00:00Throughout all the years that I've been making music, if you get on a tour bus with a bunch of
00:05musicians
00:08Eventually the conversation will go to Sparks
00:11I remember just seeing them all the time, like who are those guys?
00:15They are a band you can look up on Wikipedia and know nothing
00:20We are Sparks, dude
00:23Please welcome Sparks
00:25Sparks
00:26Sparks
00:27Frequently asked questions about Sparks
00:30How many albums are there?
00:3125 albums
00:34Are you brothers?
00:35We are brothers
00:36How did you first meet?
00:37We are brothers
00:39Music at its best, you hear it and you go, oh my god, what is that?
00:43It's insane, but it's fantastic
00:45Each time you'd go to the rehearsal, there'd be something new there, like, that's good
00:50It wasn't like anything else
00:55All pop music is rearranged Sparks
00:57That's the truth
01:00There are throwaway riffs that other bands have built whole careers out of
01:05One of my favorite moments is John Lennon, Wingo Starr
01:09You won't believe what's on the television
01:13It was the sound of the future
01:17Sparks is way more prolific than all of the artists we consider to be the greatest in the world
01:22They used to have a template
01:23That a Beatle would pretend to be Ron
01:26That's amazing
01:28They were taking all their creative juices and putting it into something that they loved
01:33They were a bit much for most people
01:35The culture just wasn't there yet
01:37Is there anybody out there at all right now?
01:41They've reinvented themselves several times
01:43The thing that marked them was their unwillingness to give up
01:47That sounds like the scene from our biopic
01:53Our time has come
01:54Here we are
01:57They may have given birth to other bands who don't even know that the lineage goes back to them
02:06Still are waiting to get paid back for that
02:09Why have you resisted doing a documentary until now?
02:12We didn't want to do the standard documentary full of talking ants
02:15It would become too dry
