Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (RARE STUDIO OUTTAKES 1966)

[@13Aureille]

Fascinating to hear how this man builds a home in which we all can find a shelter...

[@TheMarshmelloKing]

it's not a house it's a home

[@Eman-wj8gq]

That's awesome way to say it.

[@umad2292]

Corny 🤓

[@hillelknobel8241]

I am the best of all time and I’m nothing without him

[@Lazariuk]

@@TheMarshmelloKingboth names the result of actions of Joan Baez. Priest when she first drifted from her path and chose a horse who ran the wrong way and much later when the one she could have cooked and sewed and planted flowers for, who could have helped her learn of her Royal ancestry giving a very different understanding of what it means to cook and sew. What gives the heart fire (passion) is what is known as the Spirit’s gift to the body. There is always going to be a risk that will need to be taken. That is what can help you most avoid replacing what is relevant with what is irrelevant, like confusing actual authentic loving sexual encounters with the choice she made of sucking the frozen blue popsicle of Leonard Cohen. You might say that was his famous blue raincoat. In Dali’s paintings he depicts Leonard as “The Great Masturbator” and Jane as the jungle friendly gal with Tarzan by her side. She sometimes being a sweet bee taking Tarzan from flower to flower feeding him the honey that should by law be solely for the Queen. She was not your ordinary bee she was much wilder than you can ever be. Her public story began with Gerry Garcia lamenting the fact that most people just talk about true love but never taking that first step of getting off their asses opening the door and going to the street on her own. In Jane’s case her humility kept her from seeing the significance of her own actions. The process of that first step is displayed well on the cover of Bob’s album Street Legal, by legal he means living outside of the long arm of the law whose only condition is that you remain honest. Joan was very much like that too in the beginning like where you measure time by the singing of wild birds. Like saying it’s 4 in the morning by the sound of the birds. Myself i too knew it was 4 in the morning when a conference of the birds had to reach a United concusses of how to assist a very special bird who came to one laying on a pink bed and giving him the sign that everyone had been looking for on the wings of a dove.

[@entwood]

So glad he kept saying "No, no it's not working". They all got to the vision he was seeking eventually.

[@CHlEFFIN]

No they didn’t. He moved to Nashville to record most of the album, if not all of it for the exception of “One of Us Must Know”. Only Robbie Robertson remained from the first session.

[@hazard3020]

​@@CHlEFFIN to get away from folks he was writing about. not just because of the musicians....

[@dagnabbit6187]

Mr. Zimmerman absolutely deserved that Nobel Prize !

[@1992leone]

Thank God Bob had visions or what Johanna would become because what it became was a freakin masterpiece.

[@scotchie42]

Did he say "more cowbell?"

[@NASEEMPARK]

1:00

[@stevepercival4774]

I love these outtakes, seeing the songs emerge like a musical butterfly 😎

[@brozbro]

This answers the question: the lyrics come first and then the music.

[@blakeallyn4152]

Not always!

[@bendrescher7185]

Can’t believe people say Dylan had no musical talent when he basically created all the background music for Visions Of Johanna in his mind.

[@ruthpaul7572]

The outtakes versions are as good as the official ones I love them all Great voice

[@christopherbragg1452]

Bob Dylan is going to be known for thousands of years for his writing musically putting put in poetry in the words of this music.I can't think of to many others that are like him Christopher B Naugatuck CT

[@andrewmair7371]

“1 more time Bob … I’m sorry, we didn’t have your mic on…” 😐😑 ~ No. 1 on the check-list woulda been....

[@bingo1232]

The musicality is wonderful, moving, and magnificent.

[@Leocadia333]

Who in their right mind would be so churlish as to give this a thumbs down? Geez Louise.

[@debrageger7171]

I agree. how you could not love Dylan? Don't comment negative. Dont watch if you're not happy with him.

[@ashura9706]

They just couldn’t find their knees

[@HuckleberryAlexander]

a wheeze or a sneeze, or bees in the breeze. or knees next to trees to ease the pain of an imploring "please" Churlish...yes! 😄

[@dixonpinfold2582]

I don't get you. How can you even ask?

