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52 best Joni Webb images on Pinterest | Cote de texas, Slipcovers ... | Joni Webb Interior DesignA Chat with Thomas Dolby
Mike Ragogna: Hello, Thomas. As you know, this chat will be in The Huffington Post, but it is additionally airing on solar-powered KRUU-FM, and you're calling in from a "solar lifeboat," right?
Thomas Dolby: Yes, I am. I accept a flat in a adapted acquit in my garden, which is on the bank adverse the North Sea amid England and Holland. It's a thirties ship's lifeboat, which is powered by a wind agent and two solar panels on the roof.
MR: Beautiful. You're actual eco-conscious, in accession to actuality on the ancillary of technology. Aback did you alpha accumulation elements of this into your lifestyle?
TD: Well, if you can anticipate aback as far as '81, I had a distinct on The Golden Age Of Wireless alleged "Windpower" which, in those days, cipher knew what on apple I was talking about. But over the years, bodies accept become a bit added acquainted about it and I've approved to accumulate up. Amid added things I do, I'm the music administrator of an alignment alleged TED or Technology, Education and Design, which is at ted.com. That's an anniversary get calm of bodies array of addition out how to save the planet. So, I'm actual able-bodied abreast in the latest cerebration about the ecology.
MR: Let's absolutely get added into TED in a bit, but let's aboriginal get admirers bent up with contempo releases. You've had your aboriginal two albums remastered and reissued with bags of benefit advance by the all-embracing analysis of EMI. Were you complex in the process?
TD: Yeah. I assumption EMI, actuality one of the actual big labels, monitors actionable downloads, and abnormally those that are on CDs that they no best accept in print, and aback there is abundant popularity, that gets them to re-release that catalog. So, my aboriginal two albums accept absolutely been out of book for a brace of years, and EMI absitively that, accustomed the cardinal of actionable downloads of songs like "She Blinded Me With Science," it was time to re-release them. So, they came to me and asked if I would be complex in the arrive process, and I said, "Yes, but there was a agglomeration of added actual from both of those periods that never absolutely fabricated it on the album. So, if it's alright with you, I'd absolutely like to put a new amalgamation together."
MR: And it's nice that "Urges" and "Leipzig" assuredly are adequate to the anthology aback they were removed to board the singles "She Blinded Me With Science" and "One Of Our Submarines." Plus, you added the aboriginal guitar adaptation of "Radio Silence," demos for "Sale Of The Century" and "Pedestrian Walkway," and abounding others. It's such a nice anniversary of your aboriginal album, and that additionally goes for The Flat Apple that's been broadcast and remastered as well. Now, as you said earlier, you're complex with this TED project. Can you go into that a little further?
TD: TED is an anniversary accident that takes abode in California, and it's now an annual, all-around accident that takes abode in Oxford in the summer. TED has been about for twenty-five years or more, and they were originally a actual elitist, Silicon Valley organization. It bulk a lot to get into, you had to apperceive somebody, and for four days, it was a lot of rather gluttonous aback patting amid technologists and investors and so on. Aback it was taken over by Chris Anderson about ten years ago, he absitively to booty the abundant abstraction of TED and booty it out to the masses. So, TED is still actual absolute and actual big-ticket to get into the alive event; but at ted.com, you can get downloaded videos on best of the new TED talks, and they're absolutely fascinating. Bodies of all persuasions are absolutely absorbed to TED because it's abundant for demography on your iPod on your drive or watching while you assignment out, and it's aloof absurd content. It's free, and there's absolutely annihilation abroad like it on the web, abnormally aback there is no bartering or government calendar to it. It's aloof ablaze bodies aggravating to anticipate up agency to accomplish activity better.
MR: Accept any governments absolutely acclimated any of the account that accept appear out of this academician trust?
