{"id":57972,"date":"2026-02-12T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/larry-ratso-slomans-wild-journey-from-bob-dylan-to-marty-supreme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:47:28","slug":"larry-ratso-slomans-wild-journey-from-bob-dylan-to-marty-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/larry-ratso-slomans-wild-journey-from-bob-dylan-to-marty-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry &#8216;Ratso&#8217; Sloman&#8217;s Wild Journey From Bob Dylan to &#8216;Marty Supreme&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen the closing credits roll on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marty-supreme\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marty-supreme\" data-tag=\"marty-supreme\">Marty Supreme<\/a><\/em>, the first name to appear is, of course, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. He\u2019s the star of the film, one of the most famous actors alive today, and his performance as an early Fifties table-tennis champ is quite possibly going to win him an Academy Award. But the second name listed \u2014 the actor who plays the uncle of Chalamet\u2019s character \u2014 is someone the general public is much less likely to recognize: Larry Sloman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo a very specific fanbases, however, he\u2019s a legend. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a> fan community knows him as \u201cRatso,\u201d the <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> journalist who accompanied Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue and penned one of the greatest Dylan books every published, <em>On the Road with Bob Dylan.<\/em> (Joan Baez gave him the nickname because he reminded her of Dustin Hoffman\u2019s character in <em>Midnight Cowboy<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHoward Stern fanatics know him as the co-writer of <em>Private Parts<\/em> and <em>Miss America<\/em>, two of the most successful books of the Nineties. If you\u2019re fascinated by Seventies drug culture, you\u2019ve likely read his book<em> Reefer Madness: The History of Marijuana in America.<\/em> He also co-wrote the Anthony Keidis book <em>Scar Tissue<\/em>, David Blaine\u2019s <em>Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic,<\/em> Mike Tyson\u2019s <em>Undisputed Truth<\/em>, and <em>Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIf all of this weren\u2019t enough, Sloman also edited <em>The National Lampoon<\/em> for a number of years, wrote songs with John Cale in the 1980s, and released the album <em>Stubborn Heart<\/em> in 2019 where he duets with Nick Cave and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMany articles over the years have compared him to Woody Allen\u2019s character Zelig, but that almost understates just how many famous people he\u2019s worked with and befriended over the past half-century. Somehow or another, he seems to know\u00a0<em>everyone.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know how that happened,\u201d Sloman says. \u201cI mean, sometimes I think about it to myself. \u2018Wait a minute, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, these are all the people I admired growing up. Am I blessed?\u2019 I don\u2019t know. I was just in the right place at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWe hopped on a Zoom with the man known as Ratso to hear the backstory of eight of his more memorable encounters, and even these only represent a tiny fraction of the crazy stories he\u2019s amassed over the course of his life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marty Supreme | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9gSuKaKcqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"marty-supreme-the-safdie-brothers\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\t\u2018Marty Supreme\u2019 &amp; the Safdie Brothers\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI\u2019ve known the Safdie Brothers for years. I first met them when my friend Rick Meyerowitz, who was a great illustrator for <em>The Lampoon<\/em>, did a coffee-table book, and they had a big thing at the public library [in 2010] where they brought in all the ex-editors. I was the last one before the <em>Lampoon<\/em> was sold, so I spoke last. One of the things I was most proud of at the <em>Lampoon<\/em> was I brought in comics like Richard Belzer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/gilbert-gottfried-dead-obituary-1336509\/\">Gilbert Gottfried<\/a>. And so just in the spirit of that, what we did, I wanted to recite Gilbert Gottfried\u2019s favorite dirty jokes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe audience that day was half old women with blue hair who come to everything. They were like, \u201cOh my.\u201d The other half are young people, and they\u2019re loving it. So, about a week later I\u2019m walking in Soho and I see this kid come up to me. It\u2019s Josh Safdie. And he says, \u201cRatso, we saw you at the thing on the <em>Lampoon<\/em> at the public library. Oh man, you were so funny. Would you want to be in our next movie?