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Mark Mothersbaugh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
311 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Well, I don't know.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah, he did that.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Then we kind of made fun of it.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Well, I mean, you know, I remember he had this one deck that was like his deck of oblique strategies, but there was all, and he was like trying to give them to us.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

But I remember one day before he got in, where we recorded was at Connie Plank's studio in Neunkirchen, Germany.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And it was a studio that Eno liked a lot.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

But the recording studio was in a converted pigsty.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

It was a barn.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

It was a barn, yeah.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And there were like sheep outside and things like that.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

But I remember I took, there was one blank card in the Oblique Strategies, like, aha, oh, there's nothing.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And so I drew a rat and I put it on the card and I put it in one of the rat traps that were in the room.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And I kept waiting for him to see it and he wasn't seeing it.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And I go, what's that, Brian?

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And he looks over and he sees it.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And I think it was his special...

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

You know, like in Too Much Paranoia, he did something with an even timbre.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And I do got to say this about him.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

He really helped me figure out what I wanted to do on Sense because of a Roxy Music song that was โ€“

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Devo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

I think Roxy Music's first album was their best, and Brian wrote these incredible lyrics.