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David BOWIE in a Trikont
Interview (click to read this one)
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"the unstable hero for
feelings of authentic loss" Indigo
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".. if you are tired of the
same old stuff you can hardly get any more different than Daniel
Johnston." aranworld2
from Oakland, CA
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The Electric Lounge, midnight:
Austin's most brilliant treasure, Daniel Johnston, put on the
best rock show I've seen in the last year. Johnston, looking these days
sort of like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with his big belly and flowing hair,
possessed absolutely none of Ali Khan's inner peace playing in front of
this packed house, he was a shaking, manic mess. His backing band of
veteran musicians all watched for clues as to what would happen next as
Johnston trembled at the mike, singing his weird, poignant songs of love
and death with the aid of a spiral-bound notebook. The emotional
directness of Johnston's songs (and his cover of "Yesterday" by the
Beatles), combined with the total inability of anyone in the room to
predict the music's course from one point to the next, made for an
exhilarating experience.
Flagpole
Magazine Online
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"There's no dishonesty here.
No overproduction, unattainable musical notes, and an elaborate band-
only true human emotion."
Universe of Sound from Milford, Massachusetts
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| Steve Espinola
from a Krisbee
Interview
Steve Espinola: Maybe, but on the other hand, people are going to be
buying his records for the next fifty years, so I don't know how that
all adds up. Robert Johnston sold a million copies a few years ago, I
wouldn't be surprised if Daniel Johnston had a collection of his works
sell a million copies, that wouldn't surprise me in the least..... I saw
him do one song that I thought was extraordinary. He's amazing, he's
got so much of... whatever he's got, some sort of mojo; even when he is
fumbling around, you feel that you are in the presence of something
extraordinary. The first time I saw him he was extremely nervous,
his strings were breaking, he had laryngitis, it was kind of a disaster.
He put down his guitar at the last song, and did it acapella, and it
was like he was channeling something very different, and very scary, and
very powerful, and very beautiful. And that last song was worth
several hours of concerts by any number of other people.
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| Though one is a
Motown legend and the other is an indie schizoid, Daniel Johnston has
the same psychic aches and pains as the late Marvin Gaye. The Trouble
Man was torn between the sacred and profane: Johnston is
scared of girls and God. Both men lived with their parents beyond the
age of 30. SPIN
Magazine October 1994
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