Epic interview is epic:
This is Andy Hull corresponding here at Bonnaroo for paste magazine. sitting next to me, good friend, long time lover, Jared Followill from epic, massive rock band
that's us
... Kings of Leon. There's a thing in the rider, that you have to say Kings of Leon with sunglasses on if you do an interview with them.
We were literally just outside, that's why i'm wearing mine
~~~(not sure what's said here basically, Andy making fun of Jared for having to justify wearing sunglasses indoors/tent)
Question 1: Last night, what happened what i got off your (?), what happened?
I got arrested. big time.
so... but the thing is your driving was flawless all the way over to the bus.
that's what i thought.
it wasn't. he, he, he literally went on every single bump, you remember the drink that i had?
You were on the golf cart with us?
don't you re- you really, this is, that...
i swear to god dude, i blacked out
you were driving me back
I drove you where? aw yeah! to the bus!
there it is
I may have said an inappropriate thing to a girl you know
my sister. he yelled at my sister "show your boobs"
no!
you did
yes i did
and then he realized it was my sister and obviously had to see her all weekend
but to be fair i was saying that to every girl
yeah almost every single girl. i would say more than every single girl, even men.
yes
so kings of leon, how many bonnaroo's is this now for Kings
this is 3
what was the first year
2004
you guys, i think i saw a youtube clip,earlier this week, i was doing a little research, but is that the year that you ended the whole thing, i think like, it was an intense show, right? and you ended with Trani?
yes
yea. killer. you know what video I'm talking about?
yes i do. (it was a little while form now?)
yes you are very young in that video
i know and i was doing some kind of... yeah totally
*bangs head* you were doing a lot of that
i know. i don't know why i did that, why didn't anybody tell me?
I would've, I didn't know you. It looked cool. It looked really cool at the time. so, the next year was the year that we met ya'll for the first time, which was '07, and then this year now on the main stage tonight, you're doing new stuff
yes
how many songs?
pfff... prolly like 30. honestly.
to all, overall.
yeah
and you're playing for 2 hours
yeah
you, i haven't seen you play for 3 hours before. maybe 100 minutes, but..
no, I don't think I've ever seen us play for 2 hours, we definitely never played for 2 hours and we will not play 2 hours tonight.
yeah i was about to say
we will get as close to it as possible.
118 minutes
yeah
yeah, it's just a lot of drum solos.
absolutely
and walk away to ...
and a really really long bow session at the end, like 20 minutes
just a lot of roses throwing out into the crowd. its great. um, are you gonna do a cover song?
maybe
first ever time kings of leon might do a cover song. now we've probably played over 50 some odd shows with you, you're about to do a tour, you ad I were talking about this last night because it's ridiculous. you said something that was interesting, you know, when you're in a band, you have a wishlist of like support bands, then you have that like "yeah, if they every would"
yeah
but they never would
nope
you know, and then you get news back that our favorite band, Built to Spill, is gonna be supporting you
absolutely. unbelievable.
do you feel pretty...
I felt like why, would they do that?
yeah
like really? awesome
how uncool are you gonna feel when you have to play after them
i dont know
cause they're gonna be playing like "Randy Describes Eternity" and what are you gonna play like "on call"
MAYBE! How uncool are they gonna feel playing before us. that's the real question.
its the real question. there's also this great time, for lollapalooza, when The Decemberists were playing before you, and i was like "oh man, that sucks dude, they're not really hyping up the crowd" and you guys were all very excited because they were in fact so boring and you were coming up next to slay
absolutely, i hate...
you guys have, it's like a football minded (win) mentality when it comes to shows.
definitely
alright, i think that's it. you good?
I think I'm good dude.
but really though... what happened on the golf cart?
we got thrown into the mud.
you had to be losing your mind.
Noo. I was just, look, there were two girls kissing, we circled around them maybe 8 or 9 times
two girls kissin!?
yes! and we were circling around them to get a better scope on thing
a matrix view
yeah, totally. it was like we got them to pause
and then, like, what? after the 6th circle somebody said...
somebody had...
you were driving recklessly
no! no! the thing is somebody had a drink on there and you can't have a drink.
I'm glad we didn't get stopped because i had a drink.
i know, it wasn't model
and you were making it a point to zigzag to spill me drink last night
that was the funny part though
yeah
and then they told us to pull over, and i didn't... and then a cart came in front of us and hit our cart and then i got sat-
so there was road rage?
yeah I got sat down in the mud, somebody told em like "do you know who he is?" and he's like "no", and then they told him who i was
and he said no, right?
and he said "he is not, i know that band, and he is not one of them" and I said "I swear to god I'm in the killers! Please."
let me go
yeah and he said "you're not even playing in this festival."
he said, i'm doing your, i know your rider
yeah i know my, what does he, whats does that even mean?
so he knows you've got a snapple you're drinking, right? Is the point so he knows it's not you.
totally. yeah. I know you like baked doritoes and you look like you haven't had one in years.
don't go and compliment yourself over (?) This is Andy Hull and my good friend Jared Followill from the Kings of Leon saying hello at Bonnaroo this weekend, check back for news...
thanks to Sandy!