Summary
Sparks plays stripped-down acoustic versions of art rock songs off their new album Hippopotamus, along with a classic song, and the theme to Bookworm, Where Would We Be without Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Books! |
| 0:07.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:11.0 | Where would we be without Gutenberg? |
| 0:14.0 | Even the thought of it so absurd. |
| 0:18.0 | Where would we be without books? Where would we be without books? Where would we be without |
| 0:26.2 | Gutenberg? It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? From KCRW and |
| 0:36.1 | KCRW.com, you may recognize that song, but it's not the way you usually hear it. |
| 0:43.5 | I have in my studio with me, Michael Silverblatt, Ron and Russell Mail, who wrote the theme song for Bookworm, and they're here. They're here because they |
| 0:59.0 | have an astounding new record. It's called Hippopotamus. Sparks is one of the bands who've made |
| 1:07.8 | the crunch. They've passed through the sonic barriers, |
| 1:13.0 | and now their records are coming out on an actual label, BMG. |
| 1:21.0 | About time, I'd say. |
| 1:22.2 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:22.8 | Well, their last several albums have been recorded in their home. |
| 1:28.6 | And this is from BMG. |
| 1:31.9 | They're being sent on a tour, Europe, and Los Angeles. |
| 1:37.6 | They are Los Angeles boys, and there's no chance that I am going to miss the opportunity to talk to them, because as many of you have |
| 1:47.4 | heard, as far as I'm concerned, if you don't like sparks, you can't be my friend. |
| 1:55.8 | Because somehow or other, they manage to combine everything that matters to me and to my generation. |
| 2:07.3 | That is to say, we loved the craziness, the originality of books, and we loved rock and roll. |
| 2:14.8 | And we loved rock and roll best when it could be art rock, when it knew |
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