A week previously, Brad Pitt had been spotted at Bruner’s LA gig – “it was pretty wild,” he concurs. A theatre looms opposite, its neon sign unlit, the words “postponed” glaring out front. Just like any other pre-show interview, we are sitting in a hotel restaurant. “It feels like the opening scene in The Big Lebowski, tumbleweed blowing down the street,” says the 35-year-old, real name Stephen Bruner. We meet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in mid-March, when things have already started seeming strange. She said to me: ‘Man, I loved him too, but I wouldn’t get him inked on me.’ And everybody laughed.”
“They were close friends and played together. So I think he may have moved a little too quick.” Or when Joni Mitchell mocked him when she saw his leg tattoo of his bass hero, Jaco Pastorius. ’ And then he promptly did the James Brown in sandals, but I think he had just had hip surgery. And he goes: ‘That’s not how you do the James Brown. “I was drunk, dancing, and he walks up and he’s got them platform sandals, and he’s got his shirt all shiny and stuff. Such as the time he met Prince at one of the late star’s infamous house parties. But, having worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Childish Gambino, Pharrell Williams and Erykah Badu, he has enough entertaining stories to last a lockdown.
Not only has the bass-playing, kitten ear-wearing, genre-blurring musician just released a new album – let’s call it a self-isolation soundtrack. I f anyone was destined to make our current situation more bearable, it’s Thundercat.
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