On this date in 1965 Bob Dylan performed at the Newport Folk Festival. It was the third consecutive year Dylan had performed at Newport, where he had been well received by the audience. In 1965, however, Dylan included a selection of full-band, amplified songs in the middle of his set, including “Maggie’s Farm” and “Like a Rolling Stone.” Joe Boyd, who was production manager at Newport, estimated that one-third to half of the audience booed Dylan's electric set. "They certainly booed, I’ll tell you that," Dylan himself recalled at a press conference later that year. "You could hear it all over the place.” Despite the audience reaction, the 1965 Newport performance marked an important transition in Dylan's career as he charted his own path as an artist.
It’s Friday so it’s an easy one. Electric ‘things’, electric sounds (I mean, what doesn’t work here?), you get the idea.
