Aug
21st
Fri
21st
- Q: Has DFA approached the Muppets yet for that Kermit the Frog cover of "New York, I Love You"? I mean, that would be freakin' awesome. That song alone should persuade them to do "Muppets Take Manhattan 2".
- James Murphy: the kermit cover, it's actually the entire band, animal, dr. teeth, janice, etc., and kermit and the band tend to get into these conflicts when people just think of them as "kermit". so please think of it as "the muppet band", just to avoid the normal passive aggressive side-swipes dr. teeth takes at the frog. you know, "oh, i just play keyboards for the famous frog" and shit like that, which blows studio sessions all the time, as kermit, at this point, just walks out, turns his phone off, and gets drunk for 4 days.
- James Murphy: it's supposed to be for "the muppetts take manhattan 1978", which is the prequel, where they're all working on sesame street--you know, public television wages--and living on the lower east side, making art, scamming, playing around town in various art-no-wave bands. john lurie and fozzy have this thing called "teddy bear" where lurie dressed like an english ted and they did rockabilly songs. the twist was they'd just play one song per performance, but it could go on for hours. foz smoked a lot of dust back then, and would play until his paws bled.
- James Murphy: kermit was more of the reasonable-guy-who-hung-out-with-the-crazies type, which is why that hurt video kind of bums me out, as it's just not the way he was. he roomed with animal on 2nd between b and c in a one bedroom with the tub in the kitchen and animal was wasted all the time, but could still always play, which kind of blew everyone's mind. he did a bunch of graff writing as "silly-con", most of which was bullshit (and, later, a blatant basquiat rip), but he cleaned up less than 6 months into the Muppet Show's first season.
- James Murphy: anyway, i'm trying to make it happen, but getting those dudes all in one room... you know.
