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The Dresden Dolls - first band interview in yeeears (Patreon)

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2015-04-29 15:26:23
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2023-04

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and SURPRISE...the first interview with The Dresden Dolls in years. it happened randomly, and why not. in our rehearsal space in Manhattan on the morning of Record Store Day, brian and I talk for about 15 minutes record stores, performance and authenticity, how we feel about cell phone cameras at shows, at what new artists we are currently freaking out about. DIG IT. more soon, and thank you for all the replies to the blog about hate/love yesterday. you guys are amazing. xxx afp https://youtu.be/gtEqLEpxLts

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LTrain interviews The Dresden Dolls at Funkadelic Studios!

The Dresden Dolls prepares for their first performance together in 5 years at Funkadelic Studios! They took the time out from their rehearsal to talk to us about their performance later that day for Record Store Day, their personal favorite records, and even what they think about Cell phones during their show!

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Anonymous

Ironically, the first time I saw anything of Neil's was in an independent record store. I think it was 1989/90, and I saw a b&amp;w t-shirt of Death hanging up on the wall, and just figured it was some local artist drawing one of us club-kids. Afterall, you could buy oversized silver ankh necklaces at the record store back then too ;) I loved being able to find things I didn't know I was looking for. One such treasure was a rare pressing of Shostakovitch's Symphony #13 in Moscow with sombre cover art of a shrouded skeleton and clay-painted star of David. It's a recording of the premiere live performance in November of 1965, before the Russian government banned future performances. Since I got this back the the "Cold War" was still officially ongoing, it felt like a rare glimpse into "unapproved" artistic expression, and was perfect for me as a young violinist into underground music. That connection never would have been made without flipping through those endless stacks of random used records.

Anonymous

Both of you talking about going to the record store got me all nostalgic. Loved my Saturday ritual of going to all my local record stores w/my allowance burning a hole in my purse....ah, Look! New Duran Duran remix of The Reflex ON A PICTURE DISC! SCORE! LOL I sooo miss that!

Damian Masterson

Some of the worst show experiences I've ever had have been at shows with professional photographers who forced there way to the front and spend most of the show blocking sight lines trying to get there shot. (Though also a handful of really nice experiences with camera people who asked nicely to get in front of you for a shot and moved on after half a song). Comparatively, I'll almost always take someone with a cellphone over that. I do take pictures at shows. I'm better able to remember the show when I can see what it looked like. I'll usually give myself 1-2 songs to get a shot. After that, I just assume it wasn't meant to be unless there is a long break between songs. If it's a friends show, though, I'll usually try to find a place out of the way so I can get them pictures and videos they can use afterwards.

Anonymous

This interview made my day. &lt;3

Anonymous

Hahaha, love Brian's shirt! Dogfish Head is the BEST!

Anonymous

Amanda, I feel even more connected to you through our mutual love for Lorde. (Also, keeping “Yellow Flicker Beat” in mind, I suspect that Lorde won't stop being awesome any time soon.)

Anonymous

I was so lucky in high school and college that we had multiple record stores to go and paw through and find ...anything. And we were lucky enough to do it before they started shutting down all the record stores, even the big chains, like Tower (the one in the City had one building for everything, and a second building for classical music, how does it not crush your heart to loose that?) , and amoeba in berkeley, which is the one we could get to as kids vs. SF. Amazingly, the local Rasputin has reopened in the last year, so go them. I spent yesterday on the floor flipping through beat up covers of records that were great fun &amp; brought back so much fun. And I'm going to write a second post after this about my other, Record Store Day "left-over" finds. Happy Birthday Amanda!

Anonymous

The Virginia Monologues &amp; Record Store Day So for anyone who cuts to the chase &amp; doesn't read the rest of posts I have two copies of The Virginia Monologues that I want to make available to anyone who doesn't have access to a record store or wasn't able to get a copy. So my Record Store Day experience: First the local, local, record store just opened back up so I didn't go into Berkeley or San Francisco (it's not a big trip, but I had stuff to do). 1, I walked in, told them I was there for Record Store Day and looking for Dresden Dolls Virginia Monologues. First they just kept telling me to look in Rock (?) but I made them look it up, and they were like "Sorry, we have one, but it's only in vinyl, not CD." Uh, yeah. I came in for record store day. So some chick walks me over to the rock section in vinyl. No dice. Then she tells me, "You might want to check in the Record Store Day bins and see if it's there." Grrr.... So I did what any jonesing music addict would do: I searched the internet and found for a fairly reasonable price. But sad because ...you know, takes the fun out of Record Store Day. But had to have the album. *shrug* So today... I go into browse. And I'm flipping through, starting at the very beginning of the "A"'s today, 'cause I was in that sort of try to have order in my life type of mood. And then I get to "D." And there are two beautiful copies of The Virginia Monologues. And the numbered stamps are ordered with one missing in between, which means there were at least three available. Again, grrr.... So I debated. Should I leave them there as gems for other people to find and treasure? Or should I buy them (still supporting my local record store) and make them available to this community who I know will have people who would love not just to have them as a collector's item, but because they truly love the albums, the Dresden Dolls, and Amanda and Brian, and everyone has been so excited by the stream of the concert, too. I decided to buy them. But after a debate with another guy looking for Record Store Day albums, that he hoped were together--no, crammed together randomly with other stuff. So he was annoyed with our record store too, but all for buying them and still supporting the store and trying to get the records to the community who will love them. I will not put them on eBay, even if no one responds and I have multiple copies. I'm not auctioning them. I'm offering them at cost to me (what I paid total, divided by the three albums, then I rounded down), and whatever shipping we agree on. Message me. I'm hoping this makes this makes somebody's day as much as it made mine to see these beautiful pieces of art. --kate

Anonymous

I don't think I've ever heard Brian speak. He is so articulate! It's such a fantastic contrast to his passionate performing style.

Anonymous

Thank you for sharing this interview. It's so great to see you two interact again. My first record I bought with my own money was Blondie, Autoamerican. It was a proud day. It was a few years before Mtv when all of our music introductions were via Casey Kasem on Saturday mornings. :)