Bob Dylan: The Musical Revolution of 1967

The Basement Tapes, the complete collection and the 1975 studio version, are actually some of my favourite material. There's an incredible unique vibe to it, as though you were sitting with these guys in the basement of this remote house… I love Dylan and The Band 🤩

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Complete Basement Tapes is my fav collection of songs of all time. Has been for over a decade. Such a deep well of creativity, mystery, knowledge, wisdom… and just so damn cool too. Highly influential as you say (with Eric Clapton too). A remarkable collection of originals and covers. What Dylan accomplished in the 60s and beyond just blows my mind. Stuart.

Great summation of this phase of Dylan. Excellent choice of quotes! Thanks for mentioning "Million Dollar Bash." My favorite on the album.😊

Tom Waits, whom I greatly admire, had, in my view, the most perspicacious comments on The Basement Tapes (not to detract from your very literate appraisal!): "[…] I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in – so the bootlegs I obtained in the Sixties and Seventies, where the noise and grit of the tapes became inseparable from the music, are essential to me. [Dylan's] journey as a songwriter is the stuff of myth, because he lives within the ether of the songs. Hail, hail The Basement Tapes. I heard most of these songs on bootlegs first. There is a joy and an abandon to this record; it's also a history lesson." What a poetic, laconic, and, for lack of a better term, quintessentially-Waitsian take on this album!

Very interesting topic! This period of Dylan's music: Basement Tapes, Nashville Skyline, and John Wesley Harding has always fascinated me, and I think is often overlooked and all three albums are worth having. Thanks!

Been watching your channel for a while now. It is really unfortunate that you cannot play any of the music you’re reviewing! Keep up the excellent work!

Some of the album is so underground its like if subway systems had basements. Tiny Montgomery is like Dylan's countrified I am the Walrus. (In 1967 Andy Warhol was supposed to be on a speaking tour but instead sent an actor partner in crime Alan Midgette around the country instead, disguised as Warhol. "Tell everyone in old Frisco that Tiny Montgomery says hello.." 🤣) An absurd song for an absurd bit of mischief. The BTs are a great collection of songs.

Thank you for this great review, I have always loved Basement Tapes but not checked it out for years and it is time to change that I think.

Dylan released a song in 2006 that contained the line “eating hog-eyed grease in hog-eyed town,” which is a reference to the 17th century sea shanty “Hog Eye Man.” Who the hell still knows 17th century sea shanties? Dylan does.