Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (LIVE HD FOOTAGE) [Dublin, 1966]

[@acid1310]

"This is a folk song" *Plays blues rock*

[@MonotoneCreeper]

Blues is folk music, and rock is just blues with amplifiers. Check out Automobile Blues by Lightnin' Hopkins

[@acid1310]

@@MonotoneCreeper "Rock is just blues with amplifiers". Check out The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd.

[@MonotoneCreeper]

@@acid1310 All of those bands' music originated from the blues. And again, blues is folk music, so Bob isn't wrong calling it a folk song. Also, if you'd listened to that song you'd know he's continuing the folk tradition of borrowing melodies and lyrics from other songs

[@acid1310]

​@@MonotoneCreeper You know that Dylan said "This is a folk song" just to annoy the heckler? The audience wanted acoustic folk meanwhile Dylan played electric rock.

[@MonotoneCreeper]

@@acid1310 He said it to annoy them but he was also right. The instruments may have changed but the music didn't.

[@Voodoochil111111]

The ultimate troll saying "It's a folk song" so sweetly.

[@JohnHutchinson-fe3sm]

😂

[@BenjaminMcdonald-e4n]

Haha 😂

[@anthonygerace332]

Bob Dylan and John Lennon were two of the greatest wise-asses in history.

[@charlottehouston-b7m]

Bob , I was three years old .. when you sang in Londons Albert Hall .. Love luv ..

[@BenjaminMcdonald-e4n]

@@Voodoochil111111 ha yeah sorry but I'm enjoying your conversation

[@boxieracorn8445]

“Not many pop groups like that” this guy gets it.

[@EliMacFerry]

Also the guy who says "he's just doing what he wants to, if you don't like it, cut it out". I imagine how stupid the other guy felt in the following years lol

[@metinaydemir2439]

@@EliMacFerry it is the same guy.

[@Dermot2927]

I think he says “cut out”, in other words “do one” in 2020s parlance!

[@boxieracorn8445]

Nobody has, nor ever will, handle hecklers with such power as Bob Dylan.

[@SwinginPig]

Amen to that!

[@EricScottBloom]

@@SwinginPig The hecklers didn't make up more than 10% of these audiences most nights. But of course hecklers are heard as though they are making up 90% of the audience. These crowds, for the most part, loved what they saw, heard and felt!!!!!~E

[@marginalguy]

BoxierAcorn844 Jimmy Carr: Hold my beer.

[@absolutelypositively]

I believe Zappa was on par with the hecklers.

[@bergsjo]

Solid copy on that.

[@janeseamore1370]

One of my favorite folk songs

[@jonglaubitz4021]

Lots os great covers of this BUT no one comes close to BOBBY'S delivery.

[@FenceThis]

@@jonglaubitz4021 not to mention BOB’s

[@oliveeisner8964]

"this is a folk song". it never gets old! The Thin man rocking the blues. I wonder what they thought once BoB came out and the rest of the world was going nuts over it. I mean how can you not smile at Leopard Skin Pillbox Haaaaat. 😎

[@ladyblue498]

You're absolutely right! I love your comments Olive Eisner.... Totally agree...

[@gilchasin1022]

Yep, Olive, lol. & as usual, thanks,..really the expensive kind...whoever can't have a good laugh with this great simple tune needs to have their head examined....balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine... just love everyime I hear it!

[@leahflower9924]

Love how these Brits are all so opinionated about music when they wouldn't have shit if it wasn't for america 🇺🇸

[@asmith9040]

@@leahflower9924 “we wouldn’t have shit if not for US” !?!? UK singer /songwriter /bands have contributed more (we’re a 5th the size of US) to popular music than any other country on the planet. In what, in your fkd up mind would we (uk) have if not for USA? Elvis ? Cause he was a great songwriter 😂 The Monkees? Your answer to the Beatles 😆 then think of what USA has produced…. Very little . And what it has has been inspired by the UK music scene.

[@malbuff]

@@asmith9040 Have you ever heard of the blues?

[@MrCristyboy]

I was at the concert in Dublin, cost £1 a ticket, i was in the balcony and saw so many people leaving in the second half, when he came back with the band. I couldn't believe it. The last time i saw him was in Motril in 2004 what a great musician and performer and still going strong

[@jojo-ww5us]

Love it when he says this is a folk song and hits them with pillbox hat.class.

[@ella5319]

Dylan is so unique, he always went his own way & didn't care if people liked his music or not, he did it his way.

