Who is the best musician at giving interviews? I love reading/watching a good interview. It endears you so much more to the artist when they say something properly interesting instead of the usual "yeah we've really got into electronic music these days, the new album is really influenced by that".
So yeah, i'd say Tom Waits gives the best interviews EVAR. He's hilarious.
YOUTUBE LINKS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zP1TC21QsnA
yeah all of you should now post youtube links to good interviews, basically.
the youthmovies channel m one.
sam is fucking hilarious.
Surely bob dylan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pR8YuIGqWi4
I like the way he's mostly talking absolute crap but the journalist is still too absolutely pathetic to come back with anything at all.
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this!
Bobby, yes!
Someone should find video of him accepting a grammy for "Time Out Of Mind" (I think that's what it was). He went on for like three minutes building up to this thing his daddy used to say "You know, my Daddy used to say." "Uhh, Uhhh, well, my Daddy told me one time, that ah, and I'll never forget it, that, uuuh he said, uhhhh, uhhh,.......Then Dylan finally says "Well, you know, my Daddy told me lots of things." And he never did say what his Daddy told him- The croud went wild.
Lars Ulrich.
He has a pretty amazing ability to say a lot but not actually tell you anything.
josh pearson
for sure, from my own.
Jason Pierce is supposed to be quite humourous too, and obviously anton newcombe
Lou Reed!
Doesn't pander, takes no shit and has lots of very interesting things to say.
The correct answer to this
...is surely We Are Scientists regardless of what you think of their music.
I want to see Lou
in interview
Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip were very good...
....when I interviewed them at Leeds last year. Dan Le Sac is very funny in person
Morrissey
Obviously.
Other than that? Pet Shop Boys, Jarvis, early Brett Anderson, Andrew Eldritch, John Lydon, David Bowie, and not many others.
You don't get decent interviewees anymore. Plenty of good music, but the people who make it are usually quite dull.
THANKYOU
I made a thread about that a few weeks ago and got FLAMED. Most musicians ARE dull.
They probably aren't in reality
They are just scared to give any opinions that might go against accepted views. Too many careerists.
The Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvfmGPDVkk
adam green!
that one where he was really drunk on german tv, there was a thread about a month ago. i think this is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfBIz-NyQFY&feature=related
HENRY ROLLINS
FTW
It's got to be Arthur Lee
Surely!
There's only one for me
and that's Anton Newcombe (obviously). Every other person I've interviewed or read simply pales by comparison.
From a hack's perspective
that nice man from Elbow - Guy Garvey and James LCD Murphy have been nice highlights. Lovely people.
Probably no coincidence that they were both not snotty little 19 year old shits who thought the world owed them a platinum disc.
and had platinum discs as well.
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hardly
made him a good interviewee though did it!
not 'good' i guess
but the funniest i've seen in a long while.
Depends what you call good
I'd rather have someone challenging and confrontational than someone reading from a script saying nothing of any interest to anyone but themselves and their publicists.
Without a doubt
Sigur Ros
Haha
Someone find the classic link!
I interviewed Reuben last year
and they were lovely blokes. They were all ill but absolutely hilarious.
And I also like...
Billy Bragg, always talks a lot of sense!
Nick Cave
There is a great extended interview with him by the Australian comedians Roy & HG knocking about on YouTube.
^ I've seen that
it's the only ever Nick Cave interview which doesn't feel uncomfortable.
nothing beats this unicorns interview, nothing.
CMG: Well, we're here with the Unicorns, one of the best bands of 2003…
Unicorns: Whoa whoa whoa!
Nick: We must be done for, because it's 2004!
CMG: No no no! Come back! I mean one of the best albums of 2003, that was a great album. Anyway, some dumb interview shit - Where are you guys from?
Nick: Jamaica!
Jamie: We're all born in a small fishing village on the Gaspee [sic] but we didn't actually know it. Not the same small fishing village actually. Nick and I were born in one town called Chategate and Alden was from another one called Shacootame.
Alden: Shabootame.
Nick: Yeah, Shacootame is where the fourth guy was from before we … uhm … killed him.
Jamie: It wasn't until we were all in high school, both our hockey teams made it to the world finals for hockey which were held in Jamaica. We all met there and some guy gave us this pot, which is apparently something they smoke there. And there was this guitar player and bongo whatever and we were all high and were like, "This music stuff is crazy!" We were all hockey players…
Nick: We hadn't even seen a guitar before.
Jamie: But I think the combination of the warm weather and the pot and the music …
Nick: We later learned that we could get pot in Canada.
CMG: So you guys basically got together under some really random circumstances, picked up some instruments, and said "This rock shit is pretty sweet, lets do it!"?
Nick: Yea, well once we got back from Jamaica we started up.
CMG: So how's the coverage been since your album took off? Has that gotten you any benefits or is it the same old touring around with the band?
Jamie: We get to go shopping.
Alden: Before, we were too poor to even get to the next show.
Jamie: It's stepping from the bottom rung to the second to the bottom rung, which is actually a huge step.
Nick: Two months ago, it was like making ten bucks a night playing to like three people who are just there to drink in a bar.
Alden: And who are there to beat you up.
Jamie: Luckily, 'cause we're all hockey players, we know what to do in scraps. Alden's the craziest fighter in the band. He could seriously beat up the two of you and the two of us.