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI didn\u2019t know who he was. I said, \u201cSend me one of your films.\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe the first feature film they did was at Cannes Film Festival. So, I called back and I said, \u201cYeah, I\u2019ll be in it.\u201d It was <em>The Black Balloon.<\/em> I played a shock jock like Howard Stern. It was so much fun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNCUT GEMS Official Trailer (2019) Adam Sandler, Safdie Brothers, A24 Movie HD\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtR5llR2NEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd then whenever they would do a movie afterwards, they would have me make a cameo. <em>Uncut Gems <\/em>thing was funny because I have one scene with Adam Sandler. We\u2019re in the Diamond Center and I\u2019m walking towards him. I\u2019m supposed to say, \u201cGood Pesach.\u201d And he says, \u201cThanks, Larry.\u201d So after about four or five takes, I say, \u201cGood Pesach.\u201d And he goes, \u201cOh, you\u2019re a Jew again, Larry.\u201d And it was great ad lib and everybody loved it.\u00a0About a month or so later, I get a call from Josh. He said, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to believe this. We sent out the film to get the trailer made. It comes back and the first scene in the trailer is you and Adam.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor <em>Marty Supreme<\/em> I get a call maybe six months ago. Josh goes, \u201cRatso, I have a great role for you. This is not a cameo. This is going to be a real role. You\u2019re going to play Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s uncle and it\u2019s an important scene, but there\u2019s one big ask I have. It\u2019s set in the 1950s, so you have to cut your hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNow, I hadn\u2019t cut my hair in God knows how long, just out of inertia. But by that time, I was so fed up with it I just said, \u201cI\u2019ll do it.\u201d And not only did I do it, and my wife was so thrilled with this, but I had my hair cut by a woman who had won three Oscars for haircutting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI shot all my scenes in two days. I was often just sitting there with Timoth\u00e9e. All he wanted to do was talk about Dylan. On the second day, I gave him a copy of my Dylan book. He says, \u201cOh my God, this is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe first scene was in my office upstairs at the shoe store. And so I\u2019m sitting at the desk and I have my script in front of me because nobody would see it. We do three, four takes, and then Josh comes in and he goes, \u201cRatso, give me the script for a second.\u201d And I give him the script and he rips it up. He says, \u201cFuck the script. This is what I want to concentrate on. Just hit these two points.\u201d And it was liberating. I was able to then just get into this Jewish character, which is not a stretch for me.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-rolling-stone-years\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tThe \u2018Rolling Stone\u2019 Years\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 1973, I was taking a three-year PhD program in Madison. I went to the office of the <em>Daily Cardinal<\/em>, which is a school newspaper, and I said, \u201cI\u2019ll be here for the next three years. Do you guys have a music editor?\u201d And they said, \u201cNo. You want to be one?\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, sure.\u201d Next day, I sent letters to all the record companies telling them I\u2019m the new music editor of <em>The Daily Cardinal<\/em>. I start getting album after album after album for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSummerfest takes place in Milwaukee that summer. I drive down because Sly and the Family Stone were supposed to be the headliners. And the kids in Milwaukee, much more than the kids in Madison, were crazy. I went to a couple of anti-war demonstrations in Milwaukee, and I remember walking by the big administration buildings on campus, all glass buildings. And I hear one of the leaders of the march blow a whistle. He goes, \u201cOkay, now!\u201d And everybody takes out rocks and they break the windows. I said, \u201cHoly shit, we never did this in New York. These people are crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI\u2019m there to see Sly. And of course, Sly is in the throes of his crack days, and he\u2019s two hours late, and he plays two songs, and then he walks off. So what do they do? They start burning the stage down. It was like insane. I go back to Madison and I call up <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. I said, \u201cI\u2019m the editor of the<em> Daily Cardinal<\/em> in Madison. I was at the event, and I wondered if you\u2019d like an article about it.\u201d And they said, \u201cSure, do it on spec.