"It was about the same time Bob Dylan went electric, and a lot of folk music fans didn't like it. Pete Seeger, had even said that he wanted to cut the cable from Dylan's guitar to his Amp."
If you've seen the American Masters PBS film on Dylan ("No Direction Home" by Martin Scorsese) there is quite a discussion about the night Dylan went electric. The wanting to "cut the cable" - with an ax - was mentioned by many but one (sorry, can't remember who it was) said it was less that Pete was incensed about the non-folk sound but that his father, Charlie Seeger, was there and had a hearing aid and the distortion was hurting his (Charlie's) ears, which is what upset Pete most. That and the fact you could barely understand the words Dylan, the Master of Mumble, was singing.
There was an interview with Seeger where he said he was very angry, not because Dylan was playing electric, but because the distortion in the sound was ruining the songs, "you couldn't make out the lyrics"; and it was a great song.....Maggie's Farm. If you've seen the film with the clip of Dylan doing Maggie's Farm you understand; even for those who know the song it's hard to follow and the audience had come expectng the "Guthrie" Dylan. Must have been quite a night, although going electric cannot have been much a surprise to anyone following his career since he'd charted several hits that were definitely not traditional folk. See
http://bobdylan.com/etc/peterstonebrown_newport.html