Watching the transformation

The transformation was remarkable.
BOB DYLAN was a shy, curly haired kid craning his neck so his words could reach the microphone during the 1963 NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL.
Two years later, Dylan fronted a bonafide rock band that included the white-hot electric guitarist Mike Bloomfield.
In two short years, the change seemed more revolutionary than evolutionary.
I watched the transformation take place last night, thanks to Murray Lerner's documentary, "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR: BOB DYLAN LIVE AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, 1963-1965."
I had often heard of the incendiary, 1965 festival appearance.
Rock critic Jim Harrington wrote:
"Not since the premiere of Stravinsky's groundbreaking 'Rite of Spring' incited a riot at Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 1913 has a musical transformation caused the kind of controversy that resulted when Bob Dylan plugged in on July 25, 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival."
It took seeing the difference in Dylan's manifestations on film to understand the magnitude of the change.