He still sounded sick....

I hope he's ok for tomorrow night.

Hope he gets better soon...must be miserable

"ahhh...uggghhh..."

the most surreal conversation with Moz I've ever heard -- because it was so....banal

The wit was out the window and it was simply the voice of someone who had obviously been Very ill and was still recovering (89%??) and who was up early with someone coaching him on what was okay to reveal and what wasn't...

Don't want to be defeatist, but... he has a show tomorrow night on the other side of the US?? (or is he already there?)

halloween??? why do a make up show on a day when so many people may have other plans??? lame. i mean, i have kids n all... not sure if i'll be able to go to this. KROQ usually does a halloween show - so this leads me to believe that they will probably throw a couple other 'big names' on the ticket with moz.

other than that - wow - i heard the whole interview and have never heard morrissey sound like that. i don't think it was all because he was sick - part of it sounded like he just woke up. and man - was he despondant?!

Here we go with all the naysayers again! Just take the news and run with it baby!

the Pixies are not playing on Halloween and it would be cool if they were added to the bill!

well, he was really sick...that´s was really really true...get well soon Morrissey!!!

Why does it sound so sureal to hear Morrissey say that? lol
I mean obviously someone was telling him what to say with the massive pauses and all .. it just kind of seems like Morrissey and the internet are worlds apart, it was kind of like hearing him sing the world "download" in 'Wide to recieve' .. not being picky or anything, I just kind of found it sureally (is that a word?) amusing.

Poor Moz though, he sounds so sick still :(

On Halloween? Thanks alot Moz. Did you not figure us in who have children? First you miss your original date, dissapointing us. You were sick, we forgave you. Now those of us with kids can't see you because you made the makeup date on Halloween. I will never buy tickets again to see you, you've dissapointed me for the last time.

if he was pretending to be ill..
It's kind of sweet with all the sighingandsoundingfedupandnottotallyawake.

maybe he recorded the interview earlier this week because it could explain why he still has the croup about 2 weeks after the fact....

but at least it does confirm why the Tx dates were shuffled around as they were...

Morrissey sounds like I do when I call in "fake sick" to work.

I truly feel sorry for him, he sounds so sick (and not haha *winkwink* sick either). I hope he is well enough for the Phillie shows. He must feel so dumb promoting KRoq.com - that was weird. Aside from me genuinely feeling bad for him being ill, I think that for him to sound awkward without any wit was very stripped down, and almost kind of funny. Poor guy sounds like some manager at Sanctuary rang an alarm clock in his ear to wake him up 4 minutes prior to the interview!
You can tell he did want to console the fans he cares about, but at the same time was forced to do it on the air and promote kroq and humor the corps. Anyway, keep it up with those lozenges, Moz!

At times, very briefly, he sounds exactly like Moz, but as a Brit i can say 100% that it is a spoof.

who cares about your kids and candy. Do soemething right --- go to the damn show. Halloween will be here next year, but Morrissey you never ever know??!!??

stick this track on the end of the next 3-song in-studio session... It's only been 14 or so years since the last KROQ/MOZ compact disc.

It would rival that girl's NKOTB "shiny black shoes" rant for oddness

"He must feel so dumb promoting KRoq.com - that was weird". that´s true, so weid...Moz and the Internet??? no way!!

Right after K&B mention the Ampitheatre show, Morrissey pauses and you can hear somebody in the background whisper "I'm excited", which Morrissey dutifully repeats on air...

It's as if it's Morrissey...yet not... Like they found a Morrissey from an alternate universe who's a loans officer at Barclay's Bank and asked him to fill in for this phone call

Okay before I begin to shout out conspiracy theory I would like to be the first to say that is sooooo Not Morrissey.

Oingo Boingo reunion perhaps, maybe not but Moz on Halloween, I think its great, to bad its all the way out in that shite city. At least he is playing again in November. Seems that November spawned more than a monster this year!

