Desolation Row 24 6 1998 Birmingham

[@babdillon3220]

In my opinion this is hands down the best live performance of any dylan song ever!

[@g.stephens263]

"hands in her back pockets...Betty Davis style". What a great image!

[@PeterDoeleman]

this man ... this zimmerman ... jow he likes to play this song, i can see that from his face and body language ... after all those years, it still is amazing ... yes, this song undoubtedly is my favorite one ... thanks for uploading this version !

[@Teddyb1939]

don't care what anyone else thinks,This is Bob Dylan in full flow and BRILLIANT.

[@HRL48]

Who could not LOVE THIS....Masterpiece!

[@d.glover4380]

Yesyesyes!

[@CP5699]

You are correct, sir.

[@danielsantora9103]

@@HRL48 great bob dylan

[@danielsantora9103]

Dylan and the dead magic

[@michaelangeloha]

Gets better every time I listen to it. Genius

[@brunoprandi6887]

Nessuno come lui . Lo ascolto da 50 anni e mi affascina sempre di più. Grazie Bob

[@jean-rochleclerc1575]

One of the best Bob Dylan song. Great performance!

[@JanetCaterina]

Nobody else can bring pathos and pain to this song but him

[@jackyvanhal9514]

His poetry will live forever in his magical songs !

[@404BOOMER]

Love this song but the guitar rendition is wonderful! Enjoyed it immensely!

[@JanetCaterina]

+steve elliot Interesting guitar work added by Dylan himself

[@georgec7199]

I've listened to Dylan since the 1960's and I'm still amazed how one man can produce such perfection all the time.

[@janepiepes2243]

John Spoor brings us ,,,this great DESOLATION ROW.... I love the ..in the moment comments !!!! A wonderful thrill in Real in Time #themusicalityofbobdylan. Thanks, Janey 2022

[@chitekwe]

His live performances are when he is at his spontaneous best. Feel so blessed to have lived to appreciate his immense God given talent. (and these KZbin uploads).

[@williemusic8992]

Hundreds of years from now when we speak of music, Mozart & Dylan shall be the two we speak of. With the latter being the more important of course.

[@sullivansongz]

ah now go on ;-)

[@befu1000]

Hundreds of years from now we are not going to speak anymore. Respect all the great artists!

[@pietop55]

I wonder what music will sound like?

[@roybedford749]

wow I was there, he sings on many levels, but the genius is in the delivery and the words. Thanks

[@herysmaleakhi9121]

This version is the best one.

[@edhuydic2387]

Late 90's...A damn good era for Bob and the band.

[@vivlee3840]

Definitely..

[@johnpayne6860]

Hey man, great slow down, and you get it, thank you for being there,and bringing it to everyone, who love Bob's Music!

[@johnspoor8341]

I was not there. I'm just a fan and like to pass on beautiful videos.

[@kenhall8092]

Whenever I listen to Dylan i wonder why I listen to anyone else - a 20th C poet, they'll be studying his stuff at Uni's in a hundred years from now

[@ksb994]

1000 years too, if mankind still exists

[@broken1394]

Obviously a great version ... love Bob's guitar on this! :)

[@theiceman6941]

STUNNING!!!! Amazing performance, thank you.

[@johnpayne6860]

Yes, very lucky, In that era, two great artists at one venue, and I thank you for being there and sharing your videos!

[@garybreece-page7713]

Poetry masterclass

[@marieholland8868]

What an imagination...who writes lines like these?...AND puts them to such amazing music...only Bob Dylan...genius!

[@o_solovio]

After years of listening to it I can finally say this is my favourite Dylan song. Plain brilliant. Oh I remember the old days, spent by the river, it was another lifetime...

[@diggerdame4709]

This tour was a shining highlight for both Dylan and Van! So lucky to have seen 2 shows in NYC!

[@freevue7452]

such a wistful version love it Tysm John Spoor and Bobby and his fab band !

[@billyzane7282]

What a great performance -thanks for sharing!

[@deniseward002]

What a musically awesome song!

[@boxingjerapah]

I was there! Thank you for sharing ... so many memories :)

[@khalilghannam9393]

I just watch this over and over.

[@otismanousakos3946]

So lovely. He skipped and alternated a few versus in this one.

[@targarosko]

brilliantissime version ♥♥♥

[@robinwembley2578]

Great version of one of my favourite songs. But Bob, you left out one of my fav verses! What happened to "Erza Pound and T S Eliot, fighting in the captain's tower, . . . ". How could you!

