Sunday, June 19, 2005
Never Interview Your Heroes Dept.
"It is one of the shrewder received wisdoms of journalism that one should never interview one's heroes. It is the surest way of turning that sense of wonderment that we try so hard to cling on to with the advancing years, into the dull ache of disillusionment. Let those characters who captured our young, zestful imaginations retain their unsullied reputations. Let them not be subjected to the banal limitations of what has largely become an appallingly artificial format."
Then Peter Aspden goes on to sas he's glad he never met Frank Zappa.
But a few insights from a chat with Frank's family are soon revealed in
"The Revolver: Perfectly Frank". ¶ 6/19/2005 03:58:00 PM
"It is one of the shrewder received wisdoms of journalism that one should never interview one's heroes. It is the surest way of turning that sense of wonderment that we try so hard to cling on to with the advancing years, into the dull ache of disillusionment. Let those characters who captured our young, zestful imaginations retain their unsullied reputations. Let them not be subjected to the banal limitations of what has largely become an appallingly artificial format."
Then Peter Aspden goes on to sas he's glad he never met Frank Zappa.
But a few insights from a chat with Frank's family are soon revealed in
"The Revolver: Perfectly Frank". ¶ 6/19/2005 03:58:00 PM