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

A churl would.

[@henningandersen9027]

WOW! Did he/they already know that this would become the all-time best album in the history of rock?

[@eddiebobcat3183]

Around :45 Bob gives the instruction for the Ab to A “swooping up/sliding up” bass line that Joe South played on the Nashville version that got on Blonde on Blonde. I was always fascinated with that bit ; in fact I often wonder if I IMAGINE that sliding up note, but there it is! Bob!

[@bentamez1285]

I love these takes! The organ sounds so good!

[@davidkeith571]

Completely agree. The organ looms large in Bob's music!

[@alexcayarga9339]

Al Kooper baby!

[@brownlettuce1810]

They sit there stranded... all doing their best to deny it.

[@markpower6810]

Hearing the way this raw version compares to the smooth versions 40 years later gives me hope for my own art :) Been a long time coming - Be a long time gone

[@petergrundy8081]

What history

[@boxieracorn8445]

Maybe the greatest song of all time. When of the few songs where the studio master take nails it perfectly.

[@adampapadam7764]

Excellent sound! ALL the kids of the Band are alright! I am very glad to hear this studio version! Hello kids wherever you are!!!!!

[@karmenjazbec7743]

YEAH YOUNG BOB YOU ARE THE BEST

[@brittbeck9158]

I’ve to say, this was a pleasure to listen to. Came as a big surprise. It’s a great song, have always loved it. Here we are taken to the heart of making the best version. Bob’s voice is so smooth and tender. ❤️

[@carleenmejzastrumunderthes4130]

I love the instinctive creative process. I love playing and singing this song on guitar🎶🎸 Thanks 🥃👍

[@mator2339]

Amazing outtakes, thanks Swingin !!

[@triciamoore106]

Are thanks so much I love listening to all the out takes BOB nose what sounds the best brilliant

[@65chevelle283]

Love, love, love the outtakes. I always wonder how they decide which version ends up on the album. Thank you! 😊❤️

[@kelvinkloud]

no man, its bbbwhaaa..... what hes trying to tell the band is to distill the sound down. to get minimal but still be viable. get the busy and overlayering out of it. hone it in more like folk or slower blues, yet still keep the electricity in, yet do it w/ accent & haunting sound signature. like lightening more distant but still distinct outside a window seal....the cat was a musical composition sound sharpie.... hes honing mood here sound and texture wise to meet the theme & the way he wanted to deliver it lyrically and voice wise.... what I get here is dylan is sharp and vigilant. He reshaped the sound into the masterpiece it is. done in a different rhythm, cadence & over layered music background wouldve greatly diluted its power.... thanks for posting this. its testament to how creative this guy was in his prime.

[@janepiepes2243]

And the photos are beauties, also.

[@marksinger3067]

Takes me back to 12th grade 1966..the music scene then still amazes..

[@henrycastle1]

What I meant is. All these versions are great too hear. Thank you for posting. Henry

[@danielsevell5732]

The master at work!!

[@dylang.1822]

Sei una meravigliosa visione amatissimo Bob

[@Bluzian74]

Swingin' Pig!! Wow! I've been buyin' bootlegs from y'all for 30 years!! God bless you!!

[@christopherwilliams4552]

Thanks swinging - this is a revelation!

[@oliveeisner8964]

Fabulous! Still the Outtakes King Swingin! 😎 My absolute favorite version I can't ever hear anymore tho. It used to be up on Vimeo with an amateur video. I think it's Take 7. It's the fast rocking version that's about 5 minutes I think. It's similar to the "official" video by Dylan's people with the trippy images... BUT it has all the verses. Including my favorite verse with "inside the museums...& jewels and binoculars" It's literally the greatest thing. copyrighted I guess.

[@SwinginPig]

Olive Eisner I might be able to upload that to Vimeo. We’ll see :)

[@oliveeisner8964]

I would be ecstatic! if possible....

[@are_birds_real]

The fast version is best i agree, wild and intoxicating.. The take 7 is on The Cutting Edge album if you're still looking for it!

