and, you know, to this day, bob dylan remains this inigmatic figure of rock and roll. f the history is looked at. >> absolutely and very much hidden in plain sight. dylan tours every year, does between 120 and 125 dates, he's out there all the time. but still, what's motivating him, driving him, what he's thinking about, what he's going to do, even now as he's well into his 70s, there's a sense in which none of those questions can be definitively answered. back to the basement tapes, that was really one of the most mysterious. the songs are very mysterious, there's a genial surrealism about them. they have a fun, mysterious aspect that's very difficult to pin down, but that's one of their joys. it's the kind of thing that dylan fans revel in is interpreting all these songs. >> brown: anthony decurtis on bob dylan's basement tapes. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: on this election eve we end our broadcast with an unusual profile. political editor lisa desjardins introduces us to a first-time candidate and frontrunner. who is only 18-years-old. >> reporter: in the

i played it for geffen and bob dylan and bob's buddy louie kemt.ody was diffusive then i played court and spark. i was so proud of it. bob dylan pretended to fall asleep when the first note faded out, geffen nodded and louie's friend came and said, why are they doing this to you. i don't know i said. i think i'm jackie robinson. so with that collection of people around you, the work wasn't being given the respect in that moment perhaps that it should have been given. >> well, john lennon's perspective, the working class perspective. it's too softis sophisticated. that's a class problem is what i thought. i had a kind of hard way to go. there weren't that many women in the business. i think it's funny. i'm not wining. even trying to leave people because i had very distinctive ideas about how the bottom end should be. i would lay my part down and had a really good time and put the base and drums afterwards. i couldn't get anybody who could play it. russ who was part of the section who played, couldn't play it. i was throwing in long figures that if y

it's wild. >> wild and a wonder to hear. 47 years after bob dylan first put words to paper. ful. >> dylan was the poet of music. >> i love watching musician create. it would be interesting to see what bob dylan thinks about it. >> t bone burnett is fantastic. >>> it's called "the lost songs." "the basement tapes" airs tonight night on showtime. >>> robocops. why you could see one of these at your local mall in the parking lot in the future. you're watching "cbs this morning." k you for make us stronger. when a girl connects with a science mentor... her confidence grows. when schools connect with technology... a 5th grader's world opens up. and when a worker connects to online degrees... his opportunities multiply. the at&t aspire initiative. helping students and communities across america. >>> where else but from silicon valley does the new security guard look like it's straight out of "star wars." it's 5 feet tall, weighs about 300 pounds but it will not chase down bad guys. it's designed to record images and report it back. >> i think it's good to know you're being photogra

is used, it is plain ♪ ♪ for the politician's gain as he rises to fame ♪ >> up until the time of bob dylanhere were the singers. dylan started writing his own music. >> he says, i am going to comment on the world, i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob dylan was sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> royal canyon becomes the epicenter of the rock revolution. >> the music scene was not happening in new york anymore. it was now l.a. everybody moved to laurel canyon. >> actors, musicians, artists, and so it was a kind of whole community, very open. if you were driving over laurel canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, you'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain wi

it's just wild. >> reporter: wild and 47 years after bob dylan first put words to paper.ate. i would be curious about what he thinks about it. it would be interesting. >> the documentary on the making of the album airs tomorrow night on showtime. a division of cbs. >>> up next, move over robocop. why you could see one of these in the parking lot of your local malls in the future. you're watching "cbs this morning." ching "cbs this morning."s this ,,,,,,,, over a million californians have a gotten something that's beend. out of reach for far too long. health insurance. how? they enrolled through covered california. it's the health insurance marketplace where you'll find a range of plans from leading health insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates and benefits. you can compare plans side by side, choose the one that best fits your needs and enroll online. coveredca.com is also the place to find certified experts in your area who can answer your questions for free, and help you enroll. and, through covered california, you may get financial he

