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Andrew WK: Man Of Many Words (About Records, Fellatio, And Long Island Guitar Heroines)

awk.jpgGuys, not to get all hard-partying fanboy on you, but (OMG!!!1!) did you know that this month The Wire asked world’s-greatest-human Andrew WK to sit down for their “Invisible Jukebox,” the long-running feature where interviewer plays interviewee a bunch of records? And did you know that the magazine’s Web site now features the unedited, nine-page transcript of said “Jukebox” interview with noise bro Mr. Marc Masters? (I did not. Until now.)

A thoughtful Mr. Wilkes-Krier offers his take on acts ranging from the Butthole Surfers to Lee “Scratch” Perry to Wolf Eyes, peppering his on-the-spot rock criticism with many personal revelations, including how jealously over his inability to self-pleasure in the name of art spurred his development as a popular musician: “[It] was some 7-inch with a photograph on the cover where he had positioned himself so that he could give himself oral sex. And it was real! It made a certain taste come in the back of my throat, no pun intended actually (laughter). But it was disturbing and very inspiring simultaneously.” [The Wire]

 
By Jess Harvell at 1:00 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
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  • unperson

    The idea of him as The Great Kat's drummer fills me with more pleasure than his own music has ever given me.

  • manyjars

    The part about Tom Smith's underwear was the best.

  • Dead Air ummm Dead Air

    Is he refering to Tool's AEnmia?


    Also, I endorse anything WK.

  • Cam/ron

    WK usually comes across as a hair-metal douchebag leftover from the 80's but he's actually a pretty smart guy with strong roots in the underground.

  • Ned Raggett

    @unperson: I gotta cosign.


    (That said, the Sightings album he produced last year -- GREAT stuff. The band's best yet, and the cover of Scott Walker's "The Electrician" = unexpected, very well done.)

  • Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

    After reading this article, I thought "Wow. That was much shorter than I thougt it would be."


    Now I know why.

  • unperson

    @Ned Raggett: I listened to brief snippets (the article on Sightings in last month's Wire was offered to me) but wasn't impressed.

  • Anonymous

    MTV should put his stint on "Your Friend, Andrew WK" on DVD, to keep me from having to watch each episode in a 4th generation VHS rip on YouTube.


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  • SuperUnison

    I don't think there's another artist going right now who straddles this large a gulf between how smart they are in person and how aggressiveley dumb their art is.

  • Rev-E

    Andrew W.K. appearing in what may be the greatest comic strip ever:

    [www.wigu.com]

  • Anonymous

    I was expecting more too. Andrew WK is suprisingly deep, the Onion once said he wasn't rock's messiah, but probably its best camp counselor. I keep checking for tour dates, but I haven't seen anything except for some solo shows that are really hard to get into in a long time.

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