Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Q+A Crate-digging with Gentleman Jesse: a deleted scene
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Were you a fan of the Traveling Wilburys?
Hell yeah, how could you not be? [Roy Orbison] was the king of that group. They all had to look up to him. The most important members of that band were Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison. Can you imagine being Tom Petty in that band and looking around thinking, “Holy shit, what have I gotten myself into?”
Right, I've always assumed that you dig Tom Petty's stuff?
Of course, although I often joke about him — in terms of ’90s, noisy post-punk music, you’re either a Sonic Youth fan or a Fugazi fan. You can like both and you can have records by both bands, but you’ll be more into one or the other. I feel the same way about Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. I've always been much more of a Bruce Springsteen fan.
When I was a kid, like 5 years old, I “wrote” a song called “Born in a Chicken’s Egg,” and I thought it was just genius — just as good, if not better than anything that Weird Al ever did. It doesn’t even rhyme, but I thought it was fantastic, and no I didn't record it. I was a kid! Anyway, I was too young to really understand it at the time, but I've always liked Bruce Springsteen more.
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