The iJamming! interview: Fiery Furnaces' Matt Friedberger

FOR A Q magazine Special Edition on Icons, published in November 2004, I was commissioned to write profiles on Pete Townshend and Joe Strummer. To distinguish these pieces from the dozens of other similar features already out there, I was asked to interview musicians who were either similarly minded to or clearly influenced by my subjects. For the piece on Pete, I talked to Matt Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces and Wayne Kramer of The MC5. Friedberger had many interesting points to make but, perhaps because his group are still mere critics' darlings and not yet popular icons themselves, his quotes were not used. A shame.