Silver Jews, Scientologists, Witches
Pitchfork interviews songwriter David Berman of the band Silver Jews this typical rock journalism piece takes some odd forays into religion and faith.
On Tom Cruise and Scientology:
“Tom Cruise made a crucial miscalculation by giving a name to his deformity. He will never be able to play the role of a non-freak ever again. Sometimes I wonder if Scientology isn’t just a decoy religion, created and maintained by the Church of Latter Day Saints to distract Americans from all the freaky things the Mormons do in their temples.”
On his studio engineer Joe Funderburk:
“Joe Funderburk, the guy who mixed this album, has that haircut. He’s around 50 and he takes the long gray hair and rubberbands it so it’s like a gray geyser coming out of the top of his skull. Then it’s shaved. Joe is a white witch from Gulfport, Mississippi. During mixing he would have to take days off to go in the woods with the other witches and warlocks. One day he invited [Steve] West and I. I did not want to go, but we were just getting to know Joe and his wife, Rowena, and both of us wondered if we insulted them by not attending their rituals [whether] they would cast some curse on the record. So I made West go. Apparently, he danced naked in the woods. He was gibbering and covered in blood when he returned. I made him promise never to tell me what happened that night. Joe is also a very sweet man and a hard rock/blues genius who engineered the first Judds album way back when.”
Nice to see such harmony between Witches and (Silver) Jews.
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