Have you thought about archiving the shows? You wouldn't want them for download, but maybe a file that would stream?
Like an on demand? That's a good question. We're thinking about what's the best way to do that. It would almost be an on demand thing, yeah.
To be honest, I wish there was a way we could make them a download, so people could take them on-the-go with their iPods and such. You can't really do that with royalties. I know that from being a songwriter myself. The artists - the songwriters - need to be paid for their art.
So, we can't do it like that, but we can certainly stream it for them.
One of the things I enjoy about the Retro Rewind site is the video interviews with so many retro hit-makers. What are some of your personal favorites?
I think Lionel Richie is a great interview. He's very down-to-earth and a good ol' southern boy like myself. He just appreciates people. He's just very genuine. How you see him in our interview is how he is. He's done our show a few times, so you can see how comfortable he is if you watch that interview. He's our artist of the month right now.
We've got five segments of that interview and I think two have been made available to the public now. We're rolling them out one a week. We're just sitting there on the couch yapping about music. It's very comfortable. I really don't like to call those interviews; I call them conversations, 'cause we're just sitting there talking.
And I think this is one of the reasons people like my/our style of interviews. I try to ask the questions that the average fan would if their mind wasn't blown that they were sitting there with that artist, you know what I mean? That's why I think it's appealing to a lot of people because they are thinking, "That's what I want to ask."
And it turns just into a conversation. I make up my question on the fly. I do have a mental note of where I want to go, but I kind of let the conversation dictate to where we're going to go. Lionel is one of those.
Dennis DeYoung from Styx is a longtime, dear friend of mine. Those are always good interviews because they are very honest. Some of them can be goofy, like with Weird Al, but what would you expect from him? I gotta be cornball.
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