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“ I’m too bossy for a super group. I would have liked to be onstage at the Book T and the MG’s playing the keyboard or the lead guitar at 1960s London gigs. I would have liked to have played the guitar on the Johnny and Santos, “Sleepwalk”; Duane Allman’s guitar part on “Layla”; done the handclaps on “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell; played the tambourine on any Stones song or the dog barks on Pink Floyd’s Animal. I would like to have written “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams. I would have liked to have played the snare on the “Fame” recording by David Bowie; the drums on Cannonball Adderley’s “Stand Tall.” I would have liked to have done the recording of “Madcap Laughs” by Syd Barrett. Some of the off-the-mic singing on the Clash’s London Calling. Every track on there sounds like a mic was left on and it’s picking up some guy talking or shouting or singing. I would have liked to have been that guy. Of course, I’d like to have played Clyde Stubblefield’s drums on pretty much any James Brown song and/or the bass and organ on the early Faces stuff. That’s a start. There is an all-girl surf band from L.A. called the Neptunas. I would like to be the announcer guy who says, “Door slammer stay home!
VenusZine: Call & Response with Kim Deal
Kim Deal, of the great Pixies and Breeders talks mewsick.
