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Re: (TV) New review of Waterman's book



Yes good piece. Thanks Phil. Leif, re the interviews Waterman possibly thought that trying to unpick the conflicting self-mythologising that seems to come from both Tom and Richard would be a thankless task and bottled it! Agree it would be be good to get the perspective of the likes of Fred and Billy and who knows maybe they were approached and declined.

Regarding the wider 33/3 series i've read a few others: Low, Loveless and Daydream Nation I think. Waterman's book is certainly the most substantial and 'academic' of all of them (footnotes etc). I don't think there is any set format for the series. Some are a very personal track-by-track response whilst others take a much wider cultural history approach. Ranaldo and Shelly are credited with interviews in the Daydream book (Ranaldo wrote a short introduction) and MBV are credited with interviews in the Loveless one so it does happen.

Graham



On 05/10/2011 14:51, leif joley wrote:
Good review of a book that I found enjoyable but also made me a bit irritated.
Why go to scrapbooks and archives and avoid talking to the main characters? In
this case, we have Lloyd and Hell who both seems to be very talkative. In the
Brazil interview, Verlaine agreed to meet Waterman after the book came out,
and seemed disappointed that he hadn't been informed about it until it was
finished; he might've wanted to speak about it. Smith and Ficca? Andy Johns?
The recording engineers?  This was my first 33 1/3 book -- and I wonder: Do
they all have the same approach to their subjects like this one? Is this some
kind of principal thing with this serial -- to have an author gathering
information and jumping to conclusions but NOT making interviews? The content
of Waterman's book is of course of interest to anyone captured by this record,
but it's beyond me why the effort to chronicle its birth isn't supplemented
with recollections from the people who made it -- especially since these
people aren't dead and buried. Leif J, Sweden

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 04:53:38 -0700
From: pobbard@yahoo.com
Subject: (TV) New review of Waterman's book
To: tv@obbard.com

Short but worthwhile:

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/10/music/dont-mind-the-maggots


--Phil
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