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI meet with the PR person for Summerfest with this big Sony handheld tape recorder. I had it on record, but she\u2019s not telling me anything. I said, \u201cAll right, well, thanks so much.\u201d I unplug it, but I didn\u2019t turn it off. The battery is running. So then she says, \u201cOh, well, now I\u2019ll tell you\u2026\u201d That\u2019s how I got that piece. And then they gave me another assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd I did a preview of Lou Reed\u2019s <em>Berlin<\/em> for <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. That album just blew me away. I thought that was brilliant. At the time, every other rock critic was saying it was shit. But they actually made a poster that they put in all the subways that quoted me. It said, \u201c<em>Berlin<\/em> will be the <em>Sgt. Pepper<\/em> of the \u201970s.\u201d They took that out of context, because I was saying it was the album that would capture the zeitgeist in the Seventies. So <em>Sgt. Pepper <\/em>was peace, love, and this is a bisexual couple killing each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLou Reed didn\u2019t talk to me for six years after that, until I started working with John Cale as a lyricist. And then, all of a sudden, I got some respect back from Lou.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Harrison - In My Life (Live at Madison Square Garden, NYC) 1974\/12\/19\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_v1j8eQpQnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"meeting-george-harrison\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tMeeting George Harrison\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGeorge Harrison was touring and Ben Fong-Torres covered the first gig on the West Coast. And I guess they had a bug up their ass about Harrison since he wasn\u2019t playing many Beatles songs. That was a big criticism. So I come on and I pick up the tour on the East Coast, and I\u2019m a pariah. I mean, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, for <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, fuck those guys\u2026\u201d That\u2019s because the piece had come out already. So thank God, Bill Graham was the greatest. I became very close friends with him. Graham says, \u201cLook, go with us to Long Island and then we\u2019ll come back to the city and I\u2019ll get you an interview with Harrison. Don\u2019t worry about it, kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI come to the show at the Garden. Bill comes over and he goes, \u201cCome on, I\u2019m going to take you to talk to Harrison now.\u201d So, we go down to one of the dressing rooms in the basement, and I walk in and it\u2019s got all these incense and all these rugs, and all this Hindu shit. And he looked at me so warily. And I said, \u201cHey, George.\u201d And I figured, \u201cHow am I going to break the ice?\u201d I said, \u201cHave you heard the new Dylan album?\u201d And he goes, \u201cYeah.\u201d I said, \u201cHow great is \u2018Tangled Up In Blue?&#8217;\u201d And we start singing the song together. We had a great time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI do the piece, and they fuck with the content and leave my name. But I had my original draft. I sent it to him in the U.K. Years later, I bumped into George at the Bottom Line. He says, \u201cThank God, you sent me the original article because I thought you were a real schmuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan &quot;One More Cup Of Coffee&quot; LIVE performance [Full Song] 1975 | Netflix\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ujgqOgMIwfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"bob-dylan-and-blood-on-the-tracks\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tBob Dylan and \u2018Blood on the Tracks\u2019\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI was in New York in 1974. I was coming to visit the <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> office on 5th Avenue. I pass Elizabeth Arden, which is a great place for women to get all the hair blown out and whatever. I look to my left and there\u2019s a guy parked right outside of Elizabeth Arden. It\u2019s Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA week earlier, I visited Sony Records. I said to them, \u201cIs there anything new coming? Anything I should write an article about?\u201d They say, \u201cLet us think about it.\u201d But I look at the chalkboard and I see, \u201cBob Dylan \u2013 <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em>.\u201d I knew he was in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo, when I see him, I walk over and say, \u201cMy name\u2019s Larry Sloman. I write for <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine. I\u2019d love to do a piece on the making of <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em>.\u201d And he goes, \u201cHow do you know what I\u2019m playing? How do you know I\u2019m recording?