Well do me sideways!

I’ve just this very moment found my Rodriguez Cold fact CD, and I tell you my head nearly exploded. It still gets me all excited, even more so now because I haven’t heard it in so long.

You can search Rodriguez on the internet, and some weird things come up like the stories of his death (He’s not dead), and the fact that his album Cold Fact had become a huge hit and yet he was found working on a building site, unaware of the success. The Rodriguez website is a mess and it’s all over the place, but the best thing is just to leave everything to mystery and enjoy the music. You can search him on the internet, but I also came across a nice little piece in the GQ magazine, check it out, I have painstakingly written it out for you only because I love you:

Don’t get the wrong idea about Sugarman

Sugarman was just the idea, not one person or anything. It was the 70’s and the whole globe was turning on. I’m not recommending any of that stuff to anyone. It’s certainly less destructive than alcohol though, but I’m not for hard drugs. I think it’s good to be clean and it’s good to have discipline. Sugarman is a tune, that’s all, I don’t want people to have the wrong idea when the music starts swirling around.

This music thing takes work

A lot of young cats think that it will take two weeks. That they’ll put a CD out and it will all happen. But it’s got lulls, and a lot of people can’t take the lulls. So it’s good to have something outside of it. I don’t mind when it’s quiet.

Regrets…Jeez, I don’t know

When people start talking about the past…anything behind us is gone. You can’t go back there. You can always be here today though.

Age

It’s all an act man, you can fool the mirror, but you can’t fool the clock. You know what I mean? I enjoy what I’m doing and enjoy going out there and a lot of people enjoy what I’m doing.

If it’s going to be, it’s up to me

A lot of guys are better than me at guitar, they’re better looking than me, but I’m lucky. I got luck with this music thing, somebody found my stuff and I’ve seen a lot of things and it’s been fun.

Fashion

You can’t go wrong with basic black. You can match it really easily too. But I just dress for the weather. Stay real. My granddaughter gave me an anarchy t-shirt, with the A like that, but I don’t know if I want to wear it. I haven’t worn it yet.

I don’t have a TV, I don’t have a car, I don’t have a phone…

But I do have a CD player. Thanks for your time, and you can thank me for mine, and after that’s said, forget it!

The bottle

I enjoy drinking wine. It’s my favourite drink. I have abstained, but I find myself in situations where I ask myself ‘Am I going to have a drink?’ Usually, I’m going to have a drink.

I consider myself a writer

I did give some thought to those words. I have a lot of respect for the English language and I also like to mess with it – butterfucker – just twisting it around. I like the word poetry. The language is always being messed with. Like e.e cummings starts breaking words and moving type around, trying to stress something else.

Inspiration is everywhere

I’ve always concentrated on social issues because I’ve always found it easier to write about things that upset me. A lot of the issues are still the same. Even more serious.

The revolution has just started

I’m not into sports or religion. I like music, but I am also interested in politics. All that money is tax payers’ money you know, but somehow it seems like it’s the governments or something like that. I ran for office.
Three times for city council, twice for mayor, twice for the senate…I think change is going to come.

I’m hard working class

Music is my passion but you got to do an internship everywhere else. I think it’s good to stay physically active. Good hard labour. It’s a physical thing, music. So it’s like, you know, it’s good, and it keeps you out of trouble and it’s something to do.

I’ve never played a gig in the states

It’s a heavy market there and I really don’t seek it. It’s two different situations. It’s an odd twist to the story, but yeah, I’m happy at the way things turned out.

Old school

I know this material came out a while back, but I like to consider myself a contemporary. I’m up to date. I watch bands in Detroit and hang out with music people, people in the arts and stuff.

My cult following

Oh jeez, that’s quite a grandiose term. I was walking on the piers the other day and some guy who hangs out there was familiar with the material, humming the bass line to I Wonder. I like that.

And there we have it, that is straight from GQ. See I referenced it so it’s all good. And I mention GQ enough on this website to be able to do as I please with their content.

Give me a damn Pulitzer or something.