From the 33 1/3 series. Good introduction to the Elephant 6 people and their creative process. Everybody but Jeff Mangum.
Quotes:
I know that it was really scary for him—as it is for everybody—sharing things with the outside world, when the things that you’re sharing are almost the whole of your insides, the thing without which there’d be no purpose to you.
After their set, a friend told them he’d had to go outside and walk around for a long time, because the experience was so emotionally overwhelming.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is one of the fuzziest records ever made, and yet it is completely lacking in over-the-counter fuzz effects.
Microphone distortion is an artificial device you can use in the studio as a production and engineering choice, to simulate the energetic sound that you’re trying to get. It’s there, the people are playing it—how do you catch it on tape? You do certain artificial things to capture it.
When he first heard Jeff sing “I love you Jesus Christ,” he didn’t know how to take it. As someone who’d always had problems with organized religion, he was repelled. But as a songwriter, he was stunned by the profound and fearless honesty with which Jeff was expressing his faith. Jeff didn’t seem to give a damn what anyone thought of him, or if he seemed uncool. And it’s this naked honesty, Martyn thinks, that has brought so many people to the record—even folks who aren’t themselves religious are touched by Jeff’s faith and his guts.
there’s this extra quality of rawness and reality. It’s listening in to people’s lives, and when you capture that it resonates for people who hear it.
In the years following Aeroplane, Jeff began exploring his spiritual interests, reading Krishnamurti, traveling, spending time in a monastery and, as Laura saw it, becoming a more calm and centered person.
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