Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz On The Band's Upcoming Touring, Deep Purple, Fugazi, Rick Rubin & More

Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz On The Band's Upcoming Touring, Deep Purple, Fugazi, Rick Rubin & More

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[Music] about true cash now  with their Bell draw bits   get ready to listen to your favorite art artists [Music] aside from having to do media today how's  your day going yeah I got up unusually early so uh   cause I'm a night owl and uh it's never  changed ever since I realized it about   the age of six what's early for you early for  me is like 9 A.M uh early for me is like 1pm wow I'm I'm impressed yeah but uh but I mean  I mean I go to bed at like seven six seven   a.m it's regular and uh we just we're right from  the studio last night from mixing stations like   2 30 in the morning it's the usual you know  and it's like our lunch time midnight is my   lunch time basically wow okay so you  have a big European tour coming up   does your sleep schedule change when  you're on a European tour like that   no I mean that's the kind of irony of it my life  on tour and on and home doesn't really that differ   all that much I mean some people think that tour  is just some kind of crazy Crusade you know and   you go out there and uh blow the heads off and  blow the minds off and you're just like in this   kind of thing but it's actually over the years  have kind of evened out where elements of tour   life became part of my normal life so-called  normal life and likewise I mean it's not like   you know after a while there's a lot of sense  of homecoming when you go to places so it's not   really uh you know I've been to Madrid I've been  to Barcelona and numerous times London and you   know you know you have friends you know where to  go it's not like a yeah you know it's like almost   like on the opposite you you have to work harder  to find uh new exciting things about these places   wow well when I look at your career and this is  intended to be a huge compliment you are you it's   an original sound it is not something that you  have to change to meet friends it's increasing   charts nothing like that you're original all  these years later when did you kind of realize   that it was going to be okay just doing art  as you and not following Transit all right um well I mean punk rock is kind  of all about defined fashion and   and it was never uh not the kind of punk rock  that I was into it was all about fashion Defiance   and uh sticking to your own establishing  your own aesthetic you know and I mean even   I mean my mentors but people that I consider to  be mentors you know the Aussie or you know uh   Nick Cave you know those are people who clearly  have that quality uh established there uh nowhere   near following any kind of trend or fashion  you always know they're always prolific they're   always bus now so busting out some new work and  uh yeah it's kind of about what's the word for do   you mean where'd you go it's it's it's being it's  about creating your own word a world you know and um in in Ukraine if I remember it  correctly I think it's Latin word   and my uncle my uncle is the painter you know   my father's brother I mean he taught me early  on he was kind of big on my babysitting uh activities so you know just growing up with a guy  who's always wearing like paints colored pants and   shirts and you know long hair and like yeah and  consider it to be kind of uh you know but other   my other surrounding people right you know who  never cared about like you know what's uh what's   the latest Trend and I noticed that actually  as a kid I already had more interesting for me   conversations than like with my peers or with uh  you know some reading some interviews with some   popular organ musicians you know he would say  things like you know I'd be like you know getting   into metal and or into uh hardcore and I tell him  like check this out you know he's like yeah I can   see it things are already pretty much reach the  limit you know they're like what do you mean he's   like well it doesn't sound so different from  like Deep Purple really I was like how so this   is so different from the purple and he's like no I  think it's kind of like I mean it's people playing   Unison on guitars drastic riffs I'm all about it  that's great but it's kind of the purple in rock   just more updated versions of it uh and he'll love  that uh it's like our family classic the purple in   rock my dad and my father and and nice his brother  were really into that and it kind of really good   it would draw like a really profound parallels  like that like listen it's like becoming what   art kind of get into the same category as sport  in a way like okay a year a hundred years ago   when Olympics 120 years ago when Olympics started  getting uh becoming like a global thing again uh   uh you know people were like jumping like I  don't know what it was like four meters long   or like four and a half yeah well now they  jump like six but I sound like 26 you know   athletes keep getting kind of like it's kind of  dancing around the same accomplishments you know   yeah variations on a theme so in a lot of  ways music is like that too it's it's actually   mind-blowing to I mean thank you I do take it as a  compliment but it's intended to be uh a compliment   because you mentioned Nick