BOB DYLAN Nara Japan May 22, 1994

BOB DYLAN Nara Japan May 22, 1994

[@PaulLfc-ml1bj]

How blessed we are to have been born into a time where this mans music exists.

[@kymbrenton]

Yea Paul absolutely agree with you 💯% The first time I have seen this February 2023 I am so amazed I love it

[@besserman1]

Well said

[@LuiginoLuigino]

😂 insieme ai rolling stones hanno aperto la porta del paradiso

[@colmocleirigh4833]

The Master at his very best. The lyrics in this song and how the orchestra added to his amazing performance will never be matched. Bob’s message to the world.

[@gulfmountain]

I'm with you, I've felt that way for nearly 60 years.

[@ohmercy5924]

I watched and listened to the Hard Rain performance this morning and was completely shattered. Despite hearing this song hundreds and hundreds of times I was never moved like I was this time. I just listened again and again, My heart is just broken. 2020 has been tragic, enraging, so many horrors- listening to that decades old prophetic song and that voice crying in the wilderness I’m so grateful to be hear in the timeofDylan.

[@davidgrantgordon]

Beautifully Said!

[@davidgrantgordon]

So True, "prophetic" for sure!

[@ph8768]

I thought you were being a little melodramatic... and then I listened to the song. Wow. Its pretty powerful.

[@mariettamilbert5594]

Actually when one morning realized were drowned in his words that sound profound everlasting as our immortal soul is but still under his God gifted oceans of love he always had so much love could not help so many kindly just drowned madly and kept right on breathing joy. Thank you kind sir.

[@mariettamilbert5594]

So I drowned joyfully and kept on breathing, realized his music could go with me. Thanks, so grateful so generous Bobby Zimmer!

[@mattgikas1897]

It really doesn’t get any better than this. Genius beyond human imagination. He wrote Hard Rain a decade before his blue eyed son Jacob was as even born. Talent by God!

[@PianistStefanBoetel]

Never knew Bob performed with orchestra. He together with Japanese classical musicians: Perfect!

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

Marvelous!!!❣️

[@et5222]

I believe it might be the one and only time he performed with a philharmonic orchestra.... love this version. In mymind I try to imagine the rehersal

[@njsongwriter]

@@et5222 If the rumors I've heard about Bob are true, he didn't attend any rehearsals. If the orchestra had a rehearsal there may have been a standing for Bob.

[@diannemacks6762]

I was 11 years old when I fell for Bob Dylan. Loved his voice, loved his face... Now I love the man he is now... always a distance away..only met him once when I was 18...but I still feel like that 11 year old little girl with a crush

[@jackdawes120]

When I first saw this about 6 years ago. I was reduced to tears. Hard Rain... was the bravest thing I'd SEEN (or have seen) by any performer...ever, and I'm including any Al Jolson, Judy Garland dramatics; any tragic Billie Holiday; burning Muddy Waters, Pavarotti, Buddy Holly... back beyond any of the greats from Bessie to Bruce, from Elvis to The Beatles on a rooftop. Dylan was so far out, here, that he could only crash and burn if he did not, (and he did) completely own the orchestration and the splendid occasion. Now as I listen and watch, I've not changed my mind. This is still an epic and sublime rendition of an epic and apocalyptic song, which I believe is one of the greatest performances ever. The harmonic modulations from the 2n verse onwards, leave the master on a high wire of melodic magic, on which he defies the death of a wrong note or a missed chord - and this despite 'fluffing' the very first lines of the song. The arrangement grows and expands to fill everyman's expectations, and surely only chaos can come from the slo-mo explosion of orchestration going on around the rock-like centre...except that Dylan gathers the wild waving threads of the climax into a bundle of expectation and hope, in a dark and broodingly subdued finale. Not technically perfect, but who gives a s**t about that? Right from the gods this one. And repeat!

[@carmelcrowley158]

Like your knowledge!

