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True Tales of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Byrds leader Roger McGuinn and Rolling Thunder Revue producer Louie Kemp share memories of the legendary tour and discuss Martin Scorsese's fiction-spiked documentary with host Brian Hiatt and Andy Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

0:07.0

I'm in the studio with Andy Green.

0:09.0

And we thought today we talk about Martin Scorsese's new documentary about Bob Dylan and the

0:14.9

Wrong Thunder tour and we have a couple people we're going to be talking to who are

0:19.2

actually part of that tour. We're going to start with Louis Kemp, who's mentioned in the movie and

0:25.3

Louis was Bob's good friend from childhood. They went to summer camp together and

0:30.0

Louis was the producer of the Rolling Thunder tour and Louis also has a new book coming out about his friendship and time with Bob Dylan. It's called the

0:39.3

Dylan and me 50 years of adventures. And Louis, do we have you?

0:43.6

I'm here.

0:44.4

I really enjoyed the book.

0:45.5

Thanks for being here.

0:47.0

Did you get a chance to see the documentary

0:49.0

because it's obviously not quite a documentary.

0:51.7

There's a bit of fiction in there yes you're right yeah I saw

0:54.4

actually on Wednesday night of course I was at all the concerts so I knew how

1:00.6

amazing the shows were and the performance footage on the document theory, you know,

1:06.5

capture all that and that was great.

1:09.2

So for people who don't know and Andy wrote a story kind of breaking this down there's a number of

1:14.9

fictional elements inserted into the movie. One is the purported director of all the old documentary

1:21.6

footage who did not exist. That was actually Betmuller's

1:24.8

husband playing a part yes and it must have been bizarre I'm very curious for you as

1:30.8

a real person involved in the real event what you made of all that fiction.

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