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Was Eno a kindred spirit?

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Was Eno a kindred spirit?

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No really, it was more like a juxtaposition of a nice gentleman and aristocrat of the avant garde, with industrial brutes, which was us. We probably scared him. I mean we used to make fun of everything. We were edgy and tasteless, and loud and he was this Zen like figure with his deck of cards and his oblique strategies. But I think he was fascinated. But the relationship seemed to work, and at one time we were playing for 12 or 13 hours or more in a farmhouse in Cologne in Germany. Were you aware of similar outsiders like Zappa, Iggy Pop, and The Tubes? We didn’t know the Tubes at the time, probably not until we were on song number twenty or so, but we got to realise they were deep into what we were doing, while both Zappa and Captain Beefheart were an inspiration to us. So we were encouraged, but we also liked Kraftwerk and Roxy Music, and thought that if they were there then it all seemed to be coming round to what we were doing. I saw Roxy Music in Cleveland around 1975 and they we

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