Tom Hazelmeyer interview

[Alexander]

Some time ago, Tom kept mentioning a Tom Hazelmeyer interview he was going to read/critique on the air. Did that ever happen?

[yesno]

I was recently listening to those archives. I don't think  he ever did.

[Omar]

Some time ago, Tom kept mentioning a Tom Hazelmeyer interview he was going to read/critique on the air. Did that ever happen?

Tom teased this for a couple of weeks before officially abandoning it on the 4/11/06 show, saying that the world needs more people being for stuff, not against stuff.  I think this was the interview in question:

http://www.markprindle.com/hazelmyer-i.htm

A couple of months before this Tom also considered doing an AmRep retrospective to illuminate the catalog's failure to age well.  I hope he eventually gets around to dissecting the Guzzard discography. 

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I don't think there's much to prove to that end.  The catalog aged because it abruptly ceased.  I have a hard time imaging that bands like Guzzard were ever under any illusion that what they were doing was timeless. 

[Tim K in DC]

The AmRep stuff that stood up then for me -- Lubricated Goat, Hammerhead, Halo of Flies -- stands up now for me, but the stuff that didn't still doesn't.

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Definitely agree TK.  Some of that stuff I might never entirely stop listening to.  I'll probably wind up the crazy old man in the retirement home who still occasionally tosses in Hammerhead.

I think it's safe to consider myself as having been a pretty big AmRep guy and even I really only got into about half of the roster.  But that's a fair enough ratio for any record label, honestly.  If it weren't for AmRep I might have never fully developed my taste for punk rock at all.  Would have chalked up as over and left it at that.

[Emerson]

http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=16541608

The AmRep aesthetic is still fairly influential in certain quarters.

http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/hope_for_men
http://www.myspace.com/clockcleaner
http://www.loadrecords.com/

I've heard countless times that Haze is a creep, but I didn't think that Prindle interview was THAT bad. And I'm glad Tom didn't spend his time picking on a crabby old man who's not doing anything newsworthy.

[Chris in Somerville, Mass.]

Of all the subjects to be discussing, this has to be one of the most arcane!
However, now I really  would   like to hear Tom's thoughts on this half-assed, aged interview with the nearly forgotten former owner of a noise rock label in Minneapolis!  I was a big Lubricated Goat fan, but have to concur that there can't be more than 8 titles in that entire catalog anyone could want to hear now. 

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Load is pretty much the new AmRep.  That much was clear the first time I heard Sightings' "Two Thoughts" (on WFMU).

[Omar]

Here is Tom's full explanation on the old board:

http://www.friendsoftom.com/newboard/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=asktom;action=display;num=1144940414

[Chris in Somerville, Mass.]

Thanks Omar - we can put this one to bed!

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I'm pretty forgiving of any notion of Hazelmeyer as "cranky old punk" since it really only seems fitting.  Though I do also think there's probably some room to tease him a little about it too.  Not like the guy couldn't take it.