[@johnnybravo3839]

"Not many pop groups like that." How cool must that guy feel, 55 years later?

[@SwinginPig]

To everyone wondering why the audience members have English accents instead of Irish---The performance of the song was recorded at Adelphi Cinema in Dublin on May 5, 1966, but the intro is probably from Manchester, England and the interviews are from Leicester, England. Much of this old Dylan material isn't complete, so it needs to be stitched together with footage from different locations/dates. However, it is always most appropriate to label the video as the location where the music was recorded, which is what I've done here. Enjoy!

[@jonglaubitz4021]

That's Alright Ma......a minute or two from DYLAN is better than an hour with most others. !!!

[@stevepercival4774]

Thanks swingin pig love the bootlegs

[@SL-pl1qo]

Can't find one artist of this "new generation" that can even come close to Dylan. He still reigns king of poets.

[@stoddardhodgson9325]

Leonard Cohen wasn't bad , different, but sturdy body of poem

[@WitchidWitchid]

Very rare that someone comes along who can write like that. Far and very few between.

[@giuseppinahilsinger6477]

He won the Noble Prize for literature in 2016 - " having created new poetic expressions within the great American tradition" ...

[@markgaines6904]

the most important and influential tour the world had ever seen nor will ever again!

[@gavinduvet]

exactly ✨

[@justsomeguy820]

He opened with this in San Diego at the Cox when I drove there with my 20 year old musician son. I played it in the car and told him about the song and how he had not been playing it lately. Then, there it was, opening song. Quite a moment that was. Still is.

[@sk8charmer]

I get it! When I finally was able to see Dylan my Dad was in the hospital with both shoulders broken. Seeing Dylan & hearing these songs that I grew up listening to and relating to with my Dad. It was a spiritual experience for me! One I will never forget! ✌️💕🎶

[@butchlester1]

The most talented poet entertainer singer ever, there’s some about him, it’s a God given talent and I think he knows it 🤔😀👋

[@CherylPerson-pi5lq]

There is NO god....

[@xvicente23x]

This video is so important for the world! Immeasurable. Dylan is still in the future. This video is from the future.

[@Jerry11201]

lmao hes such a troll

[@SwinginPig]

Right?! I love it haha.

[@devinjerryfreedomisfree4599]

Sonya Sandrasegara “I knew that would make you happy” lol

[@thomasvolkamer1618]

The intro where he says “This is a folk song” is from the May 15 performance in Leicester. The whole show is included in the Complete 1966 live recordings box set.

[@danielpletcher3074]

Who the hell did people think they were back then to decide what kind of music this man should play Bob Dylan's Bob Dylan he can pick up an acoustic and write awesome melodic stuff or he can pick up an electric and tear up the floor fluance again who do these people think they are to decide what Music a musician should play

[@TheMarshmelloKing]

Bob was punk before punk

[@Jimmyback1000]

He knew what was gonna happen, he changed things round from folk, blues, jazz, gospel, pop, like a genius xx

[@nitrousnine]

trade mark of quality .. i remember that imprint from my days of browsing bootleg vinyl ...your work is greatly appreciated by hardcore dylan freaks,,such as myself. thank you!

[@SwinginPig]

♥️

[@richardscott8503]

Possibly his most hilarious song.

[@ronniechilds2002]

Yeah, who knows what the heck he was talking about? The lyrics are great, and yer right--funny as hell!

[@davidwatkins204]

I like the photo of his Bobness wearing his brand new, over one shoulder, hounds tooth scarf.

[@nissi.k]

This is the best performance and footage I have seen Bob do of that song! It is so good and the fans (though I hesitate to call them that) are just so ruthlessly judgmental thinking they have the right to control him. But Bob plays it so cool and clears a way to quiet the crowd so he would have a chance to get the song started "This is a folk song, this is a folk song, I wanna sing a folk song now. I knew that would do it. This is called..." Love it thanks so much Swingin' P!

[@AnnaLVajda]

That was hilarious.

[@jonglaubitz4021]

yup !!!

[@leahflower9924]

I'm just a folkie from Minnesota lol

[@edwardharley9]

who the blank do they think they are? they like his music so they OWN him???? Fascists.. like the ones we have today on the left.

[@Chapps1941]

Great version.

[@sdoc13]

Beautiful sounds & images. Thank You. The newspaper seller at the very end is from outside the Glasgow Odeon show May 19th. Heard in all his sweet hellish glory at the start of the 'Untold Story behind the 1966 tapes' promo film that Sony cut together from Pennebaker's footage and put out 8 years back: "The Bob Dylan souvenir copy with the picture...souvenir copy with the picture..."