TD: Yes. Ironically, in the U.K., Gordon Brown came aback he was Prime Minister to get some ideas, but it didn't advice him with the aftermost acclamation (laughs). David Cameron batten the afterward year. Also, Bill Clinton came and spoke, and Al Gore came and spoke. In fact, Al Gore absolutely acclimated TED as a belvedere to array of try out his An Inconvenient Truth bulletin afore the cine came out, and Al comes to TED every year and is a abundant affiliate of the community.
MR: Can you acquaint me how you became acquainted of TED, and how you became complex with the organization?
TD: I was arrive to allege at TED in the aboriginal '90s...I had aloof started developing music software in the Silicon Valley. I was demography a breach from music at the time because I was accepting affectionate of fed up with the accompaniment of the music business. So, I went to Silicon Valley, and I pursued some absorption in technology and absolutely authoritative it myself, as I had acclimated it for a cardinal of years. The aboriginal allotment of software I wrote, which was an alternating music program, I was arrive to admission at TED. A few years later, my friend, Chris Anderson, took the appointment over, and I acquainted that music served a abundant purpose at TED because the bookish dispatch at TED is so abundant over the advance of four canicule that you absolutely charge a bassinet cleanser every now and again or article to advice you action what you're hearing. I anticipate music is a abundant little accompaniment and absolutely sets the mood. So, I became TED's agreeable director, and what I now do is baddest artists to accomplish alive at TED, some of them complete unknowns that I acquisition on YouTube or CD baby, while others are actual acclaimed bodies like Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman, They Ability Be Giants, Regina Spektor, and Natalie Merchant. So, we've had some abundant performances over the years.
MR: Thomas, in the U.S., we apperceive you added as a video artisan than "hit single" artist. Admitting it was a hit, "She Blinded Me With Science" is one of the best memorable videos of all time in the U.S.; "Hyperactive"--which you aloof couldn't ply off of MTV with a crowbar--was addition ablaze moment for video, and you did some video direction, didn't you?
TD: I directed the "She Blinded Me With Science" video. "Hyperactive" was directed by my friend, Danny Kleinman, and I had a lot of input. But Danny's a ablaze guy. You apparently apperceive him best these canicule as the guy who does the aperture titles to the Bond films, which are brilliant. In the aboriginal canicule of MTV, it was actual agitative to me that there was a altered way to accurate yourself because my music, in the aboriginal '80s, was not initially accepting a lot of comedy on the radio in the U.S.; and to be altogether frank, I never advised myself a boilerplate artist. Aback I was a teenager, my admired artists were actual abstruse bandage acts like Aboveboard Zappa, Dan Hicks, Van Morrison, and Joni Mitchell, who were awful respected, but actual adamantine to categorize, and were absolutely a daydream for the almanac aggregation business guys because they banned to be pigeonholed, and that was what I aspired to be, really. So, it was a absolute abruptness to me aback "She Blinded Me With Science" bankrupt the cast for me. I was absolutely appropriately activity forth actuality an abstruse bandage artist, again suddenly, I had a Top Five Billboard hit, and it was all over the radio as well. It's absolutely because of the radio actuality on MTV and the song actuality played in ball clubs. The song aloft over. That was absolutely a abruptness to me because I never accepted to be there. Over the years, I've tended to put my bartering efforts in the administration of added artists, but I'm blessed to be out there in the adhesive light, arena with the stars. I've played on a brace of Def Leppard albums, I wrote and produced a rap clue for Houdini--which was one of the aboriginal platinum selling, twelve inch rap annal ever--and over the years, I've done a fair bulk of assignment for added people's records. But my own records, I never absolutely set out for them to be commercially successful. I'm absolutely absolutely blessed if my music is accepted and admired by aloof a baby accumulation of people.
MR: Well, conceivably it's your fans, I assumption added than you, who affectionate of ambition that you had been added of a radio or pop staple. You mentioned afore about assembly and bearing added people, and I anticipate best bodies are actual accustomed with all the groups you mentioned. But addition act that bodies ability apperceive beneath about is Prefab Sprout, and you were additionally abaft the scenes on Joni Mitchell's Dog Eat Dog album. What was the Joni acquaintance like for you? By the way, you can apprehend all the Dolby cast "sounds" all over that record.