caves that explains a  lot to me I would assume Tom Waits as well where   they're artists who are doing Rock things but the  music does not sound like traditional punk rock   it's just they are themselves all the years later  yeah and actually it's incredibly hard to pull off   anything original if you think about it um it's  it's not it's not you know people accuse you know   musicians all the time of being not  original enough and all that but   yeah and I'm one of those people but to be more  objective is like it's actually kind of almost   impossible to get it into that land it's like  jumping 26 meters when world record is like   what like seven and a half or something like  that right it's kind of like I don't know   well another thing I'm curious about or I have a  question about did you see the documentary called   meet me in the bathroom the one about the strokes  and the Interpol and all that uh I know about it I   have not seen it yet although a lot of my friends  are in it and I was intending to check it out   as a matter of fact uh Brian Chase uh my friend  and our colleague in a our new band puzzle Panther   um the punk rock Glory side colleague yeah amazing  drummer I know that he's pretty prominent in that   and I was intending to check it out well you  were around the same scene at the same time as   all these fans and I was curious if you overlapped  with The Strokes and Interpol and yeah yeah yes   actually I know Alexander a really good body  of mine throughout all these times even before   he was in the AES or or before Google  Morello I mean there were places where   the scene thrived experimental and experimental  music was late 90s uh turn of the center in New   York was still a magical place and um so there  was I mean there was a lot of bands that are not   on that documentary oh yeah people baby Liars uh  you know on Wave can you say long ways in cheeks   just to name a few check check yeah it  like the list goes on I mean I think that   that Commander is about very particular uh  slice of the take of that time and uh there   are other documentaries that are actually have a  more uh like they don't have any strokes and uh uh Interpol they have all those other bands like you know so I mean that's just that is I  think there are several documentaries like   this one in particular I mentioned called  kill your Idols I think it has uh more of a   I think it has what the names that I met named  are pretty much all there yeah yeah and it has   like Jim sclerunus you know Lydia launcher  kind of captures like a kind of almost like   a passing of the torch kind of moment right not  that anybody uh from the from the you know the   icons like Thurston Moore and James Cleveland  stop doing active in America but right by any   means they're like busting out amazing [ __ ] all  the time you know making great yeah but I think   it was really interesting in terms of like Contin  showing the continuity of uh New York aesthetic   um really being kind of you know regurgitated in  a good way by the newcomers and transplants like   like us who are bringing some new funk to the game  you know bringing some new Vibe and swing into it   okay well back to you and not that documentary  the big European tour is coming up but are you   allowed to say what's happening for the band  in late 2023 early 2024 are you planning ahead   oh [ __ ] yeah um you know it's that there's  never we're never we're a band that's like   works like a yeah here's a new record and we  tour this record and you don't hear about it   for three years uh it's a different kind of band  it's all kind of work in progress at all times   you know that's the kind of reality of it uh  so you know the new record came out in the fall   you know it's a great record go grab it check  it out you just might gonna [ __ ] dig it   and uh you know the next record after that started  the next day you know you know uh it's it's   um I mean I think it's really like kind of just  zoom in for a second on the personalities on   Google mordell you'll see that it's kind of that  that form of uh kind of Maniacs that you know   some people kind of just think kind of like you  know a certain form of workaholism for sure but   workaholism in terms of I mean we have a  great work ethic so it's it's uh it's like   please let's not start you know like you know  well the last question I have for you is you're   on the very short list of artists who worked with  Rick Rubin and Rick Rubin chooses who he works   with he won't you could give him a briefcase  with hundreds of thousands of dollars if he   doesn't like you he won't work with you what was  it that connected you and Rick in the first place um well wow I mean I remember standing  backstage in uh after a show in Los Angeles and   um you know I was like after a share  whatever shirt but you know like completely   all wrangled up and and wet and they're  sweaty and they're talking to my friends   and uh suddenly I met recruitment you know and  came up with uh with uh with his friend and you   know his friend introduced him and uh wow so it  was a big moment you know um I actually was so um kind of lost in the moment I mean  I I have like several drinks at that   point you know it actually actually didn't  realize it's Rick you know it was just it   was a dance situation you know but I could  tell it was a you know really a kind of   um intelligent conversation about and