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this should be interesting :-)
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Has it really been two years since the last Ambush Interview? Geez... time flies. But Welcome Back! MediaGuy - Mad props on the interview with Jerry Garcia. That's excellent. . |
I've missed the Ambush interviews! Glad you've brought them back and I can't wait to see MediaGuy's responses! :thumbsup
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Hey MediaGuy, sent you an email, hope to hear back from you!
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As long as my name doesn't come up as the answer to number 9 no one gets hurt.
Greg is a great sport and I'm glad to see the Ambush Interviews back! |
6. Talk about Jerry Garcia and the producer of the original Twilight Zone series.
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Then we wrote to Grateful Dead management and said basically the same thing, "In our correspence with Banjo Newsletter, the editors... " etc... So of course, if they could get it on spec, especially, the editors wrote back saying they would be very interested... One day a couple months after I mailed the letter, I got a phone call while I was playing chess and sipping some homemade Sicilian wine with another friend, and basically the only thing the guy said after introducing himself as the Dead's publicist was "Jerry would LOVE to!!" I nearly fell on my ass, and not from the wine. So we planned a huge trek across America and Mexico to be able to end up in California on the specified date. It was awesome, we did east coast, the south, louisiana and Texas, then veered south to the Baja to find the epicentre of the longest solar eclipse in our generation, then humped it back up the west coast. Jerry was cool. He was drinking grape juice and root beer from bottles that looked like wine and beer, heh, and was clean, hadn't touched heroine and was back steady on the insulin. We were all pretty nervous and even forgot to turn on the mic on the tape recorder at one point, but it came out great. The interview isn't online I don't think but Rothman quotes extensively from it in his Jerry Garcia piece "The Banjo Years" http://www.thebestofwebsite.com/Band...anjo_Years.htm |
can't wait to read more of these!!!
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Hi Sleazy. Glad to see the Ambush Interviews return.
Some much needed light reading and entertainment :thumbsup |
Good to see the ambush interviews are back, and good choice with MediaGuy
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Woot woot - glad to see Ambush back. Good choice for 1st installment!
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So where are the ketchup pictures?
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Yay! Great answers so far....MediaGuy I think everyone's waiting for the answer to #26 so maybe you should start answering randomly lol :)
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do one on Holly Ruprecht ;-) Glad you are back!
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glad to see the interviews back Sleazy and great interview Q's with Greg!
OMFG greg... you interviewed Jerry Garcia... that just bumped you up to "serious potential drunk & passedout guy I'd possibly take perverted advantage of at shows" (if i wasn't already married) status. I was way too young to experience being a deadhead so you are soooo lucky... |
I'm looking forward to this!
MediaGuy is someone I often see around at the shows but I don't know that much about him I enjoyed doing my interview! Keep em coming Sleazy |
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This was my first "break" story and has nothing to do with Jerry Garcia hah... I was just in my twenties and snagging jobs working as a grip, gaffer or gofer on movie sets around Montreal. At one makeshift production office set up in a basement in old Montreal (I always seem to veer back to the Old City....) for what turned out to be a really bad movie (or so they said; I never saw it). But I saw this name listed as producer, Buck Houghton... and it jangled a bell... so I did some research (pre-Google, Wikipedia or IMDB, remember) and realized I'd seen his name at the beginning of nary every episode of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone series while I was growing up (and probably as early as the week before). So I contacted and snared an interview with the venerable old movie vet and managed to sell it to Starlog magazine. Still have a photocopy of that check, and copies of that issue somewhere... For those geeks in the know, it was in the special summer issue that featured the veggie-gremlin from Gremlins II on the cover... That's about it! Oh, and Starlog only took it after Twilight Zone magazine turned it down - wtf?!? :D |
Awesome I cant wait to read more of this ;) |
Great to see the Ambush Interview active again!
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It was fun, though, and it's more of an MC job than a DJ job. Again, I came in on the cusp - of the CD revolution, so at first it was a turntable dance, spinning disks, cueing and synching and announcing all at once. I had a great Frank Zappa/Herb Tarleck voice and dancers loved my individualized styles of announcing for each one... Then CDs came in and the job got pretty boring on some levels. But five nights a week is too much, and too long at it drives down your enthusiasm. You still sound the same, but the feeling's not there. People and dancers sense it. So ya gotta be the guy even when you don't feel like it, and you take a line of coke here, a beer there, and it just turns into your morning coffee... not a good habit to get into. But to answer your question, what's great about it is the constant action, the all-night boogie, sorta guiding the mood of the evening to a pitch, orchestrating it like a conductor when you can. I especially enjoyed the high tension nights with special shows, like bachelor events, hockey or post-concert nights (the only nights the boss would let us play Black Sabbath and heavier metal bands), as well as some features like Stephanie Evans' shows (she's the Alice Cooper snake chick). Not a carreer and not one you stick to once you have babies... :D |
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It's Mediaguy with HAIR!
http://www.2much.net/images/2much-mediaguy-1980.jpg (And can I rock a 'stache or what?) |
OMG and 2muchMark with a stylish 70's mustache!
Compare: http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/archi...pbp/z02879.jpg We've known each other ... 28 years now... eek... now I'm feeling OLD... |
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And now, for something completely different: http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...647/z15590.jpg Good night, GFY! :D |
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Very interesting,
always enjoyed reading the Ambush interviews, puts a little bit of tradition and character back into today's wild west environment |
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thats longer than the careers of most GFYers |
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