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WORK TITLE: All These Things That I’ve Done
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Born May 28, 1961, in East Brunswick, New Jersey; children: Jessica.
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Actor, producer, writer, video disk jockey (DJ). WHTG-FM 106.3, radio DJ; MTV2, host of 120 Minutes, 1995-99, 2011-13; KFOG San Francisco morning show host; Columbia Records, vice president of A & R and artist development, 2001; Sirius Satellite Radio, host, 2008; WRXP 101.9FM, DJ, 2008.
AWARDS:Gavin Award, National Commercial Alternative Music Director of the Year, 1992, 1993.
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A music enthusiast since a young age, Matt Pinfield has been a disk jockey (DJ), music director, video DJ, and music label executive. He has worked at alternative rock radio station WHTG-FM 106.3 in New Jersey and was a DJ at a New Jersey club, the Melody Bar. At MTV he first appeared as an interviewer on the Real World and then, twice, was host of the station’s alternative music show 120 Minutes. In music recording, Matt became vice president of artists and repertoire and then artist development for Columbia Records, signing acts. He went on to various jobs hosting radio, music, and video shows.
In 2016 Pinfield published his memoir, All These Things That I’ve Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life, with cowriter Mitchell Cohen. Pinfield chronicles his love of music from an early age when he sat in front of his record player. Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he witnessed the British invasion and beginnings of punk. Music helped him make sense of the world, which was reeling in political turmoil. As a teenager he attended concerts and approached the musicians afterwards to explain why he loved their music. Pinfield was a DJ for the Rutgers University radio station and worked in New Jersey night clubs during the punk and new wave eras. During this time he befriended bands and became known as a thoughtful interviewer. Later, he worked again for MTV as host of 120 Minutes when alternative rock and grunge were popular in the 1990s. In his memoir, Pinfield also discusses his addictions and rehabilitation, as well as his bad behavior.
On the Billboard Web site, Michele Amabile Angermiller observed: “Pinfield’s book is not filled with gossip, however. It is a true story of a boy’s love of music that turned into a career and gave him access to all of his heroes.” In an interview with Angermiller Pinfield said that the secret to a successful interview is to listen to what the musician is saying, then respond. “It’s better if it’s more of a conversation,” he said.
Critics noted how Pinfield meanders through the memoir, yet he has engaging stories of bands, songs, and narratives about musical eras. A writer at Publishers Weekly said Pinfield offers a fascinating history of rock music from a passionate perspective. The writer added: “His encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary sounds makes the memoir as informative as it is personal.” According to a Kirkus Reviews contributor: “Pinfield is a disarmingly likable guide through rock ’n’ roll’s twilight, though he occasionally epitomizes a music industry hustler.”
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Publishers Weekly, June 13, 2016, review of All These Things That I’ve Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life, p. 86.
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Billboard, http://www.billboard.com/ (September 18, 2016), Michele Amabile Angermiller, author interview.
Kirkus Reviews Online, https://www.kirkusreviews.com (July 4, 2016), review of All These Things That I’ve Done.
Salon, http://www.salon.com/ (October 19, 2016), Marc Spitz, author interview.
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2007 The Naked Brothers Band (TV Series)
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2007 DirecTV Presents SXSW Live (TV Mini-Series)
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2003 Pauly Shore Is Dead
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2001 Farmclub.com (TV Series)
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1998 Kiss: The Second Coming (Video)
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1997 Box Suite
1997 Oddville, MTV (TV Series)
- Episode dated 3 July 1997 (1997)
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2016 Landmarks Live in Concert (TV Series documentary) (co-producer)
2014 NY Live: In Concert (TV Series) (executive producer - 5 episodes)
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2017 Here's To Life: The Story of the Refreshments (Documentary) (post-production)
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2012 See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould (Documentary)
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2012 The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase (TV Series)
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2011 120 Minutes (TV Series)
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2011 Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements (Documentary)
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2010 MTV Video Music Awards 2010 (TV Special)
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2010 Fox News Reporting (TV Series documentary)
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2008 Top 40 Videos of 2008 (TV Movie)
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2008 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs (TV Movie)
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2008 The Naked Brothers Band (TV Series)
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2007 4th Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors (TV Movie)
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2006 CMT: The Greatest - 20 Greatest Southern Rock Songs (TV Special)
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2006 VH1 Rock Honors Pre-Show (TV Special)
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2004 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs... Ever (TV Movie documentary)
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2002 Howard Stern (TV Series)
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1998 Metallica TV (TV Special)
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1998 Metallica: Reload/Rehearse/Request (TV Movie documentary)
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1992 Alternative Nation (TV Series)
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Matt Pinfield’s insane rock life: Catching up with the “short, bald, chubby guy from Jersey” who ruled MTV’s golden age
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Matt Pinfield's insane rock life: Catching up with the "short, bald, chubby guy from Jersey" who ruled MTV's golden age
Matt Pinfield (Credit: Simon & Schuster)
A self-described Uncle Fester look-alike with a voice like a “bullfrog with bronchitis,” Matt Pinfield somehow became one of the defining personalities of classic-era MTV (that is, when it still played music videos). Pinfield was oddly telegenic simply because he was so unabashedly autodidactic and always thrilled to be in the seat across from an unusually well-behaved Lou Reed or Oasis.
In the mid-’90s, Pinfield was all over MTV. He started hosting the network’s alternative program “120 Minutes” in 1995 and then branched out to helm an eclectic mixtape of shows: “MattRock,” “Pinfield Suite,” “Pinfield Presents,” “Rocks Off,” “Say What?,” “MTV Live” and more than 100 specials. He was the Matt of the “Total Request Live” segment “Stump Matt.”
Pinfield recently published a frank, funny new memoir, “All These Things That I’ve Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life,” named for the song The Killers wrote about him and co-authored with Mitchell Cohen.
Here, Pinfield — who is now, among many other things, a DJ at KFOG-FM in San Francisco — discusses his brain on music and why a trip to the drugstore is never just a trip to the drugstore.
One of the many interesting things you write [about] in the book is that sense of being a surrogate for all the fans who are as impassioned as you are but you’re the one who is in the room with these rock stars. Your job is to ask the questions that the fans would ask if they were there. But at the same time you’re still that fan, too. You’re still that kid. What’s that like?
I still feel like I still get, that you know? When I hear something that just absolutely moves me, it reminds me of the exhilarating feeling that you have when you love an artist or you love a song or something really excites you.
It used to irritate me when I would see someone doing an interview with an artist [and the journalist] obviously didn’t do any homework and wasn’t passionate. I think about when I was growing up, there was so little access as compared to the way things are now. So I depended on magazines like Rolling Stone and Creem and Rock Scene.
So you said if you ever got a chance to get in the room, too, you would know your shit, basically?
Yeah, I always would. Bowie once said to me, “One of the things I love about you is how much you, you know, you know about and care about music and you remembered things about my career that I forgot.”
And I said, “Well, David, you are my gateway. You are my gateway.”
Can we talk about taste for a second? Because you write that at a very early age, you knew what you liked [in a record] and you would hide the records you didn’t like under your refrigerator.
It’s true, man!
Chronologically, as you write in the book, you [had] the privilege of growing up when you did and at a very young age being exposed to these amazing Beatles and Stones and Dylan and Velvet Underground records, but at the same time you had to know that they were worth your time without anyone telling you.
In many ways those things are immediate. You react emotionally to the sound or the melody. But I also have to give my older brother and sister credit for having the records that I could go steal out of their bedroom and play over and over again. But I do believe that your taste is part of your journey. We didn’t have a lot of money and I would have dreams about being able to go through the record store and get every record when I was a little kid. But I could recognize stuff that’s not good.
Taste will take you places. It took you far. Why do you think, as you write, that a lot of rock fans feel “different and isolated?”
Well, all I know is I’ve used music as therapy, you know? It was self-medication to get through the rough times. I’ve dealt with depression and music has always been the most healthy way to fight it.
You write about getting the host job on MTV’s “120 Minutes” and how you eventually got hired because of what you knew and now how you looked. And the artists clearly respected you. It was kind of a triumph for the rock fan. No disrespect to Dave Kendall.
I always joke about how amazing it was when a short, bald, chubby guy from Jersey [got that job]. I wasn’t a pretty boy. I think I was . . . It was beautiful. It was a major triumph.
Now, Matt, if you’re in a drugstore and hear a muffled bass line to a song or you hear a piece of music coming through a wall, say a drumbeat, do you go crazy if you can’t identify it immediately? Or can you always identify it?
Sometimes it takes a minute if it’s very low. [Laughs]
Matt Pinfield
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Matt Pinfield
Born May 28, 1961 (age 55)
East Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation VJ, TV personality/Host
Years active 1984–present
Matt Pinfield (born May 28, 1961) is a music personality and TV host best known as a video deejay on MTV and VH1. He lives in San Francisco, California, and previously resided in Harrison, New Jersey and East Brunswick Township.[1][2] From 2011 to 2013 he was the host of the MTV2 alternative music program 120 Minutes, which he also hosted from 1995 to 1999.[3]
Career[edit]
Early in his career, Matt worked as an on-air host and Music Director at WRSU-FM, the official radio station of Rutgers University. In 1984, Pinfield became a radio DJ on the Jersey shore alternative rock radio station WHTG-FM 106.3, and was the main DJ at a New Brunswick, New Jersey club called The Melody Bar. During Matt's tenure, the Melody Bar became a respected alternative music club in the New York City area. Matt developed a close personal relationship with a number of British alternative rock bands such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will Eat Itself, and The Wonder Stuff.
During his 10 years at WHTG, Matt was the recipient of the Gavin Award (1992 and 1993) for National Commercial Alternative Music Director of the Year.
In 1992, Matt appeared in an episode of the first season of MTV's The Real World when he interviewed members of the rock group "Reigndance" on-air at WHTG. The group's lead singer, Andre, was one of the seven cast members of The Real World.
In 1995, Pinfield began his television career hosting MTV’s 120 Minutes. Within a year, he hosted a variety of MTV shows including "MattRock," "Pinfield Suite," "Pinfield Presents," "Rocks Off," Say What?, MTV Live, and over 100 MTV specials. His music knowledge was showcased on TRL's Stump Matt. In 1999, Pinfield joined Universal Television to host and co-write a live television show about music, farmclub.com, which aired in 2000 on the USA Network.
In 2001, Matt became Vice President of A & R and Artist Development for Columbia Records, signing and overseeing the making of albums by acts including Coheed & Cambria and Crossfade. During the same time, he hosted WXRK's The Buzz and made cameo appearances on several albums, including a secret spoken word track on Limp Bizkit's Significant Other. In 2005, Matt was asked by The Rolling Stones to host their international radio interview for Premiere networks. The special featured all four band members together for the first time in an interview setting in over 35 years.
In 2006, Pinfield returned to Television to host VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown and HDNet's Soundoff with Matt Pinfield, an in-depth interview program in the vein of Larry King Live. Pinfield also co-starred as himself on several episodes of the Nickelodeon program The Naked Brothers Band.
On August 22, 2007, Pinfield hosted Projekt Revolution, a free concert hosted on Myspace.com. Pinfield hosted Sirius Satellite Radio's Matt Pinfield Plays Whatever He Wants and Soundoff with Matt Pinfield. However, as of November 12, 2008, the merger of XM and Sirius has left the future of these shows in doubt.
Beginning May 28, 2008 Pinfield took over as morning drive DJ on New York radio station WRXP 101.9FM.[4] Matt was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 for his accomplishments in the music industry.
In July 2009, Matt worked the counter at Jack White's Third Man Records pop-up store, which operated for two days on Chrystie St. in New York City. The store's primary function was to promote two WRXP gigs that White's band, the Dead Weather, was doing at Terminal 5.
Every February, Matt spins 80's/90's alternative classics at the now annual Melody Bar Reunion in New Brunswick, NJ.
In July 2011, WRXP changed formats and Matt left the station to host 120 Minutes, which had been revived by MTV2. Pinfield began hosting the revived weekly series on July 31, 2011.[3]
Pinfield played himself in an episode of Portlandia on January 4, 2013.
As of January, 2012 Matt was chosen to host "Flashback", the classic rock weekend show on 219 radio stations owned by Cumulus Media.
Beginning in 2015, Matt is a DJ on SiriusXM Radio's Lithium channel from 7 am to 1 pm (ET) weekdays.[5]
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Matt took over the morning DJ time-slot at Cumulus Media's San Francisco outpost, KFOG 104.5. [6]
In 2016 he published a memoir "All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life".
Matt Pinfield Discusses His 'Insane, Improbable Rock Life' in New Book
9/18/2016 by Michele Amabile Angermiller
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The former MTV VJ and current KFOG San Francisco morning show host tells his story in 'All These Things That I've Done.'
MTV VJ and current KFOG San Francisco morning show host Matt Pinfield has long been called a human encyclopedia of music. Name any album, he knows a deep track. Name-check a band, he probably hung out with them, or, more likely, he and a member of said group are lifelong friends.
His is a career that began before he was even in elementary school, with his passion for music kicked off by the sounds of the British Invasion and mining the vinyl libraries of his older siblings. His show-and-tell projects at school involved sharing records and turning his classmates on to new bands. As a college DJ at Rutgers University and later at WHTG FM 106.3 in Eatontown, NJ, he found larger audiences to share his passionate love of music. When his daughter, Jessica, was born, he called in to WHTG to request that the on-air DJ play David Bowie’s “Kooks” -- a song about the birth of Bowie’s son -- to mark the occasion.
Pinfield tells that story -- and many other tales -- in his new book: All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life. His decision to write a memoir, he said at a recent Q&A held at Word book store in Jersey City, NJ and moderated by Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield, came from the artists themselves.
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"Musicians were always telling me, 'Man, you should write a book, but don't talk about that time on the bus'," he cracked. "I feel like you can tell great stories without trashing people. The love of music is truly the message."
Pinfield has so many stories, they couldn't all make the finished version, "There is a whole other book of stories," he told Billboard later. "It's one of those things where you can't fit in everything, even at 272 pages! Hopefully if the book does well enough, someone will want me to write part two. But I am so humbled and grateful that people are responding to the theme of the love of music, and the role that music has in someone's life."
Seated on a small stage in the back of the book store, Pinfield talked about his early beginnings as a music fan, his ascent in the world of radio, his adventures as an MTV VJ and later as a record executive at Columbia Records and trusted voice on SiriusXM radio. Through it all, he never lost his excitement and passion about turning people on to new bands and records
That journey included trips to long gone stores like Two Guys and Korvettes to buy bundles of 45 records on vinyl. Pinfield was never satisfied just listening to the hit --- he always flipped the record over to the B-side and made it a point to read everything on the labels and to absorb all the credits.
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That acquired knowledge is why bands often come to him -- as guitarist Dean DeLeo did when he delivered the first Stone Temple Pilots album right to the front doorstep of WHTG, or a phone call from Bowie that came out of the blue.
Another neat feature of the book is Pinfield divides several decades into albums, listing his top 50 albums from the sixties to the present. "That was the hardest thing in the world," he said. "I am very proud of the lists, but I am certain I left things out."
Fortunately, plenty of tasty tidbits remain, like one about the bathroom at Van Halen’s 5150 studio in Los Angeles. "You go into the bathroom and there is a quarter inch jack to plug in your guitar right under the toilet bowl," he marveled. "So you can sit on the bowl and work on a riff and play your guitar on the toilet."
Sheffield said that Pinfield’s personae -- a “rock geek whisperer” -- often puts artists at ease, mainly because he keeps the focus on music. “Someone like Eddie Van Halen, who’s famously skittish about being interviewed, the only time you ever saw him relax on camera for an interview was when he was talking to Matt,” Sheffield said. “Because Matt was cool if he just wanted to keep the conversation laser-focused on music. That’s how Matt’s mind works.”
"After that interview, he wanted me to hang around the studio with him," Pinfield said."There are some great and totally cool stories there."
Pinfield said the secret to a good interview is to listen to what the artist is saying, then respond. “It’s better if it’s more of a conversation,” he said.
