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Bob Dylan's Complete KQED-TV San Francisco's Channel 9 Press Conference Of Friday, December 3, 1965, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD (Black/White, December 3, 1965, 52 Minutes.)
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When Bob Dylan‘s five concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area were scheduled for December 1965, it was proposed he hold a press conference on Friday, December 3rd in the studios San Francisco's educational television station KQED-TV Channel 9 (now a PBS member station). Dylan accepted the proposal, and flew out a day early to make it. He arrived early, accompanied by Robbie Robertson and several other members of his band (which ultimately became known as "The Band"), drank tea in the KQED office, and insisted e was ready to talk about “anything you want to talk about.” His only request was that he be able to leave at 3 p.m. so that he could rehearse in the Berkeley Community Theater where he was to sing that night. On this same day, two seminal albums were released: The Who's "My Generation" in the UK, and The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" worldwide. At the press conference there were TV news crews of all the local stations, reporters for three metropolitan dailies (their stories were subsequently compared to the broadcast of the interview by a University of California journalism department class), representatives of several high school papers, and personal friends of Dylan including poet Allen Ginsberg, impresario Bill Graham and comedian Larry Hankin, all of whom are seen and heard during the press conference. The questions ranged from standard journalistic questions to teen fan club inquiries to "in-group" personal interrogatories and put ons, to questions by those who really had listened to Dylan’s songs. He sat on a raised platform facing the cameras and the reporters, and answered questions before a bank of four microphones, all while chain smoking cigarettes and swinging his leg back and forth. At one point he held up a poster for a Friday, December 10th benefit for The San Francisco Mime Troupe (the first rock dance at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, one of the first public dances to feature the Jefferson Airplane, and featuring The Great Society (whose singer Grace Slick soon joined The Jefferson Airplane). At the conclusion of the press conference, he chatted with friends for a bit, jumped into a car and went back to Berkeley for the rehearsal. He cut the rehearsal short so as to get to his hotel and watch KQED's broadcast of the press conference that night. It was rebroadcast the following week.