Indeed. This song is top ten material and yet no one seems to appreciate it, Dylan himself included.
@puri65464 жыл бұрын
I have always absolutely loved this song!
@bendelacour95524 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY agree
@Birdwatching7547 ай бұрын
Such a legend, and such a contribution to society. Been listening to Dylan since i was 14. His contribution to all Americans is immeasurable.
@captainkangaroo43013 жыл бұрын
Happy 80th birthday my fellow Minnesotan. I’ve had the privilege of seeing Dylan perform more than 40 times over 50 years.
@dylanthomas46943 жыл бұрын
Always one of my favorite Dylan songs. It's sad cuz it's so underrated. Street legal is also a great great album.
@giovanniceccarelli33344 жыл бұрын
When I listen to this live version I cannot stop from crying. This song takes out of me all suffering and contradiction inside of me giving me a hope one day I will succeed thanks to the Queen of Spades.
@nicholasadams8384 жыл бұрын
Play the last track on this LP AND YOU HEAR even better lyrics and more hope I think it's called journey through white heat
@rawiguana13 жыл бұрын
That´s most likely what this song does to me! Good to hear that I´m not the only one!
@Poodles66716 күн бұрын
Hopefully you are where you need to be now, brother
@gavyjohnson10 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: Dylan hasn't played this song live since 1978. He has only played it a total of 68 times while touring from July to December of 1978. It is amazing that this footage even exists for such a rare song. Thanks for sharing!
@OldSamVimes10 жыл бұрын
Interesting, I also consider it as one of his best songs ever.
@tomc26815 жыл бұрын
@@OldSamVimes my favorite. Followed closely by forever young, just like a woman and tangled up in blue.
@Jerry112015 жыл бұрын
@@tomc2681 Can't go wrong with any of them, and fantastic versions of each exist. If you haven't yet look up "movie 204" and you'll find a version of Like a Woman, by a youtuber named hollis1960 with a very special guest guitarist.
@tomc26815 жыл бұрын
@@Jerry11201 thanks. I'll look it up👍
@nancybennett88395 жыл бұрын
Wow I am glad I saw his show the night before this in Memphis
@markh97492 жыл бұрын
What matters with a Dylan song is its 'feel' in performance and its impact on the listener. What is it that stays in the mind after we listen and bear witness? The 'feel' here is astonishing. Complex lyrical images, at once dense and elliptical, are driven home with enormous power and speed by a crack band whose musicianship underpins Dylan's startling vocal command. This combination and its serendipity drives the narrative. On the page, in part of this song, Dylan addresses apocalyptic and end of times concerns. In this performance, it is these concerns that are placed front and centre. Whilst a sense of foreboding about what is to come has often been embedded in Dylan's songs, this has rarely been revealed in performance as powerfully as it is here where Dylan tells us we must look to ourselves: ..."your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guards".
@nancycombs-s9n5 ай бұрын
I’ve shined your shoes - moved your mountains and marked your cards 🎼. Dylan is the best. I love him ❤
@richardrybinski23204 жыл бұрын
This always puts a smile on my face....Bob playing and enjoying himself, filled with the spirit....
@NeonPixels81 Жыл бұрын
Dude this song is SO GOOD I’m surprised that even some die hard Dylan fans don’t know this one, but Street-Legal wasn’t one of his most notable albums. Such vivid imagery and storytelling though.
@katharinerauch73614 жыл бұрын
Just look at how Bob hops across the stage w/ his guitar, in his glitter suit, and acts all in control-- and then, he just puts it down,-- no change discernable in the music-- He cracks himself up at his own performance-- and then he just turns around, walks off stage-- Bob is in charge-- but NOTHING ever stops Bob from laughing about himself... I do love that about the guy :)
@WillDockery Жыл бұрын
Bought Street Legal the day it came out, I still remember that thin wild mercury day in Summer 1978.
