Like Diluting an Essence
It was the Stooges who created the whole ball game: the whole sound, and particularly the attitude. When I worked with the Sex Pistols in the studio, and when I worked later with the Damned – in a very early version of the Damned without Dave Vanian – both groups were locked into recreating the past. That’s what I was saying to them, basically: forget all this retro stuff: the Stooges is what’s happening. If you can get that really hard flamethrower sound, then you lock in to the future. If not, you’re just stuck in the past, and you won’t get anywhere.
Karl Whitney interviews rock critic legend Nick Kent.
Either Commit Suicide or Start Giggling: An Interview with Andrei Codrescu
You should live in at least seven countries for a minimum of one year in each before you are seventeen, and must speak and write at least five languages in order to be a half-decent poet. I would like to add that the hour of 3 a.m. is itself a foreign country, and that even if you don’t live in any place where the natives speak a “foreign” language, being present for a year or so at 3 a.m. will give you the same tonic results that a mud-bath in the Czech countryside would.
Sophie Erskine revisits poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and commentator Andrei Codrescu.