{"id":2428,"date":"2009-11-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-13T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:28:12","slug":"after-ray-manzarek-who-is-the-most-annoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/after-ray-manzarek-who-is-the-most-annoy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Ray Manzarek, Who Is the Most-Annoying Interview in Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/javMqaZVsJ8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s generally acknowledged that Ray Manzarek is the most annoying interview for music fans to have to sit through in all of rock history. Even the 36-second clip of an upbeat Ray talking about the continued popularity of <strong>The Doors<\/strong> is a little annoying. Beyond Manzarek, however, there&#8217;s probably some strong competition for the #2 slot. This came up recently while I told my close personal friend, <strong>Townsman andyr<\/strong>, about a the Lynyrd Skynyrd portion of a surprisingly good <strong>Al Kooper<\/strong> interview that I <em>read<\/em> in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapeop.com\/\" target=_blank>TapeOp<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh man,&#8221; he said at the mere mention of Kooper&#8217;s name, &#8220;he&#8217;s a close second to Ray Manzarek for most-annoying interview in rock!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agreed, although his recent <em>TapeOp<\/em> interview is surprisingly free of all the things that typically bug me about <em>listening to<\/em> an Al Kooper interview: the &#8220;Like a Rolling Stone&#8221; story; the inflated notion that &#8220;This Diamond Ring&#8221; is a good song; the notion that Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears was in any way a worthwhile contribution to humanity. Beyond content, though, maybe what annoys us about some interview subjects is their delivery. Following is Kooper telling his most tired tale:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxpiviK3TrM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1625760\" target=_blank>Here you can find a whole 20 minutes of Kooper on NPR&#8217;s <em>Fresh Air<\/em><\/a>, wheeling out all the self-aggrandizing tales in that faux low-key hipster way that is meant to suggest his shit doesn&#8217;t smell. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Until proven otherwise, Al Kooper gets my vote for second-most annoying rocker to have to listen to interviewed. <em>Agree or disagree?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s generally acknowledged that Ray Manzarek is the most annoying interview for music fans to have to sit through in all of rock history. Even the 36-second clip of an upbeat Ray talking about the continued popularity of The Doors is a little annoying. Beyond Manzarek, however, there&#8217;s probably some strong competition for the #2 <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/after-ray-manzarek-who-is-the-most-annoy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}