I discovered this version in a bootleg in 2006 when I was only 13. I had started getting into Bob's music the year before. In 2006 I saw him live for the very first time. Now I'm at six gigs and still counting. I'm 24 and I've been listening, reading and studying Bob's songs and writings since 2005. Thanks to him I'm a different person. He's my idol and he will always be. The greatest genius of our times!
Awesome. I first got into Bob in high school when I was 15,16 in the mid nineties. My first show was in 1998 (I ended up seeing him 3 times that year) at the Gorge in my home state of WA. I've seen him a total of nine times. I always say Bob is God just because it makes people mad. Street Legal has always been a favorite because it came out in 1978 and that's the year I was born. Favorite two songs are Dirge and Not Dark Yet.
I started listening to him at about the same age as you did. Difference is I was born in 1955. I've got to go to 10 of his concerts. It's been years since I've been to one though. Like you I've always felt blessed to grow up in his time. Always nice to read a comment like yours.
One thing that sometimes makes me feel alone in this world is when I come across someone who doesn't get Dylan. Then, when I read heartfelt comments by other Dylan appreciators, it gives me hope again.
I can feel exactly the same way. The best thing is, when people that you are sure is not Bob Dylan fans, opens up and wants you to hear their favorite Bob Dylan song
I have been listening to Dylan's work for over 45 years, his music still sounds fresh and relevant. He is an unmatched talent - I'm lucky to have lived in his era!
+jokerman I agree! And I LOVE your username, "Jokerman" a great track of a GREAT album, 1983's "Infidels", which contained such gems as "Sweetheart Like You", "Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight", "License to Kill" and of course, your username, "Jokerman".. Bob's career is studded with myriad highlights, you have to love him! Peace, love & respect from musician and Dylan-nut Davey, from Ireland. :)
+jokerman I agree! And I LOVE your username, "Jokerman" a great track off a GREAT album, 1983's "Infidels", which contained such gems as "Sweetheart Like You", "Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight", "License to Kill" and of course, your username, "Jokerman".. Bob's career is studded with myriad highlights, you have to love him! Peace, love & respect from musician and Dylan-nut Davey, from Ireland. :)
When I was 13 years old I first heard Dylan singing Mr Tambourine man, it started a life long love of his music... I am 67 years old now. and still feel the same listening to his music as I did back then... As a 20 year old my then girlfriend an avid Elvis fan told me that Elvis would always be the king., my reply was If Elvis is the king then Dylan is God...
Actually, they are both god. And don't forget Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard or Gordon Lightfoot or any of the greats whom have left us spinning. How about Neil Young? My own personal belief is that those who get it at an early enough age, in terms of 'life's meaning' and mankind's purpose in it ,well what can you say? His lucky break really began with Guthrie and the black man's blues. To see a man or woman and not see color is a special gift. And didn't Dylan and Guthrie in so many others have that gift? One more I would like to add to the list of greats:Greg Brown!
Just love the way he phrases the line , " theatre of Devine comedy" absolutely beautiful . I actually find myself listening to this a few times a day .
Just dropped in on a never-ending tour of the new Nobel Laureate's greatest RU-vid movements. A great day for American culture. Congratulations to Mr D . . .
One of my favourite songs by Bob. It sounds a bit like Wagon Wheel, which a band performs at my workplace from time to time. But when they play it I'm reminded of this song, and Bob's genius.
Fanstastic version of a wonderful song. Nobody could do it like this 'cept Dylan. In my opinion he's the best singer the world has ever seen. I'll see him performing in Main next Saturday. Can't wait... Frank
Me too but I was in middle school in 93, I heard dont think twice in a movie and fell in love. I've had the priveledge of seeing him live 17 times since 96. Yay I love my fellow Bob lovers
I can never decide if I have a favorite Dylan song. My favorite is always whatever Dylan song I'm listening to at the moment. The first time I heard this gem was when I played the Biograph album. I loved it immediately.
+Jahara Rhiannon I had this version as a bootleg years ago... Never thought I'd hear it again. I love the Biograph version, but I love this too. I have no favourite, as I consider the two of them DIFFERENT songs :) Great stuff nonetheless.. Davey
Those 3 albums- Saved, Shot of Love, Slow Train Coming...are fu*king fantastic. It may have been a confusing time for fans and critics, but it was one of Dylan's most creative periods. The music is spot on and the lyrics came straight from the gut. I was 8 years old when Slow Train came out and I first saw him in concert. As a life long Dylan fan, I find this period in his career fascinating. Thank you for posting!
