Outtakes of Bob Dylan's "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" [The Blonde on Blonde Sessions]

[@oliveeisner8964]

What a treasure! Thank God that Dylan's producer recorded literally every possible take and rehearsal. Just in case...

[@JimmyFranceable]

Bob Johnston.

[@artchem1]

I so agree with you Olive. Thank goodness, indeed 🌟🧡🌟🌸✨🎶🎵

[@jensjuhlnedergaard2107]

Beside there are all the unofficial recordings. Ups, l shouldn't mention that here 😉😚

[@imannonymous7707]

When Bob Johnston was interviewed he said that he just let two track tape run at all times. He said that Dylan wasn't one to labour over takes for too long...and studio musicians have said he'd try a song 3xs and often with randomly different feels . He liked random results when a track just worked with a band. This was the second album Bob produced Obviously this wasn't the case on blonde on blonde tho But then blonde on blonde was a labour of love

[@maryfulham1522]

YA! we'll all know GOD never throws HiS DIAMONDS out even if their raw an stillburried quite DEEP......"AL🎶 LLL🎶 that I heard."🎵 the title says it perfectly; "MASTER TAKE"🙃rough an rowdy ways

[@TheCaptainZodo]

"Robbie, can you do literally anything other than that?"

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

Yes LOL he just doesn't give up that's what makes him Bob. Robbie is the best also. Can u do this not that omg .

[@marypulley6512]

Frustration is in Dylan 's voice, but he is really willing to do whatever it takes for it to be perfect and it always is. No can do it like he can. I love that harmonica.

[@arcitejack]

4:15 “I do want it, but not so specific”. The world might be shite but at least we got Dylan.

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[@johnvoyce]

God. When I hear this stuff I see myself back in school. Dylan was what made the frustrations bearable.

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

I hated school was a huge struggle I didn't have 2 many records eather 2 distract me except 4 📻 & jutebox all is wonderful today you tube ear buds heaven.huge selections of 🎶 today I only listen 2 one of Vans songs. Tangled up in blue. Everyone else is Dylan & reggae music.

[@shiitakestick]

.. in the old days we had to carry a Wurlitzer juke box on our backs with thousand foot extension cords , in the snow .. uphill.

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

@@shiitakestick Oresome jute 📦 my granddaughtet wouldn't know what that was. I sent her lyrics 2 Every grain of Sand of sand & asked her if interested 2 try 2 lissen to it. Trying to get her 2 👂 Bob Don't know if she will but text me that the lyrics made her curious.🎧 that's good enough 4 me. Jute box oh yeah.🎶

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

I really forget I know I hated school tests were what I hated. Thrilled I don't have to study LOL Have other stiff 2 deal with not bad though.🎧🎶

[@shiitakestick]

katherine Kirkwood - well fine, but with Dylan I wouldnt separate the sound from the words !

[@benjaminmaharaj1243]

that first "me" in the second verse of the final take (12:11) has always stood out for me like the only clear window on a building with every other window tinted

[@clambeandip]

That's quite a metaphor!

[@d_walsh]

He sure was dedicated in the studio. Working out his personal songs. He enjoyed it all, and had patient musicians as friends. Thanks Bob.

[@barbaralovenvirth8726]

Makes me appreciate the final version that was used even more.

[@wstacer]

Wow, that was great to listen to, I love how naked that was. 50 years ago I would listen a side of Blonde on Blonde each day when I got back to my apartment are a day in the college chemistry labs.

[@Jupitervideovision99]

Intelligent love songs, now there's an idea

[@Rachel-jt5cj]

I wish take 5 was a full version, it sounds so gorgeous. This has always been my favourite Dylan song 💛

[@PAFMHunink]

It is a full version (voice) !

[@42awww]

Well, took my chance because One of Us Must Know is my favourite song on my 2nd favourite album. But all takes, Dylan's voice is so....warm. Like a dead man's last pistol shot, honey.

[@steviesevieria1868]

Also my favorite song on my second favorite album. Interesting coincidence… What’s my favorite song on my favorite album? Tangled up in Blue.

[@42awww]

@@steviesevieria1868 After 42 years of being lost in the Dylan landscape, I always have to go back to Like a Rolling Stone. It just gets better with every listen. That being said, my obvious 2nd comes from the same album as Tangled, and that is Idiot Wind.

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@42awww great song, love it every time!

[@richardhonour1522]

His voice was at it's all time best here.

[@clambeandip]

My perception of Mr Dylan, at times, is he's a savant. There are occasional indications that his understanding of music is limited, but he follows his instincts. He certainly is one interesting and unpredictable cat. Obviously born with a gift. But he's also capable of some wacky choices (a number of tracks on his oddly titled "Self Portrait" album come to mind). Anyway, this is great, thanks for posting. The Bob Dylan of the mid to late 60s reigns supreme!

[@michaeldevlin79]

I sing in A. I've just discovered these gems. I'm in heaven.

[@TheClemcaster]

Marvelous. I'd always believed that Dylan had a short attention span where recording is concerned; here he stalks the song until he gets pretty close to the finished item. Amazing to hear the other musicians contribution, inching nearer to the realised version we know today - with not a great deal of guidance...but then that's what makes a good musician; the ability to turn on a sixpence, ditch what isn't working, and go somewhere completely different.

[@vincentbrady9357]

Bob makes everything sound great

[@mutboi9720]

God I love that last take, gotta be one of my favorite Dylan vocal performances

[@0otee]

My first time hearing Dylan practicing! Puzzling to get it exact right! Love text change and back again..All with patience just Doing it! Great! Lovely song only heard till now in old style! ❤️🌹👌Thanks Swingin’ pig🌺🌷👌

[@knockedoutloaded279]

It charted in the Uk, his most Dylan like song....brilliant...

[@damien863]

my favorite album of all time and one of my favorite songs. poetry and that thin wild mercury sound

[@alias2364-t9y]

Bobs, perfect break up song to his folk followers, some still resisting his new folk, electric sound. Have to pay homage to Paul Griffen's piano playing, on this Masterpiece, he was the Band Leader after 25 takes, that infused and electrified such an important song in time.

[@dasanii2467]

I absolutely love Bob Dylan, hes my greatest inspiration for writing

[@flowermomma5337]

Love this song that piano and drum build gets me every time. Hearing him sing that blows me away . Thank you this is a real treat ! ❤️

[@flowermomma5337]

Wes Penre appoligies☮️❤️

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

💝💝💝💝 agreed

[@triciamoore106]

I just loved Bob recording this fantastic song this one is one of my favorites one of must no but lessoning to Bob make this when he was young its very special thank you

[@susanatorrecilla6603]

Thank you from Madrid (Spain) I love Dylan forever!!! 💜💜💜💜

[@letsif]

If it's even possible to say, this is the most pure Dylan sound of all. OK, you can say that about many other periods and specific songs, but I think this voice and the song itself is perfecto Bob.

[@Manduoficial]

Profoundly inspiring! As a songwriter and arranger myself, it’s very important for me to listen to this and see how much time and effort they put into this song before it became the amazing piece of music it ended up becoming! Thanks a lot for posting Thank uou very very much! ❤️

[@ritahall6628]

Love hearing Bob singing with such clarity so beautiful

[@aerialtour]

Dylan accented his vocal phrasing to the max on these outtakes(makes you almost wince) but yet beautiful in its way. Amazing fly on the wall stuff to be hearing these takes. What a song man! Thanks again Swingin’ for this tape.

[@williamdunn2792]

LOVE all the versions of this song.

[@woz1709]

The man just keeps giving. ❤️

[@juanvarleta1842]

Knee-deep in Thin Wild Mercury!

