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

[leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>]

Phil, I believe that both issues have been covered before. That Verlaine 
never got any money from the compilation/live disc has been discussed sever
al times when he was asked about his relationship with record companies, 
and this seems to be THE worst experience he's had over the years. Most rec
ently, we got to read about it in that (I think) two part interview spect
acle a year ago or so, that one some of us on the list tried to make sens
e of.

About the Bowie session, my recollection is that Bowie thought it would b
e a good idea to bring in Verlaine to play on "Kingdom Come", as he had c
omposed it. Then Verlaine became happy as a child to be in a big, expensi
ve studio with plenty of recording time, and wanted to try all the equipm
ent. As he fooled around with amps and guitars, Bowie became tired of it 
all, threw him out and hired Robert Fripp instead.

Although, as a curious addition to this: I also remember a Swedish newspa
per interview from the 80's where Verlaine implied that his guitar playing 
on the cover version was indeed present, but that it was buried under Fri
pp's.

Leif J, Prague




> 
> Lots of
>  interesting stuff here. I thought Tom's reference to the 1986 London ses
si
> 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.

> 
> 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 wher
e 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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