[@davidwales6852]

Thanks SP, great to hear the maestro at work! I have a dream that Dylan would play this song sometime soon with the Nightingale's Code line in it. We can but wish.

[@targarosko]

phenomenal ...... it's my fav Bobby song ..... great thanks Swingin"Pig ♥♥♥

[@Himmelhauser]

Dylan’s judgement is right - the Band needed to dial it back so the vocals could shine through. But as music the early takes are mind-blowing.

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

Oh God the early days soooooo wonderful. Its not a bong 👎 rolling on 9 rolling on 10 👎 rolling on 12 he's going 2 get it perfect 4 sure.

[@nicolafisher1782]

Morning coffee in my garden. Black Birds fly Parakeets gaze across the Blue and white Hydrangias Sun falls gold and green trees full leaf beneath the sleeping firebugs dreaming. Crumbs of fireworks fallen Hallo track from Dylan and thank you Swinging Pig (5 July 2019)

[@JacksonBetz]

I think he was finding he couldn't really work with the Band that much in the studio - all the tracks he recorded with them (this, One of Us Must Know, She's Your Lover Now) suffered from this lack of direction. That said, it's really fascinating to hear him trying really hard to make this idea work!!

[@AdamAndersonMusica]

Basement Tapes

[@dasanii2467]

who did he end up working with?

[@CHlEFFIN]

TSIFIRA top of the line Nashville musicians.

[@colonelcolonist6073]

One of Us Must Know was one of the only recorded in New York from BoB, and so are the early takes of this song; the master take is nashville

[@ashura9706]

Pillbox Hat was recorded with the Band too, wasn’t it?

[@TyroneEpps]

This outtake is cool ! 😊

[@cesaesepulveda6349]

aun nos sigues sorprendiendo con tus viejas y nuevas canciones muchisimas grasias bob dylan

[@jacopopellegrino5460]

Fantastic

[@imannonymous7707]

history in the making such a cool insight

[@SingleMalt77005]

Fascinating, and proves to me that Bob ultimately made the right choice with the slow version that got released.

[@kenkaplan3654]

It is amazing to me how often his instincts wee correct in the final version. Desolation Row is another example.

[@MattHibbard1993]

More cowbell!

[@boxieracorn8445]

Matt Hibbard ha

[@SwinginPig]

Omg hahahaha

[@eternallearner8185]

There's an out take going around of this song that starts with a solid drum crack and a big guitar twang and belts along at a fast tempo. I had it on tape years ago given to me by one of the "bobcats", the tape eventually crumbled from overplaying, i loved it.

[@davidkeith571]

Some great rehearsals are out there of one my favorites. This is good stuff! Don't know where all this came from, but thanks so much for sharing it.

[@nemonautilus9807]

Oh! The come back boy! Is this from N.y.C.? The Hammond & the Guitar swing very closely to His most obscure Masterpiece She's your lover now! Inside the making of One of the Greatest Pieces of art of twentieth century/ a true Genius at work/ everything of this footage Is pure magic/ his voice/ the Harmonica/ the sound/even Bob Johnston baritone voice/Knocking on Heaven's Doors behind the Gates of Eden/they're making Hystory in that studio & not only the R.& R. Hystory I mean/ but just the Hystory of modernism into the art of the second half of the twentieth century!/ The ultimate passage of the Torch from Picasso to the boy from the North Country!/ Ghosts of Electricity & echoes of the true Beauty & Gold outside the closed rooms of the Museums/ the poetry put into a jukebox for the largest & popular audience/ The Titanic effort of a young Jewish to rewrite the whole Canon of the popular music & Art of His Age/ million miles ahead everyone Yesterday Today Tomorrow/ & we the beneficiares of all this/ . Welcome back Swingin'! Waiting for another strike out of yours! I wish you & all the Bob listeners a very wonderful & Sunny weekend! God bless you & the One you love more! 🐞🤗👍✌️🤗😎🌈⛱️🌅🏊☀️🎸🎶🎼💓☺️👏🎸

[@zeab47]

Amazing how Bob Builds this master piece

[@keithnaylor1981]

Interesting to hear what became a true Dylan masterpiece.