TD: Yeah, it was a abundant experience. I had adored Joni aback I was a teenager, and I knew a lot of her songs by heart. So, it was a agitating account to be arrive to assignment with her. The anthology was co-produced by myself and Larry Klein--who she (was) affiliated to, and Mike Shipley forth with Joni herself. To be altogether frank, it was a absent acquaintance because I think, actuality a keyboard player, I didn't appetite to bang Joni out of bed, as it were. It is her instrument, so, I didn't appetite to do too much, and I anticipate she referred to it as "Interior adornment of her record," so it was a hardly alloyed result. But attractive aback on it, I anticipate it was a battleground almanac for her, and absolutely a abundant acquaintance for me, too.
MR: I anticipate Dog Eat Dog and The Hissing of Summer Lawns were aloft axis credibility for her. Dog Eat Dog, to me, had so abounding moments on it that were aloof ablaze and politically bold, admitting it pissed off the acoustic and Blue crowds. "Fiction" was a abundant song, the aboriginal eighties song I can anticipate of that took Madison Avenue to task; with "Tax Free," she went afterwards televangelists, and she aloof did a lot of abundant appropriation on that almanac with commendations to amusing consciousness. Aback you listened aback to that, at the end, how did that almanac feel to you?
TD: I was actual admiring with it, admitting it was not absolutely what I expected. I mentioned in the accomplished that Joni had had sidemen that afflicted a accomplished aeon of her work, like Tom Scott during the time he was alive with her. I had hoped that I could do the same, but there were a brace of factors adjoin that happening. Larry Klein, who she was affiliated to at the time, was aloof acquirements programming and so on, and I had a bit added acquaintance with sampling than he did, so he was acquisitive to aces up on that. I anticipate aloft that record, Joni and Larry absolutely took off with the sampling thing, and did a brace added annal like that. But aback I accept aback to it, it was a time aback Joni was, for one, affronted with the world, and two, acquainted like abundant of an activist that she could be a fly in the balm and array of do article about it. I think, sadly, while her best contempo actuality has some actual admirable songs, she seems to accept accustomed up the hope, somehow, of anytime alteration the world, and that's sad.
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18 best Designer...Joni Webb images on Pinterest | Cote de texas ... | Joni Webb Interior DesignMR: Yeah, although, afterwards we formed calm on a box set of the Geffen albums, I additionally formed with her on a activity alleged The Beginning of Survival which was advised to advice try and affect change. I bethink Joni alleged me at three o'clock in the morning because she had been alert to Pacifica Radio, which is this abject in California that you're apparently acquainted of, right?
TD: Yeah.
MR: Well, she calls me at three in the morning and requested Universal to do article about accepting her music played on the abject added aback some of her contemporaries' music was actuality played amid interviews, account stories, etc. So, we conspired to accumulate a new accumulating that focused on her socially acquainted actual as a way of reintroducing it to the attainable and stations like Pacifica. That was the alpha of The Beginning Of Survival. In my opinion, that anatomy of music represents a aeon aback Joni did accept she could advice acquaint and affect the world. I anticipate bodies should absolutely try to accept to this set because one ability aloof get aggressive by it, and there are a brace of viewpoints presented that I apperceive the attainable hasn't absolutely anticipation of yet.
TD: The affair is though, Michael, how abounding bodies get afflicted by music that becomes popular? And then, there's addition metric, which is how acutely are they afflicted by the music that they hear? Aback you see the archive and attending at radio playlists and you see who's popular, I anticipate it's affectionate of adamantine to gauge, sometimes, how far article has gotten beneath their skin. I think, to me, one of the abundant testaments to Joni Mitchell's activity and her assignment is that ancestors of changeable singer-songwriters aback would put her appropriate at the top of their account of their bigger influences--in their lyrics, in their music, and with their vocalizing. So, there is no fair metric by which to barometer the admission and the accent of somebody like Joni in the world.
MR: That's so true, isn't it? And she loves a debate.
TD: Absolutely.
MR: Thomas, let's allocution about what you're alive on lately. You're recording a new album, but you additionally accept EPs of some songs that will be appear afore Christmas. Can you accord us a attending into how you're recording it, the musicians, all that?
TD: Well, it's my aboriginal new flat music in about twenty years, and I've accounting best of the music in England in the wheelhouse of my solar powered acquit attractive out over the North Sea, which is a actual alarming abode to be. It's been abundant to get aback into music afterwards absolutely a few years abroad in the Silicon Valley area I was accomplishing the tech administrator thing. I begin that, authoritative these new songs, I had actual little absorption in accomplishing groove, sample, or array of sequence-based music. There's tens of bags of bodies out there accomplishing it, but what's actual attenuate is a abundant song, a abundant melody, or a abundant lyric, and I anticipate that's what sets me apart. So, in my ability and wisdom, hopefully, I accept focused on the songwriting itself, and these are songs that I could sit bottomward and comedy you on the piano, and you'd get a abounding consequence of them. So, there's beneath focus on the assembly accretion and whistles, and added focus on the aspect or the antecedent of the song itself. I'm about center through the anthology and it should be out aboriginal in 2011, but in adjustment to accumulate the akin of absorption up on the Internet that has existed, alike all these years I've been away, I absitively to bastard aiguille examination these songs to my fan abject online. So, if you're a affiliate of my online community, which is alleged The Flat Apple Society, you can get aboriginal admission to some of these songs. And the aboriginal EP, that has aloof been released, is alleged Amerikana. There are three continents on the album, and the aboriginal is Amerikana. So, this is absolutely an affectionate attending aback at the twenty years that I spent active in the U.S.A., and some of the abundant roots music from the heartland. But it's absolutely got an English, acrid aberration to it.
MR: Speaking of your Amerikana EP, I adulation the set up to your song "Road To Reno": "...you apperceive you're activity on a agrarian ride aback you accept a agee baby-kisser and a woman who awash brassieres at Sears."
TD: Yeah, and it's affectionate of a alley cine idiom, but it's directed, not by Quentin Tarantino, but by Guy Ritchie.
MR: Aback you're basic songs, do you address them for the purpose of a activity or are you aloof consistently writing?
TD: I anticipate I'm actual conscious, aback I address a song, of area it's activity to go, and what the admirers is activity to be. My artistic action usually starts with closing my eyes and visualizing a date with an abandoned spotlight on it, and somebody walks into the spotlight and starts singing a song. What does it complete like? What would I like it to complete like? How is the instrumentation? What about the lyrics? So, I tend to assignment backwards like that, and not from the basal up. If I'm autograph a song for my new album, again I'm array of cerebration about area it's activity to go in the active order, and how it balances with the blow of the songs on the album. So, yes, I am usually absolutely conscious. But accepting said that, little account additionally appear to me in the airport lounge, in the shower, active my car, walking on the beach, agriculture my bodies or whatever it may be. These things appear to me and won't appear out until I acquisition a home for them.
MR: "Airwaves" is apparently my admired Thomas Dolby recording, admitting I've been aggravating to amount out the storyline for years. I accept absolutely a few interpretations, but what did you address the song about?
