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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauQOt9eWpg - this one with Innervisions boss and "DJ's DJ" Dixon. shite camerawork though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5USZQ97l9s - Theo Parrish with some of the wisest words I've ever heard, musician or otherwise. this man is frighteningly intelligent

whatever your music taste. seriously.

Deal with http://youtu.be/Bh2-MeMuDuI

(bear with it past the german intro of course)

ahahahahahaha

:D

Always comedy gold.

Total trainwrecks...see this interview from Sydney airport in 1974, which apparently features the least-cool people in Australia attempting to interview a pissed-off Lou: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMIWCxHgQk

as for Morrissey never actually seen an interview with him other than one he did with Jonathan Ross and he just came across as a right dick, anyway am I missing something here with him?

and it can be absolutely facinating. Myself i am intrested in john lennon and he is interesting because he is always very direct. He will listen to a question and answer it exactly and honestly and that is always fascinating for me.

he sticks to too many rappers nowadays who seem a surprisingly safe bet of generally being stoned and jovially appreciative of how much he knows about them/gifts he gives etc, but the range of hostility, friendliness, appreciation, anger, confusion and so on that a lot of his older interviews exposed is great.

particularly watching him being bullied by Blur, nonchalantly interacted with by Nirvana, sneered at by Henry Rollins, started on by some punk band (the transplants?) and getting on the really positive side of the Mars Volta.

Beyond that I used to like watching Vampire Weekend interviews because the singer is really intelligent and articulate.

That's the coolest.

he is a right dick

And...like...I guess...J Mascis... Pretty interesting seeing...someone...being the imbodiment...of, y'know...laziness or something...

from a few years ago which is really good and Morrisey seems genuinely relaxed and at ease. Which is weird. I enjoy watching Morrisey interviews and don't really care if he is a dick or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q

They both come across as massive, massive, massive twats and not in a compellingly twattish way but more of a irredeemably twattish twat kind of way.

I'm struggling a bit to think which musicians I do like seeing interviewed - pretty much all the ones I can immediately think of are either dull or become less likeable and/or lose some mystique when you see them talk. That said, even though I'd never willingly listen to his music, I do quite like Noel Gallagher as an interviewee - his account of the Oasis split was an excellent piece of storytelling. It's a shame it never really translates to his songs...

I know there are loads of others but really can't think of them at the moment...

I like how Morrissey takes it for granted that whoever's interviewing him, can't stand him. And sometimes he even comes across as pleasantly surprised when his interviewee seems to genuinely like him. I think he's basically massively paranoid :)

Beefheart was pretty mental sometimes (although I suppose they are mainly written interviews)

the Butthole Surfers' interviews I've seen have been hilarious as well

(RIP)

I mean it might be he's a 50-something manchild with intense psychological issues but I'm more inclined to believe he's a much more cynical operator who realised in the 1980s the shy, paranoid, unsocial, asexual misfit thing worked for him and has been playing the character even though he's long since outgrown it in reality... And, from some of his comments in interviews, quite possibly a genuinely nasty vindictive piece of work to boot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5KrL_jV4I

..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYMveMitPVM

he works for Pharell's 'i am OTHER' channel now which is cool.

Interview is definitely one of my favorites. So much so, I even made a tune of my own which samples his wise words. I doubt Theo himself would think much of my attempts but ...y'know https://soundcloud.com/t_a_m/small-things-moving-in-tandem

And I thank you profusely for posting (I don't even know much of his work, he's just such a superb orator/personality/guy)

and they just lay into him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEuKiqnnOPM

This is one that I always come back to, fear of failure summed up so well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380&feature=related

fascinating guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMfKacI9AY

especially the guys that were instrumental in the punk scene.
> John Lydon: sometimes a twat, but can be remarkably candid and lucid when he isn't publicising something
> Any of the remaining Ramones
> Howard Devoto: really interesting
> Debbie Harry: talks about being at CBGBs when it was THE place to be

All of the above, as long as they are clean/dry

was always suspicious of him, and Ariel Pink as well but he's not a bullshitter after all.

I think I put to much personal faith in him being a 'genius' after Before Today came out. I'd never really heard any of his music prior to that, so started going through his back catalogue and decided that he was actually a 'genius'.

After hearing his latest album and seeing videos/interviews I can happily declare (to myself) that he is no genius. Just a multi instrumentalist that has a knack for writing catchy grooves.
Anyone can spit the first thing that comes into their mind onto a piece of paper.

It sort of annoys me that John Mauss and Ariel Pink are always compared to each other. John Mauss' music has much more to it.

and maybe Arthur Russell

asked him to do the running commentary on one of their skate videos. Whereupon he spent the whole video saying exactly what he thought of skateboarders, and when introducing a new skaters section, he'd say stuff along the lines of: Here's another completely brainless moron that thinks it's fun to slide along on a plank of wood with wheels on it.

it's an artform.

Love him or hate him, he does a good job of explaining where his head is at in this interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBVwfonbbQM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JuZ4m8Lbg

The mini interview at the start is pretty cringe-worthy, but after that it's good. Never heard him talk about his dad in such detail.