@victorhyman2684 ай бұрын
and where were you ……that thin wild mercury day……..so so long ago…
@davideguaitoli55322 жыл бұрын
Peak Dylan, no question about it. The trumpet, the chorus, the roaring guitar, the overwhelming lyrics. Shiver down the spine, a genius.
@mariannpancoe33658 ай бұрын
Actually a saxophone
@Pz-cg4rh3 жыл бұрын
I still have Bob Dylan's first album. Yes I am that old but I still listen and absolutely loved him with Traveling Wilburys everybody can say what they want or think what they want but it was our generation that brought it all out
@glennmaher30986 жыл бұрын
This man should never be forgotten. True legend.
@Theimbennn5 жыл бұрын
He will never be forgotten his place in history is sealed along with the great artists in their field such as Picasso, Shakespeare ect ect
@johnstrickland18999 жыл бұрын
I saw him three nights earlier in Columbia, SC. He did thee same encore and it looked and sounded just the way I remember it on 2/9/78. One of the best concerts I ever saw.
@stratmen5 жыл бұрын
Definitely agree with that. The whole album is underrated. Senor, , Is Your Love In Vain, Changing of the Guards...........this albums damn near perfect.
@gabrielvazquez54919 жыл бұрын
God. such beautiful music. Love these cryptic lyrics. No idea what it means, but I just let the words flood over me and let my mind transport a million miles away.
@KINOTIPO6 жыл бұрын
Dylan has no idea too, it is just music
@skadbone6 жыл бұрын
lyircs are autobiographical, 16 years, in the biz for 16 years, 16 banners, 16 records...
@NaFran496 жыл бұрын
Well it's subjective. To me it tells the story of humanity itself, our history through time and it's apocalyptic ending.
@iainfleming28535 жыл бұрын
It's true listening to Dylan is a rich experience
@n9zmn5 жыл бұрын
“She was torn between Jupiter. and Apollo.. “ wow!
@stefanoparoni10984 жыл бұрын
Dylan : "It means something different every time I sing it. 'Changing of the Guards' is a thousand years old'".
@LukasKush3 жыл бұрын
this song is unbelievable
@AA-sn9lz3 жыл бұрын
Did he really say this?!!! Can I please have a source or something?? I'd love it. Please.
@stefanoparoni10983 жыл бұрын
@@AA-sn9lz he did
@markw563 Жыл бұрын
@@AA-sn9lz The quote is from an interview of Dylan by Jonathan Gott in a November 1978 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
@BaahBen5 жыл бұрын
Backup singers are great on this song.
@terryellsworth58487 жыл бұрын
Songs from Street Legal & this tour my fave!! First witnessed him, as an impressionable 16yrold, in June78 on tour feat.Street Legal tracks. I'll always believe this "full band sound (horns,keys+b3,bkgrd chorus,et al)" with such high-passion performances from Bob will be my fave era Dylan. Though being a Dylanophile you can't ever have any bad Bob.
@GusHerbert8 жыл бұрын
This really grows in you after a few listens! I can't get enough.
@BillLayton5 жыл бұрын
This is a great live version but I have to say, I love the original version better. In it, Bob sings very precisely and the whole melody is so original and different from anything I've heard him do before. It's an amazing song, especially the last two verses from "gentlemen he said".
@JacksonBetz2 жыл бұрын
Love this version but I gotta agree with you, in this version he omits the "shaved her head" verse!
@peterburlin8198 Жыл бұрын
Bet there were amazing live performances of this song, but this is not one of them. Bob seems very coked up tbh.
@ivicablazevic45558 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs of all time!
@Vargolis8 жыл бұрын
me too! i think its his best - gets me every time
@tributetoneilyoung28666 жыл бұрын
For me too! One of the best songs of Bob Dylan!
@jeffreystark4354 жыл бұрын
I've completely worn out the grooves in my KZbin on this one alone. Elvis was there that night?!
@michaelharris46514 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah , it’s one of my all time favourites , especially the studio version it’s such an amazing piece of work you just go with it , and play it again and again .
