KCRW has an interview with author Scott Turrow (part of their guest DJ project). Turrow discussed a little bit about the Rock Bottom Remainders.
Below is the part about the Remainders.
EJL: Now, talk about the Rock Bottom Remainders and some of the other people and how it all kinda came about and how you all sort of fit together.
ST: Well the band was brought together by; the late and greatly beloved, Kathi Goldmark, who was an author’s escort in San Francisco. Kathy, who is one of the most fun loving people that’s ever walked this planet, realized that she had a lot of authors she was squaring around who loved rock music and she put together a sort of cover band of writers and it all came together when Stephen King agreed that he would do it. But, uh, the band is: Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Stephen, Greg Iles, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, James McBride, Roy Blunt. Some of those people are real musicians and they have me on stage just to prove that they don’t take themselves seriously.The full transcript is HERE.
It's interesting for me if you think of The Remainders using the metaphor of students sharing the same classroom. Then it almost becomes easy to get a better idea of their personalities.
ReplyDeleteFor instance Dave Barry and Roy Blount are the class clowns, King is the down to earth working class kid, Amy Tan is the girl who's trying to get away from her parents or something. Tabby King is the working class tough girl, while Dave Marsh and Joel Selvin are the most interesting for me.
They're like the E Street Jock or JD and class Hippie respectively, if they were real classmates in high school they'd be bitter rivals always at each others throat over their taste rock music (East Coast Soul vs. West Coast Psychedelic) while Al Kooper would be the hippest kid in class laughing at both of them and calling them nerds.
Matt Groening is sort of the social outcast way in the back always eating the glue.
Kathi Goldmark would have been the real glue holding the group together and as such would have been the class teacher, she will be missed.
ChrisC