BaylorGrad&Dad said:
Kirby, that was the 3rd time I've watched your masterpiece. Wonderful work and not self-serving.
What a time to have lived in DFW. A few questions, please:
1. Who was the most famous person you ever met?
2. Who was the most under-appreciated rock star you ever met?
3. If you could do it over, what changes would you make to your professional rock and roll life?
4. Was there anything in your NATE background that helped you at The ZEW?
5. How long did it take you to develop and compile 'When Dallas Rocked'?
6. Was there ever a rock-and-roll star that people loved, but behind the scenes was an absolute ass, or was that generally true of most of them?
7. If you could have become one of the rock stars, who would you have become?
Thank you, Sir, for being one of us.
Sic 'em.
Well, thanks. I'll try to answer your questions.
1. Ringo Starr (meeting a Beatle is still the top)
2. I would still say Jimmie Vaughan. The dude opened for Jimi Hendrix at 15, then sold him his wah-wah pedal!!! and Eric Clapton says Jimmie is his favorite guitar player. (BTW, Hendrix gave Jimmie his broken wah-wah pedal.)
3. I wish I would have appreciated it more. We all thought it would go on forever, or always be there.
4. I guess a love of life, and enjoying the moment.
5. I did it in three months. I felt a sense of urgency because people I wanted to interview were dying (still are)
6. Most of them were asses, but that kinda comes with the territory. If all you hear is, "Oh, you are so great!" then you believe it. Biggest ass was Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
A total dick.7. I would have become Jackson Browne because he writes such great songs that speak to your heart. Pull out his first album,
For Everyman. It still holds up well today, and HE (not the Eagles) wrote "Take It Easy", one of the all-time great songs.
Hope I didn't drone on too long.
Thanks for watching!!!
We are on the air AGAIN tomorrow,
March 19, at
10:00 pm on KERA, Dallas, Abilene, San Angelo, Tyler-Longview.
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
Malcolm Forbes