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The music in the '70s was
more interesting than the music today.
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The decline of the Roman Empire
is what happened in the '70s, I think.
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The '70s had a lot of good stuff.
Every decade has good stuff.
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There were a lot of good contributions
that were made...
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and there was a lot of crap, too.
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There's an awful lot of disco crap...
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and other stuff, as there has always been.
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But now, I look back at the '70s...
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and I find things
that were really very good.
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The great stuff from The Eagles.
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- ZZ Top.
- Stevie Wonder.
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- Fleetwood Mac.
- Frank Zappa.
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- Sly and the Family Stone.
- Little Feat.
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- Bob Marley.
- Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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- Roxy Music.
- Rod Stewart.
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- Led Zeppelin.
- Marvin Gaye.
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- Aerosmith.
- Bob Seger.
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Elton John.
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I started in the '70s, for Christ's sake.
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What a healthy time it was for music.
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There was this huge circle, 360 degrees...
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each degree being a different
musical category. Wonderful.
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And it just got to be more music.
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Used to be, you had to be pretty bigto make an album.
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But suddenly, there were albums
by people I had never heard of.
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I really believe that in the '70s,there was a great combination of fashion...
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artistic sense, song writing.
It was an incredible time.
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Musically, it just seems like in the '70s...
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everything was an excuse for a party.
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We're just having a party.
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It was okay to have a lot of money.
It was okay to flaunt it.
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Everybody had an airplane.
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Beautiful women,
any time you wanted them.
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Then came the cocaine.
Then came the booze.
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- Jack Daniel's.
- Cognac.
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Budweiser.
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Don't drink anything
you can't see through.
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Nobody knew that everythingwas bad for you yet.
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Or that that could cause you
to crash your car...
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or you're going to have to go to
rehab for that one.
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It was a great time to be alive.
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The '70s was the timewhen music blossomed.
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So many different stylesand so many ideas.
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The artist had developed the abilityto create an income...
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to allow him some freedom.
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It was definitely a fun time.
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Lots of the bands that I was involved with:
Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers...
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used that time to experiment.
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There were so many different aspectsto music...
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what was being appreciated,
what was actually being...
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invested in by record companies.
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The one good thing about the '70s,I would write 10 new songs...
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record them, give them to a record
company, and they'd say, "It's great."
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No politics or anything.
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And if it did well, which they did,
most of them...
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it would be up in the charts,
and there would be no political...
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You know, "We don't hear a single."
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That sort of thing, which they do now
a lot, to lots of people.
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A band like Steely Dan
probably would have...
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We couldn't get arrested now.
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Because it's, "What format are you in?"
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"Are you AC, are you AOR,
are you CHR, are you FBI?"
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"I don't know."
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The music of the '70s was very unique...
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because it was reaching for origination.
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In other words, you didn't have to...
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There was no groups of artists
copying each other.
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Everybody was reaching fortheir own originality.
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And so I found thatvery interesting and all.
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And also, the standards had not been set.
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There were new standards,so everyone was going for new things.
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There had been enough timein the rock 'n'roll timeline...
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to be able to draw from that.
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There had been enough rock 'n'roll,the three-chord guys.
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There was the rhythm and blues,and the blues of the '40s and '50s.
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There was the jazz era.
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There had been enough rockabilly,enough country music.
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You have the wellspring, you can draw
from a lot of different things.
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A lot of the bands in the '70s did that.
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I'd like to introduce Led Zeppelin to you.
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On bass guitar, John Paul Jones.
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On drums, John Bonham.
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Lead guitar, Jimmy Page.
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And myself, Robert Plant.
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I think one of the most exciting thingsabout the music of the '70s...
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was it was a hybridof what came before it...
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but it staked its own territory.
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What Cream was doing,what Zeppelin was doing...
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was taking bluesand pumping it up on steroids...
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and doing something
that changed the nature of the beast.
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See, the miracle about Zeppelin is thatfor four people...
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to come together like that...
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and this alchemy
that actually occurred there...
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it was just something that had...
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It was something that was,
you know, written in the stars.
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That it had to be.
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Chemistry is another one of Page's...
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sort of, philosophical overview terms.
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I guess it was just luck...
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and the fact is that it worked really well.
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Whatever it was, it was pretty honest,a little devious...
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and certainly not adverse...
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to a little bit of thievery, musically.
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However, we're not the first people
to have done that.
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My vocal performancecomes from everywhere...
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whatever I listened to, that I like:
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Ray Charles'howlon Drown In My Own Tears...
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or Wynonie Harris or Louis Jordan.
There's loads and loads of stuff.
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All that stuff,
you throw it all in a blender...
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and throw the switch, and you've got me.
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I remember listening to the first
Zeppelin album, saying it was like...
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such a great...
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Like a breath of fresh air...
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for someone to be doing something
acceptable, but yet so different, you know.
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I haven't liked a single thing
that they have done.
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I hate the fact that I'm ever even
slightly compared to them.
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I never, ever liked them.
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It's a problem for me, 'cause as people,
they are all really great guys.
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Just never liked the band.
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I don't know whether I've just got
a block to them because they...
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became so much bigger than The Who
in so many ways...
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in their chosen field.
But I've never liked them.
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The bands that were alternative then...
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like the Jeff Beck Groupand Led Zeppelin...
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those were the alternative bands
to the pop bands, like the Beatles...
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and the early Stones.
They were like the pop idols.
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And then these bands
that would come in and play the blues...
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and that kind of stuff, that was
the underground, rebellious music.
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Now, you consider everyone's all jolly...
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and tiptoeing around, stoned on acid...
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having Woodstock, and all love, peaceand sex and drugs and rock 'n'roll...
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and all that's great, yeah.
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But for us guys, who were living in thishole in the world...
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it wasn't that way.
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And Tony lommi said to me one day,'"Wouldn't it be interesting...
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'"to put this horror vibeto a musical thing? '"
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And then we started to write
"doomy music," we used to call it...
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of this death music, doom music.
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I'll never forget when I got the firstBlack Sabbath album...
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and I took it home to my parents.
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It starts with rain and thunder,
and it's all this demonic devil stuff.
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And I can see my mother and my father
look at each other in amazement.
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And they both simultaneously
turn around to me and say:
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"Ozzy, are you sure you're just only
drinking the occasional beer here?"
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I hate the word '"heavy metal'"because it's like...
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What musical connotations does it have?
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What's heavy metal? Lead?
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Where does the music come in there?
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Lt'd be unfair to say that anybodywho sings in the band...
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thinks that Led Zeppelinwas ever hard rock or heavy metal...
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'cause at least a third of our musicwas acoustic.
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To me, it's basically all rock 'n'roll.
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Some people play a little faster,some people play a little slower...
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some people play it louder.
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It's all basically really based on the blues.
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Writing the blues,different people write different ways.
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But it's real easy to clutter up,especially when you're going for...
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a blues-type structure in the song.
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If you want one cluttered up,
send it to me. I'll be glad to...
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It's difficult writing blues.
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It would seem like it would be
real simple, you know.
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And you either get it real trite...
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or it gets real congested.
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Our band started out, in a lot of ways...
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the way we evolved was instrumentally,with the jams.
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We did a lot of jamming.
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We would set up and we would play...
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and then we would listen toMiles Davis, John Coltrane...
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and then the old blues cats,
Robert Johnson, people like this.
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There were a lot of bands that,in the early '70s...
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did relate to our music a lot.
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Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels,Lynyrd Skynyrd...
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but nowadays it's not really fair
to call the Allman Brothers...
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a southern rock band, you know.
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Rock 'n' roll was pretty much
born in the South.
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So was the blues,
a certain kind of blues, anyway.
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And saying "southern rock"
is like saying "rock rock."
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The rock-and-roll white boys had blues...
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which I never would have thoughtwould be happening.
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So we had to find a new music.
And to me, the tempo of blues...
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right in the middle of rock 'n' roll,
that midway point is funky music.
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It was not fast, like rock 'n'roll...
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it was not all the way slow,like the blues...
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but it was basically thesame three chord changes.
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We went back to James Brown,the two-four thing and just a basic groove.