[@rivrgazr]

just LOVE Tony and the boys on "slow simmer" ... great performance!!

[@scottbennion1342]

this and "it's all right ma, I'm only bleeding" equals a Nobel Prize.

[@tiochato7373]

Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!

[@ferdinandmlaker8969]

no doubt about it - one of his master piece

[@maureenmurray8987]

What's not to love on desolation row, stay forever young you little rascal

[@brianthompson6724]

My grandpa was a sailor about that time, and the American Nors could barely speak the language...Good, I love this song.

[@Sumotori.]

Another gem from the Boss, wonderful!

[@gorddevouge7371]

Sounds great one of favourite songs

[@allanb9709]

Dylan you are a legend

[@targarosko]

+Allan B it's just the "GENIUS "i love him too ♥♥♥

[@johnniejukebox]

Summer 2016.Still on the road..

[@MariaDiazskn]

They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row Cinderella, she seems so easy “It takes one to know one,” she smiles And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning “You Belong to Me I Believe” And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend You better leave” And the only sound that’s left After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide The fortune-telling lady Has even taken all her things inside All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love Or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing He’s getting ready for the show He’s going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid To her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession’s her religion Her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah’s great rainbow She spends her time peeking Into Desolation Row Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row Dr. Filth, he keeps his world Inside of a leather cup But all his sexless patients They’re trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser She’s in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read “Have Mercy on His Soul” They all play on pennywhistles You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains They’re getting ready for the feast The Phantom of the Opera A perfect image of a priest They’re spoonfeeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know Casanova is just being punished for going To Desolation Row” Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About Desolation Row Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the doorknob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can’t read too good Don’t send me no more letters, no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row

[@DippyHippie]

Thank you SO much,I’m deaf & no cc were provided!😊

[@EmilyHeathcliff]

Thank you for posting!

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

BOB DYLAN AQUÍ , 60 AÑOS

[@beneekhof4241]

Het blijft goed al hoor je het nog zoveel. Fantastisch

[@ericpeyret1]

Great guitar perform Bob😊

[@phonicwheel933]

The best version of 'Desolation Row' (I think)

[@targarosko]

AGREE WITH YOU ♥♥♥

[@longbow60435]

chris smither's isn't bad either.

[@geebud1880]

Again this stunning string gripping magic - countering and poking. Bliss... this I follow the flow with my dads Hohner Blues Harop in A - thanks Dad (+ @ 89 in da year 2001)

[@lukeheywood7334]

He looked so immacutely frightful as he bummed a ciggarette

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Genius in motion....

[@marakaretsos5204]

Forever 🌟🎹

[@CRITICNO]

Dylan brought the goods in '98 and '99.

[@ralphhintzen968]

"Equality, I spoke the word/ As if a wedding vow/ Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" :) , thanks4sharin` - WOW

[@firstnamelastname7143]

So much older then, forever younger than that now, like a 30th century man.

[@ericclayton2686]

I was there . brilliant night.

[@philpinckley1720]

Fantastic!!

[@kenmackie]

DO NOT "SLAGG BOB" HE IS THE KING

[@pietop55]

Yes! He is!!!

[@karmenjazbec7743]

YEAH BOB HONEY YOU AND YOUR BAND ARE THE BEST I AM JUST SMOKING AND LISTENING TO YOU A CIRCUS IS IN TOWN

[@CaroleEliseuson]

'TRYING TO LIST ALL WONDERFUL & GOOD STUFF...FINDING SPORTS/MUSIC/ART/MIRACLES/MOVIES...THE GOOD/BAD/UGLY/MINE!'

[@petersimons8666]

Such a good take on Stienebeck's "Cannery Row. " doesnt matter if he cross the borderline, folk music does that, and should be always give and take and acknoloments to all.

[@lesleyanderson5697]

I love this. thanks

[@herbertbaerwaldt4423]

ANOTHER GREAT SONG IT HARD TO KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE BEST I GUESS IT IS THE ONE THAT YOUR LISTING TO ....................

[@williestrandberg5530]

Great deep feeling

[@ferdimlaker8164]

absolute song

[@pietop55]

Oh, geez, I love this!!!

[@lightswitch5511]

Cooking apples and a bowl of sugar and a mills and boon were my downfall

[@michaelwalker2676]

Every version is lightly different, which does not matter at all.

[@vitoroliveirajorge368]

Dylan = a genius!

[@АлександрРумянцев-й8н]

Дилан - эпоха, которая к счастью, ещё не закончилась!

[@johnspoor8341]

Я полностью с вами согласен!

