Una intervista a Anton rilasciata pochi giorni fa a Austin in occasione dell'annullamento del Levitation. Interessante e originale come al solito. La trovate qui: It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine: LEVITATION 2016 CANCELED

Due passaggi fondamentali.

1. I wanted to ask you about the last track on “Give it Back” – “Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request”. Who is the guy ranting out a fire and brimstone type sermon on there? Is that John Hagee?

I’m going to have to think about that. The last track on this [gesturing to the album I’m holding]… I don’t know but the thing about that… That’s mistitled because that one is called “Enrique’s Dream”. It’s a piece of art. So, I’ll have to tell them that that’s wrong.

Is this a weird version that I have or something?

That’s on a label but mistakes happen. It’s like Ricky [Maymi] that plays guitar in the group was like “Listen, man. If you go and make one more recording and the band’s not on it – we are all quitting.” I said, “You have to come up to the studio then cause that’s where I write the music while I’m recording. You have to come up and wait ‘til it’s your time.” So, he did. He came out and he fell asleep so I recorded his face snoring and then built this whole soundscape. You have your lens cap on.

[Note: Yes, I was taking photos of Anton Newcombe with a lens cap on my camera! I am not a photographer. I am barely a writer. I took a few awful photos but enough to draw from. Hopefully, my illustration speaks for itself and captures the essence of Anton]

Haha. How professional of me…

So, he’s snoring and I recorded a preacher sort of ranting through a tremolo with these drones going on and… but I liked it. It’s cool. And the shit that he’s saying is out of control. He’s like “Run like an Olympian! Never been short of breath! And only Jesus knows where the last diamond mine will be found!” What are you fucking talking about? He actually says that. “And only Jesus knows where the last diamond mine will be found.” Fuckin’ who cares where the last diamond mine will be found? They have more diamonds than they could ever use. They hide them in a fuckin’ hole just to raise the price. It was cool, the mic was running directly into a Fender Vibrato horn going “bah bahbahbah!” and it was just like “merpmerpmerpmerp!” and I was playing it so loud just coming from a little black and white tv that they had in the recording studio all the way across. It was really a textural piece and I was doing all those drones just doing the knobs and in the other room of the studio Ricky was sleeping and I had all these microphones around his face and he’s just going “[snoring noise]” and I’m just mixing them. So, I just thought it was funny the juxtaposition of somebody snoring and…