Drealm
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Posted: Aug. 25 2009, 09:37 |
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I have not read the Q magazine interview but I have seen the Bahamas video interview. I want to speak about all I have read it this thread: his loneliness, the way he acts recently, what he is becoming.
I must say that yes, he seemed very evasive in the video interview; great rain and thunder was going on outside but he was disturbed by the interviewer, like if he just wanted to show him how great the weather was; I understand this because I always felt his music was inspired by nature and that what I like. The problem is that he could just give 5 minutes of his time totally to the interviewer simply by respect and concentrate on it instead of thinking about the weather he's missing.
On the other hand, there's this fact: interviewers are not fans. They just do their job to interview an artist to promote something new. When you look at this, you only see the medias and their money interests; it is not a great motivation to do a real good interview; he have done it a lot of times to give good interviews to commercial medias, maybe he's just very tired of them? In the case of Mike, 90% of the time, the subject is Tubular Bells and it's many different releases over the years. Imagine, you are a great composer with more that 20 albums, and every time you give an interview it's about the same album, the first you did, and feel recognized only because of this one. Personally, I think I would see society a little dumb, thinking "hey everyone, there's not just Tubular Bells in my career. There are some other great things too." But obviously, because interviewers are not fans, they always ask the same questions over, and over, and over, and over again about the same album. Mike is paradoxically victim today of what had make him famous. Maybe the reason he devoted a great part of his auto-biography to Tubular Bell was to finally answer all questions for everyone and have peace once and for all about Tubular Bells.
I think that Mike should be interviewed by his fans. Real, deep, original, different questions that he never heard. I would be curious how Mike would react to such an announcement: next interview are 30 questions coming straight from the fans. Maybe I'm pessimist, but I think that will never happen because interviews are always about commercial issues so fans will probably never have the chance to interview him about QE2, Islands or Tubular Bells 2 and 3.
Mike have always been in his world and that what makes his music the way we all love it. We are not him, so we can't know what it is to be in his situation. He said often that he his more of a loner, never really liked society. Maybe he did the best he could all his life to cope with this reality and his fame, and now he is very tired and simply wants retirement. It's something that inevitably happens.
But like Scatterplot said: "What I don't get is, if this guy doesn't like to be interviewed, why doesn't he just say "no"?"
Good question!! It's not about money, he is rich. Maybe that's an old habit he have difficulties stop doing? We don't know, maybe it's hard after a long career just to put the final ending: no more music, no more interview, no more tour, just peace and retirement. Maybe in 1973 he was not happy with popularity, but it could have grown on him and now he have hard times stopping it!
So there's a lot of questions I always wanted to ask Mike, and few of them have ever been answered by commercial interviews.
I hope he is happy and in my humble opinion, if he wants to do the finger to the next Tubular Bells interviewer, I will just laugh at the situation. I wish him peace and if he ever come back with a new album, I will be happy has always; maybe he's not a good speaker, but he's a good composer and that's the whole point.
To conclude, all of us here know him by his music. But has anyone here ever spend time in the company of Mike as a close friend? I'm sure he's a great person to be with. But as we see him only through medias like TV, magazines, radio or autograph sessions, our perception of him is twisted. So I dream to spend a week-end with him to know the real man; but I will certainly not let the medias decide how I see him.
I think he don't have much respect for medias.
But he have deep respect for his fans because he always compose great music for them.
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