[@0otee]

Jack Dawes: Right from the Gods these all! Just in one sentence.. Japan is coming on again.. lucky ones❤️🌹

[@chrisandrus689]

...so very well said, my friend & so Totally, perceptively accurate that It (your statement) actually captures this Greatest of products, an endlessly-nourishing (& ever-changing/evolving), & Masterful "song-&-dance-man's" one-of-a-kind, other-worldly & magnificent Talent....and i just think of the Hundreds of rockNRoll fans/followers, (over the years) who i have heard say, "..but His Voice, it's awful.."... some folks just never Do understand (or are equipped to appreciate) the Entirely counter to ALL the standard paradigms nature of Bob's musical journey.... sendin you a special basket of Peace, Love & aloha from a tiny island in th pacific called Lana'i...

[@ameerordimly1449]

@@chrisandrus689 FAROUT RESPONSE..SPOT ON

[@ameerordimly1449]

So rightly stated...sooo spot on!

[@PeterDaltrey]

Wonderful to see Bob giving all he`s got vocally as the orchestra lifts his performance.....stunning. The master. The genius. Our hero. Live forever, Bob.....

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

Awesome 🤩

[@nissi.k]

This is very beautiful and probably a dream of most composers to have their songs scored for a symphony! Bob’s delivery reflects this as you can tell he is moved by this orchestral support for his beautiful songs! It is a wonder he doesn’t lift off from the stage! Gorgeous!

[@nissi.k]

@@MichlMayr Well Michl your comment is nothing short of pathetic! I have never been jealous of your friends! You never understood anything about me! Your social comprehension is lacking. You saying I stalked your friends is psycho! I have no interest in your friends! I never stalked anyone. If anything you have been stalking me here and who knows who your friends are or what they are doing? I don’t know and I don’t want to know! You are the one with the problem and you seem delusional! Stop talking to me! I’d tell you to get a life but it would be a waste of time. Go back to your crew and talk your garbage pettiness there, to them; I’m sure they will return in kind and you will listen too! You can have a fest together. As for my comments well too bad, don’t read them. “Why don’t you just shove off if it bothers you so much” Oh “…little boy lost, [who] takes himself so seriously … brags of his misery…” Stick with what you know which isn’t as much as you think! Have a nice petty life!

[@nissi.k]

@@MichlMayr You know what else Michl? As well as you not having a clue about me, you are a very mean and evil man and a bully too. I think your attitude and actions are completely despicable! What causes you to behave like this? Why are you so agitated? I have nothing to do with your life. For you to comment to me as you have a few times now is not right! Strange I have never ever seen you comment anywhere on youtube let alone anything about Bob Dylan. The only comments I have ever seen from you are attacks against me commenting. Yes me commenting on Bob Dylan and thanking channels which is normal. What you have been doing toward me isn’t normal at all! In fact it’s disturbing and abnormal. Ignore my comments and look after your own life.

[@ronaldshiffman9120]

The best performance of 'A hard rain's gonna fall' I've ever heard. Thank you.

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

So true!

[@leefeltham50750]

I would definitely agree with that last comment

[@leefeltham50750]

However. Shame I did not know that this showcase even happening in fact why was bob kept away from.me all these years?

[@pamthomas3728]

He only gets brighter and deeper wherever he goes....a true soul man that blesses each of us.

[@christinaforrest2846]

Absolutely spine tingling. The best performance by the great Bob Dylan. I’m so happy to be able to listen and enjoy this wonderful show. Bob you are my idol.

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

😮😮😮My blue eyed son😮😮😮How beautiful to see all these beautiful musicians and this beautiful prophet singer writer musician singing and playing this beautiful song🎉🎉🎉Well done🎉🎉🎉Makes ...me think of my son🎉🎉🎉

[@ErinScope]

This is up there with his greatest performances of them all.

[@beverlykasahara8485]

I wish I was in the audience 😪

[@kymbrenton]

Absolutely very good comment ❤

[@WilFennell]

It was perfect. I lived in Nara City and was there in front of Todaiji for these concerts. This was my first time to experience Bob Dylan live, and it was the most moving and most memorable musical event ever. I had chills then, and I still get chills watching and listening today.

[@tomconnolly7420]

Performance of a lifetime, I will never tire of listening to this.

[@sr4663]

Bob changing it up for I Shall Be Released. Hauntingly beautiful. We are blessed to have this concert. Simply magnificent. Yes Lord, Ring Them Bells!

