Ian
flower-power vocal-harmony kind of
band. And this is extremely funny, but
because we had no clothes at all —
except our onstage outfits — my mom
made my stage outfit and Roger had
various remnants and rags. And we
had no money at all, so in terms of
spare clothes, we only had one outfit
between us. Roger had the shirt, and I
had the trousers, and that was it. And
Roger used a bit of string to tie up the
trousers when he wore them, because
his waist was a bit smaller than mine.
So we couldn’t go out together, socially,
to the pub or to parties. But we did
bring that sense of style, that flower
power into the band.
IE: I remember in gradeschool, all the
cool kids had Machine Head, and
some even brought it in for show and
tell.
IG: I remember a story about that from
Lenny Hayes, one of my best friends,
who was in a band called Repo Depot
—he was from San Francisco, and he
was a great drummer, and known as
The Mayor of Hell. And he told me a
story when he came over to England,
like, “Man, that Machine Head! I
remember sitting in class one hot summer
afternoon, and the windows were
09•2020
all open, and suddenly everyone in
class turned around as my buddy
drove across the lawn — which was
seriously forbidden, it was sacred
ground —and skidded to a halt outside
the windows and yelled, ‘Hey, Lenny!
You gotta HEAR this!’ And he cranked
up “Highway Star” and Lenny jumped
out the window, jumped in the car and
drove off, and never went back to
school. And that was a huge change in
his life. So I’ve heard many similar stories
about that record.
IE: And I remember none of us knew
where — or what — Montreux was, in
September 4
Finneus Raise Me Up
Big Sean Detroit 2
Bill Callahan Gold Record
Hannah Georgas All That Emotion
Hurts Faith
Lana Del Rey Title TBA
Throwing Muses Sun Racket
Tricky Fall To Pieces
September 11
Doves The Universal Want
Jeremy Gara Passerine Finale
Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos
Mastodon Medium Rarities
The Flaming Lips American Head
Will Butler Generations
September 18
A. G. Cook Apple
Cults Host
Daniel Romano's Outfit How Ill Thy World Is Ordered
Deradoorian Find The Sun
Napalm Death Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
September 25
2 Chainz So Help Me God
A Certain Ratio ACR Loco
Bob Mould Blue Hearts
Deftones Ohms
Idles Ultra Mono
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension
Finneus
Deftones
10 illinoisentertainer.com september 2020