The Man With No Control

During my 17 years as a professional journalist, I've had the pleasure and good fortune to interview a number of my all-time heroes, including Bobby Womack, Smokey Robinson, the Isley Brothers, Roger McGuinn, Black Sabbath and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. And while I wouldn't exactly lump Eddie Money among those august personages, I've certainly enjoyed his music since I was a kid — and I would definitely include him among the most memorable interviews I've ever done. Since several friends of mine and I have been on a serious Mahoney kick as of late, both on and off Facebook, I thought I'd dig my lone interview with the Money Man out of the archives.

A little background: I did this interview in the spring of 1999, right as Money's workmanlike Ready Eddie album was released with an anchor by CMC International. The piece was supposed to be for an issue of BAM Magazine (the Bay Area-based mag that employed me as their LA editor at the time), but the publication suddenly closed its doors that summer before a considerably abridged version of the Q&A could run. I wound up giving the whole thing to my friend Jake Austen at Roctober; the fanzine typically covered far cooler and more obscure artists, but Jake could relate to my fascination with Eddie, and could understand why I wanted to share this interview with the world.

Ah yes, the interview. As the word doc of the transcript has been lost to the ages, and Jake never uploaded it to the Roctober online archives, the only way I can share it (short of re-typing the whole thing) is to upload the five pages that I scanned from the mag as a PDF file.

So why should you go through the minor trouble of downloading this? Well, not only will you get to read my critical reappraisal of Eddie as the musical embodiment of the Überschlub — a theory I still stand by a decade later — but you'll also read about him doing cocaine (with Andy Gibb, among others), the truth behind his rumored drug-induced "stroke," and blowing off a high-paying gig in order to watch his daughter's ballet recital, even though she's "really not that good." The phone interview was supposed to be 15 minutes long, but wound up running over an hour — partly because he kept breaking away from our call to argue with his wife, and partly because (as I quickly realized) he would answer any question I asked him...

But enough of my yakkin'. Download the following PDF, and spend a little quality time with "The Man With No Control."

Eddie Money Interview

 

Comments

[Ken Sharp]

Hi Dan

Glad you're showing some love for "The Money Man", I really dig him too.

LOVE his first three albums, especially his debut and his third album, "Playing for Keeps." His lead guitarist Jimmy Lyon is one of my favorite guitarists of all time. Such a masterful player.

Still looking for a live radio show from the "Playing For Keeps tour.

[Greg Barbera]

awesome.

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