Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Best Damn Interview with a Musician I've Read This Year Dept.
Sounds of LA's lost souls echo down the years: Musician Ry Cooder tells Dan Glaister how a book of extraordinary images led him to the story of the city's ruthlessly evicted Latino community
Ry Cooder himself on Chavez Ravine. (And you owe it to yourself to read this all the way to the end, where Ry delivers the honest truth about the real secret history of pop music!!)
Having grown up in the general vicinity myself, and during the same timeframe, Ry's comments are not just quotes. He seems to have tapped into the fiber of my social being and is reading my mind. I should ask him sometime how he does that ... I could say innocently, "Just how do you do that, Mr. Cooder?"
Dave Alvin made a funny remark to me once about a part of this. He said, "If you grow up as a kid in L.A. you grow old before your time ..."
And I understood exactly what he meant and bubbled out a laugh in response. Because all your childhood and neighborhood landmarks are bulldozed and the kids sound like old codgers with wavering voices saying, "I remember when my school was over there ... " ¶ 6/21/2005 08:12:00 AM
Sounds of LA's lost souls echo down the years: Musician Ry Cooder tells Dan Glaister how a book of extraordinary images led him to the story of the city's ruthlessly evicted Latino community
Ry Cooder himself on Chavez Ravine. (And you owe it to yourself to read this all the way to the end, where Ry delivers the honest truth about the real secret history of pop music!!)
Having grown up in the general vicinity myself, and during the same timeframe, Ry's comments are not just quotes. He seems to have tapped into the fiber of my social being and is reading my mind. I should ask him sometime how he does that ... I could say innocently, "Just how do you do that, Mr. Cooder?"
Dave Alvin made a funny remark to me once about a part of this. He said, "If you grow up as a kid in L.A. you grow old before your time ..."
And I understood exactly what he meant and bubbled out a laugh in response. Because all your childhood and neighborhood landmarks are bulldozed and the kids sound like old codgers with wavering voices saying, "I remember when my school was over there ... " ¶ 6/21/2005 08:12:00 AM
