"And that's where the problems started, almost immediately. I think it was because Jonathan had been changing. I don't think it was so much that he was getting tired of the old songs as he was developing this idea that the whole rock-'n'-roll-star-making machinery was corrupt. And part of that was the whole system of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, using a lot of power for amps and sound systems, playing stadiums—you know, feeling that there was something wrong in profiting from all these things—and he started tying it all together in his mind and decided that he didn't want the Modern Lovers to be a conventional rock 'n' roll band.
"But it made it impossible for us!"
Ernie Brooks tells Legs McNeil in Vice about the rise and fall of the Modern Lovers.
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