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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:39
wow! Nice work...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 22:59

A huge Thank You to Mr. Rick Wakeman! No pompous BS. Just fascinating answers. I wish you continued success.

Thank You to maani also.

Gee, that was nice to read.

      

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:38
Good interviewer, good interviewee - good stuff!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2005 at 18:38

Hi Maani,

Great interview

I must just add something.  I wrote to Rick about a year ago.  I was utterly despairing and in a pretty bad place, to my surprise not only did Rick write back but he went through my email point by point and answered every question and worry I had.  It clarified a lot of things for me.  Rick is a genuinely nice person and that comes across in everything he says and does.

Three cheers for Rick!!! 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2005 at 20:30
great man..great
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2005 at 20:32
next inter..:brian eno
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2005 at 23:02
How the hell do you get to interview such awesome people?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 14:10
What a great interview

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 15:03
Excellent - thanks for that.

I met Rick quite by accident in 1982 when he walked into my favourite Indian restaurant in Birmingham. I managed to have a short chat with him and he answered all my questions sincerely and thoughtfully. I was worried that he might brush me off as a nuisance (well he did come in for a curry, not an interview!) but he was the acme of politeness, and spurred me on to continue on my own musical path (which at the time had taken a severe knock.)

A true gentleman of Prog. Long may he continue!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2006 at 04:25
Excellent interview - keep up the good work.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2006 at 13:43
Greaaat Interview! 
Very good questions and Wakeman was a gentleman
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 23:49
Wow man, that's absolutely awesome. Great interview. I'm probably going to go see him live in June, really looking forward to it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2006 at 18:57
Great interview
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2006 at 11:30
Elwood, you are a LUCKY MAN!
Now you could go on interviewing Keith (Emerson)... Thumbs Up
But I didnīt know Wakeman is such a Gentle Giant.
Such an Honor! 

PS: I liked Wakeman when he took on his Cape...
A pitty he didnīt do it last time Cry
He looks so serious in his black one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2008 at 03:02
Sorry, very late (try four years), but I just joined, and wnated to comment on this.
 
Firstly, I thought Wakeman was someone who I wouldn't want to meet, because his manner in interviews I have seen him in seemed to be very standoff-ish, but I was wrong. In this interview (which is the first one I have seen both sides-- the questions and the answers-- in) he seems like agenuinely friendly guy, not to mention very sharp and precise in his answers, something I was not expecting at all. Plus the fact that he is a fan of my favorite band (Tool), I really feel like we would have something to talk about if I would ever meet the man, even though my instrument isn't keyboard, we could talk about music general and I believe after reading this interview that it would be the most down-to-earth, laid-back conversation I could ever have with a music legend such as himself.
 
I dunno, just felt like expessing that, because I was truly surprised at how nice he seemed to be. I guess not all of our musical heroes are assholes, huh? Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2008 at 18:07
actually, no, bob moog died back in august 22, 2005. (one day after my birthday, actually).

he was doing great things with technology in late. he had the moog-fooger and a few other stomp boxes, new incarnations of analog synths sporting midi, as well as the owner of the theramin patent.

read about it here if you wish:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4173510.stm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2008 at 18:08
mr moog lived sort of in my neck of the woods, in the mountains of western north carolina.
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