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The Times They Have a-ChangedDylan goes electric in high-def at the MBC.Published on May 21, 2008 at 3:02amIn the Sixties decades before he starred in a Victorias Secret commercial Bob Dylan was a generational spokesperson, a warrior wielding an acoustic guitar, using razor-edged lyrics to cut away at the social issues of the day. Then, in 1965, he pissed off a whole lotta hippies by plugging a Fender into an amp. Its hard to understand the controversy now, in an era when socially conscious bands such as Green Day can segue between hard-nosed punk and contemplative strum-alongs within a single album, but when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, it had a seismic impact on both his standing within the folk music community and the future of rock and roll. It was musical history in the making. You can see the uproar as it occurred when the Miami Beach Cinematheque screens The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965.
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