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A most entertaining and challenging set of queries. Thanks for being interested enough to post... and for listening. Some lighter stuff to warm up:
koach klaus wants to know if I'm excited about Nebraska joining the Big 10 so I can add to my collection of conference mini helmets that "so stylishly adorn the basement floor."
Indeed, I am, kk! Have moved the well mocked decorations to the fireplace, though. I added Ball State to the Big 10 this year so I could have six helmets facing (slanted) left to right and an even six from right to left. Two years ago, my beloved Cardinals would have been among the top tier in the BT. Next year, Nebraska will be. Next remote I'll bring my mini mini helmets out for all to admire. I have all six BCS conferences (fun in bowl season for match ups) and all 32 NFL teams. Fun being 11 years-old forever.
Keyser Soze asked if I ever slept with Jen Patterson.
Nope. Nor any other co-worker.... not even at my college station. As for Jen, when I took my son, Jack, to see AC/DC two years ago, we ran into Jen. She was decked out in Loop rock chick garb, including these black, freyed arm sleeves. She looked good. And she was real friendly. I like Jen Patterson. I think she gave Jack something for the spank bank that night.
rogers park bryan wants a Chet story.
Reggie Hammond: "Jack, tell me a story..."
Jack Cates: "Fuck you."
Reggie Hammond: "Oh, that's my favorite kind."
Love that exchange in "48 Hours." Here's a Coppock tell of the fuck you variety.
He and Dahl fucking hated each other. Wasn't that way at first (CC and I started at the AM Loop together in January of '88). Within a year and a half or so, they loathed the other's existence. Dahl fucked with us one night and turned the voice harmonizer on chipmunk mode. Chet starts the show in chipmunk voice. "All right, everybody... 7:05 the time." I was across from him on the board. Same room with no glass partition. Coppock turned 10 times pastier than he already was/is. We'd never used the harmonizer and I didn't know how to kill it. I quickly opened another mic, swung it in front of him and told him to talk. Same chipmunk. Threw it to a break and went running down the hall looking for Rick Kaempfer, Steve's producer, a talented radio guy (now media writer) and a great guy. I couldn't find him and I had nobody to punch the button on another :60 if I wasn't there to do it. You couldn't "bulk load" a commercial break in that era. Every commercial or soundbyte that you heard was the result of a button being punched. So I'm running back and forth with a :55 timer in my head.... shouting for Rick.... getting the next spot fired without a gap. The whole time...while I was freaked about the show I executively produced crashing into a mountain... I couldn't stop laughing. Steve really got him. Rick popped in at about 7:10 and the show went back on the air so Chet could call Steve and Garry "Tubby and his girlfriend who wears make up to do a radio show." Thanks for asking that, Bryan.
Vincent Antonelli asked several questions, one of which (about "anger and hate) will get its own thread. VA wanted to know if I'm still drumming and what's my fave Zep tune to play.
I never really started. Bought that nice Ludwig kit shortly before back surgery three years ago. Decided I like air drumming successfully as opposed to failing at actually playing. I tried a bit, but my mind isn't wired to do it. Requires a brain that can train both feet and both hands to do different things at the same time.... counting.... pauses with one or two but not the others. I'll stick to slappin' some bass every blue moon. As for Zep tunage.... I can punch out the high hat for the opening moments of "Rock N Roll," track 2 on Zep 4, a veritable greatest hits album. Jack, on the other hand (and Frank Coztansa asked about him) is still playing and he's become quite good. Three years of weekly lessons and a ton of hours of practice. He still plays guitar too, but drums are his strongest suit. I'm concerned about his discipline, though. He has a steady girl (a wonderful girl... the kind you hope your son is with in those tough teen years) and he's discovered there are other fun things to do in the basement.
Eaglo Jeff, you called it. My favorite Philadelphia Eagle (Iggle) is indeed Bill Bergey, good ol' No. 66, the linebacker out of Arkansas State. Also have been a fan of the nasty Jon Runyan's for a bit. Brian Dawkins is one of the NFL's best safeties in the last 25 years and is /was a Mighty Mouse type guy easy to like.
Crystal Lake Huffy wants me to be the guinea pig for Kangaroo meat. Says its out of his budget at $60 a pound.
What if you/we could get some tasty herbal waftage for $60 an elbow? Hell yeah, I'd marsupial flesh! Another boarder posted that he has and he loved it (sorry can't remember who.... he's got a naaaaame). There's a meat market near my house I noticed driving west on Glenwood-Dyer Road the other day headed to Glenwoodie en route to a memorable 111. Sign said goat meat and other specialty items. Gonna pop in there this week. I'll try the kangaroo if they have it. I'll try the weirdest shit behind the glass and file a report Huffy. Hoping they just have some good old fashioned venison. Van and Jack love game products and I do too.
Darkside says I was overtly nervous when signing with Tributo at our first anniversary party at Durtie Nellies... but he says he caught a change in body language later. He asks what it's like to sign on stage.
It's fucking awesome. I mean, when you have a song you actually can sing and you like the lyrics.... the vibe in the band... it's an incredible rush. I was nervous when my first role was "The 12 Days of Bearsmas." I mean... it's a fucking Christmas carol and that ain't exactly the opportunity to show 'em you can rock. "Buff Enough" was much more comfortable and I thought I hit it okay. "Dead Flowers" by the Stones I've done with a couple bands in Indiana gin mills. I love the song. I know every nook and cranny of it. I own it. It was fucking awesome singing and seeing the band -- real talented musicians smiling and a bit surprised it was on key and from the gut -- an amazing power trip fronting a band and it sounds good. Hope I can sign "Gone Shootin' " with my AC/DC tribute band buddies "Bonfire" soon. Have done that three times and I'm 2-for-3. Ya gotta act like ya belong and people buy in. If I really like a song and it's not too rangey or too high and I can hit it, I can fuck it sell it. Loved it. All of it. Being nervous. Prepping for it. Pointing to the audience. Bringing it. I think being a rock star would be pretty cool.
t-bone asked for my best golf moment of the year.
Button 48 time. Eagled No.11 at Woodbine. Short par 4, about 300 from the back tee box. Winds were out of the south a bit. Hole goes south to north. Drove the fucking green and snaked home about 20 feet of downhill putt. Later birdied No.17. Shot 37 or 38 on the back (par 35). Best round of the year 81. No triple bogeys all day. Kept it in play all but one hole and saved bogey on that one.
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That guy looked like he was auditioning for a band and didn't want to miss any beat, although he missed coming back in on the next verse. 