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| | Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 02:39 pm: | |
thought folks might be interested.....a snippet froma recent SK interview
The Go-Betweens: “People Say” (1979) from The Indie Scene 1979: The Story of British Independent Music (Connoisseur Collection)
Brownstein: The Go-Betweens. We flew in from Japan and we’re, like, “Oh my God, the Go-Betweens are playing.” For some reason, we found out that they even knew who we were. I was a really big fan of the Go-Betweens; I was really surprised that they knew who we were. We went backstage afterward, and they were just, like, [raspy voice] “Sleater-Kinney, your drummer—we need you!” [Laughs] And then suddenly, they were, like, “We’ll come to Portland.” It was really surreal.
SW: So they weren’t already planning to come out here?
Brownstein: No.
Weiss: [Robert Forster and Grant McLennan are] really interesting and have such an intense dynamic. You don’t even know how many times I’ll say, “Come to Portland, make a record, let’s play!” And it’s never panned out.
Brownstein: And then a band from Australia says OK.
Weiss : They just took me up on it.
Brownstein: More fun than the recording session was the one night we spent with them in San Francisco. We spent a long time trying to find alcohol from some corner store, then we went back to the hotel room.
Grant taught me and Amy [Linton] from the Aislers Set and Billy Karren from Bikini Kill all the songs we wanted to know.
Weiss : We also took them to karaoke in Portland—that was pretty amazing. Grant has the best voice of any human being alive. He did a Joni Mitchell song. Robert did a James Taylor song. Grant and I did a duet, an Everly Brothers song . . . it was so good! That’s my dream, to just be able to sing with someone with a voice like that. |
Alfred
| | Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 07:02 pm: | |
Reading that the best band in America right now courted and charmed two of the best songwriters on the planet in such a unpretentious, egoless manner is one of the loveliest postings in recent memory.
I've seen SK three times: twice in Chicago, once in Ft Lauderdale when they opened for Pearl Jam. "Galvanic" is how I'd best describe them. |
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