Cowbell on Can You Please Crawl.. didn't prevent Hendrix from covering it. Thanks for posting this spectacular article and your alt. take track list of this great great album. -The circus is in town!
Right you are on who's doing the fret duties. My thinking is that he's doing both, saying farewell to the folk and protest movement that launched him , and scoring points on the egocentric personality that demands subservience from his lovers. But something else occurs to me as well, as it the kind of elite jerk he scolds here is also himself, a man of ambition, someone driven to succeed over all else, someone who can't stay in a committed relationship, someone so enamored of his heroes that he strives not just to be like them but to become greater than anything they ever were. Genius that he is, he was ruthless in pursuit of what he wanted to do, and followed his diverging muse wherever it took him regardless of personal relationships. This is Dylan, perhaps, doing his inventory ; his faults can be a source of lyric inspiration, no? Believe it or not, I bought the Vacel's version of Crawl Out Your Window . It was at my local record store, Monroe Music on Livernois in Detroit, and it was included in a plastic bag that had five other 45s in it, five flop releases for a dollar each. It was on Kama Sutra records.
Greg, Thanks for posting these alternate takes of Bob and band. Love alternate take (11) of "Rolling Stone" and am glad Bob did not follow the muse of the slower first take; although very interesting. ("The voice is gone, man. Wanna try it again?") Bob's drummer--who is it?--sure is busy on take 11 and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?". Great stuff.
I bought the 45 that mistakenly labeled as Positively 4th Street. I still have it somewhere. Once I was done grieving over the record company's error, came to love the song, surely one of his best of the period, especially the lyrics. " He just needs you to talk / Or to hand him his chalk/ Or pick it up after he throws it..." Though addressing a woman, one assumes, the song is actually a sharp and sure dissection of a narcissistic personality who demands admiration, praise, obedience from whomever he (or she) has in their command. And I have to say, the cowbell on the original did the trick, along with Bloomfield's wonderfully out of tune guitar.
Believe that is Robbie not Mike on geetar....as for meaning, I always took the "please crawl your window" as directed at entire mid-60s generation--though I was probably mistaken....BTW here is little known cover that actually came out before Bob's, and stiffed.... https://youtu.be/0FykqO9HkVY?si=u92IYipF2IehIFV6
I’ve gotta have more cowbell!
Just read the lyrics to Please Crawl Out Your Window - kinda incoherent & hostile.
Track #5 is the real eye opener for me. Too bad it isn’t complete.
that version of “Vision Of Johanna” with the Hawks from No Direction Home is amazing!
thank you
Cowbell on Can You Please Crawl.. didn't prevent Hendrix from covering it. Thanks for posting this spectacular article and your alt. take track list of this great great album. -The circus is in town!
I love Window - what a blast hearing it on a bootleg (the old-fashioned, illegal kind) that I bought in high school!
Right you are on who's doing the fret duties. My thinking is that he's doing both, saying farewell to the folk and protest movement that launched him , and scoring points on the egocentric personality that demands subservience from his lovers. But something else occurs to me as well, as it the kind of elite jerk he scolds here is also himself, a man of ambition, someone driven to succeed over all else, someone who can't stay in a committed relationship, someone so enamored of his heroes that he strives not just to be like them but to become greater than anything they ever were. Genius that he is, he was ruthless in pursuit of what he wanted to do, and followed his diverging muse wherever it took him regardless of personal relationships. This is Dylan, perhaps, doing his inventory ; his faults can be a source of lyric inspiration, no? Believe it or not, I bought the Vacel's version of Crawl Out Your Window . It was at my local record store, Monroe Music on Livernois in Detroit, and it was included in a plastic bag that had five other 45s in it, five flop releases for a dollar each. It was on Kama Sutra records.
Greg, Thanks for posting these alternate takes of Bob and band. Love alternate take (11) of "Rolling Stone" and am glad Bob did not follow the muse of the slower first take; although very interesting. ("The voice is gone, man. Wanna try it again?") Bob's drummer--who is it?--sure is busy on take 11 and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?". Great stuff.
A troubadour sleeping and running down Highway 61. Thanks, Greg.
I bought the 45 that mistakenly labeled as Positively 4th Street. I still have it somewhere. Once I was done grieving over the record company's error, came to love the song, surely one of his best of the period, especially the lyrics. " He just needs you to talk / Or to hand him his chalk/ Or pick it up after he throws it..." Though addressing a woman, one assumes, the song is actually a sharp and sure dissection of a narcissistic personality who demands admiration, praise, obedience from whomever he (or she) has in their command. And I have to say, the cowbell on the original did the trick, along with Bloomfield's wonderfully out of tune guitar.
Believe that is Robbie not Mike on geetar....as for meaning, I always took the "please crawl your window" as directed at entire mid-60s generation--though I was probably mistaken....BTW here is little known cover that actually came out before Bob's, and stiffed.... https://youtu.be/0FykqO9HkVY?si=u92IYipF2IehIFV6