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You couldn't define exactly what it was,
so we called it "funkadelic."
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Two-four is basic dance music.
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James Brown taught us...
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the one was more emphasis put on it.
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The one is like that.
You can hit it on this end early...
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you can hit it in the middle,
which is what most people try to do...
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or you can hit it late, but it's still in that...
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time of the one.
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We were like...
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the last second, you know,
right behind the beat, but hard.
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We did it to a point that it was cartoonish.
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So we exaggerated,you know, till it was animated...
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and then with the costumesand the spaceship...
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it knocked your head off.
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You'd walk around flinching to yourself.
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In the '70s, George Clintonand Parliament Funkadelic...
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and Earth, Wind & Firewere very serious about our music...
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and who we were trying to touch.
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I think that's one reason
why the music of the '70s has not died.
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Because it has
a rejuvenating quality about it.
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Bob Marley made a great contributionin presenting us with reggae music...
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and creating more universalacceptance of it.
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I think Bob Marley's message
was a universal message...
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so therefore it would touch everybody.
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There's nothing
that he can't sing about in those songs.
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It's the freedom that I relate to.
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He was one of those Stevie Wonder-types:True to the middle of the road.
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He didn't favor no sides of a thing.
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It was just,
people should be together no matter what.
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What is your special message?
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Show peace and love and music,
you know. And liberty.
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I met Bob quite a few times.
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We used to joke a lot because
every time I saw him...
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he'd always have a spliff
with a big old brown paper bag...
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and I'm like, "That paper bag
would choke me to death."
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Never mind the weed,
but that paper bag would hurt.
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'"He wanted everything at the same time...
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'"and was everything at the same time:
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'"Prophet, soul rebel,rasta man, herbsman...
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'"wild man, and natural mystic man...
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'"ladies'man, island man, family man...
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'"Rita 's man, soccer man, showman...
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'"shaman, human, Jamaican! '"
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The '70s was a very significant timefor black musicians...
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because a lot of things
had been wrestled with, you know...
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and kind of settled
in everybody's mind by that time...
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about having the courage
to just go straight ahead...
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with what your energy's about,
and go for it.
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To me, Sly was an intellectual version...
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of James Brown and Motown.
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How in the hell
can anybody get soul music...
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to be that tight, until it's popping...
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and still have as much soul
as the old-fashioned blues singers?
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He's, by far, one of the most brilliantsongwriters there ever was.
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He was a genius.
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To be able to conceive ofall different types of music...
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and to fuse it into one thing,and to set new standards at that time...
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because prior to Sly...
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black musicians didn't sell a lot of albums,
mostly sold single records.
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So when Sly came along,he kind of broke that chain.
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There was a concert I went tothat I'll never forget.
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It was a Sly and the Family Stone concert.
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The whole place was rocking.
Stupidly rocking.
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I always wanted to have my concert
be like that.
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I said, "Gosh, I'll know...
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"I will have really made it to the top
when my concerts do that."
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Stevie Wonder, "Little 'Tevie."
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We've watched Stevie grow up,even before we got to Motown.
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He was so frisky when he was little...
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and, you know, he used to always jump
when he was performing.
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Doing like that, and we used to say,
"Okay, Steve. Keep it up.
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"You better get somewhere
and sit your little butt down, okay?"
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"I ain't gonna do that." Stevie jumped
one time, jumped right off the stage.
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"Okay. Didn't we tell you
to get somewhere and sit down?"
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The interesting thing about Stevie Wonder
is he broke away from the Motown mold.
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He matured to the point where
he said to Berry Gordy:
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"I got to do what I do.
I want to create my kind of music."
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Stevie Wonder,going back to Talking Book...
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he was playing all the instruments himselfand playing synthesizer.
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It was great.
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Stevie was recording like 150 to 200 songsduring this period...
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and he did four of the greatest albumshe ever did in his life:
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Innervisions, and all those great things.
And he just fell in.
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I remember there were these two
synthesizer players...
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Bob Margouleff and a friend of his...
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and they had this huge,
monstrous array of synthesizers.
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In old-fashioned days,you had to put in plugs...
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and they had cordslike telephone operators had to plug in...
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and they called this thing TONTO.
That was the name of it.
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And Stevie just did some
of the most miraculous things...
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and from thereon,
the synthesizer became another child...
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that was a part of the vocabulary.
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In the '70s, the artist had the opportunityto take the time in the studio...
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to spend the timethat he deemed necessary...
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to really do his or her art,whether it was self-indulgent or not.
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With Steely Dan,
it used to take me six weeks...
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just to find a comfortable chair
at $300 an hour.
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It was pretty silly.
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The biggest problem
with recording studios...
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is the surfeit of options.
There are far too many things.
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Can I just hear thenew Mellotron sound, please?
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That wasn't reallyquite exaggerated enough.
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There always is an oscillationof attraction between...
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going the whole hogwith studio technology...
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which always goes over the topat some point.
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The music of the early '70s
was actually fairly tedious...
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as a result of people suddenly
becoming possessed by the idea...
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that they were symphonic composers.
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What Eno and I found that was the mostinteresting aspect of the new music...
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that we were doing at that time
was actually...
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working with synthesizers,
but throwing the manuals away.
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So we had no idea
how the damn things worked.
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It was the mistakes they made that we
found more interesting than the stuff...
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Because these things are programmed
by hi-tech buffs...
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who don't have any sensibility
of what can be done musically.
302
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So they put in the stuff that they believe...
303
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musicians would want to use.
304
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That's the stuff
you really don't want to hear...
305
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because it's like fake strings
and things like that.
306
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If you get the wrong circuits going,
you get crackles...
307
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and farts coming out of these things.
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It produces the most
extraordinary sounds...
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in different range of textures.
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There is music that is sacred to us...
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and that's what's caused
this attitude in the studio.
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An album like Sergeant Pepper...
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everyone thinks they have a
Sergeant Pepper in them somewhere.
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But if there is a Sergeant Pepper
of the '70s...
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you'd have to say that
Dark Side of the Moon was it.
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We were thinking in the '70s,
as we do today, of making great records...
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which means an album to me.
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I mean, singles seem like part
of a different business.
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We all believed in, or were aiming for,the same thing...
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which is perfection.Every piece of music being magical...
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and uplifting and wonderful...
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and the lyrics doingwhatever particular job they were doing...
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to that same extent.
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So we were workingtowards a common goal.
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- Can we run back and drop it a bit?
- You can if you like. Turn it down a bit.
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Dark Side of the Moon
was done at Abbey Road Studios.
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At some point during that,I don't remember exactly when it was...
328
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Roger came up with the idea of making ita piece about madness...
329
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and all the other things that it's about.
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I think that I tend to bring musicality...
331
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and melodies and all that sort of stuff.
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Roger was certainlya very good motivator...
333
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and, obviously, a great lyricist.
334
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Roger was much more ruthlessabout musical ideas...
335
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where he'd be happy to lose somethingif it was for the greater good...
336
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of makingthe sense of the whole album work.
337
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He'd be happy to make a lovely-sounding
piece of music disappear...
338
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into radio sound or something...
339
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that sounded really awful,
if it was benefiting the whole piece.
340
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Can I put this down?
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He wanted to use the ideas from the songsto get responses...
342
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from people,and we wrote out a series of questions...
343
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and got people into the studio,and we interviewed...
344
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roadies and Jerry, the Irish doormanat Abbey Road.
345
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A question like:'"When did you last hit someone? '"
346
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And then the next question would be:
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"Were you in the right and would you
do it again if the same thing happened?"
348
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Questions like: "What does the
Dark Side of the Moon mean to you?"
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And, of course, understanding that
Dark Side of the Moon...
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was not yet the title of the album.
351
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Or not, in as far as
anyone else was concerned.
352
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They were actually asking people what
does the other side of the moon mean?
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Which is why Jerry,
the Irish doorman, said:
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"There is no dark side of the moon, really.
It's all dark."
355
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Stuff like that, which, when you put it into
a context on the record...
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suddenly develops its own,
much more powerful meaning.
357
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For me, rock 'n'roll just meansthat there aren't any rules.
358
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It's just whatever you want to do,however you want to do it.