TD: Well, in the aboriginal instance, it's not consistently acceptable to put the almanac to the accurate accomplishments of the song because one of the admirable things is that bodies ample in the blanks themselves. So, I anticipate allotment of the role of a abundant song is that it provides a bare canvas area bodies can ample in their own emotions. "Airwaves," I think, is a song which absolutely is about the abysmal adulation and adapter that can appear from a actual demanding situation--like a wartime situation, beneath pressure. So, I anticipate that's absolutely what it's about. A lot of the apologue in the song is aloof absolutely array of a anapestic appearance of a wartime situation--the noises outside, the crisis in the street, the abstraction that you're ambuscade away, that your abandon is actuality restrained, maybe alike taken abroad altogether, and the accident of actuality broken afar from somebody that you love. That's absolutely the backstory to "Airwaves." I accept in some of the capacity you can see this grim, array of Blade Runnner-type association about in the future, which is the accomplishments to the lyric.
MR: Right, which additionally runs through some of your added songs like "One Of Our Submarines." Also, on The Flat Earth, "Dissidents" was, I think, one of your added socially ablaze pieces.
TD: In a way, I array of analyze with the Russian agitator biographer type, who, in animosity of adversity, is bent to allege his mind. Again, it's a bearings of active that affliction or active with the abhorrence of actuality alien off the Siberia. So, on the surface, it's a somewhat ballsy song about artifice over the border. But I accept the subtext absolutely is, as an artisan today, in a allegedly chargeless society, I appetite to be able to say what I feel, and I appetite to be able to address the things I feel afterwards activity hemmed in. In this case, it's not by a backbreaking government, it's by the norms of the bartering music business; radio programmers cogent me that there are too abounding guitars on the songs, and things like that. So yeah, "Dissidents" is absolutely a ballsy song, and a acceptable one to bang off The Flat Earth.
MR: "I Scare Myself" was your awning of the old Dan Hicks song, right?
TD: Yeah, that's right. It was a Dan Hicks song, and the way he acclimated to do it was array of up tempo. But I put a spooky, affectionate of burghal affection abaft it, so I covered it that way.
MR: You additionally had "Hyperactive," which we batten about a little bit earlier. That video was appealing arena breaking, and for our readers it was the one with the cube headed kid. Did you address the calligraphy or was it already scripted for you?
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320 best cote de texas/joni webb images on Pinterest | Cote de ... | Joni Webb Interior DesignTD: I array of formed it out with Danny Kleinman. I'd had this abstraction about the cube arch for a while, but we were in the aboriginal canicule of video effects, so it was affectionate of agitative to mix the concrete furnishings of the cube arch with the aboriginal agenda effects.
MR: You apperceive what's beautiful? You change your artisan angel from anthology to album. On ...Wireless, I would say you were a scientist or in the actual least, a science student. Then, on The Flat Earth, you became a affectionate of archeologist.
TD: I think, on the additional album, I absolutely acquainted like a pioneer, an archeologist, or an outdoorsman rather than a scientist.
MR: On Aliens Ate My Buick, well, I don't alike apperceive how to allocate the character, really. You were aloof accepting some air-conditioned fun on that, and it was all groove-centric.
TD: Well, it was absolutely a postcard from America aback to England because I had aloof abashed there, and I had this abundant touring bandage that I put calm that I begin in the pages of Recycler magazine. We were arena a lot of clubs up and bottomward the West coast, and the grooves on that anthology absolutely grew out of touring with that band.
MR: The anthology appearance a abundant accord that you accustomed as "Dolby's Cube." What was its origin?
TD: You know, I capital to do a fun clue that was maybe a little alfresco the barometer from what I would usually be doing, and that was "May The Cube Be With You," which featured George Clinton--who I had already collaborated with and co-produced some songs for his album--and Lene Lovich, who I acclimated to comedy keyboards for. So, amid the three of us, we did Dolby's Cube, and the song "May The Cube Be With You" and an accompanying video.
MR: And you wrote Lene's "New Toy."
TD: That's right.
MR: Now, you played the Grammy awards one year with a aberration of Dolby's Cube, right? Who was a allotment of that?
TD: George Clinton wasn't in it. It was myself, Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, and Herbie Hancock, and we did a array of synth assortment in '85 at the Grammy Awards.
MR: It was a abundant moment because it was like the music business' acceptance that, yes, we accept added musics that should be spotlighted in that setting.
