You are SO correct. I hope google leaves it alone. It does not need an update, format change, etc. Please, just let us have this one thing you so aptly describe, and indeed it is, as a "Time Machine."
I’m 44. This is the first Bob Dylan song I heard. It came over the radio while my dad and I were on the way home. I said Dad, I love this song!! It made him so happy bc he loved Bob Dylan 💕 I was from that point on a forever fan. My Dad is now in Heaven and anytime I listen to Bob it makes my heart smile and feel close to my Dad
This was also my first Bob Dylan song i heard thru my dad. He had the Masterpieces 3 disc set. Cant get enough if Dylan now. This is my favourite video on youtube ❤❤
For me it was the first Dylan song I heard in the radio with my dad too but the first song I remember listening to is STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN by Dylan too
I'm 81 and an "older" child of the 60s. I'm expecting more years as a healthy man, but when it's time I will be grateful that I lived in the time of the 1960s and the music of Bob Dylan.
I had just been discharged from the navy. And walked up the hill in Newport to listen to the Jazz festive. It was a magical time and those 4 days will always be in my memory. I’m 80 now and it’s like yesterday.
Oh heavens. I miss that era so much. I’m happy in old age. I’ve tasted success. I’ve got the love of a wonderful man over the past 53 years and great kids and a grandson, but nothing compares to the 60’s and 70’s. So glad we have RU-vid that allows us to drift back to a simpler time of youth and exuberance. Rock on Bob Dylan. Bless your creative soul! ❤
Hello, Oh my goodness gracious. I am so happy for your life and how its turned out. Good for you. I do have to disagree with you about those being simpler times. Think back a little. During those times I will remind you of a few stressful things that we went through. John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X and the Black Panthers were assassinated. Along with Love ins, Woodstock, The Gong Show, Laugh-In and absolutely wonderful things like that, there were the Stones concert at Altamont, Charles Manson, Kent State and the Watt's Riots, where more than a few people died. Remember Nixon's Impeachment or Nixon's and Agnew's resignations? Watergate? Men could not enter Disneyland with hair that touched the ear, until taken to court. Where the United States Supreme Court told Disney that a person's appearance is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. This decision banned dress codes in the U.S. and changed the way that we dress forever. I did like that one, being a Hippie and all. Anyway, I really do not think that life was so simple back in those times. To me, being a teenager back in the 60's, as I remember it with my 77 year old addled brain, was a lot more complicated. I mean, I was a boy and there were girls out there. And Vietnam! It's simpler for me now. I'm to old for war and I've been married to a wonderful lady who still lets me through the door after 30 years. I just try to go with the flow. That's how I make my life simpler. That and not using Social Media. Peace
@@jmleaf8102Have never forgotten all that went on at that time. Please note I called them simpler, not simple times. Peace and happiness to you and yours.
+Cedrick Castro when I saw him last year people were very civil and applauded occasionally and at the end of songs. Sometimes cheering a bit if he did something particularly cool.
Quasimodo That's cool too :) It's just that people i've seen especially teens scream too much on concerts but it's not really much of a problem though.
It is wonderful - except that he misses out a whole verse! "Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun It's not aimed at anyone It's just escaping on the run And but for the sky there are no fences facing And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme To your tambourine in time It's just a ragged clown behind I wouldn't pay it any mind It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing"
@@honestlynuts__ Thanks. I went through the letters of the alphabet,looking for something that rhymes with Boomer. When I got to "T",I knew that's what I was looking for.
what "never lived in"... some of us never left. the thing about classics is that they have away not fading into obscurity. but this new generation has my heart felt sympathy. we thought we were saving the world. and now it is for you to replace us by trying to save the planet. forget trump.. he is just an instrument of history. he is the tool that dynasties manifest when it is time for a culture to lose its essence. the important stuff is still the same. love, share.. and try to avoid extinction.
