Hat Hut - Hat[Now]Art - hatOLOGY

[king ubu]

I posted this in the "All things Hat"-thread, but got no echo whatsoever, so I'll try my luck again in a separate thread!

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We plan to do an interview with WX Uehlinger within the coming 14 days or so, for our next radio show in November. Of course the reason we're doing this is the 30th anniversary.

Now I'd be happy for some input from y'all (yawl, or how do them texans pronounce that again?). Any questions, any hints what *not* to ask, anything you always wanted to know about that hat hut (what a great & weird name, btw!).

I had the idea that we may ask him to name us a handful of favourite recordings that are out in the hatOLOGY series (I have maybe half of those releases... or a third, I don't know, plus my friend has some, and he's also got some LPs, and between the two of us we may have 15 or 20 "old" hatArt CDs, too - of course there are gaps in our collection, but mainly we want it to be an interview.

Aspects we could ask him about may be:

- what's his vision today, musically

- how's the situation financially and market-wise, where does he sell his stuff

- what's his approach to "coaching" musicians and their projects

- what's the concept behind his release-scheme (not just the $$)

- how did he get into modern composed music

- how did his Joe McPhee fan-project turn into a visionary (?) label

I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of aspects...

Any input welcome!