{"id":314,"date":"2017-06-22T03:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2017-06-22T03:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:14:52","slug":"philippe-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/philippe-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thats the Bag I’m In: A Chat with The Senders’ Philippe Marcade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ageless Philippe Marcade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I had the good fortune to sit down with the legendary, musician, frontman\u2014and now author, Philippe Marcade recently. Here is a small transcript of our chat.<\/p>\n

SSA: As someone who has been in the underground music scene in NYC for quite a long time, I wanted to know when you first heard about the garage scene in the 80s. Was it because of The Dive?
\n<\/strong>Philippe:<\/strong> From its beginning in New York, I always felt that Punk Rock was very rooted in Garage. The Dead Boys did a pretty good version of Little Girl<\/em> by Syndicate of Sound, Wayne County did the Barbarians\u2019 Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?<\/em>, The Cramps did The Crusher<\/em> by The Novas and Primitive<\/em> by The Groupies. But I think I first got aware of the 80s full tilt Garage Revival hanging out at Midnight Records on 23rd<\/sup> Street in 1984 and discovering bands like The Chesterfield Kings and The Fuzztones.<\/p>\n

From your book, I know you dug many of the same sounds that many of us were into. Except years earlier! Were you surprised that a group of younger bands were now heavily getting into this period of music?
\n<\/strong>No, it seemed logical after the Rockabilly and Rhythm & Blues revival (The Stray Cats, The Blasters, Buzz & The Flyers, etc…). The years were moving on, only 20 years after!<\/p>\n

Everyone has a Billy Miller story. What\u2019s yours?
\n<\/strong>I think it was in 1997. The Senders were recording some demos at Coyote Studios in Brooklyn. I had brought a video camera and was filming some of our session when Billy walks in, shakes my hand with a rubber hand (!) then says “Do you want to film something cool? Come with me!\u201d. He then leads me to the studio next door and there is Miriam banging on her drums while Cordell Jackson is playing some incredible diabolical instrumental. I got a minute of it on film. I even got Billy\u2019s rubber hand..! You can see it on YouTube! I will always miss Billy. He really was such a great guy.<\/p>\n