Mark Mothersbaugh
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Podcast Appearances
Well, I don't know.
Yeah, he did that.
Then we kind of made fun of it.
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.
But I remember one day before he got in, where we recorded was at Connie Plank's studio in Neunkirchen, Germany.
And it was a studio that Eno liked a lot.
But the recording studio was in a converted pigsty.
It was a barn.
It was a barn, yeah.
And there were like sheep outside and things like that.
But I remember I took, there was one blank card in the Oblique Strategies, like, aha, oh, there's nothing.
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.
And I kept waiting for him to see it and he wasn't seeing it.
And I go, what's that, Brian?
And he looks over and he sees it.
And I think it was his special...
You know, like in Too Much Paranoia, he did something with an even timbre.
And I do got to say this about him.
He really helped me figure out what I wanted to do on Sense because of a Roxy Music song that was โ
I think Roxy Music's first album was their best, and Brian wrote these incredible lyrics.