Bob Dylan " went electric" during his infamous performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. A hero to the folk music community, Dylan's switch to electric guitar was seen as the ultimate act of betrayal by many in the audience, who booed the performance.
On Saturday, July 24, 1965, Dylan performed three acoustic numbers, "All I Really Want to Do", "If You Gotta Go, Go Now", and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" at a Newport workshop. Then on Sunday, July 25th he came out with an electric band and you can actually hear the sound of both booing and cheering a few bars into Dylan's first song, "Maggie's Farm", and continues throughout his second, "Like a Rolling Stone" (below). Dylan and his band then performed "Phantom Engineer".
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