[@madgemcnair283]

TV TV

[@michaelj.r457]

Bob doing Hard Rain in Japan brings a haunting irony since he was singing in a part of the world where a Hard Rain had already fallen. August 6, 1945

[@alberto-os1bx]

Bob was 53 yo and way past his best performances of the 60' and the 70' and his voice is what it is but....magically.....looks like he's still the one artist everybody looks up to....but again fellas......nobody can reach him.

[@Iwantyourhelpbabu]

His weathered voice enhances the symphony and in turn, the symphony elevates him so greatly.

[@donnareese8063]

Beautifully said, You.

[@markh9749]

Dylan said as he came off stage from his Nara performance in "94 that he had not sung so well in 15 years. He was being modest, I think. The version of 'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' he delivers here is one of the single greatest in his long career as a performance artist.

[@magidkabbaj4991]

So talented Bob Dylan he gives you many different colours for the same song and all along decades and decades of rich texts and music...wigh love from Morocco.....

[@henryforan4115]

Wonderful performance from Bob, Hard Rain is one of my favorite songs from The Freewheeling LP. Bob with the orchestral backing is superb, what a great priveledge it is to have the music and poetry of Bob Dylan in our lives ❤

[@gulfmountain]

Amen to that!

[@mickychiwila6821]

Perfect harmony with the orchestra...Simply beautiful.

[@neilredmond1011]

And they said he couldn’t sing ! Stunning performance.

[@equaliser2265]

He can't ffs.

[@neilredmond1011]

@@equaliser2265 it’s all opinions ! And when yours matters I’ll ask for it 😜

[@jimbersmcimbers]

@@equaliser2265 listen to the emotion.

[@sue5980]

😊 Can't ☺️ sing 😊?? Wish ☺️ I 😊 could ☺️ sing 😊 half ☺️ as 😊 good ☺️, or 😊 even ☺️ a 😊 note ☺️. He's 😊 absolutely ☺️ Brilliant 😊😊

[@neilredmond1011]

@@sue5980 ❤️

[@berniebass7349]

25 years ago I saw it live on TV and was deeply impressed by Bob's performance, almost brought me to tears. Now watching it again the tears come back, Bob's vocals are so beautiful & emotional, especially on Hard Rain. Thanks so much Keith for your upload! ❤️

[@adamhuston9955]

The best performance of Hard rain gonna fall by Bob Dylan in Japan ever. Love from a fan of Bob Dylan. From Adam. Bob Dylan is still the greatest singer of the world. Keep well Bob Dylan.

[@bettefried8129]

So grateful to have lived in the time of Dylan. I first heard him at a local school in Greenwich Village when he was the unknown at a Phil Ochs concert. Now I’m 83 and moved to tears hearing him sing A Hard Rain’s Going to Fall

[@sr4663]

The magnificent Bob Dylan.

[@0otee]

‘It’s A Hard’ MY FAVORITE❤️ Never to forget this Poetic Important LOVE QUEST Message❣️👌 BEAUTIFUL🌹 All One Magical Harmonious Orchestral and Singing Performance! His Voice is Amazing metallic sharp yet deep warm goes well with Blowin’ section🌺🌹❤️☀️💫Thanks always Dylan🌺And ALL❣️

[@dcrelictunes1967]

Incredible performer and unmatched songwriting...right to the gut.

[@nancymoody123]

I love the grand finale of this Fabulous Concert, especially Bob Dylan Smiling during his Duo Performance ❤✌

[@davidloman932]

Yes. I noticed him smiling with such joy with Joni! He looked so young too! Hard to believe he’s almost 80!

[@Katarinatorn]

I want more of these arrangements. No words can cover how beautiful this is.

[@yamapenny5960]

👍

[@Sherrie275]

Wanted to listen to Mr. Dylan this a.m. and came upon this version, and was so deeply moved. Wounded in love, wounded in hatred...very profound.

[@florianschnellinger8258]

Pure emotion by Bob Magic only he can bring on ❤️

[@dyl-annfan6]

Mr Dylan plying his magic, just an amazing live performance with an amazing Philharmonic orchestra... Bob just performed as Bob does it all came together beautifully

[@paulbedard5770]

God Bless All of You Forever. The most Beautiful music I ever heard, Paul Bedard.

[@Annet777777]

He is an amzing gift to us all . I never cease to be moved annd fascinated song to song performance to performance .... Saw him one at a concert feel blessed

[@johnnyborgan8168]

One of his greatest performances ever.

