<P> "Maggie's Farm" is well known for being at the center of the fervor that surrounded Dylan after his electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; it was that set's performance of "Maggie's Farm," much faster and more aggressive than on the Bringing It All Back Home recording and featuring prominent lead electric guitar by Mike Bloomfield, that caused the most controversy . The festival's production manager Joe Boyd claimed that "that first note of' Maggie's Farm' was the loudest thing anybody had ever heard ." It is still unknown what exactly was the biggest source of the controversy, with accounts of the event differing from individual to individual . Though Dylan's move from acoustic folk to electric rock had been extremely controversial, many accounts suggest the problem was largely due to poor sound . Pete Seeger, who is often cited as one of the main opponents to Dylan at Newport 1965, claimed in 2005: </P> <P> There are reports of me being anti-him going electric at the' 65 Newport Folk festival, but that's wrong . I was the MC that night . He was singing' Maggie's Farm' and you couldn't understand a word because the mic was distorting his voice . I ran to the mixing desk and said,' Fix the sound, it's terrible!' The guy said' No, this is what the young people want .' And I did say that if I had an axe I'd cut the cable! But I wanted to hear the words . I didn't mind him going electric . </P> <P> Singer Eric Von Schmidt has a similar recollection of the event: "Whoever was controlling the mics messed it up . You couldn't hear Dylan . It looked like he was singing with the volume off ." </P> <P> Also, Al Kooper, Dylan's organist at the concert, claims: </P>

I aint working on maggie's farm no more