What is the likelihood of releasing footage from The Control Tower Jam on DVD?
There were a few conversations about that over the weekend with management. Certainly, it is contingent upon how well the footage came out. The possibility remains, but I haven’t heard one way or another. In light of such epic stunts, is there pressure to continually outdo yourself? The trick is not so much to outdo yourself, but to catch your audience off guard. The answer doesn’t lie in doing something bigger, but instead in doing something different, something equally cool, but in another way. The trap is to fall into a formula like ‘This year we’ll have even more pyrotechnics!’ or ‘This year we’ll drop even more balloons!’ From tour to tour, The Residents are so completely different that it has been a routine experience to have members of the audience come up to me at the front-of-house and say, ‘You can’t fool us, that’s not even The Residents! Those are imposters on stage!!’ But how can anyone tell for sure? They do wear masks after all. So you have to decide that for yourself. A
