At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.