Bob Dylan quickly learned that the Newport reaction to his new electric sound was not an isolated incident. He'd be met with an even more violent reaction while performing on Aug. 28, 1965 at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York, just weeks after a folk festival crowd erupted in boos during Dylan's initial rock-inflected set.

Some angry fans threw objects, others stormed the stage and attempted to pull keyboardist Al Kooper and drummer Levon Helm off their stools. "It looks like the attack of the Beatniks around here," Dylan reportedly joked onstage.

Kooper had been part of the controversial Newport Folk Festival appearance, along with members of the Paul Butterfield Band. Dylan's 1965 concerts at Forest Hills, and then at the Hollywood Bowl, featured a backing band of

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