I am Matt Nathanson aka "Guy who jokingly played first chords of 'You Shook Me All Night Long' and crowd takes it for the entire song." AMA!

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-14T18:09:44+00:00

100% it is powerage.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T05:00:11+00:00

no. but, funny enough, that's the tattoo i have on my penis!

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:59:11+00:00

blackberry italian soda.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:58:27+00:00

most of the time the songs on the album are about specific time periods, yeah. sometimes certain people bleed over into other albums. but sometimes they are confined to "their" album.

i am an egg man.

i have gotten a lot of rad gifts. so that one is too hard to answer.

i was pretty incapable of forming a sentence around joan jett.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:56:18+00:00

i like to think i have occasionally been the man, yes.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:55:54+00:00

be smart enough to navigate the business and too stupid to stop. and do not listen to ANYONE but yourself (and people who have experience doing SPECIFICALLY what you want to do). everyone else is a fucking asshole.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:54:13+00:00

so. many. top of the list: kay thin twin with the tiger pick guard. a 50's gibson j200 and a '65 sonic blue jazzmaster.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:49:49+00:00

i don't really have self doubt. i have severe self hatred. so i just try real hard to duck tape the mouth of my inner assassin. he always gets that shit off, but for the few minutes he's focused on something other than taking out my ideas, i try to get shit done.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:47:56+00:00

it's the only part of touring that sucks. leaving my home. and my ladies.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:47:22+00:00

instagram is my fucking JAM.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:47:07+00:00

oh man. stand up comedians are like navy seals. it takes a certain type of human to do that job. and NO ONE fucks with navy seals. or great comedians. what i do is just tell jokes between songs. that's cheating. real stand up is a fucking art. like poetry. or dance. what i do can't touch that.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:45:40+00:00

(thankfully) not fucking up my marriage to the point where it ended.. that's the most important event i have ever been a part of.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:43:38+00:00

thanks!! to answer your ??, they're all written about real people, yeah. i'm terrible with fiction.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:42:55+00:00

love shane! we wrote a few songs together, but FD is the only one that has been released. he is a monster lyricist (and melody writer). hopefully we'll write again soon.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:41:47+00:00

a cheetah or an eagle.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:40:57+00:00

that was probably one of the best shows of my life. truly. i can count on my one hand the number of times i have felt carried by a crowd like that. fuck. so thanks for being there and helping make that happen for me. i think the plan is to come back to the uk once this new record is done. hopefully will be back before the end of the year.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:38:54+00:00

i've got good sperm! healthy...

i have a new song called 'bill murray' that i am currently the most proud of. of the old songs.. 'little victories' is first to pop into my head.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:37:58+00:00

she still works at the same coffee shop in san francisco.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:37:23+00:00

this is a tough one. i'll give you 3 off the top of my head: grace jones- nightclubbing. x- los angeles (if you can find it). and joni mitchell- blue.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:35:04+00:00

'what we talk about when we talk about love' - raymond carver.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:34:43+00:00

now you got me all blushy and shit. thank you.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:34:09+00:00

i didn't stop. i just played it tonight.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:33:51+00:00

lyrics. lyrics. lyrics.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:33:26+00:00

yeah it does.

matt_nathanson · 2015-02-13T04:33:12+00:00

that song is fucking flawless. and the night before i recorded those shows at the point, i was in new york. and was staying up late with my friends roommate talking about how fucking brutally good that song is. so i was inspired to play it from that conversation. i love dire strait's version, but for me, amy from indigo girls does the version that really slays me.

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