Gerald Casale

part of 77 season so we come on playing satisfaction a week after the stones open the season was even more kind of and it just all looked like a big big deal and it was partly planned and partly not yeah partly an accident yeah um i'm not asking the classic uh you know hey we're all getting older so let's take a shot at young people's music but but

Well, I mean, I think we were always making a kind of a double-edged joke about that.

Like, you are part of it whether you want to be or not.

Sure.

But we were assailing that in a creative way that was satirical and humorous.

Even the way we created our own talking points and our own publicity and our own merchandise, it was making fun of publicity and merchandise that was the mainstream of the record business.

Yeah, and that's not a good message you have to tell people.

I mean, I think the only people, the only reason people are interested in us now is because we did something sincere and creative and original at that time that a lot of it has withstood the test of time.

There's a kernel of validity.

And they're excited by that.

They're certainly not excited by watching septuagenarians

There you go.

You're so kind.

Freedom of choice.

Clearly.

Well, you know, we were really controversial and polarizing back then.

And there were people who loved us and people who hated us.

More of them that hated us.

Well, yeah, more in the beginning, you know, like anything new.

And then at this point, people go, oh, yeah, de-evolution, yeah.