"Desolation Row" (song by Bob Dylan)

Stan Denski (guitar, vocal) Ron Esposito (bass) Scott Ballantine (guitar) Thom Woodard (mandolin)

[@b.l7491]

This almost brought me to tears . Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Truth be told I came because of My Chemical Romance, but I stayed because of Bob Dylan.

[@robertomartinis967]

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[@RemingtonRidersMusic]

This is an amazingly great version of Dylan's surreal masterpiece. Love the singing and the instrumentation.

[@Passion4Blue]

I collect Dylan tributes and this one is an exceptional version of "Desolation Row"

[@LSommer]

Edgar Villanueva indeed

[@peterwilliamson4296]

What a classy cover! The music is an absolute treat and the singer carries the song very well. Thanks guys.

[@JoeCashin]

Great version of one of my Favourite Bob Dylan songs.

[@darlenealessio7609]

I'm all for a great cover gets ppl thinking listening mote to Dylans lyrics thank you MCR

[@ankursux]

The best cover I've come across.

[@buntai100]

A gem! One of the best covers i have heard.

[@ireneryf6124]

Magnifique version, j’aime beaucoup, merci à tous…

[@mandybradley2737]

Amazing version. It is the best I have heard outside Bob Dylan.

[@tombaxter3095]

Grabrielle Louise does a good version also Mandy.

[@mol588]

@@tombaxter3095 Cheers Tom, she sure does, thanks for suggesting it. The banjo in this version is especially poignant 💗 🎼 🪕

[@montemichelbleu]

A very respectful cover. Love the instrumentation, particularly. Beautiful rendering, Stan.

[@darlenealessio7609]

Brilliant well done delivery of Dylans Desolation Row

[@notthebannerboys]

Thank you.

[@tatianaebner1958]

y'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 fortunetelling 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 penny whistles 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 door knob 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

[@kissmad11]

Phantastic lyrics,- forever ! Thanks a lot B.D. & Tatiana

[@fwingard02]

I can only hear Gerard's screaming. Please send help.

[@felichia808]

Great song, great singing.

[@janvanmarle9466]

A very good performance of Desolation Row!

[@MrHawk123]

great great version of dylan's classic...........glad you added a mandolin

[@CovenantOfLove]

Life is 63cked & I AM...tired..Thanks for such a beautiful ride.

[@marinaamber]

Nice voice! you sang it beautifully - and I love the mandolin. Thank-you.

[@robertoricci932]

bella versione di questo quartetto , musiche e strumenti carichi di armonia

[@charlesfalconer6231]

Fantastic cover , well done

[@brunoveiga7560]

Congratulations boys! Awesome cover! Regards from Brazil!

[@eduardopatino778]

Just came through this song thanks to "the music never stopped" film, such amazing desolation row, so is the film.

[@Dothemission]

wow! Great job! What a gift from God is great music like this. Wish i had it but don't so am grateful for those who do!

[@neldonlavino]

fantastic! crisp,dramatic! was looking for Dylans great song & found this. beautiful. loved it

[@janvanmarle9466]

Beautiful

I use to hate youtube covers of classical songs, but this one is great. Congrats!

[@RIDETHESUNSHINE]

One of the better Zimmerman covers to be found on the tube!!!

[@KK-cb3bi]

This is really an awesome re make of Desolation Row. Thank you.

[@canfor5]

Great Version. Thanks!

[@thephantombrother]

The masterpiece!

[@theron1313]

Just wanted to tell you that I always loved Charlie McCoys guitar work on Highway 51 and you do it justice. Thanks!

[@notthebannerboys]

That guitar is played by Scott Ballantine. Scott's son, Charlie Ballantine, just released a jazz guitar Dylan covers LP that's terrific!

[@macmccreadie8541]

Dylan masterwork.. Genius ain't it?

[@TF2cv]

Beautiful

[@norbertW64]

wohw. Your Version of this great Dylan song ist just fantastic !

[@venompop3319]

Just perfect!

[@JvdasMichael]

Prefer MCR but this is good too :) ((Reason being the guitar and of course Mikey's hair haha...and the faster pace...)) This is good.

[@dashman8499]

i love both too

[@__________7797]

Syanide 2.0 mcr version is terrible, the music is okay but the point of the song and the sounds are comoletely lost

[@thescroogemcduck]

Syanide 2.0 I hate you, they butchered this beautiful Bob Dylan song

[@whitetigress7448]

Syanide: I like your stripe, Baby (Excellent use of parentheses (Algebra is done hogging the parentheses (Yes? (Yes.))). xxooo

[@Davidnmk]

The Scrooge McDuck oh excuse me all mighty music elitist dude, but haven't you heard of personal opinion and also if you've ever listened to Bob Dylan you would know that this is a cover smh

[@slo74786]

A really worthy cover. The image is shocking... it has 'the hanging' and the 'painted brown'. I'd love to see someone attempt a full video for this...

