QotD
"The only one in the entire festival who questioned our position was Bob Dylan. Maybe he didn't put it in the best way. Maybe he was rude. But he shook us. And that is why we have poets and artists." -- Jim Rooney, describing Bob Dylan's shocking use of electric guitars at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
"The outbursts at Newport that Sunday night, July 25, 1965, brought to mind another startling event in music history. At the premiere of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring,' on May 29, 1913, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysses, the Paris audience was torn in two by Stravinsky's pioneering score and Nijinsky's choreography. [...]" -- Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan