Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village NYC Tour

I'm here in Washington Square Park, the heart of Greenwich Village, a neighborhood famous for being home to countless extremely talented artists over the years. People like Jimi Hendrix Simon & Garfunkel and the Olsen twins know what past or present residents of Greenwich Village are just as famous. However, since Bob Dylan made his home here in the 1960s, today we will take a

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of Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village. Let's go back to 1961, when Robert Zimmerman first arrived in New York from Hibbing Minnesota and stayed at the Earle Hotel, which is today. at the Washington Square Hotel, he also stayed here in room 305 with Joan Baez, his girlfriend, for a very special night that Joan Baez actually commemorated in her song Diamonds and Rust.

If I had a nickel for every time a talented woman wrote a song about me, she would do it. I have $0 Eleanor Roosevelt lived here after FDR died, no big deal. I'm here on the corner of Mineta and Mcdougal, which is where Bob Dylan first played when he came to New York, he played a bunch of Woody Guthrie covers and finally got a gig here. playing harmonica for a dollar a day for Fred Neil, who ran the open mic here where people like Joan Rivers and Woody Allen came and played, you might know Fred Neil as the eventual writer of the song, everyone talks, you know that one song, it's like everyone is talking.

I can't hear a word he just sings again just the echoes of his it's pretty damn true talking to me I'm at 161 West 4th Street which is the site of the first apartment Bob Dylan got for himself and his girlfriend . Suze Rotolo You may recognize Suze Rotolo from this very famous photo. I'm here on Jones Street, which is where the photo of Bob Dylan's second studio album was taken. The album was Bob Dylan and it is the album that made him famous with hits like Blowin. in the wind, masters of war and there's going to be a heavy rain, this neighborhood is very expensive today and if you're wondering how a starving artist can afford to live here today, well the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind, oh boy, I'm here at 94 MacDougal Street, which is where Bob Dylan lived when he returned from his exile in Woodstock, New York, he was too famous to live here at the time, so People went through the trash that accumulated outside his house, so finally, after a couple of years, he moved to California in search of peace and quiet, but it was while living here that his son Jacob was born.

You may know Jacob as the eventual frontman of The Wallflowers, who had the 1996 hits and the angst man from Sixth Avenue that takes me back to high school I mean kindergarten takes me back to kindergarten hello I'm young I'm very young I'm here at the bitter end on Bleecker Street, which is famous for giving musicians like Neil Diamond Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell their start This is where Bob Dylan chose to start his Rolling Thunder revue

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of 1975, famous for delivering some of the most frenetic energetic performances of her career, the secret to the energy of those performances, cocaine, lots and lots of cocaine Bob Dylan represents the quintessential New Yorker in many ways came here from somewhere else committed to learning of the people around him he completely reinvented himself and dreamed big New York has never been a place where people come simply to exist, that's how it is.

It doesn't matter if you're trying to change music or just work as a lawyer, the pace of New York has a funny way of demanding ambition from its citizens, otherwise life here can be quite exhausting, so who will be the next Bob Dylan? I know it was like that. It's not Bob Dylan but it's a good song.