The Jesus and Mary Chain – William and Jim Reid – have never been short of opinions, and they have kicked up the proverbial hornets’ nest with some comments about shoegazing and Eddie Van Halen.
The Reids were interviewed by Stereogum before an appearance at the New York festival Total Bummer and conversation soon got round to shoegaze, a word that was originally a UK music press-derived pejorative for the second generation of shy guitar effects-heavy indie bands of the early 1990s, but has been retrospectively used as a general term for any group operating even vaguely in that ballpark, including the Mary Chain.
