Chris Rolls of MP3.com interviewed his friends from Brooklyn's TV on the Radio backstage at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. The resulting footage was spliced with scenes from the band's videos to create this well-produced video document of band members who find themselves touring the world and playing to thousands of people following the success of their sophomore effort, Return to Cookie Mountain.
Although the sound of opening band The Noisettes (also interviewed by Rolls) obscures a word here and there, the video works really well as an introduction to the band or as a deeper delve for TVOTR fans.
Tidbits from the – video:
- TVOTR's music doesn't translate as well to Trinidad or Europe, butBrazil was a different story entirely. Some of the band wants to movethere.
- "Music doesn't have to be monogomous;" members take on side projects at will.
- Seeing Sonic Youth on television was a big breakthrough for Kyp, as was seeing U.S. Maple open for what could have been Pavement's last show, "and they just destroyed it."
- As a performer, it takes a different set of skills to play to a small crowd versus two or three thousand people.
- Music is "one of the only arenas in life [in which] extreme freedom is easily achieved."
