Filmed in Bob Dylan's trailer while he was working on the Hollywood movie HEARTS OF FIRE, in which Dylan played a retired rocker called Billy Parker. This clip is part of a BBC 'Omnibus' documentary called 'Getting to Dylan' (1987)
I feel like he’s just sizing up interviewers to see if they’re worth his time and wants it to be on his terms. They start asking the right questions after a while
Rex Mundi What a cool drawing. Bob Dylan was not only a great songwriter, he was also a good artist too. Kanye going around calling himself a genius; he doesn't know what true genius is. Dylan is genius; Ray Charles was genius; Stevie Wonder is a genius. Kanye is NOT a genius.
By the time of interview Grunge was already a “sound in the air”, it was already happening like he said, there are kids playing a bit of the old stuff! Nirvana was formed in 1987, but others band started making a grunge sound in the Hardcore Punk scene!! It wasn’t totally predicted I suppose!!
When you go see Bob, you just take him the way he is. He plays what he plays and you either like it or you don’t. I know cause I’ve seen him three times in concert.
1986..drum machines and other software can produce a lot more sounds that used to be played by multiple musicians...So Bob called that out and it's now the way a lot of people make music...I think of 'Ballad of a thin man regarding the interviewer.
Dylan is really having fun in this interview, putting on the interviewer. The way he turned the table on the interviewer by drawing him during the interview was hilarious. “Do you know what I’m talking about.”
If you are wondering why Bob looks so fed up and miserable in this clip, take a look at the film he was making at the time, Hearts of Fire. Then you'll know why.
the reason he was ignoring the interviewer in part 1 is because he nervous and uncomfortable...hence the drawing but the more time goes by....he talks more and gets more comfortable with the guy' he's sooo cute!
I am so impressed by his ability not to completely lose it given the ridiculous questions and insinuations along with the woman in the back telling Dylan his sketch is "good, that's good" like a grade school art teacher or my old auntie.
@@richardwillford2418 the point of the quoted passage is that you still need to write good music to make good music. He's not saying 'you can't make good music with synthesizers', just 'synthesizers can't make good music on their own.'
Actually, he literally, predicted exactly what Nirvana would do, and the exact year they would do it. 2:49 This interview was in 1986, ‘Nevermind’ was released in 1991. That’s when Nirvana completely changed the landscape of “Popular Music”. Before that, it was inconceivable for an “underground” Artist to become “famous/Pop Stars”. And, Nevermind went on to be higher on the Charts-than Michael Jackson. ‘Nevermind’ is what ended “synthetic”, carbon copy, Pop and Rock Music-that Dylan was talking about.
You know when the interview’s over and Bob’s alone he says to someone: “Can I get some more markers? These are all woorn ouuut. Just tryin to make these doodles. While I’m giivennn this INTERVIEWW. Same talk same hairstyle. Since nineteenth sixty TEW.”
I love the trailer Bob! God, that was so long ago. I also love the way you think. We only own our souls. Money has nothing to do with that. No one can take that away because it's all ours. Thank you for sharing what you love with us. Your inspiration has touched our souls.
It depends on what kind of modern music you're listening to. Popular music is only crappy now because it's easy to listen to for the casual music fan, who doesn't really give a second thought to the quality of their music. But that's just what it is- popular music. Very little of today's music is actually popular or well known, there are many unknown yet brilliant artists around today, you just don't go looking for them.