359
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People say it sounds so professionaland so slick.
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I'd have to argue that, even today,I wouldn't say that my technique...
361
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or some of the others' techniqueswere particularly in the brilliant area.
362
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If you talk about technique,we were really crap when we started.
363
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We really were pretty crummy.We didn't have any technique at all.
364
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Like I say, it should be anythingyou want it to be, rock 'n'roll.
365
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If it's moving any people in any way at all,
then it's doing its job.
366
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In the '70s, I don't know if you can
pinpoint what was happening...
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but a lot of influences were coming
together and becoming refined.
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And a lot of the groups, you would find,would spend months doing a record...
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which was, at that time, unusual.
370
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And Queen certainly brought in,I think, unconscious influences.
371
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We were all brought up contrary tothe way people are brought up today.
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We were brought up with all this kind of...
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show-type music around us, and with
a lot of classical music around us.
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So when we found that we had all theseincredible tools in the studio to use...
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we used themto make something which was...
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parallel to an orchestral arrangement,
I suppose.
377
00:29:45,764 --> 00:29:49,530
Bohemian Rhapsody itself, Freddiewould normally come in with note paper...
378
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and he would write out the chordsthat he wanted to sing.
379
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Freddie had a lot of pagesof these things...
380
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and we went, "This is going to be...
Take some time."
381
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If we make these harmonies,
then we got...
382
00:30:01,113 --> 00:30:04,014
We had this technique,which we called '"the sausage machine. '"
383
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We would sing a line,all together in unison...
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till you'd have three of those,
and we'd bounce it to one track.
385
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We'd then do the next part, three,
bounce that to one track.
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The next part, the next part.
387
00:30:15,127 --> 00:30:18,528
There would be like three
or six or nine parts sometimes...
388
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and so, by the time you've finished,
you had a lot of voices singing those parts.
389
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If the '70s represent something
which became refined...
390
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I think the best of the '70s
had the balance.
391
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You had groups who were able to make,in recorded work...
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something different and special...
393
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but were really excellentat performing on stage.
394
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So the two skillsbecame parallel, but different.
395
00:31:07,112 --> 00:31:10,275
And certainly, if there was a criticism,that people weren't...
396
00:31:10,348 --> 00:31:13,715
putting as much raw energy in,I think you had to be there.
397
00:31:13,785 --> 00:31:16,811
It wasn't really lackingif you were in Madison Square Garden...
398
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or the Forum at a Queen show,
or an Aerosmith show...
399
00:31:20,659 --> 00:31:22,593
or, you know, a Zeppelin show.
400
00:31:22,794 --> 00:31:26,560
For me, it was very gut-wrenching.
401
00:31:28,767 --> 00:31:32,362
When I walked on stage, I thought,'"Well, tonight I have this opportunity...
402
00:31:32,437 --> 00:31:37,136
"to maybe reach somebody the way
that I felt like I was reached...
403
00:31:37,209 --> 00:31:38,608
"when I was 15."
404
00:31:38,677 --> 00:31:40,338
I still get butterflies.
405
00:31:40,412 --> 00:31:45,281
I don't need any laxatives,because before that intro music goes on...
406
00:31:45,584 --> 00:31:49,714
I'm in and out that can
like a fiddler's elbow.
407
00:31:49,888 --> 00:31:54,188
We had a mission. Our mission was
to go out on stage...
408
00:31:54,259 --> 00:31:57,319
and make sure that we made believersout of everybody.
409
00:31:57,395 --> 00:31:58,794
You're on, guys.
410
00:31:58,863 --> 00:31:59,887
Rock 'n' roll!
411
00:32:08,373 --> 00:32:10,671
- It's gonna be great.
- No, that's not an exit.
412
00:32:11,343 --> 00:32:13,106
- We don't want an exit.
- That's true.
413
00:32:16,081 --> 00:32:18,845
- Let's not lose it, now.
- Where the fuck is he?
414
00:32:18,917 --> 00:32:20,407
You know, he should be here.
415
00:32:22,387 --> 00:32:26,790
You go right straight through
this door here, down the hall, turn right...
416
00:32:27,125 --> 00:32:28,183
This way.
417
00:32:30,262 --> 00:32:31,786
Hello, Cleveland!
418
00:33:22,681 --> 00:33:24,706
You definitely get a buzz being up there.
419
00:33:25,083 --> 00:33:29,383
You can very much get caught up in
what you're doing, trip over everything.
420
00:33:29,454 --> 00:33:32,014
You got to keep one eye open
and one eye shut.
421
00:33:32,090 --> 00:33:35,992
I always liked those people that looked
a little aloof and floating around...
422
00:33:36,061 --> 00:33:40,157
and for myself, I got to dance aroundmonitors and speakers and wires...
423
00:33:40,231 --> 00:33:42,791
and enough of the argumentswith people to tape it down.
424
00:33:42,867 --> 00:33:46,359
If they can't, they don't.
Better for me that I don't trip and fall over.
425
00:33:46,438 --> 00:33:48,235
You never know what to expect.
426
00:33:48,306 --> 00:33:53,005
The strangest of things happen
in the middle of a show, you know.
427
00:33:53,244 --> 00:33:55,371
I'm out there on a cherry picker...
428
00:33:55,447 --> 00:33:59,247
that huge, long armwhich reaches out over the audience.
429
00:34:00,452 --> 00:34:05,116
The times that thing...
It took half an hour to get it back again.
430
00:34:05,290 --> 00:34:09,124
And one night it would just break down
and it was just stuck out there.
431
00:34:09,194 --> 00:34:11,890
I finished Space Oddity,
and I put the phone down.
432
00:34:12,564 --> 00:34:16,330
I just didn't know what to do,
because I'm just still stuck out there.
433
00:34:16,401 --> 00:34:19,234
The audience is down there,and all these hands are coming up.
434
00:34:19,304 --> 00:34:22,398
"What do I do?
Do I do the rest of the show out there?"
435
00:34:22,474 --> 00:34:26,342
That was the early days
of rock theater, I guess.
436
00:34:26,644 --> 00:34:29,636
I had so many
of those dreadful escapades.
437
00:34:31,883 --> 00:34:35,478
We were supposed to breathe fire,
and I really wanted it to hit the ceiling.
438
00:34:35,553 --> 00:34:39,683
The ceiling was 40 feet up in the air,
but in my mind I could reach it.
439
00:34:39,758 --> 00:34:42,454
So the fireball that came out of my mouth
was too big.
440
00:34:42,527 --> 00:34:45,155
And on the very first show
that we did on a big stage...
441
00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:48,324
the right side of my face caught fire,
the hair and everything.
442
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,133
I later realized that if I didn't spray my hair
with hairspray, it wouldn't catch fire.
443
00:34:53,204 --> 00:34:55,866
Because the stuff
says clearly, "flammable."
444
00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:57,635
"Gene Simmons, this means you."
445
00:34:57,842 --> 00:35:01,107
Somebody threw a chicken on stage.
This was in Toronto.
446
00:35:01,179 --> 00:35:04,580
I'm from Detroit.
I've never been on a farm in my life.
447
00:35:04,649 --> 00:35:07,709
I said, "A chicken. It's got wings. It'll fly."
448
00:35:07,786 --> 00:35:11,745
I threw it back in the audience. I thought
it was going to fly away into the sunset.
449
00:35:12,357 --> 00:35:15,918
It went right into the audience,
and the audience tore it to pieces...
450
00:35:16,461 --> 00:35:20,488
and threw the parts back up on stage.
The next thing I knew, it was...
451
00:35:20,565 --> 00:35:23,966
"Alice Cooper bites head off chicken
and drinks the blood...
452
00:35:24,035 --> 00:35:26,503
"and tears the face," and all this stuff.
453
00:35:26,571 --> 00:35:28,471
That's what the papers said the next day.
454
00:35:28,540 --> 00:35:31,998
I got a call from Frank Zappa,
and he says, "Did you do that?"
455
00:35:32,076 --> 00:35:35,307
I said, "No." He said,
"Don't tell anybody that. They love it."
456
00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:37,974
The beauty of the '70s was...
457
00:35:38,116 --> 00:35:40,050
there was no MTV.
458
00:35:40,752 --> 00:35:43,744
Not saying that MTV is not any good.
459
00:35:45,757 --> 00:35:49,420
But if you liked a band or an artist...
460
00:35:49,727 --> 00:35:52,628
you had to physically go to the gig.
461
00:35:52,864 --> 00:35:55,196
So there was more excitement.
462
00:35:55,266 --> 00:35:58,997
"I am going to go and see Led Zeppelin,
or I'm going to see the Rolling Stones."
463
00:35:59,070 --> 00:36:02,062
We used to haveincredible acts opening up for us.
464
00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:04,540
There were bandsthat were great bands, you know.
465
00:36:04,609 --> 00:36:08,170
And you gotta go and follow them.When KISS opened for us...
466
00:36:08,246 --> 00:36:10,612
there were flamesleaping out of the stage.
467
00:36:10,682 --> 00:36:13,947
And there's us four going,
"How can we ever top that?"
468
00:36:25,997 --> 00:36:28,795
KISS believed the show wasthe end all and be all of everything.
469
00:36:28,867 --> 00:36:31,631
It should be overkill.
You know, everything, too much.
470
00:36:31,703 --> 00:36:32,829
Overload of senses.
471
00:36:33,037 --> 00:36:34,732
The makeup just evolved.
472
00:36:34,806 --> 00:36:37,536
Gene was crazy about horror films.
473
00:36:37,609 --> 00:36:40,203
And he came up with this demon persona.
474
00:36:40,411 --> 00:36:44,677
And what made it believable
was we were really KISS world.
475
00:36:51,222 --> 00:36:53,349
They did that stuff,and the audience loved it.
476
00:36:53,424 --> 00:36:56,689
They ate it up. It was big time wrestling.It's like, the spectacle.
477
00:36:56,761 --> 00:36:59,753
We were, like, shaking our heads.
We're just trying to play music.
478
00:36:59,831 --> 00:37:02,391
And we were going,
"What are we going to have to do now?"
479
00:37:02,634 --> 00:37:05,899
About a year and a half into our existence,
we were playing stadiums.
480
00:37:05,970 --> 00:37:07,597
It really exploded big-time.
481
00:37:07,839 --> 00:37:09,397
That's when the makeup...
482
00:37:09,474 --> 00:37:13,035
really seeped intothe American consciousness.
483
00:37:13,111 --> 00:37:15,909
That's when we becametrapped a bit by the makeup.
484
00:37:15,980 --> 00:37:18,608
We couldn't go to restaurants.Our heads were wanted.
485
00:37:18,683 --> 00:37:21,743
Initially, it was exciting,
and then it got to be...
486
00:37:22,654 --> 00:37:24,178
a little bit, sort of, too much.
487
00:37:27,592 --> 00:37:29,685
There were KISS movies...
488
00:37:29,761 --> 00:37:32,787
and the pin ball machines,and the garbage pails, and you name it.
489
00:37:32,864 --> 00:37:35,856
They wanted merchandise,
they wanted toys. "We'll give you toys."
490
00:37:35,934 --> 00:37:38,198
This is KISS. Each sold separately.
491
00:37:38,269 --> 00:37:41,033
And you can put themin any crazy pose you want.
492
00:37:43,241 --> 00:37:47,871
They were the first band I ever sawhave dolls, have games...
493
00:37:47,946 --> 00:37:49,937
have all these side things on.
494
00:37:50,014 --> 00:37:52,414
I mean, those guys took it to home.
495
00:37:52,483 --> 00:37:55,509
I think rock 'n' roll
for the longest time was boring...
496
00:37:55,587 --> 00:37:59,023
especially the American bands,
who were fat and ugly...
497
00:37:59,824 --> 00:38:01,815
and didn't really care
about their appearance.
498
00:38:01,926 --> 00:38:05,089
In fact, I remember going to see
a lot of the San Francisco bands...
499
00:38:05,163 --> 00:38:08,132
and they'd literally turn their backs to you
and play like that.
500
00:38:08,199 --> 00:38:11,600
I thought it was the biggest insult.
"What am I buying a ticket for?
501
00:38:11,669 --> 00:38:13,466
"I could stay at home
and put on the record.
502
00:38:13,538 --> 00:38:14,937
"Why are you turning your back to me?"
503
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,931
Everybody was a little bit tired
of peace and love.
504
00:38:18,009 --> 00:38:21,740
Everybody got tired of this,
and everybody got tired of, "Yeah, man."
505
00:38:21,813 --> 00:38:24,748
Something needed to happenthat was a backlash...
506
00:38:24,816 --> 00:38:28,081
to all that placid, laid-back thing...
507
00:38:28,152 --> 00:38:30,382
and we hit it with everything.
508
00:38:36,995 --> 00:38:40,021
I would like to think Alice Cooperopened the doors to theatrics.
509
00:38:40,098 --> 00:38:43,499
Our band drove the stake
through the heart of the Love Generation.
510
00:39:16,601 --> 00:39:20,002
We were just a rock 'n'roll bandwith a lot of good ideas.
511
00:39:20,071 --> 00:39:24,565
It had a little Vegas, a little Broadway,but it was really rock 'n'roll.
512
00:39:24,642 --> 00:39:27,611
The average kidhad no idea what to think...
513
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:32,548
because he'd come in, he'd see the show,and he lived in Columbus, Ohio...
514
00:39:32,617 --> 00:39:35,814
and he'd walk out of there going,
"What was that?"
515
00:39:35,887 --> 00:39:37,514
That was like a truck hit him.
516
00:39:45,196 --> 00:39:49,428
I thought it was nuts. I was just
so blown away when he hung himself...
517
00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:51,491
and he also had some good songs.
518
00:39:51,569 --> 00:39:55,630
I don't care about anybody else
that pulled off the makeup, seedy trip.
519
00:39:55,707 --> 00:39:57,732
I mean, he was, like, the first one.
520
00:39:57,809 --> 00:40:00,573
He was rock historyfor having done it in the first place...
521
00:40:00,645 --> 00:40:03,637
and he was the only onethat ever has been able to pull it off...
522
00:40:03,715 --> 00:40:05,410
and do it so it was really cool.
523
00:40:11,055 --> 00:40:13,683
I played the part of Alice. I created him.
524
00:40:13,758 --> 00:40:16,386
I don't know where he comes from,to be honest with you.
525
00:40:16,461 --> 00:40:19,157
I know that if they say20 minutes to stage time...
526
00:40:19,497 --> 00:40:22,057
everybody leaves,
and then I turn into Alice.
527
00:40:22,133 --> 00:40:25,569
After that, for the next hour and a half,
nobody gets near me.
528
00:40:27,038 --> 00:40:30,872
The older I get, the more that I realize
what kind of escapist attraction there is...
529
00:40:30,942 --> 00:40:34,434
to taking on the role of somebody else.
Because I've been through that.
530
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,345
I love theater. I thought it was great.
531
00:40:37,415 --> 00:40:41,112
I thought it was a way of doing somethingexciting with the stage and rock.
532
00:40:41,419 --> 00:40:44,354
The idea of a prefabricated rock star...
533
00:40:44,422 --> 00:40:47,357
one that didn't exist, a sampled rock star...
534
00:40:47,425 --> 00:40:49,518
I thought was kind of cool.
535
00:41:14,485 --> 00:41:19,149
The time that I really put it all together,and really tried to make it work...
536
00:41:19,223 --> 00:41:23,250
was on the first tour of this charactercalled Ziggy Stardust that I'd developed.
537
00:41:23,327 --> 00:41:24,954
The theater elements were...
538
00:41:25,029 --> 00:41:28,192
somewhere between
Clockwork Orange and kabuki theater.
539
00:41:28,266 --> 00:41:30,564
Just, you know, grab this and grab that.
540
00:41:30,635 --> 00:41:35,595
A real ragbag of information that
didn't actually make any real literal sense.
541
00:41:47,218 --> 00:41:51,814
In interviews and stuff, I would just
either quote James Dean or Nietzsche.
542
00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:56,317
It didn't really matter because
all the ingredients that went into it...
