Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. There are a host of stories and myths surrounding this controversial move to use an electric instrument at this famous folk festival. The audience booed and heckled Dylan and his band… the gentle Peter Seeger tried to cut the electricity. It seems to me that Dylan’s move to bring electricity to a folk-purist crowd was another battle in Tesla and Edison’s ‘War of Currents‘.
This piece will be for sale this weekend at The Tesla Project event.