Harvey Pekar was born October 8, 1939 in Cleveland. Here's a short excerpt from a interview he did for Walrus Comix-
Whose record collection is more impressive, yours or Robert Crumb’s?
Well, mine is GONE… My wife got rid of it all...
She GOT RID OF THEM?
Well, I mean they were sitting around and I wasn’t listening to much music at all... they were taking up a lot of space and it was driving her nuts… she couldn’t turn around without bumping into a pile of records… so... she kept on me and on me… and records became less important to me... so that finally she got a decent price from some guy... for the CDs anyway… she sold those and…
ANYWAY, Crumb only collects 78s… and he only likes music from 1933 and before.. so YOU be the judge!
(laughs)
I guess it depends on what you think a good record collection is. For ME, Crumb’s tastes are pretty narrow… He gets along... One thing about him is if it’s old, he doesn’t seem to care about the genre, he just LIKES it… He likes old folk music and old pop… corny old pop stuff.
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Very funny about the wife getting pissed and making him get rid of his old records -- also very typical and not surprising of a woman to do that. Sorry, ladies.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty interesting that Harvey seems more into the era of the music, rather than genre. The guy who made the movie Ghost World is a lot like that too -- and he was also the same guy who made a documentary on Crumb, who as we all know, was friends with Pekar. It's like 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon all of a sudden, what the fuck.
Everytime I hear a story like that I'm reminded of the time I was in San Francisco doing some shopping at one of my favorite shops. When it came time to hit the register I was joined by my lady friend who decided to comment on my enormous but appropriate stack of records by saying "omg why are you waisting so much money on records?" Before I could even reply, the clerk looks her straight in the face and says "hell at least they are there in the morning when you wake up!" You should have seen her face! Another reason why Street Light in S.F. is always one of my favorite stops!
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