Interview questions from autographedcat......

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1. Due to a sudden windfall, you are able to buy one musical instrument. What do you get.

A Kurzweil K2661 synth workstation/keyboard. I've been a fan of Kurzweil instruments since their first model -- the K250, I believe -- in the mid 1980s. It had great action and a great piano sound. I worked with a few people who took one to the Tsukuba World's Fair in 1985.

2. You're given the ability to put together a rock supergroup, drawing from any living musicians you like. Who's in the band? Why?

Wow. This one's a toughie.

I've always loved Peter Gabriel's backup band -- Jerry Marotta on drums, Tony Levin on stick bass, and (occasionally) Larry Fast on keyboards. Add a few regulars from the Alan Parsons Project -- Ian Bairnson on guitar. Add Jay Beckenstein and Tom Schumann from Spyro Gyra. And Larry Gowan and Basia on vocals.

This would make for an incredible jam session.

Ask me this question some other time and I'll probably come up with a different set of musicians.

3. Now put together another band, only this time drawing from filk musicians.

quadrivium on keyboards, folkmew on vocals, Art Warneke on guitar, and weirdsister on bass.

4. Of all the radio stations you've ever listened to, which was your favourite?

I'd have to say the short-lived WRXT, in Buffalo, NY circa 1984. They played a wide variety of songs -- not just the top-40. I made a tape of some of the songs and artists they played -- "Modern-Day Delilah" by Van Stephenson, "Walk Through The Fire" by Peter Gabriel, "Wouldn't It Be Good" by Nik Kershaw, "What Is Love?" by Howard Jones. These songs barely cracked the top 40, if at all, but they live on in my mind and heart.

5. You've just come into possession of an FM station. What's the format?

Free-form. No song is too long. Obscure artists would get the lion's share of airplay. Bjork, Renaissance, Marillion, Kate Bush. There'd be a program for smooth jazz, '80s dance music, and I'd broadcast Dr. Demento at a reasonable hour.