[@corneliakapelinski]

His attitude is impressive, the more attack the more creative

[@tamaraspanehl3710]

Bobbylein, manchmal bist Du wie ein wunderschönes Wesen aus einer anderen Welt!

[@loisweatherly872]

Love everything about this!!! I can't stop watching it! Thank you for sharing.

[@tomdale1313]

BOB DYLAN ROCKS

[@tommynoble685]

they just flat out sound great.

[@peterzang]

Everything was working for him. Including getting the perfect (and maybe best) band of its time. These guys were born to play together

[@johnmccann8319]

I agree with John V in the comments.People don't talk like that in Dublin and I should know being from Dublin myself.They are English!So it must have been in England somewhere.I loved that Dylan changed to electric.Both ways he was amazing.You can please some people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot please all the people all the time.People really don't know what they have until it's gone.These people didn't know that they were in the presence of someone really very special.

[@SwinginPig]

The performance of the song is from Dublin. The intro and audience interviews were likely shot in Manchester; please refer to my pinned comment.

[@johnmccann8319]

@@SwinginPig Thanks sir for the info and postings of Dylan.Great work!

[@jc_compo]

Thanks for sharing this priceless historic footage!!!

[@richardscott8503]

People today might like to think they'd be real hip and love Dylan's move into rock, but that's easy to say. Look at how he divided people! I'll always envy anyone who saw him at that time, even if they hated the show.

[@42awww]

If there was the internet when i was 14 in 1980 and was able to see this in my living room, my head would have exploded! Instead of looking at the inside jacket of Blonde on Blonde for hours, days at a time. But, I was lucky enough to see my idol, (at the time), (spiritual forces took the place), at Massey Hall in Toronto for his born again tour, and it was spectacular! But what we have now, people uploading videos like this, yeah, i'd be dead right now from too much excitement...

[@jeanetteroach6006]

Bob can make anything sound fantastic..lm always amazed when I hear these for the first time .. ☺️

[@charlottehuang1207]

Thanks

[@specialknees6798]

Gotta be one of the most unique death grips songs for sure

[@peter2010900]

Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan

[@suesjoy]

Bob is at the top of my gratitude list today!

[@fmpockets]

I would love to see interviews with the people that were there in 66. would love to see what they think about it now

[@raygooch]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHbElaGend2XfrM "The video features interviews with three people that were in the audience for the infamous 'Judas' concert in Manchester: CP Lee is a renowned authority on Dylan and penned the definitive account of the gig ('Just Like the Night - Revisited'); Mark Makin, artist and photographer, captured images of the gig that have appeared all over the world; and, Mike Bowden, musician and songwriter, reflects from his position as a member of the folk purist section of the 1966 audience."

[@janepiepes2243]

Hysterical... such a moment...forever !

[@danielkelly1274]

Wonderfull job on this, thanks Swingin' Pig. I was at the Cardiff show a week before this. Only a small % of the audience made any 'protests' ( one wouldn't really call it a protest by the way) A shock maybe !..My sister and i loved it !

[@thesongtowoody]

this is a reverse engineered thank you to the audience for their graciousness and brilliant insight...no?

[@Leocadia333]

Wow ! Best version ever IMO.

[@rockturtleneck]

May 5, 1966 was the day I was born.

[@Dermot2927]

That’s not the Dublin crowd afterwards… I think it’s Sheffield. In the full clip there’s a guy who says “Bob Dylan were a bastuhd in that second ‘alf!”

[@EricScottBloom]

I NEVER read or hear the FACT: Even during the 66 shows when he was heckled and disrespected the most, 90% of the audience was still with him, and applauded enthusiastically.....so THERE!!!!~E

[@MrMudEagle]

Damn I cant believe you posted this!!! Thanks! Bloomfield on guitar!

[@jayjay66111]

its robbie robertson on guitar

[@nicolen.9642]

Awesome blues...my younger years😍🎶🎶

[@cyndimiddleton2274]

Good evening, swinging with the pig tonight. Always enjoy watching bob get his point of view across in such a suttle fashion!!! Pig lover, thanks again

[@SwinginPig]

💕

[@jpetersgoyanks]

Last line of the video “not many pop groups like that”… indeed.

[@BertisGuitar]

Finally some decent footage of Robbie Robertson’s positions during the solo...so much of Pennebaker’s edit just follows Dylan around to my great annoyance!

