Is it just me, or is a tony party promoting Forbes “Celebrity 100” issue a weird gig to find Wilco at?
Totally weird. It’s a Robin Hood gig. We got a weird call, they said, “Do you want to play this party?” We went, “No.” Then they said, “Well, it’s like, seven million dollars for like twenty minutes.” So we went, “Okay.” (Laughs) It was just a lot of money for a half-hour set, so it was like, what the hell — why should they have that money? Are you prepared if Puff Daddy gets the notion to join you? Oh yeah. We learned “Kashmir.” Actually he can do his thing to any of our songs. You know, cocky smile – “HEY!” Let’s talk about Summer Teeth. It’s been hailed by some as your most ambitious album to date, and it seems loaded with potential breakthrough radio singles, which is sure to annoy your old-school Americana fans. Well, we really wanted to make a pop record. Warner Bros. didn’t think we had a single until we recorded “Can’t Stand It.” They didn’t think we had anything that could be played on the radio, and we were like, “But these are our idea of pop songs. We think they should all
