Back in the spring of 1999, when I interviewed Eddie Money for the long-gone BAM Magazine, I didn't even know what a "blog" was — and I certainly couldn't have guessed that one day it would result in the most popular thing I've ever published online. A snippet from that interview, posted here on La Vie en Robe in 2007 as "Eddie Money — Best Intervew EVER" has been picked up or passed along by several music and pop culture blogs over the years. And now, thanks to the Money Man's cringe-inducing new Geico ad, that post is once again getting a ridiculous amount of hits.
Which is truly awesome, and I'm quite relieved that it's finally supplanted "Is Gary Fencik Gay?" as the most popular post on "The Robe". But anyone who digs that snippet REALLY needs to read the whole mind-blowing interview, which was finally published in its entirety by Jake Austen at the great Roctober fanzine a few years later. While it's not available on the Roctober site, I scanned the whole thing and posted a PDF file of it about two years ago; and in the interest of public service/spreading the Money Man gospel, I'm posting it again here. Click the link below to read all about his "stroke," his days of drug-fueled debauchery (incl. doing blow with the late Andy Gibb and John Belushi), his brief tenure as a bell-bottoms salesman, fighting with his wife, why he doesn't think he'll get into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, why he's got the right to sing the blues, and so much more. Whatever you think of the man's music, I guarantee you will come away with a greater appreciation for the Überschlub himself, Mr. Eddie Money — as I wrote in the intro, the man "keeps it real" in ways that the Wu-Tang Clan never even imagined...
Download PDF: Eddie Money Interview (1999)
Life for the taking, indeed!
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