A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man (51 page)

“deteriorating relationships”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“Every song has a geographical”
:
ibid.

“had its moments”
:
HGW interview with John Fry.

“not sure we were calling ourselves Big Star”
:
Parke Puterbaugh interview with AC, 1993.

“That scene was disturbing enough”
:
Rob Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“shopping of it was a nightmare”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“Karin Berg”
:
ibid.

“people at these conventional record companies”
:
Stamey interview with Fry, UNC.

“I tell my victims”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“The best songs don’t get recorded”
:
Robert Gordon,
It Came From Memphis
.

“After the split”
:
Barney Hoskyns interview with Richard Rosebrough.

“This is gonna be mine”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“Fry and I sort of fell out”
:
Valania interview with AC.

“Alex . . . sent me some tapes”
:
Hoskyns interview with Jon Tiven.

“They look like they’ve just come out”
:
David Cavanaugh, “O My Soul!”
Uncut
, May 2012.

“It was a total rock & roll love letter”
:
HGW interview with Rick Clark.

“Alex was using a different vocal personality”
:
HGW interview with Tiven.

“I was in the studio playing drums”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“We tried to get everybody out”
:
HGW interview with Tiven.

“Alex couldn’t really find”
:
ibid.

“During the backing vocals”
:
Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“a very vivid memory”
:
HGW interview with Tiven.

“Most of the people around Ardent”
:
Valania interview with AC.

“I made a deal”
:
Gutch and Anderson, “The Ardent Records Story.”

Alex “was always thinking”
:
Gordon,
It Came from Memphis
.

Alex “introduced them”
:
HGW interview with Mary Lindsay Dickinson.

“‘My Rival,’ I thought”
:
Martin Aston, 1985.

“Alex was at a juncture”
:
Gordon,
It Came from Memphis
.

“It was love/hate”
:
HGW interview with Pat Rainer.

“When it was the two of us”
:
HGW interview with Elizabeth Hoehn (Lesa Aldridge).

“Alex was as down”
:
Valania interview with Tommy Hoehn.

“I was very frustrated”
:
AC interview at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

“I thought it was”
:
Daniel Coston interview with Andy Hummel.

“I remember walking into my den”
:
Valania interview with Tommy Hoehn.

Chapter 19: Shakin’ the World

“I began sorting things out”
:
Martin Aston, “Alex’s Wild Years.”

“It’s a great description”
:
Jonathan Valania interview with AC.

“I decided to quit taking drugs and did”
:
Ralph Traitor, “Wildman on the Edge.”

“and sank further into dipsomania”
:
Cub Koda, “Alex Chilton: My Dinner with Alex,”
Goldmine.

“I was getting to the point”
:
Epic Soundtracks,“Alex Chilton,”
What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen
.

“at a big art-type function”
:
HGW interview with Vernon Richards.

“orgone energy life force stuff”
:
Aston, “Alex’s Wild Years.”

“I think I realized”
:
Soundtracks, “Alex Chilton.”

“I said, ‘I was in Memphis,’”
:
HGW interview with Jon Tiven.

“He seemed a little reserved”
:
HGW interview with Chris Stamey.

“I was trying to figure out”
:
ibid.

“the most gregarious guy”
:
Richard Hell,
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
.

“He had a drinking problem”
:
Rob Jovanovic,
Big Star
.

“He was kind of beguiling”
:
HGW interview with Jamie K. Sims.

“opening a door”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“was hardly very polished”
:
John Rockwell, “Alex Chilton, Rock Legend, Back.”
New York Times.

“Alex would do things”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“Love . . . makes people grow”
:
Bernard Kugel, “Alex Chilton,”
Big Star.

“I remember him telling me”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“The first night the place was packed”
:
Koda, “My Dinner with Alex.”

“It’s real easy to run through New York”
:
Kugel, “Alex Chilton.”

“The CBGB scene”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“[Alex] was really friendly”
:
HGW interview with David Godlis.

“He liked being part”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“The Ramones, Blondie”
:
Koda, “My Dinner with Alex.”

“His main concern”
:
HGW interview with Charles Ball.

“He was so sweet”
:
HGW interview with Stephanie Chernikowski.

