Bob Dylan - 6th September, 1961. Gaslight Café, New York

[@joeyscruggs5180]

Wow - it is a bright sunny day for people who love Bob Dylan. Thanks Bob!

[@obviously6thbeliever]

This was a week before meeting John Hammond, three weeks before Shelton’s article, two months before recording his first album and six months before its release

[@TGoat123]

61 in New York there must have been a special feeling in the air. You can feel the raw talent. Wish I had been there.

[@snowfiresunwind]

Wish I had been there - Me too!

[@j-note5231]

Then you wouldn't be here now most likely.

[@nolanwolfe]

@@j-note5231would rather be in the 60s than 2020s

[@Coldwarrior7781]

​@@j-note5231Dylan is.

[@Coldwarrior7781]

Oh but for a time machine.

[@dougmackenzie5976]

My brother was present for this performance. He hung around with Bob for a couple years in the early days. He used to come up to Schenectady and stay with us, sometimes. Sure was great to get to know him before the world got to him.

[@altheatoldme]

Peter?

[@ibassnote]

It's just like being there. Incredible. Dylan is already in full possession of his powers. I particularly appreciate his guitar playing.

[@lowwhistle3178]

Tis pure gold Syph

[@Booker830]

Happy Eightieth Bob!

[@1DaTJo]

Just 20 years old yet all the hallmarks of genius shine out of Bob. ❤️

[@ralphdavis9670]

I was just thinking the same.

[@langstongrandma]

The writer of America's soul.

[@exerciserelax8719]

60 years ago this month, amazing! I'm over 40, my parents were just little kids when this happened, and Bob's still going strong today! Several generations have grown up with Bob at this point. He was ushering in a whole new world in 61!

[@caiopaino3786]

I'm reading Chronicles and it feels so wonderful the feeling Gaslight Cafe brings, wish I were there in that time...

[@slyeung6562]

Mr. Dylan, Happy 80th Birthday ! God bless you .

[@snowfiresunwind]

This is amazing - Dylan was such a capitivating performer even at the very beginning of his career. Always love 'He Was a Friend of Mine' and interesting that Pretty Polly eventually merged into Hollis Brown.

[@0otee]

This is lovely nightly moth🌹🎶👌 Like these great originally early years ones! Great classe. Dylans’ accent was marvelous then. Thank you and Thank DearDylan🎶🌺❤️👌

[@fredstevens799]

wow! many thanks!! audio quality is awesome, considering... got here via a link from NYT on Bob's 80th b'day!

[@bettysamuels5073]

Happy Birthday ..thanks for all the great music..

[@janetwebb1507]

LOVED to Entertain..Very excellent, sweet, adorable & Quite a ' 'ham bone'..young Dylan's buddy Talent could not HAV been fathomed t heights he would go..but think his love & admiration for his hero & Mentor spurred A lot of that young passion & potential. Truly can I say..Heart warming performance & material. A young Saint I t making I believe as well. A+++

[@janetwebb1507]

budding

[@elizabethholliday8636]

A gift. So wonderful that it's been so carefully saved. And shared. Thank you!

[@simonedevlin7710]

Sounds like a ballad out of the old Wells Fargo robbery days. What a beautiful voice you have Bobbie Zimmerman. Blessings from the shicksa who used to hang out at Cantor's Bakery on Côté de Neiges, Montréal, Q.C. Canada. Maybe you will say hi to me the next time we run into each other in the airport. Ditch the bodyguard this time!

[@dragotopic6479]

Lovely songs, good atmosphere ❤️❤️❤️

[@HuckleberryAlexander]

little late to this yonder party.. but thanks a bunch for such a great post.

[@HuckleberryAlexander]

around the time Song To Woody kicks in it's clear that he (and likely all present) had pre-gamed a few or more of something. but it doesn't matter in the least. this IS Bob in that scene in 1961. and we all now know what sprung forth in the years that ensued. regardless of that statement, this is a set of distinctively well-performed songs.

[@mariat4812]

So ahead of his time magical 🔥🙌🫶🏻

[@karinbur]

Thank you so much for this! What a treasure.

[@georgeesau3943]

I'm reading Clinton Heylins book "The Double Life of Bob Dylan." This is a great companion piece to the early chapters. I recommend it to anyone who want to know about his early years.

[@rickrecco143]

16 days before I was born.

[@nissi.k]

Hey nightly moth this puts the *wonder* in wonderful! Thank you so much! *🤍*

[@oliveralonsodeleon3879]

POCOS, COMO TÚ, BOB-DILAN!.

[@BroSlayzer]

Wow. Cool treat to hear the Boggs channeling, and what a huge, thoughtful, profound sound at the Gaslight cafe. Vocal different, insitant, persistently and varied like vibrato seated in the balance place within the groove. Harps -a bogg dock ship horn up in the Virginia mountains type-a thing. I always wondered thinking about what it woulda been like to be Dylan back then. A course 25 years ago when I left living on the Crow River in Buffalo, MN and moved to the University of MN when I was 18 living in Pioneer Hall for a couple years especially wondered what it felt like for him in those early NYC days and when did he really leave Dinkytown to go make it big or did he come back and live some.? By the time we saw Don't look back in 97 as freshmen at the Oak Street Cinema he was beyond legend. This 61 nyc cafe performance was unreal. Huge space in the track. I always wanted to ask if the coffee was pretty good at those early 60s NYC cafes in those days?

[@susanflanagan9159]

Thank you very much

[@CBbehereNOW]

Great stuff ❤️ thank you

[@danfate6862]

I have the lp of this live.

[@mariacatenaingria1674]

Thank you! That's a moving evidence of the Bob Dylan I love!

[@KeithARC]

Thanks. This is great!

[@RimfireRat]

so much John Prine in his voice and songs

[@howard3126]

Excellent quality of recording, considering the age. Great to hear, thank you.

[@slyeung6562]

Nightly Moth thanks so much for posting this !

[@marieholland8868]

Why does Song To Woody sound so sad? Guess it's because it's written and performed straight from the heart. Bob knew Woody wouldn't be around alot longer and wanted to convey his respect.

[@CptEtgar]

G- bless you nightly moth.

[@susannebass1883]

❤❤❤Bob❤❤❤

[@Dylan-only-vocals]

Great!

[@michaelhoage6704]

very nice elston very nice

[@yowzephyr]

Mr. Dylan, just suggesting that you now write a song entitled "Lookin' Like Vincent Price Blues".

[@Brewens]

😎

[@bandicoot5412]

He sure covered a lot of ground, still on route

[@armarq8091]

❤❤❤

[@barbaragreigceaser]

❤

[@fulgenceridal2658]

pas mal !

[@socrates1818]

The year Lombardi and the Packers started their march towards perfection. The year Kennedy began his term in the White House. The year Maris and Mantle hit all those home runs for the Yankees. The year of the first orbit of the earth by a human The year of the second Vatican Council by the Catholic Church … yes we recall

[@technikwolle]

aufgenommen mit einem sehr frühen tonbandgerät, sowas kennen die jungen leute garnicht mehr. ähnlich einem cassettenrecorder (den kennen ein paar mehr leute), nur eben 20x so groß, mit riesigen spulen zum aufspulen des 12mm breiten und relativ dicken tonbandes.

[@tzed2509]

Does anyone know the story behind this recording? How and why it was made, etc.

[@johnandersson7095]

The caller

[@benkenobi9467]

the awooga tho lmaoo

[@FourMypersonaluse]

Rite aid t shirts and Genes est 1962 👶🎤🙏👕👖🧚‍♀️🥾🥾👶🎤👕👖🧚‍♀️👢👢