Interview with Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie | From the Music Desk

In this hilarious interview Brian Ritchie shows incredible recall of events and stories in Milwaukee from long ago. Ritchie describes winning a costume contest despite not dressing up, witnessing Bruce Springsteen's famous "bomb scare" show in Milwaukee because he had nowhere else to go when the show initially got canceled, and he describes the story that the song American Music tells through it's melody.