Alden: Except that these guys have knives, here in America.
Jamie (to the camera): America, you're wrong! Allowing free knife dispersement is wrong.
Nick: If I had a knife, I'd just stab Jamie. How could you resist?
Jamie: You've got a sharp knife with some tender flesh in front of you. The sweet blood!
CMG: So, a question about your influences… as music critics, we're always looking for names to associate and compare with new bands. Have you heard of Phil Elvrum or the Microphones?
Jamie: Yeah, Phil Elvrum, he's the famous producer who did all the Beatles albums, Wall of Sound, Beach Boys. We're very into that.
CMG: Any other influences?
Jamie: Have you heard the album called "Coming Out of Our Shells," the Ninja Turtles album?
Nick: Seriously, our influences range from "Coming Out of Our Shells" to "Going Back into Our Shells" to "Shell Shocked" … that's their third album that didn't do so well.
Alden: And then Donatello's solo album, "Coming Out the Closet."
CMG: So can I safely say that you made a concept album about unicorns dying out?
Unicorns: NO!
CMG: So what is the album about?
Nick: Nothing.
Jamie: It's about a collection of songs written over a period of time by a group of people and put out on a specific label.
CMG: And it all just happened to coincide with unicorns?
Jamie: It's the name of the band! I don't think any of the songs touch on unicorns. One song uses the word unicorns… well yeah, it's all about unicorns.
Nick: (points to Jamie) You're a douche bag! (points to Amir) You're our hero! (points to the band currently on stage) These guys are awesome.
Alden: What are they called again?
Nick: Hope Spring? Glass?
Jamie: Shit? Fuck?
Nick: Glass fuck.
CMG: So you have a quirky sound? How did that come about?
Jamie: I don't think we decided to be quirky. We just went with what sounds good.
Alden: I don't even acknowledge that term.
Jamie: (points to Amir's shirt) That's a nice shirt, man. Stylin'!
CMG: Well, we heard you liked pink, so…
CMG: So how many instruments do you guys play? On stage you kept switching stuff up and trading instruments.
Nick: We don't usually do that. I'm usually just on bass.
Jamie: I'm usually on saxophone. I never played drums before; I played saxophone for like 15 years.
CMG: Did you have musical background before your hockey days?
Jamie: No. The thing is, hockey's a lot like music. The stick, the puck, the net, the goalie, the whistles. And the dum dum dum DUM DUM DUM DUM DA DA DEE DA DA DA! The whole world is music, man.
CMG: So you guys were originally a duo (Nick and Alden). How did you (Jamie) come into the picture?
Jamie: Hockey. Nick and I roomed together at hockey school and played on the same hockey team, the Lone Rangers, for a couple exhibition games. And then we were both looking for an apartment, so we lived together for a while. We lost track a bit…
Nick: He fucked me.
Jamie: And then I fucked him. Hard. Lots of blood. And then I found out Alden was moving to Montreal, I heard some of the Unicorns' stuff. I was like, "This stuff is pretty good." Started playing drums for their shows. After awhile, I decided that I was either going to join the band or go off and do some other band, so that was that…
CMG: Where did you end up recording?
Jamie: Do you see that there? (points to a tiny trailer). We recorded in a room that size, with 300 dollars worth of equipment.
Nick: It cost 300 dollars to make our record.
CMG: So the benefits are pretty good, all things considered?
Nick: We've made almost one million dollars. Sold 100,000 records.
Jamie: We could buy and sell you guys, many times over.
CMG: Are you writing new material on the road?
Alden: No, its hard on the road. You get to bed at like 3'oclock.
Jamie: We're gonna take some time, but we'll have some new songs pretty soon.
CMG: How long will you be touring to support this album?
Jamie: A year? I don't know, it depends on how many places we can go. We haven't been to Europe, Africa, Antarctica.
CMG: What are your favorite bands?
Nick: Hope Falls.
Jamie: Honestly, we don't have time to listen to music. We listen to bands that we play with that give us CDs or bands that come to our shows and give us CDs. Almost exclusively. Some good bands we've heard recently: 90 Day Men, Pitter Pat, Toy Band. Spargo…
Nick: Hey man, they might see this!
Jamie: Hey, I just said I liked their band!
Nick: Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic.
Alden: Engine Down. They played here, right?
Jamie: I like RJD2, who's playing tonight. That I'm pretty psyched about.
CMG: Alright, thanks a lot guys.
seriously...
just spat my tea on my leg.
W.A.S
We Are Scientists win this hands down, youtube them! Hilarious!
As I recall
John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Pete Townshend, Mick and Keith, David Byrne, David Bowie, Ian McCullough, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Mike Stipe, Tom Verlaine, Blixa Bargeld, Kurt Cobain all gave great interviews.
But the best interviews ever given by a musician were given by:
Jim Morrison
Get the "Jim Morrison Scrapbook" by James Henke- it comes with a Morisson interview cd which contains excerpts of several interviews including the one where he divulges the yarn about becoming possessed by a shaman at the scene of an auto crash.
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GWAR!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw_cyFLeF4Q
Shit music, world class interviews.
Tom Waits
His interviews on Letterman over the years are excellent.