Those hoping the video for Bob Dylan’s “Thunder On The Mountain” would feature hot-and-heavy scenes between Zim and Alicia Keys are going to be sorely disappointed. Instead, the filmmakers took forty years worth of Dylan footage — from Don’t Look Back to Masked and Anonymous — and mashed them all together. Slate debuts the video today, with a contest to win a guitar signed by Dylan. To win you need to identify the years that twenty stills from the video were taken and, in the event of a tie, write a four line couplet to the tune of “Thunder On The Mountain.” A panel of unnamed “expert Dylanologists” will serve as the judges. Who are these people? AJ Weberman?
The coolest thing about the video is seeing all that long bootlegged footage in pristine quality. I think I speak for all Dylan fans when I say it’s far past time for a DVD Bootleg Series. My sixth generation VHS copies of Hard Rain and the 1993 Supper Club shows just aren’t doing it anymore. Since that’s never going to happen, check out this insane collection of 375 Dylan videos on YouTube. Dylan pretty much got snubbed in the Grammy nominations yesterday, so let’s relive these past Dylan Grammy moments from 1980 , 1984 , 1991 and 1998. The tremendous speech from 1991 is reason enough to bring him back out next year.

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