A lovely thought. I was in my second year of high school in 1964 and I can tell you that hearing about Bob Dylan was a slow process. An album or two that nobody played on radio and concerts here and there. News travelled slowly and filtered up through the underground. Remember that this was the same time that the Beatles were becoming known outside of England. It was magical because there wasn’t a lot going on media wise. Like A Rolling Stone in 1965 was the big explosion. Thank you for sharing your thought. It kind of woke up a lot of nostalgia on an old man.
Wow, thank you. I was a senior in high school in 64...funny thing, all of the these rock and roll singers are still very popular. I sing their songs, hear their songs in the stores, malls, etc. I say...what a great addiction. I was born at the right period of time! Mjensen
Allways makes me cry watching this like im missing out on the past and missing the now by spending my time in the past at the same time. And yet i return...
+Nathan Caillat Yes, I agree with You, Bryan & James ALL OF THEM with their different thoughts...GR8... A connoisseur of music would get soaked in the Poetry, the rhythm and the lilting music....INDEED the crowds would silently applaud and the real encomiums come from the thunder of hand claps at the end of the song...non-stop for at least 4 mins. The REAL modern day crowd-cheering, as contemplated, should go on before the announcement of the song , Absolute silence and Admiration while the music starts playing and a thunder of hand claps after the song is rendered...The critique in all three is very WELL SAID
He said in later life that he didnt know where these genius songs of his early years came from. They seemed to him to write themselves. To me, he just channeled into the ultimate in what that genre could do giving himself humbly to what it offered and made songs that will live forever. Genius at work.
I am 17 year old . I am at a crossroads in my life and nothing seems right but i am listening to this song for the First time today and it's raining outside i just hope everything turns out all right... Ik it will .
Nothing is promised in life except death. Work hard and try to do your best, that's the only good option, don't get discouraged if you fail. And remember that there are things that you can't control, don't worry about them, ask God for his help and focus on fixing whatever you can actually fix. Wish you very well man, i'm 19 and I also feel confused about many things but that's my best advice
Try an alcoholic drink, decide it's not really for you, try a cigarette, decide it's definitely not for you, find a kind and gentle partner - have a long hard think if you want to bring children into this world, don't let anyone put pressure on you, find a job you actually enjoy, remember personal happiness is the best thing you can hope for.
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship My senses have been stripped My hands can't feel to grip My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade Into my own parade Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it
@@ChrisGee-rx9gg Drugs. Read the lyrics. It's about drugs. "Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship" If you've ever been on LSD, you'll know what he sings about. Or maybe not. Interpreting lyrics is yours to decide. Maybe it's about diarrhea, too.
When I heard this song for the first time, in the middle of the sixties, I was 16 or 17. I heard about my own story, just a kid boring in a small and ugly town, dreaming about another world, and about a tambourine man, to take him away. I'm now 68, I've traveled a lot, and my life has been a good one, most of my dreams came true. I'm now retired and I very often play my Martin HD28. Bob Dylan is a very good part of my life. Friendship, health for everybody, we shall overcome, all together. Sorry for my language !! I'm French.
I totally had to laugh at what you wrote at the end: "Sorry for my language. I'm French." The reason this made me laugh is because in the USA, we used to say, "Please excuse my French," after accidentally (or even intentionally) saying a bad word. People don't really use that idiom much anymore. Your language is wonderful, though. I liked hearing about your story. You're lucky most of your dreams came true.
It makes sense that he received a Nobel prize but it also speaks to the inadequacy of the prize in his regard. His ability to capture the wonder of life in his poetic style makes his work significant for all ages.
Hello 👋🏻 Miranda, how are you doing? hope you are fine. Im Mark Clifford and am from Denver Colorado. what about you ? you seem like a real country girl
1 guitar, 1 harmonica.....he redefined modern music....thank God (or anyone above us) to let me share an space of my time in this world, with a genius like Bob Dylan.
Yeah that sounds nice but a Habs fan is still just a Habs fan ;) Haha cheers from someone indoctrinated into the Leafs from birth, can't say I care for hockey (possibly for a reason... 1967, oof...) but I do like the banter. Odd name on you though; first name seems kinda Spanish maybe and the last name... well it seems almost kinda Japanese to me lol A strange specimen to be sure.
