A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man (50 page)

“If you’re writing anything decent”
:
ibid.

“We had played the songs”
:
Bruce Eaton interview with Andy Hummel.

“Most of the lyrics”
:
Martin Aston, 1985.

“I don’t care for those words”
:
Epic Soundtracks, “Alex Chilton,”
What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen.

“it was so popular”
:
Michael Finger, “When It Was Hip to Be Square.”

“We weren’t popular”
:
Parke Puterbaugh interview with AC.

“Alex began the lyrics”
:
Rob Jovanovic,
Big Star.

“We never did have”
:
HGW interview with Vera Ellis Poag.

“the most popular Memphis party”
:
John Beifuss, “‘Golden’ Years: Documentary Recounts Overton Square’s Days as Nightlife Mecca,”
Commercial Appeal
online, August 4, 2011, http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/aug/04/golden-years/.

“Alex really loved his cocktails”
:
Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“drunk and drugged out”
:
ibid.

“Alex was a perfectionist”
:
HGW interview with Danny Jones.

“We cut that at Studio A”
:
Bruce Eaton,
Radio City
.

“All the words were stolen”
:
Eaton interview with AC.

“All the rock writers”
:
HGW interview with Ross Johnson.

“The sound was much more driving”
:
Metal Mike Saunders, “Big Star at Overton Square, Memphis,”
Phonograph Record.

“one of the most electrifying rock & roll performances”
:
Barney Hoskyns, “The Great Lig.”

“We played that gig”
:
Eaton interview with AC.

Chapter 15: Radio City

“The important thing is to make a good record”
:
AC interview at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1992.

“We had a bunch of material”
:
Bruce Eaton interview with AC.

“I don’t recall it as being an uneven”
:
Bruce Eaton interview with Andy Hummel.

“We kept up the tradition”
:
Eaton interview with AC.

“Alex really started getting great on guitar”
:
Eaton interview with Hummel.

“bring his tack piano”
:
ibid.

“great musicians”
:
Eaton interview with AC.

“There were versions”
:
Bruce Eaton,
Radio City
.

“I probably was sedated”
:
Barney Hoskyns interview with Richard Rosebrough.

“lost weekend”
:
HGW interview with Clifford Hill.

“Alex and I were hanging around”
:
Rob Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“I’d never had an easy relationship”
:
Sandy Robertson, “Alex Chilton: Getting the Cramps,”
Sounds
.

“piano went through a compressor”
:
Eaton interview with Hummel.

“John would spend an hour or two”
:
Eaton interview with AC.

“You would tag things”
:
film,
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
.

“I wanted the design”
:
Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“We drank a lot”
:
ibid.

“pointed at me”
:
HGW interview with Gail Elise Clifton.

“more than a little disillusioned”
:
Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“Alex could be pretty cruel”
:
Drew DeNicola interview with John Dando.

“I went to Max’s”
:
HGW interview with Robert Schiffer.

“Stax didn’t have any control”
:
DeNicola interview with Dando.

Chapter 16: Sister Lovers

“Lesa didn’t want her teeth fixed”
:
HGW interview with Gail Elise Clifton.

“Lesa’s mother was extremely liberal”
:
HGW interview with Amy Gassner Starks.

“You really had to”
:
HGW interview with Elizabeth Hoehn (Lesa Aldridge).

“They’d been hanging out”
:
ibid.

“I don’t think I’ve known”
:
David Cavanaugh, “Oh My Soul.”

“Her parents were pretty remarkable”
:
HGW interview with Jody Stephens.

“When I was learning the songs”
:
HGW interview with John Lightman.

“The distribution never worked”
:
HGW e-mail interview with Robert Gordon.

“You know how it is”
:
HGW interview with John Fry.

“When Big Star got onstage”
:
HGW interview with Stephens.

“going to get a hernia”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“Alex says, loudly”
:
ibid.

“Big Star had a buzz going”
:
Written remembrance of AC by Binky Philips.

“need a second guitar player”
:
HGW interview with Jon Tiven.

“Dando had locked”
:
HGW interview with Paul Jobe.

