Post by ©DURANMANIA Board Team on Aug 4, 2005 21:02:19 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]TWO interviews w. Maestro NICK RHODES[/glow]
'Time Out New York'-July 28th, 2005 issue~
Out There-3 questions for Nick Rhodes
1. How's Duran Duran's New Tour? Are you seeing lots of screaming girls in their thirties?
Rhodes: We've actually been seeing a bit of everything, from our usual mob of diehards to newer fans, even teens.
We've always done well in North America, but this tour has been as wild a crazy as ever-somewhere between euphoric and spectacular.
2. Duran Duran is named after the villian in Barbarella. Have you ever met Jane Fonda?
Rhodes: We did, actually, at the palladium night club. She was...with...uh-it all becomes a bit of a haze, doesn't it? I do remember how Palladium was when it first opened: Very 80s on a grad scale, with these huge art works by Basquiat and Keith Haring. New York nightlife was such a happening scene back then.
3. Speaking of the '80s, Missing Persons' Warren Cuccurullo was in Duran Duran in the '90s; he also had dildos made of his, er, "likeness." Did you get one for free?
Rhodes: No, it wasn't something we requested, really. (laughs) If I chose to preserve a part of my body, it would have to be my brain-and I believe it would be larger.
Smith Galtney
Nick Rhodes 2000
From July 28th Papermag.com PT 2 of DD article)~
PAPERMAG caught up with Nick Rhodes as Duran Duran blitzed across the Midwest and zeroed in on Dayton, Ohio.
Phil Smrek: Did you always have hope that the original five would regroup?
Nick Rhodes: Well, I never say never, but often say maybe, so I guess it was always on the menu, but just not available for a while....
PS: Since its inception, DD has been on the cutting edge of visual music media. We understand there's a pretty cool series of videos for "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise." Tell us about that and where can we see them?
NR: We actually out-conceptualized ourselves with this project! We wanted to create something completely new and unique to launch the first single from the album, so we decided to work with a brace of wonderful filmmakers called the Polish Brothers (and they are indeed brothers). The idea was to make five separate videos, one for each band member, showing some kind of journey home, all edited to different remixes of "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise." The sixth video was to be a combination of the other five films edited together for the single mix; fortunately this one was ready on time. However, the others took a little while to complete. But miraculously they have finally found their way on to iTunes and will no doubt be released in the most glamorous DVD package ever made, some time soon.
PS: DD recently played their hometown of Birmingham. How was it?
NR: Oh, it was just lovely, thank you for asking. The show was the most spectacular one we ever attempted in the U.K., and we liked it so much, we're already thinking about doing it again. The special added bonus of doing the show in Birmingham was, of course, that three of us got to see more of our family members than we have ever seen at one time other than at weddings and funerals.
PS: What can we expect on the US summer leg of the Duran Duran tour? We hear you played with a 70 piece orchestra in Orlando.
NR: We are always eager to please, so whatever your fantasy is, feel free to submit it on a postcard, all entrants will be considered. Orlando was a one off show, for the moment. It was quite something though, nothing more satisfying than been stringed along by a brass section. The rest of the tour is about pure electricity, songs from the whole catalog. As long as there are no power cuts, I feel supremely confident that we can deliver watts matters.
PS: Two part question: What's your favorite Duran Duran song and television show?
NR: Changes by the day, hour or minute, depending upon my mood, but right now it's "The Chauffeur," actually make that "Still Breathing," or maybe "Come Undone".... I never really watch TV, unless I put a DVD on. Oh, I'm lying, The Simpsons, the greatest ever American sitcom. But the most popular show with us boys for the moment would have to be Desperate Housewives. It is, after all, very Duran Duran.
'Time Out New York'-July 28th, 2005 issue~
Out There-3 questions for Nick Rhodes
1. How's Duran Duran's New Tour? Are you seeing lots of screaming girls in their thirties?
Rhodes: We've actually been seeing a bit of everything, from our usual mob of diehards to newer fans, even teens.
We've always done well in North America, but this tour has been as wild a crazy as ever-somewhere between euphoric and spectacular.
2. Duran Duran is named after the villian in Barbarella. Have you ever met Jane Fonda?
Rhodes: We did, actually, at the palladium night club. She was...with...uh-it all becomes a bit of a haze, doesn't it? I do remember how Palladium was when it first opened: Very 80s on a grad scale, with these huge art works by Basquiat and Keith Haring. New York nightlife was such a happening scene back then.
3. Speaking of the '80s, Missing Persons' Warren Cuccurullo was in Duran Duran in the '90s; he also had dildos made of his, er, "likeness." Did you get one for free?
Rhodes: No, it wasn't something we requested, really. (laughs) If I chose to preserve a part of my body, it would have to be my brain-and I believe it would be larger.
Smith Galtney
Nick Rhodes 2000
From July 28th Papermag.com PT 2 of DD article)~
PAPERMAG caught up with Nick Rhodes as Duran Duran blitzed across the Midwest and zeroed in on Dayton, Ohio.
Phil Smrek: Did you always have hope that the original five would regroup?
Nick Rhodes: Well, I never say never, but often say maybe, so I guess it was always on the menu, but just not available for a while....
PS: Since its inception, DD has been on the cutting edge of visual music media. We understand there's a pretty cool series of videos for "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise." Tell us about that and where can we see them?
NR: We actually out-conceptualized ourselves with this project! We wanted to create something completely new and unique to launch the first single from the album, so we decided to work with a brace of wonderful filmmakers called the Polish Brothers (and they are indeed brothers). The idea was to make five separate videos, one for each band member, showing some kind of journey home, all edited to different remixes of "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise." The sixth video was to be a combination of the other five films edited together for the single mix; fortunately this one was ready on time. However, the others took a little while to complete. But miraculously they have finally found their way on to iTunes and will no doubt be released in the most glamorous DVD package ever made, some time soon.
PS: DD recently played their hometown of Birmingham. How was it?
NR: Oh, it was just lovely, thank you for asking. The show was the most spectacular one we ever attempted in the U.K., and we liked it so much, we're already thinking about doing it again. The special added bonus of doing the show in Birmingham was, of course, that three of us got to see more of our family members than we have ever seen at one time other than at weddings and funerals.
PS: What can we expect on the US summer leg of the Duran Duran tour? We hear you played with a 70 piece orchestra in Orlando.
NR: We are always eager to please, so whatever your fantasy is, feel free to submit it on a postcard, all entrants will be considered. Orlando was a one off show, for the moment. It was quite something though, nothing more satisfying than been stringed along by a brass section. The rest of the tour is about pure electricity, songs from the whole catalog. As long as there are no power cuts, I feel supremely confident that we can deliver watts matters.
PS: Two part question: What's your favorite Duran Duran song and television show?
NR: Changes by the day, hour or minute, depending upon my mood, but right now it's "The Chauffeur," actually make that "Still Breathing," or maybe "Come Undone".... I never really watch TV, unless I put a DVD on. Oh, I'm lying, The Simpsons, the greatest ever American sitcom. But the most popular show with us boys for the moment would have to be Desperate Housewives. It is, after all, very Duran Duran.