4. Pink FloydLive At Pompeii VHS/Bootleg LP
Pink Floyd is something I’ve loved since I was a kid – I still love them, but that Live At Pompeii video came before I really found out about Couch and Caroliner. It was the closest thing I had found to the Butthole Surfers records, especially the ‘Saucer Full of Secrets’ performance. I think it influenced me a lot, especially later when I was in Wolf Eyes, building these big crescendos.
I don’t think I’d ever considered Pink Floyd as an influence on Wolf Eyes…
Seeing it as a kid, it really opened up my idea of what you can do – David Gilmore sitting on the ground, on literal dirt, just making weird sounds with his guitar. Roger Waters sets down his bass and he’s just playing a gong for 10 minutes.
How did how did you come across that as a kid?
That was just at the video store, and we’d got MTV the year it came out. ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ was really big. I remember driving with my brother and ‘Money’ came on the radio, and it was the first time I’d ever heard stereo – when the cash register at the beginning is going back and forth I asked my brother what was going on, and my brother said ‘Isn’t that cool!? It’s stereo!’
