Aaron Neville - interview - Later 4/25/92 - on Linda Ronstadt Bill Graham and jail 

Happy to read your praise. I recorded all this stuff for some reason!

I loved those Neville/Dead tapes! Lucky you saw it

How virtuous

How is "pretty tough" a slur?

@@ClevelandLiveMusic Do you really want to go down this rabbit hole? 5:41Bob Costas..."you and some of the other Neville brothers look like pretty rough characters"....5:55 Aaron Neville..."ah well, I don't know how to answer that, about us looking rough, we look like normal people..."

If Bob Costas had asked Jerry Garcia or Mick Jagger or John Lydon the same question would it be racist?

@@ClevelandLiveMusic that kind of question would not even be asked....it is called white privilege. I actually admire John Lydon. Firstly he has remained faithful to his wife of 40(?) years. He tried to tell the truth about that prick Jimmy Saville, the radio presenter steered the interview away from that topic. In my un-humble opinion Jagger hasn't made a really good album since Tattoo You...I saw the Stones in 2006 and I thought they were the best Stones cover band I had seen. I never was a Dead Head...not a bad band though. Now that I have responded to your specious hypothetical question. I shall return to the truth contained in the video.....Costas smeared the Neville family by default....who was the EP upstairs that day...I would wager you London to a brick.....that it was a man who was/is white. And despite such provocation Mr Neville kept his composure simultaneously exposing exactly as you described the exchange......"racist" thank you for such an incisive observation.

@@TheWesternunionman that kind of question is rather standard in interviews of musicians as their fashion along with their art define subcultures of our society including punk. Hippie, African-American, and everything else under the sun that comprises our combined society. Image, fashion and an artists development have usually been rolled into one. How a band "looks" is open topic to any act.

Sorry but that's what you will be getting here

Bet you love reaction videos

and the watermarks are to keep other RU-vidrs from swiping my work

Blowhard? Maybe you would not be so uptight if you knew what that felt like?

i love the genuine intros. its nice to see effort put in rather than slapping up content and calling it a day like some lazy people cough cough

Which man??

@kenjojan. I'm unsure whether your comment is meant as tongue-in-check humor or if u are actually asking why Neville speaks in what u believe is proper Am. English. (Also, someone has already asked whether u mean Neville or Costas, a terrific reply to your question.) Having lived in N.O. for most of my life as a resident of the inner city since '76, Aaron's accent in this interview is one of a great many native New Orleanean ways of speaking English, but he'd be easily understood by anyone who speaks English. There are a number of accents here which took me years to be able to tell what was being said, since there are not only a number of different accents by Black residents as well as a number of accents by European descent residents. I still have trouble understanding what's being said by some Italian-Am. residents. But Aaron Neville in this interview could be easily understood by anyone fluent in English. I don't know but I suspect he had developed this accent intentionally after he became well known, at least partly so that he could be better understood by audiences across the country. I had to alter my own Cherokee accent, which to most non-Cherokees sounded much like a heavy rural Southern accent, because "white" Southerners had trouble deciphering too many words. Also, I got really sick of having people make fun of my accent & often having them assume I was stupid. Due mainly to TV & the public educational system since not long after WW2, regional & ethnic accents began to disappear.