My little band all wore polka dot shirts, playing at the high school dance. I worked at a neighborhood haberdashery and ordered the shirts, my boss thought I was young and hip. Me and my bandmates were the only sales. Great year for style,,,,
I just realized that it wasn't just the electrified music. It was the polka dots! They were a tacit message of not caring! He's supposed to be "the answer my friend is blowing in the wind", and the polka dots spoke mindless, shallow self indulgence--sans souci--Doris Day in the movies. That's why the folkies felt betrayed: "what next?"
That. YT video of Santana drumming legend Aka “Woodstock” Michael Shrieve sharing a story .. As a teen headed to the Legendary Filmore hoping to sit in and jam Michael Bloomfield was jamming with Steven Stills Guess who Michael Shrieve. asked to join in and who was instrumental in making it happen…
I think the reaction to "going electric" is over-estimated. At Newport, at least. That's Peter Yarrow there helping with the sound check. Clearly, he knew what they were going to do
People hated it because the guitars were too loud and no one could really make out anything that was going on. The reaction was never really about him going electric
@@guitarboi9 Yep. According to Al Kooper, who played organ at that show and on the original Like a Rolling Stone recording, everyone else played 45 minute sets but Bob’s group came together the evening before the show and only had 15 minutes of material. The crowd booed the short set time, Bob went out alone with a borrowed guitar and played an acoustic encore. Al Kooper’s book has lots of great stories about those days.
Joe Boyd, Newport Folk Festival's stage manager and future Fairport Convention (and for their first single Pink Floyd) producer, walking from left to right at 0.32.
@@dustbinfilms Dylan's mid-60s look with his wild 'fro was immortalized on a fold-out poster from his first greatest hits album. Hope I've helped. 😊 When you know, you know...
Anyone that thinks this is a stressful or hostile situation has never had to do the souncheck before a big gig. This is what happens, a lot of people screaming about a misplaced item that's right next to their foot, cables getting lost, people mucking around on their instruments being told to shut up so that sound levels can be tested, all that fun stuff. And you do all that only for it to fall apart when the actual gig starts and you have to plough through the first song not being able to hear yourself until the stage engineer fixes it. Kinda.
to me? its absurd they booed. i love early acoustic dylan , i get that. the thing i dont get is the album was already released , they knew they would hear rolling stone surely. it was a huge hit already . and the uk tour of 66 as well. who would pay to see something they hate?
Apparently, this performance did go over well with most of the crowd. Some were annoyed at the electrified music (not a first for the festival) and Dylan's nod to his recent pop success, but most of the annoyance seemed to be around the speakers having bad sound. I think it got conflated in some minds with the famous cry "Judas!", which came later that year. And like I said, there was much applause. Dylan even did an encore, right?
@@billslocum9819 ya all fair enough and yes he did an acoustic encore , i wasnt there so i can only go by others who were. Thank you all for your likes and comments
Ohohoh you know that a hard rain is gonna fall -yes it is and that's why I always carry my "K-Tel" pocket umbrella. When I scamper from one award ceremony to another banquet I like to stay dry and you should too!!!!!!
Is that what they were looking for? Actual tape? Like the sticky stuff? I thought the film crew needed more film or that they were recording it or something. Lol. I wonder how many times that lead to confusion. "Here's your tape." .. "You serious?"
@@PaulTheSkeptic It was always a saying in the band I was in that you can't get by without duct tape. You need it to tape cords to the floor so you don't trip, or to tape microphones to stands, or to fix broken drum hardware, etc. I assumed they were talking about duct tape.
The tune he is playing on the organ is the same one he is playing on the piano in don’t look back. I always wondered if it was an early version of a known song or just an unfinished one.
I read a recent article written by the guy who played organ (not Kooper, the guy who was let go from the Butterfield band) saying Bob was playing an organ version of This Land Is Your Land at the rehearsal for Newport so I assume it's that
@@JonnyFood1 It was reported that during Dylan's electric set at the 65 Newport Folk Festival that old Stalinist Pete Seeger was irate backstage. Apparently, Seeger was quite hysterical that Dylan would mire folk purity with electric instruments and he attempted to pull the plug on Dylan's amps. On this sound check Seeger is definitely not present.
@@snootybaronet Okay, I see. I just meant that the clip shows Yarrow shutting him down rather than Seeger. BTW back in the day I used to be Oscar Brand's pianist so we played some of those folk festivals Although I never played Newport.
@@snootybaronet Pete was actually concerned that it was the poor sound quality (couldn't really hear Bob's voice) and did not object to using electric (Pete once said he actually liked some of Dylan's electric songs) and because his father (who had hearing aids) was having issues. Apparently, there were other performers that had used electric guitars (usually blues players) at Newport before without issue.
