Ambush Interview #123 MediaGuy

glad to see the interviews back Sleazy and great interview Q's with Greg!

OMFG greg... you interviewed Jerry Garcia... that just bumped you up to "serious potential drunk & passedout guy I'd possibly take perverted advantage of at shows" (if i wasn't already married) status. I was way too young to experience being a deadhead so you are soooo lucky...

I'm looking forward to this!
MediaGuy is someone I often see around at the shows but I don't know that much about him



I enjoyed doing my interview! Keep em coming Sleazy

#6 part two: the Twilight Zone producer...

This was my first "break" story and has nothing to do with Jerry Garcia hah...

I was just in my twenties and snagging jobs working as a grip, gaffer or gofer on movie sets around Montreal. At one makeshift production office set up in a basement in old Montreal (I always seem to veer back to the Old City....) for what turned out to be a really bad movie (or so they said; I never saw it).

But I saw this name listed as producer, Buck Houghton... and it jangled a bell... so I did some research (pre-Google, Wikipedia or IMDB, remember) and realized I'd seen his name at the beginning of nary every episode of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone series while I was growing up (and probably as early as the week before).

So I contacted and snared an interview with the venerable old movie vet and managed to sell it to Starlog magazine. Still have a photocopy of that check, and copies of that issue somewhere...

For those geeks in the know, it was in the special summer issue that featured the veggie-gremlin from Gremlins II on the cover...

That's about it! Oh, and Starlog only took it after Twilight Zone magazine turned it down - wtf?!?

:D

Great to see the Ambush Interview active again!

Ultimately nothing really... everyone I knew crashed and burned out of it lol.

It was fun, though, and it's more of an MC job than a DJ job.

Again, I came in on the cusp - of the CD revolution, so at first it was a turntable dance, spinning disks, cueing and synching and announcing all at once. I had a great Frank Zappa/Herb Tarleck voice and dancers loved my individualized styles of announcing for each one...

Then CDs came in and the job got pretty boring on some levels.

But five nights a week is too much, and too long at it drives down your enthusiasm. You still sound the same, but the feeling's not there. People and dancers sense it. So ya gotta be the guy even when you don't feel like it, and you take a line of coke here, a beer there, and it just turns into your morning coffee... not a good habit to get into.

But to answer your question, what's great about it is the constant action, the all-night boogie, sorta guiding the mood of the evening to a pitch, orchestrating it like a conductor when you can.

I especially enjoyed the high tension nights with special shows, like bachelor events, hockey or post-concert nights (the only nights the boss would let us play Black Sabbath and heavier metal bands), as well as some features like Stephanie Evans' shows (she's the Alice Cooper snake chick).

Not a carreer and not one you stick to once you have babies...

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How much do you have to drink to get to that state?

It's Mediaguy with HAIR!



(And can I rock a 'stache or what?)

OMG and 2muchMark with a stylish 70's mustache!

Compare:



We've known each other ... 28 years now... eek... now I'm feeling OLD...

I dunno... ask Odie, she had this VAST tray of shooters and just somehow constantly ended up in front of me at the poutine party...

:D

I think the GTS crew was involved as well!

Well I meant the lead-up, not the incident itself... Odie is guiltless. I drank. She proffered and was her glowing, singular self...

And now, for something completely different:



Good night, GFY!

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