John Herald in 1963. Listeners also got a preview of his forthcoming album, Freewheelin’. In 1966, in the midst of recording Blonde on Blonde, he returned to Radio Unnameable, taking phone calls from listeners. When Dylan crusading anthem, Hurricane, came out in the mid 70, Fass played it all night for five nights in a row and in 1986, when Dylan turned 45; he organized a 45-hour marathon of his music for WBAI.
Fass explained the connection to NPR reporter (and former WBAI news reporter) Jon Kalish, this way: ob Dylan is the leading bard of our age. I feel grateful to have been alive while he’s been writing. In a way, it like having known Shakespeare.
idwife to a Movement
Fass remembers his very first guest on the air was Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, soon followed by Zen poet D.A. Levy, who spoke about legalizing marijuana. Krassner became a