Years After Dylan Played Forest Hills, Al Kooper Recalls 1. Electric Summer. A portrait of Bob Dylan by longtime Village Voice photographer Fred W. Mc. Darrah. Courtesy of the Estate of Fred W. On July 2. 5, 1. 96. Dylan and his band faced a grimacing audience when they deviated from their anticipated program and played an electric set at the Newport Folk Festival. Backed by the Butterfield Blues Band, keyboardist Barry Goldberg, and 2. Kooper — the man responsible for the organ lick that soars throughout . Bob Dylan at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, NYC – Aug 1965. Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Like A Rolling Stone; BD – forest hills 1965 by alldylan on Grooveshark. Forest of Dean website. The last of the NCB gales closed in 1965, but. Produced by Bonnie Brooks. Bob Dylan's infamous 1965 Forest Hills concert, where he booed by the audience when he played electric music, is recounted in. Legend has it that Pete Seeger threatened to take an ax to the audio cables; the dicey mix was drowned out by the audience's vocal displeasure at the unpublicized amplification. In his recap for the Voice, Arthur Kretchmer wrote of how Dylan, the . The Queens native was a seasoned sideman before he was out of his teens; the “Like a Rolling Stone” session marked his first encounter with Dylan. He would go on to become a writer, arranger, and producer as well as a touch- of- gold session player, forming Blood, Sweat & Tears and producing Southern- rock revolutionaries Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first three LPs. At Newport Folk on July 2. David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Dawes, Hozier, First Aid Kit, and a hefty portion of the remainder of the festival’s 2. Revisited, a boisterous sing- along that included renditions of “Maggie’s Farm” and “Like a Rolling Stone.” But while Kooper understands the mythology of that 1. Newport fiasco was more train wreck than triumph, the worst of three plugged- in performances that would define Dylan’s electric summer. I think that was what upset people, not specifically the electricity. I didn't hear any booing. I heard people going, 'More! More!' By the time we played Forest Hills, all of this had been dispensed in the press, so they all sang along with 'Like a Rolling Stone' and then booed at the end. Jack Newfield noted in the Voice that Dylan and his backing musicians were booed . From Newfield's review: . After the second, someone called him a 'scum bag,' and he replied cooly, 'aw, come on now.' After the third the Mods chanted sardonically, 'We Want Dylan.' . ![]() Some person tripped over the chair I was sitting on when I was playing the keyboards and knocked me over at one point. Like I said, they sang along to 'Like a Rolling Stone' and then they booed at the end, like they were instructed to boo by the newspaper. Kooper says the Newport Folk set was both underrehearsed and . That, he adds, is why the set was over and done with in twenty minutes. The Forest Hills concert gave them ample time to prepare and an opportunity to work with musicians better suited to the material.'They sang along to . He'd grown up with Brooks and had known Robertson and Helm from before they were the Hawks, the band that played behind rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins. They were the right band to play with Bob. I just had a month of it, but I know that it's not the way my life normally is. ![]() I could easily deal with it. I'm just amazed that it was half a century ago, and that I'm still coherent and can still play and all that.
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