago for suggesting this one, one of my favourites, listen to "not dark yet" also from Dylan, i believe you will like it...oh and watch the movie "im not there, im gone", a artistic bio-pic about dylans career with Christian bale, cate blanchett, Richard gere and health ledger, awesome movie

One of the most beautiful descriptions of a LSD happening ever described

The girls whisper of escapades out on the D train

you're dope, keep it up really enjoy you enjoying music.

I'm new to you teez I like and than your authenticity. Thru all the different kinds of music if thus seen h erel respect, ;)

Gotta go deeper into this album, one of his best. Check out, "Stuck inside of Mobile w/ the Memephis Blues again" . Rockin Bluesy tune !!!

Bob Dylan the legend my favorite song

Good lad. Amazing tune

Play this at 4am just before the dawn...and I guarantee you will hear those heat pipes coughs for real.

Same Lp, I Want You, Just Like A Woman, Rainy Day Women #12&35. Also a single from this period Positively 4th Street, it's brutal, the ultimate diss track. This man didn't mince words. This Lp and single was his electric rock period 65-66. Dylan said in 64 he was in a station wagon going thru Colorado when I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles came on the radio. He made his driver pull over so he could listen. Said he knew that moment that this was the way of the future. Later that summer he met them in NYC while they were on their first US tour. Place - Plaza Hotel 1964. Historic moment - Dylan turns Beatles on to Reefer for the first time. This was the game changer for them. All one has to do is check out their music from 65 on. Dylan told Lennon at this meeting he really dig the lyric I get high in I Want To Hold Your Hand

You rock Teez

A little gem from the man, half mozart & half Shakespeare. Dylan master wordsmith

Since I first heard this song, maybe 15 years ago, I've been trying to decipher the entirety of it. I still don't think I fully understand it. But goddamn I love it. The poetry in this song is just on another level. So much analysis into the lyrics is really required to understand the beauty of this song.

If you haven't done this, listen to it a few times. It's like a number of Dylan's song, there's a lot to it which really can't be taken in during one listen.

I'm getting such a kick out of the DJ.Most of us know these songs by heart, but his reactions are so genuine.

This is my favorite song ever.

My favorite Dylan song, thank you. The version on Biograph is the best.

Here’s an idea for u. Martin Scorsese’s documentary on Bob, No Direction Home, is on Netflix. Y not watch that n it will give u a quick orientation to his importance. Even the first 30 min or so is a great American music history lesson!

About A mans fall into temptation of lust. Such an amazing poet/song writer.

Universal recently bought the publishing rights to Bob Dylans' music catalog; I don't imagine it's going to be any easier to get his music past the YT roadblocks. Good you got this one up, Teez👌

One of Dylan’s best which means one of the greatest cuts ever made

My fav Dylan album, from a long list of contenders...

If you’re stoned; this is the song.

JUST LIKE TOM THUMBS BLUES "When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too and your gravity fails and negativity won't pull you through don't put on any errors down on Rue Morgue Avenue etc etc....." It's all good. Like the Beatles, Dylan got better with every L.P.. his voice changed also with every album. YOU GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY came after his conversion in the late 70s.

Time to get into whole albums! or songs like Desolation Row, It's Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding, Ballad of a Thin Man, Mr Tambourine Man, Don't Think Twice, All Along The Watchtower, Changing of the Guard.

One of my favorites of his! So evocative. There’s an even better version of it on his Biograph collection. Look up how young he was for his first albums up to this one (Blonde on Blonde) He uses the harmonica on most of his songs, esp the very early ones when he was a one man band. His idol was Woody Guthrie and wanted to emulate Woody who did the same thing. Bob got to meet Woody once at the hospital before he died n later wrote a song tribute to him.

Yo TEEZ. What is there to say. Bob Dylans ability to put words together the way he does is breathtaking. Sraying on the folk road try John Prine - Illegal Smile. We have all had an illegal smile at some point in our life.

I've never been able to find it on youtube but if you get a chance to hear his live acoustic version that's on his Biograph three-record set, you'll be pleased by how much this studio electric version pales in comparison

This guy gets it

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall is the most devastatingly beautiful protest song ever written. Patti Smith sang it at the Nobel ceremony when she went to accept the literature prize for Bob. It had better be an amazing song with amazing lyrics if it is the one you chose to sing in Stockholm, the lyrics being judged by much of the world that may not ever have heard him before. Her performance ends up being more emotional than expected, but saying why would be a spoiler. It's available on RU-vid.

Listen to the alternate version of this song with Paul Butterfield getting loose and love Joe South on the bass

New to your channel.BOB DYLAN is a true poet.know through music circles the greatest lyricist ever. Check his BLOOD ON THE TRACKS ALBUM. On the STREET LEGAL album all the songs are great but give "WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT" the words a are incredible. You're right in what you said he rapped before there was rap

If you're gonna go deep into Dylan like this, I gotta subscribe. Thanks man.

Teez ya gotta see him live.

1966 Dylan is on a whole different level to anything else

Tangled up in blues would be a good Bob Dylan song

YOO PLZ DO ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE THE LIVE VERSION!!! He has a WHOLE big band and a SICK violinist..70s Dylan is for sure my Fav Dylan