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Date:    Fri, 6 May 1994 19:39:35 -0700
From:    Koenig Feurio <payn@SCF.USC.EDU>
Subject: Kristin Hersh on Loveline

Well, the guest on Loveline (KROQ's "love advice" show now hosted by
Rikki Rachtman of Headbanger's Ball fame and Battery Club non-fame)
last night was Kristin Hersh, and she was one of the best guests they've
had in quite some time. It was somewhat disappointing to hear how
little Rikki knew about her (he didn't even now the name of her former
band...), but she impressed me anyway. One girl called in with her
problems about her daughter's father abandoning her, and Kristin told
her story--which she didn't used to like to tell in interviews--about
her kid's father asking her to stay at her mother's house for one night,
then calling the police and claiming that his "rock star wife" (they
weren't married, but he claimed they were so he could claim 50% ownership
of her music) had abandoned her child.... Of course she tried as hard
as she could to avoid talking about "Your Ghost," but Rikki wouldn't
let her, and she had to tell the whole story--with interruptions of
course--about she came up with that song.

I'm wondering something. The song "Cuckoo" is listed on the album
as "traditional." During Loveline, Kristin told Rikki that her father
used to sing it her every day, and still maintains that it's a well-
known traditional song. I've never met anyone who's heard it before,
and apparently neither has she. Has anyone out there heard it before?

One more thing. In a previous interview with Kristin, she mentioned
something about "some boy who called out 'Tanya, I love you' every
time the Muses played in DC." Well, that was me, but I only did it
twice, not "every time." And Tanya never responded (until a recent
Belly show, when she answered "Boy, you don't even know me," but
she seemed to recognize that it was a joke/ritual/habit/whatever
and giggled a bit). I didn't even know Kristin noticed.

Anyway, I always thought Tanya was the more important creative force
behind the Muses, confirmed after _Red Heaven_ was horribly inferior
to all of their former albums, but after listening to _Hips_ and
_Strings_, I take back my opinion....