[@janetwebb1507]

This most likely was about his 4 yr relationship w Suzi..composing lyrics & writing a song can be very cathartic-- especially w deep heartache & grief of a significant relationship..t be able t actually express ur grief, sadness & disappointment & express t Truth where ur able t Feel t pain & grief can be chathartic wen expressing t truth in t song...Hesring t process of pulling this song all together w t other musicians is wonderful & pure magic. BD's 'style' in t days of partially singing & partially proclaiming was so unique in style & especially with t added emotional content of his harmonica playing also. Just pure Magic. *He definitely had/has a conscience as well. "Love conquers (us) All"

[@Janna52]

Love hearing the development in recording this song I listen to since 1968 from Blonde on Blonde 🎁

[@joankearns4490]

I'm fainting. Always loved this song and the outtakes are fabulous. Thanks so much swingin pig.

[@chrissavage1534]

Sweet to hear more of Bob's guitar. That's where the rhythm of the song comes from.

[@HelianaSuper]

"Take 25" is wonderful!

[@fredjumbof9859]

the creation in the pure condition; and the magnificent result!

[@ehabitation9213]

Genius at work

[@mortimersnerd1]

His most perfect song

[@resslerartstudios]

This definitely is the ultimate for a Dylan fan. And take 25 is not on the cutting edge release. To be in a room with musicians willing to work on a song like this would be a dream come true for sure. Nashville sessions musicans probably would the way to go...did anyone go see "Once were Brothers"? Forget the personal politics. The musicianship so wonderful...

[@TheCaptainZodo]

"Christ, know anybody that sings in A?" I'm dead

[@frannybellotti4790]

Zodo12 yea it sounds like he say G . Like he wants to take it down 2 steps from A to G. Which makes sense because a lot of Dylan songs are in G. And it is good because it is on the third fret so there are open notes on guitar in the chords.

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

I loved that also WHO.SINGS IN A. ???? 😙😙😙😙

[@katherinekirkwood9632]

@@frannybellotti4790 u know your stuff 🎸 I loved the 👄 talking Its fun.

[@frannybellotti4790]

@katherine Kirkwood Thank you !

[@noelleeveland3291]

That caught my attention too

[@johannesfrost8720]

That's awesome! Thanks to give the possibility to be a fly on the studio wall.

[@janetwebb1507]

Thank you Swinging Pig for this Treasure. xxx

[@1blindcommissioner]

Listening to this is likelooking through contact sheets of a master photographer say Henri Cartier Bresson (only he never released his) - absolutely fascinating !

[@onthewattle]

Henri never did his own printing, so any contact sheets would have been done by an assistant. he wasn't a darkroom bloke. His skill lay with his Leica and eyes

[@asmru6982]

Love out-takes: educational as well as entertaining.

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Really an unjustly unrecognized classic.

[@edicamon8486]

This is a musical historical document. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for uploading Swingin' Pig.

[@willdaugherty208]

Thanks, man! I really appreciate your channel!

[@artchem1]

Oh my, I’ve closed my eyes, & I’m visioning, ... sitting next to Rick, in the Sound Studio, and just listening to the most magical experience; as Bob and his Band, work on the Recording of this song; for the album “Blond on Blond “is an absolute treasure 💎. Thank you SP- so very much for this magnificent moment in time with Bob Dylan. Pure genius just listen🎶🎼

[@Rocketman10057]

18 levels above Shakespeare at the very least ,a tornado of written English ,still amazes me how he makes me feel

[@eraldocolazzo6414]

shakespeare "with his pointed shoes and his bells" can't be compared to Dylan....he opened the door beyond the misery of the flat and meaningless poetry was then, he painted emotions which sting the soul and the fantasy, just like Dylan....but Shakespeare was the first.... it is like to compare Leonardo and Dali'.....

[@blackcrow7049]

... but he recorded ''Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'' with only 4 takes , two of them complete , another was a rehearsal and the fourth was released on Blonde on Blonde .

[@pabloblue999]

Interesting comparison. As great as The Band were as a unit the Nashville players were on a whole other level as studio players. Also the tempo and arrangement of SELotL was somewhat less challenging.

