No Age

Interview by Josh Conway for Street Ape

Street Ape: So I kinda have an idea. I know you guys are into the Urinals and stuff like that, right?

Dean Spunt & Randy Randall: Yeah.

SA: I love the Urinals myself…What are some bands that if you had control of time and history, you would like to have played a show with?

DS: When I was in seventh grade, this is what I thought about all the time. I always imagined I could go back in time to write the songs before the band writes the song…Because I wanted to go back to 1971 and well like I was in fuckin seventh grade and…

RR: Well what would you write? What song would you write?

DS: I don’t know. Yeah I’m over it. Whatever.

SA: So any bands…?

DS: I’d play with the Urinals.

RR: Scott Walker, Arthur Russell, and Paul McCartney.

DS: Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin together at the same time.

SA: So I have to ask something about The Smell.

RR: Okay.

SA: A lot of attention is brought to the area and-

RR: You see, I don’t use deodorant so “the smell” is kind of a natural thing. [Laughter]