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI figured I had to do something, like I did with Harrison. I had to change the subject. I said, \u201cOh, by the way, Phil Ochs is my roommate.\u201d And he was. I inherited an apartment in Soho from Phil and Jerry Rubin. Jerry Rubin decided he was moving to California and Phil had nowhere to go. I said, \u201cPhil, just stay here as long as you want.\u201d So when I said to Bob, \u201cPhil\u2019s my roommate,\u201d he melts immediately. He goes, \u201cOh man, how\u2019s Phil doing? Say hello from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI got word to Bob to call me. I was at the <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> office. It was just me and the publisher. It was like 6 o\u2019clock at night. Everybody had gone home, and the phone rings. And I answered it and heard, \u201cWe have a person-to-person call for Larry Sloman from Bob Dylan. Will you accept the charges?\u201d And I said, \u201cYeah.\u201d And so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blood-on-the-tracks-dylan-looks-back-234655\/\">that [<em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em>] piece came out,<\/a> and he liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA year or so later, Bob was in New York working with Jacques Levy on <em>Desire<\/em>. And Roger McGuinn comes into town and he says to me, \u201cI\u2019m just sitting in Gerde\u2019s Folk City. Come to me, and then afterwards we can go out for dinner.\u201d So, we see him at Folk City, and he\u2019s got this incredible suitcase that was the first mobile phones. He\u2019s a high-tech, crazy guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWe went to Chinatown for dinner, him and his road manager. And  I said, \u201cHey, Roger, why don\u2019t we stop by the Other End because I hear Bob\u2019s there with your friend, Jacques Levy.\u201d We walk to the back and we look over and there\u2019s a big table and Dylan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-dylan-louie-kemp-book-dylan-and-me-845876\/\">Louie Kemp,<\/a> who would become my nemesis on that tour. Bob goes to McGuinn, \u201cRoger, we\u2019ve been waiting for you all night.\u201d Roger says, \u201cAnd you know Larry Sloman. He did the piece on you.\u201d Bob goes, \u201cOh man, I love that piece. You\u2019ve got to come with us on this tour. You\u2019ve got to document this tour.\u201d That\u2019s how it happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Howard Stern Interview NBC\u2019s Dateline (1993) | Stone Phillips | Private Parts | VHS Rip HQ \ud83d\udcfc\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCjARfegR_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"howard-stern-s-private-parts\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tHoward Stern\u2019s \u2018Private Parts\u2019\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHoward is just an absolute workaholic. We spent two years working together on <em>Private Parts.<\/em> I would come up after the radio show was over. Ronnie was still his limo driver, and we would drive out because he was still living out in Long Island. We would go to the basement, we would sit down, and we\u2019d start working. We would work through for four or five hours straight. And finally I said, \u201cHoward, I\u2019m hungry.\u201d\u00a0 He was on this crazy diet. So, he says, \u201cYou want some walnuts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWe had an incredible time working on this thing. We wanted to call it <em>Mein Kampf<\/em>, but the publisher wouldn\u2019t let us. \u00a0And then comes the day the book is going to be released. We get in the car at the radio studio, Ronnie\u2019s driving, he\u2019s going up 50-something street right before we hit 5th Avenue, because that\u2019s where the book signing is at the Barnes &amp; Noble. It\u2019s so crowded and crazy. The traffic is stuck. And Ronnie says, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you guys just walk the other half?\u201d And so we get out, we start walking, and we hit 5th Avenue, and we see thousands of people in line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd he was such a trouper. He would sit there for hours and hours and hours and sign books and take pictures. He really has a deep, deep affinity for his fans, and his super fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn recent years, I would hear him<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/howard-stern-interview-new-book-836979\/\"> talk about [how he has mixed feelings about the book<\/a> now due to its salacious content] on the air. I e-mailed him about it. He goes, \u201cRatso, this is not a rap on you. I think we did a great job. It was some of the greatest experience of my life, but I just changed a lot. Don\u2019t take it as I\u2019m dissing you at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anthony Kiedis - Interview about his book Scar Tissue (2006)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOD9Ze_gtQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"the-voices-of-anthony-kiedis-and-mike-tyson\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tThe Voices of Anthony Kiedis and Mike Tyson\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI actually learned a lot when I was going to do that book [<em>Scar Tissue<\/em>] in terms of celebrity books. I had to come out to L.A. and I rented a place. Anthony said, \u201cRatso, I\u2019ve got to postpone it a day because we\u2019re doing a Best Of, and they want two new Chili Peppers songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe next day he calls me, he says, \u201cWe\u2019re still working on these songs,\u201d and this goes on for a week. I\u2019m sitting in this place and I said, \u201cWhat could I do? I\u2019m just wasting my time.