“I remember the first set”
:
HGW interview with Stephens.

“The first set was awful”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“The house hors d’oeuvre”
:
DeNicola interview with Dando.

“She was just really cool”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“Most of the night’s repertoire”
:
HGW e-mail interview with Dave DiMartino.

“absolutely nobody in the club”
:
Drew DeNicola interview with John Dando.

“I don’t know why we did that tour”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“Big Star was like the black sheep”
:
HGW interview with Kent Benjamin.

“just totally blew us away”
:
ibid.

“He was always writing”
:
HGW interview with Hoehn/Aldridge.

“You have to sing a song”
:
ibid.

Chapter 17: 3rd

“Instead of coming after”
:
Rob Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“It was so horrible”
:
HGW interview with Elizabeth Hoehn (Lesa Aldridge).

“We at Ardent”
:
Frank Gutch and Wade Anderson, “The Ardent Records Story,”
Bomp.

“I have a file”
:
ibid.

“The halls of Ardent”
:
HGW interview with John Lightman.

“John would let Alex drive”
:
ibid.

“Alex even taught me”
:
HGW interview with Hoehn/Aldridge.

“In ’74, I had the key”
:
Parke Puterbaugh interview with AC.

“It’s just another tune”
:
Jonathan Valania interview with AC.

“He encouraged me”
:
HGW interview with Hoehn/Aldridge.

“Alex and Lesa made history”
:
Barney Hoskyns interview with Richard Rosebrough.

“moth to a flame”
:
HGW interview with Hoehn/Aldridge.

“Holliday was like a little puppy”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“Holliday was the quieter sister”
:
HGW interview with Jon Tiven.

“I always had to work”
:
HGW interview with Jody Stephens.

“When I was in my twenties”
:
AC at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1997.

“Alex always bristled”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“I was so nervous”
:
Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“Alex liked to stay wasted”
:
ibid.

“said that for shock value”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“I’d always been interested in Alex”
:
Valania interview with Jim Dickinson.

“talked to him at his mama’s house”
:
Hoskyns interview with Jim Dickinson.

“When I asked him why”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“I was living kind of progressively”
:
Valania interview with AC.

“I had heard this recording”
:
Hoskyns interview with Dickinson.

“shoot Demerol down his throat”
:
ibid.

“Alex was getting close”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“He’s a real significant part”
:
Hoskyns interview with Dickinson.

“Getting involved with Dickinson”
:
Valania interview with AC.

“Alex came in one morning”
:
Hoskyns interview with Dickinson.

“Alex as a collaborator”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“to torment Lesa”
:
Hoskyns interview with Dickinson.

“a big confrontation”
:
HGW interview with Pat Rainer.

“Jim getting out that basketball”
:
ibid.

“R&B things”
:
unreleased film,
The (R)evolution of Big Star’s Album “Third/Sister Lovers.”

“Cropper was doing”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“I like [Holocaust]”
:
Puterbaugh interview with AC, 1993.

“physical abuse of Lesa”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“I wasn’t doing anything”
:
Robert Gordon,
It Came from Memphis
.

“We were together every day”
:
HGW interview with Danny Graflund.

“You better tell your friend”
:
Gordon,
It Came from Memphis
.

“His eyes rolled back”
:
HGW interview with Lightman.

“His mother was so upset”
:
HGW interview with Hoehn/Aldridge.

“‘Dream Lover’ is the furthest”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“That’s an imitation of Graflund”
:
ibid.

Chapter 18: The Walking Dead

“I was just living this very unsettled”
:
Sandy Robertson, “Alex Chilton: Getting the Cramps,”
Sounds.

“Mixing is half the record”
:
film,
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
.

“I was just throwing ideas”
:
Jonathan Valania interview with AC.

“would never have been finished”
:
Valania interview with Jim Dickinson.

“The record broke John’s heart”
:
Russell Hall interview with Dickinson.

“I worked with engineers”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“Everybody’s kind of down and depressed”
:
Frank Gutch and Wade Anderson, “The Ardent Records Story,”
Bomp
.