Yesterday Gary Hill posted video from 1967 video on Facebook in which the late lamented John Peel interviews me for a Dutch TV station about IT, the underground press and The Deviants. Strange to encounter one’s younger self coming back at you. Although I’m surprisingly lucid and even relevant, there are moments when I find the 24 year-old me a little scary. The idealistic determination of this radical youth seems very serious. It was a time, though, before the shitstorm still to come, when so much still seemed possible and the future might really be bright ahead. I guess I had yet to discover how reversals – and ducking and diving to survive them – can make a sense of humor so crucial. (And watch how the sexist egomaniac doesn't let Joy get a word in edgewise.)
Click here for this blast from the past.
And while we’re in the 1960s,
click here for Billy the Monster. (That’s Boss Goodman singing the low backup vocals.)
I was listening to a Peel show from the '70's where he said you had to explain to him what the song "Venus in Furs" was about. I got a kick out of that.
ReplyDeleteGot any suggestions on how to find a copy of the whole CD for the newly interested.
ReplyDeleteA copy of Deviants #3 shouldn't be too hard to find. First place to look might actually be on Amazon.
ReplyDeleteMick, this might be a silly question, but is Boss Goodman the Dave Goodman who produced the early Sex Pistols sessions? I've always wondered...
ReplyDeleteNo. Two different Goodmans.
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