I'm picturing some slob answering the door, wearing a hair-piece and a purposely loose bath robe.
Did you ever have to transcribe someone you couldn't understand, like Ozzy Osbourne or Bob Dylan? You could type anything you wanted :)
This guy who gave me assigned tapes was just a little curly haired Jewish MARRIED short nebbish. Who thought he was Very important.
I don’t think I did Ozzy or Dylan. There were some I had trouble understanding. Definitely. So I would write [unintelligible] which they wanted to know so they didn’t put that part on the air. There were some people I didn’t know of, then later realized how famous they were. I think at the time my personal favorite, someone I saw a lot in concert, was Bowie. I honestly don’t remember them all. The saddest one was James Brown. He came off really really dumb and he thought he was a god, he was apparent;y told from morning til night he was the greatest singer in the world ever. It wasn’t egotistical so much as sad. I can’t explain it but he just didn’t have the best grip on his place in the universe.