...but I'm sure it was. Such a sad thing. Why did they push him to do an interview like that, with people behind him putting words in his mouth, with him sounding clearly as if he wanted to be a thousand miles away... Holy crap, Moz. You don't have to do things like that. Who the hell forced you to?

Why Morrissey doesn´t sounds like a real english? he sounds like an american...where´s his english accent???

This can be the only explanation for the cancelled show, for the impersonator on the phone, for him not exerting quality control for the font on the Let Me Kiss You single.

It all makes sense now!

How could he do this? Halloween, didn't he think about people with kids? Didn't he think about the people who grew up listening to him that now have kids????? I won't be able to go, but at least I'll be able to see him on my birthday! I'm so upset, he's the whole reason I went to inland invasion.

Got this from MorrisseyTour:
http://www.morrisseytour.com/news.html

KROQ and Morrissey fans were punk’d today.

At 8:00 PST (-8:00 GMT) Morrissey called into KROQ to explain why the KROQ Inland Invasion was cancelled.

I have it on good authority that the caller was not Morrissey. The caller has been identified as Charlie Brown, a long-time member of Morrissey’s crew.

See Morrissey-solo for more information:
Morrissey on KROQ - make-up show details (Oct. 31), Los Angeles (Nov. 11 and 12) also announced

so at the make up show, will we see this Charlie Brown guy in a wig and fake eye brows and singing 'suedehead'?

now i've heard everything.

people of D.C.: at the show tomorrow, take a good look at your tickets and make sure you haven't been substituted with "Morisseey" and when he rips off his shirt, take a good look for any strange changes in body hair or the appearance of tattoos.

All the people who insisted it was him must feel so stupid. You call yourselves fans? Ha!

Then why is it on the "official" website of Morrissey? Both the Inland Invasion and the Universal Amphitheater shows are listed under tour dates.

What are you all talking about..."punk'd"?

does anyone know if the tickets willl be sold to the general public?

i so need a ticket stub...unless they are going to sell tickets...

There is no way on this earth that voice belongs to mozzer.

I think he is an englishman but I am almost certain that it is not morrissey. When he talks of the pressures of touring he says "do ya know what i mean" and its never ever morrissey.

If this was from the morrissey camp this really is weird because it sounds nothing like him and Morrissey fans really will know this.

I hope you all get what you want and that this is not a cruel hoax (im in the UK so it doesnt touch me). That is NOT MORRISSEY but if the show is real then who gives a hoot. I am just totally confused as to why they would do something so obviously fake.

All of you people who actually believe that's Moz, do you actually know who he is? Have you ever heard him speak? Yes I know he's ill and so may sound slightly different but there's no way in this world that that is Morrissey.
It's all wrong, the things he says, the way he words them, the accent, the tone. It's just not him, I'd bet my life and my entire savings on it.

Let's end this here. Whoever it is on that recording it's not Morrissey, no two ways about it.

...was moz playing the prank? because check out http://morrisseymusic.com/tour.asp

the dates for the make up show is listed as well as universal. so there!

it was rob smith? kind of sounds like him trying to fake a northern accent.

Hey kids, this is Lightning, Morning Show producer at KROQ. Your conspiracy theories are amazing and entertaining. This morning you heard Morrissey. Not a crew member, not an American with a lame British accent. It was in fact the man himself. I spoke with Jed who woke Morrissey from a dead sleep, which is why he sounded so out of it. When Morrissey couldn't locate the concert info-sheet (that he was e-mailed last night) the lines had to be whispered in his ear. Nothing mysterious about it.

If you doubt that I'm real or telling the truth please feel free to call or e-mail me at the station.

But more importantly, if you're someone that still believes this whole thing is a hoax, Kevin & Bean would like to speak with you. Please email me at lightning@kroq.com.

Thanks!

though I haven't heard Charlie Brown's voice.
but it definitely wasn't Snoopy.

