(TV) 2nd Best Verlaine Interview Ever [in Australia!]

["christopher hollow" <doughboy@netspace.net.au>]

I also got to speak to Tom in the lead-up to the shows and really enjoyed
it. 
It was originally published in the October edition of Rhythms here. It was
also put up on an online mag called Taste in Music. 

"Interviews are not always fun," Tom says. "But, in retrospect, they're
always funny." And this one is very true to form.

In the Rhythms edition there was a breakout piece of 'celebrity questions'. 

BREAKOUT PIECE 

James McNew of Yo La Tengo asks . a few years back you did some radio shows
on WFMU and played a bunch of incredible Brazilian records . when are you
going to do that again? 

Tom: 	He's a nice fellow. Something's got mixed up, though, he must be
thinking of another guy. The only Brazilian record I have is by a real
schlocky, hotel, easy-listening music guy. I wonder why he said Brazilian. I
did do the show but not Brazilian. There was a New Guinea tribal record from
about 1957. It was the first record I ever bought when I was a young man
[Laughing]. There was a discount store in the 1950s, I don't know what to
compare it too - say, a super-sized grocery store but only bigger. This was
one of the first discount shops and they had a corner with twenty bins of
LP's for 99c. I didn't know what was obscure and what wasn't, I wouldn't
have been 10 years old. I remember going there with my family and while they
were buying things, I found this record and I asked my father to buy it.
There was a tribal guy on the cover and I couldn't work out what it was. I
can still remember all these different rhythms that these people were
singing. It wasn't really a percussion record; it was almost like a
sampler's record - there were probably 60 different examples of singing but
each example would only last for a minute or so and was edited into the next
guy singing a melody into a woman beating stones and singing something. I
have no idea if this was an influence record or not, I just can't forget it
somehow. I've since been able to find two more copies. I still have the one
from childhood but it got so scratched over the years. It was called Music
of New Guinea on the Prestige label. 

Dean Wareham asks: Who are three electric guitarists you enjoy listening to?

Tom: 	He's another really good guy. [Laughing] That's a really rough one.
What guitarists do I actually listen to? I'm looking at my record shelf. I
can't say there's any guitarists I listen to. Once, every couple years, I'll
pull out a couple of Ventures records because I like the overall sound of
that group and the melodies. But I don't even know the names of the guys in
the group. I think at least two of them have moved on, as it were.
Guitarists? That's not good. It's funny for him to ask me that, huh.
[Laughing]. 

Dave Graney asks:      "You know when you were with Richard Hell...that was
AWESOME!!!"

Tom: 	That's kinda funny. [Laughing] I don't even know what that means
[Laughing]. Honestly, I don't know what he means.

Here's the rest: 

http://www.tasteinmusic.com.au/2013/10/10/marquee-moon-rising/

cheers
christopher 



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