Episode #178 | 05.28.24
Bob Dylan: How Does It Feel to Be Booed, Heckled, Hated, and Attacked?
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In this episode
Bob Dylan was booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival – but not for the reason you’ve been led to believe. He went from Folk Music Jesus to Rock ‘n Roll Judas, alienating thousands of fans with ear-splitting, confrontational music. Many of those fans heckled him. One even tried to attack him on stage with a knife. He returned home from a European tour that nearly killed him….only to get into a motorcycle accident that, it was said, left him either disfigured, paralyzed, or dead.
Sources
Small Town Talk, by Barney Hoskyns
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling (1941-1966), by Clinton Heylin
Testimony, by Robbie Robertson
Don’t Look Back (1967, dir. D.A. Pennebaker)
Eat the Document (1972, dir. Bob Dylan)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005, dir. Martin Scorsese)
Mystic Nights (Oxford American)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Scored and mixed by Sean Cahalin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak