RE: [Harp-L] Re: Dylan and the Butterfield Blues Band

["Robert Gaustad" <robertgaustad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a link to an interesting story about that first electric show at
Newport.  Man, talk about your pissed off folkies!

http://campus.queens.edu/depts/english/dylan_goes_electric_the_newport_.htm

Robert G. 

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> "Also, I never knew that when Dylan went electric, the 
> Butterfield Band was the backup guys."
> 
> That is true, but only for a handful of live performances 
> including the wild one at the Newport Folk Festival.  Dylan 
> hired The Hawks (who later became The Band) soon after 
> Newport for his tour through England and the U.S. at which 
> there were so many boos, and he used session players for his 
> electric albums except on Planet Waves, which was backed by The Band.
> 
> Jonathan Metts 
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