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Post by americanscientist on Sept 27, 2019 11:58:26 GMT -5
Anyone else listen to this yet? I wasn't crazy about the host even though he was effusive in his praise for DD, especially as a hard rock guy. He was fairly well informed but came off like a Santa Cruz burnout most of the time.
I really liked John's candor about his struggles in the mid-90s, getting sober and his wilderness years in the Viper Room with Neurotic Outsider and pre-reunion days in LA.
Given DD's extensive history, wealth of rock anecdotes, brushes with greatness and being overall great interview subjects, when are they going to be on a decent pod? Marc Maron can't have John over in LA for a long form interview? Or one of NPR's many, many music podcasts? I would love to hear the band or members of the band interviewed on a proper podcast.
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Post by madoldlu on Sept 27, 2019 13:48:48 GMT -5
I have this queued up but haven't hit "play" yet.
I like Maron and I also listen regularly to Chris Hardwick on ID10T. I love those kind of long-form interviews. But I can see it would be difficult to interview musicians who you are not as familiar with their work without sounding uninformed and like some old fogie. It kinda has to be a fan in order to really know what to ask and what to talk about. I remember a Larry King interview Nick and Simon did and King was TERRIBLE, really showing how unprepared and unfamiliar with their work he was, asking really obvious-to-a-fan questions. I suppose if the host is not a fan per se, they would just have to do a ton of research.
OTOH, Hardwick is pretty good keeping his interviews like a real conversation, as if the guest is just a friend or someone he just met and is genuinely curious about their line of work and their life. He's interviewed a couple of musicians like Neko Case and Neil Finn.
I mentioned it once on a thread that I would actually prefer seeing the band onstage being interviewed and discussing their work thoroughly down to the last minutiae for 2 hours, over seeing them play live!
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Post by asteroidk on Sept 27, 2019 14:54:48 GMT -5
I thought it was a great listen. It’s so refreshing to hear them speak when they aren’t in marketing mode.
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Post by trevgreg on Sept 27, 2019 15:08:15 GMT -5
I remember a Larry King interview Nick and Simon did and King was TERRIBLE, really showing how unprepared and unfamiliar with their work he was, asking really obvious-to-a-fan questions. In other words, it was a typical Larry King interview.
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Post by madoldlu on Sept 27, 2019 15:28:26 GMT -5
I remember a Larry King interview Nick and Simon did and King was TERRIBLE, really showing how unprepared and unfamiliar with their work he was, asking really obvious-to-a-fan questions. In other words, it was a typical Larry King interview. Just finished listening to the podcast and yes, it was pretty good. I agree the host was a little annoying, overly gushing. But I appreciated that he was fairly knowledgeable about a wide range of music. And even though the interview was about an hour and a half, there was still so much that they didn't discuss, like anything post Neurotic Outsiders!
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Post by sugarlips on Sept 28, 2019 1:35:08 GMT -5
Have to say I really enjoyed that, mind you I could listen to JT talk all night Like to hear how his mind worked/works like Power Stn being all about Tony T, that kinda got lost and Neurotic Outsiders being all about Steve, which makes sense now I think about it. Robert Palmer only binned the PS tour due to money and his deal with Island records to make Riptide and John is grateful that he did because had Robert continued DD May not have got back for Notorious, cool stuff thanks.
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Post by Dr Of The Revolution on Sept 28, 2019 7:27:35 GMT -5
I really like this interview too.
But somehow I don't see the other doing this kind of interview.
Roger : Too shy, not really a good talker. A lot of topics of his life remain undocumented. Like when he left Duran Duran. How hard was it for him to make the decision ? Did he regret it sometimes ?
Nick : Nick is always in marketing mode when he is interviewed. Unless he can talk about art in general. But not about his life.
Simon : When Simon was in Jonesy's jukebox years ago he was very open. But apart from that : most of the time he is in marketing mode too.
It's not a coincidence that it's only Andy and John who have pulished a biography. (And John's biography is far from complete. He hardly even writes about his solo output years)
Besides, they have katy kafe, don't they ? Even there they hardly really talk.
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