@g66ee9 жыл бұрын
I was there! First time I saw His Bobness
@pequod92017 жыл бұрын
g66ee lucky you
@patrickspillane25373 жыл бұрын
Fucking hell, imagine seeing this live! Amazing
@moose2dude3 жыл бұрын
Probably one of my favorite solos...the open note 3:54...pretty genius move
@StratocastRS2 жыл бұрын
who is that on lead?
@moose2dude2 жыл бұрын
@@StratocastRS Billy Cross. He played guitar on "Street-Legal" album and also on the 1978 tour. 'Really knew how to use that Les Paul...
@ulpana7 ай бұрын
@@StratocastRS The guitar is smoke, listen to the sax reeds mouthed tone, that is the fire.... Tio Mitchito
Wow I cant believe how great this man is .Love you Bob.
@johnbellingham90672 жыл бұрын
What a joyful noise
@JaySmith-xc7gc2 жыл бұрын
The way he walked off tho # Legendary
@leahvogelsimpson8 жыл бұрын
love this faster version. He's in top form! thanks for sharing
@stephanedajtlich4 жыл бұрын
Yes it definitely rocks!
@jboy16512 жыл бұрын
This is really the best version
@bobbilancaster71844 жыл бұрын
My first Dylan show & a great album💙💙🎶🎶🎶
@DeJaMo427 жыл бұрын
Changing of the Guards, greatest song ever from the greatest artist ever, yes I'm a bit of a Dylan fanatic :)
@ARTISTASDERUAclapton4 жыл бұрын
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning, either getting ready for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards ....My favorite song
@shoppersteve10 жыл бұрын
Astonishing...Incredible version of one of my favorite songs!
@jimmccork19 күн бұрын
That tour in 1978 was just fantastic - despite the disapproval of the committed folk fans and the critics.
@irish667 жыл бұрын
Street legal is probably my favourite Dylan Album. This song and Is your love in vain are my two favourite songs on it.
@ulpana6 жыл бұрын
Street Legal is my favorite and least favorite Dylan album. Changing of the Guard got better on the road the more Steve Douglas bent his sax reeds to Dylan's rooting around voice. The loss of drummer Howie Wyeth, Greenwich Village street engine of the Rolling Thunder Revue was tragic. His replacement behind the traps was deadly dull. Percussionista Bobbye Hall added colors and spices desperately needed. This clip doesn't seem to feature Wyeth's downtown rhythm section partner Rob Rothstein Stoner on bass and as Dylan's hired musical director. Rob added real kick even to the shamefully depressing Dylan tracks (couldn't really call 'em songs) like "New Pony" or cliched rhetorical sap from the battlefield of marriage like "Is Your Love In Vain?" Then there are the surprise woke moments on the breezy "True Love Tends to Forget" that are brilliant in their throwaway psychic improv reflexivity. "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" is a necessary addition to the Dylan songbook. Now if he'd only had some of his literary pals like Ginzy, Shepard, Joni, Eric Andersen or Neuwirth provide some editing help to wrangle the spontaneous spewing forth scroll of a runaway megillah "No Time to Think" into the desperate and despairing reach for intimacy that lay under the IDiotic primal wail of emotional overload. But bless this rare rock star for trying to stay human scaled even when indulging what must've been reptilian temptations beyond imagining for demagoguery and playing the prophet... Dylan's lasting legacy will be his determination in his better human moments to undermine the whole mystique he so ingeniously colluded to create and that carried the out-of-tune Folk City open mic night warbler to truly literary and musical heights. With collaborators and mentors like Freddy Neil, Dave Van Ronk, Susie Rotolo, Teri Thal, Eric Andersen, Tuli, Ed and the Fugs, Joni Mitchell, Mavis, Pops, Pervis, Yvonne and Cleotha or the Staples family (who cut the 1963 kid's Masters of War before Tim Hardin and the rest of U.S. even knew of U.S. boots on the ground in Viet Nam), Catskill community, Richmond