Ray Padgett

I will introduce a RARE 35mm screening of the Bob Dylan/Larry Charles film MASKED AND ANONYMOUS on 35mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social on March 3, then sign and sell copies of my book BOB DYLAN AS FILMMAKER in the lounge afterwards. Chicago Dylanheads come thru! musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Love “AC/DC” in quotes like it’s not REALLY AC/DC

Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini on His Surreal Time Sparring With Bob Dylan in the Boxing Ring In honor of The Bard’s 80th birthday, famed ex-boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini opens up about the time he exchanged blows with Bob Dylan in Dylan’s secret Santa Monica boxing gym.

Never knew Bob Dylan once boxed with Boom Boom Mancini himself.

Mancini recalled “At the end of the round, Dylan came over and said, ‘Ray, could you lay off those headshots? I still have a few songs left in there.’”

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Jelly Roll meets Weird Al

“Please parody my song!”
“Oh, no. No thank you.”

YouTube video by mayhew7 Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow

I’m not crying, you’re crying…

#RIPCatherineOhara

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🎵 I don’t want to dieee at the grindcore show

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Probably my favorite photo of Joe Walsh eating corn and mashed potatoes

Always knew Neil was the 🐐

Uncaptioned but here are the photos around if that helps

Amazing photo of Stephen Stills and Neil Young in later CSNY drummer Joe Vitale’s book

What would Larry Morrison say

This channel is outta control

71 thousand views in a day. We’re doomed.

For the Neil heads, scattershot new info on what will be on Archives Vol 4 via a Zoom call he did with NYA supporters today

via neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2026/01/neil...

Look Back: An Eventful Week in January 1976 A play-by-play of Bob Dylan's Night of the Hurricane II, and what followed in Texas

A play-by-play of the second Night of the Hurricane 1976, as told through contemporary newspaper accounts. Plus other Bob Dylan appearances offstage and onstage afterwards in Texas.

Includes confirmation of songs not previously listed with Bob Dylan's participation (Mercedes Benz, etc).

This is fun: I get to pontificate about Dylan, always a great way to relax and pass the time. Ruminate, cogitate, whatever we ate - with the great @raypadgett.bsky.social in person:

Bonus Track: Robyn Hitchcock on the Magic of "Desolation Row" "It’s one of his old songs that he loves to reverse a car over at the moment. "

My backstage conversation with the great @robynhitchcock.bsky.social last summer in Tulsa

YouTube video by marinescu10 Top Of The Pops - 1978.08.10 - Bob Dylan - Baby Stop Crying (danced to by Legs & Co)

I....don't even know what to say about this. Legs & Co "interpret" Bob Dylan's Baby Stop Crying, Top of the Pops 1978.

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@queencityjamz.bsky.social sighting in the Shahzad Ismaily tour zine

First and only time anything interesting has happened on Threads

Crazy stat

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - She's Your Lover Now (Studio Outtake - 1966 - Official Audio)

recorded 60 years ago today in New York, with Michael Bloomfield & most of The Band. one of the most frustrating studio breakdowns ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhpz...

Can't wait to see my CVS Playback, my Hannaford Wrapped, my Vermont Waste Tax Year in Review!

This is all Spotify’s fault

Was That Bob Dylan’s Real Oscar Onstage? Mailbag: Funeral songs, Dylan collectables, "No Time to Think"

Asking the most important questions in the newsletter today

My most basic Bob Dylan opinion is that Blood on the Tracks is his best album.

It’d be much more fun to argue for Street Legal or Modern Times or something more unusual. But come on. Blood on the Tracks has never been topped - by him or by anyone else.

Yeah it's good (at least it was for me who didn't know much of their story). I just dl'd it to Plex, don't know where/if it's streaming

Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line - Wikipedia

This one

Damn I just watched a doc about them over the weekend. Didn't even know Rob's name before that but it made clear what a badass drummer he was. And he was so fun to watch play in all the video clips, always grinning and singing along. RIP