From jake@chemistry.Stanford.EDU Thu Dec 30 18:37:28 1993 Return-Path: Received: from Forsythe.Stanford.EDU by mail.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id SAA22823; Thu, 30 Dec 1993 18:37:27 -0800 Received: by Forsythe.Stanford.EDU; Thu, 30 Dec 93 18:33:37 PST Received: by d31rz0.Stanford.EDU.stanford.edu (5.65/Stanford-ChemNet) id AA17626; Thu, 30 Dec 1993 18:33:27 -0800 Received: by nova.unix.portal.com (5.65b/4.1 1.600) id AA27797; Thu, 30 Dec 93 17:01:47 -0800 Received: from zebra.unix.portal.com by portal.unix.portal.com (2.31) id RAA05545; Thu, 30 Dec 1993 17:01:44 -0800 Received: from v3.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by zebra.unix.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.4) with UUCP id RAA01590 for jake@d31rz0.stanford.edu; Thu, 30 Dec 1993 17:01:42 -0800 Received: from stig.vestek.com by vestek.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14358; Thu, 30 Dec 93 17:00:04 PST Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 17:00:04 PST From: tim@vestek.com (Tim McGinnis) Message-Id: <9312310100.AA14358@vestek.com> To: jake@d31rz0 Subject: ROUGH transcription on tupelo interview at Slim's Sender: jake@chemistry.Stanford.EDU Status: R As you may or may not remember Jake & I saw UT in la & sf. just prior to the s.f. show @ slim's we each had a chance interview jeff & jay. jake's interview was air on stanford radio in november. my interview will be in the winter ish of taper's quarterly. what follows is a *very* rough version of things that seemed relevent now. -- 1st i talked to jay who was just as self-effaced as i had heard. on 100% live: before we recorded that 2nd album we had done some live demos that actually seemed to turn out better than the record that we actually did on doing a folk circuit/acoustic tour: too many simon & garfunckle connotations for us to be comfortable with. in general it would be nice to do more acoustic shows on bootleggers: generally a good thing, unless someone is standing right in front of you w/ a mic -- the following section comes from int. w/ jeff tweedy on nashville/country radio: powers that be in nashville realized that people were craving for that so they started marketing alot of those guys as new traditionalist and you listen to it and it's the same thing. a little more guitar to it or something but it's basically slick on getting on country radio: same odds as black flag getting played on a classic rock station on carter/cash: they were really supportive and apparently liked the show he was backstage peeking through the curtains, hooting & holering they did 2 shows the night we played with 'em . we opened for them the second show. into between the 1st and 2nd show they all came back stage and had a cateered huge steak dinner. the kinda steak that would knock me out. and went back out there and played another set we just heard from george decoulious at def-american that produced black crowes... and apparently he was working w/ johnny months after we played with them and johnny was asking about that uncle jethro band. johnny & june were hoping we'd make it june wanted to take us home, clean us up, and give us some food and stuff. we brought out the mother in june carter we have a huge collection of these classic country grand ole opry tv shows from the 40's & 50's. there in like this really amazing techni-color. you got like ernest tubbs, bill monroe, and she's the only person that did everyone of them on circle 2: i was surprised by the john denver cut. i thought it was ok on possible circle 3: somebody besides the nitty gritty dirt band should do it. because they're past being part of the circle now. they're on the older end. somebody younger should try and do it on the major label: we were very particlar in the dealing that that was gonna be something that was important to us, is to have the same kinda freedom we had w/ rockville as far as making records... do 'em & doing the artwork and send 'em to them and they do their job. before even making the record we told them that we were going to austin texas to a studio they never heard of to make a record w/o any overdubs. they weren't even skeptical. they called a week or 2 in, we sent em some rough takes and they were happy. and when we got done they were really happy, they liked the record, and they were into it smells stepping stone ->adam jacobs->shayne stacey he traveled the midwest one time and followed us around for like a week on nirvina: i don't really have that much of a problem w/ nirvana at all. they're just a rock band. people put a lot more weight on it cuz they're the hugest thing there is. when they did the record w/ albini, if you look at it , they're just the same as TAD altho they played the game and had a video that hit a cord that kids were dying for on mtv: a video that we don't have a license for. on videos: it's openended, but at this point it like well we play music & have a tough hard enough time deciding on an album cover. long form vid: the guy that took photographs for the album, went w/ us to europe and filmed alot a 8 millimeter stuff. we were thinking about accumulating some footage and come up w/ a some long form video to sell. like a 30 minute thing.