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Any doubts as to the continuing relevance of Sonic Youth upon their jump to major-label status were quickly laid to rest by Goo, their follow-up to the monumental Daydream Nation. The lone Big Star record to merit the full participation of founder Chris Bell, the brightly produced 1 Record splits the songwriting credits evenly between him and Alex Chilton in the tradition of Lennon-McCartney. Most kids were infatuated with the look of Kiss, not their music.

We were good friends with our fans. We made a lot of great fans that kept us going. It was a great time for us. If you can imagine, we were 22, 23, years-old, just touring the world, playing anywhere and everywhere, selling places out, rocking and rolling man! It was all good. Actually, I joined the band right after they recorded that song. When George was working, he helped us a lot with some arranging and helped me out with a couple lyric lines…They encouraged us of course.

What kind of influence were they? They were the Beatles after all! We were huge fans, so we had all their influences and the influence of the actual Beatle group themselves, the way they did things, the harmony parts, nice little guitar bits and the way they got to play less and less on their later records.

The guitar players played less, the bass parts got simpler and more melodic. The drums got simpler too. They were really remarkable. How could those guys do that? I just really enjoyed them from that side of it and we loved their personalities of course. What was it like guesting on those iconic George Harrison and John Lennon albums? Molland: They were magic sessions. Everybody was phenomenal. Seeing Ringo playing the drums, or whatever, it was just super.

They were really nice guys, not rock stars, just regular guys who got really successful in a rock band. They were just like normal guys. Anyway, it was a great experience. Eric Clapton was there, left working out his guitar parts. It was just like a normal band recording, but everybody in the room was a big star. Except for us, we were just a little band. These guys were all giants, but they all acted like normal musicians.

It was great. It really speaks to your musical abilities and their appreciation of Badfinger to include you on all of these projects. Molland: Yeah, it was nice of them to do that! A friend of mine was putting concerts on in a small theater in Englewood NJ. One of the shows he wanted to do was with Badfinger.

He contacted their booking Agency who put him in touch with their road manager, whose name I can't remember, I think it was Bill something, anyway the show never happened, but my friend Sal became good friends with him and the band. So when they played at Ungano's, Sal and a few of his friends including me went to see them. We went backstage to hang out with the band. They were really nice guys.

We had seats reserved right in the front. I remember that it was just about time for them to go on so we left the dressing room. The dressing room was directly behind the stage so we walked out and walked across the stage to get to our seats and everyone in the place gave us a "Who the fuck are those guys? I thought that was pretty funny. Well Sal went to England to go to college and he stayed in their castle while they were doing a US tour.

So while they were on tour they had a fight with their drummer who left the band half way through the tour. They had an American drummer finish the tour with them.