This week, we talk to author and music critic MARC MASTERS (High Bias: The Distorted History Of The Cassette Tape, Pitchfork, The Wire) about the film THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON and the cassette tape culture surrounding Daniel. We also discuss our elaborate tape trading stories and sequencing your perfect mixtape, Bananafish magazine, Sebadoh, Homestead Records, ordering Daniel Johnston cassettes directly, Daniel’s religious upbringing, arguing with his Mom and how he put it directly into his music, Sun City Girls, why Daniel’s music benefited from being on cassette vs vinyl/cd, how home recording allowed you to hear the physical space of the artist’s bedroom or garage, how the film initially was going to be a Grey Gardens vérité styled film, Daniel’s muse Laurie, director Jeff Feuerzeig’s stunning recreations in this film and Daniel’s help in art directing them, Chris’ real time experience on seeing Daniel on both airings of The Cutting Edge and how different those two performances were, Daniel and his childhood friend David’s relationship, rock n’ roll’s weird fascination with people’s mental struggles from Syd Barrett to Roky Erickson, how a Jeff Feuerzeig documentary is unilke any other documentaries, the myth of Daniel recording his tapes over and over again each time he gave one away, Kurt Cobain changing Daniel’s life forever with a t-shirt, Daniel’s major label bidding war, why Metallica gave the movie a chance to use their own music within it, Sonic Youth driving around looking and finding a missing Daniel Johnston in NYC, cataloging all of Daniel’s tapes, Chris going through all of Robert Pollard's cassette archives, Danny & The Nightmares and more!
So reach into your McDonald's bag and pull out a Daniel Johnston cassette as we discuss one of the greatest documentaries of our lifetime on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie.
Marc Masters:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675985/high-bias/
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