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Message: [QUOTE="Windsorlocks, post: 3497805, member: 5993"] I was at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965, I think it was July 25th(?), on the night Bob Dylan "went electric". "Like a Rolling Stone" had just been released. I loved the tune, did not understand the boos. It became a mythic event, called by some "the most important moment in the development of Rock music", and a new biop film on that night is due to be released this year. Forget who plays Dylan. At the time, I loved the acoustic, folk singer Dylan. The "myth" is that folk purists in the crowd were angry to hear electric. There were plenty of cheers as well. In recent years, I think that electric guitar brought 2 mil(?) at auction. Closer to the truth is that the boos were for a poor sound system. I just remember loving "Like a Rolling Stone", and wondering "why the boos??" [/QUOTE]