(I speak from the perspective of someone who for two years unsuccessfully lobbied U***t to give Todd Rundgren the front cover and 30 pages inside)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
4-5 Public EnemyEvens Beastie Boys7-4 Outkast 2-1 Eminem4-1 Wu Tang Clan (Up from 5-1)8-1 Jay Z 12-1 50 Cent (down from 8-1)15-1 Run DMC/LL Cool J40-1 Dizzee Rascal50-1 bar
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Odds to appear on the front cover
Wire 20-1Throwing Muses 40-1The Stranglers 75-1Underworld 100-1King Crimson 200-1Killing Joke 250-1The Associates 400-1The Chameleons 500-1Rush 1000-1Porcupine Tree 10,000-1
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Nick Hornby - evens
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Again that's the problem about funk/hip-hop fans. Your extreme intolerance towards anything that is not funk/hip-hop/R&B related.
Mojo have never devoted their entire magazine to one single genre, and never will. They have done funk specials, and they will again. They have also done hip-hop specials, and the likelyness of Mojo putting Public Enemy on their front page is way bigger than the likeliness of Mixmag or Kingsize putting Coldplay on their front page. Who who is the most intolerant here?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Daddy you're a fool to cry....
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
weirdly, i wouldn't have thought that would be a tough pitch there - isn't paul lester a huge Todd fan?
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
As for Todd Rundgren, you would have been more likely to succeed with Mojo. Select usually prefer "safe" cover stories.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link
You couldn't get a huger Todd fan than PL. But neither of us was able to get past Jonesey Customs...
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
And, btw. they have yet to make a "Mind Games" special, a "Tug Of War" special, a "Flowers In The Dirt" special or a "Cloud Nine" special. All of those were way better albums than "Plastic Ono Band".
There is an inhouse rule in Select that if they are ever to do a cover story of a more obscure act, it will always have to be some Americana act. :)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Where is Duke Ellingham Swing Band band?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
But I guess they are sort of too narrow for the Mojo readership. Whenever they do keyboard based 80s music they do something a bit broader and more commercial.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link
The quality of an album has no bearing on whether the story behind it is interesting or not.
I guess it's unlikely Duran*2 will ever aquiesce to do a 'making of' "Thank You" special, but hey it must have been interesting making a totally rub* album.
*received wisdom, haven't heared any of it.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, Les Harvey.
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Geir's reply is the funniest thing I've ever read on here by him.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Sometime in the future a hip-hop band will sample that piano riff on clocks.
x-post
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
But didnt some hip-hop/RnB bands do a phil collins tribute?
In a hip-hop style. Doing it in Collins' original style would have been very unlikely.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
That just doesn't count. When will a hip-hop band do a cover of "Clocks" that contain every single verse sung from the beginning to the end, containing absolutely no rap parts, and with a backing track containing all the chords of the original, over a straight 4/4-beat?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Then the brilliant "A Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind And Wuthering" albums would never have happened. (And as for his 80s solo work, it cannot compare to the brilliance of the 70s Genesis stuff, but it is at least a lot better than anything ever released in the hip-hop genre)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Mojo is absolutely killing it as of late. I know rock is dead and all but it's kind of wild that there's no American magazine left that's going to put Pearl Jam on a cover in 2024
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:26 (two days ago) link
xp I think you just need to get some solid lawyers to confront SST and Ginn rolls over. A couple of catches: doesn't work if the band members can't agree to terms and clear the way for lawyers to move forward (see Hüsker Dü) and even if Ginn concedes, he hasn't done shit to properly maintain or store the masters, so even though you get back the rights, the physical masters may be lose (see Meat Puppets)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:29 (two days ago) link
*lost
I know it's the wrong mag, but Select has a cover mount of Can Live tracks this month..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:21 (two days ago) link
I think that's Uncut, didn't Select go away a long time ago?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:24 (two days ago) link
Oh yeah. Uncut. Opps.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:13 (yesterday) link
― birdistheword, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i spoke with this directly with terry katzman about the husker du stuff (terry ran reflex records for the huskers) before he died, they did have lawyers - the same lawyers that dino jr. and meat puppets used i think he said -- but the husker contract was different and had some more onerous language in it that they could not overcome. the band was actually all fairly united (at least as united as huskers get) and behind the project. ginn does not just roll over by any means.
so they could do the savage young du boxset, because that was largely based on terry's tapes and pre-sst. the original plan was to work with numero on a reissue series of the entire catalog - i think he said the idea was to have sets where it would be a remastered album then another disc of outtakes and/or live performances of that era.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:22 (yesterday) link
^^^ oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:31 (yesterday) link
yeah it's a tragedy that it never happened and now that Terry is gone it never will, he had so much energy to make it happen he cared way more about that band than the members did
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:41 (yesterday) link
Yeah, the impression Bob gave me last time I interviewed him is that they had lawyers, they'd approached Ginn, but that it was just too hard, and in the end he's just written it all off as a lost cause. It's such a shame.
SST seem to have bumped up their vinyl represses over the last couple of years, but I don't see them doing any deluxe reissues with outtakes, etc, and that's a shame. I remember telling Carducci when I was researching my Flag book that it was a tragedy they weren't celebrating the back catalog that way, and that the CDs didn't sound great and could do with a remaster at the very least, but he argued that they sound fine. Still...
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:44 (yesterday) link
Interesting and very sad. I was going by that interview Grant did where he claimed Bob was asking for too much control and too big of a share of the catalog in order to get it away from SST, but I guess a lot happened after that bump in the road.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:56 (yesterday) link