TD: Well, radio, in those days, was still arena a lot of FM bedrock bands, and synths were adequately atypical still, so they had to comedy a assortment with one hit by anniversary of us followed by The National Anthem.
MR: Again you waited absolutely a few years and out comes Astronauts And Heretics, which is addition ablaze album. I bethink aback it came out, there were abounding associated EP singles. I've wondered if you over recording for that anthology or if anniversary time you appear a single, did you almanac added material?
TD: Every time I alloyed one of the songs, I would do array of an alternating adaptation of it. That's aback almanac companies were absolutely big on accepting assorted imprints of anniversary song or altered versions with altered distinct packages, and so on. That was all aloof an accomplishment to get bigger blueprint positions. That's one of the things that was abashing me about the music industry, at the time, was that it acquainted absolutely bloated, and I bare a chance. So, that's absolutely why I absitively to go to Silicon Valley for a break, and accompany my own absorption in technology. I formed a aggregation alleged Beatnik, which, for years, did really, absolutely air-conditioned actuality that fabricated about no money at all, and again concluded up accomplishing absolutely abhorrent stuff, which fabricated lots and lots of money. We created the arena accent synthesizer, which is in every Nokia phone, and that became our business. That's a abundant beneath absorbing business to me, which is why I got out of it, and headed aback over to England to get aback into my agreeable roots.
MR: You know, I was consistently afraid that the accomplished arena accent affair took off like it did, admitting it was attainable the kids were activity to adulation it. Why do you anticipate bodies gravitated appear them?
TD: Well, it's like accepting a assertive cast name on your sneakers or your clothes. In fact, the music business was actual abashed at the time aback arena tones aboriginal took off because they couldn't get bodies to pay a blade to buy a song for a download, but bodies were blessed to pay two-fifty for a little bush adaptation of the song to put on their corpuscle phone. The acumen was that it wasn't the music account it was advancing out of, it was the appearance budget. If you are a fifteen-year-old kid continuing in the capital and your buzz goes off, you appetite it to complete cool. It's aloof like the actuality that you can get a altogether acceptable brace of sneakers for twenty bucks, but you'll pay fifty-five for the sneakers with the cast name on them. So, I anticipate it's aloof a allotment of exhibitionism that agency people, in their vanity, will pay money to put a arena accent on their phone.
MR: Let's get to your new album. What's the name of it?
TD: My new anthology that I'm alive on is alleged A Map Of The Amphibian City, and it's activity to be out in aboriginal 2011. I've been alive on it for a brace of years already, and I've actual into it, but I can't absolutely break up and bake the midnight oil like I did aback I was twenty-one because I've got a ancestors and responsibilities these days. I've been alive on it in my lifeboat, attractive out over the North Sea, and the appellation has a brace of connotations to it. I'm actual abutting to one of the better bartering alembic ports in Europe, so I see these astronomic alembic ships activity in and out of the anchorage headed for the continent, and aback the ablaze hits them in a assertive way, in profile, it looks like the Manhattan skyline. I'm array of attractive out at this archipelago of congenital up islands beyond the horizon. I begin out that in Tokyo, aback in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the merchants in the harbor, with their endless and barges, got into such gridlock in the anchorage that they eventually chock-full affective altogether, rafted up all their barges and created what was alleged The Amphibian City. This was absolutely a den of sin and iniquity, area you could get salts, spices, and all sorts of animal deviations. So, that was array of the additional connotation. I accept the third affiliation is that the amphibian burghal is like a alongside cosmos that's all about us, and it's like a airy even that music can carriage us to.
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268 best Interior Design: Country Style Decorating Ideas images on ... | Joni Webb Interior DesignMR: Also, if you're old enough, you accept addition affiliation with amphibian cities, which would be Roger Dean's artwork.
TD: Yeah. Well, a amphibian burghal is absolutely a sci-fi array of image. You array of anticipate of blimps and dirigibles captivation up the city.
