Bob Dylan Press Conference 1965 Part 2

[@RubbelisPro]

His ability to avoid stupid questions by being witty is the reason I love his interviews

[@georgianwindow]

That is it That's so it..

[@creamydistortion]

Amphetamines...

[@ORIGINALDaveB]

Me too.

[@TheZooman22]

Everyone wants to know the secret to his success, he is only 24 he doesn't even know.

[@rhondawaller4457]

I love watching how he handles the press, they do ask stupid questions and his answers are awesome

[@brendantaylor3570]

His pointing out the unique meaning of words and how we interpret them differently, how we project meaning onto words, is what makes him a great songwriter.

[@_scabs6669]

I say "House," we both see a different house in our heads

[@lynndiaz8498]

Handsome and unspoiled...a genius wrapped in youth...I love him.

[@codydavidyates72]

A tired poet

[@codydavidyates72]

he was innovating. Critics can't handle that

[@christopherecatalano]

@@codydavidyates72, well, he was a songwriter. Lyric writing, songwriting are not necessarily poetry first. Playing music is awesome, but it can be work, and like all work it can be extremely tiring.

[@mattiassvanberg8292]

High on amphetamine's. Or maybe he's a bit drunk and tired here.

[@johndardi1334]

Albert Einstein was a genius Bob Dylan was a musician/songwriter

[@marygoff3102]

He handles the conference so excellently! Love a smart man. To be Bob is great for we the fans! Even at 79 he’s more perfect

[@punkster36]

People aren't able to make sense of this guy's indifference to his popularity, they're in just awe of how cool he is about it. It's like interviewing an alien. Unreal.

[@georgianwindow]

Yes how funny

[@petercockentits5725]

This world is almost like a different dimension compared to the world we live in now...how everyone carried themselves and looked like they weighed 87 lbs...to think this was only 50 years ago...50 years from now is a scary thought lol

[@danmseattle975]

Imagine- Bob Dylan was actually young once!

[@robertcronin6603]

Definitely was less obesity years ago...less poisonous and genetically modified fast foods also...it's very interesting to consider that 50 years from now folks will look back at our present time with the same type of sentiments on how things have changed.

[@user-rn6uk5fp1r]

If somebody not yet know this guy,it's ridiculous, I'm describing my story happen before two years, I found I forgot Bob Dylan,even his name,only remember Like a rolling stone

[@davidanchovies3340]

@@robertcronin6603 huh?

[@davidanchovies3340]

They all look very conservative with stix up their arses!

[@Domino13334]

This interview may be 54 years old, but this man is on tour in my country in July... what an absolute living legend 👍🏻🙌🏻

[@douglasmiller6648]

Your right

[@jimmysapien9961]

83 yrs old 😳

[@Davotheledge]

Whether he's being earnest or not, he gave great answers. 'I just hope to have enough boots to be able to change them.'

[@peacebwithu97]

Dylan: "It's not that kind of music." Arrogant interviewer: "It IS." Dylan: "Well, what can I say? Heh, you must know more about the music then than I do. How long have YOU been playing it?" BRILLIANTLY handled! It's just one of the many reasons why I like him.

[@yardarm5]

Adrienne Every night as a bartender

[@willbaldwin3605]

Where was this ? I’m too busy right now to find it! Got this playing through a singular headphone at work

[@lilguava70]

@@willbaldwin3605 10:20 about

[@realtimecartravel]

"Folk music is a constitutional replay of mass production" !!!

[@kenton6098]

He even kept a straight face!

[@Alloy7]

And he repeated it verbatim as a snappy comeback later in the conference!

[@ryansells2743]

People are calling you the great Poet of your generation. "I'm mostly a Song and Dance Man". Legend.

[@anjilasinha1351]

the man is pure brilliance.

[@kenton6098]

Against those idiotic questions, Forest Gump would look brilliant.

[@tombryan1]

WTF? Hes shallow and dull

[@aniket19931993]

I agree..would like to connect wth u more on that

[@christopherecatalano]

@@kenton6098 , some of the questions, yes, but on second viewing all his answers are pretty well considered and direct. He just didn’t bullshit and most of the interviewers were so used to phoney bullshitters that they probably had to relearn how to interview with real intelligence. He challenged the bullshit out of an entire generation in some ways. More than anything, he was as fearless as the punks a decade down the road.

[@goodboybuddy1]

great interview and witty, almost sweet answers. can't argue with a Nobel prize, can you? guess some haters can...

[@anthonymills1483]

I saw Dylan a few times. Once in a small venue (Probably 6 hundred people in club). Anyway this interview was absolutely outstanding. I was probably 20-25ft. From the stage. That night he wasn't smiling and I always remembered that. So I'm happy to see Mr.Z. in such relaxed and jovial mood. Blessing to you Bob.

[@Nowhereoh]

@Anthony Mills I watched this live broadcast on tv when I was 13. He's having a good time ,the audience is laughing. Not all reporters. Bill Graham the concert promoter of the Fillmore asks him about covers of his songs. I remember looking forward to this press con. There was a radio station KSJO in San Jose that had a folk program . I heard all his albums on that show. I never saw him. My brother saw him many times.

[@gracemariepabriga7039]

Am really amazed with Bob Dylan! Very precise, intelligent and honest answers! This is the kind of feedback to interviewers! Good job Bob and God bless! Love yah!

[@kathienewman4877]

That interview with the press was something else!!!!!! You answered the questions with such confidence and reality! I guess anyone else would feel like they were on trial with a microscope on top of their mind! Make a rhyme with the word 🍊 Orange??? No wonder in those days you chained smoked! Well. Thank God we all gave those suckers the boot 👢huh? I also smoked from 1969 until 1983 I Believe. The Marlboro Man had us all hooked at the time lol lol lol. Well at least you are looking beautiful now. Healthy, and like a fine 🍷 wine. Corny but true you look great! Your, singing vocally from your new Cd is uncanny too! Love it!!!! Have a fantastic day ! Love ya and totally loved this interview and your smiling. Best smile ever! No kidding! Love ❤️ Kathie

[@nancyrobinson7764]

How on earth can a person be objective of others subjectivity of oneself ? We live within our own experiences . Bob would have to be two people ; insane questions . He handled it superbly 👍🏼👌

[@karlaberry9194]

It was pretty absurd. Like the journalist was put out because he didn’t get an answer he liked.

[@davidjones163]

Much tooClever, Bob. What a flirt.

[@CloudyShinobi]

@6:20-7:24 -Wow, this is truly more relevant today than ever before. . .

[@lubatiflides3374]

It's all very clear and simple to me. The songs are NOT complicated to me at all. I know what they are : are all about. There's nothing hard to figure out for me I wouldn't write anything I can't really see. Bob answers HOW he writes a song in song form.

[@christopherecatalano]

I saw the aloofness the first time I watched this, now I just see the wit, the intelligence, and the absolute honesty. I mean, and…he was so so so song and dance. A lot of “folks” missed that or fully misunderstood it. This interview is high level entertainment, and almost unintentionally, very high level listening and responding from Dylan.

[@KyrieEleison7]

Am i the only one who noticed Allen Ginsberg??! Long Live , his pure soul. 🙏🏽❤️

[@SapphicTwist]

You mean Allen Ginsberg, the defender of pedophilia?

[@rattyeely]

10:53 he just starts rhyming

[@rahuljoban]

He's a freestyle rapper

[@karlaberry9194]

He sure did rhyme! Great observation😉

[@gloriayoung9421]

I really enjoyed this interview. I think it is kind of amazing how Bob reminds me of my oldest Grandson Jason. I really like Bob's songs and his many different generes and what he had to say about his music. I think wome of the peope in the audiance asked questions that had all-ready been asked and didn't need to be asked again.

[@georgelelandturner]

He strikes me as a very genuine, good natured person, an introverted artist who can’t really explain his process in conceptual terms. And there is an openness and kindness that is missing from interviews in later decades, perhaps he became less and less appreciative of the press. I like this young Dylan I feel like I can see who he is in an unguarded manner.

[@whitetrashpeg7575]

In the last 33 years I’ve watched this interview many times in pieces and in its entirety. I’ve always been so entranced by Bob and concentrated so hard on what he was saying that I never noticed until tonight that Bill Graham was one of the people asking questions. Unbelievable that I’ve always missed that. Anyone else?

[@amylee4965]

Oh for real damnnn...cool

[@dogonaroad]

and Allen Ginsberg!

[@davidhudson7813]

@ Phil Saunders youngsters would never know them ...

[@rodheywood9430]

Saw this for the first time & recognized Bill Graham

[@nickandmikec]

I love this. I could listen to Bob Dylan being interviewed all day long.