543
00:41:56,394 --> 00:41:59,227
people would interpret that,
and I'd agree with them.
544
00:41:59,297 --> 00:42:01,356
He represents it all to me:
545
00:42:01,866 --> 00:42:04,130
Excitement, space.
546
00:42:04,202 --> 00:42:06,432
I'm just a space cadet.
He's the commander.
547
00:42:06,504 --> 00:42:08,836
I thought, "Golly, what power."
548
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:33,096
I let the whole thing trickle over
into my life to such a degree that...
549
00:42:33,164 --> 00:42:37,726
it affected me dramatically, traumatically,
for quite a few years during the '70s.
550
00:42:37,835 --> 00:42:40,565
Yes, I have a kind of strange...
551
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:44,132
psychosomatic death-wish thing.
552
00:42:44,809 --> 00:42:46,606
Because I was so lost in Ziggy...
553
00:42:46,744 --> 00:42:48,939
it resulted in schizophrenia.
554
00:42:58,689 --> 00:43:01,783
How much did Ziggy's death
have to do with his own personality...
555
00:43:01,859 --> 00:43:05,386
or with circumstances
in which he existed?
556
00:43:05,696 --> 00:43:09,359
Yeah, really it was
it was his own personality...
557
00:43:09,433 --> 00:43:12,800
being unable to cope with
the circumstances he found himself in...
558
00:43:12,870 --> 00:43:17,102
which is being an almighty,prophet-like, superstar rocker.
559
00:43:17,174 --> 00:43:20,337
He found that he didn't knowwhat to do with it once he got there.
560
00:43:22,146 --> 00:43:25,582
It's an archetype, really.
The definitive rock 'n' roll star.
561
00:43:25,650 --> 00:43:26,878
It often happens.
562
00:43:36,494 --> 00:43:39,657
I don't think anybody
can really prepare themselves...
563
00:43:39,764 --> 00:43:42,665
for fame on the level that we've had.
564
00:43:42,733 --> 00:43:45,702
When you try to think aboutwhat it'll be like to be famous...
565
00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:49,831
you can only comprehend it withinthe scope of what you've experienced...
566
00:43:49,907 --> 00:43:51,431
or what you know to be out there.
567
00:43:51,509 --> 00:43:53,238
It's so beyond that.
568
00:43:53,311 --> 00:43:56,075
There's hot-and-cold-running women...
569
00:43:56,147 --> 00:44:00,516
drugs, alcohol, food, limousines, jets...
570
00:44:00,584 --> 00:44:04,645
and you very quickly begin to believe that
that's the way to live.
571
00:44:11,796 --> 00:44:14,390
We're pampered beyond beliefas rock 'n'roll superstars.
572
00:44:14,465 --> 00:44:17,161
I still like to get pampered.
I'm not being hypocritical...
573
00:44:17,234 --> 00:44:21,933
but not to the degrees that
we prance around and we're very spoiled.
574
00:44:22,006 --> 00:44:25,066
Although I never tie my own shoelace.
I mean, never.
575
00:44:25,142 --> 00:44:27,201
It's just not the thing done in rock 'n' roll.
576
00:44:27,278 --> 00:44:28,905
Ironically, you become a rock star...
577
00:44:28,980 --> 00:44:31,505
because you don't want to dowhat people tell you to do.
578
00:44:31,582 --> 00:44:35,177
It's the classic thing. You want to rebel,
to have control of your own life.
579
00:44:35,252 --> 00:44:38,949
What happens is, if you get famous,
you lose that control again...
580
00:44:39,023 --> 00:44:41,423
because so many people
are looking for pieces of you.
581
00:44:41,492 --> 00:44:45,656
You've suddenly, like, you got friends
you thought you'd never have.
582
00:44:46,297 --> 00:44:49,664
Hi, fellas. How you doing?
583
00:44:49,834 --> 00:44:52,359
A lot of people show up...
584
00:44:53,237 --> 00:44:57,936
and you have to kind of sort outwhy they're showing up.
585
00:44:58,976 --> 00:45:00,705
Yes, Bobbie Fleckman.
586
00:45:00,778 --> 00:45:04,544
You know, like suckerfish, those peopleon the sidelines. Lawyers, managers...
587
00:45:04,615 --> 00:45:06,640
everybody's starting to call you,
"Hey, babe."
588
00:45:06,951 --> 00:45:10,387
Everybody wantsto start advising you on what to do...
589
00:45:10,454 --> 00:45:11,887
and I get confused, you know.
590
00:45:11,956 --> 00:45:14,390
This is it. I got it. I fucking have it.
591
00:45:14,458 --> 00:45:17,894
'Cause it plays off that.
There was this author a few years ago...
592
00:45:18,229 --> 00:45:22,325
I couldn't work out how these people hadthose jobs, and how they retained them.
593
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,063
Because such an awful amount of them
seemed to be such complete dickheads.
594
00:45:26,137 --> 00:45:28,230
Artie Fufkin, Polymer Records.
595
00:45:28,305 --> 00:45:31,570
I'm your promo man here in Chicago.
Nice to meet you. I love you guys.
596
00:45:31,642 --> 00:45:35,703
When you're allowed the self-indulgenceof being anybody you want to be...
597
00:45:35,780 --> 00:45:38,248
and having somebody tell youthat that's okay...
598
00:45:38,449 --> 00:45:39,939
it's very frightening.
599
00:45:40,017 --> 00:45:43,350
And in a lot of ways, your art will suffer.
600
00:45:43,421 --> 00:45:46,481
I think the '70s was the time...
601
00:45:46,557 --> 00:45:49,549
when that dangerbecame most apparent...
602
00:45:49,627 --> 00:45:53,063
because that's really when everybodystarted making a lot of money.
603
00:45:53,130 --> 00:45:54,961
When you have money,
it buys you influence.
604
00:45:55,032 --> 00:45:57,057
When you have influence,
it buys you power.
605
00:45:59,403 --> 00:46:02,065
Well, fame in the '70s...
606
00:46:02,273 --> 00:46:04,241
it equals power.
607
00:46:04,308 --> 00:46:07,106
And then you have the power
to get what you want.
608
00:46:07,411 --> 00:46:09,845
So we used it to party.
609
00:46:09,947 --> 00:46:11,710
You know, we were the Toxic Twins.
610
00:46:11,782 --> 00:46:14,808
And we had to live by night,and not by day.
611
00:46:14,885 --> 00:46:16,216
And we slept all day.
612
00:46:16,287 --> 00:46:18,551
And that was marvelous, and it was fun.
613
00:46:19,156 --> 00:46:23,024
When I got sober, I'd get pissed off
that I didn't make love to all these women.
614
00:46:23,194 --> 00:46:25,162
I was in the bathroom...
615
00:46:25,229 --> 00:46:28,562
with this guy and that guy,
and this girl and that girl...
616
00:46:28,632 --> 00:46:31,123
just filling my nose and filling my arms.
617
00:46:31,869 --> 00:46:33,860
I really didn't get a chance to revel in it.
618
00:46:36,841 --> 00:46:38,069
Remember this?
619
00:46:43,147 --> 00:46:46,913
The torture of fame and success
and lots and lots of money...
620
00:46:47,118 --> 00:46:51,817
is not a subject that's guaranteed to win
a lot of sympathy with other people.
621
00:46:51,989 --> 00:46:55,481
It was fun for a long time
because it was just me and the boys...
622
00:46:55,559 --> 00:46:58,926
and our jet, you know.
I mean, how cool could that be?
623
00:47:01,532 --> 00:47:05,229
If you are a millionaire at20 years old, and you're unattached...
624
00:47:05,302 --> 00:47:09,238
you don't have any responsibility,except to have as much fun as you can.
625
00:47:09,306 --> 00:47:12,002
At least that was the idea in the '70s.
626
00:47:12,910 --> 00:47:15,845
There's more of a social conscience now
than there was then.
627
00:47:15,913 --> 00:47:18,643
At that time, it was just: Have fun.
628
00:47:58,322 --> 00:48:00,290
It can be a very privileged existence.
629
00:48:00,357 --> 00:48:02,757
I don't mean in terms of money,but in real life.
