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

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Hi Christopher,

You're selling yourself short on what reads like a fun
 interview. Pavarotti?? Tom has a sense of humor after all. 

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

Anyway, I enjoyed the whole thing -- 
lucky you.

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 where 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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