Mark Mothersbaugh

They kept us apart, though.

You could catch something.

Who said that?

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

You know, the most common story we get is, I watched you guys on Saturday Night Live, and it scared the shit out of me.

We changed our venues.

We were in the middle of a tour and our venues all changed.

Yeah.

College students, everybody watched SNL.

It was a phenomena.

Well, we were trying to trick people into thinking it was rock and roll or something like that.

They didn't get at all what we were.

Well, we were hoping we were just paranoid, but it hasn't turned out that way.

You know, we were at school, all of us in the late 60s, early 70s, and we were really interested in all the art movements going on in Europe in the 20s and 30s.

And I just remember wishing I could have been there then, you know, back in the, you know, there were the Futurists in Italy that we didn't share their politics, but we loved their concept of music where they thought that,

that current orchestras and the music that was available then didn't relate to our culture.

And they said, for industrial society, you need new instruments.

And they were experimenting with foghorns

and clanging sounds and sirens.