01 / recommendation
He has a new book out, which I enjoyed very much, The Rolling Stones: The Biography.
“He has a new book out, which I enjoyed very much, The Rolling Stones: The Biography.”
- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
evaluation 5recommendation 2commitment 2preference 2belief 1prediction 1
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13 published records
02 / commitment
I am going to come to understand, like I’ve learned about Led Zeppelin, why this person made those albums and what makes them great.
“I am going to come to understand, like I’ve learned about Led Zeppelin, why this person made those albums and what makes them great.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
03 / belief
I think he would have been offended to have been called a communist in those days.
“I think he would have been offended to have been called a communist in those days.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
04 / preference
One of my favorite books of yours is your New York Knicks book about the team in its glory years.
“One of my favorite books of yours is your New York Knicks book about the team in its glory years.”
- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
05 / commitment
I sought out all the great players who played opposite them—Oscar Robertson and Jerry West—who explained the game to me and explained how they interacted with the wonderful Knicks, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and Dave DeBusschere, a team like we’ve never seen in New York since those days. I learned all I could about basketball, and I became a lifelong Knicks fan.
“I sought out all the great players who played opposite them—Oscar Robertson and Jerry West—who explained the game to me and explained how they interacted with the wonderful Knicks, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and Dave DeBusschere, a team like we’ve never seen in New York since those days. I learned all I could about basketball, and I became a lifelong Knicks fan.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
06 / recommendation
You can’t explain these things, Tyler, but we have to know that when one or two of these people come along, it really does as well to sit back and appreciate them because you won’t see people like that very often.
“You can’t explain these things, Tyler, but we have to know that when one or two of these people come along, it really does as well to sit back and appreciate them because you won’t see people like that very often.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
07 / prediction
I think maybe if they had stayed together, they might have lost some of that spark.
“I think maybe if they had stayed together, they might have lost some of that spark.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
08 / evaluation
More than that, I think he learned how to step out of the Lennon-McCartney shadow and stand on his own two feet.
“More than that, I think he learned how to step out of the Lennon-McCartney shadow and stand on his own two feet.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
09 / evaluation
It’s a movie that makes you think, and it’s a movie that has a great political undertone. I think movies need to get that edge again today.
“It’s a movie that makes you think, and it’s a movie that has a great political undertone. I think movies need to get that edge again today.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
10 / evaluation
I would say “Thunder Road” is his masterpiece. I’ve seen him do it with a band and hotwire it, but I’ve also seen him sit down at the piano and play it where he rings every last ounce of romance out of that song.
“I would say “Thunder Road” is his masterpiece. I’ve seen him do it with a band and hotwire it, but I’ve also seen him sit down at the piano and play it where he rings every last ounce of romance out of that song.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
11 / preference
I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.
“I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
12 / evaluation
When it comes to music, because he is so demanding, but really a master of knowing how to work with people and how to get what he hears in his head onto a record and onto a stage.
“When it comes to music, because he is so demanding, but really a master of knowing how to work with people and how to get what he hears in his head onto a record and onto a stage.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
13 / evaluation
I think perhaps the Stones, when it came to engineering, when it came to production, worked even a little harder than the Beatles.
“I think perhaps the Stones, when it came to engineering, when it came to production, worked even a little harder than the Beatles.”
- Speaker
- Bob Spitz
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler