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I just read (and laughed) about the time George Melly interviewed (an aging) Mick Jagger, an interview which included the following exchange:

George: So Mick, why all the lines on your face? Mick: They're laughter lines! (grins with satisfaction of seemingly having fended off the attack) George: Nothing's that funny.

Bet that wiped the smug smile right off his face. So, any more occasions on which a self-satisfied musician has been quite rightfully cut down to size, by journalist, fan or fellow popster? (special marks for anything involving Phil Collins)

― baboon, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NARDWUAR!

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NARDWUAR!

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mick Jagger comes off a lot better than the journalist in that story.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chet Baker, after being vilified by Wynton Marsalis - "If I had his technique, I don't know if I would play the way he does"

― dave q, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

snippets from Nardwuar's ("N") interview with Geddy Lee ("G"):

N: Was there any particular shampoo that you used at all, Geddy?

G: Well, that's a rather dumb question.

N: Well, I was just curious - to bring out that special Rush look in the early days.

G: Yeah. Well, I can see this interview is going into a very boring direction for me.

...

N: Geddy Lee of Rush, what was it like being present for the recordings of the greatest Canadian record of all time?

G: What was that?

N: "Tears are not Enough"!

well, I found it amusing.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry folks, but this isn't entirely related. As a tangent, I'd like to hear great heckler put downs. My favourite was sax player Terry Edwards, when playing with his Scapegoats in Manchester a couple of years ago. Some drunk geezer was shouting at him, god knows what, and this was a sparsely attended gig (good though). Terry looked at him sternly and gravely intoned "If you want to join in you're really going to have to start coming to rehearsals." The guy shut up. I met Terry a month or so later when he played with Gallon Drunk at Planet K, and metioned how cool I thought this was. He told me that he'd nicked the put down verbatim from Ian Durie.

― misterjones, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whilist celebrating my girlfriends birthday at TJ's in Newport there was some Ozzie singer songwriter playing. I can't remember his name but I know Nand liked him. Anyway she had all these boiled sweets and wanted to thank him. So I said as joke why don't you throw sweets onto the stage. She being cackhanded love muffin she is pelted this poor sod with blackjacks and fruit salads. His rhythm guitarist got the point and said thanks but he went batshit. He stopped playing looked her straight in the eye and said "I've driven 15 hours in the car to be here love, this is just me and you right me and you." She felt like shit and apologised after where he was marginally more reasonable. I on ther other hand was well confused cos no way does it take that long to drive from London to Newport. Maybe four hours tops. Maybe he had a shit car or drove from Paris and sat in the backseat on the ferry. Miserable git.

― monstatruk, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nardwuar is fucking hilarious... His interview with Ted Nugent was classic: "So, Ted Nugent; what was up with Damn Yankees? Even you can admit the band sucked, right?" or something to that effect...

― Andy, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you sure you're not confusing Nardwuar with Bob Mack, when he interviewed Ted Nugent for Grand Royal? First question: "So, Damn Yankees...that was pretty lame."

― Mark, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nardwuar is a one-note joke at best. The one thing I'll give him is that he really knows his music, and a lot of the questions he asks are fairly sharp, even if you find him exceptionally annoying.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Narduwar: "Is Lydia Lunch as annoying in person as she is on record?"

Kim Gordon: "Not as annoying as you."

Is there truth to the story that he was actually the one who asked the question that led to Jean Chretien's "pepper" comment?

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This Narduwar dude sounds like a real-life equivalent of (or inspiration for?) some joke figure Melody Maker cooked up a few years ago, by the name of Pepe Le Punk, a "Hot!" Belgian musinewsy journo conducting made-uppie interviews with the pop stars of the day. He was alleged to have a pet goat named Tin Machine, and MM usually used some archive picture of the guitar bloke from A Flock Of Seagulls.

― Old Fart!!!, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That Nardwuar site is ruining my life. Thank you, ILM.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not a rumour, sundar, it's a fact...he did in fact ask the question, though you'd never recognize him in the footage because he looks so clean cut. Usually he's wearing his toque. (Well, except for that short period when Skid Row's Sebastian Bach stole it from him, causing an international incident. Which is weird when you think about it, because Bach is a Canadian. But then again, that's probably why he realized that stealing the toque would be so contentious.)

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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