“The new outfit plays”
:
Mitchell Cohen, “Alex Chilton: The Big Star of New York’s Underground,”
Phonograph Record
.

“‘Summer Sun’ got some attention”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“I went to Alex’s apartment”
:
HGW interview Fran Kowalski.

“‘I Don’t Believe in Miracles
’ . . . had to do with the way”: HGW interview with Stamey.

“I never liked the four-piece”
:
HGW interview with Parke Puterbaugh.

“He said that Alex”
:
HGW interview with Kowalski.

“There were some nights”
:
ibid.

“Sometimes we have a difference”
:
Bernard Kugel interview with AC.

“Alex asked me”
:
HGW interview with Kowalski.

“Hilly would just let us”
:
HGW interview with Sims.

“She just used Alex”
:
HGW interview with Ball.

“I think Karin was concerned”
:
HGW interview with Sims.

“We were announced”
:
HGW interview with Tiven.

“Alex wouldn’t go”
:
HGW interview with Chernikowski.

“Alex turned around to me”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“The Lloyd-Chilton”
:
HGW interview with Kugel.

“He was like a film director”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“That ex-girlfriend of his”
:
HGW interview with Sims.

“We were playing pretty grungy”
:
HGW interview with Kowalski.

“Alex was definitely doing”
:
HGW interview with Sims.

“I think Alex’s drinking”
:
HGW interview with Kowalski.

“Alex wasn’t in the best shape”
:
HGW interview with Puterbaugh.

“Alex became really tough”
:
HGW interview with Ball.

“It was a basement”
:
Nick Knox written remembrance of AC.

Chapter 20: Like Flies on Shit

“One day Alex wanted to make”
:
Drew DeNicola interview with John Hampton.

“There were guys with guns”
:
Nick Kent, “The Cramps: Tales of American Gothick (sic),”
NME
, June 23, 1979.

“To this day I will swear”
:
HGW interview with Charles Ball.

“wandering around with no shoes”
:
Sandy Robertson, “Alex Chilton: Getting the Cramps Between the Box Tops and Big Stardom,”
Sounds
.

“Terry [Ork] and I”
:
HGW interview with Ball.

“Terry ‘Orkus’ is a big fat queer”
:
Gordon Alexander, “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star,”
Dixie Flyer
.

“We’d had a drink”
:
HGW interview with David Godlis.

“We always had problems”
:
HGW interview with Ball.

“I’ve stayed in the music business”
:
HGW interview with Fran Kowalski.

“We never rehearsed”
:
ibid.

“That was the end”
:
ibid.

“entirely life changing”
:
Dickinson online interview.

“turned into a discussion”
:
HGW e-mail interview with Sid Selvidge.

“classic jeans”
:
HGW interview with Gail Elise Clifton.

“‘Stroke It Noel’ is brilliant”
:
Jonathan Valania interview with Jim Dickinson.

“When I conceived”
:
Epic Soundtracks, “Alex Chilton,”
What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen
.

“Jim has a remarkable sense”
:
Barney Hoskyns interview with Richard Rosebrough.

“We used to do the song”
:
HGW interview with Chris Stamey.

“
Sherbert
was pretty crazy”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“So much of it was recorded at Phillips”
:
Valania interview with Dickinson.

“Alex was morally”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“She blew Alex”
:
HGW interview with Jim Lancaster.

“The sessions were about five days”
:
Hoskyns interview with Peter Holsapple.

“I remember Alex coming over”
:
HGW interview with Stamey.

“Alex was really nice”
:
HGW interview with Will Rigby.

“crystal clear to me”
:
ibid.

“their impromptu set”
:
Robert Gordon,
It Came from Memphis
.

“booed him”
:
HGW interview with Clifton.

“My favorite era of Alex”
:
ibid.

“He was playing something by the Seekers”
:
Hoskyns interview with Holsapple.

“It wouldn’t be a bad idea”
:
Robertson, “Alex Chilton.”

“the same old trip”
:
AC at University of Texas American Studies class, Jerry Dean, professor, 1978.

“My friendship with Alex”
:
Hoskyns interview with Rosebrough.

“He was fucked up”
:
Valania interview with Elizabeth Hoehn (Lesa Aldridge).