Tangled Up In Blue

Pulcinella is the whole complete contradiction of humanity. Could be from Commedia dell'arte or maybe Bob Dylan was not feeling good about the divorce. Anyway the white face? Who knows. Montague Street is still in Cambridge. I'm still tangled up. The song is great and seems to stick inside my head. This is one of the few times the camera stays with the singer to get the whole song and we see what he is saying and how he is saying or singing the words. All in all, a great treat. No matter what Gregory Corso said-Bob Dylan is a great and lasting poet.

I agree that it is not much of a video. The reason Dylan looks ill is because he wore whiteface makeup during the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue.

This is actually from Renaldo and Clara, a surrealist film that Bob made on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. It is very hard to find as it was over four hours long and a critical failure. However, it is a great piece for Dylan enthusiasts like myself. This is a beautiful song: multidimensional, poetic, and quite possibly autobiographical. The parallels to his life with then-wife Sara are uncanny. Bob's performance in whiteface only increases the surrealism of the tour and the film, always the song and dance man, to borrow a line from Michael Gray. The song is off the album Blood on the Tracks, released in 1975, right before Desire, which was released in 1976. The tour was sandwiched between the two albums. If you enjoy seeing the performers upclose and personal (like being in the first row) this is for you. Dylan is very good, unusually clear as he has been known to mumble, and very passionate in his delivery. His harp playing is excellent as well. Really captures a rare moment in Dylan's career- a renaissance where he produced some of his finest, most emotional and deeply personal pieces. A+

This is a very strange video, its not that much of a video, just a close up of Dylan. It may be just me, but does anyone else think that Bob looks like deathly sick?

This video was shot during the 1975 "Rolling Thunder Review" Tour right after the release of the album 'Desire' the same year & of course the year before that saw 'Blood on the Tracks' released with 'Tangled Up In Blue' as it's opener… one of Dylans top creative periods of all time. This is a great solo performance of the song. I got the free DVD of it when buying the Live 1975 Bootleg Series CD's. Think I might buy this iTunes version just to have it on my iPod.

The Last Waltz. How can anyone not appreciate this film. Dylan just makes it that much better. Tangled Up In Blue is definitive Dylan for the time. By having him guest with The Band, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Ronnie Hawkins and the rest of the era showcases his talent as the true master of storytelling songs.