[@blackcrow7049]

That is part of the beauty that Sad-Eyed Lady contains ; Dylan needs a good rhythm base without fanfare to reel in all that barrage of adjetives and descriptions that make up the song . If he had recorded with more marked changes of rhythm , probably would not have achieved that hypnotic mysticism that causes the song . It's also an elegy , a praise , it needs that monotone rhythm that only cuts to make the chorus, the high point of the tune . I think if Dylan had played it live , it wouldn't have worked the same way , so he never did . It is made to be recreated in a studio , for me this is where the magic of the song lies .

[@blackcrow7049]

He never played Sad-Eyed Lady in concert , but two days after the 13th and last recording session for Blonde On Blonde , he played it again in a hotel room in Denver with Robbie Robertson together with Just Like a Woman and two other songs . Robert Shelton , the NY Times journalist , was there because Dylan wanted show him ''the best song I've recorded'' in his own words (Swingin' Pig posted this version a year ago) . But it isn't the last , in 1975 at S.I.R. in NYC , he made a rehearsal with members of the Rolling Thunder and played it again , but I think this was because he needed the song for Renaldo & Clara soundtrack with a different sound than studio version . In fact he released all this rehearsal session for Renaldo & Clara . According Joan Baez , Dylan played a piano version too but never was recorded or even pointed for one of the info sources or biographers . Highly recommended is the book ''And a Voice To Sing with Joan Baez . Memories'' 1988 Ed. Seix barral (in Spanish) ... There's life beyond internet. Un saludo .

[@pabloblue999]

@@blackcrow7049 I particularly enjoyed Bob's letter to Joan's mum in that book.

[@maureennoble4292]

Goodness...what a great fly on the wall moment...thanks so much....

[@ah13554]

Stunning swinging man just great 😎😎😎😎😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@tommoran4457]

This is so cool. It's like a little peak into his writing process, at least at that point. Constantly experimenting with the words and phrasing. Thank you Swingin' Pig

[@henningandersen9027]

It would be great to hear outtakes from SAD-EYED LADY..!

[@paulhardin9731]

Imagine being Bob Dylan.

[@ilovedylan3943]

Imagine being with Bob Dylan

[@babdillon3220]

Thanks! Always loved this song!

[@EricScottBloom]

I'm four years old while he is playing his tricks with his genius cohorts!!!!!~E

[@justgeorgeous]

dylan is best singer of all time too

[@Anna-jl7gy]

Thank you for sharing this gem! Really want to hear what Bod said (at 2:25) when he says "there's one very important thing in this song.." but it cuts.. what was that thing?? I'm very curious to know🤔

[@nitrousnine]

my god but this is so good.i wish john bauldie and paul williams were still alive to see the vaults cracked open like this.

[@isidroguzman9815]

this was absolutely beautiful, one of my favorites of him dear Swingin'Pig, could you please post more Blonde on Blonde sessions pls? would love to hear the ones of Most likely go your way (and I'll go mine)

[@SwinginPig]

Isidro Guzman I’ll see what I can do!

[@carineattias5436]

Swingin' Pig, I won't even try to figure out how you grab hold of all these gems, just know that I'll be eternally grateful to you for sharing!! You rock and you swing! Thank you.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Does my heart in. Nearly 59. Ffs. Where’s this going? Too old for all this. Fed up doing what I have to do. Would be nice for a fuckin change if one of us could do what we wanna do.

[@bryant4310]

Please do more like this, these are gems, giving insight into his thinking and the info you give also makes it more enjoyable.

[@aliasdyln33]

See, sooner or later, all of us will realize how ahead of the f'n game Bob Dylan was in 1966 (okay, even earlier . . . to be more precise). Do keep in mind that the Vietnam War was going on - tragically. Yes, well before and well after, this 'Sessions' set. I hope these comments don't upset you, as you shouldn't take it so personal.

[@pekibuzz]

Thank you, Swingin', this is phantastic stuff! I already wrote today: Bob's leftovers of studio recordings are our pearls! 🌹

[@markbastow3426]

bob is so gooooood

[@jakezonis17]

This is really brilliant

[@josemanuelrr]

Tarde o temprana, uno de nosotros debe saber que es genial esta grabación ;)

[@pgiusto8189]

Perfect!

