Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] dylan electric @ Newport '65

[billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

"The audience could have been booing because it was only a 15 minute set, too"

nah, the footage i've seen showed people holding their hands over their ears and upset the whole 15 minutes. they were obviously displeased from the get-go. maybe it was "bad" music to them (most likely scenario), or secondary theories could still be that it was too loud or distorted to enjoy.

Bill


> The reason that Dylan's encore was on acoustic guitar was that the electric band 
> had played everything that they had rehearsed during the 15 minute set. There 
> was simply no more electric music to be performed.
>  
> It was the fact that he was asked back to play an encore that lead me to believe 
> that the new electric music sound wasn't universally hated. 
>  
> The audience could have been booing because it was only a 15 minute set, too.
>  
> The Iceman
>  
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Ficara <kenficara@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> The stories about that night are legion, but the fact that his encore
> was *on acoustic guitar* doesn't imply any support for the electric
> sound from the audience.
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