place i'm going to ♪ >> in 1964, during that first tour, the beatles had the opportunity to meet bob dylanose big, seismic changes in the pop music era in the '60s. >> he was bold enough to leave his comfort zone. ♪ i ain't going to work on maggie's farm no more ♪ >> it's not just about dylan going electric, but it's also about the fusion of an emerging tradition in popular music that was really plit political, which rock 'n' roll, which had largely not been overtly political.olitk 'n' roll, which had largely not been overtly political. >> thank you very much. >> there's nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personally. >> you know, who needs him anymore? he's part of your establishment and forget him. >> they're all my friends. >> they felt betrayed, like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie, you know, you sold out. ♪ how does it feel, how does it feel to be on your own ♪ ♪ with no direction home >> not only did he take it, but he managed to just choke hold them all and make them see his vision. ♪ like a rolling stone ♪ >> o

if you're a fan of bob dylan you don't want to miss this.w basement tapes playing tonight. [ cheers and applause ] talented. talented musicians. sound great. i'm so happy and honored that they chose our show. thank you guys for being here. guys last month we did a funny bit on our show. we had two of our writers, john and arthur, who are both single. they gave us their real e-mail addresses and said if anyone wanted to be their girlfriends, they could e-mail them. and it wasn't a joke. they are actual writers who are actually single and the e-mail addresses were real. well, the next day they each got over 300 e-mails from people across the country. and long story short, they ended up going on a blind double date with two of the girls who responded and we taped the whole thing. [ cheers and applause ] here's how it all went down. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> hi, everybody, i'm roger lodge and this is "tonight show" blind date. meet john and arthur, two single comedians who went on national tv last month and gave out their e-mail addresses in

today -- i don't know if -- i will just beat misdemeanorful there's a great documently resident bob dylan called "don't look back." my best friend, justin in college, was studying film and bob gets into an argument with a guy who did or did not throw glass in the street. the climax of the conversation is this exchange. this is bob dylan. know a thousand cats who look just like you and talk like you. the guy at the party says, beep off. you're a big notice. dylan: i know, i know i'm a big notice. i'm a birth noise than you the guy at the party says, i'm small noise. and dylan says, right, and everybody feels gross. and then someone breaks up the party so they can talk poetry. it's that kind of night. conquerors, tycoons, martyrs, their lives how we tell our larger stories. from pharaoh in bc34100, the first living man whose name we know, or nelson mandela, how people order the world. namar was the first on an ancient list of kings. the 1960s, power to the people and son is the perfect example. the era of lennon, dylan, and hendrix. a small noise, the crackle and his of the rest of us is ma

. >> abe bob dylan guitar that he , if you want to pay a couple months mortgage, we will let it go. other than that, things are pretty reasonably priced. >> rosa parks and cat stevens stayed here. >> they took the whole house for a week. >> it is a refuge and a place to grow. the philosophy here is find your passion and express yourself. the mansion has treasures that hot it recession proof, re estate, clear concept, and shy reputation. >> we never change our focus even if we are going through rough times. we open our doors always. if we ever change our philosophy, it is time to close. >> ted jones performed with elvis in 1954. becauseget emotional they can see something they relate to. this reminds me of my late wife, of when my son was born, of when i got married. >> this is the first colored s card, uncut, right off the press. >> especially because these things camame out before the internet. and when yoyou walk through here it is all about privacy. >> that is beyond cool and it is right here in washingt. when we come back, we will talk about what the fallout of tuesday's midterm

. >>> and bob dylan's new basement tape, lost lyrics brought to life 50 years later. >>> that's the " thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> about five or six rifle shots go off, wrapped fire. >> breaking news this morning gunfire erupts on the campus of florida state university. the gun man is dead and at least three people are hurt. we will have the latest on the victim's conditions this morning. it is thursday, november 20th i'm ukee washington. >>> i'm quarter von tiehl. workers at philadelphia international airport we're told will walk off the job this morning. find out why and how it will affect travelers today, in a live report. >>> new this morning a philadelphia police officer is in the hospital after a three car crash, we will tell you where it happened and how the the officer is doing, this morning. those stories and much more coming up. let's start with our forecast. not as bad as yesterday.

