Andrew W.K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKuJOe2goA

Andrew W.K. Admits He's Not the Original Andrew W.K., Says Persona Was Developed By Committee

i dont understand

me either

Andrew W.K. is living, breathing performance art.

was that ever seriously in doubt>?

I was on board with it basically from the beginning. Andrew Wilkes Krier is a really weird dude. Very nice, but really, genuinely weird. I'm not sure how the whole Steev Mike thing fits in, and I think when he says he was a different person, literally, he's not convincing. It's the same guy that's always been Andrew W.K., but it's not the same Andrew W.K. if that makes sense.

hahahaha you seriously believe that he is a living, breathing being?

hahahahaha

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH FOOL

you know nothing of the profound evil lurking beneath this man's visage......
you know nothing of what he is capable...

listen to me or don't...that is your choice.....
but when i tell you that in due time you will regret having known about Andrew W.K.... you had better beleive me when i say that you will have wished you had believed......

(15)(14)(5)(16)(9)(5)(3)(5)..(13)(9)(19)(19)(9)(14)(7) (6)(18)(15)(13) (2).

The most plausible scenario to me is one or more members of the group of people who organized AWK as a merchandising interest
split not too amicably, forcing Andrew to assume the role full-time, but because these ex-AWKers held some part of the domestic album release rights, AWK group
could not release close calls etc... for a while.

It might very well be that this was planned all along, but it doesn't make much sense to delay an album release to conjure up the mystique of legal trouble.
If there is any consistency in how AWK operates, it is in taking full advantage of any synergistic opportunities that comes his way.

There is a kind of evil in this "embrace everything" attitude. You might not think it's possible to cheapen a song like "It's time to party" by having it appear in an expedia commercial, but both the music and its fans are degraded just a little bit by that.

http://www.fau.edu/freshmanadvising/images/thought_balloon_hmmmm_hg_clr.gif

AWK is way too weird to be merely a media creation, unless the idea was to make an unpredictable crazy guy a rockstar and then go from there. Perhaps he honestly thinks there's been more than one Andrew "playing" the part but that really doesn't mean its so. I just hope that a lot of this actually is planned and staged for promotional effect because I would hate to think Andrew is truly suffering from delusions and split personalities.

I'm not sure what you mean by too weird to be a media creation. I personally think Andrew came up with the basic template of what he would like to achieve, but why wouldn't he enlist outside help to meet his goals, which are pretty simple: "don't be a wimp; achieve immortality"?

The conspiracy nuts were right!

Watching the Rockfeedback interview where he 'lays this out'.

http://www.rockfeedback.com/tv/direct/channels/297400/726538/

He's saying he's a physically different person than the original Andrew WK but then he says everyone is a different person from back then so who knows maybe he is talking about the replacement of cells that make up the human form. Tried reading the forum on his official site but the conspiracy stuff is so thick there it's baffling.

Apparently CCWBW is coming out this year alongside a bonus disc of rare and unreleased material called "Mother of Mankind"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BzbVmjyhvHI/Szn0LgMmeUI/AAAAAAAABTA/qDGRJ0JC2ak/s400/AndrewWK_CloseCallsWithBrickWalls_2CDdeluxeEdition_SlipcaseFrontCover.jpg

MOTHER OF MANKIND

1. We Party (You Shout)
2. High Five
3. Let's Go On A Date
4. We Got A Groove
5. Sarah Notto
6. I'm A Vagabond
7. I've Got Know Fear
8. Big Party
9. Who Knows?
10. Coming Bad
11. Can You Dance With Me?
12. Kicks And Bricks
13. A.W.K.
14. I Will Find God
15. This Is My World
16. Young Lord
17. We're Not Gunna Get Old
18. Kill Yourself
19. I Want Your Face
20. Jewel Street Man
21. The Party God

http://i45.tinypic.com/2rdivk6.jpg

The way I understand it, a committee auditioned a bunch of guys to play the part of AWK. Theres the "I Get Wet" version. and now a new guy - 2 of the ppl they auditioned, and potentially neither of them a person actually known as Andrew WK, because he's a fiction.

I kinda like the idea.

I mean its no diff to, say, Hannah Montana. Just not as made obvious.

Either all white people look the same to me, or those are the same dude.

Yeah, I'm ... not convinced by those photos, I have to say. And who knows if its not now *this* story thats the fake. I still think it's great.

