Here’s an interesting interview with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, shot on a roof in downtown Manhattan in 1988. This footage is completely raw and unedited, with cuts and sound interruptions intact. As such, it takes Kim a couple of minutes to get into the swing of things, but she talks about life as a woman in a rock’n'roll band, art, sex, playing bass, her projects Harry Crews (with Lydia Lunch) and Ciccone Youth, and she reads extracts from a book called “So You Want To Be A Rock’n'Roll Star”. The interview is about 20 minutes long and is split into two parts.
Amazing. These were filmed I believe, for Charles Atlas’ South Bank Show documentary Put More Blood Into The Music, which I still have on VHS somewhere. Half of the show was devoted to John Zorn, the other half to Sonic Youth. It had some great talking head interviews with Lydia Lunch, Lenny Kaye, Glenn Branca etc. Ace find!
Mar 01, 2011
Barry Stock says:
I did a phone interview with Kim, also in 1988, for the local Tallahassee freekly, The Florida Flambeau. She was very pleasant to talk with and thoughtful. Once the band arrived (with B.A.L.L. opening) Thurston was upset that we’d gotten some of his lyrics wrong in the article, and Kim upbraided him for not including a lyric sheet. The sting of his venom makes listening to Daydream Nation still a bit less pleasurable than it might be, but I had forgotten until now about that interview and how well it went with her.
Mar 02, 2011
Em says:
Fellow CrimHead Barry Stock said…
“sting of his venom makes listening to Daydream Nation still a bit less pleasurable than it might be, but I had forgotten until now about that interview and how well it went with her.”
I’m going to officially declare her an iconoclastic hottie.
