The footage from the 60's was incredible . . . Dylan was dissing the press, dissing the leftist peacenik crowd, dissing the "folk" music establishment and even dissing his fans . . . but I don't know if any of them realized it, he was so perfectly deadpan . . .
I found the comments of Joan Baez particularly revealing as to Bob's connection with the radical left - basically she said "he was never with us" . . .
Bob Dylan was with the left back in his early years but he never got in as deep and crazy as a Joan Baez. When he wanted out of the protest singer niche, the true believer leftists were mighty peeved. For BD his career and poetry always came first.
I never liked BD until he went to rocking electric.