630
00:48:02,826 --> 00:48:06,057
What you get to spend your time doing.
I live a very privileged life.
631
00:48:06,130 --> 00:48:09,657
I have always thought
it was my responsibility to talk about...
632
00:48:11,268 --> 00:48:13,065
life as it is for everybody.
633
00:48:13,137 --> 00:48:15,731
If I want to write songs
that everybody can understand...
634
00:48:15,806 --> 00:48:18,138
then I can't be writing songs about...
635
00:48:18,375 --> 00:48:20,172
living behind a wall in Bel Air.
636
00:48:38,362 --> 00:48:42,298
In my music, I use a personal narrativeto talk about things...
637
00:48:42,499 --> 00:48:45,093
that, in final analysis,are more or less universal.
638
00:48:45,202 --> 00:48:49,571
If I am doing it right, then they're notjust about my life, but about your life, too.
639
00:49:02,052 --> 00:49:03,883
It was put in my mind very early on...
640
00:49:03,954 --> 00:49:07,185
that you should discover yourself,find what it is and bring it out...
641
00:49:07,258 --> 00:49:09,192
and that's what peoplewill be interested in.
642
00:49:09,260 --> 00:49:11,524
What you have inside.What you have to say.
643
00:49:11,795 --> 00:49:16,698
For me, writing songs is like collecting
or harvesting the residue of a life.
644
00:49:16,767 --> 00:49:19,497
It's almost what happened
when you take your experiences...
645
00:49:19,570 --> 00:49:22,562
and reflect on them,
arrange them in some order.
646
00:49:22,673 --> 00:49:27,576
A lot of the blues players
came from very poor backgrounds.
647
00:49:28,579 --> 00:49:32,709
And they had this gift...
648
00:49:33,851 --> 00:49:38,652
of singing about the human element.
A lot of it was despair.
649
00:49:39,290 --> 00:49:41,087
And making people laugh at it.
650
00:49:41,458 --> 00:49:43,892
Lot of stuff came out of anger being
in rock 'n' roll bands.
651
00:49:43,961 --> 00:49:47,260
It's how you do it.
You don't punch your wife or get drunk.
652
00:49:47,331 --> 00:49:49,731
Write a song about it. I'll fix your ass.
653
00:50:02,746 --> 00:50:07,342
At the time when we were doing Rumours,
there was this rather unusual situation...
654
00:50:07,418 --> 00:50:08,851
within the workings of the band...
655
00:50:08,919 --> 00:50:12,377
where you had two couplesthat were in the process of breaking up...
656
00:50:12,456 --> 00:50:14,185
during the making of the album.
657
00:50:14,258 --> 00:50:17,022
So you had
all this cross-dialogue going on.
658
00:50:24,935 --> 00:50:28,268
You had John McVieand Christine McVie breaking up.
659
00:50:28,339 --> 00:50:30,432
You had Stevie and myself breaking up.
660
00:50:30,841 --> 00:50:35,801
Go Your Own Way
was a song basically directed at Stevie.
661
00:50:41,552 --> 00:50:44,248
Go Your Own Way
was Lindsey talking to Stevie...
662
00:50:44,321 --> 00:50:45,811
or not talking to Stevie.
663
00:50:45,923 --> 00:50:48,414
It was basically, "On your bike, girl."
664
00:50:48,892 --> 00:50:51,725
Whenever that song was at its peak...
665
00:50:51,795 --> 00:50:56,357
that was Stevie and Lindsey playing outwhatever roles they were playing out.
666
00:50:56,567 --> 00:51:00,765
Some heavy stuff went on with that song.
667
00:51:14,251 --> 00:51:16,412
The Rumours albumwent way through the ceiling.
668
00:51:18,422 --> 00:51:21,880
At some point, it became a phenomenon...
669
00:51:21,959 --> 00:51:26,191
in which the sales and the success of it...
670
00:51:26,964 --> 00:51:30,058
really became disproportionateto what the music itself was.
671
00:51:30,134 --> 00:51:33,865
I always perceived it as havingsomething to do with the fact...
672
00:51:33,937 --> 00:51:38,067
that it was a musical soap opera
and I think all of that came through.
673
00:51:38,142 --> 00:51:41,634
The emotion of that, the truthfulness
of that came through on the grooves.
674
00:51:41,712 --> 00:51:46,445
The Rumours album turnedinto a freak, really.
675
00:51:47,017 --> 00:51:51,044
We weren't going to complain about it,and all the interviewers would go on:
676
00:51:51,121 --> 00:51:55,319
'"Well, how much money have you made?That's what, 15 million albums now? '"
677
00:51:56,860 --> 00:52:00,626
But we got through it
and then we went into a situation...
678
00:52:01,331 --> 00:52:05,495
where the likes of Peter Frampton,
the Bee Gees...
679
00:52:05,569 --> 00:52:07,730
a lot of these bands
were selling a lot of albums.
680
00:52:07,805 --> 00:52:10,933
Big numbers that hadn't been done before.
681
00:52:37,401 --> 00:52:42,031
Frampton Comes Alive
was released in January 1976...
682
00:52:42,105 --> 00:52:43,470
and it became...
683
00:52:43,540 --> 00:52:47,408
this gi-normous record-breaking record...
684
00:52:47,811 --> 00:52:51,440
and became the
biggest-selling record of all time.
685
00:52:51,515 --> 00:52:54,006
The 55,000 that showed uptoday at Anaheim...
686
00:52:54,084 --> 00:52:55,847
were there because of only one person:
687
00:52:55,919 --> 00:52:58,820
The 26-year-old Englishmanwhose name is magic enough...
688
00:52:58,889 --> 00:53:01,756
to have all these rock fansstanding out in the hot sun...
689
00:53:01,925 --> 00:53:04,758
from 1:00 in the afternoon to 8:00 tonight.
690
00:53:04,828 --> 00:53:07,456
There were quite a few boom years there.
691
00:53:07,531 --> 00:53:11,194
There were a lot of people
who were realizing...
692
00:53:11,268 --> 00:53:15,398
that you could make a ton of moneyoff of concerts on a large scale.
693
00:53:15,539 --> 00:53:17,632
We were certainly in the middle of that...
694
00:53:17,708 --> 00:53:21,769
until the bottom dropped out of that,
which was not a bad thing.
695
00:53:22,446 --> 00:53:25,574
The way, I think, Frampton Comes Alive
changed the industry...
696
00:53:25,649 --> 00:53:27,776
was that it made everybody realize...
697
00:53:27,851 --> 00:53:31,287
that there were a lot of people out there,more people than usual...
698
00:53:31,355 --> 00:53:32,652
that could buy a record.
699
00:53:32,723 --> 00:53:34,987
There was a bigger audience
than they'd thought...
700
00:53:35,058 --> 00:53:38,516
which turned it into
a much bigger business almost overnight.
701
00:53:38,862 --> 00:53:42,457
Do you feel like we do?
702
00:53:45,202 --> 00:53:47,170
Yes!
703
00:53:47,237 --> 00:53:48,829
Frampton Comes Alive...
704
00:53:48,906 --> 00:53:53,809
was the first sort of generally recognizedmulti-platinum album.
705
00:53:54,278 --> 00:53:57,372
And when people realized
you could make that much money...
706
00:53:57,447 --> 00:54:01,383
selling records, they became
disinterested in fringe artists.
707
00:54:01,451 --> 00:54:04,545
People within the industry became
disinterested in fringe artists.
708
00:54:04,621 --> 00:54:08,216
People started investing everything
in these mega-platinum artists.
709
00:54:09,259 --> 00:54:12,092
And that amount of money
also attracted...
710
00:54:12,629 --> 00:54:15,325
corporations that had
no essential interest in music.
711
00:54:15,499 --> 00:54:18,229
They had only interest
in money-producing enterprises...
712
00:54:18,468 --> 00:54:21,733
of any kind. Gulf and Western
started buying up record companies...
713
00:54:21,805 --> 00:54:25,036
and record companies started being run
from accounting offices...
714
00:54:25,108 --> 00:54:26,905
rather than from A & R offices.
