Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd Interview - Chart Attack

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

Its good to see both Richard and Tom parry the cliche questions with a 
sense of humour. Particularly brought home during the recent Mark 
Radcliffe interview on the radio.  I thought Tom did extremely well 
especially when Radcliffe got more and more pushy -  as Tom wasn't 
answering the Television questions - and upted the ante. (why do you 
take so long to tune up etc..).  Also Jimmy Rip put him in his place 
when Radcliffe said he'd never heard of him.  At first Jimmy played it 
very diffident (although you heard him muttering Google). Radcliffe kept 
at it and Jiimy reels off the list...a very very long list.   Radcliffe 
speechless.

Graham

Keith Allison wrote:
> In message <44F69A3A.5080800@madasafish.com>, Graham Urquhart 
> <gurquhart@madasafish.com> writes
> > Interview (of sorts) with Richard
>
> "ChartAttack: Where would you say that Television fits in the musical 
> spectrum, and has it changed in the past 30 years?
> Richard Lloyd: Ultraviolet, infrared. There are 40 octaves of 
> radiation, of which light is only one. Way down below is the auditory 
> spectrum, and way below that is heat, and way below that is absolute 
> zero. So all we have are these three little windows. All we get are 
> seven at the top and seven in the middle and then heat. Very musical 
> answer, Richard."
>
> This is the perfect answer to such a question.
>
> "Why did Television break up from 1978 to 1992 and then from 1993 
> until recently?
> We follow the Thoreau cycle, the solar eclipse cycle. The Thoreau 
> cycle is an 18-year cycle and the sun spot cycle is 11 years, and we 
> have this sort of timetable that we work on that's a conglomeration of 
> that where we use a slide rule to decide when to play and to talk 
> about making a new record."
>
> This is even better.
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