Nick Cave about Blixa Bargeld: "He's brilliant. He's my hero." (1987 interview)

Interview of Nick Cave in Berlin in 1987 (from the documentary Stranger in a strange land)

"He can make his guitar sounds like... I mean, he doesn't use pedals or effects or anything like that. Just plugs it to any amp, uses any guitar, half the time he doesn't own the guitar.
Um... he comes to tour with no guitar.
"where's your guitar, Blixa?"
"Oh, I don't know, I don't have it anymore."
He uses the support band's guitar. But he can make the guitar sound like... nothing you've heard before.
He's brilliant. He's my hero."

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Music

Tags:

• nick
• cave
• blixa
• bargeld
• bad
• seeds
• berlin
• 1987

[tinofpop90]

thats not true. blixa went off to work more with his original band einsturzende neubauten.

[KurioseKreatur]

'Blixa, where's your guitar?'- like Nick is his fussy mother or something.

[Samelie81]

His voice used to be so high compared to now!

[cowboystitching]

And then Nick marginalized his hero right out of the Bad Seeds.

[ritzraff]

how have I never seen this?