100 Funny Bob Dylan Moments

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In his new WTF interview, Rick Rubin tells a story where Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Tom Petty are writing a Traveling Wilburys' song together. Harrison leaves for a minute, and Dylan leans over to Petty and whispers, completely seriously, "You know, he was in the Beatles."

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) July 19, 2021

“Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link

Also the Modern Lovers

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 19 July 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link

Peter Grant: Mr. Dylan, my name is Peter Grant. I'm Led Zeppelin's manager.
Dylan: I don't come to you with MY problems, do I?

- at a party or backstage or somewhere, mid-'70s

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:09 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link

Dylan clearly channeling Groucho Marx there.

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link

...or maybe George in A Hard Day's Night. something in that vein.

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link

it's all in the mind

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-RDQ-2AaE

mahb, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link

Pet Shop Bob

tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link

"Doesn't sound a bit like cagney!"

Mark G, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

finally got around to this new yorker piece and I nearly spit out my coffee laughing at this little scene between Mavis and Dylan in 2016. truly the one who got away. pic.twitter.com/OG0DDU3i7O

— Allison Rapp (@allisonrapp22) July 11, 2022

More of a Dylan-adjacent moment, but when David Lynch and Peter Wolf were roomies in Boston in the late-60's, both wound up at a Dylan show. Halfway through Wolf notices Lynch getting up and leaving, and angrily confronts him in the apartment later that evening. "Nobody walks out on Bob Dylan!" "Fuck you, I walk out of Bob Dylan!"

henry s, Monday, 11 July 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link

Would've been the 1964-1965 school year...probably would've been a solo acoustic show, and to be fair, except for the few new songs released on Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan generally would have sounded bored with the old material that formed the bulk of his sets around this time.

birdistheword, Monday, 11 July 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link

LOL at that Dylan-Staples story.

Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link

meeting Archibald MacLeish (from Chronicles):

He reiterates a few things he said in his letter. (In his letter, he made mention of some lines in a song of mine that places T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound symbolically fighting in a captain’s tower.) “Pound and Eliot were too scholastic, weren’t they?” he says. What I know about Pound is that he was a Nazi sympathizer in World War II and did anti-American broadcasts from Italy. I never did read him. I liked T. S. Eliot. He was worth reading. Archie says, “I knew them both. Hard men. We have to go through them. But I know what you mean when you say they are fighting in a captain’s tower.”

corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

I'll tell you this one funny story about them in the Warfield Theatre in 1995. We were getting ready to do the show. I'm getting my clothes on. I see my wife in the green room, and I don't see my daughter. I said, "Deb where's Marcella?" She looks at me, the color drains from her face. She's like, "Isn't she with you?" I go into a panic. At one point, one of our guys sees me and I said, "I'm looking for my kid. Have you seen her?" They're like, "No, man, we'll help you look."

Everybody helped. At one point, I'd looked everywhere except Bob’s dressing room. I go up and knock on the door real quick. His assistant opens it or whatever and there she is.

We were already five minutes late going onstage, and the two of them were holding the show up. I said, "Babe, come on. Bob's got to go to work now." She says, 'Oh, okay." He says, "I want to talk a little more about that later, okay?" She's like, "Okay, Bob." And she grabs her drink and comes out and meets my wife.

At that point, I go to stand with the band and wait for him. They bring the house lights down. Bob stops me with his arm. He says, "We got to do something about that girl."

I said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, she just loves you. I didn't want her to disturb your show." He goes. "No, that girl in art class. She's real mean. We got to do something about her."

We’d gotten Marcella these cowboy boots and there was this mean little girl in her art class who splashed paint on them. Bob asked her, "How'd you get that paint on your cowboy boots?" So while I'm looking for my daughter, she's telling Bob that story, and they're holding the show up. He stops me and says, "Hey, we got to do something about that girl." [laughs]

From: https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/winston-watson-talks-drumming-for?

I'll tell you this one funny story about them in the Warfield Theatre in 1995. We were getting ready to do the show. I'm getting my clothes on. I see my wife in the green room, and I don't see my daughter. I said, "Deb where's Marcella?" She looks at me, the color drains from her face. She's like, "Isn't she with you?" I go into a panic. At one point, one of our guys sees me and I said, "I'm looking for my kid. Have you seen her?" They're like, "No, man, we'll help you look."

Everybody helped. At one point, I'd looked everywhere except Bob’s dressing room. I go up and knock on the door real quick. His assistant opens it or whatever and there she is.

We were already five minutes late going onstage, and the two of them were holding the show up. I said, "Babe, come on. Bob's got to go to work now." She says, 'Oh, okay." He says, "I want to talk a little more about that later, okay?" She's like, "Okay, Bob." And she grabs her drink and comes out and meets my wife.

At that point, I go to stand with the band and wait for him. They bring the house lights down. Bob stops me with his arm. He says, "We got to do something about that girl."

I said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, she just loves you. I didn't want her to disturb your show." He goes. "No, that girl in art class. She's real mean. We got to do something about her."

We’d gotten Marcella these cowboy boots and there was this mean little girl in her art class who splashed paint on them. Bob asked her, "How'd you get that paint on your cowboy boots?" So while I'm looking for my daughter, she's telling Bob that story, and they're holding the show up. He stops me and says, "Hey, we got to do something about that girl." [laughs]

From: https://dylanlive.substack.com/p/winston-watson-talks-drumming-for?

picturing an ill-conceived 90s family comedy... well-meaning, but bumbling dads (inexplicably led by Bob Dylan), try to solve their daughters' problems at school.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 August 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link

nine months pass...

the Mike Love diss in his rrhof acceptance speech is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyqFL9m2odg

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:08 (ten months ago) link

the mike love speech was pretty insane so v good idea to take the piss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:11 (ten months ago) link

Love apparently likes to take off his shoes when he performs, and during that night’s all-star jam, Mick Jagger stole his shoes.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 10:51 (ten months ago) link

cracking up this morning hearing "sign language," a song Dylan donated to Eric Clapton ...

’Twas there by the bakery

Surrounded by fakery

tylerw, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:29 (ten months ago) link

HBD Bob!

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 17:33 (ten months ago) link

haha that's a gorgeous lyric

corrs unplugged, Friday, 26 May 2023 11:39 (ten months ago) link


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