{"id":731,"date":"2007-07-24T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-05T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T11:06:29","slug":"dylan-goes-electric-it-s-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dylan-goes-electric-it-s-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Goes Electric: &#8220;It&#8217;s About Time!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMxJFsyR85o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs long as I&#8217;ve read about rock music, much has been made of Bob Dylan&#8217;s going electric and its polarizing effect on the <strong>folk faithful<\/strong>&#8230;as if anyone has cared since about 2 weeks after the early &#8217;60s folk movement began to putter out. What I&#8217;ve never heard is the other side of the story: <em>What did rock fans think of his move to the electric world?<\/em> Shortly after turning electric, Dylan would become almost as big as The Beatles, which would have made him as big as if not bigger than <strong>God<\/strong>. Do any of our older Townspeople recall a feeling of <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s about effin&#8217; time you crossed over!&#8221;<\/em> Has anyone read of such a feeling in the air? I would think someone would have been psyched that his great tuneage and boss Look had finally entered the rock realm. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tying this into my thoughts in yesterday&#8217;s <strong>Dugout Chatter<\/strong> on feeling that you might love an artist if only you could get your head around the genre within which said artist worked. Someone may have mentioned Dylan if not for the folky part, and this is 43 years after the guy crossed over to rock! <\/p>\n<p>Let me know if this &#8220;other perspective&#8221; on Dylan&#8217;s going electric has ever been documented or felt. Obviously, he became much more popular after having <strong>plugged in<\/strong>. Had I been of age back then, I like to think I would have welcomed his crossover. That folk stuff was holding him back. The hell with it! <em>What took you so long, Bob?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I&#8217;ve read about rock music, much has been made of Bob Dylan&#8217;s going electric and its polarizing effect on the folk faithful&#8230;as if anyone has cared since about 2 weeks after the early &#8217;60s folk movement began to putter out. What I&#8217;ve never heard is the other side of the story: What <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dylan-goes-electric-it-s-about-time\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}