From: will.dockery@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 11:46:15 PM UTC-5, Patricia Jungwirth wrote:   
   >   
   > found this interesting piece today, don't know how long it's been online,   
   > hadn't read it before and thought some might be interested.   
   > Bloomfield Notes - Number 6 (Fall 1996)   
   > Interview with Barry Goldberg   
   > [excerpt]   
   > Bn: You backed up Bob Dylan when he played at The Newport Folk Festival in   
   > 1965.   
   > BG: I got to play with Bob quite by accident. I had come out to   
   > play with Butterfield, because Michael and Paul had invited me to come and   
   > play with the band. I was their first keyboard player. I would sit in with   
   > them all the time.   
   > When I got to Newport the producer, Paul Rothchild, was really   
   > obstinate and rude, and said, "Absolutely no organ." He didn't want that   
   > element, he just wanted the five pieces. Paul and Michael tried to talk to   
   > him but he was just really against it.   
   > So I had nowhere to go. I was stuck there, a long way from   
   > Chicago. One night we were just sitting around and Bob showed up and said,   
   > "The keyboard player isn't here yet," and Michael said, "There's a great   
   > keyboard player here in Barry," and Bob said, "You want to come to the   
   > sound check?" and I said, "Sure," and that's how I got to do it, and it   
   > worked out great. And then we went on that night. Michael just went nuts,   
   > he just rammed it right down their throats. He loved those kind of things.   
   > Bn: What did you think about Dylan's decision to go electric at   
   > the festival?   
   > BG: I thought it was an amazingly brave and bold move. Before he   
   > played, there were fistfights between Alan Lomax and Albert Grossman, which   
   > was a really ugly scene. Albert really believed in this -- that we were   
   > gonna plug in no matter what. The time had come. I don't know if he was a   
   > visionary, but this was it. Butterfield and Dylan plugging in. And the old   
   > folk crowd, the old guard, was standing fast. They felt so threatened, that   
   > a new thing was happening -- out with the old and in with the new.   
   > But it was more about a new frontier of music called folk-rock.   
   > And electric blues was happening. And so many people got turned on by it.   
   > But unfortunately the majority of the crowd there were die-hard folkies,   
   > who didn't want to accept this no matter what. And they wanted to make   
   > their presence known and make a statement.   
   > So a lot of people booed, but I remember a lot of people   
   > cheering, too. It was probably 60 percent booing and 40 percent cheering. I   
   > don't remember everybody booing, I just remember Michael counting it off   
   > and saying, "Let's go!" and it was like POW!! -- we went into this   
   > whirlwind. Mike turned his amp up so loud, he turned it up to nine, just to   
   > infuriate people even more. Bob was like this warrior. We were all on this   
   > mission.   
   > Bn: Full speed ahead.    
   > BG: Exactly, and that's it. Don't look back, actually.   
   > Bn: You still have a good friendship with Dylan.   
   > BG: A very good friendship. I used him on a soundtrack. We did a   
   > version of "People Get Ready," for a movie called Flashback, with Dennis   
   > Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland. Bob sang that and I produced it. So we still   
   > talk a lot.   
   > Bn: It seems like Dylan was quite an admirer of Mike.   
   > BG: Oh God, yes. He thought he was the greatest guitar player of   
   > all.    
   > http://www.bluespower.com/arbn06.htm   
      
   Barry Goldberg, can't remember anything about the album, looking forward to   
   playing it when I get access to a turntable.   
      
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