[@resslerartstudios]

Tom Wilson Produced and engineered. What a wonderful gentleman he was.

[@SwinginPig]

It is! From the collector's edition though.

[@resslerartstudios]

Swingin’ Pig where would I find that? Is it on CD?

[@pistachoone1958]

Actually the producer was Bob Johnston." Is it Rolling Bob?"

[@brianwolle2509]

nope. he's in nashville -shockeroonee

[@dixiefallas7799]

Great thanks!🇬🇧

[@ILoveEverything14]

10:19 my boy Rick got roasted

[@yamapenny5960]

Great ❣❗🌿👍💜

[@timothyryan6018]

Thank You for this Video- fantastic hearing Bobby building this great song slowly but surely. Great stuff

[@simonerusso6920]

Mate tears dawn my face wat song

[@carleenmejzastrumunderthes4130]

I enjoyed listening to his organic process.

[@nicholasfiona]

One of my favourites especially after the Bootleg Series!

[@jimalice1]

Thanks Swingin' Pig, that was sooo great!

[@williamdunn2792]

Brilliant...like all the versions.......when he was at his peak..

[@johnyoung418]

Thanks, very interesting and enjoyable.

[@adenauermarques2565]

Formidável, excepcional ,obrigado dylan

[@rachelee73]

Glad I waited till all was quiet to hear this upload. The start said it all and your description was very informative and I laughed when it didn't make the charts. Such is life. Thank you so much for time to share and care the songs of Bob 🌝🖼 totally love the way the song forms more then words ta

[@seanartpsyc]

Anyone know why these aren't included on the Bootleg Series Vol12- The Cutting Edge.....One of Us Must Know only has three takes listed on the extended album. Why not include the first one shared here- it's amazing! (thanks for posting SP!). Maybe this take is on the Best of the Cutting Edge album?? Any insight?

[@maggiebryan2355]

Got it how've wanted in end iis a great song always loved it

[@shyjoshi7158]

Another gold mine. Cheers Swingin Pig. 🙏🙏

[@xy3536]

The laaaaast version gives me chillllls allover..... So mooooooving Amaaazin bob

[@christianfletcher7871]

Cant believe this was an outtake

[@patriciathewisher2315]

She said when I was born the snow was outrageous. The winter well into March of 1963 was oh so snowy and cold. And it was on St Patrick’s Day. Her father’s 67th birthday too. And I was her first child to be born in the town. I think the Dylan Rotolo NYC pic with the VW van was around that time. Anyways, happy birthday to me. Tomorrow in the morning in velvet so green I will appear. My father had moss green eyes and I miss him so. He died 108 days ago. That’s not long.

[@henningandersen9027]

How haunting music is made - and rock-history written.

[@corneliakapelinski]

Amazing to follow him so close into the small inventor laboratory..

[@patriciathewisher2315]

It is fascinating these outtakes. Robbie can do most things. I do want it but not so SPECIFIC. When I was young I thought when my mum said the word specific she was sayin Pacific. Like the ocean. When I was about 8. For ages I thought it began with a P. Was mortified when I found out a year or two later that I’d got the word all wrong. The pacific time I can’t recall.

[@13loomisst73]

Wow . . . this is there --

[@wandaschmitz4775]

love this thanks sp

[@carlacarnellizanin5153]

Perfect!!! Amazing!!!

[@carlacarnellizanin5153]

Wonderful ❤️❤️❤️

[@TheCaptainZodo]

This is my life source

[@guillermokersh7270]

Zodo12 man do I feeeeeel you

[@resslerartstudios]

Guillermo Kersh same here. Im in my studio recording a song ive wrote 30 years ago and been working on intensely for the past year. This was a timely inspiration. Thank God for the home studio.

[@TheCaptainZodo]

@@resslerartstudios Upload it!

[@resslerartstudios]

Zodo12 when its done..I will

[@justgeorgeous]

dylan is pure genius

[@billcrotts5456]

This might be the best song ever