\u201d So I said to him, \u201cAnthony, take your time. What about if I just start interviewing all your close friends, all your lovers, all your this and that?\u201d And he goes, \u201cWell, that\u2019s a good idea.\u201d And that\u2019s what I did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo I had a template. I learned this also from working with Mike Tyson. When somebody is a factotum to a person like Tyson, they will remember everything, every last detail, because this is the greatest point in their life. So one time I was sitting with Mike in his house in Vegas, and there\u2019s a knock on the door, and it\u2019s one of his factotums from back in the day, and he goes, \u201cHey, this is Ratso. He\u2019s writing the book. Tell him everything about me and you when we were together, blah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd then the guy goes, \u201cOkay, did you tell Ratso about the time that you kicked Don King in the afro so hard that dust came out?\u201d And Mike goes, \u201cOh, I forgot about that.\u201d Once you have all these other perspectives, it makes it much easier when you actually sit down and do the interviewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPeople always ask, \u201cHow were you able to get Howard Stern\u2019s voice? How were you able to get Anthony Kiedis\u2019 voice?\u201d It\u2019s not their voices. I just do so many hours of interviews that I just basically constructed it from them. And Anthony was such a great guy too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ratso - Our Lady of Light (ft. Nick Cave) (Official Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAf7OcmLkk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"ratso-in-the-studio\" class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-primary-l   \">\n\t\tRatso in the Studio\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI was first inspired to write songs on the Rolling Thunder Revue. One of the reasons they kept me on that tour was because I had brought a lot of good people to be interviewed for what would become [the Dylan film] <em>Renaldo and Clara<\/em>, the six-hour\u2026whatever you want to call it. I mean, I loved it, but so many people hated it. They hated it with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey wanted to do a scene with prostitutes. And they sent me out into what I called \u201cthe combat zone\u201d to round a bunch of them up. They canceled the scene, but I still had the material. So I decided, \u201cHey, this is going to be a good song called \u2018The Combat Song.&#8217;\u201d So I wrote the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn the train from Toronto to Montreal, I went up to Bob and I said, \u201cHey, man, I wrote a song.\u201d Bob read the lyrics. He goes, \u201cMan, this is good. This reminds me of \u2018Just Like Tom Thumb\u2019s Blues.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo, now I have this validation. When I came off the tour, I was talking to my friend, Liz Derringer, who was married at the time to Rick Derringer. And she says, \u201cRick always is looking for good lyrics. Maybe you and he should work together.\u201d We started writing. We wrote a bunch of songs together and it was really a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI was at the Lone Star Cafe one night and I met John Cale who came to see the Kinky Friedman show. And Cale says the same thing, \u201cLet\u2019s work together.\u201d And so we started doing work on that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tYears later, I met these musicians at the KGB bar. They were like, \u201cWe grew up on your Dylan book. You\u2019ve got to hang out with us in Brooklyn. There\u2019s a whole cool scene there.\u201d\u00a0So, I did that and I started going to these crazy clubs, all illegal clubs, and you\u2019d go upstairs and then they\u2019d look at me like, \u201cWhat\u2019s this old guy doing?\u201d They figure one of my daughters or sons are playing. And I\u2019m on the guest list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt one of them, I met Shilpa Ray. She\u2019s from Jersey, a strict Hindu family. A friend of mine was doing a tribute to Sly and the Family Stone, and the third person on was her. This tiny little girl starts belting out \u201cEveryday People,\u201d and it just blew my mind. I went backstage afterwards and I said, \u201cWho\u2019s this girl?