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I meant how it would have sounded nothing at all like folk music if he had done that. Playing an electric guitar with no effects through an amp and then playing the same songs you were previously playing on an acoustic guitar really does not seem like a monumental change in music to me

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Oh, but they were new songs. It's not like he climbed on the stage and ripped out a version of Tambourine Man. LOL

And, you don't have to agree, but it's monumental to me. It changed all sorts of stuff - for the better, I think.

If I had to estimate based on what I know (and I kinda think I'm qualified) I'd say he's influenced more musicians than anyone else in the past 60 years.

I'd go out on a limb and say that he's influenced more musicians than Lead Belly? That's a bit of a toss-up, 'cause I'd have to say that Lead Belly influenced Dylan in some ways.

I'd say his influence was even greater than Woody Guthrie or even Pete Seeger - at least outside of the folk scene.

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Oh, I thought he did just that!

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He did! He did just that!

I really can't think of too many more monumental changes in (modern) music. I don't really have enough context to judge Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart. I'm not sure if they really changed music so much as they contributed to it in the style of their day.

So, I speak only of modern music, that is in the past century.

Can you think of a single person that you know (honestly) that doesn't know who Bob Dylan is? Even though they're not folk fans?

I can't think of anyone. Maybe my neighbor's kid? But, they're not into music even in the slightest.

I'd guess that folks who just aren't into music might not know him, but I bet a ton of those folks still at least know who he is. Or they at least know of one of his songs.

He was relatively obscure, even in the folk sphere, before he hopped on stage with an electric and a backing band.

Hmm...

Yeah, I'm hard pressed to think of anything more influential in recent memory. Michael Jackson, maybe? Nirvana - but they were just doing the grunge thing as pioneered by Neil Young and others in the alternative scene. EVH? I dunno? I mean, he influenced hard rock and metal pretty heavily. None of those seem more influential? Some might also be monumental.