Asked if there was any musician he had not interviewed on his wish list, Pinfield answered Neil Young.
Pinfield’s book is not filled with gossip, however. It is a true story of a boy’s love of music that turned into a career and gave him access to all of his heroes -- from The Jam’s Paul Weller to Joey Ramone, Bowie and Paul McCartney -- brushes of greatness with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and strong connections with the likes of The Killers (note the book's title).
Or, as Pinfield puts it -- quoting the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" -- "Well, how did I get here?"
Matt Pinfield To Take Leave Of Absence At KFOG/San Francisco
January 4, 2017 at 10:46 AM (PT)
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MATT PINFIELD, morning show host at CUMULUS Triple A KFOG/SAN FRANCISCO, said on the air TUESDAY MORNING (1/3) that he will taking some time off to address his drinking problem.
PD BRYAN SCHOCK told ALL ACCESS he and the station are fully behind PINFIELD taking the time he needs to find help via rehab and anything else he needs to address the problem.
In the meantime, SCHOCK and MD ALICIA TYLER will continue with the KFOG Morning Show, along with producer ARTHUR BALLESTEROS.
PINFEILD is also the author of a new book,, "All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life."
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All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life
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Matt Pinfield and Mitchell Cohen. Scribner, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9389-4
With Cohen, video deejay Pinfield deftly narrates his musical life, offering a fascinating history of rock music told from his passionate perspective. The British Invasion was the sound track of his childhood, initiating a lifelong love of music. Pinfield became a college radio deejay, eventually working at MTV as host of the alternative rock institution 120 Minutes. As the story moves from one decade to the next, Pinfield follows each chapter with a best-of list detailing significant recordings from that part of his life. Throughout, Pinfield meanders between memories, mentioning the records that struck him, and jumps ahead to his professional life, where he encountered the artists who created his favorite music. Pinfield's intimate relationships with rock stars such as Joey Ramone and Killers lead singer Brandon Flowers contextualize his fondness for their music. His own recurring struggles with addiction flesh out the narrative, grounding his enthusiasm for music in an awareness of the somber side of the rock lifestyle. His encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary sounds makes the memoir as informative as it is personal. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in rock's history. (Sept.)
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KIRKUS REVIEW
A charming, rambling account of a life saved by rock ’n’ roll—and devoted to the music industry.
Pinfield, the host of MTV’s “alternative” show 120 Minutes, does plenty of decadent tale-telling and name-dropping while presenting himself as a lucky rock nerd who fell into his fantasy life. Obsessed with music from infancy, he claims, “the dream of access, of proximity, began when I was a kid sitting in front of my record player.” He compellingly portrays his late-1960s childhood as an era of ubiquitous, exuberant music beneath the surface strife. He began attending concerts obsessively as a teenager, while barely surviving a brain aneurysm solidified his connection to rock’s raunchy nonconformity: “As always, records got me through.” He began DJ-ing for the Rutgers University radio station and at New Jersey clubs just as punk and new wave were surging regionally. “It was a perfect time to be on college radio,” he writes. Pinfield shrewdly built his reputation, befriending bands as a thoughtful interviewer and developing a following on a small commercial station: “For years,” he writes, “well into the ’90s, we were the one stop every alternative act had to make.” This led to his jump to MTV, despite being “this bald barrel of a person with a voice like granite, spouting arcane rock trivia.” Similarly, this insider’s perspective took him to Columbia Records, where he signed hard-rock bands, looking for post-grunge hits, until the industry’s financial strife led to mass layoffs. Pinfield’s enthusiasm endured, and he ably discusses the cultural value of rock and the quirky, high-risk mechanisms of the industry. He breaks up the narrative with best-of lists and vignettes of encounters with big bands (KISS, U2, etc.), which can seem superfluous, and he’s frank about the dark side of rock culture, noting his own trips to rehab and some lapses into sleazy behavior.
Pinfield is a disarmingly likable guide through rock ’n’ roll’s twilight, though he occasionally epitomizes a music industry hustler.
Pub Date: Sept. 6th, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4767-9389-4
Page count: 272pp
Publisher: Scribner
Review Posted Online: July 4th, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15th, 2016