Even though there was mostly a negative response, we made history in the name of rock ’n' roll.” “Bob wanted to create something different with his music and take the next step with his career. “I remember how controversial it was,” Goldberg says. The boos started when the band, which was propelled by the stinging electric guitar work of Butterfield Blues Band member Mike Bloomfield, launched into a fast version of “Maggie’s Farm,” and then Dylan kept rocking with “Like A Rolling Stone” and “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.” “I have been so fortunate and lucky to have been part of such great music and able to play with all the amazing musicians I have worked with and the magic that it has brought me throughout the years,” Goldberg tells me.ĭylan recruited the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Goldberg and Al Kooper to back him at Newport, and they were booed and jeered by folk purists who thought Dylan was betraying folk music by going electric and mixing folk with rock. ![]() He played keyboards for Bob Dylan when Dylan controversially went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and formed the Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield two years later. As a teenager in Chicago, he sat in with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Howlin' Wolf. Goldberg, who released an excellent solo album In the Groove in June, has loved playing music for a long time - long before the Rides released their debut album in August 2013. The interplay between Stephen and Kenny is very exciting, and it’s great to play with them. “The rhythm section is on automatic, and the groove is always there. “The magic and the chemistry is there,” says Goldberg whose 76th birthday will be on Christmas Day. ![]() Watching Barry Goldberg’s fingers melodically race across the keyboards during the Rides’ two tours during the past five years, it was quite apparent that the group’s elder statesman didn’t take a back seat to bandmates Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
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