WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

lol

Isbell sounds like such an even, easygoing dude. It's weird to picture him as an out of control kinda guy.

I spoke to him once, just briefly to say hi. It was on the Blessing & A Curse tour, they opened for the Black Crowes. I got free tickets to see the show & we'd heard of the Truckers, and got there early to check them out. Hardly anyone was there that time of day but they kicked ass, the people who were in the audience were all on their feet. I went to get a beer during the Crowes set, and saw Isbell standing on the concourse watching the show, smoking a cigarette. I walked over & said yknow, hi you guys were great, thanks so much for playing. And he looked me in the eye and smiled & said 'thank you ma'am'

I didn't know til years later that that tour almost broke the band completely, they were all fucking miserable as hell.

Anyway, that's my long pointless 'I said hi to him once' story :)

:)

I met Patterson Hood a few times before he moved to Athens, and I know a lot of people who know him very well, but this episode is my first experience hearing his story. I like him more now.

Also, my buddy Earl gets a couple namedrops in the interview, despite not having been in the band for a long time. When I first went to college, Earl introduced me to all kinds of fucking wacked out awesome music and fed me spaghetti and meatballs.

are these worth listening to if i don't care about/have never heard the Drive By Truckers?

They're interesting interviews, if only because Hood and Isbell are good storytellers in the southern tradition.

^^^

^^thirded.

^^^Fourthed. Maron does a good job on the Isbell one, especially, in talking about the songwriting process.

Has any addict-interviewee flipped on Maron when he pulls one of his "Oh man, I remember feeling THAT." or "Fuck, that's a bad one." when they get to a drug/booze story? So far - as exemplified in the Isbell one - it's pretty much real talk among addicts that I've heard.

Tears running down my face from the hipster millet farmer image from the Lewis Black interview.

http://i.imgur.com/jLesJGB.jpg

too much blue

That is one 90s looking cover.

I CAN HAZ ISSUES?

I'm almost sad he wouldn't let them use this one.

1) Watched most of Maron's first season this weekend. "Women be crazy."

and then

2) Listened to the Morgan Murphy episode. They dated for a month long ago, and it's just a weird, almost creeping, but compelling conversation.

wow felt sorry for both of them during the Todd Barry one. Funny comedian, but a long-form personal confessional-style interview maybe not exactly the right format for him.

it felt like sitting in a restaurant next to a table with two guys talking about their spreadsheets at work

I gave up before the halfway point. They were chatting about the boring part of comedy shop talk.

I CAN HAZ ISSUES?

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, April 7, 2014 5:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

Working my way through a backlog of recentish episodes at the moment and I'm deeply regretting my decision to start listening to the pre-interview stuff again. Maron's accounts of his battles with TimeWarner Cable might be the most tedious thing I've ever heard.

I don't know that I've heard an opening monologue that was anything but tedious.

but how will you live without knowing the state of his tube amps?

His opening monologues have often been compelling and fascinating insights. He might ought to stop them while he's in a happy and fulfilling relationship, though.

I like the monologues - flawed as they are, they're part of what makes me feel I know the guy and care about him.

i find his monologues weirdly relaxing to listen to, i guess its like, knowing there's people out there more neurotic than me makes me feel normal

i guess like marc maron i too am... attempting normal

*plays star spangled banner*

I'm with sic. I feel ok abt skipping the monologues until he goes through another breakup.

Listening to the Isbell one - "Did you grow up with TRUCKS?"

i want an app that ffwds through WTF until "who were your guys?"

I'm getting squirmy hearing Marc challenge Jason Reitman on what was happening in Up In The Air.

Fair question though.

Bursky's a hell of a talker!

So the Moon Zappa thing didn't work out. Shocked!

welp

that seems rapid

don't be judgy

y'all

He mentioned they were together for five months, so he waited a minute to tell the audience they'd started dating.

Also, how long ago did he break up with Jess? Last year I guess, but it seems more recent.

last october

I think Benmont Tench is the first musician interview Marc's done where it just seems like two guys sitting around talking about music they like without one of them sort of wishing he could leave.

Ha. I haven't heard the Malkmus one yet, but I enjoyed the Karen Kilgariff and Todd Barry ones. I like the episodes where he has history with the people but it's not drowning in bitter competitive drama (don't get me wrong, I like those episodes too).

I keep meaning to seek out Todd Barry's old rock bands. His 'Crowd Work' special on Louis CK was good fun.

todd barry one did get a lil close to two circuit pros discussing the respective merits of continental breakfast portion sizes at various budget idaho motels

also only just caught up with the lou barlow ep & the guy narrating his divorce before playing soul & fire on a ukelele is gonna haunt me forever

I think Benmont Tench is the first musician interview Marc's done where it just seems like two guys sitting around talking about music they like without one of them sort of wishing he could leave.

Isbell's "Elephant" at the end is fucking brutal, for anyone who hasn't listened to that one yet.

Yeah, after I typed that out I remembered a few that didn't feel like hostage situations.

is there where we talk about the television show? i watched a couple episodes last season and thought it wasn't really good but my dvr recorded the season premiere and i figured i'd check it out. i thought it was legit funny! maron was even relatable! i even thought his philosophical musings about how we are all recreating our parental relationships in our romantic relationships was pretty insightful (and i loved when he concluded w/ "and if the original cast didn't do a great job, the remake isn't going to be any better")

Wyne Kramer seemed super into it too. Gotta say, he's been on a good roll with the music interviews lately - I'm actually even digging the constant looping around to his touchstones ("Just got that on vinyl", "Keith Richards biography - it's surprising!", "When you first heard Robert Johnson, didn't it seem like something from another planet?", etc.)

next time there's a "what is rockism?" debate on ILM someone should just transcribe some WTF rock talk

but I'm being a jerk - recent music interviews have been top shelf

yeah,it always amazes me when people say, "that Keith Richards, he's like a real writer!" It was ghostwritten by James "White Mischief" Fox in the Keef voice, from their taped conversations.