[@waz3128]

If there's a Dylan song that shouldn't have been recorded with a band, it's this one. All the sadness is lost

[@Abdullahxvii]

the early live recording really captures a completely different feeling, its my preferred version anyway

[@kt-ql3tw]

I always prefer his live versions when it’s just him and his acoustic

[@cigh7445]

Why not have both

[@vhex]

No

[@johncarroll772]

I prefer the rock version 😊

[@garythomas4652]

Pig, many thanks for all of these outtakes!

[@copscantsurf3458]

Keep it rollin y'all nice to see people still chiming in. I feel like a fool for barely paying attention and leaving early when he played at Monmouth

[@rosaorellana4610]

Obra maestra !!👍✌️

[@helenmorris8760]

Love this💕

[@michaeld.mcclish]

gotta say, when they first start, it sounds like an Elvis Vegas Show. It must have been very frustrating for him.

[@benkennedy1216]

AMAZING!

[@freevue]

Intriguing recordings of this fabulous Dylan song , TYSM Swingin' and Bobby, The Band and the recording engineer. Mentions "Robbie", and Garth Hudson is so recognisable. Garth charged The Band members $50 each per week for "music lessons", as he had told his parents he was a music teacher ! (Source: The Last Waltz)

[@housepet1]

That would be $10 each. $50 is astronomical even for today, never mind the 60s.

[@boxieracorn8445]

Now where are the early takes of tambourine man where Bob gets pissed at the tambourine a bunch then eventually removes it.

[@SwinginPig]

BoxierAcorn844 Wanna hear that one?

[@boxieracorn8445]

Swingin’ Pig Absolutely

[@mamoon7049]

Swingin’ Pig yes please,will keep notifs turned on !

[@basilfomeen9995]

I heard that once. He said something like the drums are pounding in my head..

[@gerardoleary9606]

@@basilfomeen9995 it's on the bootleg series

[@danielafreedman]

The band and Robbie Robertson want to Rock out but Dylan knows exactly what he wants. To bring that mournful sound into the body of the song. The harmonica stands out in front and the rest of the band has to stand back a little.

[@d.i.4093]

outstanding - video and audio

[@irenezafar966]

a man to die for

[@patriciakilber6893]

I like !! Trying to help, but can't. LOL

[@d_walsh]

Where'd the hell that dang harpsichord come from. Lol Is that Richard Manuel ?

[@handrm]

d. Walsh My guess is that it’s one of the studio musicians. Robbie Robertson did some work on Blonde on Blonde but most of the recording was done in Nashville with some great studio musicians. I’m not sure if these early takes of Joanna were done in NY or Nashville.

[@enricoholley7658]

Garth Hudson

[@basilfomeen9995]

@@handrm this was done in New York with the band. Before he went to Nashville

[@cybermanne]

This is gold!!!

[@henrycastle1]

Oh yes. What a nightmare. What a way to off load. Thank you. ✔️

[@tenniscollector]

Good one SP.

[@judyarmstrong3368]

Fire escapes are built explicitly into every recording studio . There must be some way out of here . The poet says to the thief . Peter behind my Judy

[@chancethadood]

“more cowbell”

[@brianwolle2509]

so thats the BAND? i see why he went to nashville. its like they cant be quiet and slow at all! are they even listening to dylan?

[@andrewmair7371]

Yeah … I’m a huge Band fan but they’re just not getting it. Fascinating to hear, & a LOT to be said for simplicity 😄

[@gerardoleary9606]

Well it's some members of the band. Helm had left so it's a new drummer.also not sure Danko is playing bass.

[@dazin7886]

@@gerardoleary9606 i think it was only robbie and rick that were there i dont think garth or richard was there

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

Listen to Blonde On Blonde and you'll probably get why they weren't getting it. It's a real departure from the rest of that (double album). Aside from Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowland and Fourth Time Around (which is almost just an acoustic song) it's all "hard rock", with what Dylan described as a "thin, wiry mercury sound".