. >>> and bob dylan's new basement tape, lost lyrics brought to life 50 years later. >>> that's the "or this thursday, thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, it's thursday, november 20. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. we're all going to wake up together today, aren't we, kids? >> why not. >> we are just getting rolling. we have cold showers coming our way again. it looks like storm number 2 is on the way. you can see it just off the coastline. and we are getting ready for a weekend storm, too, more on that coming up. >> they just keep on coming. here's a live look at fog this morning. we have a dense fog advisory for the bay bridge. it's the only one out there now. but i hit a lot of fog coming into work this morning. >> so did i. >> it may slow you down. >> a little misty, yeah. and there's roadwork still out there as well approaching the fremont street exit so we'll have more coming up. >> thank you. >>> some brea

basement tapes from the at&t stage. [ cheers and applause ] they found a bunch of lyrics written by bob dylanow night, another supergroup of a very different variety. one direction will join us. from "how to get away with murder," tom verica will be here. and we'll have music from jessie j featuring 2 chainz. our first guest is an oscar and golden globe-winning actor, a platinum-selling recording artist and three-time nobel peace prize runner-up. you can see him next in "horrible bosses 2," it opens in theaters one week from today, please welcome jamie foxx. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for coming. i know you're not feeling well. >> man. >> jimmy: that's why i got the elbow bump. have considerate. >> unless you trying to lose some weight, i don't want to give you this. i lost half of me in like four days. >> jimmy: you've had it for four days? >> if y'all trying to cut down for thanksgiving, let me kiss you. >> jimmy: do you have any idea who gave you this? >> well, i was partying, and i thought it was some extracurricular things i had done. and then i was in another party, i

you know, cafe baba, meet bob dylan, and the parties was going on. i miss these kind of parties.d they make the whole town move. blue and white party, white and gold party, hat party, you know, it's amazing. you see people coming in with amazing hats, like a cage with a bird, extravagant hats, you know. they put so much energy and time into the parties, you know? look at -- >> now, that looks good. >> tomatoes brushed with local olive oil, garlic and coriander. liver kabobs, beef liver to be exact, grilled over charcoal. that looks very nice. for fish, a bit of swordfish and a little roughy. >> that is just beautiful. >> how do you like the tomato? >> the swordfish is amazing. so how else have things changed? >> you saw how many tourists there was today? >> they were in a hurry. >> if they come to the shop, even try to avoid your eye contact. they afraid if you get my eye contact, i'm going to rip you off or -- >> or make you buy something? that they don't want. >> i don't know. i don't know. >> do they buy? >> they don't even say hello. >> they don't buy? >> of course, we call t

i missed out on those who came before, and i also didn't get to see bob dylan play here or elvis .ill stop -- elvis an all-black starting five beat all-white kentucky in the final four. some called it the most important college basketball game ever played. schoolse days, since the built in new center, kohl arena is quieter, place to jog or play pickup soccer. >> it's really nice. >> the university has decided to transform the old basketball barn into a new state-of-the-art , $155 million indoor practice facility for the football team. it's a decision greeted with mixed opinions. >> it's a historic place for this campus, but campus needs change. >> they can drop $150 million increasingnd not on wages for workers. exit actually up to the board of regents who meets thursday to consider the plan and its public-private funding. 25 million from the state, 25 million from the school, and a $25 million pledge from under armour. >> interesting. >> it has been one year since an attack that almost claimed a zookeeper's life will stop i had, how he is marking the anniversary and what he plans to