Shepard, Leon Russell, Christine Lakeland, Clydie King, Carolyn & Gabba Gabba Hai Dennis plus underground theater scribes like Murray Mednick, Jacques Levy and tour guide Jim Roger McGuinn along with his harshest serious critics in the rock and alt press like the Soho Weekly News and VILLAGE VOICE (especially the headline writer with newsprint ink in his veins that dared greet Dylan's wannabe underground rough cut vanity\mytho-poetic film project RENALDO & CLARA with this classic crown GONE WITH THE IDIOT WIND...). Not to forget Arlo & the Guthrie family living in the segregated Howard Beach public housing development built and owned by our President and inherited CEO's Dad, Fred Trump and way too many other Canadians (men and women of the North Country) to properly acknowledge. Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Shifters Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa Media Discussion List
@seanhennessey98696 жыл бұрын
@@ulpana I dig Is Your Love in Vain?...it is not more cliched than any of a zillion songs from Bach to CSN to Zep that utilze diatonic descending liason lines and I like the quotidianess of a line like "you can take the house, take the money, too"...or "I have dined with kings/been offered wings/but never been too impressed"....I am a big fan of Street Legal....I agree about New Pony, though...and overall, yeah, Bob has handled his ultra fame well enough...he is a strange dude, but who wouldn´t be with that early resume, a resume he has successfully added to for decades...he never took up the cause or the mantle, I like that...always kept people guessing, hahahahahaha
@Sosu2175 жыл бұрын
‘Where are you tonight’ is a standout too - absolutely fantastic album, easily my favorite Dylan album.
@romang11004 жыл бұрын
Senor is up there
@mrdfk94103 жыл бұрын
I've just discovered Bob Dylan and can't get enough of this song, love the energy.
@patriciakilber68935 жыл бұрын
Wow !! My mouth is hanging open.... Sorry !! Just too great !! LOL Bobby !!!
@kyrilsolntsev23812 жыл бұрын
Pure JOY! Thank you, Bob!
@verdicapirro6715 Жыл бұрын
This song seems to be written in a prophetical and biblical language, as running mirrors through Bob Dylan's live and career. Astonishing.
@bleeknoir5 жыл бұрын
I must have played the album version of this song 10 times today, I hear some new vocal inflections every time, and I'm floored every time.
@mountaintyme20003 жыл бұрын
Bob is singing his butt off on the studio cut. He goes full-on Bluegrass singer. I don't understand how some folks can't hear what is there.
@aliasdyln337 жыл бұрын
I do feel that only Bob Dylan, after the great 1965-66 shows and later the transcendent Rolling Thunder Tour (among other stuff, in between), can do as follows. Take a back-up band including both talented artists, and a myriad of other performers, and lead them all into majestic performances like this one. And still, there's 'no time to think'.
@MarshaKHafez-ey3ij10 жыл бұрын
Love love love this song & lyrics. How in the world he remembers all the lyrics is amazing - Meaning of the song - I don't think Dylan will ever let us know . . . . .
@georgecoventry844111 ай бұрын
One of the 10 greatest songs Bob has ever done! That was an incredible tour. I saw it in Toronto.
@jamarrsmith51652 жыл бұрын
This song makes me happy on a bad day
@warnold34810 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. I was in row 4, center for this show. I have a copy from 1978, but it has tracking issues and was shot from farther away on the left side..
@MakingPlasticModels6 жыл бұрын
Bill Arnold can u email it to me kind sir would love to here it. My email is jbennett130700@gmail.com
@letsif8 жыл бұрын
Like Shakespeare, the more you listen to Dylan the more you get out of it.
@Jari1207568 жыл бұрын
You are so right. On one hand, he is so weird. On the other hand, the best one can be as weird as he wants.