First of all, that is most definitely not Morrissey; having seen more than a few Smiths documentaries, I can safely say that that is not his voice (sick or otherwise). And in terms of KROQ/Kevin and Bean knowing that it wasn't him, I would more than likely say that they knew it was a hoax; the way they kept directly referring to him as "Morrissey" throughout the conversation (which is silly since there's no need to address someone when they're the only person you're speaking to) made it seems like it was all very wink-wink. Also, having lived in Los Angeles for years, I remember an incident many years ago when--the duo having just started at the station and desperate for ratings--had a friend call in and "confess" a murder. Well, the DJs got attention, appearing on the local news, etc. However, when that friend later got a job as a DJ at KROQ, and confessed to the hoax, Kevin and Bean were in big trouble. And even more recently, a producer from the Kevin and Bean show pretened to be comedian Jerry Lewis, and managed to get through on the phone to the president of France. So, it seems that everyone was in on this hoax, and when it comes to denials from the Kevin and Bean camp, don't believe them. On Morrissey's front, I bet he was thinking he could be like Kraftwerk and just send a showroom dummy to do his job, thinking that one Engish accent is as good as another. Maybe he can franchise himself and appear in all cities at once; a tour would only take a day...

wwww.dontcallhome.com

Just listened to it expecting to hear some cockney trying to put on a northern accent.

I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure that was him. He didn't sound as animated as he normally does but there's a richness to his voice which is pretty unmistakeable if you've heard his voice enough.

i listen to kevin and bean daily.

trust me - they would NOT spoof this. they conducted the interview just as they normally would. they interviewed morrissey in the same manner a couple months ago.

that murder thing was 12 years ago. and they were suspended for it and have never screwed around like that since.

it was moz for sure - and if he thinks it is important enough to dispell this rumor it will be posted on his official site.

I am really laughing my ass off....

people complaining because they can't go to a show because of some stupid holiday???

or because of your kids?

C'mon now, it's totally embarassing and really really laughable.

I just wished Mozza would do every show on a holiday or a sunday or any day that people with children can't go anymore. I mean, what willl be next... people bringing their kids to the concert?? This isn't the Kelly Family you know!!

get real...

i'm having a very hard time thinking why Mozza still bothers with you californians!!! get a life!

Something got stuck in his throat.

Shit! I was in class and missed this but I'm blown away that some people here believed that to be Morrissey, I realize I knew the punchline before having a listen but Come On that sounds Nothing like him....LOL!

Hi guys - I'm afraid I'm gonna have to post anonymously here, so you can believe me or not believe me - but the truth is that the caller was NOT Morrissey himself. It was one of his staff, as some of you rightly guessed. Lightning is trying to claim otherwise because KROQ has a vested interest in sustaining the 'integrity' of their announcement. But in truth the caller was not Morrissey. Believe me or don't believe me, that's all I can say.

It's on his official website morrisseymusic.com
It's listed there along with other new shows. It's an official show and everyone posting that it's a hoax isn't from California and is jelous that Morrisey loves us and is going to make it up to us. Sorry we don't live in some lame mid - state...HATERS!!!

It is obvious to anyone who is English, that the caller was not from the North of England. Simple as that. It was a quite decent impression though, but certain colloquialisms exposed it. ie 'ya know what i mean'.

Does anyone really believe that it was Morrissey on the phone??? Oh come on. It was a decent enough impression I suppose, but surely anyone who's heard him speaks knows that wasn't Moz. i listened to the MP3 before I read any of these posts, and I knew it wasn't him after a few seconds. How can anyone possibly think it was?

We Brits spotted it in an instant.

Do you guys think that after making this statement on Morrisseymusci.com

..." I can assure you that the rumours are false and the integrity of KROQ cannot be questioned. They handled a very difficult situation impeccably and you should treat anything you are told to the contrary as rubbish.
Best wishes,
Merck Mercuriadis

that they would let someone on morrissey's staff dupe KROQ?

The Sanctuary Group..."

Come on Morrissey!! please tell us the true!!

that joke is not funny anymore...well, just a little bit ;D