He's cool with metaphors! Choosing to draw the interview in the first place, then the interviewer asks him if he likes what he has drawn and he answers that there is a bundch of thing he don't like about, but he will get it right! Lol, like he is working on the interviewer, basicly somehow softening him or reschooling him. Not that i think he is preaching or beein holy and all that stuff, just giving him a human face - he is even drawing him quite loveable somehow :)
gsnitable he's not doing any of that he's just doodling out of nervous energy ! people are so retarded about this guy . he's a good lyricist and great musician he's being up front with you he's not implying anything . calm down he's just a guy lol he constantly says he is just being normal and he's not gonna say anything too important. then he sits in a trailer and smokes 5 cigarettes doodled on crumpled up notebook paper . lol he's a little high I think but who knows
how the hell did bob dylan know that, 4 or 5 years (1990/91) from the point which this interview took place that music would change... bob said the kids werent listening to the music in the mainstream (aka madonna/poison) and kids were listneing to older stuff like for example kurt cobain was (older punk bands and the beatles/led zeppelin etc). and that these kiids wuld change music and Heck bob even said it will be exciting and fuck It was!
'NOT 4 ME..I DON'T PLAT THAT GAME'.. There's no 1 that I'd spend ANY time listening...let alone HEARING, what another says being interviewed OTHER than BD...always straight up..true blue. Young girl long ago & traveled w/every BD album from NY 2 CA.& back again..75 yr.'s young now w/a whole Lotta respect 4 BD since it was a rare time you'd get dialogue let alone tapes 4 us 2 hear/view . MAKING MY DAYS amazing...This is my 1st cell ever so u can imagine how great this is 4 me.
Music never found the same in the Motown era,,,, These were pure musicians.... Pure writers ,pure singers.... From Aretha to the Jackson 5..... From Smokey to the pee funk.....lol All were sure and pure......
The 'mock concert' referred to by the interviewer was a scene from the film 'Hearts of Fire, involving a performance by Bob in character as 'Billy Parker'.
i totally understand that.....there's something extremely interesting about him that goes beyond music....he's just so badass. i'm only 19, its strange to have a crush on him....but the minute he starts talking...it's like wow
The BIG problem with today's music is that all of the best & live musicians have been replaced by computer generated music. We need to put talented musicians back to work again.
if you ever saw Don't Look Back, there is a scene with Bob dealing with a British reporter that sounds just like this guy, asking similar questions he should know Bob (or any other human) wouldn't have a good answer for. It's as if this reporter is the same dude twenty one years later. They never learn. Don't fuck with Bob.
also, he's drawing because he's brain is always being creative...he can't turn it off i love how he holds up his picture.. like a little kid waiting for them to say it's good:)
I'd like to have an interview with Bob and maybe sign my guitar but I would really like to have a talk with him...just you know talk not interview but like a "Hey how are you doing?" kinda talk. Just simple stuff.
"In four or five years, it's all going to turn around" - yep, it sure did. You could say this was prescient - but I guess even in 1986, the signs were there. In 1991 we got what the press called "grunge" - and that spawned alternative music after. But what Dylan talks about regarding synthetic music, having no ... history ... well, it went and got one - the machines got better, but more importantly, the _use_ of those machines got better - and it went and got that history. The important thing being the _creative_ use, by humans, of those tools. He was 45 at this time - and hell, he looks it - hard life, I guess. 31 years later, he's still touring. Still touring - the never ending tour.
he drawing and doing the interview....he's talking to him and answering his questions...just not in the ordinary way other people do.... but he's doing the interview people . and drawing the guy (he should be flatter that he's drawing him...it's nice)
You could pretend to cough and then sniff as if you were doing both. Maybe I'll start doing that too, and all it will be is me being sad. Sniff sniff :( That was then , this is now. I heard a show (Americana tour) where the announcer said Bob Dylan escaped or survived substance abuse. If you don't know him by now, you will never ever ever get to know him ....
A magnificent songwriter ...poet.. He speeks with music and poetry.... Why all this questioning about What????? Finding out who he is ...what he is thinking about...... Lalla tralla... Forgett it.....
He is right about the 'synthetic' music these days,.. The music back in the 90s was interesting,..But now many of the musicians from that time are in their 30s & 40s and have stopped making interesting music. Today i find music coming out totally synthetic. I can't even bear to turn on the radio. Not to discredit good musicians out there, ( i'm sure there are many), ..but they are just not being heard.
