The Vinyl Review Episode 5: Bringing It All Back Home

[@williamhiles7404]

Hello Billy. Just glad to see you back picking up where you left off. I knew you would be back. I got three episodes to dive through tonite. Just finished a Zeppelin concert and came straight here. This old guitarist thanks you. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@memoryfield]

Thanks for checking back in and hope you enjoy those episodes! We're back and hope to stay this time.

[@brucesoffer9217]

Billy- This is a remarkable episode "Bringing it all Back Home" I'm 78 and have been following Dylan's career since 1962 or 63. You have informed me about Dylan, his life and his influences that I was not aware of. I am so moved by your scholarly, interesting and captivating presentation. I just saw "A Complete Unknown" last week and thought it was a worthy addition to the Dylan film cannon. I attend a open mic group often and I will read a Dylan song next, "Every Grain of Sand". Then I will talk about Dylan and his influence on culture and the unique way in which he carved his artistic career. Overwhelmingly the people are under 40 and have little understanding of his impact and oversized influence upon music, literature and the zeitgeist. Thank you so much for this successful effort & undertaking- Have great 2025- Best Wishes Bruce

[@memoryfield]

Bruce, thanks for the very nice comments and we're so glad you enjoyed the Dylan video. There are many more to come with him as the subject. Stay tuned, he'll keep turning up from time to time. He really was as important as all that. It can hardly be overstated.

[@1rwjwith]

Great in depth video on Dylan, remarkable pictures of his early days and his family.

[@memoryfield]

Much appreciated. Lots of work to do these, but also an enjoyable process. More to come!

[@sp-xq2id]

I just randomly stumbled on this video tonight while lying in bed after really f***ing up my back today,... and this is some of the best, smartest, most well-informed and thorough and interesting music-of-the-60s/pop-culture revolution/the-miracle of Dylan commentary I've ever seen. Really great stuff. Bravo. Now I have to start going through the rest of your stuff. Thank you for doing such great work --especially when most of what's around is such crap.🙏

[@memoryfield]

Very kind of you to say all of that. Thank you so much and we're glad to hear that it helped to brighten up what seems like was mostly a bad day. Sorry to hear about your back. Hope you're on the mend!

[@sp-xq2id]

@@memoryfield Thank you, man, I appreciate that. I'll probably be immobile and in lots of pain for the next few days, but it led to me finding your awesome channel, so there's a bright side. If you don't mind my offering one little suggestion/critique, I thought your commentary and context was so good, I was hoping for more of it on the individual songs. I'd love to hear what you had to say in more detail on some of these revolutionary masterworks. I look forward to checking out more of your stuff while I'm lying here eating Advil. Thanks again.

[@thecivilianseries3267]

As a filmmaker, I LOVE your use of visuals and as a storyteller, I appreciate you putting everything in context. So important. Great job!

[@memoryfield]

Thanks, that's a very kind thing to say, much appreciated! There's more on the way, so please stay tuned.

[@mikebannerman72]

Good to see you back on Billy. Was just rewatching your Laurel Canyon series.

[@memoryfield]

And it's good to be back as well. This time around we're going to try to be a bit more consistent! Thanks for watching.

[@jeannesandner548]

Great episode...looking foward to the rest. Loved your Laurel Canyon series...it was fantastic!

[@memoryfield]

Thanks for the feedback! We're really enjoying making the review series. The Laurel Canyon series was fun too but just too expensive to stay out there in LA for too long!

[@AndrewCalhounSongs]

Appreciate the fullness of the background, Billy. Mr. T Man is easily understood as a prayer to the Muse.

[@memoryfield]

Thanks for the nice comments and yes, agreed on Mr. Tambo Man. Thanks for watching!

[@carolplante]

Great seeing you Billy. Enjoy your videos

[@memoryfield]

Thanks for saying so and also thanks for being here and watching. Stay tuned for more!

[@BGCB261]

Welcome back , I m a big b Dylan vinyl guy. My personal thaught is he was hit with genius in the early to mid 60s then after getting married and having kids he lost his way only to be stuck from time to time again. Heavens door blood on the tracks .

[@memoryfield]

You have some good points there. Some believe that it was also the motorcycle crash in July of '66 that may have messed up his head a little bit. He was out of the game for 9 months after that crash.