[@markrichardsocioprojectgo1800]

He's hilarious

[@0otee]

❣️Well Not really performing them (songs) but just letting them be there..❣️Great Interview.. Thanks to Dylan🌹❤️🌺❣️🌞👌

[@TheNomadicview]

"My attraction to what?"

[@fjk77december13]

Very young, sincere, and gifted

[@TheBluewaterBlonde]

Amazingly Bob Dylan had been secretly married a little over a week before this interview. He was married and expecting a child the following month.

[@gregorysullivan7175]

He's happy dazzled and young.

[@sharpcheddar7305]

The smartest man in the room.

[@ksmithkatcarving]

what was truly interesting about bob was he was honest and he said openly the media tries to turn him into somehting else turn the answers around,

[@KealohaHarrison]

I love the quote at 15:48 “I figure there’s a little boo in all of us.”

[@326cher]

I love his sense of humor and word play!

[@HodgeProGaming]

"Some kinda mood yeah you could say that"... stoned aha

[@jwobbe1986]

damn I wish we could still smoke inside

[@oliveeisner8964]

seriously! all these old Dylan videos have me jonesing for a cigarette bad. and I haven't smoked in 20 years! and now I want to light up inside somewhere...yeah. the old days.

[@FrenchToast663]

In some countries you still can

[@rattyeely]

You notice how everyone is constantly coughing the whole time

[@nicholasmaxwell9899]

@C · You must be fun at parties. How obnoxioussssssss.

[@sebiiau]

06:26 How did Ginsberg sneak into the audience?

[@synysterjazmyngates]

Bob invited him to come, along with his band members.

[@benrobins5939]

By being a published poet and journalist.

[@FrenchToast663]

I like him as well but he was being rude tbh

[@emmywang346]

Kopfkino no he wasn’t. Dylan and Ginsberg are great friends. Read some of Dylan’s books and history. Ginsberg was, however, being passive aggressive towards every single person in the room who was asking nonsense questions and Dylan constantly being put under a microscope for everything little thing he does.

[@danlevay5657]

Some questions seem really dumb and odd by later standards. Some good questions too. There was a time I would have thought Dylan was being evasive and posing but now I think he was struggling with inarttful questions.

[@valueofnothing2487]

"She gave me the best advice I ever heard Go home and lead a quiet life"

[@robertcronin6603]

Great line... simply amazing 🔥

[@its_peter1]

9:50 -10:05 loool I think everyone in the crowd missed that

[@graciemartin4206]

Hahah

[@DodgeDartSongs]

Completely

[@triciamoore106]

I love this interview and BOB well he handled it brilliant all them silly people asking daft questions so great he is still around to day thanks

[@suemclean1348]

Charming Dylan!

[@jonathanb1406]

That sycophantic laughter though.

[@TheZooman22]

What is crazy is that he was only 24 years old at that time. He doesn't have a lot of answers, but the press tries to get to some deeper inner truth. They want the meaning behind the meaning and there is none. He simply wrote songs, really good songs with just three chords.

[@inevolution1]

He knows this just happened to him and he didn’t want to be famous for famous sake.. He knew his depth and he had destiny all over him because he didn’t care about the things that don’t matter in conversations with god which he was having at the time… We don’t see humble or honesty anymore like this… this is priceless 🙏

[@tammiealmany6239]

Good morning 🌄 excellent video thank you for sharing 😊

[@edmundcarrington4719]

"That's Allen Ginsberg, man" -- 6:23

[@ednatedder6066]

no one could really answer those questions

[@bowens2666]

“It’s always silent where I am.” What are you saying bob?

[@hubertcross1133]

this was between the releases of highway 61 and blonde on blonde

[@sethstine4698]

The one question he answers and elaborates on was the question asked by Allen Ginsberg. Imagine that..

[@arijitg.9713]

8:39 "its always silent where I am"

[@sevenkeller4340]

I want to go back and time and tell him how much of a legend he will become. He probably wouldn't care though, for all we know someone's already done it.

[@0live0wire0]

He was already a legend by Highway 61

[@jgh7164]

He knew it. His destiny.

[@peterschlipf9114]

...I've only seen the confrontive outtakes of this interview seen in "No Direction Home", nice to see the whole thing - really quite a historical document...

[@lbell8510]

I love watching this interview (1:00) with a young humorous Dylan ("thinking about this ash").

[@ashlynmusicofficial]

I'm still holding out for that orange rhyme...

[@johnvalue]

LOL at 6:19 when Allen Ginsberg just randomly pops up and asks a question.

