50 years later, Seeger still didn't get it. He couldn't in his heart believe that actual musicians would want that song to sound like that.
"... and I ran over to the sound man and said 'fix the sound so you can understand him', and they hollered back 'no, this is the way they want it' ... I don't know who 'they' was ..."
Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviews Pete Seeger about Newport 1965 (2013)