This is Pete Seeger introducing Bob Dylan- what a moment in time..... It´s so beautiful. I am 69 now and I am so grateful there was such music when I was young.
He seemed older than his years back then. Looking at this now through old eyes, he looks so young. He said himself, “I have no idea where some of those words came from…back then.” It was magical.
i did live in this era i was 19 years old when this classic came out . now im 74 years old thats a long time to be in love with bob dylan and this special fab song x
I remember him quoting some of his lyrics from that period, on a 60 minutes interview maybe 10 years ago. Ed Bradley asked him something to effect of "could you write like that again?" and he exhaled, thought a few seconds and said "no." I guess the energy and "anything's possible" optimism of youth gets your brain fired up to write like that.
I’m 36. I just discovered this song. What happened to talent like this? When I watch this I tear up from the power in this song and I tear up for the future generations. There will never be another moment like this ever again.
@@duganred people have been saying this forever lol. people were saying this about bob dylan. There is plenty of talent, you can’t just listen to the shitty music in the charts and then conclude there’s no talent. There is talent everywhere, not necessarily concentrated in the mainstream
@@rebelraime2524 I see it completely different. Of course there are talented musicians out there but not many in the limelight. Example, the Super Bowl last year featured Rihanna. Taylor Swift (the actor) is selling albums and selling out stadiums like the Beatles. Now you don’t have to agree, but you have to shake your head at that shit. I mean, I don’t listen to anything the industry manufactures and for good reason. At least in the 80s and 90s (and obviously before) the mainstream cash cow acts were fucking talented enough to nod your head to. The garbage today is literally the same 3 major chords on loop and a looped drum beat. There’s a reason people still crave DMB, Dead and Co, Stevie Nicks, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Dylan, Metallica, the Stones, etc bc they deliver. All bands over 30 years old.. keep us standing
Why did anyone think it was necessary to put pickups in acoustic guitars? Many of these old videos prove that they are unnecessary if the sound tech knows what he's/she's doing.
agreed, truly magical. One of the many vids to peek into Bobs thoughts on writing music, was teh 60 minute Interview from Morely Safer. About 15 minutes if that long. He asked Bob about all of those songs he had written during that rush of "1960's Revolution of Music" time in history. His answer I never suspected, nor will I soon forget. Indeed we are a better people because of this man and other artists...delivering what is inside of them, through music and lyric....woot woot Bob Dylan!!!
It's almost impossible to describe what this song makes me feel. It's a feeling of longing, devotion, celebration, nostalgia, regret, happiness and sadness. And even more. Which is why I love Bob and his music so much. It's a layered and profoundly deep music that goes deep inside my mind and soul.
+Aaron Smith If you listen to the song you can tell it's about Bob Dylan's experience with drugs, the Tambourine Man is his drug dealer, Bob wants him to play a song for him (hit him with drugs) because he's not sleepy (not high on drugs) and his evenings empire returning into sand is his high wearing off. There is no proof of what this song is actually about, but anyone who has listened to this song deeply will know what what i said is true. You basically said that you are your baby boy's drug dealer, thus why i called your comment stupid.
bob I don't totally disagree with you that it might be about drugs. Who knows ? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised. The 60s was the golden age of cannabis and psychedelic use. They are mind altering drugs. However, wether it's about drugs or not, the imagery and poetry with deep unconscious and conscious spiritual undertones is mesmerizing. It goes deep. The song is really open to interpretation and that's the beauty and magic of it. I'd gladly take a "hit" and listen to this song. I'm sure I'd fly very high within my own mind ;)
Even as a younger person who never lived the 60s this is somehow nostalgic. Just the freedom of wandering the streets listening to buskers with nowhere to be. Wonderful classic.
