Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

824 00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:54,460 <i>♪ Reflect from the mountain</i> <i>So all souls can see it ♪</i> 825 00:45:54,543 --> 00:45:57,629 <i>♪ Then I'll stand on the ocean</i> <i>Until I start sinkin' ♪</i> 826 00:45:57,838 --> 00:46:01,049 <i>♪ But I'll know my song well</i> <i>Before I start singin' ♪</i> 827 00:46:01,133 --> 00:46:02,176 <i>♪ And it's a hard ♪</i> 828 00:46:02,676 --> 00:46:04,261 <i>♪ And it's a hard ♪</i> 829 00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:05,971 <i>♪ Well, it's a hard ♪</i> 830 00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:07,723 <i>♪ And it's a hard ♪</i> 831 00:46:08,015 --> 00:46:10,559 <i>♪ It's a hard rain gonna fall ♪</i> 832 00:46:49,598 --> 00:46:51,099 <i>-</i><i> Hello?</i> -<i> </i>Bob? 833 00:46:51,183 --> 00:46:52,309 - <i>Yeah.</i> -This is Larry. 834 00:46:52,392 --> 00:46:54,520 - <i>Larry, how you doing?</i> -You got a minute? 835 00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:56,605 I gotta do a story in an hour, 836 00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:59,107 and I just need about two or three paragraphs. 837 00:47:00,108 --> 00:47:01,276 - <i>Okay.</i> -Are you up? 838 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,611 <i>Yeah, sort of.</i> 839 00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:10,702 What do you-- Why don't you just talk about the music, okay? 840 00:47:10,786 --> 00:47:11,995 <i>What do you wanna know?</i> 841 00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:14,164 <i> </i>I've never seen you so fuckin' great onstage. 842 00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:16,542 I've never seen you so loose. How come? 843 00:47:17,543 --> 00:47:20,712 <i>Jesus Christ, you really got me</i> <i>early in the morning, I can't even think.</i> 844 00:47:20,796 --> 00:47:22,464 <i>-</i> - <i>Uh...</i> 845 00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:25,634 <i>Well, it's just the element</i> <i>I work best in, you know?</i> 846 00:47:25,884 --> 00:47:27,344 <i>You seen those Italian...</i> 847 00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:29,555 <i>those Italian troupes</i> <i>that go around in Italy,</i> 848 00:47:29,638 --> 00:47:31,557 <i>-those Italian street theaters...</i> - Yeah. 849 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,142 <i>The wagon, the wagon troupes,</i> <i>Commedia dell'arte?</i> 850 00:47:34,226 --> 00:47:35,269 <i> </i>Yeah, right. 851 00:47:35,352 --> 00:47:37,813 <i> This is kind of an extension</i> <i>of that, only musically.</i> 852 00:47:37,896 --> 00:47:39,857 - Music Commedia dell'arte? - <i>Yeah.</i> 853 00:47:39,940 --> 00:47:40,816 Come on, Red! 854 00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:42,067 Riva! 855 00:47:42,150 --> 00:47:43,610 - Jane! - Jane! 856 00:47:44,194 --> 00:47:45,487 Get it, Merty! 857 00:47:45,737 --> 00:47:48,115 If somebody told you Bob Dylan was coming to Providence, 858 00:47:48,198 --> 00:47:51,034 you probably wouldn't believe them, but he is, along with Joan Baez, 859 00:47:51,118 --> 00:47:53,203 Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Bob Neuwirth, 860 00:47:53,745 --> 00:47:58,083 and it's called the Rolling Thunder Revue at the Providence Civic Center, Tuesday... 861 00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:00,002 You'd book the venues, 862 00:48:00,085 --> 00:48:02,421 make deals with each of the local promoters, 863 00:48:02,713 --> 00:48:04,464 and then you'd show up. 864 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:07,092 And, you know, you'd have a deal for the gate. 865 00:48:07,175 --> 00:48:08,427 And, you know, 866 00:48:08,510 --> 00:48:10,512 hopefully everything would go out, would go well, 867 00:48:10,596 --> 00:48:12,014 and everybody'd make a little money. 868 00:48:12,097 --> 00:48:14,308 Hey, man, it wasn't your door and you weren't invited. 869 00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:17,102 -Hey, don't yell at me, all right? -Oh, I am yelling at ya. 870 00:48:17,185 --> 00:48:18,979 - Okay. -Go get your cop, 871 00:48:19,062 --> 00:48:20,647 -so you can get some fuckin' help. -Okay. 872 00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:23,483 The overall promoter was a longtime friend of Bob's 873 00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:24,484 and a fishmonger. 874 00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:26,486 I mean, he never had managed a tour before, 875 00:48:26,570 --> 00:48:27,821 let alone one of this size. 876 00:48:28,363 --> 00:48:30,324 It's bad for your, uh, high blood pressure. 877 00:48:30,407 --> 00:48:32,492 -Yeah, okay. -Bad for your high blood pressure. 878 00:48:32,576 --> 00:48:34,703 -Read him some poetry, Allen. -Anything you wanna say... 879 00:48:34,786 --> 00:48:36,830 So he was out of his element and underprepared, 880 00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:38,332 and he wasn't very well-liked on the tour. 881 00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:42,127 Then tell him the ushers left. Tell him-- Tell him we're framing<i> </i>it. 882 00:48:42,419 --> 00:48:43,921 - Hi, Barry. -Nice. 883 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:48,300 This guy, Barry Imhoff, was his second-in-command, 884 00:48:48,383 --> 00:48:50,093 and he'd worked for Bill Graham for years, 885 00:48:50,177 --> 00:48:52,095 but just prior to Rolling Thunder 886 00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:5