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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.