interview Archive
05 Nov 2014
New Crest on an Old Wave: The Dave Mason Interview (Part One)
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Mason was born in Worcester England, halfway between London and Liverpool. A few years younger even than The Beatles‘ George Harrison, Mason came up in […]
04 Nov 2014
Big Star Lives! with “Live in Memphis” (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… As Jon Auer pointed out in metaphor form during our conversation, speaking of Big Star in a slightly different context, “You can write the greatest letter […]
03 Nov 2014
Big Star Lives! with “Live in Memphis” (Part 1)
The story of Big Star – a band once so obscure, only critics, musicians and a small handful of in-the-know fans even knew of their brief existence – has now […]
24 Oct 2014
Back to Bassics: A Chat with Tony Levin
Among musicians, Tony Levin is as close as once can come to being a household name. Among the wider public, he’s not well known at all. That may be because […]
21 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… By 1993, as the first signing of the reactivated Sun Records, Jason D. Williams released Wild. Sessions for that disc took place in the storied studio […]
20 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part One)
Though his in-the-grand-tradition bio sheet asserts that Jason D. Williams first played a piano at age three, when I ask him about it, he concedes that his serious interest in […]
07 Oct 2014
A Chat With The Turtles’ Mark Volman, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I was ten when the film came out, and even though Dirty Duck was a cartoon, I wasn’t allowed to see that one. It […]
06 Oct 2014
A Chat with The Turtles’ Mark Volman, Part 1
The Turtles – Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, aka Flo & Eddie – have worked tirelessly to regain the rights and control over their catalog; the latest fruit of their […]
27 Sep 2014
Bonus Weekend Feature: 101 Runners
I’m getting married today! And I’m so happy about it that I have a gift for my readers: an extra, weekend piece. This is an edited version of a feature […]
19 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Five
Continued from Part Four… Bill Kopp: For a lot of people, myself included, Dear 23 and/or Frosting on the Beater are cited as the best Posies work. With Amazing Disgrace, […]