[@thomanermeister303]

Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen!

[@jackdawes120]

It has to be, man. The venue, the arrangements, the master musicians of the orchestra following Dylan through the apocalypse with the faith of saints, and Dylan guiding them home to a kind of awful peace at the end.

[@brigitte870]

@@jackdawes120 You are a "wordsmith" just like your friend Bob Dylan!...I had to read your comments many times as they are so deep with insight and appreciation.

[@Yukon6255]

If there are legends and icons... There needs to be another level for this man... His music reaches my soul and lifts my spirits every time... There is no music catalog like Dylan's, decades and decades of evolving but always the same Bob we need.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

I watched this live; mind blowing performance...

[@jimbersmcimbers]

You are extremely blessed

[@evansclan4eva49]

I watched expecting a right screw up. When I heard he was performing with an orchestra I thought there was gonna be carnage. It was inspired.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

@@jimbersmcimbers ..I meant on TV haha; still blessed..

[@dafyddil]

These songs tear every emotion from my soul and leave me breathless

[@barbaraallen1187]

Stunning beautiful Performance ❤❤❤❤

[@simonsebastian3804]

Just wonderful..Love you Bob xx

[@vinterkatt1959]

Just incredible and a masterpiece by The Master

[@tofty21]

Hard rain like you’ve never heard it before! Amazing!

[@barbaraallen4450]

So beautiful, Bobby !!!! I remember when I First Heard IT. I did not Stop listening to this performance for days

[@jimbeauwalsh7912]

I had not seen this before but have noticed these past few years how his regular band has beautifully orchestrated his songs both old and new.... his melodies have always been marvelous!

[@brigitte870]

Thank you Keith Gubitz...you won me over with your 1980 Bob Dylan Toronto Massey Hall video...now this!...thx 4 sharing with the rest of us yutes!...how blessed is the world to have this magnificent talent to enjoy and be blown away by...these comments really splain this amazing force of creativity that could only come from a higher power.

[@jamietaylor8265]

Thanks so much for this. It's wonderful to see Joni and Bob enjoying singing together! It's rare to see Bob so appreciative.

[@seebee6804]

He starts out pretty much par for the course, typical 1994....but the orchestra PUSHES him and a new voice emerges....the best live performance from Bob Dylan in this stage of his life.

[@teresacalvaruso3251]

Sublime ❤

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

He is singing so well with a Smooth and even tone!! Love it!

[@marcbuehre7660]

Wonderful ! Thank You Bob ! Thank You Japan ! Thanks to The Conductor ! Micheal Kamen ? Thanks To All !

[@ksb994]

The greatest performance of this greatest song. Thank you!

[@dingodancer]

What an amazing piece of footage. So glad you posted it, so glad I came across it.

[@cherylmassey2940]

This performance is undoubtedly one of his best....he never disappoints....thanx Mr.D...luv

[@philpinckley1720]

That is so good words can't do it justice. WOW !

[@candy0000ish]

This is so beautiful, made me cry.

[@user-bh5fw5nz6i]

He is the best period hands down.❤🎉

[@margaretfreeman1314]

My most favorite performance of this song & ring them 🔔 ever, here is my standing ovations to you Mr. Bob Dylan, now and forever more.

[@maggiebryan2355]

Just beautiful

[@jokerman51]

roba da brividi! capolavoro assoluto! sono trascorsi oltre 50 anni da quando ascoltai per la prima volta questa canzone. ora, dopo tutti questi anni e dopo averla ascoltata migliaia di volte questa opera d'arte non finisce mai di emozionarmi. Geniale Mr. Zimmy!

[@petertenoort6141]

Hai ragione. Penso che Dylan non ha mai cantato questa brano con questa intensita. Forse ho fatto errori scrivere Italiano. Sono Olandese. Nonostante tutto Dylan e mio eroe.

[@dylang.1822]

Complimenti bellissimo commento, finalmente scritto in lingua italiana

[@petertenoort6141]

@@dylang.1822 Grazie

[@ThomasMeese]

videotaped that back in the days and watched it over and over 'til the tape faded out - thx. for one beautiful memory 😍👍

[@letterpress-fu9vo]

全ての人が幸せでありますように。

[@wandaschmitz4775]

what a talented man, touching !!

