I was recently called to go record the French  band Phoenix (you’ve probably heard their single “Lisztomania” on the radio) performing live and unplugged at the offices of Spin Magazine. Now, I happen to be fluent in French (and a French citizen, actually), but I usually don’t lay my bilingual trip on people, as I assume that it will annoy them, or at minimum make me look like as asshole.

While I was setting up the microphones for the guys, though, I realized that it would be incredibly awkward if they started talking shit about me and thought I didn’t understand them.  (Why they would talk shit bout me I have no idea… that’s just how my brain works.) At any rate, having informed the guys that I was a compatriot and fully conversant in their native tongue, we were actually able to get things set up much more quickly, and I think that the results speak for themselves.  Check it out for yourself …. http://spin.com/articles/phoenix-unplugged-spin-hq

Tags: air, coppola, paris, phoenix, spin magazine

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