I married Isis on the fifth day of may
But I do not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong
Oh, I think of myself more as a song and dance man, y’know
~Press Conference, San Francisco 3 December 1965
The San Francisco Press Conference was set up by Ralph Gleason at KQED-TV, an educational station, in the bay area of San Francisco and took place on December 3rd 1965. It was broadcast on KQED later that day, just before Dylan and The Hawks played their first night at the Berkeley Community Theater.
Source: The Fiddler Now Upspoke, pp. 359-374.
Released on the DVD Dylan Speaks, Eagle Media MDV622, 30 October 2006.
I don’t play folk-rock.
Continue reading December 3: Bob Dylan interview @ KQED-TV Studios, San Francisco, 1965 (videos)
Some of the music critics say I can’t sing. I croak. Sound like a frog. Why don’t these same critics say similar things about Tom Waits?
MusiCares 25th annual benefit gala dinner and concert
Bob Dylan was honored as the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter presented the award to Bob Dylan, who then gave a 35-minute speech.
Continue reading Watch & Read: Bob Dylan’s MusiCares Award Speech 2015
Don’t be bewildered by the Never Ending Tour chatter, there was a Never Ending Tour but it ended with the departure of guitarist GE Smith. [Smith played his last concert with Dylan on October 19, 1990]
~Bob Dylan (Liner Notes to 1993’s World Gone Wrong)
The Never Ending Tour 1990 started off with a leg called the Fastbreak tour where Dylan performed:
He plays 98 songs in 15 shows, 56 of which were only played one or two times.
It starts in a small club with 700 people, where Bob plays 50 songs in five hours, many of them covers never heard before or since.
On January 12, as a warm-up for two stadium shows in Brazil and ten further dates in Paris and London, he played his first club gig in over twenty-five years, at Toad’s Place in New Haven. The seven hundred lucky witnesses saw this forty-eightyear-old man play for a total of four and a half hours.
Starting at a quarter to nine, with a cover of Joe South’s ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ (‘before you accuse, criticize, or abuse I walk a mile in my shoes’), Dylan finally left the Toad’s stage at twenty minutes past two in the morning, after four sets, interspersed by three breaks of just twentyfive minutes each, having played fifty songs in total, only eight of which derived from his supposed halcyon days of 1963-66.
~Clinton Heylin (Behind The Shades)
Continue reading Bob Dylan: The Fastbreak Tour 1990 (audio & video)
November 3 is approaching… and we are really looking forward to the release of Dylan´s “Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13”
Here are all the seven teasers published on BobDylanVEVO.
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions
Are they lost or are they found
Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down
All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend