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Hilly
Kristal was interviewed by Mike Thorne in the Basement
Under CBGB, New York City, 11am May 20 1999.
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To the full transcription of Hilly's answers.
Was there any doubt in your mind that you would work with music? Was there an alternative career that might have been the day job?
During the fifties the focus of an aspiring musician wouldn't be so much on making a record as getting on stage and performing?
Your song writing career has spanned such a huge change in the way that music is recorded and performed. Do you feel that there is a different way of writing a song now than there was when music was a strictly live experience?
So, around this time you had your first record deal?
The second one?
There are quite a few notables on that record playing.
It was your idea to doMud to a different drum in the early eighties.
Do you think the songs have different impact in their new forms? For example, Mud is a powerful dance record and Rock 'n' Roll Jackson uses electronics. Do you think they are the same songs or do you think they have changed?
What do you think the connections between your music and, say, a raucous band at CBGB? Do you think it's part of the same musical spectrum?
You mentioned that your music doesn't fit. Perhaps, a few years ago, that was a very big disadvantage because there was no slot available for it. Do you see things widening to the point where any type of music which makes people sing, dance, laugh or cry will be accessible, or do you think there will always be streams of musical types?
So: for a final question, which you must have been asked so many times. I suspect, though, that the answer is a moving target: 'If you were an aspiring musician starting out today, how would you do it?'
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