Today's Guest: Writer Howard Sounes, author 27, Fab, Down the Highway Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with writer Howard Sounes, author of 27, Fab, and Down the Highway, by clicking on the video player above!Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes Billy Joel, Roger Daltry and Pete Townshend... Continue Reading →
Levon Helm’s post-The Band life gets respect in new book! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch the exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jamie Malanowski by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of woodland nymphs with a great sense of rhythm… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I can't imagine what it must have... Continue Reading →
Paul Nelson Rediscovered: Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan and more! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Rolling Stone magazine writers and past Mr. Media guests such as Ben Fong-Torres, David Wild and Parke Puterbaugh who are hanging on every word today as they seal their own unpublished interviews in air-tight mayonnaise jars and hide them under my bed… in... Continue Reading →
Ken Regan: All Access with Beatles, Stones, Springsteen! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience with tinnitus in both ears and no regrets… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! Photographer Ken Regan was there when Bob Dylan meet Bob Dylan 2.0 – Bruce Springsteen – for the first time. And he was there when... Continue Reading →
828 Bob Dylan Revealed in new documentary film by Joel Gilbert! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Joel Gilbert, documentary filmmaker, Bob Dylan Revealed Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who won’t figure out that my audio failed to record during the following conversation… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Part 1 of 2 I can’t imagine... Continue Reading →
573 Don’t be sedated before finishing I Slept with Joey Ramone PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Legs McNeil, co-author, I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir Joey Ramone wasn’t really Joey Ramone. Most people know that the “Ramones” name was for the stage, although few sought out and became their stage persona more completely than the former Jeffry Hyman, a spindly, troubled boy from Queens.... Continue Reading →
Bob Dylan, a complete unknown? Not after Charles Gatewood! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Great photographs—whether shot by Ansel Adams or your Aunt Anna—capture a moment in time that people familiar with the moment, the subject or the place can relate to for years to come. And even if you don’t have any familiarity with what’s in the picture, the good ones always relate an emotion, a texture... Continue Reading →
The Ten-Cent Plague sponsored by author David Hajdu! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Run for your lives! Hide the women and children! There’s a Ten-Cent Plague loose upon this fine land! My guest today, David Hajdu, is the author of a new book that – at the very least – probably has the best title of the year, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How... Continue Reading →
28 Behind the skin with Playboy mag editor Chris Napolitano! PODCAST INTERVIEW
When I was a student at the University of Florida, studying film during the day and writing freelance stories at night, I landed two choice assignments. Choice, that is, for a horny, unrequited, socially awkward twenty-year-old. First, I got to spend an afternoon hanging out with Russ Myers, a notorious film director and king... Continue Reading →
15 Houdini biographer Ratso Sloman on writing with Howard Stern! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Larry Ratso Sloman, author or co-author of celebrity memoirs from Howard Stern, Abbie Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Phil Esposito, Mike Tyson, and a biography of Harry Houdini Writing the biography of a well-known person in pop culture is an assignment fraught with trap doors, two-way mirrors, and shackles. Some writers even disdain... Continue Reading →