The Kids Are Alright Page #4
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- Year:
- 1979
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was by bus.
We traveled from coast to coast,
and from Miami we'd go up to Canada.
It was pretty awful.
We used New York as a springboard.
We used to play for Murray the K.
We used to do five shows a day there,
and we had three minutes
to do our show.
First you'd have one and a half minutes
of kind of explaining
and one and a half minutes
Of "My Generation,"
smash your guitar, and run off,
you know.
Five times a day, seven days a week.
In those days,
your performances used to end up
with you smashing all your equipment.
smashing hotel rooms on every tour.
All lies. Not a word of truth.
Well, according to people at the time,
it certainly was true.
Why was there all that violence
surrounding you?
Well, this was only last week, wasn't it?
What made us first want to go
was being English.
about the American Dream
or about the American drug situation
or about the dollars or anything.
It's because we were
English kids, right?
And we wanted to go to America
and beat it.
Pop music is crucial to today's art,
and it's crucial that it should remain art,
And it is crucial
that is should progress as art.
I saw you.
Girls came to see you mainly
to look at the clothes you wear.
Don't you think that most of them
come for a certain sexual thrill
they get out of your performance?
Our group is probably one of the most
unglamorous on the stage today.
I mean...
No, really, I mean, this is one of our
big problems, you know,
and probably still is, you know,
is that the group
didn't have enough glamour.
It was all these clothes
it was all mechanical things.
It was bricks and stones and things
and not enough of, sort of,
normal group things, you know.
We made our second album,
which he produced,
and it was during that album,
which, as I said, Kit Lampert produced,
that we really realized
what making albums was all about.
You know, we had great fun,
and it was very creative.
And Kit was learning
about record production
like recording the group
from a microphone down the corridor
and all these things which are
very commonplace nowadays.
Using incredible amounts
of compression
to make them sound
like steam engines
and various, sort of,
twiddling knobs
as the recording was going.
The engineers
throwing their hands in the air.
"It... coated knobs, mate.
You can't do that."
And all this was going on
in the studio,
but unfortunately we had
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