[@johnvalue]

Someone needs to edit that into every press conference ever.

[@jessb1775]

Crazy to think he was only 24 years old right here.

[@syalalaputri1802]

Man is smoked like a train and still live until now.

[@TheAien123]

syalala putri guess He quit it now

[@graciemartin4206]

Cancer comes from fungi and strain on the heart such as prolonged repression and negitive tension

[@melissasharplin4617]

Bob Dylan is correct about interviewers taking things he may say and rewording the statement in a different ways

[@f.w.2054]

Look for beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure in the audience.

[@joshuachaffin1858]

It’s always silent where I am 😮

[@leefrancis190]

Bob Dylan, my favourite male artist of all times,so intelligent and that voice......anyway good luck to Bob Dylan for his retirement and good health,blessed to be one of his fans

[@kenton6098]

No, it's a constitutional production of what they replay when you attend Mass.

[@TweedSuit]

20:28 - This is a seminal moment in rock history. Poster advertising one of the first Bill Graham concerts at the Fillmore.

[@williamhensel2983]

did he ever get back to the "orange" rhyme?

[@jackwardley3626]

sporange.

[@nathanielalexanderkristens2825]

Door hinge

[@richtofenchareyre8425]

Storage

[@Lucasmatheus211]

in 65 he already had his own plane. Nice

[@jaspernewcomb5656]

I wrote one album in grease.. See then I had to work a job to support my real job that I wasn't getting paid enough for so I was the deep fryer at the universal grease and what fell in it food company and the whole back wall behind the big fryer was literally cover in grease and small particles of burnt falling crap but anyway one night while dropping n dipping out and hearing the roar of the hot grease on the cold food crap between the dropping n dipping back out I noticed what looked like words in that grease.. Wtf the grease was telling me the secrets of the universe. After that I understood how to write songs and they just started sliding out of my mind like lard across a hot griddle. Of course it's unlimited you could go to any store and buy a can of Crisco you be surprised how many songs are in every can. Sure anybody can do it......

[@EveryColourThereIs]

Yeah man, ya know, we all need grease - every one of us. Every day, you gotta work a crooked screwdriver between your toes and behind your ears, man, and hell, if you tell me what’s in your deep fryer, I’ll tell you somethin’ cool about bats. And if you’re jugglin’ greasy kaleidoscopic bats out there and I can’t see ‘em, I’ll find you someone who can. (Almost lights another cigarette, then drops lit match and ignites trousers.) Let’s face it, Bob made a career from being an enigma. If he’d answered any one of those questions, he’d have become his own enemy. (Crimson bats tied through his ears.) Just like faces in the fire embers, or animals in the clouds (see Darwinian survival instincts) the brain tries to make sense of Bob’s poetic nonsense and throws up interesting mental images. Putting it in a musical picture frame keeps it tidy. Nothing wrong with that; it works great for me, and he’s still my favourite song and dance man. Explanation courtesy of ‘The Life and Times of Eric Grimes’.

[@jaspernewcomb5656]

Dave Smith So what will you do now my blue eyed son what will you do now my darling young one. I'll know my song well before I start singing and reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it...... So then he told the woman at the well, if you drink from my well you'll never thirst again....... My love she speaks like silence without ideals or violence doesn't have to say she's faithful but she's true like ice like fire....... Somebody tell us what it all means.... And the reply came we can't the book is locked it's been sealed that no eye can look upon what's concealed within. We can tell stories and sing songs but the wisest of us all knew he didn't know nor did he suppose he did not even for a minute. Have a crispy french fry then while they're still hot for yonder comes a young lion whose destiny is to break the seals. And so it was the Messiah was a baby and the wise men were confounded expecting a warrior perhaps 10' tall or more to destroy the enemy. So the rasta man Bob sang, in this life in this life in this old sweet life were coming in from the cold.... The biggest man you ever gonna see was once a baby. Then he said I gonna throw me corn me no call no fowl singing get up stand up stand up for your rights. Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth because God is God of the living not the dead. Then the Great Chief Sitting Bull spoke, and I saw the white soldiers falling off their horses upside down into the Indian camp the same way as a baby comes into the world head first. He was standing in the circle thinking about the rosary and how the dead man was disconnected from the circle of life and how it was the Mother who was the way back to life. The Father was the great mystery with the unsearchable mind but the Mother she was Wisdom the feminine principle and through her all things created had come into being and the world knew her not....... That's why I'm calling all the crows

[@trumpisacreepoid554]

His early stuff definitely aint obvious. And when you get it, if you do, you typically find yourself crying.

