Bob Dylan appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium on November 5, 1965, before an audience of 9,000. He refused any contact at all with anyone, but the day before he was cruising Dinkytown looking for Tony Glover, visiting old spots, and hanging out at McCash’s Bookstore.

Jerome Norlander remembers:

My roommates and I (having just left small-town Minnesota for our freshman year at the U  of M) walked from our ramshackle duplex near Dinkytown to the auditorium for that concert. I remember he sat alone on stage and the mic wasn’t working for his first song; you could hardly hear that he was singing at all. He had to stop and wait for it to be connected. He had just gone electric that summer, and later he brought the band out. I’m pretty sure the band was the Band, but that meant nothing to us at the time.

Others at the show remembered his folkie friends booing the electric set, just as he had been at the Newport Folk Festival (where Pete Seeger was reportedly so mad he tried to cut the power with an axe!)  The Twin City a’ Go Go reviewer was not impressed, calling the music “tedious, uninspired, and harsh.”

Photo posted by Steve Klemz – taken by his sister.