\u201d He says, \u201cI don\u2019t know. Somebody told me she was good, so I put her on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe introduced me to Vin Cacchione, who has this great group, Caged Animals. I said to Vin I was thinking about maybe getting back to music, because once Cale left New York and went out to L.A., that was the end of me being involved in creating music. I said to him, \u201cLet\u2019s do one song. Let\u2019s do a demo.\u201d I thought we could use Kinky Friedman\u2019s playbook, which would be get all your famous people to sing your songs to do a tribute album to yourself. Vin says to me, \u201cWhy are you having other people sing the songs? You got a very unique voice. You should sing the songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((715\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-border-color-black u-border-lr-2 lrv-u-padding-tb-025 lrv-u-padding-lr-075 lrv-u-border-b-2 lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-text-align-center a-font-basic-secondary-s\">Kinky Friedman, left, with Sloman in 1982. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-a-font-body-xs lrv-u-margin-t-050 lrv-u-text-align-center\">John Kisch Archive\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI said, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m going to see my friend Hal Wilner. He\u2019s an incredibly well-respected producer. He\u2019ll give it to me straight.\u201d So we go up to Hal\u2019s studio and I said, \u201cHal, I want you to hear this,\u201d and he sits back, closes his eyes, this is the way he always would listen to music.\u00a0 He finally opens his eyes and he goes, \u201cWhat are you waiting for?\u201d I took that as a yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWe started doing the album with Vin. We recorded it all at his home studio in Bushwick. And then we got an album deal with Lucky Number in the U.K. And what\u2019s crazy is that, with no real promotion at all, it\u2019s had over two million hits, which I made 15 cents, but it was incredible that is still to this day, still racking up millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI\u2019m still in contact with Bob Dylan through his manager Jeff. When I was working on this album, I was in Vegas doing a second book with Mike Tyson. I got a call from Jeff,\u00a0\u201cBob wants you to come to the show.\u201d He was playing at some casino in Vegas.\u00a0 I get there and the road manager says, \u201cDo you want to say hi to Bob now or when the show\u2019s over?\u201d And I said, \u201cNah, wait for the show is done. I don\u2019t want to bother him before the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey set me up by the soundboard. The road manager says, \u201cWhen you hear \u2018It Ain\u2019t Me,\u2019 Babe, start coming back and then I\u2019ll set you up.\u201d That means you\u2019re going to be standing somewhere and Bob\u2019s going to come up to you when he\u2019s leaving. He leaves while people are still applauding. He doesn\u2019t stay around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo I hear the correct song. Everything\u2019s dark. I see a little searchlight, and the searchlight is bringing Bob to me. Now, Bob is terribly nearsighted and he never wears his glasses on stage. So it takes him a little while to see me. Now, I\u2019m known for my outfits, because my wife is from New Orleans. We often go to this place Soul Train Fashions, and get 10 suits, zoot suits, all real crazy suits. And so I\u2019m wearing one of those suits and Bob comes up to me, he looks at me, he goes, \u201cOh man, you should be dressing me.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI start telling him about my album. I have a duet with Nick Cave. And I had a duet with Yasmine Hamdan, who\u2019s a great Arabic singer. I\u2019m telling him all this stuff, and I see him tensing up because he thinks the next question is, \u201cWill you sing one of my songs?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tI said, \u201cAnd I want you to\u2026write the liner notes.\u201d And he looks relieved. He goes, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I could fuckin\u2019 write good liner notes.\u201d I said, \u201c<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/albums\/world-gone-wrong\/\">World Gone Wrong<\/a><\/em>?\u201d He goes, \u201cOh yeah, you\u2019re right.\u201d So that was it. But he never wrote the liner notes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ratso - I Want Everything (ft. Yasmine Hamdan) (Official Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cCQLSddKKHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/larry-ratso-sloman-bob-dylan-marty-supreme-1235515225\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the closing credits roll on Marty Supreme, the first name to appear is, of course, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. He\u2019s the star of the film,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}