715
00:54:26,977 --> 00:54:31,880
Definitely it was a new game,
as you would say, a new ball game.
716
00:54:44,127 --> 00:54:46,152
There was the corporate thing in the '70s...
717
00:54:46,229 --> 00:54:50,427
where people were making
big stadium shows...
718
00:54:51,635 --> 00:54:54,695
and the music didn't seem to be
quite as good as it should have...
719
00:54:54,771 --> 00:54:58,764
or it didn't seem to be being made
for quite the right reasons...
720
00:55:00,043 --> 00:55:04,309
and you were having certain things thatweren't so good, thrust down your throat.
721
00:55:04,381 --> 00:55:06,713
Time to get records on the radio.
722
00:55:06,783 --> 00:55:08,842
We have a shot this week.
The album is a smash.
723
00:55:08,919 --> 00:55:11,752
There's such a buzz going on.
Out of sight. It is a monster.
724
00:55:12,222 --> 00:55:13,712
That was the beginning of that.
725
00:55:13,790 --> 00:55:16,122
There is this adage in the business...
726
00:55:16,593 --> 00:55:18,959
that if something works,
run in into the ground.
727
00:55:19,029 --> 00:55:21,429
Here are 10 Frampton albums for jocks.
728
00:55:21,498 --> 00:55:23,830
There are very few movesin popular music now...
729
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:28,530
which haven't already been plotted out
and considered...
730
00:55:28,839 --> 00:55:31,672
by some major corporation
who will put the money behind them.
731
00:55:31,742 --> 00:55:33,403
There are not many accidents.
732
00:55:33,477 --> 00:55:36,640
They got to the point to where
they were putting things on you...
733
00:55:36,713 --> 00:55:39,204
to measure your heartbeat
to see what songs would work.
734
00:55:39,282 --> 00:55:41,648
When you try to do music like that...
735
00:55:41,718 --> 00:55:44,209
and put it on the assembly line
as a commodity...
736
00:55:44,287 --> 00:55:45,549
it changes every time.
737
00:55:46,289 --> 00:55:49,087
Up until that live album came out...
738
00:55:49,259 --> 00:55:54,219
I'd always just sat down, wherever I was,wherever I'd gone to write...
739
00:55:55,032 --> 00:55:56,829
and written for myself.
740
00:55:57,034 --> 00:55:59,366
I knew I had to write an album...
741
00:56:00,070 --> 00:56:04,803
but I was basically writing stuff
for my own enjoyment.
742
00:56:05,842 --> 00:56:10,677
Then Frampton Comes Alive comes along,and I go, '"What do they want now? '"
743
00:56:11,381 --> 00:56:15,477
And all of a sudden, the way I was thinking
about writing changed.
744
00:56:15,552 --> 00:56:18,680
There was a pressure to write
for other people instead of myself.
745
00:56:18,755 --> 00:56:20,950
The only way artists...
746
00:56:21,391 --> 00:56:24,758
can do things is to do it for themselves...
747
00:56:25,228 --> 00:56:27,059
and trying to second-guess...
748
00:56:27,497 --> 00:56:31,763
what the public wants or likesis kind of a fool's game.
749
00:56:35,138 --> 00:56:36,469
Thank you.
750
00:56:38,608 --> 00:56:40,439
When you got to the '70s...
751
00:56:41,411 --> 00:56:45,609
ourselves, Earth, Wind & Fire,
Sly and the Family Stone...
752
00:56:45,682 --> 00:56:47,616
who was an influence on all of us...
753
00:56:47,684 --> 00:56:51,518
had music where you can dance,
and it was still rock 'n' roll.
754
00:56:51,888 --> 00:56:55,324
It was dance music.
So we went on and on...
755
00:56:55,392 --> 00:56:57,587
and as the funk bands
started coming out...
756
00:56:57,661 --> 00:57:00,994
they really started dancing, and that
became money for the companies.
757
00:57:01,064 --> 00:57:03,555
The companies tried to isolate...
758
00:57:04,267 --> 00:57:08,533
the part of the record that worked,
that made you dance.
759
00:57:08,605 --> 00:57:11,699
So your first notion
is that it's a drumbeat...
760
00:57:12,209 --> 00:57:15,372
but the mistake
is that it's not one drumbeat.
761
00:57:15,879 --> 00:57:19,042
When they started isolating
it to one drumbeat and one sound...
762
00:57:19,116 --> 00:57:20,583
don't nothing get on your nerves...
763
00:57:20,650 --> 00:57:24,950
more than some rhythmic
that's the same thing over and over again.
764
00:57:25,388 --> 00:57:27,481
It's like making love with one stroke.
765
00:57:28,759 --> 00:57:30,317
To tell you the facts, that is.
766
00:57:34,898 --> 00:57:38,095
The machine age took its revenge,I think, on music...
767
00:57:38,168 --> 00:57:43,128
and disco music became the antithesisof what music used to be...
768
00:57:43,206 --> 00:57:44,605
which was a way to communicate.
769
00:57:44,674 --> 00:57:47,507
The music, instead of being an anthem...
770
00:57:47,577 --> 00:57:50,137
or instead of being a voice,
became an accompaniment.
771
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,976
It was almost the anthem of alienation.
772
00:57:53,550 --> 00:57:56,678
Halls were full of peoplewho were mindlessly dancing...
773
00:57:56,753 --> 00:58:00,450
to a rhythm that was basically a machine.
774
00:58:10,033 --> 00:58:14,367
I think that it was kind of hardfor the white people to get into...
775
00:58:14,671 --> 00:58:17,799
R & B music because
the beat is so sophisticated...
776
00:58:17,874 --> 00:58:20,308
and hard for...
777
00:58:20,677 --> 00:58:24,340
the kind of dancing
that the white people are used to doing.
778
00:58:25,782 --> 00:58:29,809
This clearly defined beat
that is so apparent in disco music...
779
00:58:29,886 --> 00:58:34,152
now makes it easier to learn
to do our kind of dancing.
780
00:58:37,561 --> 00:58:39,028
There you go. Right foot on front.
781
00:58:39,196 --> 00:58:41,164
Right foot, left foot.
782
00:58:43,099 --> 00:58:44,259
Having fun?
783
00:58:44,901 --> 00:58:48,132
Most rock 'n' rollers that I knew
had a real problem with disco.
784
00:58:48,205 --> 00:58:50,969
I like a lot of disco music,
but I detest most of it.
785
00:58:51,041 --> 00:58:52,804
I really hate disco.
786
00:58:52,876 --> 00:58:55,242
I just remember disco
and hating it so much.
787
00:58:55,312 --> 00:58:57,906
Number one:
You could do it all on machines...
788
00:58:57,981 --> 00:59:01,314
so you didn't need any people,
and that put a lot of people out of work.
789
00:59:01,384 --> 00:59:04,353
The record companies
wouldn't give us a second look...
790
00:59:05,455 --> 00:59:09,118
so we really didn't have any choice...
791
00:59:09,192 --> 00:59:11,490
other than play disco music...
792
00:59:12,529 --> 00:59:14,121
and we weren't about to do that.
793
00:59:14,197 --> 00:59:16,256
Disco got so big and it was generic.
794
00:59:16,333 --> 00:59:19,234
The record companies
didn't have to deal with the personality.
795
00:59:19,302 --> 00:59:21,270
They didn't have to give big contracts...
796
00:59:21,338 --> 00:59:23,602
like they had to do
with the rock 'n' rollers.
797
00:59:23,673 --> 00:59:25,004
They made it real big.
798
00:59:25,075 --> 00:59:26,235
With rock 'n' roll...
799
00:59:26,309 --> 00:59:30,006
there was a drastic,
violent reaction to disco.
800
00:59:31,147 --> 00:59:34,116
A huge box containing thousandsof disco records was blown up.
801
00:59:36,353 --> 00:59:38,048
We are free again.
802
00:59:38,121 --> 00:59:40,817
Fans stormed out onto the fieldin the thousands.
803
00:59:40,891 --> 00:59:44,486
Disco records were hurled like Frisbees.Bonfires were set.
804
00:59:44,561 --> 00:59:45,550
Fistfights broke out.