I am 62, l live in Cuba,..still far from the end..gotta admit that my father had a record of Joan Baez,a French edition with all those hits,he was a music lover who introduced me to folk,Beatles,Jazz,Country and blues..later in life l became a musician and English teacher.. translator/interpreter..and of course,and of course, s debater and advocate for the U.S and the good values that most people share..warts and all,Misses Baez and Rondsdat were two of the most beautiful voices and ladies America ever produced..long live America and the legacy of Americana.
+Nexus NOMNOM Always will be relevant and will live as long as his songs are being played, which will be long after you are dead and buried. Oh yeah, and he will continue to influence future generations of songwriters and musicians long after anyone who knows you even exists.
I first listened to this non-radio, acoustic version right after the pandemic hit. The lyrics were almost prophetic. The timing of it all was very surreal. First time since 2020 that I came back to this video. Can't believe that was 4 years ago. I've come a long way in that time, and I'm learning to be grateful for the still long road ahead...
This was the first Dylan song I heard. I remember my dad telling me that he played it by my mom’s stomach when she was having me, and after I had been born it became my favorite Dylan song. I think “don’t think twice” is currently my favorite, but Tambourine Man takes me back to a specific time I think about often. It gets lonely sometimes, but that weariness amazes me as I wander those ancient empty streets…
Elle a été ma première chanson aussi, je l'avais écrite sur un cahier que j'ai gardé, je la réécoute souvent, nostalgie quand tu nous tiens; les yeux bleus de Bob Dylan...
rest in piece, she may not be here today but in your heart she is still listening to this song and i’m sure she is proud of you for whatever you’ve accomplished
Condolences. May the song ever remind you of the good she shared. May the song live in your life as well, that your grandbabies will remember this song, associating it with themselves, their parent, their grandparent, their great grandparent, and their great great grandparent is a family tradition. Sounds like you got a lot of ground work to establish, have fun.
A year after this video was recorded I was at Parris Island as a Marine recruit. Having been there for a month or so with no contact with the outside world, (especially the music world), I was at attention awaiting my turn at the doorway of the dentist office with a toothache, (homesick as hell). Inside the office, the permanent personnel had a radio going, (something foreign to us recruits), and this is the song that was playing. It became my favorite Dylan song and still brings back memories to this day, fifty-nine years later.
Que D.ieu vous garde David, Cette chanson est une de mes prèférées, Bob est un poète, un grand artiste, je suis âgée et il est toujours dans mon coeur. ,
comme c'est bien dit Lincoln ,Bob ne voulait pas de ce prix Nobel, il ne comprenait pas qu'il le méritait,il a fini par aller le chercher. Longue vie à Bob Dylan.
RU-vid really is a time machine. I can't believe we get to be transported back to 1964 and watch the legend Bob Dylan perform one of his most poetic songs. What a gift!
@@themule8625 The entire song is about drugs, things can be significant in different ways for different people. But this song, for Bob Dylan, is about drugs and all of the effects and results of drugs.
My favorite song of all time. When I'm lost I just play it. If I had to pick one song this is my song I picked out of all the songs on this world. Magical, spiritual, and beyond this world. This song is the greatest song ever made. The Tambourine man is Jesus and the struggles to succeed and this simplicity to just play a Tambourine. A lot of us struggle trying to find a skill set and a profession and the Tambourine man is about a man without much skill or talent but a man with an enormous heart and love and can play a Tambourine
I was there, in the crowd. We were all swept away, with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves. Beautiful song, beautifully performed, an instantaneous classic, it still moves me.
I’m 25 and I’ve been listening to Bob Dylan since my dad would play him in the car on rides to school. His music was some of the first to really paint a picture of what it must of been like when he was young. Thank you for the soul in your music and bringing me closer to my dad.
He was still making up story’s about him self at this point like he ran away with the circus at 13 and he used to sweep the floors for them but it’s all bull she
I heard this in college so many decades ago. I was 19. A tropical storm raged outside, and one raged inside my heart and this song was in sync with my feelings. I am in my 60's now and it still moves me like a seismic shift. Bob Dylan, when you die, I will feel it viscerally. Your songs are the air I breathe and the thought of losing you is hard to bear. I've never loved a singer more. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Cat Stevens - connect me to my teenage self again. I wish I could make time stand still and make you all young again.