[@ThePriority99]

Fab, fab, fab go Bobby go !!!!!!!!!!

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

Maravillosa canción (para mi la mejor) del extraordinario poeta y excelente músico Bob Dylan... Uno de los tres grandes (en mi opinión) con Leonard Cohen y Lou Reed... "Desolation row", el lugar de la desolación, un grito desgarrado de la soledad existencial del ser humano, esa cadena sucesiva y eterna, de la que todos formamos parte, sin saber muy bien por qué ni para qué... En el fondo, creo que las mejores canciones de Dylan apelan a una pregunta que no tiene respuesta... Y TODO ESTO (QUE NO DEJA DE SER, ES CIERTO, UN MILAGRO MARAVILLOSO... TODO ESTO, PARA QUÉ?, o dicho de un modo más filosófico... POR QUÉ HAY ALGO EN VEZ DE NADA?, o su Equivalente expresado de una forma más coloquial... QUÉ "COÑO" HACEMOS AQUI...? En fin, Elston... Gracias por la música y perdona por el "rollo". Un abrazo solidario desde España 💫💃🕺💫

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

Los tres grandes

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

ME HAS LEÍDO LA MENTE 🎓🙄⁉️

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

7:37 ACABO DE DESCUBRIR QUE ME ESTOY CONTESTANDO A MÍ MISMO 😊😂😅😂😅😂

[@Elprofesormisterioso47]

DYLAN, COHEN Y REED

[@marakaretsos5204]

⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@scabrini28]

Desolation Row sounds like California dreaming

[@hmerenheimo82]

Why cant i play like thus

[@pietop55]

Love it!!!!!!!!!

[@Rayr7171]

Thats from My Back Pages

[@whatsittoyou7199]

Damn I want to hear his original studio version. It is blocked from You tube in the US. The US is becoming a hypercapitalistic country that ought to go to hell

[@sanderson9515]

"Desolation Row" -- Positively Orwellian. Instrumental interlude: 5:55

[@gerardhaubert8210]

Never heard the verse about Nero’s Neptune, ...is it on any YT videos?

[@g.stephens263]

From a Robt. Earl Keene song..."He knew a crusty caballero Who played an old gut string guitar And he sang like Marty Robbins could Played like no one I've known"

[@ecollins]

1000% awesome

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

Bobs in pain here..damn

[@michaelwalker2676]

' slightly different'.

[@marakaretsos5204]

🎼🎼🎼⭐️⭐️

[@jeedchaiboonruang480]

Words in the bracket is “My Back Page”

[@johnspoor8341]

I know :) But my point is: he was so much older then, he's younger than that now. :)

[@user-vr5ck7fx9q]

John Spoor ..☺???..☺findag👪ogdetblirnokenturtilBergen

[@karmenjazbec7743]

I AM NOT FROM DESOLATION ROW BOB HONEY I AM TOO LOUD AND PROUD ON MYSELF I HAVE JUST WASH MY LONG HAIR THE CIRCUS IS IN TOWN

[@ThefightingCelt]

and a genius lost his special voice , it was not that long ago ... as he strained his weary vocal chords ... on Desolation Row . : / Listen to the original masterpiece from the Times They Are A Changin album instead .

[@groupedesgarcons54]

It's on Highway61 Revisited :)

[@ThefightingCelt]

Yes, exactly . I was listening to The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll when writing that . My simple mistake. I do own Highway 61 Revisted , along with all his 60s and 70 albums.

[@dougschuler5490]

+ThefightingCelt You mean listen to that version "also"... :-)

[@ThefightingCelt]

No , I really did mean instead . : )

[@danarokowski7396]

This is a great version! I love his voice at this point in his career for this song in particular

[@rayokoa222]

unfuckingbelievable - play your pennywhistle - desolation row

[@lightswitch5511]

What a bridge

[@margaretnesbeth593]

Just beautiful, isn't it a nightmare to think if Hitler had burned Bob's parents we wouldn't have Bob and his awesomeness and all the other great Jewish American entertainers God Bless them all.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Bob's parents were both born in the United States but I get you're coming from.

[@o_solovio]

Does anyone know the history behind this one?

[@ameerordimly1449]

Woolhall filmed this

[@lightswitch5511]

I cpuld wear the crown

[@yamapenny5960]

🎶💃💞👏

[@scabrini28]

Honeeeee Oh Hone Boba.

[@harleyboyd9998]

WOW

[@sanjuan1794]

tragically degenerate shadow of young dylan dying on a cross.o

[@lightswitch5511]

Should have got Fisher seals