[@1DaTJo]

I think this is my favorite song of Bob’s, if I had to narrow it down....

[@ListenWell]

Excellent

[@crimps953]

pure good from the first bar

[@MJarmell]

Love the comments. This recording is laden with amazingly tasteful sounds, fleeting phrases that are music in their own right.

[@lemurianchick]

Groovy.

[@gudlisner501]

Bob’s last minute re-recording of much of “Blood on the Tracks” showed that he often needed to constantly revamp his work. This is much more obvious with his live performances.

[@armarq8091]

Wow

[@janepiepes2243]

I gotta remember what group this is !! I never dreamed there'd be this reality ! How could such a personal and wonderful musical excursion be available.. Thanks !

[@manuelaleal8054]

❤️

[@dec8808]

Baaaawww

[@JRobertOppenheimerVideos]

This is a good song, too.

[@stephenlee1756]

This is an extremely difficult song to get right. The subtle and unusual rythmn of the lyrics defeat even himself most of the time. The slow and highly enunciated acoustic performances of the 1966 concerts work better because he takes his time and is not dependent on keeping in synch with a band. It was 30 years later he started to re-work it with his familiar band, and after many performances together they finally nailed it in 2000 - I'm thinking especially of the Portsmouth concert of that year.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Gorgeous photos. A face asking to touched. In a hotel had forgotten I left a radiator in the middle of the floor when I came out of the smoking bathroom. My toes are now too numb to step. Throbbing. Mmm

[@elliottchrist]

0:59: Bob Johnston has a fever, and the only prescription, etc. etc. etc...

[@targarosko]

BLUE DIAMOND IS THE GOOD WORD FOR ME ♥♥♥

[@TrippingTheTube]

Damn it was just about to get good and it ended hahaha

[@thehal]

A full NYC Blonde on Blonde would have been as awesome as the Nashville one.

[@henrycastle1]

Best version I have heard. ✅

[@aleksbalazic]

Wish this was on apple music

[@tamaraspanehl3710]

Bobby, Du kannst wirklich bezwingend sehnsüchtig gucken!

[@SingleMalt77005]

I hear Dylan saying "no that's not it" and such, but I do not hear him articulating what he wants from the band.

[@dagnabbit6187]

And that slide. ! Did that influence Brian Jones ?

[@helenbostock2350]

Have the world but you will never have mind hope we are clear now

[@Izaakbinet]

Are there any complete takes of the slowed down version (like the one at 5:35)?

[@SwinginPig]

Izaak Binet Unfortunately, there are not any complete versions other than the album version. He just did three takes. The one heard here, then a one minute breakdown take, then the album version. I can’t upload the breakdown due to copyright, but there’s nothing surprising about it.

[@silverspaceflyer]

I'm confused. How can the last take be Take 1 and been recorded right before the master take? Surely Take 1 was the first attempt and the other takes followed before the master take.

[@bendrescher7185]

Because they had different recording studios. Take 1 was the first take in the Nashville studio sessions, and the takes that come before it are from the failed recording sessions they did in New York. Hope I answered your question.

[@silverspaceflyer]

@@bendrescher7185 Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!

[@bendrescher7185]

No problem!

[@tango-bravo]

Rolling on 10 or 11 could have been a really good ones

[@erikraude146]

I think he was just a bit less drugged than in the official version. :) He sings in a less emphisized way. It's so interesting

[@brittbeck9158]

Erik Raude I don’t understand “less drugged”. What’s your point? I ain’t looking for possible drug influences. No, no if the song talks to me, goes to my heart ❤️ then I’ll be satisfied. Bob is something extra, here his voice is smooth, gives me a glimpse of the great unknown, ♥️

[@erikraude146]

@@brittbeck9158 I will answer to you. But I need time. My english is not good enough to explain quickly what I mean exactly. :)

[@65chevelle283]

@@erikraude146 I understand what you mean. Some of his music from this time Bob's vocals were less emphasized or slurred in a way...not saying it's because he was drugged but mellow or relaxed. 😊

[@erikraude146]