that  was like Beyond Small Talk suddenly we were   just talking about like uh you know songwriting as  as what it is as where is the entity of the song   comes from like right it's like it's not exactly  small talk you know yeah and um and then you know   I think that well apparently apparently um before that several friends  of his um Tom Morello chiefly   uh introduced Rick to our music and basically  brought into our show you know and um   so after that we kind of what can I have couple  more conversations and then the next thing I   knew I was you know in Rick's house kind of  showing him a badge of new songs I was writing   and uh I think it was I mean you know I  think that he kind of appreciated that he   he saw what I always encourage people to see  and go to Bordello because people get lost in   all kind of uh you know Goku Barilla is kind  of like he's got a lot of uh layers in that   Pig you know some people just can never  get past its theatrics like they just like   think that that's like the driving force of it  it's not yeah it's one of the things you know   because there's like it goes because you know  for me that was never the driving force that's   just what like actually completely secondary to  the it was like illustrating the songs you know   but uh here came a person who had insights  straight into the matters you know who was   like let's get together and see all these new  songs and uh make a record out of it and amplify   the idea and amplify the the epicness  of these songs and I think that actually uh that was the concept of the album it  in my personal vision of like you know the   the the the discography you know like that album  kind of stands out to me I was kind of like   Fellini like black and white uh film you know  the other records might be so colorful and uh   you know swashbuckling and so rambunctious you  know in all kind of ways and this one I think   was just more about uh boiling it down really to  these archetypal yeah uh he he usually figures out   the elements and he focuses on the elements rather  than the production yeah I mean he just abstracts   you know yeah yeah people go like oh I can't wait  to see what's he gonna end and he's like no yeah   what's he gonna take yeah we're gonna take out all  the effects and uh you know less back vocals and   uh less Reverb and uh and and kind of  stripping down but stripping down in a more um you know he he kept um special The Specialist was  always one of his bands and he kind of saw a big a   parallel between us and the specials and uh I am  also a huge fan of the specials that was an easy   stomping ground to share and we actually played  with the specials right about that time several   times and had a great Accord with the band you  know so so I think those are the things that keep   on exciting is that you know it was also I mean  we had we had a really unbridled energy also and   the band was quite unruly actually you know just  like because like on a lot of France you know yeah   yeah maybe maybe that had to do something with  that too you know well to recap what I've learned   European tours start of what's to come from  the band you're proud of the last record keep   checking the social media to know what's coming  soon and you're still original you're still you   thank you man yeah I mean I mean a lot of things  going on and I'm going to be doing punk rock   museum tours and uh newly opened program Museum  and uh uh Las Vegas just opened this weekend so   I signed up to do some um you know tour guiding as  many other great dudes and dudettes there you know   I think Roger Merritt from Agnostic  Front is doing the next weekend   so you know I mean I've been talking my wife my  whole life about punk rock being until six in   the morning so might as well do the museum for  the for the young ones to hear are you doing   the Mob Museum as part of that that's where my  wife and I got married in Vegas the mafia Museum   oh no I never been there please go there you'll  enjoy it yeah check out all yeah Vegas and and   MOB that they would have a museum I have to be  there you know but then yeah man we're already   cooking the next record that's and uh I mean  also producing young bands has been what's really   um New York continues to be like a fertile  place you know if you've got an eye for it   you will find all those things that are always  here you know it's like when I came here and   um you know mid 90s people were telling  me Oh you missed it oh it all happened   I like okay and then you know and then that  whole thing and then like you know this whole   Decades of uh amazing things can't happen so it's  the same thing now you know the young ones come   and take the torch and shape shift it and  transform it and um there's a really cool   band that we've been taking out on tour with us  called crazy in the brands kind of Post Punk artsy   very energetic great front man Chris uh band  and uh you know the the new baby here in the   Cradle is a puzzled Panther you know as  I mentioned before that's the band that   you know I'm producing the first release and  and playing with them you know okay okay I   look forward to checking that out I was not aware  but thank you for the many years of great art and   looking forward to the next gig in New York hey  man thank you so much really appreciate it just

2023-04-11 18:35

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