Boston Harold Podcast

DYLAN’S OUTLAW BLUES ‘24 IN MANSFIELD: HE USED TO BE DISGUSTED ….plus Lukas Nelson, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and Celisse. with FAB PIX! by Harold Lepidus OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024 - XFINITY CENTER, MANSFIELD, MA, JULY 2, 2024 Willie Nelson’s Family (featuring his son Lukas, standing in for his recuperating father) Bob Dylan and his Band Robert Plant & Alison Krauss  Celisse    This concert sort of snuck up on me, just as the surprise announcement that this tour was even happening back in February did. This was only a couple of months after I last saw Dylan during his swing through New England in November. In my haste (a.k.a. panic state), I splurged for a VIP 8th row seat (I’d forgotten how much I paid, until I looked it up just now. Yikes!) It was a little odd walking into the venue and seeing a handful of people wearing t-shirts with, let’s say, “politically charged” slogans which would seem out of place at a Dylan show.  One thing that has emerged ov...

"THE WHO'S TOMMY ON BROADWAY" - IT'S A SENSATION! SEE IT! FEEL IT! - Plus meeting Pete Townshend. By Harold Lepidus (Boston Harold Podcast) The revival of The Who's Tommy on Broadway was so spectacular Wednesday night, I hope I can do it justice here on the (electronically) printed page.  Calling it a “Broadway Show” doesn’t even begin to describe this theatrical experience. It is a play, a musical, an opera, a religious tent revival, a multimedia event, and a rock concert, all seamlessly performed with both nostalgic and futuristic sets, and first rate special effects that take the audience on (you might say) an amazing journey.  All the characters were brilliant and believable, especially the lead actors - Mrs. Walker (Alison Luff, reminiscent of movie mom Ann-Margret), Captain Walker (Adam Jacobs), and all three Tommys, including the grown-up version (Ali Louis Bourzgui, hair reminiscent of Jeff Slate’s).     An important component to the show’s success is t...

New book chronicles the history of  THE TURTLES and  FLO & EDDIE, with stops at Zappa, Springsteen, Alice Cooper, Ray Davies, and T. Rex.  Zoom interview with authors Mark Arnold and Charles Rosenay!!!  Harold Lepidus (Boston Harold Video Podcast) You know their biggest hits - “Happy Together” and “Elenore.” If you’re like me (they were a bit before my time), you may have heard some of their most popular songs yet not known they were by them - “She’d Rather Be With Me,” “You Baby,” “She’s My Girl,” and an electric folk-rock version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” (They’re playing in your head right now, aren’t they?) However, that is only the beginning of the story of the Turtles, one of the most popular acts on American AM Top 40 radio in the 1960s. In 466 pages, co-authors Mark Arnold and Charles Rosenay!!! have chronicled the fascinating and outrageous history of that band, and their convoluted and tumultuous post-Turtles career, in their just published bo...

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...