I've come to realise that - even at my age - I have a romantic view of music - in the sense that, if I can relate to the artist on more than a musically level, it seems to enhance my enjoyment. For example, Blind Lemon Jefferson singing on a street corner in Wortham, is a lot more of a romantic idea to me than Muddy Waters playing in some sweaty club on Chicago's South Side. Likewise, a young Dylan - with just guitar and harmonica - playing old blues, country tunes and protest songs in a small Greenwich Village club, is an exciting prospect, but Dylan doing the " showbiz" thing with amps, miles of cable and a massive mixing desk does not make the heart beat faster.
I have a great deal of sympathy for those horrified folk musicians at Newport when Dylan went electric. There are various differing reports on the sound, but I'm pretty sure it would have been terrible.