Dylan/Newport Folk Festival
I've been thinking about Dylan's appearance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Alll I have to go by is what I've read about the incident, about how he almost got booed off the stage, etc.My question...
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Just my 2 cents that we need people like Dylan in any type of music who can ~ create a sense of wholeness within a genre, like he did with some of his beautiful, half-stolen early ballads - A Hard...
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I've never worked or lived with him so I just don't know him personally. But, there's stuff that comes out in his music that speaks volumes about his attitude. What he did at Newport was typical of...
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I've got a tape of the show. Its excellent!I think that if your are a musician and want to cause and uproar, do it Dylan style - give them something new and unexpected musically. As opposed to trash...
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As a side note, check out the list of musicians who played at '65 Newport. Even though I'm a big Dylan fan, I would probably set my time machine for 23-Jul-1965 instead of 25-Jul-1965.Support...
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Hi Folks,Did anyone complain about Lightin' Hopkins using an electric guitar? Or the Chambers Brothers? I think not. While many people got upset at the time (myself included), what Dylan actually did...
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Therer are, of course, many sides to every story.If you read Al Kooper's book (and others), they claim that the booing was NOT for the fact that they were electric, but for the fact that they played...
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Well be that as it may, he was booed every place he played with the Hawks. The classic take of this is on that "bootleg" recently released that has a complete show from Manchester, UK. Right before...
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Quote:Right before they start Like a Rolling Stone you hear someone clearly shout out "Judas!" And if you listen carefully, you'll hear Dylan say to the band, "Play f&%#in' loud!"
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The whole electric thing was probably a bit of an accident, but one where he no doubt would have eventually gone.The story, here in Toronto at least, was that Dylan was in town and popped into a Yonge...
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One history of The Band says that Dylan first checked them out in New Jersey, but who knows? Given the chemical substance that were in play in 1965, Atlantic City and Toronto probably looked alike....
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Others have already mentioned this, but there were blues performers like Muddy waters who used electric guitars and nobody complained. No one expected Dylan to use electric guitars so they just...
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Outfidel, I stand corrected. If Rob Bowman, a local professor here, says this I would be inclined to believe him. This guy is absolutely anal (and I mean this in a good way!) about his knowledge of...
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If we are still talking about it 40 years later then yea, it was appropriate. Otherwise, it would have been just another Dylan performance. Noone is talking about the show he played the night before.
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I recommend reading Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu.
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Outfidel: better keep your time machine on the 25th - Rev Gary Davis!!!Todd Stuard Philips: Regarding your comment on "Right before they start Like a Rolling Stone you hear someone clearly shout out...
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I believe, also, there was a problem with the PA system at Newport, and many in the crowd had a hard time hearing the music.I imagine the PA wasn't set up for rock and roll.George
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The reaction was always a mystery. For at least the two years previous, I remember attending afternoon workshops where Muddy and the Staples Singers used electrics, and no one seemed to care. By '65...
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Im a cave-man.Electric was the beginning of the end for the golden age of the Folk music revival.Like later when hard-rock style electric (much more than strings ever had) screwed-up Country...
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Dylan had outgrown that phase of his life and decided to move onto a new one in style. It's what rock and roll is all about. Most artists couldn't get away with that but most artists are not Bob...
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I have always found that Dylan played electric as if it was an acoustic guitar. However, he made it work.
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