[@feldberg5386]

Phantastischer Song

[@manishpurbia91]

Awesome sir. You did a great job there. :) Listening on repeat :) Indeed one of the best cover for any classic so far.

[@unstrung65]

Excellent cover of one of my favorite Dylan songs ! - very impressive .

[@patrickchiasson1009]

great version

[@feldberg1052]

Bob Dylan live in Offenbach/Germany in the 70er...🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@jo3nhen]

Absolutely the best version I EVERY heard!

[@jo3nhen]

Makes me cry for lost loves and lost friends.

[@toerag5475]

I believe that there is a place where our vanished days secretly gather. The name of that place is memory.

[@antonellobuzzani2072]

Bellissima versione grazie

[@nracicot]

Glad I found this instead of the original. I have it on disc anyway and this cover is amazing. :-)

[@mysurrealsynapse]

Somehow, I find this version this much better than the original... :) always come to this page whenever I need a bit relaxing...

[@zoealexa5320]

i thought this was the original

[@mathilde6712]

This is the original one...

[@MrRazorblade999]

Mathilde Hearing impaired?

[@dulacdominique7630]

Très belle chanson de Dylan !

[@seanmcguire8694]

Perfect tempo ❤

[@jesuisravi]

it's funny...nothing Dylan did after he was thirty came anywhere near what he did before that. He owes his enormous influence and reputation, his Nobel prize, to those first 4 or 5 albums.

[@rollinwiththeflow]

WOW!

[@eric1faure]

Très belle harmonisation !

[@SuperNutty23]

Excellent cover...

[@dirkbogarde44]

Great cover.

[@clouds882]

A very excellent cover.

[@norinecook844]

Bravo 👏

[@aliasdyln33]

This song version is very well done and true to the original. I trust the old maid enjoys it too, and also that the calypso singers are not laughing at you.

[@janvanmarle9466]

They play it so well!!!!!

[@sadmeat8937]

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 fortunetelling 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 penny whistles 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 spoon feeding 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 Outta 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 door knob 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

[@normankeena]

thanks, I've been looking for this song unbeknown to meself

[@karendavis2116]

Beautiful, Stan!

[@lilyofhearts]

It's lovely, Stan.

[@trammix]

Excellent cover of one of my favourite Dylan songs. There's some pretty awful cover versions of Dylan songs but this beats them all by a million miles. For one thing you can actually play a guitar and your mate Ron can sing with passion. A beautiful performance by all those involved.

[@notthebannerboys]

Thanks, but I should point out tat Ron plays bass, my friend Scott plays lead guitar and the vocal is mine. :)

[@frankmcgourty2526]

Listen to bobby.woods'version

[@notthebannerboys]

Here's a version of another Dylan classic. "She Belongs To Me" kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIDbYZlniq-dd7s

[@lordioris]

Mighty excelent!! this is a great cover, congratulations!

[@notthebannerboys]

Thanks!

[@fredweisberg5985]

excellent

[@charliedelbuono9074]

Cool

[@adelsoncesar3962]

the best in the world

[@maep4627]

You just listen to this beautiful, calm version, which I’m loving. And then you just watch MCR’s hardcore rock version and just sit there (in my opinion, I prefer MCR but this is really awesome too)

[@jimmyjohnston8287]

Wonderful.

[@mario7frankielee]

respect i think you did catch the muse

[@adriaticscarecrow2218]

THIS IS AWESOME!

[@stevekoller3314]

Watchmen brought me here.

[@ludocrious7898]

Laura Branigan's Spanish Eddie brought me here

[@jasminerose727]

the watchmen and mcr brought me here

[@Ruhilas]

Funny! Dylan brought me here.

[@killjoysmakesomenoise9654]

Steve Koller My chemical romance

[@whitetigress7448]

"Watchmen" is cool as Fuck. Even outside the hype, and in the presence of many other worthy things, "Watchmen" is cool as Fuck. It's prophetic ("Einstein passed this way an hour ago"). If you don't think we're living it, you're not working class -- but HAHA -- you soon will be. The 1 percent want a larger herd to shear. Bend over beast -- Baaaaaahhhhhhhh.

