I was saying boo-urns

/oblig

Damn, I want to hear those tapes.

davidphogan: Damn, I want to hear those tapes.

Pete Yarrow has my hedge clippers, too.


/submitter

They had music before I was born???

/not submitter

And because they were booing someone lese Dylan didn't return to Newport for 37 years? And then in a false beard and wig...Prof. Jackson wants to extend his 15 seconds of fame by rewriting history.

I was saying "Booo-oob! Booo-oob!" Sorry I inadvertently changed the course of musical history.

FTA: August 26, 2002

Fark. It's not news, it's ancient history.

I live in Newport, and where the Folk and Jazz concerts are now (Fort Adams State Park) is not where they were in the 60's. The field was razed to make way for the part of town where the Newport Bridge exits into. Among the things are in this section of town are: A mall anchored by a Wal-Mart, a sewage treatment plant and three low income apartment complexes.

/the more you know.

Like, wow man.

Im from Newport also and at one point they also did the shows at Toppa Field aka Freebody Park.

You've got a lotta nerve.

This is one of the biggest horse shiat stories I have ever read.

1) EVEN IN HIS TRANSCRIPTS he types in 'booing'/'boos'

2) This is written in the CONTEXT of Dlyan being on the stage

3) The story about Pete Seeger came from Seeger himself and the guy that kept him for axing the power lines

4) If all this is true why did this numbnuts wait almost FORTY YEARS to tell his 'side' of it?

Sorry, not a musical instrument

"Judas!"
"Ah don't BLEEVE you! You're a liar! ... (play farking loud!)"

-Dylan and "fan" at Manchester, not Newport

I'm so confused, now. Obviously, somebody's lying! But who - this guy, or everyone else?

impishimpi: I'm so confused, now. Obviously, somebody's lying! But who - this guy, or everyone else?

The tapes! The tapes are a bunch of farking liars!

davidphogan 2009-06-12 04:07:34 PM
Damn, I want to hear those tapes.

You can.

PBS has a documentary they show during fund raisng about Dylan being at Newport and yeah, you can hear the booing and listen to emcee talk about Seeger trying to ax the power lines.

Even if I granted, for the sake of argument, that the negative reaction to Dylan at Newport was over exaggerated, it's pretty clear from tons of other stuff at the time that "folkies", by and large, hated him going electric, and it spurred a massive backlash.

This whole thing here just strikes me as revisionist history.

I think it was Booobs! Booobs! Booobs!!


/or GTFO!

Well, it was a BLISTERING maggies farm he ripped into that day.

Sounds like revisionist history to me. There are multiple interviews of people saying that they were booing, but it is not clear if they were booing:

1) Bob's electric betrayal
2) The sound quality

-To say there was no booing seems patently false. We have numerous full concerts that show folk hippies booing him off the stage all around England. Love live his Bobness!

mfaby: This is one of the biggest horse shiat stories I have ever read.

1) EVEN IN HIS TRANSCRIPTS he types in 'booing'/'boos'

"has a limited amount of time

[very loud booing and yelling, shouts of "No, no, no"]"

...

"Dylan and the band moving off the stage, followed by audience yelling "No, no, no." 18:26-18:44]

YARROW: Bobby was

[booing]

Yes, he will do another tune, I'm sure. We'll call him back. Would you like Bobby to sing another song?

[huge applause, happy yelling. "Yes, yes, yes."]"

...

"[boos and yells continue]

Ladies and gentlemen, please be considerate of Bobby. He can't come back. Please don't make it more difficult than it is."

It's obvious, from ACTUALLY READING THE TRANSCRIPT, that the boos were because the audiences was disappointed by the limited time that Dylan had on stage - they audience wanted more. And you'll also notice that the electric songs were followed by applause, not booing.



2) This is written in the CONTEXT of Dlyan being on the stage

Yes - exactly. Which is precisely the point of the article. It provides the context for the booing - the audience wanted more Dylan music; they weren't upset about the electric set.

3) The story about Pete Seeger came from Seeger himself and the guy that kept him for axing the power lines

Do they normally keep axes in the wings at folk music concerts? If Seeger was backstage during this time, he would have seen them setting up the amps and drum set, watched the backing group plug in their electric guitars, and so on. Then supposedly he waits until Dylan actually starts playing to go run out and chop through a live power line with an axe?

4) If all this is true why did this numbnuts wait almost FORTY YEARS to tell his 'side' of it?

Al Kooper (Dylan's keyboardist) told essentially the same version of this story in his book Backstage Passes: Rock 'n' Roll Life In The Sixties, which was published back in 1977. The "Dylan wasn't really booed off the stage at Newport" story is old news.

Dylan getting booed by the folk fest crowd is folklore.

Pop music generates volumes of folklore like that if you have not noticed. It's great PR.

Those tapes pretty well demonstrate how it went. Plus:

* The Newport Folk Fest Crowd was hardly a crowd that is going to turn on the adored performer.

* Seeger is hardly some hothead that would attempt to physically damage stage equiptment. A shameless self promoter, maybe, but not a violent hothead.

* The truth is seldom as interesting as the rumor.