re: #104 Barefoot Grin

I was just in the middle of listening to an interview with Todd Rundgren (Marc Maron’s WTF podcast) where TR was talking about working on Skylarking. He calls Andy Partridge a grown-up “brat.” But I got home just at that comment and haven’t listened to the end. Sometimes artistic differences end in disaster and sometimes in sublime success. I think Skylarking is the latter.

On the Monkees: no comment.

I read the book Chalkhills and Children about XTC and Partridge does kind of come off as somewhat of a brat. He’s one of those ‘smartest guy in the room’ kind of guys. Dave Gregory walks out on the band towards the end of the book and it’s easy to sympathize with him. I love the band, but I think the great thing about XTC was the combination of musicians.