A recent Night Lights profile of Buddy Rich that includes excerpts from a 1969 interview with WFIU jazz host Dick Bishop is now up for online listening:
Put On Earth To Play Drums: The Buddy Rich Story
The web-post includes a link to the 1969 interview in its entirety, in which Rich discusses everything from his musical origins and time with the Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey big bands to the state of jazz circa 1969.