[Mr. Mojo]

.... the relentless hostility with which audiences met his new sound (he’d plugged his guitar in and added an electrified backup band).

The folkie "purist" crowd despised it, but Dylan picked up a new audience audience in the process. .....a rock and roll audience.

[Drew68]

I recently watched a documentary on Dylan and I was amazed at the anger and vitriol from the audience he experienced when he plugged in his Fender. People were screaming, booing, throwing things, and he just kept on playing as though nothing was going on.

I've liked both Dylan's acoustic and electric work, and of course, The Band became phenomenal in their own right.

[Gay State Conservative]

The folkie "purist" crowd despised it, but Dylan picked up a new audience audience in the process. .....a rock and roll audience.

I love both folk and rock.The first half dozen albums he released are all classics.I,for one,think he pretty much ran out of ideas after Nashville Skyline,but that's my attitude about talented singers and groups in general...their earliest work is almost always their best.