New Dylan video

[Kanada Kev]

This is a cool video that was included on the bonus DVD that came with Modern Times. I had it cranked on the home theatre one night and just got mesmerized by it and it's simplicity. Look for the subtleties in their facial expressions and stuff. Really fun.

http://www.slate.com/id/2155056/

"Thunder on the Mountain"Watch Bob Dylan's new video and win a signed guitar.

By Jody Rosen

Posted Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at 10:00 AM ET

Click here to launch video"Thunder on the Mountain," the chugging boogie-blues song that kicks off Bob Dylan's great album Modern Times, begins with images of apocalypse and moves swiftly to the singer's lust for Alicia Keys. This is followed by more End Times imagery ("All the ladies in Washington scrambling to get out of town/ Looks like something bad is going to happen, better roll your airplane down"), some leering double-entendres ("I've got the pork chops, she's got the pie"), tenderness ("I've been sitting down studying the art of love/ I think it will fit me like a glove"), bile ("I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams"), and deliciously strange bursts of poetry: "Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches/ I'll recruit my army from the orphanages/ I been to St. Herman's church, said my religious vows/ I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows." All in all, "Thunder on the Mountain" is a tour de force, a perfect example of why Dylan is currently in one of the most fertile periods of his career.

The video for "Thunder on the Mountain," which Slate is proud to premiere, is a whirlwind tour of the many phases, and faces, of Bob—from fierce '60s folk-rock tyro to white-makeup-caked troubadour to craggy old bard with a gleam in his eye and a Vincent Price mustache. The video draws on several decades of archival footage, some of it previously unseen. It's a panorama of 40-odd years of American musical history, and—for Dylan freaks—a trainspotter's dream.

Now, Slate is running a contest that will allow all you "Bobcats" to put your unhealthy Dylan fandom to good use. One winner will walk away with a grand prize that's sure to impress pals at your next "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" campfire singalong: Columbia Records has donated a guitar that's been autographed by Bob Dylan himself.

[Hux]

It's a new song, but that's all archival footage cut together (ie. no new video)