I have somewhere in my record collection (kids, records were our version of mp3) a bootleg album of Dylan performing in England at the Royal Albert Hal soon after the Newport Folk Festival uproar. He also played an electric set and was also roundly booed by the audience. At one point someone shouts out "Judas" to which Dylan responds, "I can't hear you! You're a liar!" Later the audience start to clap rythmically and make catcalls and whistles to try and drown out Dylan. Dylan starts to speak in a very low voice, mumbling, and the crowd starts to lower the intensity of its noise as if to hear the words of Dylan. As they hushed, Dylan's voice gets a bit louder and the mumbling breaks out into clear voice with Dylan saying something like "I cna't hear myself because you're clapping so loud." The audience breaks into laughter and the concert continues...
Incidentally, the backup musicians for that concert would later go on to for another legendary act, "The Band"...
Dylan is the master of his own world and is very comfortable in it. He has a house out here in Southern California, in Malibu. He lives a very downplayed life and keeps his own privacy. He is sometimes seen shopping at the local markets and drives around in a older model car. He also pumps his own gas, much to the surprise of some people who see him at the gas station. I sometimes wonder if Dylan ever complains to the station attendant that the "pump won't work, 'cause the vandals stole the handles"?...
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