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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Interview Greil Marcus Stopped by the Frye, and They Made Him Talk

Posted by on Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:40 PM

He was here on the occasion of the exhibition The Old, Weird America, which is now gone, but you can watch the YouTubed interviews with the great writer here (in five parts).

It was totally off the cuff—he just happened to be in town doing a book signing (for this new book) and he let the Frye tape him!

The Old, Weird America is named after Marcus's influential book on Bob Dylan's basement tapes. It didn't seem like he'd seen his namesake exhibition before (it has been in Houston and Boston), said Frye spokeswoman Rebecca Garrity-Putnam.

In this segment he talks about his grandfather, a furrier, visiting the Winchester Mystery House while Mrs. Winchester was still there—and D.H. Lawrence, ghosts, religion, the rifle that conquered the west, and his own wanderings at the mansion.

For fans of Dario Robleto, here's Marcus talking about Robleto's wall of perverted record albums—the history of 1950s and '60s rock taken seen through a wagging Christian finger, as if "all of these albums come out of some fundamentalist factory," Marcus says.

Fans of the late, great Margaret Kilgallen will want to link directly here!

 

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Estey 1
That book is worth buying just for Joshua Clover on Dylan and Sarah Vowell on "American Gothic" (the painting).

I missed the damned signing though, so thanks for posting this/these!
Posted by Estey on January 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM

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