Post by dirtydisco on Oct 25, 2011 6:01:23 GMT
In the liner notes of "Great White Death", and on the Live Action Dossier page for Live Action 16, the following interview is quoted:
"""extract from rock band interview:
Unsound magazine: How about industrial groups in LA? People who do music like yours (sic). Have you seen any of those groups or Whitehouse when they did their tour?
Mark: I saw Whitehouse, I thought they were bullshit, total bullshit. They thought that by doing a totally white noise thing that they were challenging the limits of the tolerance of their audience, when in reality all they were doing was standing up there and flipping on white noise switches . . . so what? That doesn’t challenge anyone, they aren’t irritating at all.
Johanna: I like Non.
Mark: I think Non blows Whitehouse completely out of the room, down the street and up the hall. I mean those guys were so pretentious about their stance and their attitude and about what they were doing that to me it was meaningless, it wasn’t what they wanted, which was to scare people, or disturb people in the audience, they didn’t disturb people in the audience, they just bored people, people said "so what," and walked out of the room. They didn’t walk out of the room because it blew them away or made their ears bleed or anything else, it just bored them the same way seeing some second rate version of Barry Manilow in some lounge would bore somebody. It was on that same level, just a nothing. I think that creativity is a factor and by them taking a stance of no creativity, no melody, nothing to offer to their audience, obviously they aren’t offering anything so why should they be on a stage? The ultimate statement for a band like that is to stay at home.
Unsound magazine: Probably their best statement was when they did their San Francisco show and they didn’t even show up at all.
Mark: Well, Boyd did that at the Whiskey, he set up his equipment and then sat in his car.
Johanna; Well, why didn’t they show up?
Unsound magazine: They got death threats in Los Angeles. People were calling them on the phone and sending the letters saying basically that if they showed up in San Francisco that they would be done the same type of harm that they insinuate that they would do on record, so they got really paranoid and scared and their true selves came out. We heard it through the promoters, it was sort of unfortunate."""
My question is who were these 'Johanna' and 'Mark' they were interviewing? Are they in some more popular awful American band or just random twats they interviewed for their opinions on WH? I don't know why, but ever since I bought GWD on CD I've been curious who these silly interviewees were, if you know.
"""extract from rock band interview:
Unsound magazine: How about industrial groups in LA? People who do music like yours (sic). Have you seen any of those groups or Whitehouse when they did their tour?
Mark: I saw Whitehouse, I thought they were bullshit, total bullshit. They thought that by doing a totally white noise thing that they were challenging the limits of the tolerance of their audience, when in reality all they were doing was standing up there and flipping on white noise switches . . . so what? That doesn’t challenge anyone, they aren’t irritating at all.
Johanna: I like Non.
Mark: I think Non blows Whitehouse completely out of the room, down the street and up the hall. I mean those guys were so pretentious about their stance and their attitude and about what they were doing that to me it was meaningless, it wasn’t what they wanted, which was to scare people, or disturb people in the audience, they didn’t disturb people in the audience, they just bored people, people said "so what," and walked out of the room. They didn’t walk out of the room because it blew them away or made their ears bleed or anything else, it just bored them the same way seeing some second rate version of Barry Manilow in some lounge would bore somebody. It was on that same level, just a nothing. I think that creativity is a factor and by them taking a stance of no creativity, no melody, nothing to offer to their audience, obviously they aren’t offering anything so why should they be on a stage? The ultimate statement for a band like that is to stay at home.
Unsound magazine: Probably their best statement was when they did their San Francisco show and they didn’t even show up at all.
Mark: Well, Boyd did that at the Whiskey, he set up his equipment and then sat in his car.
Johanna; Well, why didn’t they show up?
Unsound magazine: They got death threats in Los Angeles. People were calling them on the phone and sending the letters saying basically that if they showed up in San Francisco that they would be done the same type of harm that they insinuate that they would do on record, so they got really paranoid and scared and their true selves came out. We heard it through the promoters, it was sort of unfortunate."""
My question is who were these 'Johanna' and 'Mark' they were interviewing? Are they in some more popular awful American band or just random twats they interviewed for their opinions on WH? I don't know why, but ever since I bought GWD on CD I've been curious who these silly interviewees were, if you know.