{"id":78760,"date":"2018-02-22T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=78760"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T10:45:30","slug":"6-interviews-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/inspire\/6-interviews-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Six interviews with musicians gone terribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019d think that being a celebrity journalist has many perks: Your content is very sought after which means the media will pay you big bucks for it, you get to mix and mingle with the rich & famous and possibly even get backstage passes and concert tickets. But it must also be really nerve racking, especially if you\u2019re dealing with famous musicians, because you never know in which mood you will catch them. Chances are they are ecstatic after playing a good concert or after winning an award. But other times they are exhausted and highly irritable from extensive touring, just coming off an intense buzz of drugs and\/or alcohol or just simply not in the mood for answering questions. When interviews go wrong, as unfortunate as they are for the interviewer, they can be either uncomfortable to watch or hilarious. Here are our favourites\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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6. Billy Corgan vs. Nick Cave<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>At the Lollapalooza festival in 1994 Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins somehow got a hold of the MTV microphone and list of questions and started interviewing Mr. Cave who seemed really annoyed right from the beginning. It got worse when Corgan assumed that Cave and his band were British (he is Australian) and by the end of it Cave indirectly told Corgan that he has the mentality of a teenager. Fortunately, Corgan takes it relatively lightly, see for yourselves…\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/pQ6SuW7RDKI<\/a><\/p>\n

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5. Members of Blur bully Nardwar<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>When Canadian music nerd Nardwar the Human Serviette tried to interview Blur things didn\u2019t go exactly as planned. Dave Rowntree, the bands drummer, seemed to be missing his drum kit because he started attacking the interviewer, knocking off his hat, pulling off his glasses and just being an unreasonable bully. Nardwar kept his cool as best as he could but one can sense that he was not impressed\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/AkNvk2MgiCc<\/a><\/p>\n

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4. Vanilla Ice destroys MTV set<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>When Rob Van Winkle, also known as Vanilla Ice appeared on this MTV special, in which they make fun of terrible music videos, Rob went further than just destroying the cassette of his video for Ice Ice Baby. With a baseball bat he destroyed the tape and the majority of the props on set. He smashed two small tables, a telephone, a bowl of popcorn, and two mannequins in the background. If it was staged or not is debatable, but judging by the fear on the hosts\u2019 faces it doesn\u2019t seem like it was. The singer of Ice Ice Baby really needs to chill, don’t you agree? https:\/\/youtu.be\/g2ZkTvLdH2o<\/a><\/p>\n

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3. Lou Reed loves Australian journalists<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is a two-for-one\u00a0\u270c\ufe0f! When Lou Reed was interviewed by journalists at the Sydney airport press conference in 1974 he did all he could to not give them what they wanted. Whether he was on drugs, just coming off drugs or just simply annoyed is hard to tell. He mostly gives one-word answers and often answers bluntly and sometimes paradoxically to the questions. When asked if he takes drugs he answers \u201cI don\u2019t take any\u201d then later when asked \u201cwhere do you spend your money?\u201d he answers simply, \u201con drugs\u201d. The following year he appeared at the same location for a similar press conference and was even more cold. When asked \u201cAre you happier as a brunette?\u201d he replies with \u201cAre you happier as a schmuck?\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/2UrhX1ilwwc<\/a>
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2. Bob Dylan vs Time Magazine<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Time Magazine correspondent Horace Judson interviewed a young and hyper Bob Dylan and was left speechless. Dylan goes off on a rant about the media, especially Time Magazine, about how anything they print about him won\u2019t affect him in any way. He says that the media doesn\u2019t print ideas or truth but only facts, which mean nothing. The interviewer is stunned, maybe offended and probably impressed. Dylan’s speech is so speedy and coherent, it leads one to believe he was high on amphetamines, but how can one really tell? Dylan ends off the interview ironically by stating that he sings just as well as Enrico Caruso. Check it out\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/mnl5X5MQKTg<\/a><\/p>\n

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1. Billy Bob Thornton gets upset<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>This interview aired live on Canadian radio and YouTube in 2009 and shocked the audience (and the host) because Billy Bob, the musician, refused to cooperate with the interview after the host mentioned his acting career. Apparently they had agreed beforehand not to mention his acting career so Billy Bob decided to make everyone feel uncomfortable. He answered very simple questions with \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about\u201d and at one point went off on a tangent about monster action figures when asked about his music. Later he decided to disrespect Canadians by mocking their smoking laws and calling their audiences \u201cmashed potatoes but without the gravy\u201d…<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/IJWS6qyy7bw\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Do you know of any others? Please let us know in the comments!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Famous musicians are often under a lot of pressure. Let’s see them misbehave in these top 6 interviews that go wrong…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":79261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tblog_post_audio_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10676],"tags":[10801,10797,10805,8071,10803,2085,10795,10809,10807,10799],"class_list":["post-78760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspire","tag-attitude","tag-bad","tag-bad-vibes","tag-famous","tag-fed-up","tag-interview-en","tag-interviews","tag-press","tag-reporters","tag-wrong"],"category_colors":{"color_key":"inspire","css_classes":{"text":"cat-inspire","text_light":"cat-inspire-light","bg":"cat-bg-inspire","bg_light":"cat-bg-inspire-light","border":"cat-border-inspire","text_on_bg":"cat-text-on-inspire"}},"reading_time":{"minutes":4,"formatted":"4 min"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}