Take a hit!” And “I loved the Highway 61 album for its absolute sledgehammer horrible noise. Other trenchant Miller observations include: “Tarantula is an incredibly rewarding book. But it’s not a hygienic vision of what rock ‘n’ roll used to be. The world sees me as just another bloke buying a Dad Rock box set at Christmas. Listeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a 10th November 2021Īuthor, editor and podcaster Andy Miller is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore: “Bob Dylan is not a safe option!” “The heritage industry around the Beatles and Dylan is neutering the anarchy of the music. Richard currently presents the weekly radio show Dark Times Radio and is recording again with Doctors of Madness. His memoir, Strange - Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks was published in 2005. His many stage appearances include Tom Waits’ musical fable The Black Rider. He founded the influential mixed-media Cabaret Futura in 1980 and has subsequently worked as an actor, appearing extensively in films (Batman, Mona Lisa, Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, Gangs of New York and Harry Potter) and on television. His proto-punk rock band Doctors of Madness first performed in 1975 (supported by the Sex Pistols). Richard Strange is a writer, musician, composer, nightclub host, curator, actor and adventurer. From witnessing a 1964 Kinks concert (“it blew my mind and changed my life”) to eventually working with Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, Mr Strange proudly concludes that “Bob Dylan still haunts me”. And he reminds us that Another Side of Bob Dylan still provides “an embarrassment of riches, lyrically and emotionally”.
He discovers “the boy band of Beat literature: Burroughs, Kerouac and Ginsberg”. He takes us on a journey that starts in his Brixton comprehensive (“I was always bunking off, going to art galleries and the haunted, dingy Soho flesh-pot folk clubs”). Writer and musician Richard Strange insists “If you don’t want to be Bob Dylan, you shouldn’t be writing songs”. Listeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a 1st December 2021 She is a board member at the Institute of Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa and contributed to the 2021 book Dylan At 80: It Used To Go Like That, And Now It Goes Like This. An ideal companion for anyone walkin’ down the Dylan highway.ĭylan scholar Laura Tenschert is the creator of Definitely Dylan, a podcast exploring the work of Bob Dylan and its relevance in our culture from a modern, feminist perspective.
Laura even manages to explain the difference between Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Institute, Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Archive and the Bob Dylan Centre in (yes) Tulsa. Topics covered include Dylan commenting on his creativity via his songs, where the next generation of Bob’s fans will come from, his penchant for “Dad jokes” and the tight connection between To Ramona and False Prophet. Dozens of songs are given forensic treatment, ranging from classics like Lord Protect My Child and Buckets of Rain to oddities like Fur Slippers and Dirty World. German-born Laura learned English by listening to Bob, which gave her sharper ears than most. Fellow podcaster Laura Tenschert’s Definitely Dylan contains multitudes of theories and insights which she shares in this eye-opening episode.