@@brittbeck9158 I’m sorry that I couldn’t answer before but I had an exam at University. Getting back to what I wrote about Dylan, I have to make some essential remarks: First: Dylan has never exactly sung an album as the previous or the successive one. It’s absolutely physiologic that a singer can change his singing during his career (and I’m referring to the tonality, the pronouncing, the emphasis on some specific sounds… and so on). But Dylan, from this point of view, is really changeable. Second: I’m a Dylan fan and I’m disagree with those who claim he can’t sing or he has a bad voice. I think the problem is why he decided to sing in a certain way or in another (for example the choice of emphasizing certain sounds up to be disturbing). Third: The best Dylan-singer (referring to the tonality and the singing style) is, from my point of view, that of Highway 61 Revisited (Desolation Row, Like a Rolling Stone and, especially, Positively 4th Street). I don’t appreciate the frog-singing style in “Nashville Skyline” but I don’t mind the one of “Blood on the tracks”. Now, if we compare the three albums that belong to the Electric Trilogy: “Bringing it all back home”, generally speaking, draws on the style of the previous one, “Another side of Bob Dylan”, but his voice is less scratchy; in Highway 61 Revisited he shows a different tonality (a lower voice) and he also sings more calmly without emphasizing nothing particular (some song seem to be more spoken than sung); Blonde on blonde draws on Highway 61 Revisited in terms of tonality or tonalities but he sings emphasizing certain sounds or stretching them. This is my idea about the three albums: I don’t want to convince you, it’s my point of you. It’s also well-known that he was on drugs since the tour of 1965 (marijuana) until that one of 1966 (other drugs). Freeze-out is from 1965 session and Vision of Johanna is from 1966 session. I’ve supposed some influences in the singing-style change due to drugs but it’s, just once, an attempt to explain one of his numerous ways of singing. When I say that he was really drugged in 1966, just look at one of his performances (Mr Tambourine man for example). Sorry for the long poem. I hope my English it’s enough clear and correct.

[@brittbeck9158]

Erik Raude I’ll thank you for talking your time and and answer, in a very good way. Your English is brilliant. Your thoughts about Bob’s singing 65/66, are worth a second opinion from me. You got a point. What I/you are tired of is when ppl complaining about his voice. Like it’s legitimately a humans right to jump on Bob. It’s very annoying and unfair. Listen to his voice, when he was on his twenties. He really could sing, and his voice was mature and powerful. You can’t have the same voice when you are 60,70 years, that you had as a boy/ young person. I don’t think marijuana changes your voice to much, but other stuff might. Ok Erik, now we have a understanding of each other I think. Hopefully you agree, Bob is the Greatest artist ever..I don’t just mean singing, I’m thinking of all other things he had done, through the years. His lyrics are way beyond others attempt to write. Have a nice week, Cheers 🥂Britt 💜

[@juanvarleta2558]

Thick wild mercury

[@roninreturns]

@Swingin' Pig, you are such a ham, downloading everything but the squeal when it comes to great and not so great tracks. Much like Darwin, Dylan remained focused on one true vision & theory for this song, which changed on every revision and version evidently each take. Also, like Darwin's theory of evolution, it took approximately a billion years to teach fish to walk.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Am assuming that’s the street at the side of the Savoy Hotel in London? Been there. Even been drinking cocktails in the Savoy piano bar on St Patrick’s Day with my rich, kind bro. On my birthday… This year it’s a party on a farm in the Wild West. Liverpool pics too? Lived in a men’s long stay homeless hostel there July 86-Jan 87. As a worker of course. Know everything I need to know about men who are violent, mad, drunk, hugely damaged, etc. Hope I never need that knowledge anymore. You know (you probably don’t), that in the Irish ☘️ language there are THREE ways of knowing? Three different words. Aithne - that’s for knowing people. Fios - is knowing facts, like Ireland is the closest European country to USA. And finally Eolas - which is to be knowledgeable about some particular subject matter, like for example, I know all the best bars in Dublin, or how to knit or crochet, etc. I’ll get back to Visions btw….. x