That’s not what he said. “No noise now: we gotta make the mic check”. Has nothing to do with “folkies” and “rockers”. They’re on the same stage, ain’t they?
It's looks like he has quite a team working there. Not only the musicians, there is a man kind of directing the band, too, as if it was an orchestra. Who was paying all these people?
@@agustincampos8088 Well Peter Yarrow is (sunglasses + no shirt on) and very short we see another light haired guy trying to direct the drummer. I am not sure who he is ;) But thanks for asking.
@@agustincampos8088 Hahaha - how would I know. Was´nt there ;) But the clip is interesting and it seems a lot of folks trying "to control" the stage. Too many actually. I believe (and we know now) that it was´nt well recieved that Dylan played a electric set. It is said that Pete Seeger was about to axe the main cable :)
Yarrow actually was the liaison between the artists and the people who ran the festival He also had the unfortunate task of being the defacto sound guy. Don’t forget that Peter,Paul and Mary and Dylan shared the same manager, Albert Grossman.
@@johnholland723 Newport Folk Festival. They used to nurture the genre, support unknown or little artists. Now they bring in big name acts that have nothing to do with folk music. Its all about ticket sales. And....the subject matter isnt always about protesting.....but its funny how the ones that do protest never actually struggled in life.
Way to get a rock guitarist on side; “watch your levels”. Heard as; “I don’t like to hear you play loud because I don’t really want to hear you at all”. Predictable reaction.
He didn’t say watch your levels, he said to “get your levels in your head”, meaning the way we get your amps set up sounding good now in rehearsal, you have to remember and set them the same for the actual show. There is no point in doing a sound check rehearsal if everyone were to come out and set all their levels completely differently for the show.
The great Mike Bloomfield on guitar...soars on the live and record version of Tombstone Blues.
DUH!
Butterfield in the background too sitting down
My little band all wore polka dot shirts, playing at the high school dance. I worked at a neighborhood haberdashery and ordered the shirts, my boss thought I was young and hip. Me and my bandmates were the only sales. Great year for style,,,,
Cool. I wonder how the gig went?
Well, let's just say some folks weren't too pleased to see electricity on stage. As for Bob, the performance catapulted him to an iconic level!
I just realized that it wasn't just the electrified music. It was the polka dots! They were a tacit message of not caring! He's supposed to be "the answer my friend is blowing in the wind", and the polka dots spoke mindless, shallow self indulgence--sans souci--Doris Day in the movies. That's why the folkies felt betrayed: "what next?"
Why did you go electric Bob? BD's answer - Why did you go electric?
It went really well. A very receptive, open-minded crowd, no sound issues and no one threatened to cut anything with an axe.
@@BogoEN That sounds like how it should have gone! 😁
Bloomfield setting the energy levels
That. YT video of Santana drumming legend Aka “Woodstock” Michael Shrieve sharing a story ..
As a teen headed to the Legendary Filmore hoping to sit in and jam
Michael Bloomfield was jamming with Steven Stills
Guess who Michael Shrieve. asked to join in and who was instrumental in making it happen…
@@MrBluoct Tell us please?
Nonsense.
The great Jerome Arnold on bass, from Butterfield's band at that time.
Ah. My 66 blond telecaster long lost cousin. Mike- the smiling magic man. Ty. So great.
Thank you.
Love this clip. Bob seems so concerned. 🤘
But not as concerned as Peter Yarrow 😬
@@fivehead6675 yeah Peter Yarrow has that look of: I should have become a farmer.😁
He used to care...but, things have change 😉
Bloomfield having a great time!
He’s like , screw all this bullshit , let’s just play !
I miss Bloomfield! But legend has it they are still looking for tape.
Dylan playing with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band! Precious music history!
awesome!
History in the making...great clip...thanks
"Tell me how does it feeeeeel ... to be on your own ... just like a rolling stone"
Is there a point to use this quote? Yes. You really have nothing to add or say.
@@lewisc215 yep, I'm just a big looser.
Like Johnson told Nixon... ''Always get tape !''
I think the reaction to "going electric" is over-estimated. At Newport, at least. That's Peter Yarrow there helping with the sound check. Clearly, he knew what they were going to do
People hated it because the guitars were too loud and no one could really make out anything that was going on.
The reaction was never really about him going electric
@@guitarboi9 Yep. According to Al Kooper, who played organ at that show and on the original Like a Rolling Stone recording, everyone else played 45 minute sets but Bob’s group came together the evening before the show and only had 15 minutes of material. The crowd booed the short set time, Bob went out alone with a borrowed guitar and played an acoustic encore. Al Kooper’s book has lots of great stories about those days.
Scholars agree that the reaction was about improper levels and failure to locate the tape.