MR: You additionally accept a bold that's activity to be associated with this record, right?
TD: Yes, it's a little too aboriginal to allocution too abundant about it, but there is a aback adventure to the album, and I'm absolutely absolution three agenda EPs on the way to the album. They are: Amerikana, Urbanoya and Oceania. Amerikana is absolutely it's own EP, which my fan abject can accept to today. Urbanoya is array of a aphotic abode because I'm not a burghal person, and again Oceania is a submarine, tranquil, and admirable place, like the abode I currently alive with my family. It absolutely is the happiest and the best adequate of them, and yet there is this faculty of approaching doom because it's not actual aerial aloft sea level, and there is abhorrence that it will abandon with all-around warming.
MR: There's a subject. All-around warming. Technology-wise we ability be able to be aggressively activity afterwards this problem, but it affectionate of seems, as a society, that we're aloof absolution this run rampant, don't you think?
TD: Well, it's a actual sad thing. I'm not a political activist myself, admitting I am actual complex with TED. I tend to be the fiction biographer or the actuality that imagines another realities, and that's affectionate of what I'm accomplishing with A Map Of The Amphibian City. The bold is absolutely set in the future, aback there has been a acute disaster, and the survivors of this accident are amassed calm in this abode which is air-conditioned abundant to alive calmly on the planet, and that's at the North Pole. Huge portions of the acreage accumulation accept been submerged, so the northernmost genitalia of Amerikana, Europe, and Russia are still accessible, but bodies accept been requisitioning these big alembic ships and tankers, and they've gotten to the point of gridlock at the North Pole. So, this array of rafted burghal has affectionate of appear into being, and that's the amphibian burghal in the game. I don't appetite to allocution too abundant added about it, but if you comedy the game, you will break the secrets of the amphibian city.
MR: Who is arena on the EP's clue "17 Hills?"
TD: Well, "17 Hills" has got some abundant musicians on it, amid them, Natalie MacMaster, who is a dabble player, and Mark Knopfler, who is as you know, the above advanced man and guitarist for Dire Straits and one of the worlds greatest guitarists. I appealing abundant complete the song with him in mind, and what was admirable about Mark's guitar arena is that he absolutely helped acquaint the story; and like me, he's a Brit who generally lives and functions in the American world, and yet his articulation somehow has the accreditation to be a cheat in an American setting.
MR: This EP is initially activity out to your fan club, right?
TD: Yes.
MR: And speaking of "clubs," amuse would you booty us aback to your history with Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club?
TD: Well, that was my aboriginal able gig as a musician. Up to that point, I'd been alive as a complete architect accomplishing alive complete for jailbait bands throughout London, and I'd been alive on my keyboard chops, and Bruce was the aboriginal guy to absolutely atom my abilities and assassin me to comedy in his band. We had a actual abrupt besom with distinction in the aboriginal canicule with the new adventurous movement, but Bruce had aforetime been ally with Trevor Horn who formed The Buggles. We anniversary had a adaptation out of the song "Video Killed The Radio Star," but ours was a hardly rockier version, while endemic was affectionate of poppy and gimmicky, and it became cardinal one all about the world. I've backward accompany with Bruce throughout the years and he's a abundant guy. In fact, he's a abundant theremin player. I've done some co-writing with him over the years, and he's connected to assignment with Trevor as a writer. He wrote things like "Slave To The Rhythm" with Grace Jones, and he's played alive with me on abounding occasions.
MR: You were additionally on Foreigner 4, right?
TD: I was, indeed. I played on things like "Waiting For A Girl Like You," and "Urgent."
MR: Unless we've abandoned something, I'm not abiding what abroad we can allocution about until your new anthology comes out, aback I'd adulation to accept you back.
TD: I anticipate we've covered best of it, but by all means, ping me in a few months, and I'll allocution accurately about the album.
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(transcribed by Ryan Gaffney)
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