The Most Hated Strat Ever? - Dylan Goes Electric - If Guitars Could Speak... # 17

At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Bob Dylan shocked the crowd by performing an electric set with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. It was a huge shift in popular music, but it made the guitar the most hated Strat on the planet at the time! Let’s dive in to this story! Correction: At around 5:30 I made an error in my script when I sad Paul Butterfield was the guitar player; everyone knows Mike Bloomfield played guitar in that band.