Music’s Siskel & Ebert got a little camera time with Conezy earlier this week to edify the nation on the Grammys and what it’s like to be bitchy music writers. DeRogatis didn’t get to talk about his previous mainstream crossover hit, but he managed to get into his tenure at Rolling Stone a little — and in this interview with Journalism Now, he managed to get into his tenure at Rolling Stone a little more:
Jann Wenner told us: ‘Rolling Stone needs to change or die!’ This was 1994, and they’d sort of bulloxed that whole little alternative rock thing. Of course, nobody ever really changes anything at Stone except Jann himself, and the job turned out to be living hell for Keith [Moerer] and me. It was like we had the keys to a Ferrari but we could only drive it five miles an hour. Jann’s whims dictate everything. We were both looking to extricate ourselves when I sped up the process and got us both fired. I’ve told that story so many times I’m sick to death of it. It involves Hootie and the Blowfish and my big mouth.
The Hootie story, in a nutshell: Jim panned it, Jann pwned him. And shit, that’s the stuff of pure evil. Listen and learn, Ms. Cobain.
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was this the arsehole who claimed Bright Eyes was responsible for that school shooting?
…wait…it wasn’t Bright Eyes?
why anyone thinks DeRo is relevant baffles me.
Just ask Ryan Adams
“but when he asked if Jann was a Hootie fan, I said, ‘Jann Wenner is a fan of any band that sells eight million records.’ Ran in bold as a pull quote next to Wenner’s picture. I was fired the day it came out.”
>>> http://www.furious.com/Perfect/hootie.html
This guy hasn’t gotten laid since…..well,,, never
DeRogatis is a fat jerk…he’s legendary around my house for an article in Chicago’s Sun-Times about rock drummers (he’s a drummer) that everyone thinks are great but really aren’t wherein he detailed the inadequacies of Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and Mitch Mitchell’s…fuckwhit.
Oh, also, Hootie and the Blowfish suck.
Oh please, the guys’ been writing since 1980, has been published a bunch of times, what have you done?
Also, he was the one who said Hootie blows, and that got him fired. God Bless the man for havin’ the balls to say what he thinks.
Harry – Hootie and the Blowfish sucking is sort of obvious, don’t you think? Not really approaching the heights of Lester Bangs to suggest that one of music’s most historically lame “local college band has hit record” types is bad, even if saying it got him fired from RS.
My comment was just a goof on someone having the “audacity” to talk shit about Hootie and the Blowfish – and you immediately validated the ridiculousness of it by lauding DeRo for “havin’ the balls” to do it.
As for what I’ve done…um, written something you felt compelled to respond to so as to defend Jim DeRogatis.
Hold my Hand seriously rocks, minus the rocks part…
Ryan’s message to Jim is hilarious, he owns him…
DeRo’s partner Greg Kot shares his side of the Conan appearance:
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2008/02/talking-music-w.html
that guy looks like jared the subway guy with the fat back on