Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dr. Peter Weller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Meine Mutter war ein Jazzist. As my mother said, all music is great. But Leslie West, I think, to me anyway, is one of those cats that I can pick him out when I hear... Yeah, it's that tone, yeah. And I think, oh my God, he's the great unsung... Hero of the riff. Driving... Yeah. Rock Riffs, man. Well, yeah.
So when I hear you, you know, I want to talk about cats and then I hear another podcast. No, I want to talk about politics. I can't get into that. Then I want to talk about music. Yeah. And then I hear... That's your life though, isn't it? Well, all that. Yeah, art. And then you talk about Rothko with somebody and I think, oh God, now I got to get on there and talk about Rothko. Yeah, sure you do.
And then... Ich war gestern mit dir zuhören, ich habe etwas von, weil ich die Katze liebe, ich habe ihn einmal bei Sony getroffen, W. Campbell Bell. Ja. Und du hast gesagt, dass es etwas war, das mich belasert hat. Ja. Ich verabschiede mich, du hast gesagt, du nimmst den Telefon, lest die News und dann hoffst du, dass dein Kind nicht kommt und sieht, dass du weinst. Ja.
Maybe it was him.
Yeah, so I got a 13-year-old. Oh, yeah. And it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me and the worst thing that ever happened to me. Sure. Why is it bad? How do you guide them? Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. It's not going anywhere, man. I don't know, man. I got a couple of chapters left, brother.
Let's talk about visual art for a second. I got into visual art through film. I was sort of embarrassed into it. How's that? Well, my mother tried to turn me on to it. I didn't want to go to any fucking museum and sit around and look at squiggly lines and shit. Where'd you grow up? I grew up all over. My father was sort of a G2 intelligence helicopter pilot and a bunch of wars. Yeah.
Und er war einer der LBJs, Army One Piloten, Vietnam, Korea und all that stuff. Oh, really? So did he talk about it? No. And no, he, my dad was, and then he retired and became a federal judge. So you can understand the control freak that that guy was. On the same time, my mother was extraordinarily liberal and artistic and, Eine Pianistin und ihre Mutter und ihre Großmutter waren Pianistinnen.
Ich wurde also in den Jazz gewechselt.
Mein Vater wurde in den 59ern an der US-Führungskonferenz in Europa geflogen. Und die Koldauer ist losgegangen. Und die kubanische Missilkrise ist losgegangen. Und Hard Bop ist losgegangen. Hard Bop ist losgegangen. Aber meine Mutter versucht, mich an den Hard Bop zu bewegen. Als ich neun war, habe ich eine Trompete gespielt. Ich spiele immer noch Trompete und Quintetten. Ich mag große Bands.
Ich mag Duke. Und dann später, und das ist da drin, weil das ist mein Miles-Davis-Diary. Ich habe ein Diary gehalten über meine Erfahrungen mit Miles. Und Rutledge hat mich gefragt, es in 5000 Wörtern zu editen.
Haha, yeah, me too, man. And then I say I read it, and I skimmed it. But anyway, look, I want to celebrate today, because in this art jam, Ali McGraw, the great and beautiful, turned me on to contemporary modern art. I was doing a movie with her, we never hung out, after the movie we started hanging out, and people think of her as a movie star and a model, but what she really was, was a stylist.
She was a graduate from Wellesley in art history and design and so forth, and Stylist für Diana Vreeland, Vogue and whatever. So when did you meet her? I did a movie with her called Just Tell Me What You Want. Sidney Lumet, who is sort of a granddad to me. Really? He is an amazing sort of mentor and friend. Oh, he's the best. So Allie...
after the film, takes me to the largest Picasso exhibit ever, is when the Guernica, his sort of... At MoMA? At MoMA, before it went back to Spain. Yeah, I saw that. My mother took me to that.
So you got five floors of Picasso. So whatever everybody thinks of Picasso, they forget that he's a great figurative artist, a figurative realist.
Kannst du in der Nacht in Tunesien spielen, ohne deine Bach-Inventionen zu wissen? Ja, du musst die Grundlage haben. Genau, richtig. Ansonsten bist du Jimmy oder jemand anderes. Ja, ja. Ich habe die Bücher nach vorne gekauft und dann nach hinten. Es ist zu viel. Es ist Krieg, es ist Politik, es ist Poesie, es ist Wirtschaft, es ist Betrachtung, es sind Steuern, es ist das, was du sagst.
Was bedeutet Kunst? Ist Kunst politisch oder nicht? Oder ist es möglich, revolutionär zu sein? Yeah, is it revolutionary? But dig, it's too much. So I stop. You stop what, looking at it? I stop. I don't want to study one my way back.
I want to become the smarty pants in the room who could talk about Cy Twombly or Frankenthaler or whatever, because I've jammed with Ali, who knows a bunch of these people, the MoMA people and all that. The guys who are still alive. Yeah, and I've had lunches and I've been... Hanging out, so forth.
So, anyway, I am at the Japanese International Film Festival, Kyoto, with the great Jean Moreau, Truffaut's Jean Moreau, and Mike Medavoy, a great Orion producer, producer of many films, and Vittorio Storaro. And for those of the people listening to this who don't know Vittorio Storaro, if I said the movie is Apocalypse Now, Sheltering Sky, Last Emperor, Last Angle in Paris. DP? What is he?
Yeah, he's the guy that first filtered... Technicolor. Yeah. With Dario Argento, that's where he began with it. Yeah. Okay, so he's Visions of Light, he's a true... Ja. Ja. In Italien sage ich, wer ist dein Lieblingspainter? Er fragt, wer ist deiner Lieblingspainter? Ich sage, ich weiß nicht, ich drücke ein paar Namen. Er fragt, bist du jemals in Padova gewesen, um Joto zu sehen?
In der ersten Narrative von 1x146 Framen von Depth, Gefühl, Farbe, Perzeption. narrative movie. Giotto. Giotto, yeah. G-I-O-T-T-O, yeah. And I go, who? And he says, Giotto. And so Metta Boy and Jean Moreau are watching this, so I don't want to eat shit in front of them. I said, Giotto, I said, I don't know who you're talking about, brother.
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