Comments on: Dylan :: Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (1966)

By: Edg

Edg — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:19:58 +0000

wow, i’d better get that sucker out and give it a listen with fresh ears… when it originally came out, my impression of Disc 2 was that it was (don’t stone me) haphazard and lurching… no issue with the 1st disc, but I must confess I’ve not given it its due since it originally came out… I’ve purchased the subsequent Rolling Thunder set but still have yet to snag the ’64 set… (and I call myself a fan?).

I’ve seen the man ‘only’ four times (and only since the mid-80′s onward) and his ‘Greatest Hits’ album was the 1st album I bought back in the 60′s that wasn’t the Beatles or Stones (I was about 12 at the time) – not sure that entitles me to have a contrary opinion without invoking anyone’s ire though (? ‘-)…. whatever, etc. but I’m ‘in’ as far as his overall canon goes. And a big 10-4 on the comment re: ‘One too many mornings’… kills me every time.

By: Alias

Alias — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:18:53 +0000

Just listen to the energy and the music in that song. Everyone is into it. Everyone knows their place. This is what music is about.

By: Satisfied '75

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:46:22 +0000

“Are you Bob Dylan?” HA. Man, I hope you replied, “yes, yes, I am Bob Dylan.” Awesome.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:47 +0000

Wow, I’ll just add to the list of voices in agreement. Dylan was always my dad’s favorite, but this was the album…specifically disc 2, of course…that finally connected with me. This got me hooked on Dylan, but possibly even more so on The Band.

On another note, a girl taking my order last week at a Chinese restaurant looked at my never-ending-tour shirt and asked who Bob Dylan is. Dumbfounded, I ignored the question, placed my order, and she says “Is it you? Are you Bob Dylan?”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:22:53 +0000

The “Forever Young” from the the ‘Last Waltz’ is, well, there really are no words for it. And although The Rolling Thunder Revue is probably his greatest tour, he never clicked with anyone like he did with The Band.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:05:23 +0000

Love the reinvention here. This is one of my favourite Dylan “covers” of his original compositions. All-timer has to be “Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)” from the ‘Before The Flood’ live disc. Kicks the crap out of the Blonde on Blonde version.

By: mitch

mitch — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:48:52 +0000

I just recently became a true believer. Oddly enough, I started listening to Dylan after I got hooked on John Wesley Harding at a weekend party at a cabin out in the sticks… there’s a strange album to get started with. But true believer… I was a believer after Blood on the Tracks, but I think after Sara, Forever Young, and the Rolling Thunder bootleg release, I was a true “I will eventually have the entire Dylan catalogue” believer.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:57:04 +0000

“It used to go like that, but now it goes like this.” Dylan in ’66 is the best Dylan of all.

By: danfun

danfun — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:19:48 +0000

The Just like Tom thumb’s blues on there is also amazing. The bootleg series 5 is also amazing with a raging Romance in Durango and Ballad of Hattie Carrol. I hope they release another bootleg series soon.

By: r

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:42:43 +0000

Makes nice thread to “Last Waltz” version. Any chance for Dylan/Cash reprise?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:23:20 +0000

Absolutely superb. I don’t know if it was this song in particular, for me, but this whole album bowled me over, especially as my parents were among the disappointed folkies who he blew away with this gig – my Mum was at this very concert.

That second CD is one of the all-time moments of confrontational rock ‘n’ roll genius in the history of music.

‘Play it fucking loud’

By: chris

chris — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:52:14 +0000

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/blessedness

_chris

By: drt

drt — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:35:33 +0000

yes, yes, yes — this track, One Too Many Mornings, and I Don’t Believe You (she acts like we never have met), all from these recordings, are possibly (for all intents and purposes) my favorite [rocking-] dylan tracks — what a ridiculous statement to ever have to make…”favorite dylan tracks”…psh. Albeit, these versions came to my knowledge many years after my general Conversion to Bob Dylan as a kid, it was tracks like these that really set off the avalanche of obsession that was to follow. Good call, sir/or madam.