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It's a conversation between Peter Buck and Kaedy Kiely, which was broadcast at some point during the year.
In the first audio clip, Kiely asks Buck about the recording of the Saturday Night Live episode which featured R.E.M., aired in April 1991.
In the second clip, Peter Buck chooses "Don't Pull Your Love", by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, as the worst song from the 1970s, "although 'Jungle Fever' by Chakachas comes pretty darn close".
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Peter Buck: This interview right here is officially the last interview i'm doing in 1991 (that's the year we're in).
- You've got to be kidding...
PB: This is it, it's the last one, it's kind of a nice send off, I'm just hanging around and this is it, and then I'm going out to dinner.
- Tell me about doing Saturday Night Live...
PB: That was pretty great, the people were really nice, they're really smart and funny. I kind of hung around with like the younger cast members, because they were more my age, they're young and enthusiastic, so I hung around with Tim, and Chris and Julie (I don't know anyone's last names) but they're all the newer cast members, and Catherine O'Hara. (It was a) nice experience, it wasn't scary and intimidating as it could have been.
- Now, you go in and rehearse for a few days. Were you there all week in New York?
PB: Yeah, you rehearse Thursday, and then you come in Saturday and rehearse like 12 times, you do the song like 15 times each song (…) at 8:00 o'clock you do the whole show for the first audience, you just do the show exactly as it's going to be just to get used to it.
- oh, wow!
PB: Yeah, then they kick the audience out and they get a new audience and you do it live at 11.30...
- it isn't that interesting!
PB: ...so by the second time you go through it's like, "I've done this before, I'm not worried".
- (laughs)
- You've got to be kidding...
PB: This is it, it's the last one, it's kind of a nice send off, I'm just hanging around and this is it, and then I'm going out to dinner.
- Tell me about doing Saturday Night Live...
PB: That was pretty great, the people were really nice, they're really smart and funny. I kind of hung around with like the younger cast members, because they were more my age, they're young and enthusiastic, so I hung around with Tim, and Chris and Julie (I don't know anyone's last names) but they're all the newer cast members, and Catherine O'Hara. (It was a) nice experience, it wasn't scary and intimidating as it could have been.
- Now, you go in and rehearse for a few days. Were you there all week in New York?
PB: Yeah, you rehearse Thursday, and then you come in Saturday and rehearse like 12 times, you do the song like 15 times each song (…) at 8:00 o'clock you do the whole show for the first audience, you just do the show exactly as it's going to be just to get used to it.
- oh, wow!
PB: Yeah, then they kick the audience out and they get a new audience and you do it live at 11.30...
- it isn't that interesting!
PB: ...so by the second time you go through it's like, "I've done this before, I'm not worried".
- (laughs)
- Listen to the first audio clip: http://www.971theriv...ayer/101889281/
- Listen to the second audio clip: http://www.971theriv...ayer/101889291/
