
Interviewing rock & roll stars is not easy. They are a wild, usually egotistical bunch who often live outside the boundaries of acceptable human behavior as dictated by societal norms and generally accepted "common sense." For example, it may seem like common sense that once should not be nodding off on heroin, unable to speak, and wearing a shirt with a swastika on it during an on-camera interview. But for Sid Vicious, this seemed like an okay thing to do, and so he did it. Here's that, and nine other rock & roll interviews gone terribly wrong. [...]
Pretty funny interview. Via Elsa Kahlo on the FaceBook.
1974 interview with Lou Reed (of The Velvet Underground , solo career) Best fucking interview ever.
For an audience, artists reinterpreting their own catalog, in a live setting, can be both exciting, and at times, an exercise in frustration. This trend of course also lends itself to the companion "live" album as well. One of the first instances of this I consciously remember was picking up Bob Dylan's [...]
Mr. Reed wants to build something -- no, not another Killers track . This time he's on the dirty boulevard looking to build a bridge, construct a safety zone (part hospital, part school, part his home ... part his heart), and shed light on the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China during the start of WWII. He writes a general, sees rape at the end of a bayonet ... Yessir, like Jay , Lou saw a movie, was inspired, wrote some songs about it. Here, the moving (ahem) image is the historical documentary Nanking , the songs the [...]