Dave Sulzer: 10 Questions for Dave

(logo sounds) (bright music) (typewriter clicks) (typewriter clicks) (Dave chuckles) - I got very bad grades in high school.

I was very lucky and just did weird things and something came out of it.

(typewriter clicks) They're both fine parts of your brain.

(typewriter clicks) Playing country fiddle with Pete Seeger for the surviving members of the Abraham Lincoln brigade.

And these were men in their nineties.

It was very moving.

(typewriter clicks) I have a competitor whose work I follow very closely, Mark Whiteman, in North Carolina.

I have been following his work for years, and it often is influential on me, even if it's just like, how can I do this better than this guy?

(typewriter clicks) One of the elephants in the title of an orchestra was the star of Dumbo Drop.

(typewriter clicks) Well, I'll just have to go with our favorite dopamine neurons, cause we've done so much work on them, and they're really troublesome.

(typewriter clicks) Probably "Smoke on the Water," just like everybody else.

("Smoke on the Water" plays) (typewriter clicks) It will be their last album, and it's called "Water Music," cause they like being on the water more than anything else, except food and sex.

(typewriter clicks) I think maybe the best rock role songwriter of all time might be Chuck Barry.

(rock music) (typewriter clicks) Well, obviously Rock Hudson or Clark Gable.

It's really obvious.

The strong, silent type.

That's me.

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