[@MalcolmMacPhail-mt1gt]

Have to agree. Was a big fan up to “Desire” in the mid 70s. After that came “Slow Train Coming” and his Evangelical Christian phase and have lost interest since. Still a fan of the early work though.

[@robertshapiro3733]

I believe that the greatest influence upon Dylan’s lyrics and books of prose is the poetry of the French iconoclastic poet, Arthur Rimbaud, whose writing was accomplished through his nineteenth year of life. Indeed, without Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell” Dylan’s writing would have progressed along a different path. Dylan himself has mentioned in interviews that Rimbaud was a crucial influence. Billy (if I may), your discussion of this moment in Dylan’s musical life is so well-placed within the social, musical, literary, and political domains that were surrounding our subject. I’ve been listening to Dylan’s recordings for 58 years yet I learned peripheral details from your discussion that are new to me. Your brilliance dictates that a Part II episode would illuminate songs on this album that you didn’t discuss, especially the three songs following the extraordinary “Mr. Tambourine Man” on Side B (the all acoustic part of the album) which I alluded to in my first comment earlier today. You alluded to an interesting fact regarding his song “Farewell Angelina”. I didn’t realize that he felt that Joan Baez should record it as opposed to him including it on one of his own albums. How astute of Dylan to assign her the song-her rendition of this amazing song, in my opinion, is one of the highlights of Baez’s recording career. I have often felt that her version will never be surpassed given the perfection she achieved with her haunting performance. If my memory serves me well, this song opens the Baez album which is not surprising given that the title of her album just happens to be very title of the song itself. The poignancy that she achieves with this song is, in my opinion, is the definitive reason why any other performer might hesitate to record it including the composer himself.

[@vanman2359]

good work Billy, I look forward to the rest of this series

[@memoryfield]

We appreciate that. So yes, stay tuned because there's more on the way!

[@alias2364-t9y]

Enjoying this post from🦘having seen Bob Live in Adelaide in all wooden hall that had great acoustics back in 66 i ran to the front row when at the start of the second half Bob exposed you to his electric set with the Hawks

[@memoryfield]

That sounds amazing. And so far from New York City! I didn't know he had gotten all the way over to Australia as early as 1966. I lived in Brisbane for a couple of years back in 1989-1991.

[@izzymaedavidson1974]

Great video 💯

[@memoryfield]

Thanks 💯

[@geo641]

Memoryfield is back, nice!!

[@memoryfield]

Back in Black!

[@johncoffman1841]

Tambourine Man is such an amazing song. I would also add another posible influence is Colridge. I mean, Kabla Kahn is very creative and 'trippy.'

[@memoryfield]

Yes! There is a lot that was going into Dylan's songwriting back in those days, for sure. Thanks for the comments and thanks for watching.

[@AndyGoldner]

WELL DONE!

[@memoryfield]

Thank you very much!

[@robertshapiro3733]

Side 2 of BABH perhaps contains the greatest 4 songs Dylan composed (Mr. Tambourine Man, Gates of Eden, It’s Alright Ma and It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) although the other 2 songs on Blonde On Blond are in the same domain (Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Fourth Time Around).

[@memoryfield]

There's a good argument to be made that you are correct on that. We would have covered all the songs on the LP but the video was just getting way too long! Thanks for watching.

[@robertshapiro3733]

@@memoryfieldI understand completely. Thank you for responding to my comment.

[@tonyfluxman7596]

A good discussion. But very incomplete. How can you leave out Its Alright Ma, Gates of Eden, love minus zero, and others too?

[@jimmaculate5]

sgt pepper equal or surpass bringin it back home. nope. i don't see how you can even compare, there're so different; the stones had their great string after this came out: aftermath, bet the buttons, satanic majesty's request, let it bleed, sticky fingers, all great.

[@izzymaedavidson1974]

Bob Dylan returned to Judaism later on. Many jews such as myself do dable in the new testament out of curiosity but we hardly permanently stay that way. Plus being Jewish is an ethno religious group. Meaning irs a ethnicity/racial group and a religion. So we can convert to any religion but we are still jewish because there is an ethnic/genetic component there.

[@memoryfield]

Thanks for the enlightening info. Glad you found us and thanks for watching!