Brock looks back at recording 'Good News For People Who Love Bad News' — and explains why he'd like to live forever via artificial intelligence
Isaac Brock, shown here with his bandmates in 2004, looks back at that era in the new episode of our 'Rolling Stone Music Now' podcast., and thankfully, he’s not wrong. He recently sat down for a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and deep interview with our, which just marked its 20th anniversary with a deluxe edition on streaming now.
We’d started a bunch of this stuff while Jeremy was still around, but he kind of just wasn’t around at the time. So when we decided to continue on, we had a friend who was the drummer for the Shins at the time come in, and he sat in for like a week and played, and then we knew Benjamin Weikel, and Benjamin Weikel was more suited to knocking it out of the park.Oh yeah. I had a friend die and I got shit-can wasted and I actually bent an entire metal shelf barehanded, and I bent it in half.
There were moments where I really didn’t like Dennis. It actually took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that, no, I really like him, and I like how fucking batshit crazy he can be about his ideas or his approach. Like, he comes from a different time. If the riff doesn’t sound right on one note that you’re playing, you’re gonna play that note for six hours until it’s right.
On “Ocean Breathes Salty,” you sing, “Maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both grow old.” That song always seemed like a strikingly sincere moment on the album. Well, the way I see it is like, I don’t like sports, but I like sports movies. And I’m not very spiritual, but I love spiritual rock songs. It’s the best parallel I could draw.I think you were ahead of your time on the song “Bukowski.” Since then, it’s been much more common for people to lose their patience with that misogynist, asshole male artist archetype. You got there early, which is admirable.
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