Questions for the 10C Sirius/XM radio show

weekapaug19 wrote:

as far as the Howard Stern reply and how they would rather play the garden, it should be brought up that Howard has millions of listeners every day, not just a couple of producers in the studio, which is much more people than would be in the Garden on any particular night. Howard is also a PJ fan.

As far as the Stern question is concerned, I obviously don't know what the band or their management or their fan club employees really, truly think of Stern's show, but to me the answer reads something like this:

Stern's type/form/subject matter of entertainment are inconsistent with how PJ choose to conduct themselves in the public eye. Specifically, I'm focusing on the fact that Stern's show is pretty racy and raunchy. Not all the time, but if you look at his broadcast history of having porn actresses do things like pleasure themselves on the air, the ribald discussions of drug habits, etc..., the question comes to mind "Why would they choose to go on that show?" "Why would they want to publicly associate themselves with that stuff?" That stuff just isn't everyone's cup of tea.

In my opinion the band has not really been about doing things for popularity because it's seen as an industry standard to do so. Many entertainers know that Stern gets great ratings, has a rabid fan base, and view his show as an opportunity to stay in the public eye. It's a good visibility platform for them and their products so they go on. I don't really think of PJ as entertainers per-se though. Sure they put on a great live show, but my suspicion is that they would rather be known as musicians and artists rather than entertainers.

The band's method of operation seems to be to work on projects (like their DVD's, live albums and packages, hotel packages, fan club singles, deluxe vinyl releases, etc...) which they themselves would think were cool if they were a fan, and then to just kind of... release them out into the world, mass approval-be-damned. They've stepped it up on their last two albums with promotional efforts, but they continue to do things without, and please don't take this personally, lowering their standards.

Personally, I think Mr. Bierman was very diplomatic in how he handled this question, if, in fact, my reasoning is correct. But I am willing to acknowledge that is a pretty big "if."

weekapaug19 wrote:

...but if you heard the billy joel interview last week,...

Yeah. you have me at a disadvantage here. I've read a few comments from Stern listeners about what a great interview that was, but I've not heard it myself.

weekapaug19 wrote:

But I don't ever see them going in that studio, I just think playing in front of a couple producers is kind of a lame excuse for that question.

We agree on both of your observations. But you have to admit the decline of interest was put very nicely.

Question 19 added.

CJMST3K wrote:

Hey, Heavy Hands, how about making the un-answered questions in bold...

Ask and ye shall receive.

I haven't heard the show yet. Hopefully someone recorded it so I can work on another transcription. Fair warning: I'm on the road for the next few days so posting the transcript might take me some time.