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Joe Boyd, Newport Folk Festival's stage manager and future Fairport Convention (and for their first single Pink Floyd) producer, walking from left to right at 0.32.
"Judas!" He's got the tape !
Bloomers on fire already
The olden times!
Great to see Tom Green beeing the head of Sound !
Dylan at his most iconic.
whatever that means
@@dustbinfilms Dylan's mid-60s look with his wild 'fro was immortalized on a fold-out poster from his first greatest hits album. Hope I've helped. 😊 When you know, you know...
Dylan at his most Dylanesque.
Where's that confounded "tape"
"Can I satisfy myself?" LMFAO. This is great!
kick seeing bloomfield havin fun..
Al Kooper horsing around on the organ there.
Anyone that thinks this is a stressful or hostile situation has never had to do the souncheck before a big gig. This is what happens, a lot of people screaming about a misplaced item that's right next to their foot, cables getting lost, people mucking around on their instruments being told to shut up so that sound levels can be tested, all that fun stuff. And you do all that only for it to fall apart when the actual gig starts and you have to plough through the first song not being able to hear yourself until the stage engineer fixes it. Kinda.
to me? its absurd they booed.
i love early acoustic dylan , i get that.
the thing i dont get is the album was already released , they knew they would hear rolling stone surely. it was a huge hit already . and the uk tour of 66 as well.
who would pay to see something they hate?
NO, it was unexpected. Also just a few people booed.
Apparently, this performance did go over well with most of the crowd. Some were annoyed at the electrified music (not a first for the festival) and Dylan's nod to his recent pop success, but most of the annoyance seemed to be around the speakers having bad sound. I think it got conflated in some minds with the famous cry "Judas!", which came later that year. And like I said, there was much applause. Dylan even did an encore, right?
@@billslocum9819 ya all fair enough and yes he did an acoustic encore , i wasnt there so i can only go by others who were. Thank you all for your likes and comments
1. Butterfield in the background
2 Bloomfield with 2 different Telecasters? Or, did they add the additional cutaway that day?
Get the tape...get it...just get it up here
They rehearsed? I guess this would have been the only time. The great Sam Lay didn't tealize Maggie's Farm is a backwards shuffle.
Dylan went electric? How come no one told me?
You are kidding, right?🤨
@@buddyblackmon7405 Maybe. When did it happen?
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Just like Squeeze’s Annie.
They were probably too busy booing him to tell you about it. 😆😆
Hey, anybody seen Pete's axe?
LOL
Yarrow was all business:)
Hah!
Good one!
Ohohoh you know that a hard rain is gonna fall -yes it is and that's why I always carry my "K-Tel" pocket umbrella. When I scamper from one award ceremony to another banquet I like to stay dry and you should too!!!!!!
Paul Rothchild with the bah bah's aha that's cool
One of the fundamental rules of music, you can't have a band without tape.
0:55 Where's the tape? Bring that tape up here!
Is that what they were looking for? Actual tape? Like the sticky stuff? I thought the film crew needed more film or that they were recording it or something. Lol.
I wonder how many times that lead to confusion. "Here's your tape." .. "You serious?"
@@PaulTheSkeptic It was always a saying in the band I was in that you can't get by without duct tape. You need it to tape cords to the floor so you don't trip, or to tape microphones to stands, or to fix broken drum hardware, etc. I assumed they were talking about duct tape.
@@FawleyJude No, I'm sure you're right. That makes sense. I was just confused.
@@FawleyJude and to mark the corners of their amps
let’s get that tape!
"Crawl Out of the Choas." 😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😏 Or: "Jump Out Your Window and Run."
The tune he is playing on the organ is the same one he is playing on the piano in don’t look back. I always wondered if it was an early version of a known song or just an unfinished one.
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I read a recent article written by the guy who played organ (not Kooper, the guy who was let go from the Butterfield band) saying Bob was playing an organ version of This Land Is Your Land at the rehearsal for Newport so I assume it's that
The song he is playing on the piano in don't look back is an early version of I'll keep it with mine I'm pretty sure
The organ at the end was “like a rolling stone”
Bob, don't let old Stalinist Pete Seeger pull out your amp.
I believe that it's Peter Yarrow.
@@JonnyFood1 It was reported that during Dylan's electric set at the 65 Newport Folk Festival that old Stalinist Pete Seeger was irate backstage. Apparently, Seeger was quite hysterical that Dylan would mire folk purity with electric instruments and he attempted to pull the plug on Dylan's amps. On this sound check Seeger is definitely not present.
@@snootybaronet Okay, I see. I just meant that the clip shows Yarrow shutting him down rather than Seeger. BTW back in the day I used to be Oscar Brand's pianist so we played some of those folk festivals Although I never played Newport.
@@snootybaronet That story has been pretty conclusively debunked, just fyi.
