Boston Harold Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast.  My special guest today is Danny Fingeroth, who, in addition to being a fellow admirer of Bob Dylan, is a published author. His most recent book. JACK RUBY - THE MANY FACES OF OSWALD’S ASSASSIN , was published by The Chicago Review Press this past November, 21. INTERVIEW WITH DANNY FINGEROTH, DECEMBER 12, 2023 Danny Fingeroth is a biographer and cultural historian/commentator, specializing in the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. He’s the author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent . His acclaimed 2019 biography of Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life , is a laser-sharp look at this controversial figure—the innovative force behind the beginnings of Marvel Comics. Fingeroth has spoken at venues including the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University, as well as on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered . He has written commentaries for publications including the Los Angeles Times and the Wall St...

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast. My guests today are two of the most respected scholars of the music and art of Bob Dylan, Michael Gray and Ray Padgett.  This cross-generational joint interview covers not only their work as authors, but we discuss such subjects as typewriters, critical theories, the Bob Dylan Center, Shadow Kingdom, Budokan, the Rough and Rowdy Way s tour … and dogs. (Boston Harold Video Podcast interview with Michael Gray and Pay Padgett) Michael Gray is a pioneer in the studies of Bob Dylan. In the early 1970s, he published Song and Dance Man , the first serious collection in book form of an exploration of what makes Dylan an important artist, one worthy of academic consideration. The book has been updated twice since then, in the early 1980s and late 1990s. That most recent version, which clocked in at over 900 pages and has been out of print for quite some time, was recently reissued by FM Press in three more manageable volumes - Vol. 1...

  REVIEW: BOB DYLAN - THE COMPLETE BUDOKAN 1978 “A poet is a naked person … some people say that I am a poet.” - Bob Dylan, 1965 (SONY) An expanded version of the 1978/9 Bob Dylan live album, At Budokan, is being released Friday, November 17. This is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate the album, as I’m sure others have written. It's an excellent document of a transitional time in Dylan’s career. There’s a lot more going on here than meets the eye, however, so I’d like to address that in the review.  This album and tour has had such a sordid history, and from what I can tell from the headlines of other articles, that aspect has  already been covered quite well. So while some of that may also be included below, what I hope to accomplish is place the album in a personal historical context, since I caught one show of the 1978 tour, at the Boston Garden, on September 20, 1978.     I received the 8 LP limited edition version from Japan yesterday, and you ...