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Peter Bogdanovich on Tom Petty

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, director Peter Bogdanovich talks with Jim and Greg about his Tom Petty documentary, "Runnin' Down A Dream." Bogdanovich died on January 6 at age 82.

The legacy of Woodstock impresario Michael Lang is also discussed after his death on January 8.

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0:00.0

Welcome to this bonus episode of Sound Opinions. I am Greg Kott. My co-host is Jim De Regattis.

0:05.0

Members of our Patreon community are the first to hear these bonus podcasts and add free to boot.

0:11.0

Go to Patreon.com slash Sound Opinions to boot. Go to Patreon.com slash sound opinions to join. We've been doing a lot of

0:16.4

obituary tributes lately and sadly we have another one today. This time

0:21.2

it's film director Peter Bogdanovich. He died on January 6 at age 82 from complications related to Parkinson's disease.

0:29.0

And now you may be thinking, well, what exactly does Bogdan't have to do with music what does he

0:34.3

have to do with music Greg indeed of course he and his partner polyplatt made three

0:39.9

timeless films in the 70s including the last picture show but it was in

0:43.9

2007 when Bogdanovich directed the Tom Petty documentary running down a dream and

0:49.3

that's why we interviewed him for sound opinions.

0:51.8

Yeah and it was a great conversation, an interesting interview about an incredible musician.

0:57.0

Tom Petty, who we lost a few years ago, we're going to share that conversation in the bonus episode.

1:04.9

I don't think sound opinions can never get enough, Tom Petty, Greg.

1:09.4

It is funny to listen back and hear us talk about how Ben Mon Tench never does interviews.

1:15.8

And he was following us on Twitter.

1:17.9

We finally got him to come on the show in 2017, episode 602.

1:22.3

He was thrilled to chat with us in fact we we might want to revisit

1:25.6

Benmont again

1:27.3

We should also note that in addition to Peter Bogdanovich

1:31.5

Woodstock Impressario. Michael Lang died over the weekend as well.

1:38.6

You may have heard his name on the show recently in our Woodstock 99 episode and in the bonus episode on

1:46.1

Karen Dalton. I certainly had a big impact on the music industry. We can debate

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