If he is a music biz creation then the bizarre career turns (motivational speaker, solo piano album) add a nice baffling layer to it all. You could say they failed at making him a huge superstar but really this guy is on a million tv shows and web shows and all over the place. So maybe he's actually a lot more famous (more people know his name/shtick) than if they just kept releasing new albums. What he's says in this new interview about finding something that reaches people more than through the music; it's the MO of a never-ending promotion cycle.

Maybe that's why a younger looking/skinnier AWK is needed for this second phase. Running around all over the place, doing fashion shoots, interviewing for web shows, writing advice columns in Japan, etc., etc. First phase looked like a dude that spent most of the day in the gym.

I think the first phase ended after "The Wolf" and the transition can be seen in the live "Who Knows" DVD and from then on it's this new guy. But yeah as weird as it all gets there's still this continuity that makes it really kind of seamless in a way.

Yeah I just saw a photo shoot he did (recent?) and fuck me, he looks like Adam Ant or John Taylor in their prime. Pretty <3

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/buttered2/misc/NotMyAWK03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/buttered2/misc/NotMyAWK01.jpg

Phworrr.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1481/andrewwk20082.jpg

i still can't see how it's not the same guy.

He says it in this interview.

http://www.rockfeedback.com/tv/direct/channels/297400/726569/

And if he's lying about it, then there's something weird going on at any rate!

but he also says that no one in the audience is the same as who they were. if that makes any more sense i don't know...

Yeah that pre-2005/post-2005 image is pretty silly – he shaved. That appears to be the big difference. It's like being fooled by Clark Kent taking off the glasses.

Yeah I figure you can read him as saying "I'm not the same PERSON I was then, but aren't any of us?". Its an interesting stunt.

andrew james bond

the last time i talked to AWK:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1272/765586185_aeaee5da3e_b.jpg

07-07-07

'I figure you can read him as saying "I'm not the same PERSON I was then, but aren't any of us?"'
This might be a reference to the idea that everyone's cells are replaced every x years, so they are literally not the same being, and he's drawing some kind of moral equivalency between that and fooling people with doppelgangers.

But I don't think he's been particularly arch or coy about it -- he's trying to propagate the idea that anyone with a white t-shirt and greasy hair ought to receive equal legitimacy in terms of being AWK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NWFbCJv29o

What better way to assert that he doesn't deserve first class citizenship over being AWK than anyone else than to reveal that it wasn't him singing on the I Get Wet album?

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Andrew W.K.'s Statement 1/3/10

"Since 2001, I have been accused of being part of a conspiracy in which I knowingly entered into a contract with creative directors called Steev Mike, who proceeded to invent a new identity for me to perform under. I'm here to say this is simply not true and a gross exaggeration of easily explainable and common-place music industry practices. Of course I work with people who choose not to include their whole names or real names in the credits, or who aren't on stage with me during my shows - but taking advice and guidance from other people doesn't mean I'm a victim of mind-control. That's like science fiction! Andrew W.K. is about partying and doing what you want! We want fun, and that really is what I am about.
These lies have unfortunately been with me since my career started - critics were saying I had to be a fake puppet for the record industry because I appeared over night. These simple untrue allegations have grown over the years to the point now where I have to defend myself. I have done many interviews and talks where I have explained the nature of how I got into music, and I admitted that I did work with people. But people have still taken what I said and tried to call me a liar and a fake. What alarms me most about these accusations is that they remind me of witch trials: The kind of people who accuse me of being a talking head for some secret conspiracy to corrupt people's morals are the same people who claim MTV and Cartoon Network are owned by secret rulers of the world out to poison kid's brains, or that pop stars like Beyonce or Lady Gaga are part of some occult society, or that companies like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, or Hollywood are secretly promoting hidden plans. Or that the President of the USA is just a figure head and reading a script given to him by a secret world power. Come on!
We're working in a business where there are different ends and different means. No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do, except me and the people who believe in me. I am a real person who thinks for himself and am not the victim of anyone or group of people trying to influence my career or life. I take responsibility for everything in my life, including who I work for and what happens to me because of it. Just because a person has mentors or advisers doesn't mean they don't have their own brain and soul. And just because I work with other people who advise me doesn't mean that I am a puppet for an evil cult or a have some sort of master plan. I make party music - plain and simple. In fact, it is me who is the innocent victim of a conspiracy of critics and haters who don't believe in the power of music and pure true fun. It is us artists who are the victims. It's crazy that still today, brand new artists like Lady Gaga have already been dealing with the same sort of paranoid allegations that I've has been dealing with since 2001. It just doesn't stop! We are not puppets, we are human beings.
Musicians are not acting, we are real people. We are not part of a conspiracy! It's really intense when people are telling you who you are, so I'm going to tell them who THEY are! On behalf of all musicians, the entertainment industry, and everyone else who's ever been falsely accused, YOU ARE NOT HURTING US AND YOU ARE NOT STOPPING THIS. The party will continue! We will endure! It has become too common for musical artists and performers to be labeled as part of some global scam to control the world, or that we're puppets for a larger agenda designed to hurt people. That's why I'm speaking out and loudly declaring: I am not evil and neither are any of my other fellow members of showbusiness. We are here to bring fun and light into the world, not doubt and darkness. I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and of course my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad, just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.
I have always admitted that I worked with people and I have confessed that time and time again, even if the critics twisted what I said. I did this hoping it would quiet people up and put an end to all the speculation and exaggeration. I was never an actor and the partnerships I made with friends, family, and the companies I've worked with have all been to promote entertainment, excitement, and fun - to give people something fun to focus on and to occupy our thoughts, instead of a bunch of fear or negativity.
I will always keep my focus where it matters most:
1) On being grateful for the incredible people who believe in the feeling I work to create
2) And on that magical feeling itself: BEING ALIVE!
Long live music and long live life. PARTY HARD!"
- Andrew W.K.

