After interviewing Chuck yesterday and then last night and this morning capturing and compressing a whole show’s worth of video, I’m satisfied that he’s one of the few great original characters and knucklehead geniuses playing rock and roll today.

A quick trip to iTunes and the 150 great songs that are there to audition and dutifully buy relieves you of any excuse you have that resembles or begins, “Oh yeah, I’ve heard of him, but…” Because if you’re sick of all the crap that’s just a bunch of morons imitating each other imitating somebody great, listen to somebody great instead.

He’s really funny, too, both onstage and in conversation. Between questions, sometimes the pause would be so long that I wondered if he’d hung up on me or was doing something unmentionable with the receiver. But when he’d finally return, it was almost always something good, sometimes something funny. I laughed a lot, loudly.

The interview is online here: