1. A Conversation with Paul Ford, the Now-Former Web Editor of Harper’s Magazine - The Awl

    Choire: What is your favorite Alex Chilton video, song or tale?

    Paul: My favorite tale is from Our Band Could Be Your Life, when he shut down Gibby Haynes’s rampage through the Netherlands:

    Moments later a man entered the dressing room and asked if he could borrow a guitar. “BORROW A GUITAR??!!! WELL, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU???!!! [Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers] screamed, eyes flashing in delirious anticpation of forthcoming violence. But the man was totally unfazed.

    “I’m Alex Chilton,” the man answered calmly.

    Haynes was flabbergasted. After a long pause, he methodically opened the remaining guitar cases one by one and gestured at them as if to say, “Take anything you want.”

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    Beaten to the punch.
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    I love that book. If you’re an indie rock geek, and haven’t read it, go out and do so now. The chapters on the Butthole...
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    I don’t reckon Alex Chilton remembrances can get much better than this story:...(Many...
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    If anyone can shut Gibby down in mid-psychotic-break… it’s Alex Chilton.
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