We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.
From Andy Partridge
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.
Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
I felt pressured by continuous touring.
I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.
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