@Neilda Жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of this album and was there in '78. Fans should buy the 2003 remix of Street Legal - you will know it's the remix as this track is now 7:04 instead of 6:37. The remix is superb - much better than the original release. :)
@PatrikLowe11 ай бұрын
I agree. I've always loved this song, but I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard the extended ending on the 2003 album. The original version now feels like it ends a little too quickly!
@fitbyfysh649 жыл бұрын
I fuckin' love you Bob Dylan
@gordonm.73879 жыл бұрын
Bob is a Saint. A true horse.
@tyme4mike7 жыл бұрын
Sold his life to the Devil...and admitted it in public more than once.
@verified1397 жыл бұрын
Why is someone so concrete listening to Dylan?
@jamesraymondsmith7 жыл бұрын
sonny, mr bob dylan has a history of notoriously manipulating the media, and he was a forerunner of "fake' news that you are seeing right now in 2017. "selling your soul" is a insiders term for signing on the dotted line to a record company of human beings. you are forced to produce albums to "sell". your "finite" wisdom about "christianity" is showing. you have no more real insight to bob dylan's personal life than i have about the size of nancy pelosi's turd feces that fall out onto the earth as she flys back and forth over the earth. it is my assumption that she dropped one on your house in bangor maine, or wherever you live in ignorant bliss.
@kidcharlemagne72387 жыл бұрын
JImmy nobody forced me to buy a single Dylan Album. Bob is a singer and no messenger, certainly not elected to office, gotta take what you can from his slant. I think it's sad when comments get nasty here, so let's agree to disagree. Dylan could have set himself up as a messiah in the 1970s and would probably have been killed by some nut, he just sings his songs. He has also had flop albums too, but not many.
@PatrikLowe11 ай бұрын
This here might be my favorite live performance of Dylan's. I love the energy!
@whybaby8210 жыл бұрын
What a song. What a man.
@jamesobrien73387 жыл бұрын
Mate in my eyes the way Dylan is as a person is part of why I love the guy, I'm doing a school project on Don't Look Back and Eat The Document and some interviews, honestly think his attitude is needed for the life he has just the coolest guy
@mariabaca3941Ай бұрын
He is a prophet.
@pz16886 жыл бұрын
COME BACK AND Bring it BACK because we NEED REAL MUSIC LIKE THIS AND NOT THE SHIT WE HAVE TODAY!
@raulesparza71474 жыл бұрын
Una de las mejores canciones de Dylan. Por que nunca más canto esta cancion????
@VeggiePopper4 жыл бұрын
Dylan seems to be having a blast by playing this song. Should revisit it in the future, if he ever tours again (thanks, COVID-19).
@thegman949547 жыл бұрын
Happy 76th birthday, Mr. Dylan! Thank you for this amazing album.
@waynesulatyski24305 жыл бұрын
Wow .I have always loved this song. Amazing performance. Do you think Bob was in the zone. Wowzers.
@mbg58368 жыл бұрын
Happy 75th to the greatest living songwriter, even though I know I'm old enough to remember him in his early 20's.
@bramc.46313 жыл бұрын
such a beautifull song!
@penguinx96 жыл бұрын
Great version. Brilliant song
@johnkirby56728 жыл бұрын
brilliant absolutely brilliant!!!!!!
@sambassil7 ай бұрын
One of the few artists that can take you on a journey and lead you to seldom-visited places
@georgeelias42588 жыл бұрын
mr Dylan , you sir created music, yes you with full respect.
@gregdavidson58984 жыл бұрын
All those songs, all those lyrics, how does he remember them all?
@hemkarki93784 жыл бұрын
He messes them up sometimes. That's what dylon's son said to patti smith when she forgot lyrics while honouring dylon.
@lillynietz173 жыл бұрын
He doesn't....While warming up for a tour in the nineties in a bar in Mass. his band members would suggest and play HIS SONGS ! And He would go 'Oh Yeah'....Look it up!
@robertog99383 жыл бұрын
He writes them all on his wrist before each show.