I was also a 19 year old in college when I listened to this for the first time and I grew to love Bob Dylan and his music. I’m 22 now. I wonder how it’ll feel to listen to him when I am 60.
I understand what you're feeling. I think of it like this: We will always have Bob's music, therefore he will always be with us. "Death is not the end"
Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day… Stay Safe!
My dad's name is also Bob. He is currently on life support. The process of sending him to hospice starts tomorrow. My heart is breaking. But Bob Dylan's music is like a warm hug to me right now.
@@davidbartlett220 Hope is indeed on the horizon! Thank the heavens for the brilliant minds of our world coming together and making vaccines at such short notice to get us out of this covid hell.
What a beautiful time. People sitting quietly listening to Bob Dylan’s poetry. No phones to distract them from the moment. Everyone was present together.
Wow. So happy this is online. Beautiful. I was 16. A year later I was in college letting my hair grow. Dylan is just amazing. A poet. A musician. A troubador. His music makes you feel good. Soothing. I have Blonde on Blonde, the original. In my bookcase.
The 60s gave us so many great songwriters, this man, Paul Simon, all of The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, like it's really sick
"And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time Far past the frozen leaves The haunted, frightened trees Out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach Of crazy sorrow Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate Driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today Until tomorrow" One of the greatest verses ever written.
I’m only 30 and I don’t listen to a ton of folk but there is something so viscerally human about this song, I always come back to it. It celebrates the joy of existence and the struggle against pain and death and so much of the human experience all at once.
Yes. That, what he played at this time, was the real Bob Dylan. 1965 he came along with an electric guitar and Pete Seeger nearly got a stroke. He had many good songs with the e-guitar too. But what he plays today; I can´t listen to it. Three or four years ago he gave a concert about 20 Km from here. I didn´t go.
Woah, I just kind of started actually listening to this guys music. I've known his name since I was a kid but I never actually listened to any of it. Today is a good day.
There is no way to give this enough thumbs up. A hundred million would notdo it. Here is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived in everyJaundra except classical ❤!
I really appreciate Bob Dylan now that my 70th birthday approaches. Back when he first wrote and performed these songs I did not give him the attention I should have. Peter, Paul & Mary finally awakened my senses to Dylan's music as did the Byrd's rendition of Mr Tambourine Man, which became a fixture of my teen years. It is so wonderful to go back to 1964 here to again hear Bob Dylan's genius. I was only 10 years old when this 1964 performance occurred nearly 60 years ago. Where has time gone?
I keep coming back to this performance over the years. There's something eerie in the air here, the camera angles, the quaint location, people just chilling on the blankets enjoying the music... Also the total command Dylan has over the crowd, as if he was a magician and they fell under his spell. The last verse is especially powerful, the images from the song seem to come to life among blue sky, grass and enchanted people. Hard to describe, but it's like watching history of music writing itself.
I saw him in 2007 Live - he played Blowin in The Wind. The place fell into silence! It was like a church! I sat and listened! No reaction from the audience, just awe struck! I will never forget - we will always want to sit at his feet.
There's just something with his performance here. The whole scene is very nostalgic. I watched this video alteast 50 times since the first time I heard it.
@uncletigger Paul and Freddie weren't better songwriters, nowhere near. Better vocalists and performers? Sure, but they don't come close to Bob in terms of songwriting.
How can an object (the universe) give you anything? And even if IT could, how could IT know you would enjoy it?? This use of "the universe" is absurd but nobody seems to stop and think of its absurdity. Just copies what everyone else is saying...
💙🩵💙Bob Dylan, man, you're why I became a poet at age 6. Heard "Like A Rolling Stone" on the radio and was so entranced by Dylan's music and voice that my morning oatmeal grew cold. God Bless ya, Bob Dylan!🙏🏽☮️🕊