[@BobDylanFan1966]

Well Scorsese was the same way about Robbie for The Last Waltz. He had more screen time and more of him was shown even if Garth had a solo.

[@richardscott8503]

Oh, Robbie learned from that, didn't he? Hasn't missed a chance to put himself in the spotlight since 1968.

[@hannejeppesen1809]

@@BobDylanFan1966 Robbie was very good looking, no wonder the camera loved him, Rick too was good looking, both had a lot of charisma, cameras are drawn to that.

[@BobDylanFan1966]

@@hannejeppesen1809 can't argue with that to me they're all great they were the epitome of Americana music.

[@hannejeppesen1809]

@@BobDylanFan1966 As for their musical talent all 5 Band members were great and multitalented. As a female of that generation to me Rick and Robbie were the 2 sexy guys. When Rick sings "It makes no difference", tears your heart out, his voice so souful, you get the feeling it is very personal to him. And Robbie's guitar playing at the end, and then Garth on the sax, never get tired of it. Robbie wrote the sung with Rick in mind, felt he would do it justice without it sounding like self pity. He was right. Robbie said he wrote the song because sometimes "times does not heal all wounds".

[@francisanosissi1]

we grew up just listening to this stuff ..no big deal..it was just what you got when you put the needle on the record...now everything's quantified and analysed and debated..it's like going backward.......choo choo said the little train that wanted ta..

[@dbmorton1114]

Great stuff. Another Dylan fave of mine with footage from the famous '66 tour. Fantastic!

[@gk411]

Mr Bob 🎶 rocking out the home place ♥ ✌️😎 🎸 🇮🇪 2020

[@tcpip9999]

Brilliant... It *is* a folk song 🔥

[@karmenjazbec7743]

YEAH BOB HONEY

[@c.chelseathedog7987]

One of my favorites !! ....and what a look!!!

[@alancodd199]

Fantastic thank you for this rarity

[@jeffdawson2786]

Wonderful footage. ❤

[@fiorellafenati5395]

MAGNUM!!!!!!!!!

[@ellismurphy854]

Robbie’s guitar… Wow!

[@jrgentrset5070]

Thank you Dylan for starting to play rock and roll!

[@brubeck1]

great , he was never the same after the live66 tours. The output was there but hed changed . il listen to any record he makes ..long live dylan.

[@paularora5086]

Just love him somethings never change...

[@VeraStiopul-ws6zp]

Crazy for this song

[@Leocadia333]

Fabulous!

[@20JjN12]

Always njoy your posts, Pig. 💗 This really made me smile.

[@samdill36]

awww , that sure is nice, you can see bob thinkin damn , what a great band i got behind me, this is so easy

[@donaldphee1651]

Wish you had the entire song here it sounds great! to my ears at least ...maybe more realized than the version on BonB ....I remember reading something in the liner notes on Bringing it all Back Home where Bob had given up on attaining perfection yet in moments like this one he has no problem attaining Queen Jane approximately.

[@fransbuijs808]

Seems like the entire cast of Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction was there.

[@sara-cl1ls]

lmao what do you mean

[@mario7frankielee]

that blue light unreal good

[@SwinginPig]

Yeah, I managed to pause it at the moment of the photo flash. Made for a really cool screenshot and thumbnail.

[@lachlanjacques3921]

favourite folk song ever

[@mariefearon627]

Go Dylan ahead of your time....such an evolved human love ❤ and peace✌ to all reading this

[@syourke3]

It’s hard to realize how upset many of Dylan’s early fans were when he went electric and moved from folk to rock. He largely abandoned folk music and protest songs around that time and he alienated a lot of his fans by doing so. So when Dylan says “this is a folk song” before launching into an uptempo blues number, he’s basically making fun of those fans or just telling them to piss off.

[@mrheem44]

no kidding

[@wheezermacdonald2789]

Is that Robbie Robertson on guitar at 1:39 ?

[@Adam-hs1ft]

Yep. I think the Tele Dylan's playing is the one that had its finish stripped and eventually ended up on the Last Waltz cover.

[@nemonautilus9807]

Something Is happened here/ But you Don't Know What Is/ Dedicated to all the Mr. Jones of everytime & Place! Ohhhhh a Folk ballad!😂😂😂 Why not? Dear Swingin', the Beauty & Gold of His Art & his titanic willing along to a laugh have buried them! Long Life to Bobby!😃😃😃

[@davidayer2168]

The newspaper held up at the end is from Glasgow

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

It's so weird. I go through phases where I am not sure if Bob is a good dude or a total wizard. I finally resigned to he's just purified Gnostic duality in physical form.

