Avant-garde percussion. He explains what he's doing with the overtones directly after.

Well why don't you guys just **** each other

He lives in Japan, for starters.

John Lydon is amazing to watch on camera. He's like the worst person to ever talk to.

Some vintage footage.




Right here he's supposed to be promoting a video game or something.

Some interviews can be very revealing about an artist. If it's an artist that seems especially smart and insightful I love an interview.

Ian Mackaye talking about politics. Although I am not American I love Mackaye's politics, and think he says a lot of things that are relevant to world politics too.

Bob Dylan is a slightly different case because I think while he has some incredible views on life he does come across quite rude and doesn't say much of worth. But the way Dylan acted was so unashamedly cool and so human that I love watching his interviews.

I definitely enjoy interviews but I think this is largely dependent on the interviewer and his/her questions.

I often get the impression that journalists/interviewers read interviews that the band has recently done and just regurgitate the same series of questions because it makes their job easier because the goal is, seemingly, to just get a quote, not seek out quality answers.

Generic questions lead to generic answers and it's not hard to imagine the apathy that bands feel when doing interviews.

I remember watching the Glastonbury highlights this year and being genuinely embarrassed by the interview with Kasabian following their head-line slot. They were obviously drunk and came in swearing, arsing about and being cocky (like so many bands tend to) and one of them stood on the table to moon the camera for a bit. None of this I found particularly offensive, but what really embarrassed me was that the band either felt like they had to (or really wanted to) make this behaviour seem rebellious and youthfully irreverent. The interviewers (the same desperate nobodies approaching thirty and hating themselves for it) laughed and said things like "oh my god you guys are so mental. what are you like" for a bit whilst they waited for the band to calm down and sit down. I sat there thinking "is that it? Is this rock and roll?" It was unarguably, truly tragic. Interviews are pretty lame these days, mostly due to the way interviewers have changed.

Bands like the Sex Pistols, the Stones and the Beatles had such a wealth of opportunity to appear genuinely cool, witty and rebellious in interviews because those asking them questions were the squarest people on earth. With their ties done up to eleven, their comb-overs and their questions like "why do you play such ghastly music?". These days, the bands haven't changed. Their answers haven't changed, the only thing that's different is that their interviewers are wannabe hipsters who appease their rowdy behaviour and often encourage it to make their programme seem "down with da kids".

Maybe there's just nothing left to rebel against anymore...just misogyny and non-vegetarianism...and we've got to have some fun...

HaHa ! A couple of great clips, Batlord. In the first, by keeping his comments simple JL manages to be offensive with considerable dignity, while the second performance is enough to terrorize the most stalwart interviewer I should think.

Some good points made by Neurophobic, and blackdragon123´s analysis is spot on :-

^ It seems like some rock band interviews can best be summarized like this:-
The interviewer is embarrassed to be asking questions; the band is embarrassed to be answering questions, and the audience is embarrassed to be witnessing it all.

+1 lol