[@NH1212c]

Nice job, Stan, with a tough ballad.....

[@Komaedasympathizer]

Tbh i prefer Mcr's version because i like intense music. But this isn't bad!

[@amd64alan]

you should listen to Dylans original on highway 61re visited the Woodstock version .

[@maximumoccupancy]

You should stick your head inside a vacuum cleaner. It sounds better than the MCR cover of Desolation Row and is also intense, so you'll love it.

[@jbouley2014]

from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to Papa John Creach electric violin connotation. Ophelia {later by the Band...}. Cheers !

[@fengliuful]

Play more Dylan's songs with your version will be nice... God bless!

[@garrettafancytrouser1424]

Philosophical.

[@feldberg5386]

Great Song

[@garrettafancytrouser1424]

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 fortunetelling 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 penny whistles 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 door knob 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

[@peterwaters638]

well done my friend, hang out , we will connect , yo soya Dylan officionado , Roberto es mi Amigo mucho mucho anos , Shalom

[@marcoslannes100]

O pai do Sertanejo

[@piermorandi]

Me too I recorderded a personal cover of this masterpiece (in my YT page). So... well done Stan! Appreciated!

[@danilobruzzone3068]

la tua cover è eccezionale non certo inferiore a questa .Entrambe sono dei capolavori - bravi entrambi

[@piermorandi]

@@danilobruzzone3068 GRAZIE, molto apprezzato.

[@lo0kn298]

─ tanks for been never forget ! ≈≈≈ ride new wave

[@bernirichstone4762]

thanks

[@codybarnett4574]

Not bad my brother

[@gilmarjunior936]

Uma dAs letras mais insanas de todos os tempos

[@rolanddoucet458]

Great version. Love it, but I'm not crazy about the change you made to the chords just before the turnaround. But still very good.

[@amd64alan]

have Dylans original on Highway 61b revisited but this is a decent cover

[@robertcabrera8228]

When I die please tell the kids to read Bob Dylan maybe they know

[@eddiekennedy6641]

Robert Cabrera q

[@mooniacful]

a worthy cover.....im searching for dylan's version with bass and drums....only finding acoustic version...HELP

[@andreaburiani]

[@reachbk101]

waiting for Starbucks to play this....ha

[@timcullen566]

HI Stan, I think if you're going to cover a legend you need to be have the touch to connect and infuse as it were with what it's all about - and you and the band certainly do. I hope Dylan has heard this, I really think he would love it. I work as a volunteer with a charity radio station in the UK and would love to put it in a playlist - but would need a copyright clearance to do so. Maybe you would like to contact me to arrange a permission to play it? Kind regards, Tim.

[@notthebannerboys]

As far as I am concerned you can play this but I don't have any expertise in copyright law, especially international law.

[@tonyy5482]

I prefer the vocals & guitar on this to Bob Dylan's. But I much prefer Fools Gold by Thin Lizzy/Phil Lynott, the lyrics of which seem to me to be partially inspired by this song.

[@vuksikimic1836]

At Midnight All the Agents

[@philipmcmahon3028]

Dylan sings dylan You sing you I sing me.

[@jmhistoria5180]

Denuncia. Por isso que ele é um Grande ativista Social. De Vanguarda?!

[@MissDistarr60]

This is NOT Bob Dylan singing. Not sure who it is but anyone who knows Dylan's style knows this isn't him. But this IS much closer to Dylan's original version than MCR. Just my personal 60's era opinion but the meaning of the lyrics/song get completely lost in their version.

[@canaanclb]

I wish Dylan's original songs would get posted to KZbin.

[@bruceglover1350]

well I guess he wants to be paid for his work , gotta eat ya know

[@locogr81]

The poster, Stan Denski, lists the musicians who play with him here. There is nothing misleading about it.

[@CidaMeiraCaires]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6GvgnuFZ5Zmb8U

[@montemichelbleu]

Exactly, Scott. And this a very fine piece!

[@lobsterbobable]

Nice yob boys!

[@Herzeleydt_Diesentrueb]

Kitsch as Kitsch can... Can you hear RAZ rolling in his grave ?

[@friendofbeaver6636]

Would this be the same Ron Esposito that was at Ohio University in the Late 70's? I remember him being in a jazz a trio with Art Jarvinen (drums) and Greg Brink (Trumpet, Fender Rhodes).

[@notthebannerboys]

friendofbeaver One in the same.

[@friendofbeaver6636]

Thanks. Great live music in Athens back then!

[@dickvanlunteren8953]

Desolaat.....