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swag

(26,490 posts) Sat Jul 25, 2015, 10:00 AM Jul 2015

50 years ago today, Dylan went electric at Newport & shocked the folkies. They booed loudly.

http://www.history.com/news/the-day-dylan-went-electric

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50 years ago today, Dylan went electric at Newport & shocked the folkies. They booed loudly. (Original Post) swag Jul 2015 OP

They destroyed his career that day. onehandle Jul 2015 #1

Maybe someone else? discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2015 #2

It's not impossible the previous post was in jest.... n/t DFW Jul 2015 #3

Cool! discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2015 #4

Well, he has never resorted to AutoTune JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2015 #5

It was a weird evening olddots Jul 2015 #6

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

1. They destroyed his career that day.

Reply to swag (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 10:04 AM

Jul 2015

So sad how he died homeless under a bridge a couple of years later.

Heh.

I have been binge listening to his catalog for the last week or so on Apple Music.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,483 posts)

2. Maybe someone else?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 10:39 AM

Jul 2015

He's not dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

DFW

(54,469 posts)

3. It's not impossible the previous post was in jest.... n/t

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 11:20 AM

Jul 2015

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,483 posts)

4. Cool!

Reply to DFW (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 11:25 AM

Jul 2015

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,375 posts)

5. Well, he has never resorted to AutoTune

Reply to swag (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:15 PM

Jul 2015

He still uses his natural, perfect-pitch voice.

olddots

(10,237 posts)

6. It was a weird evening

Reply to swag (Original post)

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 12:34 AM

Jul 2015

a generation gap and purity gap intensified by a P.A. system not ready for anything louder than acoustic instruments .The booing was more about the sound quality than Paul Butterfeild's Twin Reverb on 11 .

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