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

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@me.com>]

Seconded--great work, Chris!  Bombshell for me is a Warhol soundtracks 
show next year, since the Andy Warhol Museum is in my fair city.  (There 
were glowing reports from the friends who were able to go to the Dean & 
Britta soundtrack show a few years back.)

Maurice Rickard
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http://yoctonaut.com



On Oct 26, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
> 
> You're selling yourself short on what reads like a fun
> interview. Pavarotti?? Tom has a sense of humor after all. 
> 
> Lots of
> interesting stuff here. I thought Tom's reference to the 1986 London 
sessi
> ons is interesting -- esp. since he thinks the 2nd CD of A MILLER'S 
TALE ha
> s more than a few tracks from it. More shockingly, he says he was 
never pai
> d for that compilation. A shame.
> 
> Anyway, I enjoyed the whole thing -- 
> lucky you.
> 
> I'm still waiting for someone to ask Tom about working (ver
> y briefly) with Bowie in 1980 -- Leo, do you know of any interview 
where th
> at has happened?
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, October 26, 2013
> 7:07 PM, christopher hollow <doughboy@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> I a
> lso 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. 
> 
> "Interview
> s are not always fun," Tom says. "But, in retrospect, they're
> always funn
> y." And this one is very true to form.
> 
> In the Rhythms edition there wa
> s a breakout piece of 'celebrity questions'. 
> 
> BREAKOUT PIECE 
> 
> Jam
> es 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. Somethi
> ng's got mixed up, though, he must be
> thinking of another guy. The only B
> razilian 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 disco
> unt store in the 1950s, I don't know what to
> compare it too - say, a supe
> r-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 k
> now 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 g
> uy 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 re
> ally a percussion record; it was almost like a
> sampler's record - there w
> ere 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 melod
> y into a woman beating stones and singing something. I
> have no idea if th
> is was an influence record or not, I just can't forget it
> somehow. I've s
> ince been able to find two more copies. I still have the one
> from childho
> od but it got so scratched over the years. It was called Music
> of New Gui
> nea 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 actu
> ally listen to? I'm looking at my record shelf. I
> can't say there's any g
> uitarists I listen to. Once, every couple years, I'll
> pull out a couple o
> f 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 th
> ink at least two of them have moved on, as it were.
> Guitarists? That's no
> t good. It's funny for him to ask me that, huh.
> [Laughing]. 
> 
> Dave Gr
> aney asks:      "You know when you were with Richard Hell...that was
> 
> AWESOME!!!"
> 
> Tom:     That's kinda funny. [Laughing] I don't e
> ven 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/mar
> quee-moon-rising/
> 
> cheers
> christopher 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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