bob dylan – it’s all over now, baby blue (newport 65′) 16/16
Posted on July 3, 2009 | 25 Comments
Baby Videos of shave from “the alternative side of a mirror” by murray lerner, incline dylan during a newport folk legal holiday 1963-65
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Posted on July 3, 2009 | 25 Comments
Baby Videos of shave from “the alternative side of a mirror” by murray lerner, incline dylan during a newport folk legal holiday 1963-65
breathtaking!!!
This is music plus poetry!
the quintessential F-U.
I think you’re talking about Peter Yarrow from “Peter, Paul, and Mary.” I could be mistaken though.
THIS IS MUSIC.
they thought he was singing it FOR them, but he is singing it TO them. He broke from this group forever af the singing of this song.
When I watch this, I start to cry myself. That electric mayhem was a disaterous moment that made me really disappointed. I love Bobby’s music: electric or not. It’s not how he plays it, he’s a poet. Obviously everyone there that night didn’t see that.
Peter Yarrow was the man who asked him to come back out on stage (Dylan asked, “What are you doing to me, man?”). He had a short set because the band had very little time to practice the songs, so this was all that they could master the night before. He did not want to play any acoustic set. This song was carefully chosen, when he was convinced to come back on stage, as a statement that he was moving on from folk… that he was a new man, and that his time as a folk singer was over.
In a monment he must have been feeiling so many emotions e gives such an amazing version of all these songs!!!
This is a great moment in rock and roll history. It proves that the “going electric” bit was not for lack of talent or conviction in his old songs but part of the normal drive by artists to explore new territory. With this song, Dylan shows that he knew exactly what was going on and that he was in control, while also showing that he had respect for his audiences and the tradition from which he had emerged. Sheer brilliance. Thanks for the video.
they didn’t really see it that way then..to them acoustic guitars and stuff were showing that they didn’t conform to society, and dylan was just “getting sucked in by the establishment” i totally agree with what you’re saying, but people would act the same if black flag went acoustic
Man… I would have told them to go fuck themselves. Dylan is a better man than I.
In No Direction Home the Scorsese Docu… the host of the newport folk festival (whos name has slipped my mind) said when he told the crowd dylan was gettin his acoustic dylan came up to him and said what have you done to me? that just made me feel a strong sense of sorrow in the pits of my stomach….obviously i have no facts but at the same time this was the first time an audience rejected dylan
As you see below i said the same thing that you stated here. but when i researched further i did find different evidence that made it seem as though he was crying. dylan did always have a shield on his sensitivity but at the same time you have to consider how much compassion one must have to write song like he did.
He’s was sweating simple as…
This night is not known as ‘The Night Dylan Cried on stage’… This is the night dylan changes the course of modern music forever!
Absolutely! I’d love too
Still doesn’t prove that he was crying just because someone else said he was. What kind of reasoning is that. You’re telling me that sweat doesn’t drip under your eyes? Just look at the rest of his face like his forehead. Definitely sweating. Not crying.
People booed him. So what? Do you honestly think Bob would care?
It was night time, but it was still summer with that leather jacket and all that hair. Of course he had to be sweating a lot by his 5th or 6th song.
Wow that makes this video quite heartbreaking
Quote from Paul Nelson, 1965, ‘Sing Out!’ magazine: “… Dylan coming back with tears in his eyes and singing ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,’ a song that I took to be his farewell to Newport, an incredible sadness over Dylan and the audience finally clapping now because the electric guitar was gone. (Dylan did only his first three numbers with electric guitar and band)”
A 1965 review from NYTimes: “shocked and somewhat disoriented by the mixed reaction of the crowd, a tearful Dylan returned to the stage unelectrified and strained to communicate his sense of unexpected displacement through the words and music of a song he made fearfully appropriate, ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’. “
He could sweat from a lack of fans:P Bet its hot under those par cans, whew! Always nice to have my fan hidden away behind the half-stack;) Even in winter, its hot on stage, with exertion, thousands of watts of lights, pressure to “just get through tonight without fuckin up a lead”, the heat from the equipment, esp. the tube amps. Try playing a guitar standing up and singing for anywhere from 1.5 to 6 hours a night. As Glorbon could prolly tell ya, it’s a sho-nuff job! Not as easy as it looks…
Oh what the booing ones would think if they saw that 12 universities teach his iambic pentameter style of singing right with the emphatic rhythm notes, matching his own emphasis vocally with the strumming. That is just music class. Poetry professors teach his lyrics because they are so deep and reflective of the best (and worst) parts of our own psyches’ ;and his phrase, line, and song construction and texture are in many cases text-book quality. Insecure about his voice, overcompensation occurs
think about how ridiculous people, they get to hear Dylan in his prime and they boo him because he isn’t wallowing in the past and is going from making the best folk music ever to making the best rock n roll music ever. and that they would boo him is a crime. what I wouldn’t give to go back to ‘65 and attend one of his concerts.
How do you know he is crying? Where did you read that? I thought i might have saw one drip but I’d assume it was sweat seeing how this was his last song as you said.
No, actually he was supposed to do a whole set of songs with his new electric band, but the crowd booed him so much that he had to stop after 3 songs. Someone convinced him to go back on stage (unplugged) for a last song. That’s why he was acutally crying on stage. I think this song was incredibly appropriate for the situation.