[@plasteredbastard]

Bob's self amusement here is unquantifiable

[@_scabs6669]

"Hopes for the future? I just hope I can have enough boots. And new ones." -Bob Dylan, or something like that

[@johnphilbin5241]

6:20 Rick Danko behind Ginsberg

[@graciemartin4206]

Ooh nicely spotted!

[@326cher]

Bob is always great. I’ve loved him since 1963!

[@markrichardsocioprojectgo1800]

Long time

[@PoetryLovers-4u]

His mind is on a different level - very bright.

[@0live0wire0]

He's stoned. Nailed the interview though.

[@laurentiuspyo]

how do you know

[@0live0wire0]

@@laurentiuspyo I have eyes and ears

[@laurentiuspyo]

@@0live0wire0 ya well I smoke normally and he doesnt look stoned

[@aedanmontague4508]

He's really genuine and honest here :)

[@jefferyluedtke7053]

Bob is a Complete Musician

[@cavscout62]

Perhaps Americas most prolific musical storyteller.

[@janepiepes2243]

This moment was so good....

[@MegaLakeStar]

Jesus he's chiefing those cigs

[@ryanlaurence569]

Imagine being inna room with people just staring at you and hanging on your every word. He's an artist and his popularity seems to be an enigma to him. It just was and is. I'd probably chain smoke too, honestly.

[@ksmithkatcarving]

curious he said he is always silent where he is , where is he?

[@mediatechjohn3088]

I think he was alluding to having a silent mind...not muddled by typical problems others have

[@jeffclement2468]

A couple of the audience members look familiar here. That looks a lot like Allen Ginsberg in the black horn-rimmed glasses. And the fist guy with the shades looks like Bob's friend and tour manager, Victor Maymudes. 🤔 Also Bill Graham and Ralph Gleason.

[@codydavidyates72]

Profound pint, at 3:50

[@bobquack1]

Bill Graham at 19:12

[@mikewalsh7318]

Thank you for that, I was about to ask and saw your comment. Maybe the best exchange in the interview. That's who gave him the poster!

[@jwobbe1986]

is that Allen Ginsberg at 6:19?

[@emmywang346]

Yep, Dylan’s closest friend. I recommend reading some of Dylan’s published books. They were through some crazy times together.

[@carolines8560]

😭😭😭

[@Daltonichols]

This audio is great

[@Sharkwhisperer]

1:20 so cute

[@arvidsmith1038]

19:13 Bill Graham whose show at The Fillmore Dylan plugged ...Michael McClure in the audience next to the girl with the McGuinn glasses

[@kenton6098]

JEEsus! The questions! Didn't anyone prepare for interviews back then? These questions are on a level with: 1. What's your favorite color? 2. What's your favorite number? I'm surprised he could keep a straight face during some of those answers.

[@rubyredall2145]

Yes, it s so disrespectful to do no homework before interviewing someone. I mean no wonder Dylan felt the need to dodge some silly questions. He always has a little half sarcastic smile on his lips.

[@Skipidy720]

as an expat living in France over 50 yrs later and dealing with the French's massive xenophobia straight out of the Middle Ages-I LOVE LOVE LOVE DYLAN for putting up the biggest American flag he could find after dealing with their xenophobic shit for two decades and how that shut them up!!! I mean can you even imagine they booed Dylan? I can because I live it!!

[@bastianjeanneret]

6:25 ginsberg, right?

[@ernestpoke2093]

A lot of his songs are biblical such as Hard rains gonna fall; Revelations chapter 8 and 9

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

I’m sure I may get beat up over this comment but it’s seems people put Dylan on some sort of philosophical guru pedestal. The questions asked by some, seem to be overly complex and his responses are not all what they seem to expect in any way.

[@georgianwindow]

Oh Dear some of the questions like "You seem to have no idea why you are popular you seem embarrased by that .. How strange those times were.. Well I suppose his success and the Beatles were a new phenonemon

[@Dusty999]

Not a new phenomenon. Elvis and even earlier, Sinatra.

[@crystalmccarthy8714]

❤🎶🥰

[@TheCheweeRevolutions]

That comment he makes at 3:55 about the different meanings of words we all use is like Wittgenstein or something

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"Sweeettt lowww ...sweet chariotttt" 🎶 🎵