Culture :: Interviews
STEVE POWER
September 05, 1998 |
| Steve Power |
STEVE: All right.
BAZOOKA JOE: I think that (show) went off without a hitch.
STEVE: Yeah, except for those last notes at the end of that song. You started flickin' on and off the light and I got distracted and I ended up blowing it at the end.
BAZOOKA JOE: You started giggling and laughing anyway.
STEVE: That's because I hit those bad notes. A series of them.
BAZOOKA JOE: Well, you know, that's live radio. Glad to have you here Steve.
STEVE: Yeah, glad to be here!
BAZOOKA JOE: Were you playing with the headphones on?
STEVE:Yeah.
BAZOOKA JOE: It sounded great. And there were a lot of songs that I really liked, actually. So, I'm very pleased and I think there's even one that you played before.
STEVE: One I played before. I think it was the third song I played the last time I was here but still the rest were new from the last time I was here. Which was, I don't know, eight months ago.
BAZOOKA JOE: That song before the Irish folk song was something new?
STEVE: Yeah, I wrote that last week.
BAZOOKA JOE: Did you really write that about going to the store?
STEVE: Yeah, that and crossdressing.
BAZOOKA JOE: Are you into crossdressing Steve?
STEVE: No, not at all.
BAZOOKA JOE: Because I bet you would look good in fishnets.
STEVE: Yeah, you know, I've dressed as a woman before and I don't look bad but no, I'm not into that.
BAZOOKA JOE: You would be a fine looking woman.
STEVE: I'm not into that. It wasn't really about crossdressing anyway.
BAZOOKA JOE: You got me all confused. Did I ever tell you that I met Rupaul? She did an in-store appearance at Strawberries.
STEVE: Yeah, yeah, a couple of years ago downtown. Yeah, I know about that.
BAZOOKA JOE: She got out of her stretch and Rupaul's tall. A big person but fantastic legs. Did I say that? One thing I want to point out to the listening audience is that Steve is a dedicated musician. Steve, how many hours a week do you work? On a job?
STEVE: Twenty-four, twenty-five. I work at a sorority house.
BAZOOKA JOE: That, that must be tough.
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| Steve Power |
BAZOOKA JOE: I'm starting to realize that I'm getting older and the students stay the same age ever year. They're always eighteen to twenty-four and I don't think I could handle that.
STEVE: Well, you know, it's a good job.
BAZOOKA JOE: You're a far better man than I, Gunga Din. So you've been sleeping a lot. You've been taking a vacation and sleeping a lot.
STEVE: I took a vacation for this last week and I've done nothing but sleep. I watched Mark McGwire hit his number sixtieth. Everybody's talking about it so I figured, what the hell?
BAZOOKA JOE: Everybody at our office is talking about it. So he's on par with Babe Ruth now.
STEVE: He's tied Babe Ruth. Sixty-two homeruns to beat Roger Maris.
BAZOOKA JOE: And you know he's going to do it and he's going to do it this year. That's an amazing thing.
STEVE: There a lot of critics about the whole thing.
BAZOOKA JOE: What are they criticizing?
STEVE: Well, it's an expansion year so...I'm not gonna talk baseball here, man. I'm not a big sports fan.
BAZOOKA JOE: What are we going to talk about?
STEVE: I don't know, man. Let's talk about music.
BAZOOKA JOE: Are you going to play with Aaron later on?
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| Steve Power |
BAZOOKA JOE: The reason this all got started is that I knew the students were going to be back so I wanted to have a special treat for them. Aaron has done sound for me so many times that I wanted to hear him play. He called me up and said he'd been talking to you and why don't we have Steve up? And I said yeah, what the hell?
