Recording, computer technology, photography, videography.
Thankfully, I got to perform with many of my hero's during my lifetime, including Doc Severinson, Carl Fontana, Natalie Cole, as well as the jazz great BILL HOLMAN. Others I'd like to have met would include: Will Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Buddy Rich, Johnny Carson, Nelson Riddle, and my grandfather on my dad's side. Anyone I'd like to meet currently? I'd love to sit down or take a lesson with Gordon Goodwin... Sammy Nestico, and/or Patrick Wiliams. Oh yeah... and Joe Alessi.Oh... and Tommy Dorsey? Of course!
The bands of Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Bob Florence, Gordon Goodwin's BIG PHAT BAND, Tom Kubis, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, North Texas One O'Clock under Leon Breeden... many more of that ilk. I enjoy music of all genres pretty much, except for rap and hip-hop. No melody? No music!
Same Time, Next Year; Oh Brother, Where Are Thou?; Raiders of the Lost Arc; Animal House; Star Wars; Blade Runner; Jaws; Gone with the Wind; The Wizard of Oz; The Sound of Music; Camelot. I love a good comedy. I enjoy horror and science fiction.
The Bob Newhart Show; The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Smothers Brothers... hey, it's my era, man! FOX NEWS Channel. The O'Reilly Factor. Greta... I dearly HATE laugh tracks!
Biographies of Harry James, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey... My daughter got me to read the Harry Potter books. I enjoyed those, too. Anything dealing with recording, I pick it up and read it.
Urbie Green, Jack Teagarden, J. J. Johnson, Bill Watrous, Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana... my dad.