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What&#8217;s closer to the actual truth is that Seeger asked the soundman if he could lower the instruments so he could hear Dylan&#8217;s words. When told the sound was the way Dylan wanted it, Seeger claims he told the soundman that &#8220;if&#8221; he had an axe, he&#8217;d cut the wires.<\/p>\n<p>That the story has been misconstrued over the years isn&#8217;t altogether surprising. Seeger&#8217;s influence looms large over American music and social history, but he&#8217;s always been largely misunderstood &#8212; especially by the U.S. government &#8212; for his views on peace, civil rights and ecology. He went from the top of the hit parade to the top of the blacklist \u2014 banned from commercial television for more than 17 years. 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