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| From | <nonstoppop@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Close Encounters of the autograph kind |
| Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:37:12 -0400 |
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> OK, I wasn't there and maybe I'm grasping at straws for
> you...BUT....could it be that Elvis was just chatting, in the moment
> small talking with you guys about the show. Then your calling him "a
> genius" is something that he's heard a lot and simply took him out of
> that moment. So, he get's kinda uncomfortable and then just moved
> on??? Just a thought, but I'm routing for this version!
I can certainly buy into that theory! :-)
Thankfully, I've gotten past the majority of the hero-worship mindset when meeting musicians nowadays...although it's still often hard to get into a casual conversation with them, which is a shame.
When I'm interviewing musicians over the phone, it's generally strictly about what's going on with their latest album, latest tour, and so forth...but, invariably, my favorite interviews are the ones that descend into plain ol' conversation. I talked with Chris Collingwood of Fountains of Wayne about his dissatisfaction with the last Prefab Sprout album; Rhett Miller talked about the tennis shoes he was buying when I called him on his cell phone and how they'd stopped making his favorite kind, so whenever he spots a pair of them when on tour, he buys 'em; Ian McCulloch talked about how his wife feeds their cat vegetarian cat food, which he felt was utterly unnatural.
I LOVE those moments.
Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get those moments when you meet a musician in person, because, invariably, they're surrounded by other people who want to rave about their latest album or how great they sounded or whatever. And I can dig that, because I have been and, on occasion, continue to be one of those people. But, as a result of them, it's often very hard to get to "he/she is just like me, an ordinary person" mindset. It also makes it more understandable how rock stars sometimes get swelled heads, with everyone praising them left and right...
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