he become sort of really tuned in to the literature of the beats like ginsburg and kerouac and bob dylan. they are together in greenwich village. there talking a lot. 1950's, dylan is reading road," andeshe convert into his albums later in the 1960's, but these ideas are in part being drawn from these writers in the 50's. just as hefner is drawn from kinsey, dylan is drawing from kerouac and ginsburg. these ideas were not yet at the inel of the counterculture the 1960's, but we are questioning the set of traditional values of the cold war. well, despite the popularity and andcontroversy of kinsey despite the popularity of the if you counted up all of the newsprint that was to a single subject in probably would add up to christine jorgensen being the most talked about person in america. if you want a story and an individualhow an advocating nontraditional ways or nontraditional gender roles is making an impact on american , even if youociety are kinsey, it is pretty hard to top christine jorgensen. jorgensen, like hefner , was a veteran of world war ii. part of the greatest generation. jo

. >> but as the '60s turned to protest singers like bob dylan and the british innovation takes the reignsywood's embrace. >> hollywood came calling and he got sort of bid by the film bug, which distracted him away from making great music and he almost became a joke in the '60s because people weren't really catching on to the films he was doing. >> hal wallace produces nine elvis films, describes the king as the only sure thing in hollywood. elvis stars in a series of so so films alongside an established actor like walter ma thaw, barbara eden. still engaged in priscilla, elvis is linked to some of the most desirable leading ladies. nancy sinatra, s iribyl sheppar. >> an margaret, she was the hottest thing in hollywood. >> he was slow dancing or kissing her on the neck. we wasn't looking at him too much, but we were looking at her. he sees us and he comes around and starts kicking us and hitting us. i told you guys to get out of here. ♪ and i love you so >> elvis is making a million a movie, but the assembly line musicals do elvis little good. biographers later claim the colonel pushed elv

from the at&t stage. [ cheers and applause ] they found a bunch of lyrics that were handwritten by bob dylannight, another supergroup of a very different variety will be here. one direction will join us. from "how to get away with murder," tom verica will be here. and we'll have music from jessie j featuring 2 chainz. our first guest tonight is an oscar and golden globe-winning actor and platinum-selling recording artist and three-time nobel peace prize runner up. you can see him next in "horrible bosses 2," it opens in theaters one week from today. please welcome jamie foxx. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you for coming. i know you're not feeling well, that's why i assume i got the elbow bump. >> i don't want to give you that. >> jimmy: i appreciate that. a lot of people just kind of pretend and try to make me sick and i dive for the purell under my desk. >> unless you're trying to lose some weight, i don't want to give you this. >> jimmy: has it been mad? >> bro, i lost half of me in four days. >> jimmy: you had it for four days? >> y'all trying to cut down before thanksgiving, le

become sort of really tuned in to the literature of the beats like ginsburg and kerouac, of course is bob dylan. there he is with ginsburg, and they are buddies. they are together in greenwich village. there talking a lot. in the 1950's, dylan is reading "howl," "on the road," and he by this influenced stuff. and he will convert into his albums later in the 1960's, but these ideas are in part being drawn from these writers in the 1950's. just as hefner is drawing from kinsey, dylan is drawing from kerouac and ginsburg. i mean, these ideas are spreading. we're not yet at the level of the counterculture in the 1960's, but we are questioning -- at the level of significant dissent from a set of traditional values of the cold war. well, despite the popularity and the controversy of kinsey and despite the popularity of the beats, etc., if you counted up all of the newsprint that was devoted to a single subject in 1952, 1953, it probably would add up to christine jorgensen being the most-talked about person in america. if you want a story and an example of how an individual advocating nontraditional w

. >>> bob dylan's lost lyrics get new life we will sit down with the produce shore has gathered an all-stard to make the the new takes public. that and more of the news is back in the morning, see new about ten minutes. >> like to hear them. >> thanks, charlie appreciate it. >>> there are lots of differentnt barbies out there, blonde, brew met, but barbie has different jobs over the years but you one thing they all have have in common a perfect figure until right now. coming up we will show you the the new normal barbie, which looks more like the average women. >>> but first here's is what coming up tonight on the cbs-3. >>> spread the word, coming up tomorrow morning katie and quarter will take their soccer skills, and kicking it up a notch. >> it is full contact soccer. it is really like a mix of football, rugby and soccer all in one. it is just fun. >> oh, yeah. this would be fun. it is called bubble soccer, see how it is scoring with fans in our area, and yes, more of this, coming up tomorrow on cbs-3. >> did you take each other down. >> eventually we were rolling around on the ground w

. >> reporter: the letter influenced kerouac and kerouac influenced everyone from bob dylan and the beatleschanged the world. that's why he believes the letter will probably sell for millions. >> it's really that important. because again, there is the letter that taught jack kerouac how to write. >> reporter: and taught a young generation a new way to live. in san francisco, john ramos, kpix 5. >> that letter along with other unpublished manuscripts will be up for auction on december 16, an important date because it is the same day that the letter was written 64 years ago. >> wow. >>> i'm sure you noticed it when you gas up your car prices at the pump are actually pretty low these days. but tonight we'll show you why some bay area drivers said that they are being ripped off. that story on bay area nightbeat at 10:00 on our sister station, kbcw, 44/cable 12 >> well, we have been talking about this for a while. >> yes. >> the stage is set and now it looks like it's arriving. >> nice to talk about it's happening as opposed to it will happen. hey, it's coming, it's coming. it's here! we have th

from a guitar-playing democrat channelling bob dylan in south dakota. ♪ you know i've been to every town to a hog-riding mom in iowa who knows how to man handle a hog. >> i am joni ernst, i castrated hogs on a farm growing up. so i won't worry about pork. >> and at age 30, hoping to become the youngest woman ever elected to congress. and there's mia love in utah. who would be the first black woman republican elected to the house. in north carolina, clay aiken has struggled to parlay his success on american idol into a seat in the house of representatives. a familiar name can be helpful in politics. >> i voted for your grandfather. >> reporter: this year dynasties abound. george p. bush, son of jeb, nephew of 43, grandson of 41, makes his debut, running for texas land commissioner. and in georgia, two democrats, jason carter, grandson of jimmy, running for governor and michelle nunn, daughter of sam, running for u.s. senate. in massachusetts, an october surprise. the boston globe revealed that seth moulton failed to mention he won the bronze star for valor in iraq. hadn't told his parents

. >> as '60s turn to protest singers like bob dylan and the reigns of rock and roll, elvis surrendersood's embrace. >> he got bit by the film bug which distracted him from making great music. and he almost became a joke in the '60s because people just weren't really catching on to the films he was doing. >> legendary filmmaker hall wall is describing the king as the only sure thing in hollywood. ♪ please take another chance -- >> elvis stars in a series of so-so films along established actors like walter -- angela lansbury. though engaged to priscilla, linked to some of tinsel town's most desirable leading ladies. and showered special attention on a female elvis, actress ann margaret. >> she's the hottest thing in hollywood, elvis. >> george klein recalled spying on the hottest couple. >> he was slow dancing and kissing her on the neck. we weren't looking at him too much. we were looking at her. so he sees us and he comes around and starts kicking us and hitting us. i told you guys to get out of here. get out of here. ♪ and i love you so >> elvis is making a million a movie, but the a

and this, bob dylan's lost songs get a new life. the new basement tapes to be made public.s is back in the morning. see you at 7:00. >> sounds like a great show, all right, charlie. thank you. >>> some new jobless claims are down a bit and consumer prices are staying flat. here's kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks. >> reporter: decent news on the state of the job market. the labor department reporting that first time unemployment claims slipped by 2,000 down to 291,000. a slight increase in the four- week average to a little more than 287,000, also continuing claims down by 73,000 to 2.33 million. lowest level it's been since 2000. continuing to get decent job growth in 2014. now, as far as consumer side inflation goes, it stayed flat in october. the labor department's consumer price index was unchanged from the month before. and as far as the core rate goes, you strip out food and energy, that was up just two- tenths of a percent. gas prices down about 2% last month. food prices up a tenth of a percent although a lot of that came from breakfast cereals. prices ro

