C/D: Nardwuar

I didn't realise that he'd done so much. My favourites are the earlier interviews - the one with sonic youth for instance.

he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch

It's a fact that he has done more for local music than practically anyone else. He's put on hundreds of gigs (mostly all-ages) interviewed or showcased pretty much every little band that makes an effort to contact him, helped god knows how many musicians in thousands of ways and done more to promote the history of Cdn punk/rock than anyone.

I quibble with the last sentence though. He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

dyin at david cross repeating the celebrity poker question

watching nardwuar hand Greg Ginn a copy of my black flag book on camera in his interview was a total unexpected "oh fuck wow wow" moment for me

as much for, like, nardwaur has read my book as, wow, greg ginn now owns a copy of my book

And he's going to call you up and say "Hey wait I would have done some interviews" and then Rollins will feel left out and do the same thing and you can have the revised edition with everyone's stories at last and retire rich and famous. (I like thinking this is how the world must work.)

yeah, that's usually the point at which i wake up...

in case anyone doesn't know, Nardwuar has a show on WFMU available streaming here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/NW.

my fav nardwuar moment is the last 2 min of the white stripes interview where he reads to jack white from groupie central dot com :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNAMStU4o0

"those are some good lies"

He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

― everything

I dunno. I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

slipknot interview is great

nardwuar gets one of the silent clown dudes talking about naughty by nature and suddenly the dude just gets so embarrassed that he runs away

CLOWN NUMBER THREE! COME BACK!

"Sean number six clown of Slipknot....."

"you guys did an interview where you told FHM-- slipknot said to FHM magazine that, quote, they've: PLEASURED GROUPIES WITH LOBSTER CRUSTACEANS!!!!!"

*awkward silence*

"...i don't know anything about that"

"and what i was wondering is: when you pleasure the groupies, number three, do they want you to wear the mask, or not???"

"...i don't pleasure them"

"where's number three going??? number three! number three!"

http://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/slipknot.sized.jpg

I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)

Yup.

"check this out little b!!!" *hands him a bunch of records*
"this is great" (lil b has the expression & intonation of someone who really doesnt want to hurt their grandmother's feelings when they get socks for christmas)

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha. it might have been bcuz he gave him a record for the wrong Choppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3IOq4uzpc

god the last minute or so of that video is insane, he's gotta be blazed

man i wish i had my headphones with me so i could listen at work. haven't seen a bunch of these.

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

that Curren$y interview had me loling in my office

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

― Moka, Friday, March 25, 2011 4:06 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm this is also why the jay-z one in partic didnt impress me so much, since the more obscure trivia about him is pretty well known

also why its kind of goofy that he messed up the different Choppa's

Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them.

yes, sometimes this ^^ but stuff like a groupie's report on Jack White's style in bed, or a totally batshit, off-the-wall string of connections between Slipknot, Ross Robinson, some bass player, Vanilla Ice and Naughty by Nature, is not really designed to "impress" -- more like "provoke," see how much an artist can take before breaking down on camera (Jack White clearly can hang; Slipknot guy w/ long nose, not so much)

if that's what makes up most of your act, you're doing fine.

i have a lesser opinion on sonic youth after seeing their nardwuar innerview.. they keep trying to break his records!

the mars volta one is pretty fun

the pulling out records thing is a gimmick but i like to hear the rappers esp because you see what big fanboys they are at heart and just to hear them react to something they love instead of typical music journo questions is really cool and kinda touching to me

^ yes

the pharrell interview is so great

hahahaha the curren$y one is so fun in every way

KRIZZA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zbaLjsLh0

Krit is impressed.

i love this one. krit seems like a sweet guy

have heard this guy on WFMU a couple times

can't stand it

pranking musicians = shooting fish on a dinner plate

If you think he is prankingthem, youi miss the point.

i love this one. krit seems like a sweet guy

yeah, watched this one the other day and had the same reaction. esp when he gets the question about being booed in nyc.

Classic without doubt. Crazy serendipity -- was just reading some old Roctobers on the plane and stumbled upon his genius interview with N.E.R.D. where he blows their minds by pulling out a gatefold Carl Sagan / Cosmos LP: "He was to me what A Tribe Called Quest was to Music. He was just food for the mind. The way he thought and the way he articulated."

Big Krit interview is so damn great it makes me want to run out and buy his records

is there a working version of the Henry Rollins interview online somewhere? the one on youtube is totally fucked (no audio, choppy video — I don't think it's just my computer being weird...?) which was v.disappointing

haha watching that just made me smile

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really want to see curren$y's old movies now too

just search youtube again, there's a couple versions of it on there

just watched the david cross one, love how genuinely disconcerted he seemed by nardy being so clued into details of cross' life - i could've watched an hour of that

okay I watched rollins — kinda killed the posi vibe for me tbh — gonna listen to that dirty projjies cover of "rise above" in a sec to cheer up

i just wrote nard to invite him out to $ummer$tage shows and got a response like twenty minutes later with the subject line of "Incoming Nard Message!"

release the nickelback talk box tape!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ti0DAAvVY

finally got his (outside of neil young) white whale!

lol hearing security say "yo nardwaur's good"

Unless i missed it he still didn’t get the doot doot from uzi though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fiZB-TvPFU