Reply #34: No...

[regnaD kciN]

They used traditional instruments. This was an extremely reactionary position that fell back on tradition without any adequate political theorization, with the possible exception that "plugging in" to any one outlet (literally) meant that you were plugging in to the totality of the (anti-people) system (metaphorically). But really, it was just "that's not the way we do it," and Dylan was quite right to break from such stifling traditionalism.

...they used "traditional" (which is to say "acoustic") instruments because most of them started out, at least, as solo performers accompanying themselves on guitar. And, with all due respect, and acoustic guitar makes a better accompanying instrument for a solo performer. Once you start getting into electric instruments (whose processed sound is much more bandwidth-restricted), you practically need to have a backing group instead of being a solo singer/songwriter. Dylan himself is the proof of it -- when he "went electric," he also went to having a band (eventually The Band) backing him.