Shooting Courtney Love, PJ Harvey, Chrissy Amphlett & More with Iconic Rock Photographer Tony Mott
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2020
- Rock photographer Tony Mott talks about learning to shoot on the Divinyls (fronted by arguably Australia's greatest frontwoman), wild times on the road with Courtney Love and Al from Ministry, what makes a great rock and roll photograph and lots more. Extended interview appears on Episode #2 of the Void 3:33 Podcast: • The Void 3:33: Ep 2 Ro...
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Extended interview appears on Episode #2 of the Void 3:33 Podcast: ruclips.net/video/bCbczkO8AGw/видео.html
Subscribe on RUclips: bit.ly/30kEKLG
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2DvdEIK
Subscribe on Spotify: spoti.fi/2PhbgrI
Love this... Chrissy was a real powerhouse. Great seeing Tony’s point of view. I’ve heard people say you’d be safer juggling grenades than messing with Chrissy lol!
This is so good Christina . Fantastic!
Thank you!! Check out the longer version if you like, Tony was great!
This is really good! This interview is probably one ofthe best I've seen! Excellent work Christina! Why are the views so low? RUclips having problems?
Thanks so much! I'm super proud of it ... I don't know? Do feel free to share it, haven't promoted on social media yet :)
Livid was one one of Australia's most beloved festivals, but i think it only travelled nationally for 2 years. But goddamn some of those early shows (in Brisbane only) were amazing.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Beasts of Bourbon, Ween & Andy Prieboy in 93
Beastie Boys, SuperChunk & Helmet in 94
Henry Rollins, Babes in Toyland, Fireballs, Morphine in 95
such great memories
sigh
I'll be glad when Courtney Love is brought to justice for BOTH MURDERS!
Loving Christina's stuff all the way, full respect and liking the decent guys in this vid and most all others Christina's featured guys. But Courtney Love - is not punk rock. Courtney Love is a violent, abusive person. It's not hate. I am opposed to hate. It is fact. On Trump there is potential people get an idea. there still are people who always will protect Trump. And so it is with Courtney Love.
I've not heard of her ever being abusive before? I know she has had volatile relationships and some hectic substance abuse issues but she also made a few really good records and inspired a lot of women to make music. I don't know. I try and not judge strangers without all the information, but wow aligning anyone to Donny is harsh! What have you heard?
@@TheVoidwithChristina thanks for re Christina. Fair re. As someone who only wants another good alt record, The band Hole is a tip. An example for what I meant is described by Kim Gordon - i put a link in the re box here below
Kim Gordon :
'' ... The first time Thurston and I saw Nirvana
was in 1989 at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. Bruce Pavitt, who founded the label Sub Pop, told me that if I liked Mudhoney, which I did, then, I’d “love Nirvana”. He added, “You have to see them live. Kurt Cobain is like Jesus. People love him. He practically walks on the audience.”
As a performer, Kurt was both incredibly charismatic and extremely ( controverse*-). One minute he would be playing a pretty melody, and the next he’d be trashing all the equipment.
Maxwell’s could be sleepy during the week, and there weren’t a lot of people in attendance the night we showed up - maybe 10 to 15. The next night, we went to see them again at the Pyramid Club in the East Village. The club was practically full. I was surprised to run into Iggy Pop, but I guess he wanted to see what all the hype was about, too. Kurt ended up trashing the drums and almost knocked an amp down the spiral stairs on the stage leading to the dressing room below. Thurston and I agreed it was an amazing show. Iggy wasn’t quite as impressed.
We later went backstage. Kurt told us ( they'd just split from their* - ) guitar player and (their*-) drummer. Standing in front of me, Kurt seemed small, close to my height, though he was actually 5ft 9in to my 5ft 5in. He had big, watery eyes, slightly hunted looking. I’m not sure why, but I felt an immediate kinship with him.
When Nirvana toured with us in 1991, before Nevermind broke, no one in Europe knew who they were. Kurt was funny and fun to be around, and soaked up any kind of personal attention. I felt very big sisterly, almost maternal, when we were together.
Courtney Love told me she thought Kurt Cobain was hot, which made me cringe. We all said, 'Uh-oh, train wreck coming'
Thurston and I had met Courtney Love at an LA gig, and soon after she wrote asking if I would produce her band Hole’s first album. At first I said no. I could tell she had a crazy, contagious energy, and I try to avoid that kind of drama. But then I changed my mind, reasoning that she had something interesting going on.
I had a feeling she asked me only because she wanted my name associated with the record. She was the kind of person who spent a lot of time growing up staring in the mirror practicing her look. But she had a great punk rock voice, and the song titles and lyrics were pure provocation: Pretty On The Inside and Teenage Whore. Her early career as a stripper gave her great material to work with, and she had an instinct for commanding attention.
At one point during the recording, Courtney told me she thought Kurt was hot, which made me cringe inside and hope the two of them would never meet. We all said to ourselves, “Uh-oh, train wreck coming.”
She also asked for advice about her “secret affair” with Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins. I thought, Ew, at the mention of Billy Corgan, whom nobody liked because he was such a crybaby. Smashing Pumpkins took themselves way too seriously and were in no way punk rock.
Over the years, Courtney has said plenty of awful things about me, and about Thurston, too - though he was practically the only person nice to Courtney after she punched Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna in the face at Lollapalooza in 1995. This happened as Kathleen stood on the side of the stage, watching our set, minding her own business. Courtney and Kathleen had never met before. It set the tone for the rest of the tour, with Courtney being someone to avoid and ignore.
Soon after Kurt and Courtney got together and had their baby, Frances Bean, we were playing in Seattle, and the two of them came to see us. After the show, Kurt cornered me in the dressing room. “I don’t know what to do,” he said. “Courtney thinks Frances likes me more than her.” Someone took a photo of us right at that moment. My back is turned to the camera, and I remember that conversation vividly. I can’t imagine what life was like in the chaos of their drug-fueled life, and it’s hard for me to remember that they were together for only a couple of years. It takes so little time to forge a life, or in this case, a brand.
I’ll always remember the day Thurston called to tell me ( the media reported*-) Kurt had shot himself. Of course I was totally shocked, but I wasn’t entirely surprised.
There had been an incident in Rome, where Kurt had OD’d,
but the details were never clear.
I was shattered and felt as if I were moving in slow-motion inside some strange dream.
The night after Kurt’s death, during a candlelight memorial service for the public, a recording of Courtney reading aloud Kurt’s suicide note was played. As the vigil continued, Courtney appeared in person and started handing out some of Kurt’s clothes to fans. It was as if she were stepping out into her destiny - a platform of celebrity and infamy.
A week after Kurt died, Hole released their major-label debut, Live Through This, which elevated Courtney to a new kind of perverse stardom... ''