Helping Create Dylan’s Masterpiece In the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan was putting together studio players for his sixth studio recording for Columbia Records, Highway 61 Revisited. For lead guitar, Dylan picked Mike Bloomfield, whose talents Dylan greatly admired., Micajah Ryan, engineer: “Debbie Gold [long-standing Dylan friend, credited as producer on Good As I Been To You] had convinced Dylan to record with just acoustic guitar and vocals., Oscar-winning filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker recalls the making of legendary 60s Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back and follow up Eat The Document., Dylan and former Band bassist Rick Danko perform at the Lone Star Cafe in New York City, February 16, 1983, about two months before work on Infidels began. It was Dylan's only live performance of 1983., Bob Dylan is not an outsider artist—however much his visual art seems to share certain characteristics with that particularly loaded genre. Initially the work was created for purely personal use. When Dylan began welding in the Nineties, he created essentially functional architectural objects from metal scraps that had a certain decorative flair., And my goodness, those songs make demands of the audience. And then Dylan talks about the characters – which is incredibly interesting to anyone who has studied Bob’s characters in his tales. The ship’s crew is made up of men of different races, and any one of them who sights the whale will be given the reward of a gold coin..