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Quote:Pitchfork: It does seem weird to me how interested people are in finding what sounds "new."KD: What would that even be now?
Pitchfork: Well, I think that different canonical bands are sort of in everybody’s minds at different times. So if you draw from an older band that isn’t in fashion, you sound "new."
KD: We’ve also lived through the rise and the fall times. Over the last five years we’ve had a lot of "whoa these guys are incredible!" and then "waaaaait a second…"
Pitchfork: It’s funny, I think that when you guys were just starting to get some recognition, people weren’t really paying attention to Dinosaur Jr. and J Mascis.
KD: Right– they stopped at the Pixies.
Pitchfork: It’s interesting to me because now, you’re working with J, which makes so much sense, but when you were coming up, if Dinosaur Jr. had been more fashionable, you might have been written off with, "whatever, these guys just sound like Dinosaur Jr."
KD: I always thought Dinosaur Jr. was a club. It was always fun to find Dinosaur Jr. fans, because you immediately had an understanding of something. Especially with girls– they seemed like such a boy band and then when you found girls who were really into Dinosaur Jr., it was like, "whoa, wow, let’s go hang out." I mean, that’s been one of my favorite things. You have to understand, I was fourteen years old– just imagine me at fourteen years old with a canoe panel rocking out to Bug on repeat. Go outside, smoke a couple cigarettes, go back in and do the show again because I can do it better– just lube up the canoe paddle and go for it. And then having those guys come to our video shoot, just having the whole band there… it’s an irreplaceable thing, you know? Sixteen years later, you’re high on tequila jumping around with your favorite band when you were a kid.
Pitchfork: J is so interesting to me… musicians are expected to be so much more public now, and that kind of grumbly and private persona doesn’t really seem be taken very well any more.
KD: I don’t think he’s one for the cameras too much. J is a hilarious man. We’ve all spent time and become friends with him over this slow period. The last hang we all had with him, he came to Toronto, we played a charity show, and he was cracking jokes after jokes– he’s a very sweet man. A lot of people don’t understand, it takes him about 30 or 40 seconds to answer you. So if you ask him a question and he doesn’t answer you in the time period you’re used to, that’s just J. He teases us a lot, I tease him a lot. It’s a good teasing relationship. Lots of shots at each other, out of love. I like that whole crew, I like Murph and Lou and their managers and wives and stuff.
Pitchfork: That makes sense– I don’t know J Mascis, and most people don’t, but the idea that somebody would be different when you get to know him seems so obvious, but also so outrageous in the information age.
KD: That’s one of the battles you have when you start out, like "you don’t fucking know me! How dare you write that!" Some 16-year-old kid blog is ruining your day, calling you every name he needs to so that he can validate himself. I told [Justin] Peroff the other day I’m not Cole Trickle, I don’t want anyone to have that opinion of me.
Yeah, that’s good stuff. People do expect WAY too much access to the personal lives of people these days.
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