[@steveconn]

This is when Bob at least acted like the audience was there. Maybe he needs more hecklers today.

[@tomdale1313]

can Dylan rock, can he...moves me to tears the direction and just how cool his appearance not to mention how it was said by him so cool so cool...if they were casting someone to play that part, they sure found more than what they could imagine...some of us didn't get it and man it was our lost for sure, those who got it, got the greatest show on earth.. BOB DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC ON A NEVER ENDING TOUR

[@susanflanagan9159]

Brilliant,love all your posts, you’ve the best

[@VeraStiopul-ws6zp]

Sweet

[@tomdale1313]

My son, my son was born to ...rock and play them low down dirty subterranean blues...Dylan's lyrics affectionately ridicule a female "fashion victim" who wears a leopard-skin pillbox hat. The pillbox hat was a fashionable ladies' hat in the United States in the early to mid-1960s, most famously worn by Jacqueline Kennedy. Dylan satirically crosses this accessory's high-fashion image with leopard-skin material, perceived as more downmarket and vulgar. The song was also written and released after pillbox hats had been at the height of fashion. Some journalists and Dylan biographers have speculated that the song was inspired by Edie Sedgwick, an actress and model associated with Andy Warhol. It has been suggested that Sedgwick was an inspiration for other Dylan songs of the time as well, particularly some from Blonde on BlondeThe song melodically and lyrically resembles Lightnin' Hopkins's "Automobile Blues",[ with Dylan's opening line of "Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," echoing Hopkins's "I saw you riding 'round in your brand new automobile," and the repeated line of "...brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," melodically descending in the same manner of the Hopkins refrain "...in your brand new fast car". The Dylan reference to "the garage door" in the final verse of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" may also be an allusion to the automobile of Hopkins's song. In 2013 experimental hip-hop group Death Grips released a song titled "You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" named after one of the lines in the song. Dylan began to include "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" in his live concerts with the Hawks in late 1965, and the song was one of the first compositions attempted by Dylan and the Hawks when in January 1966 they went into Columbia recording studios in New York City to record material for the Blonde on Blonde album.

[@richardlstern9840]

Isn't Edie Sedgwick a real good fit for "miss lonely" in "Like a rolling stone"? A directionless rich girl who became Andy Warhol's muse and wanted to be Bob's girl friend. Rejected by both, she fell into heavy drug use and died soon after.

[@majones7004]

Thanks.

[@tomdale1313]

google says@@majones7004

[@tomdale1313]

yes@@richardlstern9840

[@joancorr447]

2024 CLASSIC DYLAN. So sweet, so funny, so good ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@broscosmoline]

I only have the Manchester and the (real) Royal Albert hall versions to compare this with, but I'm interested to hear how laid back the shuffle is on this (earlier, right?) performance. Given their history at this point in time, a 12 bar blues is this band's natural habitat, and you can tell - tasty fills that compliment each other beautifully. Drummer Mickey Jones has a lighter touch her than other recorded performances I've heard. Seems like the feel and groove get progressively harder - the RAL version is biting and nasty (in a good way).

[@metinaydemir2439]

Such a shame. But it is a spectacular moment to see in music and it adds a lot texture to music history and bob dylan's career. I can show this to my friend and say "something like this happened in a bob dylan concert and in music and bob dylan history" and it would make it a really exciting story.

[@cultfan5227]

LOVE this song !!

[@mikerosanova5086]

Bob Zimmerman, the original punk rocker.

[@gloriajeansongbird4657]

Bob does it all❤

[@jj9homer]

"Can I jump on it sometime?" (Inspired me to buy one at a Philadelphia vintage store)

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Black and white tele with maple, best combo

[@spamdmd]

I love this!!!🎸🎸🎸

[@mortimerzilch2608]

HOW GREAT IS THIS!!!? right at the top near SUPREME!!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@marakaretsos5204]

UNIQUE!!! 🎸🎹🌠🎼

[@JohnDoe-cu2hl]

I like how the crowd new by the weird name of the song he lied and booed before he even started playing.

[@huwgriffiths7271]

NOT MANY POP GROUPS LIKE THAT HOW FUCKIN RIGHT YOU ARE SIR WELL DONE

[@jplew138]

Keep on keepin' on ❤️❤️