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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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It's not like Dylan was using distortion pedal and cranking that folk into something completely unrecognizable

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No, but I don't think it requires a distortion pedal to change music? I don't actually think that's a requirement?

In fact, unless you use Google (or remember my articles about Hendrix) you don't even know who first used distortion in rock.

But you know about Dylan at the folk festival...

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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.