@@snootybaronet Pete was actually concerned that it was the poor sound quality (couldn't really hear Bob's voice) and did not object to using electric (Pete once said he actually liked some of Dylan's electric songs) and because his father (who had hearing aids) was having issues.
Apparently, there were other performers that had used electric guitars (usually blues players) at Newport before without issue.
The guy with the van dyke looks like Peter Yarrow? Couldn’t be, right? Did he double as a sound man? 😜
That was peter pretentious Yarrow=
@@jamesnolan6397 Yep, he’s a little --
was def yarrow
Sure, why not. He was part of the organisation.
1:07 MB "Let's get that tape."
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lets get that tape
How many musicians does it take to keep track of a roll of tape ? One more than are on hand at any given time, apparently.
And the rest is history.
I hope they found that tape.
wow.
Looks like butterfield looking on at the end of the video. Sitting down
Ahhhh the tape. Was Duct tape available ? Or was it electrical tape, maybe scotch tape or masking tape ? I'm not shure.
They couldn't find it so it must have been invisible tape.
Did he ever find the tape? Will we ever know?
The tape was in his basement
I remember shirts with giant polka dots.
WHERE'S THE TAPE MAN??
Calm before the storm lmao
get these men some tape
who tf has got that tape?
Music has gotten so much better
Maybe they were booing the guy who was ordering everyone around
"Awww...it's not THAT baaad..."
I knew it ..Peter Yarrow hahaha
History
Paul Butterfield sitting at back of the stage at end of video.
I was scrolling down to see if anyone else noticed that, hehe.
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Bob so annoyed with tape guy lol. He had so many "hanger-on's" back then...
I believe that would be "hangers-on" ;-))
They didn't get their levels set. That's why they booed.
The original cancellers.
if u look at the thumbnail u can see mikes hand covers the exact area of his telecaster that some doofus would one day chop off
Wow!
Peter Yarrow: "Hey you kids, keep that racket down"...the folkies just never understood rock and roll...
That’s not what he said. “No noise now: we gotta make the mic check”. Has nothing to do with “folkies” and “rockers”. They’re on the same stage, ain’t they?
@@artdaydesigns You do realize Al Kooper - Jewish and from Brooklyn - was IN THE BAND, right?
It's looks like he has quite a team working there. Not only the musicians, there is a man kind of directing the band, too, as if it was an orchestra. Who was paying all these people?
The man without a shirt on is Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul & Mary.
@@ivannio8519 and the other one who is telling the band how to play ?
@@agustincampos8088 Well Peter Yarrow is (sunglasses + no shirt on) and very short we see another light haired guy trying to direct the drummer. I am not sure who he is ;) But thanks for asking.
@@ivannio8519 and who is filming?
@@agustincampos8088 Hahaha - how would I know. Was´nt there ;) But the clip is interesting and it seems a lot of folks trying "to control" the stage. Too many actually. I believe (and we know now) that it was´nt well recieved that Dylan played a electric set. It is said that Pete Seeger was about to axe the main cable :)
Peter Yarrow... Everything that was so wrong and square and narrow minded about the folk music mavens..
Yarrow actually was the liaison between the artists and the people who ran the festival
He also had the unfortunate task of being the defacto sound guy. Don’t forget that Peter,Paul and Mary and Dylan shared the same manager, Albert Grossman.
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A little bit of turmoil and confusion......but no where near as bad as what the NFF has become. Talk about turning your back on folk......
Yeah,I don’t know what initials stand for but I think you might be saying there isn’t much protest music that sells big
@@johnholland723 Newport Folk Festival. They used to nurture the genre, support unknown or little artists. Now they bring in big name acts that have nothing to do with folk music. Its all about ticket sales. And....the subject matter isnt always about protesting.....but its funny how the ones that do protest never actually struggled in life.
Way to get a rock guitarist on side; “watch your levels”. Heard as; “I don’t like to hear you play loud because I don’t really want to hear you at all”. Predictable reaction.
Ridiculous
He didn’t say watch your levels, he said to “get your levels in your head”, meaning the way we get your amps set up sounding good now in rehearsal, you have to remember and set them the same for the actual show. There is no point in doing a sound check rehearsal if everyone were to come out and set all their levels completely differently for the show.
Hahah soundmen everywhere, hey Dylan and Bloomfield, shut up for a minute, mic checks
They were there for him to sound check them, so why not?
@@hepphepps8356 well obviously they’re just doing their job, it’s funny hearing someone telling Dylan to shut up
lolol audio engineers being the same exact cranky people obsessed with minute details for the last 60 years.
the engineer ..so whiny and New Yawk…
Does not look fun. Guy yelling about mike levels is a buzzkill. Yelling about tape. Yell at him he’s fired Bob. Oh yeah, Bob’s not like that...