There comes a time when nothing else but a brain-hammering session with Pussy Galore‘s 1989 album Dial M For Motherfucker will do. And not just to clear the house of your so-called friends who’ve been sloshing cheap wine on your expensive new carpet all night. (Although it might work for that, too.) Jon Spencer, the man who shocked and awed the world with the noisiest band in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, went on to form three more exhilarating combos: Boss Hog (with his wife Cristina Martinez), Heavy Trash (his most recent band) and, of course, the stunning Blues Explosion, whose recent career-spanning compendium, Dirty Shirt Rock ‘N’ Roll (Majordomo), tells you plenty about the DNA of the man in charge. (The label is reissuing expanded versions of out-of-print Blues Explosion albums Now I Got Worry and Controversial Negro this week.) Spencer is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Spencer: I saw The Hurt Locker on an airplane flight and saw it again with my son, who’s 12. Normally, I’m kind of careful with what he watches, and if I can, I control what he watches. Not so much what he listens to. But I thought this would be a good thing for him to watch. I watched it again with him, and yeah, it was a very good movie.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhQdJTlo5NI
One reply on “Inside The World Of Jon Spencer: “The Hurt Locker””
On the news yesterday they reported a soldier had been killed on his 3rd tour over there in 4 years. He was killed defusing a bomb and left behind his wife and 9 month old child. I thought of the Hurt Locker and how it seemed like what might happen to that guy.