805
00:59:45,662 --> 00:59:48,631
Our goal in the '70s was to destroy disco.
806
00:59:51,835 --> 00:59:54,099
We saw that as
a terrible menace to music.
807
00:59:58,675 --> 00:59:59,767
What you need, man?
808
00:59:59,843 --> 01:00:03,006
Chopping up the old drum machine,
are you?
809
01:00:09,219 --> 01:00:14,179
We have to remember the most importantthing about rock is the attitude.
810
01:00:14,791 --> 01:00:18,727
Because, you know,
it's not supposed to be really good.
811
01:00:33,810 --> 01:00:34,834
I think Petty is great.
812
01:00:34,911 --> 01:00:37,141
Refugee was the most amazingsounding record.
813
01:00:37,347 --> 01:00:39,144
I remember kicking the door open.
814
01:00:39,215 --> 01:00:40,614
The great thing about Petty...
815
01:00:41,251 --> 01:00:45,085
is the simplicity. He's a great songwriter.
816
01:00:59,703 --> 01:01:02,536
Damn The Torpedoes was very importantfor me because...
817
01:01:02,639 --> 01:01:05,870
in the writing I found a jumping-off place.
818
01:01:05,942 --> 01:01:08,240
I found, like, '"This is what I do. '"
819
01:01:08,378 --> 01:01:09,709
'Cause you don't know.
820
01:01:09,813 --> 01:01:12,111
You do some of this,
you do some of that...
821
01:01:12,182 --> 01:01:13,444
and then suddenly...
822
01:01:13,750 --> 01:01:16,344
"Oh, this is what we do.
823
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:18,847
"And this is our sound.
824
01:01:19,089 --> 01:01:23,753
"This isn't the Byrds or anybody else.
This is us."
825
01:01:37,340 --> 01:01:40,503
The good thing about rock music
in my mind...
826
01:01:40,944 --> 01:01:45,643
it will go for a while, and then
it will get very predictable, and then...
827
01:01:46,716 --> 01:01:49,082
they're just bound to shake it up again.
828
01:01:49,152 --> 01:01:52,644
And I love the little times
when they shake it up.
829
01:02:02,499 --> 01:02:04,831
In the '70s, I suppose I was aware...
830
01:02:04,901 --> 01:02:08,837
that there was a connection with the fans,the people that came to see you.
831
01:02:09,639 --> 01:02:13,234
There was a greater connection to be
made than was being made at the time.
832
01:02:19,983 --> 01:02:21,245
When we went to do our show...
833
01:02:21,317 --> 01:02:25,777
my idea was that the show should bepart circus, part political rally...
834
01:02:25,855 --> 01:02:29,018
part spiritual meeting, part dance party.
835
01:02:29,092 --> 01:02:31,856
You had to go back to the physicalin the end, I always felt.
836
01:02:31,928 --> 01:02:34,954
It was like,
it sort of began with the physical...
837
01:02:35,031 --> 01:02:36,965
and you're supposed to end
with the physical.
838
01:02:37,033 --> 01:02:41,902
I have seen Bruce, yes.
It's a long concert. It was very long.
839
01:02:42,338 --> 01:02:44,898
He's excellent, he's very talented,but that was...
840
01:02:44,974 --> 01:02:48,535
when he obviously didn't have anywhereto go after the show.
841
01:02:48,611 --> 01:02:52,707
He just played for about five,maybe even six hours.
842
01:02:52,782 --> 01:02:54,113
It was rather long.
843
01:02:55,218 --> 01:02:56,651
That's all I can stand.
844
01:02:57,887 --> 01:02:59,548
How I ended up playing that long...
845
01:02:59,789 --> 01:03:01,017
I'm not really sure.
846
01:03:02,559 --> 01:03:05,255
It sort of just happened.
847
01:03:05,895 --> 01:03:08,386
I can't stand no more!
848
01:03:12,469 --> 01:03:13,868
In the end, the idea was...
849
01:03:13,937 --> 01:03:17,532
there would besome sort of physical liberation...
850
01:03:18,374 --> 01:03:22,208
and, '"You get their ass moving,and the spirit will follow. '"
851
01:03:23,847 --> 01:03:27,476
Also, playing to the point of exhaustionwas important to me.
852
01:03:31,521 --> 01:03:34,115
The No Nukes show was a lot of fun...
853
01:03:34,224 --> 01:03:38,661
and our slot was immediately
before Bruce Springsteen...
854
01:03:39,129 --> 01:03:42,292
who was headlining that night.
It was his birthday, I think.
855
01:03:42,765 --> 01:03:47,395
And people were yelling '"Bruce, '"all night long.
856
01:03:50,740 --> 01:03:53,538
Too bad the guy's name wasn't Melvin
or something.
857
01:03:53,610 --> 01:03:56,670
Jackson Browne, at the side of the stage,he says to me:
858
01:03:57,747 --> 01:04:01,808
"Listen, if you go on,
and you think they're booing you...
859
01:04:02,318 --> 01:04:06,516
"don't get thrown because
they're really just saying 'Bruce."'
860
01:04:07,423 --> 01:04:09,584
And I said, "What's the difference?"
861
01:04:11,995 --> 01:04:15,055
The '70s for me was a timewhen I felt really grounded...
862
01:04:15,131 --> 01:04:17,031
in the music that I was making.
863
01:04:17,100 --> 01:04:20,866
For me, that was the decade whenI was sort of just kind of telling my story...
864
01:04:20,937 --> 01:04:25,465
focusing on what I thought that might be,what it might be about...
865
01:04:25,675 --> 01:04:27,404
trying to not make the mistakes...
866
01:04:27,477 --> 01:04:31,379
that I'd seen some other people make,
or slip into...
867
01:04:31,447 --> 01:04:33,312
not get distracted...
868
01:04:33,816 --> 01:04:37,115
by too many
of the different types of choices...
869
01:04:37,187 --> 01:04:40,714
and keeping basically
the idea of the music...
870
01:04:40,790 --> 01:04:44,817
and the audience in front of me
as the essential thing...
871
01:04:44,894 --> 01:04:49,831
and as this thing that gave
my own story meaning.
872
01:04:50,733 --> 01:04:55,500
I didn't see myselfas some gifted, genius-type of guy.
873
01:04:55,638 --> 01:04:58,471
I felt I was a hard-working guy.
874
01:04:58,908 --> 01:05:01,376
I worked really hard at learning to play...
875
01:05:01,444 --> 01:05:04,436
and I worked hardat learning to write and sing...
876
01:05:04,514 --> 01:05:06,072
and I always felt like...
877
01:05:06,149 --> 01:05:09,448
I was the guy in the front row
or the third row...
878
01:05:09,519 --> 01:05:12,010
that picked a guitar up and got onstage.
879
01:05:39,382 --> 01:05:42,442
I think it comes downto the performer and the audience...
880
01:05:42,518 --> 01:05:45,487
and that's what it's about,in some fashion.
881
01:05:45,555 --> 01:05:46,817
It can be any room.
882
01:05:46,889 --> 01:05:50,188
I've had great nights in little clubsin New Jersey...
883
01:05:50,260 --> 01:05:55,163
where you felt as alive and heightenedas in any big place you ever played.
884
01:05:55,698 --> 01:05:57,689
One, two, three, four...
885
01:06:05,241 --> 01:06:07,903
When it happens,there's some direct recognition...
886
01:06:07,977 --> 01:06:10,707
of some sort of mutual humanity...
887
01:06:11,281 --> 01:06:14,045
and a good time is had by all.
888
01:06:16,552 --> 01:06:20,044
I think music changed whenBruce Springsteen came on the scene.
889
01:06:20,123 --> 01:06:22,148
I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springsteen...
890
01:06:22,225 --> 01:06:24,557
we may have gone
in a very scary direction.
891
01:06:24,627 --> 01:06:28,723
We may have gotten to the point
where disco music ruled...
892
01:06:29,165 --> 01:06:30,757
and then I would have had to quit.
893
01:06:36,306 --> 01:06:38,171
My fellow Americans...
894
01:06:38,474 --> 01:06:42,535
our long national nightmare is over.
895
01:06:45,535 --> 01:06:49,535
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