Wednesday, September 5, 2007

The Floggings will continue until morale improves

This is not an update. I am knee-deep in a project that has consumed every waking moment of my time. The time I don't spend on it is distributed between yelling angrily at the Utah State Aggies on NCAA College Football '08 and Bioshock (possibly the greatest game I've ever played). It could be worse, I could be claiming tennis is better than college football. Seriously, Scoop "Poop" Jackson beat me to it(http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/070903). And someone actually paid him to do it, and didn't fire him. Amazing.
Anyway, this is from an interview with Curt Kirkwood (if anyone knows where it's from, please tell me) about the new Meat Puppets album:

"This record is very much a return to our '80s approach,"
Curt Kirkwood says of the new Meat Puppets album Rise to
Your Knees. "It cost next to nothing to make, and
everything on it is a first take. My attitude now is that
I refuse to spend a lot of money on this, I refuse to over
think it, and I refuse to let other people impose their
own agendas on my band."
...
"In the '80s, we used to just crap this stuff out," he
notes. "Those SST records cost, like, five grand apiece,
if that much, and those are the records that made people
like us. Later, when we got into a position to work in
bigger studios with outside people, we'd wind up spending
a whole bunch of money and having to satisfy the people
who gave us that money. We did that all through the '90s,
and I'm just not interested in doing that anymore.

"Now, if I can get away with it, I'll make a record as
cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it,
which is what we did with this one. I don't like putting a
lot time into it. We cut a track, and If we've played it
halfway right, we're done with it."

1 comments:

William said...

we've got to close the beaches!