HW: Radio Days, etc

[david hall]

You are inspiring me dig out interviews Trev Hughes and I did with Nik, Huw,
and Dave....nah you're right, quite a high cringe factor here....another 19
year old's voice - mine. There's worse, I did a video interview with Nic
Potter in the gents at Trev Hughes Hawkon....it's bad, really.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gadd <lupercal at GEOCITIES.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 08 March 2000 19:53
Subject: HW: Radio Days, etc


>At 05:50 AM 3/9/00 +1100, Tim Gadd wrote:
> Another of my big regrets. If those things ever turn up on a
>>bootleg I might shoot myself. Are these the demos from Gloriana/Entropy
>>Tango, you're talking about? God, I hated myself for that.
>
>Just in case you took that the wrong way, that wasn't meant to imply that I
>thought _you_ would bootleg them; just that I have no idea how many copies
>were distributed of it once it left my hands. In fact Moorcock had sent
them
>to me for possible inclusion in a radio special I was going to produce
about
>his music, so I suppose he had no qualms about people actually getting to
>hear that stuff; it's just that I never asked him at the time if I could
run
>off a copy for someone, and without that permission, I shouldn;t have done.
>The show ended up not happening, because just after the tapes arrived I
>ended up breaking off with the station I was with, and taking a 3 to 4 year
>break from radio (for the record, Zooks! resumed in 86, and continued from
>then up till last year.) Nik Turner also sent me some stuff for a program
>around that time, which also didn't get made, for the same reasons, and
>which I also felt shitty about. (in fact there were possibly other reasons
>why that one might have been hard to produce anyway. Imagine, if you will,
a
>90 minute tape made by Nik, on this premise:
>
>"I started off like it's my radio show and I'm interviewing you, with me as
>me and then as your alter ego Tim Zooks, and interviewing myself in the
form
>of my saxaphone."
>
>This was not the sort of thing you could conviently edit around pieces of
>music :) And I wasn't entirely sure what to do with my part of the thing,
>when according to Nik I was crawling around on the ceiling most of the
time.
>That's if it was me he was talking about. I couldn't really figure it out.
>Maybe one day I should just set it running and improvise along to it :/
>
>Brock sent me a tape - this was all around the same time, but I feel a bit
>less bad about not using that, since an interview recorded on a portable
>cassette player, in a car, whilst overtaking lorries on the way to a gig,
>was of a sound quality such that even I thought it was too rough to air.
>Plus he said something entirely unbroadcastable about Paul Rudolph on it :)
>
>The one thing which I did get done before all of this happened, was the Bob
>Calvert special. Personally I can't bear to listen to my godawful 18 or 19
>year-old voice prattling on, so I haven't listened to it in a decade or
>more, but I'm just glad I managed to get done what I suppose might have
been
>the only major-length audio  documentary about Calvert done in his
lifetime.
>I'm sure he must have been horribly disappointed with it when he heard it;
>probably had imagined I was some sort of professional rather than an
>audacious teenager with access to a couple of old Revox's.
>
>Sorry, don't know where that all spilled out from.
>--
>Tim Gadd
>Hobart, Tasmania
>