The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Melody Maker: Bang! Bang! You’re Cred (PRESS, UK)

This interview refers to a show at East Wing, Brighton, UK (26 September 1994) which was also reviewed by David Bennun for the Melody Maker (15 October 1994).

“The last time I saw The Blues Explosion play, in Brighton, they blew the power with their theremin and finished the set unplugged, still managing to create headlong cacophony. Then Jon hurled himself onto Russell’s drumkit.

“I don’t remember this at all,” admits Jon. “Brighton is in England, right? And, uh, I play the drums?”

“Yeah, I remember,” Judah reminds Russell. “Jon jumped onto your kit, then this guy came out of the audience and jumped on it as well.”

Russell threw the interloper back into the crowd, which parted like Moses had just waved his staff at it, and he described a perfect parabola before hitting the floor with a sadistically satisfying thump.

“THat’s the essence of it,” growls Russell. “I said, ‘Jon can jump on my kit, but not you.’ Did I really throw him off the stage?

Don’t get me angry. It’s like Max Weinberg [Drummer from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band]. He got really annoyed when Mike D sat at his drumkit at the MTV awards; ‘NOBODY sits at my drums!’” – David Bennun / Melody Maker (16 October 1996)