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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2011 21:35:10 GMT
My interview with party leader approaches: Now scheduled for 3:30 PM PDT this Friday....let's see...what can go wrong?
1. The call doesn't come 2. The iphone, borrowed from a friend and armed with an application to record calls, somehow fails 3. My questions are stupid 4. I have too many questions 5. I have too few questions 6. i say something so stupid I get banned from future Tull/Ian concerts 7. i say something so stupid I get killed by assassins on the Tull payroll. 8. The interview is so lame, my friends and family break off contact with me and i live out my days as a lonely old man in a small hotel room re-living my moments of shame eternally ruminating on how it all went wrong and how it should have been. 9. ian reads this and declines to be interviewed but a clearly disturbed individual.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 22, 2011 23:14:47 GMT
Nervous? I don't believe it next you'll be saying you will be too shy to talk to him
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 23, 2011 0:53:42 GMT
10. Get too shy to talk to him
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Post by oksauce on Jun 23, 2011 9:59:12 GMT
I met rick wakeman a few weeks ago, and I was nearly too nervous to talk to him. I'm sure it'll be fine!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 23, 2011 10:02:52 GMT
I met rick wakeman a few weeks ago, and I was nearly too nervous to talk to him. I'm sure it'll be fine! I would imagine Rick would be quite a good bloke and a bit self deprecating
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Post by oksauce on Jun 23, 2011 17:32:52 GMT
Yeah, he was very friendly and all, so it turned out to be fine. Ian tends to be good in interviews too, he can generally go on at length about any topic
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Post by futureshock on Jun 24, 2011 4:14:37 GMT
Meeting these characters at exciting performance events is of course exciting. Hence the nerves. Meet a famous person or two on the street or in a casual restaurant at lunch and the nervousness goes away and they'll seem like real people again. Maybe. Leave them alone and you won't get nervous. That kind of defeats the idea of an interview though.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 25, 2011 4:27:08 GMT
It's a magic effin' world, pas vrai? from 3:37 to 4:10 this afternoon I spoke with Ian Anderson on the phone.....He remains, and will always be, one of, if not my greatest, inspirations in life. A busy, busy day at work and the usual joint custody drama and everything else....after the interview part we spoke a bit more off the record and he not only said that he was able to place me amongst long time fans due to the bike messenger job and the 'Steel Monkey Bicycle messenger Service' in san francisco that he had a ongoing awareness of, but that he was glad to hear I never got hurt over the years and emerged in a safe, second career. I think I'll go to bed and cry myself to sleep...with joy.
The interview, in very raw form, is on an MP3 in my computer for editing and integrating into the radio show. I think there will be 15-20 usable Ian minutes, I'll play 4 or 5 songs ( Strange Avenues first, Wind-Up live last and, in no particular order....hmmm; Aqualung, My God and maybe Mother Goose....and come up with some pre-scripted interview with the radio show's host to make up the remaining time.
Turds in the punchbowl? He throttled me on one question...I asked about audience contrasts between USA and international and he pulverized me as a typical dumb American who sees the world as us and them and hasn't the brain power to distinguish between other countries and cultures...'scuse me Ian, I speak 5 languages fluently and have lived in hamburg, berlin, paris and Santa Rosalia, Mexico. I've hitch-hiked from SF to South America and from Helsinki to Lisbon. but anyway...oh yeah, he criticised both macartney and harrison ( as well as Andrew llloyd weber). He did so in a thoughtful, even-handed manner but the host of the radio show is a beatles fan...even plays in a beatles/psychedelic cover band called 'Rubber Souldiers' (see then on You Tube)....I hope it's not too unpalatable for David (Gans, host of the show that is allowing the Aqualung show) to air on his show.
Special kudos to Futureshock...I asked ' Hey, after 30 years of balloons, WTF...this tour is a birthday party and NO BALLOONS ??
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 25, 2011 5:42:29 GMT
That is just plain awesome and what an opportunity. Over the moon for you
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 25, 2011 5:58:27 GMT
Well done steelmonkey Sounds like it all went ok. I can't wait to hear it, that's providing you don't accidently wipe it off your computer PS. Did you sleep last night?
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