@jayare26205 жыл бұрын
The last of the old testament prophets shouting down to the multitudes!!!! Love it!!!!
@sharonholland70629 жыл бұрын
Peace will come ♡ Bob Dylan
@jaw4448 жыл бұрын
but will offer no reward when the false idols fall
@0Reel2Reel08 жыл бұрын
With tranquillity and splendor!
@tiamatxvxianash92027 жыл бұрын
This is one of Dylan's songs that I can play forever and ever. I never put on the album "Street Legal" to do anything really but listen to this tune over and over.
@Theimbennn7 жыл бұрын
Easily one of his best songs he's ever written and sang just wish there was a live recording with Crisp clear sound. Street legal is such a great under appreciated dylan album
@kidcharlemagne72388 жыл бұрын
been learning Alto since November, gonna learn this riff :)
@Marea15435 жыл бұрын
Wonderful saxo!!!, only and special Dylan live!!!
@garysteele334 жыл бұрын
Gr8 version from an even gr8er album, thanx Bob.
@pedromuniz70784 жыл бұрын
I saw him play this song on October of 1978 in Chicago. I remember this concert so vividly
@maryrickert92202 жыл бұрын
Me too
@mariannpancoe33658 ай бұрын
Same-both nights🙌🙌
@Jojoseahorse4 ай бұрын
What an amazing performance, so great to see Bob boogying on down, and the sax just kills
@bellatheband3 жыл бұрын
I love this Dylan song. The words
@seanod71578 жыл бұрын
More guitars than I can count. I always wondered if all the guitars were his idea of a joke. I know it has given my friends and I much laughter after a toke and a listen.
@matty5608 жыл бұрын
Konig Corvus what a thrilling life you must lead
@seanod71578 жыл бұрын
You have no idea...Yes many, many thrilling times. And you? Evidently it thrills you to pester random people on the internet, oh well, they say all tastes are to be found in nature. Thrills are something one experiences when they take their eyes off their little screens and GET A LIFE.
@thepeckhampoet19092 жыл бұрын
In the middle of covering this with a collaboration group, hard to nail down. This is my first time hearing this live version. Sounds like the same tempo with we have down already. The lead solo, we are going to have ad that in no doubt
@dr.elizabethmartin71188 жыл бұрын
Exquisite...........as Bob Dylan almost ALWAYS is....................thank-you veyr much and..........cheers!
@barbarapowell1375 жыл бұрын
More action than I have ever seen in a performance
@Jojoseahorse2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is the most bouncy I have ever seen him :)
@marcelopepinho8 жыл бұрын
Oh Gosh !!! When will I see it again in life??
@puri65464 жыл бұрын
This is like being in Heaven!
@barbarapowell1374 жыл бұрын
Magic
@EricScottBloom8 жыл бұрын
having a blast....he LOVES it!
@erickoning8949 жыл бұрын
great live version
@MrMohammadim9 жыл бұрын
The finishing of the song was great...
@hmao4466 Жыл бұрын
A modern Shakespeare.
@paulyoungblood74848 жыл бұрын
So much energy!!
@roekstoek15169 жыл бұрын
Best Bob Dylan song (y)
@lightnweight7 жыл бұрын
So grateful for having seen him on that tour.
@GD-rd6ig23 күн бұрын
This is fantastic
@earlmcpherson69139 ай бұрын
I took Mary Ellen to see him in Greensboro 1978 December 7th. Been lovin him for over 50 years.
@bobinbud4 жыл бұрын
Dylan is rock,n,roll savior
@vllnrm8 жыл бұрын
An apocalypse of a song.
@robertallenzimmerman6732 Жыл бұрын
Masterpiece 👏👏👏
@michaelcowart6100Ай бұрын
one of my first concerts at the Providence civic center in RI. I was 14
@Sosu217 Жыл бұрын
My favorite Dylan song, off my favorite album (next to Slow Train). Such a shame these songs didn't get played more.