[@edvdylanfan]

gotta pick myself up off the floor after that hard rain......WOW!

[@jordipuig6383]

three masterpieces, three best performances, i cannot enjoy more. thanks a lot Keith for the upload, a beer is waiting for you in the beach of barcelona.

[@sandramoxon2039]

Thank you for this. So beautiful

[@margaret9095]

Beautiful, my favorite is Ring them bells...❤

[@garysteele33]

This has just touched me big time, thanx 4 da feeling Bob.

[@toshietai2279]

💫 🇯🇵 Nara Japan - This is brilliant performance of Bob Dylan with this orchestra. 🇯🇵 💫 💫🧚‍♀️🎹🎺🎻🎸🎷💗🎷🎸🎻🎺🎹🧚🏼‍♂️💫

[@deborahderush8239]

Blessings to him always XOXOX. He is so creative "Man of Many MANY MULTITUDES". XOX 😎💞🎶🎶🎶🎶🤗🤗🤗💐👍👏👏👏💞🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😍

[@wandaschmitz4775]

omy beautiful..gives me chills..what talent..

[@bobdylan-r6b]

Wow... It's one of the Dylan's best performances I've ever heard!! Hope I can get this live show in bootleg or sth.

[@dreamymixtape]

Just imagine young Bob Dylan recorded his album The Times They Are A-Changin’ in 1964 with this orchestra. It’s fantastic…

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

He recently said that he has no idea where the songs he wrote came from. …..He cannot explain their creation, just happened

[@greengiant9739]

Bob is so freaking mind blowing ... ..ya never know what he b gonna reinvent his songs to a whole other level ... and beyond .... a class act to say the least ....🤠

[@jimbersmcimbers]

The chills on hard rain... Unreal

[@philipclifton3058]

Wall to wall goosebumps on this old crocodile hide.

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

Ring them bells, so good

[@carmelcrowley158]

My darling young one. Saw a ten thousands hands on your children, what did you hear my blue eyed son. Saw a poet who died in the gutter, who did you meet, a young girl painted me a rainbow, when rain starts to fall,, home in valley, souls of mountain s, I ll stand on the earth till I stop thinking,

[@knockedoutloaded279]

pure genius...

[@BobGymlan]

This may be the most seriously Bob has ever taken a performance. He is not messing around.

[@beverlykasahara8485]

Todaiji Temple was the greatest backdrop of any of Bob Dylan's performances ever. 💘

[@YOumeanMe]

Japanese people (broad brush )are polite and actually listen.. probably was a consideration in getting a full orchestra for this performance.

[@bryank5070]

This is amazing thank you. Weird that the encore song was a song from Dylan's set

[@100Equipoise]

LONG LIVE BOB DYLAN

[@jokerman51]

Esecuzione semplicemente perfetta! Voce graffiante ed espressiva come non mai! Grande zio Bob!

[@MrEst1953]

Beautiful Bob .TXS

[@allanelliot9234]

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it, how prophetic!

[@keithslayton3985]

Please never leave us Bob!

[@wandaschmitz4775]

Mr Dylan does this song so well!!!

[@donaldprice9690]

More relevant today as ever. It sure is hard

[@thomaswalls9349]

Wonderful performance

[@michaelschonberger5667]

Hard Rain is the greatest song ever written, Thank you RAZ

[@mhairiwoods2337]

What memories this man must have ,its unbelievable 💞

[@carmelcrowley158]

Ring them those bells soul is the drive there is a calling . All rush out now and see the clouds. For the love that flies. All the breaking down between right and wrong

[@AndiKnittel]

Thanks a lot for sharing. :-) Best regards, Andi

[@evansclan4eva49]

THE version of Hard Rain.

[@ruthhildebrand4446]

Wonderful, I could listen all day

[@margaretfreeman1314]

I always love watching & hearing this video. Bob Dylan is magnificent #1

[@keepitsimpleXOX]

This is terrific ❤️

[@karmenjazbec7743]

YES BOB SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON ME

[@sheranisherani1012]

thank you Keith Gubitz for this unbelievable treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lennysapin2780]

Sherani Sherani 😉