Wednesday, May 6, 2009
National Skyline Stay Classy, Dan Harris: ABC News Guy Interviews Superdrag, Doesn't Play Jazz Flute
Posted by Sean Maloney on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I'm an NBC news kinda guy. I like WSMV for my local news and I spend prime time with Olberman and Maddow every night--yes, I'm a pretentious libtard, dead set on destroying the American Way of Life, but I totally cried during every single Dan Miller memorial slideshow.
I had no idea that ABC News has its own indie rock anchor guy--hell, if it's on ABC and it doesn't have a smoke monster, I can say with certitude that I haven't seen it. ABC's web video's aren't embeddable and their website can be really skittish, so I just don't watch their programs. Well, wait a second...no, I definitely watch America's Funniest Home Videos all the fucking time. I love that show.
Anyway, ABC's Dan Harris has a segment called Amplified where he interviews indie rock folks like Superdrag, Bob Mould and Mac from Superchunk and some younger whipper-snappers like Dan Deacon, Bon Iver and Lykke Li. It is a surprisingly good series--Harris asks some really great questions and gets some really candid answers. He's got dork-cred in spades--he uses footage of Husker Du on the Joan Rivers show, fer realz--and his enthusiasm for the topic matter almost breaks through the Manchurian Candidate-style training all news anchors must undergo to avoid betraying human emotions. It's quality stuff.
I would post the video with Superdrag, which was really good and included the line "If you stacked up all the weed I smoked, it would probably fill a 5x8 trailer," but ABC are party poopers so you'll have to check it out on the Amplified page.
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Has anyone else noticed that Bob Mueller just does not care anymore?
But yeah, WSMV is the best. They have Snowbird! No contest.
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Great minds think alike?
I'm a big Dan Harris fan (which is one of the weirdest things I've ever said). His interview with Stereolab (back when the series was known as 'The Mix') is probably my favorite. The Bon Iver interview is pretty good, too.
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