Patti Smith delivers the song in her own style - which is expressive and theatrcle. Dylan lets Patti take the verses while providing ingenutive backup singing on the chorus parts. The band also do a great job on this song with Bucky Baxter shining once again on the steel guitar.

Dark eyes is a song from the 1986 album Empire Burlesque.

Posted in The Nineties   Tagged: 1986, 1995, Bob Dylan, bucky baxter, Dark Eyes, Empire Burlesque, Patti Smith, pedal steel, Philadelphia   

The French Interviewer Antoine de Caunes brings out a side of Bob Dylan that is honest and willing to discuss in detail.

Dylan talks about songwriting and how he has changed over time. Although he does sa he is the same as in 1966! That’s gold - and there is a lot of gold in this interview. Bob didn’t think he would change in the mid 90s- ha. Said he was sick of changing.I need not say more - Watch it!

Part One

Dylan released the album ‘Real Live’ which was made up of live performances from the 1984  tour. This tour seemed to take it out of Bob I think. He looks pretty stuffed, but Rock and Roll is tough!

Part Two

Posted in The Eighties   Tagged: 1966, 1984, Bob Dylan, france, French TV, interview, june 30th, Live album, real live, Rock and Roll   

And I thought the album version of “The Man in the Long Black Coat” was haunting but this is a very spook version here.
Another great vocals only performace Bob gave us in 1995 here. I love the tone of Dylan’s voice in this period and the way he uses the notes. He is really concentrating and he has full faith in the band and he should. This line-up would never lead anyone astray. If you like this sound check out the MTV Unplugged DVD.

Posted in The Nineties   Tagged: 11th march, 1995, bob dylan live, concert, great vocals, live music video, man in the long black coat, movie, prague   

I’m glad I found this one! This is Bob Dylan in 1980 during his spiritual period performing a powerful version of one of my favorites - In the Garden.

I started getting into Bob in about 2001 and it took me until last year to find that his Christian work is the most compelling he has done - in my opinion anyway. There is no doubt that Bob Dylan was very high off Christianity, possessed by God and on a mission to sing these songs. I’m sure these songs would have easily come to Bob Dylan after the overload of information he received during Bible School. This was clearly a very important part of Dylan’s life.

(i’m having trouble getting this myspace video to work but i can give you the direct link)

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=7779785

Great quality 2 shot filming, a good mix and a great ensemble of musicians to capture as a part of history. The only bad thing is the song is cut short at the end, but it didn’t have that long to go anyway. This song took me a while to get into and seemed complicated to my ears at first. Now it is one of my favorites and it comes across like a simple biblical song for children or something.
Lot’s of people my parent’s age cringe and curse when the religious period is brought up in conversation but I think their minds are manipulated by the stories in the press at the time. The albums were Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love. Many of them were just story type songs and weren’t just in your face preaching. I don’t find it unusual at all.

One of my old bands: 69 For Pa, we wrote a whole bunch of songs about Mini Golf. The property in the bush where I live was cattle ground before my parents built so the ground is hard, dry, dusty clay. For some reason we made a 9-hole mini golf course with rakes, brooms, picks and shovels. The band and I played the course everyday and eventually started coming up with ideas for songs about the many facets of our Mini Golf course.
It felt completely natural to write those songs at the time because Mini Golf was such a big slice of our lives. When you can’t think of anything but one thing, you often end up writing a song related to it in some way. I can relate to Bob when he wrote them songs way back when.

Posted in The Eighties, Uncategorized   Tagged: 1980, Bob Dylan, Christianity, in the garden, jesus, mini golf songs, religious, son of god, video   

Love Minus Zero/No Limit often allows bob to sing and play with uttermost tenderness and passion.
I never got to see any mid 90s shows and I wish I could of because Bob was in good spirits from 93-95 and he had a great band. I don’t want to take anything from any other years (especially the early 90s acoustic stuff)  - I just think these three years are very special. The MTV Unplugged performance is an example of how focused Bob was in these times. World Gone Wrong also features intricute vocals and guitar work by Dylan.
My favorite thing about this version is the amount of time Bob hangs on the end of each line and the space in between them. I hope you thoroughly enjoy this!

Love Minus Zero/No Limit was first released on Bringing It All Back Home in 1965. This is Bob’s first electric album and is a must have!

Posted in The Nineties   Tagged: /no limit, 1965, 1994, Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Live, love minus zero, must have, prague, video   

I find this somewhat bizarre as I have never seen a Jewish telethon before. I don’t think there are that many clips out there of Bob Dylan solely play lead guitar for someone and not signing a word. I don’t think Bob had played the song before but I think he gets away with it. His electric guitar playing probably could have been mixed in better but this is definitely a must see for dedicated Dylan fans.

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Here is another Chabad telethon clip I found. This one is from 1989 and features Peter Himmelmann, Harry Dean Stanton and Moiche Rubenstein - aka Bob Dylan. ha. They perform a traditional Romanian song and Bob is playing a flute and recorder in this clip.

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I also found this performance of ‘Hava Nagila” from the same 1989 Chabad telethon as above here

I did have this one embedded but I couldn’t get it to sit still. I played as soon as the page loaded and I thought it was a bit much. Enjoy!

Posted in The Eighties, The Nineties   Tagged: 15th, 1989, 1991, Bob Dylan, chabad, flute, harry dean stanton, hava nagila, jewish, Kinky Friedman, recorder, romanian, September, sold american, telethon, traditional   

Wow Letterman has aged alot since this video - so has Bob. Almost 15 years ago! Bob went on this show to promote World Gone Wrong which was released on Oct 26, 1993.

This is one of my favorite Bob Dylan videos I’ve found. Bob knows he is being recorded for TV and he is living up to his standards. Wearing clothes a la Rolling Thunder Revue almost and the band is there to provide Bob with an amazing solemn groove with the usual amazing steel guitar from Bucky Baxter.

Bob plays a wonderful solo on the guitar around the 3:00 mark which makes the hairs on the back on my neck stand up!

This was a smoking band and there’s no doubt about it at all. I love the way sings this and I never thought gravel could be so smooth and beautiful.

Forever Young was first released on ‘Planet Waves’ in 1974. There are actually two different versions of the song on the record.

Posted in The Nineties   Tagged: 15 years ago, 18th of November 1993, 1974, 1993, aged alot, beautiful, Bob Dylan, bucky baxter, david, dylan live, gravel, groove, hairs on my neck, legendary, letterman, Oct 26, pedal steel, planet waves, Rolling Thunder, smoking band, solo, Tony Garnier, TV, World Gone Wrong   

and I’m finally going to bed after being up for 33 1/2 hours working on DylanTube.

I love it. I love it. I love it!

Goodnight All and wish me sweet sweet dreams.

Josh

Posted in Uncategorized   Tagged: 33 1/2 hours working, and I'm finally going to bed, DylanTube, I love it. I love it. I love it!, It's Friday 24th of October 3.28AM