| 10 August 2010 | NYtimes.com | – |
|
|
| NOTES: | |
| Interview with Jon Spencer. View the complete article and website at tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. | |
| TEXT: | |
|
The Insider | Jon Spencer
Culture | By CHRISTINE MUHLKE | August 10, 2010, 4:42 pm After a six-year hiatus, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — the stripped-down blues-rock outfit that put sweat on the brow of the Lower East Side in the ’90s — is back in its leather-panted garage-stomp glory, reissuing key albums like “Extra Width” and releasing the compilation “Dirty Shirt Rock (En Roll: The First Ten Years).” At a recent performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Spencer, the guitarist Judah Bauer (who also plays with Cat Power’s Dirty Delta Blues Band) and the drummer Russell Simins showed the skinny-jeans crowd where skinny pants came from as Spencer whipped up the audience wearing rubber-coated denim on a 95-degree day. Still hot after all these years. Here, Spencer shares his insider picks. Name: Jon Spencer Age: 45 Occupation: Rock ‘n’ roll Home base: Manhattan Music venue: Bowery Ballroom Favorite concert: Blues Explosion at Osheaga Festival, Montreal Music: The soundtrack to “Bullitt” by Lalo Schifrin Record store: Academy Equipment: Like what? Is this a sexual question? Ludlow Guitar shop and Main Drag Music. Provisions: Seltzer, seltzer, seltzer. Restaurant: Most recently visited: the Meatball Shop on Stanton Street. Drink: Red wine Last call: I’m in bed by then. For gifts: Union Square Wine Retail standbys: The Strand, Ludlow Guitar Shop. Pants: Shorts right now. Damn, it’s hot! For Pitchfork, I wore rubberized denim pants that were custom-made (maybe 10 years ago) by Agatha (http://www.agathaleather.net/), formerly of Ludlow Street. Agatha moved to L.A. in the early aughties. For a while her sister ran the New York business, but that shop is now long gone. Hair/grooming: Lotsa grease! Momentary style obsessions: Tracey Walter in “Repo Man.” Reading material: “Blood Meridian,” by Cormac McCarthy. Art pick: Cosmic Comics, Forbidden Planet. Museum: Madison Square Post Office Movie: “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” Vacation destination: Campanario de Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. Something you are looking forward to this fall: Cool weather. Jon Spencer’s Neighborhood: maps.google.com |
