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[Gm] Elvis said Eric and that should have been a single.
With that drainpipe physique and those gaunt specky features of his,
Elvis is hardly [G] the figure of a male macho star.
Then again with those braces on her teeth, polystyrene is hardly Linda Ronstadt.
Good, her band X-Ray Specs is one of the best around.
Thanks for giving us a chance to talk to you.
Can I ask you about the braces, are they decorative or functional?
Well, they're both really, because you know, my teeth sort of,
they used to stick out a bit and that, but,
and I just thought, oh, I'll get a brace on, but,
you know, make it sort of, get a good one that looks really good and outstanding.
Yeah, outstanding.
But about the dress, I mean, you don't wear the normal sort of punk gear,
the normal leather and plastic and the hinged together jeans, why not?
Well, because I mean, I just don't think that's what it's about.
I mean, I think that's just sort of imitating other people
and I think it should be a form of self-expression really and,
you know, everybody should just wear what they want to wear
and not feel sort of that they have to go to certain shops and buy certain things,
you know, like seditionists and that.
Where do you get yours from?
Anywhere really.
Secondhand shops, is what you said.
Well, yeah.
All right, I mean, as far as imitation goes,
there's a lot of imitation in the punk music and stuff.
I mean, do you think it's got static recently?
Yeah, I mean, I suppose it has a bit, but I mean,
that's mostly because a load of other new bands just come up
and they just copy the original bands that had a certain kind of, you know, way of playing
and then it's just got stale in that sense, yeah.
Are you going to change, do you think?
I mean, I just think music is what you feel and you sort of play what you feel
and all the time you're changing and that,
so the music is bound to change eventually, yeah.
What way would you imagine yourself changing?
I don't know really.
I mean, we're just changing already a bit, you know, just in the sort of
No, the songs is just the way that everything [E] else reflects everything else
and you're [G] just part of it.
So the music reflects what you feel and also reflects what's happening around you.
But don't you find when you change, you leave the audience behind?
A lot of the bands are trying to do new numbers now.
They want it to go a bit cool, don't they?
Yeah, well that's just because, you know, they think that's not what it's about or something,
or they think it's not a hit,
but when they sort of read it in the music papers that it's all right, you can, you know,
that it's all right, I suppose they probably like it, I don't know,
but other things, they're just sort of illusions, those sort of people,
they just do what they read about, they just like what they read about.
Well, I'm
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[Gm] Elvis said Eric and that should have been a single.
With that drainpipe physique and those gaunt specky features of his,
Elvis is hardly [G] the figure of a male macho star.
Then again with those braces on her teeth, polystyrene is hardly Linda Ronstadt.
Good, her band X-Ray Specs is one of the best around.
Thanks for giving us a chance to talk to you.
Can I ask you about the braces, are they decorative or functional?
Well, they're both really, because you know, my teeth sort of,
they used to stick out a bit and that, but,
and I just thought, oh, I'll get a brace on, but,
you know, make it sort of, get a good one that looks really good and outstanding.
Yeah, outstanding.
But about the dress, I mean, you don't wear the normal sort of punk gear,
the normal leather and plastic and the hinged together jeans, why not?
Well, because I mean, I just don't think that's what it's about.
I mean, I think that's just sort of imitating other people
and I think it should be a form of self-expression really and,
you know, everybody should just wear what they want to wear
and not feel sort of that they have to go to certain shops and buy certain things,
you know, like seditionists and that.
Where do you get yours from?
Anywhere really.
Secondhand shops, is what you said.
Well, yeah.
All right, I mean, as far as imitation goes,
there's a lot of imitation in the punk music and stuff.
I mean, do you think it's got static recently?
Yeah, I mean, I suppose it has a bit, but I mean,
that's mostly because a load of other new bands just come up
and they just copy the original bands that had a certain kind of, you know, way of playing
and then it's just got stale in that sense, yeah.
Are you going to change, do you think?
I mean, I just think music is what you feel and you sort of play what you feel
and all the time you're changing and that,
so the music is bound to change eventually, yeah.
What way would you imagine yourself changing?
_ I don't know really.
I mean, we're just changing already a bit, you know, just in the sort of_
No, the songs is just the way that everything [E] else reflects everything else
and you're [G] just part of it.
So the music reflects what you feel and also reflects what's happening around you.
But don't you find when you change, you leave the audience behind?
A lot of the bands are trying to do new numbers now.
They want it to go a bit cool, don't they?
Yeah, well that's just because, you know, they think that's not what it's about or something,
or they think it's not a hit,
but when they sort of read it in the music papers that it's all right, you can, you know,
that it's all right, I suppose they probably like it, I don't know,
but other things, they're just sort of illusions, those sort of people,
they just do what they read about, they just like what they read about.
Well, I'm

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