Thursday, May 17, 2012

… Didn’t You?...

On this date in rock history, in 1966, Bob Dylan, who had recently "gone electric" and added rock and roll instruments to his folk music, appears at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England; just before he begins a version of his latest hit, "Like A Rolling Stone," a member of the audience, a folk purist angry at the move to rock, shouts out, "Judas!" Dylan responds with "I don't believe you," adding, "You're a liar!" Then proceeds to tell the band to play the song "f****** loud." Or did it really happen that way? Here’s another view…Thanks to http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/may17.htm for the info, and keep on rockin’!

1 comment:

Who Am Us Anyway? said...

Huh. And here I always thought that guy was shouting Freebird