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     peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 118 Registered: 06-2005 |
Part 1 of 3 of an interview with Robert by Andrew McMillen featured here... http://www.messandnoise.com/icons/396095 5 Looking forward to the rest of it. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 239 Registered: 02-2005 |
I was only able to skim it this morning, but it looks like a terrific in-depth piece. The interviewer was very well prepared. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2350 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for the link Peter. That was a lovely thing to spend my breakfast time reading. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 206 Registered: 05-2005 |
Interesting enough read though that furrow (early GB's) has already been so extensively ploughed (Nichols book) that there isn't an awful lot that's new in what Robert has to say about it. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 562 Registered: 04-2005 |
Part 2 here http://www.messandnoise.com/icons/396684 3 and details of the 4 songs covered for the special edition book... "’I’ll Spend My Life with You’ by The Monkees, a beautiful song, not one of their best-known, an “album song” from Headquarters [1967]; The Saints’ song ‘The Prisoner’, which is off Prehistoric Sounds [1978]; a song of Grant’s called ‘Just A King In Mirrors’, which is a b-side from 1983; and the last one is ‘Walcott’ by Vampire Weekend. All four of them turned out really well." | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 98 Registered: 10-2005 |
It is a great interview. And Robert enjoys the whole thing. (The comments from some of its readers are very harsh though. That's what you get for being serious, thoughful and generous.) | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 120 Registered: 06-2005 |
and finally.. http://www.messandnoise.com/icons/397424 0 Good work Andrew! There may be the a Robert Forster Cook Book in the offing.. 2541 Easy Cook Health Loafs or 121 Bachelor Quiches maybe? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2363 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, the Volvo thing got me thinking. When I was flying out of Brisbane a day or two after the Four Ages shows, I took a taxi to the airport. I think this was loosely around 9:00 a.m. or so. Traffic was really heavy. At one point in the middle of town I observed an old '70s Volvo next to me. In my fuzzy memory it was a station wagon and it was either light yellow or white, but anyway one of those typical old Volvo colors and definitely not blue. The driver had long salt and pepper hair. I remember thinking of David Gagen at the time but assumed that it wasn't him. I only saw the profile and I'm terrible at recognizing faces of people when you take them out of a familiar context. Suddenly I wonder if it might have been Robert. I do remember him saying after one of the shows that one of his duties was to drive the kids to school each morning. It's a big town; there are probably a lot of old Volvos clattering around. We weren't anywhere near the Gap. I suppose not, but I do wonder. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1812 Registered: 09-2006 |
I thought the last question in the third part was a little blindside-ish...and bookended somewhat with the observation that Robert finds bands like Black Sabbath too "macho" for his tastes. Putting aside the gentlemanly behavior Robert attributes it to, the only people I can think of who *wouldn't* cross the street when they saw a group of moronic toughs looking for any excuse to start a fight are people who have "manhood" issues of their own to sort out. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 305 Registered: 02-2007 |
Wasnt me Randy. Never driven a Volvo. Odds are pretty remote it was Robert but as u say ...anythings's possible. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2364 Registered: 03-2005 |
It was just a spurious thought David. Actually Robert's hair wasn't particularly long at that time, was it? I think it was longer by the time I saw him play in San Francisco. The memory gets creative. |