sagal was one of midler's famous us singers and it that james, tanya tucker and bob dylan for awhile.ehearsed for him almost two months. i'm sure i was doing a terrible job. >> he would take me out to dinner. he liked me. >> others liked her, too. she stood out on stage. and caught talent agent's eye. >> that nasty bitter man who writes the cool i'm. >> yes, i am. >> before sagal knew it she was cast opposite mary tyler moore in "mary." >> cigarette? >> no, i don't smoke. >> you might as well you're going to die sitting across from me. >> even then she considered acting more of a side job. on weekends, she and her band were busy playing gigs along hollywood's sunset boulevard. >> it was the life she wants, but a lifestyle that took its toll. >> definitely promoted some bad behavior. and being sort of the personality type i am that bad behavior led to more bad behavior. >> drugs and alcohol make constant companions. soon, her music was fading. >> i think i crashed it down. i think i burned it down a little bit. my potential at that time of my life. >> how bad did it get? >> it got pret

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>> "rolling stone" said bob dylan played a concert with just one lucky fan in the audience.ce was for a movie about people experiencing things that are usually meant for crowds. it will be released in mid-december. >>> the boston globe said fans are buying custom nikes designed by a member of the patriots. on monday, they had handed out shoes to the first buyers. patriots lunar force ones. >> i hope they had make kids' sizes. >>> and the new york post is looking at how odell beckham jr. pulled down the greatest catch of all time. his hands are two inches larger than the average human. >> he brought in theatch with a single outstretched hand. at one point he only had three fingers on that ball. >> that's hard to do. >> that's awesome. >> the interesting thing about this is practice practice practice makes perfect. this guy has practiced one-handed catches and had the right kind of hand to do it. >> and it paid off big time. >>> aaa said thanksgiving will be the busiest in years. more than 3.5 million will fly, even with a dramatic gas in gas and oil prices airfare is up 1%. a

like pennjillette who says this is to comedy like bob dylan is to folk music. wow. 20 tweets, i thought, i did it! people watched it! i'm so excited. and then it just grew and grew. and i'm flabbergasted. and now i'm here on the show with you. it's crazy. >> what could be better, really? >> talk to me about the creative process here. first you're like, oh, i g et it. that looks like roseanne. small wonder, whatever. then all the sudden an axe murder comes in and it goes crazy from there. how did you come up with a turn from the happy 8 o 0s sitcom classics into the bizarre and surreal? >> i think originally i wanted it to be like the beginning where it was just happy sitcom show intro for the the entire 11 minutes, just to drive everyone crazy, as a joke. but my boss said, i don't think you should do that. i think that's good for about four minutes. then you need to start surprising people again. so my editor and i talked. i started just layering in more and more ideas of where this could go and surprise and start shifting generas and take a dark turn and then try t

. >> i have never asked or heard you talk much about how you saw yourself and dylan. >> bob is a herone because his songs are so great. >> he says the same thing about you. >> that is amazing that he does. whenever he says that, i am always flabbergasted to think that -- i know that i have done some things. i really respect what he has done and the way he is true to his muse. he has not tried to be anything other than him. he has not been bending to do things. quite often, he has done things that have made people wonder what is going on. reinventing his own songs in ways that are totally unrecognizable and then abandoning playing guitar and starting to play piano. doing a lot of things. one of the great things about bob is his choice of musicians. he chooses some really great musicians and they are subtle. they are not like -- his bands are really great for his music. he is a truly great guitar player which people don't really recognize. he is so overshadowed. his songs are so overshadowed like everything in my view. people don't realize what a great singer he is, what a great guitar

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