Dylan at Newport

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Bob Dylan's Electric Guitar Back at Newport Fest for 50th Anniversary

An unannounced set by My Morning Jacket wasn't the only surprise on tap for this year's Newport Folk Festival: Exactly 50 years to the day that Bob Dylan famously "went electric" at the long-running fest, the electric guitar involved in that controversial performance – Dylan's 1964 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster – made an unexpected visit to this year's Rhode Island fest on Saturday. "Dylan's guitar is home," festival organizer Jay Sweet said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay purchased Dylan's Newport guitar in 2013 for $965,000, making it the most expensive guitar to ever hit the auction block. "[Dylan's guitar] is such an important part of musical history, and Dylan was our generation's Shakespeare, so it's our way to give back and share," Irsay said in a statement about lending the instrument to the festival ...

I can't find this on YouTube so I can't embed it.

Like A Rolling Stone, Newport, 1965

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... y-20150725

Bob Dylan shocked and outraged folk music purists with that performance, but in reality, he himself said it well:

"You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'.

He did the right thing at the right time in the right place.

'Like a Rolling Stone' is a great composition and was a thrill to play live at all the late 60's gigs I played at, a 6 minute long slowish tune that just never gets old no matter how many times you play it.

The guitarist to the left at the beginning of the video is the late, very great Mike Bloomfield, who I believe recorded with Dylan on the released 'Like a Rolling Stone'. So you have onstage there two of the very greatest folk/rock artists of all times.

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It's hard to see the backing musicians but, yes, I believe that Dylan kept the original musicians with him for Newport and later - if you can find any of the so called "Royal Albert Hall" performances - toured with The Band.

Here it is on Vimeo.

(Trivia question. Why was the Woodstock Music & Art Fair (1969) so named if it was held 50 miles from Woodstock?)

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Love the sound of the screaming/growling, "Hammond" in the first post example!

Where would we be without Hammond B-3's?.... ...!

Paul....playing with the Draw-bars!.... ...!

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That's a good one, never gave it a thought before. I had to look it up:

Wikipedia:
The festival was called "Woodstock" because "Woodstock Ventures", an investment company, had put money into the concert, it was supposed to be in the town of Wallkill, in Ulster county; but the town would not give a place for such a large event, because they thought that over a million people would come. A place was found in the town of Bethel, Max Yasgur let the concert happen on the family's dairy farm.

So maybe the proximity to the town of Woodstock was a coincidence, can't find info on that. All along I (and maybe others) thought it was Woodstock the town that gave it it's name.

Whatever. It's an appropriate name for that event.

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Close, so why was "Woodstock Ventures" named "Woodstock Ventures"?

Keep in mind that this thread is about Bob Dylan and (sort of) The Band.

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Al Kooper.

Hammond Organ player for Bob Dylan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Kooper

Paul... ...!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_H ... an_players

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Creepy stuff, Al.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDC0b7rfK5U[/youtube]

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http://www.woodstockpreservation.org/Ga ... ducers.htm