Guys, 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]
The idea of him as The Great Kat’s drummer fills me with more pleasure than his own music has ever given me.
The part about Tom Smith’s underwear was the best.
Is he refering to Tool’s AEnmia?
Also, I endorse anything WK.
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.
@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.)
After reading this article, I thought “Wow. That was much shorter than I thougt it would be.”
Now I know why.
@Ned Raggett: I listened to brief snippets (the article on Sightings in last month’s Wire was offered to me) but wasn’t impressed.
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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Andrew W.K. appearing in what may be the greatest comic strip ever:
[www.wigu.com]
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.
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.