I was just talking about them.
They’re awesome, man. They have one of the best drummers working there. There’s just a lot of weird variety out there. There’s this kid who’s making, I don’t know, I think it’s experimental rap, called LIM. He is really sick. It’s a really great time for music in New York. There’s a lot of really good stuff in there.
Which rock band do you think has the best style?
Swan. Your eyes water; Rachel dresses really well. They throw fits of madness. Al and Bailey from Fantasy of a Broken Heart, they throw fits of madness.
I really like all the eclectic costumes of The Who. Keith Moon was drumming in a t-shirt in 1968, which I think is really bad. The Led Zeppelin thing was pretty weird. As I get older, it’s just like, “Man, that shit is looking pretty wild, the headband and shit.” The Beatles dressed quite well in their later years, when they were able to abandon acting a bit. All of their ceiling performance fits were fantastic. George is amazing.
Christopher Fenimore
Christopher Fenimore
People sleep on the gorge.
I don’t know where the man was getting his clothes from. He was killing it.
Actually, I think about it a lot. Where were these people getting their clothes?
Absolutely. Finding pants has been a challenge. I like British mod, and I’m trying to find Chelsea boots that look like the Beatles’ boots, and you can’t find them.
can you not? I would actually think the opposite, that there would be a lot of duplicates on the market.
These are something like this. These are from a British company that makes Cuban heel shoes. You actually have to go to Mexico or Cuba and buy the shoes.
Heck, Joel and Anton from Brian Jonestown Massacre had some of the craziest outfits in the ’90s. I don’t know where they were looking for them. Their document outlines all the time they spent together, and the entire time they were absolutely heartbroken. They can barely pay for their food. I wonder, “Then where are they getting all these clothes?” Because these are all good things.
How do you guys write new music?
It depends. There are little bits that we jam on and sometimes they become songs, and then sometimes we have a little riff that we really like and sticks around for a while and it becomes a song. But it’s really about being in a room together and playing with things to see what works. We realized, after a long time, there were times when making a song felt almost like a studio project, where it was like, just record this section, and then we record this section, and just piece it together. But we’re moving towards playing together a lot and seeing what happens if we do some demos. If there is something we really like, we can continue doing it.
