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| Publication = Buddyhead ([http://www.buddyhead.com Link]) | |||
| Interviewee = [[Matt Sharp]] | |||
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| Date = November [[1999]]<ref>''Buddyhead'' archive. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' (captured 18 August 2000): https://web.archive.org/web/20000818133358/http://www.buddyhead.com/archive/</ref> | |||
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| Link = [https://web.archive.org/web/20010506102527/http://www.buddyhead.com/music/rentals/ Original article] | |||
| Title = Matt Sharp of the Rentals | |||
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{{lowercase}}''After a few weeks of playing phone tag with some record company big-wigs at [[Maverick]], and waiting for the band to return from their short trip to Japan, we managed to finally catch up with [[The Rentals|The Rentals']] indescribable [[Matt Sharp]]. As I drove out of Hollywood and up the hill into Laurel Canyon (which is only a few blocks north of Sunset Blvd.), I noticed how secluded it was up there. No wonder everyone wants to live here. It's only a short distance from the hustle and bustle known as Hollywood, yet you can barely hear the traffic through the trees. I felt like I was at some mountain resort as I sat down with Matt over some orange juice at the "country market", where we discussed Japanese freak outs, fights with [[Weezer]], and the [[Seven More Minutes|new Rentals record]].'' | {{lowercase}}''After a few weeks of playing phone tag with some record company big-wigs at [[Maverick]], and waiting for the band to return from their short trip to Japan, we managed to finally catch up with [[The Rentals|The Rentals']] indescribable [[Matt Sharp]]. As I drove out of Hollywood and up the hill into Laurel Canyon (which is only a few blocks north of Sunset Blvd.), I noticed how secluded it was up there. No wonder everyone wants to live here. It's only a short distance from the hustle and bustle known as Hollywood, yet you can barely hear the traffic through the trees. I felt like I was at some mountain resort as I sat down with Matt over some orange juice at the "country market", where we discussed Japanese freak outs, fights with [[Weezer]], and the [[Seven More Minutes|new Rentals record]].'' | ||
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This Japanese guy just gave me this CD called ''The Voices of Harlem'' which is some collection of gospel funk. It's just amazing sounding vocally. Talk about having a lot of freedom in expression of music - it's really amazing. I've been listening to that the last few days, and it flipped me out. I've been in a really mellow headspace lately, so I've also been listening to a lot of Nick Drake. I saw [[Spike Jonze|Spike Jonze's]] new film. That was great. I went to see it in a room full of suits, some special screening thing, a couple weeks ago. You kind of always hold Spike to this incredibly high standard, so it's tough to be him I think. He's very inspirational.}} | This Japanese guy just gave me this CD called ''The Voices of Harlem'' which is some collection of gospel funk. It's just amazing sounding vocally. Talk about having a lot of freedom in expression of music - it's really amazing. I've been listening to that the last few days, and it flipped me out. I've been in a really mellow headspace lately, so I've also been listening to a lot of Nick Drake. I saw [[Spike Jonze|Spike Jonze's]] new film. That was great. I went to see it in a room full of suits, some special screening thing, a couple weeks ago. You kind of always hold Spike to this incredibly high standard, so it's tough to be him I think. He's very inspirational.}} | ||
{{Interviewer|BH|What's in the future for The Rentals?}} | {{Interviewer|BH|What's in the future for The Rentals?}} | ||
{{Matt|Possibly shows in January or February. We will most likely record sometime in there too. There is so much I want to do right now. I'm gonna be doing a [[Matt Sharp (album)|solo record]] at some point, something really subdued. And a new Rentals sometime around February. We played one of the songs at the show you were at in L.A. One of the new ones. All the songs that we've been working on for the new record I just improvise all the words. I've just been really enjoying making up everything on the spot except for like a couple key words. And it's been getting worse. When we started out, we were improvising shit and it was just perfectly landing every night, everything was coming together. Then the more we did it the improving got worse, I actually rhymed "rad" with "bad" the other night. If you aren't in the right headspace to make things up, it's just gonna get messy.}} | {{Matt|Possibly shows in January or February. We will most likely record sometime in there too. There is so much I want to do right now. I'm gonna be doing a [[Matt Sharp (album)|solo record]] at some point, something really subdued. And a new Rentals sometime around February. We played one of the songs at the show you were at in L.A. One of the new ones. All the songs that we've been working on for the new record I just improvise all the words. I've just been really enjoying making up everything on the spot except for like a couple key words. And it's been getting worse. When we started out, we were improvising shit and it was just perfectly landing every night, everything was coming together. Then the more we did it the improving got worse, I actually rhymed "rad" with "bad" the other night. If you aren't in the right headspace to make things up, it's just gonna get messy.}}|}} | ||
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*[[:Category:Matt Sharp interviews]] | |||
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{{Navbox Weezer interviews|Matt Sharp|1999|Buddyhead}} | |||
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