Cleveland Rocks For Curator Of The Hall (cont.)
Q: This year's inductees are a uniquely diverse group of artists. Anything in particular you're anticipating at the induction ceremony?
A: I don't know too much about who's going to be there yet. One thing I think is really nice about this year is that people like the Sex Pistols and Lynyrd Skynyrd and Black Sabbath, I think the all three are deserving and influential in their various areas of rock'n'roll. I think they've been overlooked in the past so I'm really glad that they're all getting in. I think definitely that it's a good move and it should provide some excitement at the event.
Q: You were at Elektra for just a year before taking this job. Any regrets about leaving label life?
A: I actually was torn about leaving when the job offer came up, because I'd only been there for a year and was slowly learning my way around. I was enjoying what I was doing.
Basically I just realized that it was unlikely that anyone ever again in my life was going to offer me the opportunity to open up a museum. It appealed to me because I thought my background -- I like museums and I like history. So at the time, I was very torn and ultimately made the decision to come here. In retrospect a lot of people I know who are in the music business were like "That was really smart of you to get out when you did." And I told them that it wasn't an intentional thing, it was just that another opportunity came up.
I'm very happy to be doing what I'm doing. I don't know what would've happened had I stayed in the music business but I'm very happy. It's an interesting mix of using my journalism background and my love of music in love of history and all that. What we're doing here is telling stories. It's slightly different from doing it on magazine but you're using three-dimensional artifacts and you can use video and music and other stuff, so basically what we're trying to do is tell the story about the artist and his music.
Q: So it's kind of like a living magazine.
A: That's it.
Page
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 | 7 |
ALL