andrew w.k. did the moon landing

I love how one of those conspiracy sites they prove that Lady Gaga is a member of the Illuminati by pointing out symbols in an Illuminati-themed photo shoot she did. The site also shows a photo of AWK making the 'sign of the devil' as proof of his evilness. Actually it's proof that he's 16 years old.

It's like, she did that photo shoot for the same reason you're writing that she's part of a conspiracy: Da Vinci Code sold like a motherfucker.

The party will continue! We will endure!

has there been discussion of 55 Cadillac? it's an blast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oQhi5IJmYw

Steinway recorded on cassette mmhmmmm such an American album. Freedom on piano through affirming idioms by wearing&leaping between them w/supreme comfort while also being able to zoom-in to concentrate on repeating a few notes over and over, and to get too excited for the keyboard and drum it out on the top of the piano.

Most people will be unenthusiastic to hear a solo, imporovised, instrumental piano album but it's fine for a one-time listen. It's more successful as a symbol than for the music or the performances. Like Metal Machine Music. It's not well recorded in my opinion.

Actually, rather than Metal Machine Music, a better comparison would be Julian Cope's Skellington - a hastily recorded, sparsely orchestrated statement of artistic freedom that will be unheard by all but the most devoted fans.

He's putting it up for free on his website right? Why wouldn't casual fans take a listen then?

Because it's an instrumental album with (mostly) nothing but him banging away on piano.

I may be wrong but that kind of shit doesn't really turn folks on unless it's Glenn Gould playing Bach. I love AWK but he's not good enough (nor is the album well enough recorded) to carry that over a whole album.

OK I'm listening to it now, and am not really digging it, but it's not so abrasive that I'd warn off casual fans from it. I liked the crickets at the beginning. Perfectly acceptable typing music.

AWK's 2009-2010 NYE mixtape:

SONG
1 It's Time to Party by Andrew WK
2 Tom Tit by Aleister X
3 Stuntin' Like My Daddy by Birdman
4 Quack Head by Bad Brilliance
5 Bloodstone (Live) by Judas Priest
6 Devil's Child by Judas Priest
7 Party Hard by Andrew WK
8 Lemonade by Gucci Mane
9 Electric Feel (Justice Remix) by MGMT
10 My Feet Keep Dancing by Chic
11 One More Time by Daft Punk

Xpost. Maybe my comparison with Metal Machine Music gave the impression that it was abrasive. It isn't - just poorly recorded. Which is why I changed my comparison to Skellington. The comparison was only because it's the product of an artist proving he can do whatever the hell he wants, with disregard for both the music industry and (most) fans expectations.

everything are you saying ppl don't like solo instrumental piano music? agreed on the recording quality not being that great but the rest of yr statements are madness.

Glenn Gould playing Bach, people like. Andrew WK making shit up as he goes along may be a bit of a harder sell. Is that really so challenging an opinion?

I got it, and I'm not really a fan, I don't have any other Andrew WK stuff, I just thought it looked awesome. Keith Jarrett has had a pretty good career, I'm not feeling you on the unpalatable nature of improv piano.