Today on Boing Boing tv, our UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter sits down with legendary rock band manager Andy Gould for a chat about crazy, historic rocknroll hijinks he’s witnessed in his decades in the biz. We caught up with Gould at the Outside Lands Music and Arts festival, near the Crowdfire tent.
Gould is presently the manager for Primus, Morrissey, and other acts; present and past clients include Linkin Park, Lionel Ritchie, Rob Zombie, Pantera, Kool and the Gang, Damien Marley. Together with Irving Azoff, he manages Guns and Roses. He explains that he was there during the early days of “fur coat and cricket bat,” band managers, tough guys who “walked around with suitcases full of hundreds of thousands of dollars when the band walked offstage.”
“What’s really really great now is that the record companies have gone out of business,” he says — why would a music manager be dancing on the labels’ graves? And how is a pilfered pre-release MP3 like a box of Chicken McNuggets? Watch and learn, grasshoppers.
Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with discussion and downloadable video, and instructions on how to subscribe to the BBtv daily video podcast.
If you dig this, check out our previous BBtv episodes from Outside Lands. And there’s tons of fan-made footage and photos of Primus on Crowdfire.net (they’re a BBtv sponsor).
(special thanks to Jason McHugh; to Virgin America for air travel, and to Wayneco for the magic bus)
Related Boing Boing tv episodes from Outside Lands:
* Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music)
* Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music)
* BB Gadgets’ Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed
* Carney at Outside Lands – a “Boing Boing tv Bus Session.” (music)
* Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music)
* Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: (Xeni + Russell Porter)