Awesome version. I told a DJ about the Biograph version once. The station played it damn near endlessly after that. THIS is not guite as hard a rocking version but the lyrics are classic! That radio is long off the air. DYLAN IS STILL HERE!!!!!!!!!
after hearing this for months when i couldn't find the original version on youtube,, i gotta say i like this one as much if not more ,,, god bless this man :)
lol at all the people who say "80's Dylan was shite" ... yeah right ... Caribbean Wind, Blind Willie McTell, Groom Still Waiting at Altar, Every Grain of Sand ..... etc etc .... Id take his 80's output over anything by anybody else, ever.
Bob's religious adventure is some of his clearest and best listening gifts. He looks the happiest ever those unemployment, recession, gas war and THE LAST NO WAR DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
I can find a Dylan song over and over. A new version or one I haven't heard for a while..although he's been in my life everyday for years, and the music ( this song right now) distills my heart for the day. Brings my life and my people I love and have loved into such clear focus, but with new layers. The words bring time and place to me so clearly. This man has brought such goodness and helped me through such hard times. The loving and loosing and pain and joy of life. Thank you
Any other pop or rock Singer should pay with their own Blood for writing/singing such a marvellous masterpiece. For HIs Bobness Just only an Outtake! He travels on a parallel universe.
I'm listening to this every day and right before I go to bed. What can you do if you're in love with a song by a guy you're in love with too? My two younger sisters don't know anything about Dylan. They think he's some sixties singer who's not around any more! Can you believe that? Same thing about Leonard Cohen. I feel sorry for people who will Never go to a concert by these ultimate artists. But hey I offered to teach them! Their Loss! Then Bob gets the Nobel for Literature! They just stare at me like oh she wasn't Kidding! No I wasn't! Gotta go listen to this again.................
wow, the sound quality on this video is amazing. Absolutely beautiful song, a tropical visions of Johanna tinged in heartfelt spirituality and genuine human nobility. But ya'll knew that already.
53 albums and still going strong !!! Keep going Bob. How many songs ?? anyone bothered to count. I come upon a new song everytime I am in RU-vid, still after 40yrs.
Damn, What sort of gift allowed this man to change personas as they applied to the era? ...I know America is a work in progress, I only hope the work continues,.
I didnt know this song. Wow !thanks. It's so great! Always..a wonderful key change in there and imaginative melody.Holy cow ! What interesting passages musically. I'll examine the lyrics 2nd time.
amazing how Bob can translate the atmosphere of what a song title evokes through his music ... ( I was also thinking of " One more cup of coffee" !)...
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison And the executioner's face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin' And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. That's prophet level shit
The intro ,,,, then the build up ,,,, it's amazing ...anyway,... how could a piece of music be so full of the essence of Thunder ... the melody scans one's brain also ,,, the part that pulls you into a crazed whole.
+M Tolstoy That's what a lot of the bootleg stuff is. He knows people have heard the songs, and wrote so many it was too much for so many albums. He also gave a lot of songs away that he rarely sings himself.
Right on Letsif.People are sometimes afraid of what they will never understand.Hell,I have loved Dylan since I first heard him. I play a lot of Dylan guitar and harmonica. I have a song his songs on the street as a street singer since I was 22 years old. One time I was playing in Burlington Vermont and I wasn't making a nickel and I was not making a nickel and there were lots of people. I used to carry Dylan's book of words on the street with me. Desperately trying to make a nickel for a dime, I turned the page and played and play the one about Little Red wagon little red bike I ain't no monkey but I know what I like...and this Canadian fellow comes over and throws $320 in my case;no lie. He appeared to be from the Middle East region, perhaps Iran or Turkey. He had tears in his eyes when he threw the money in my case.
I actually like some of the later lyrics from the official version, but I love a lot of the ones here and wish he kept them. The performance and music in this version is so much better too.
What beautiful , heart reaching lyrics to Caribbean Wind !! I can not see it noted who wrote it ; it surely seems like Bob did or if he didnt he puts his own fabulous spin on it as he does every song he writes or version of songs ! A video of wonderment and awe built into the emotional delivery , which is another side of Dylan , which people rarely mention first about Bob !!!!!!!
Amen Brother..I say the same thing! I was the only one in GRADE school in the late 70 listening to Bob. Everyone else was listening to shite like "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jack..Meanwhile, I'm walking around singing Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of hearts!
