I'm curious if there are any high-quality, official concert films of Bob Dylan that are worth checking out. No bootlegs, just good feature-length productions with solid sound and visuals—something along the lines of Stop Making Sense for Talking Heads or The Song Remains The Same for Led Zeppelin.

Anything like that in Dylan's catalog?

Our twelve year old child Riley has become obsessed (in a good way!) with Dylan over the last year or so. She’s listened to essentially his whole catalog, with favorite eras being “young Bob” and 1965-1966 electric Bob.

Riley knows almost as much about Dylan as I do and I’ve been a fan since 1984, lol. She’s also quite musically adept and has been teaching herself harmonica and guitar.

Here’s Riley yesterday for Halloween as Subterranean Homesick Blues Bobby. ♥️

Unfortunately I can’t make it to this weekend’s concert in Liverpool. I have two vip tickets, bought for £210 each, but happy to let a fan have both for half price. Let me know if you’re interested, tickets are pdf.

It'd be cool to get a crew together of Dylan fans that live in Marin County, CA and just talk Dylan and music and maybe do some jammin' and whatnot. Lemme know!

Like all along the watchtower Hendrix version or something like that

Just finished reading “Chronicles” for the first time and I have absolutely loved it, it’s a small but nice book to read before sleep and be completely immersed in the little stories (or chronicles) that he presents you, but the thing that made this one of my favorite books I have ever read was the chapters about his early years in New York (more specifically, the first and last chapter of the book)

First I would like to say that I know that a lot of stories in Chronicles were made up, but I never even thought that you we’re supposed to take them as real facts anyway (I mean do you really think that Bob Dylan of all persons would get exclusive access the Robert Johnson recordings before anyone else? I mean what are the chances). I see them more as a way of Bob telling the overall atmosphere/ vibe of the period with little anecdotes that in my opinion is way more interesting and telling than just straight up telling what happened, in that way you can clearly understand how he viewed himself at that time period.

His descriptions of how he felt when he listened Woody Guthrie ,Robert Johnson, the Pirate Jenny play etc felt so genuine, you can almost see how the dots were connecting in his head for him to create such great songs later. To be honest his description felt really similar to when I listened to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Tombstone Blues” when I felt like I have discovered a brand new universe.

Maybe because I am 18 and next year I will have to move from the city I live currently to a state in the other side of the country to go to college and live alone but when he started talking about finding apartments in the town and having to build all of his mobile (even if I really doubt that he had to do that) lol) felt like a metaphor for pushing the strings of your life without depending to much on others, that feel like a recurring theme on the whole book.

I know this feel like a bit of a duh post but I just wanted to share my thoughts on this book

Hi there! Big/long term Dylan fan here. I know all the albums (well mostly anyway) and have read a few books - chronicles, tarantula and couple biographies etc. I know this is posted semi frequently, even today I think. However if there a book for example that kinda gave you the gist of him. Who he is, what he does etc. nothing to specific but a generalisation of his career (not any easy task I know). Any suggestions for me? Any help would be class thanks

P.s - seeing the big man on Tuesday in Edinburgh can’t wait:) x

Hi, as the title says. I'm seeing Bob in a few days and was wondering if he was still selling that T-shirt. If not, does anyone have any ideas about what shirts he is selling?

Do you have any? Here are my top three, in no particular order:

• https://a.co/d/0h9YV3e (Hampton, Dylan: How the Songs Work)

• https://a.co/d/66n0TFQ (Barnett, Dylan and the Spheres of Existence)

• https://a.co/d/fkbSglA (Vernezze and Porter, eds., Dylan and Philosophy)

There are a few more that are more like “academic adjacent” than proper academic works, but they’re quite good too (especially Wilentz and Ricks, IMHO)…

Ya know ppl forget this. He is still a Beat.

Hi all,

I own NDH on DVD but no longer own a DVD player, so hoping some of you might be able to help me.

Featured in the early stages of the doc, on Bob's influences, there is a clip of a black woman with an acoustic guitar. She's doing this "BOP!" thing with her voice and smacking the guitar and it sounds great. I think she went by a single name like Cher or Madonna but for the life of me, I can't remember it. Anyone know if off the top?

When I watch the up-close, personal footage of Dylan that D.A. Pennebaker captured in the 60s, I think to myself, "Didn't there come a point where he would have never allowed that to happen again?" We have some family photos and know of Dylan's time in Woodstock, but doesn't there a come a point where we start knowing less and less about him? Didn't we not even know about his second marriage til years after the fact? Hell, he could be married now and we don't even know about it. When came the point in his career where we start knowing a whole lot less, if anything, about his personal life?

Not prying for gossip, btw. I just find it interesting how successful he's been staying out of the public eye.

“Blowin’ In The Wind.” “With God On Our Side.” “Masters Of War.” These are songs Bob Dylan has written and performed expressing deep emotions about the wisdom of going to war. Here's a discussion of Bob's. Theme Time Radio Hour Show on the theme of war That provides a musical meditation on the topic, along with Bob’s comments and his reciting of little snippets of relevant philosophical thoughts and poetry. https://www.frominsultstorespect.com/2020/01/10/bob-dylan-on-war/

Hi all, I’m going to see the man himself on Sunday in Liverpool.

Part of the reason we’re going is my grandfather, who passed away a couple of months back RIP. He was a musician and lifelong Dylan fan.

He and others in the crowd had been interviewed after attending the 1966 concert at the Odeon in Liverpool. My question is this, does anyone have any knowledge of such interviews? My grandfather had looked far and wide to no avail, just thought I’d try my luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Any chance there are recordings of this?

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Last two sentences talking about him and Scarlet Rivera going over some of the songs on piano.

I heard from a music professor who said that the two bootlegs that were released were the best - not only because of the sound quality - but because dylan was fully invested in the show and the performance. apparently, there were several - or so he implied - in which dylan was just uninterested and unengaged and just muttered his lyrics. I'm not sure if that's conjecture and wanted to see if there were any standouts.

This is such a good cover. I love how he pronounces “herald” like “hee-rald”

I'm fortunate to have a ticket to the last night of the Royal Albert Hall run of shows in a couple of weeks and couldn't help but notice that Dylan has no more live dates in the schedule.

Could it be that this 3+ year, 230+ date tour supporting 'Rough And Rowdy Ways' might be his last? He turns 84 in a few months and isn't getting any younger. Not that you'd know it based on some of these recent shows.

I don't think this will actually be the last ever Dylan gig, but it will happen at some point, and probably in the not too distant future :(

(Blurred users out just bc the post was deleted and there’s no need to show) So, I saw this commented a few times actually and I didn’t know if i was tripping or not, but Bob didn’t say anything about Joan in his Nobel Speech (that he wasn’t even there to give lol) did he? I could’ve sworn he praised Joan in the MusiCares Speech he had given a year prior to winning the Nobel prize, and that he just wrote a speech (the one that woman delivered) about his music career and literature for the Nobel Prize did he not?