Micro-dictators & Perforated Schnizzles! It's Eddie Coker! Articles / Roof-less Interrogator Posted by PKelly on Mar 14, 2005 - 05:11 PM |
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It is I, Woofle Pootkins, the Roof-less Interrogator! Once again I have gone undercover to uncover the un-uncoverable! Err . .um . . .yes! This week I bring you a real treasure–– a truly scathing interview with a famous Texan singer and performer that will really get your tails wagging. Fearlessly and hungrily, I’ve put my prodigious nose to the dirt for this assignment and I’m pleased and proud to bring you the Real . . . the True . . . the roof-lessly interrogated EDDIE COKER!!
Check out Eddie's "The Happy One"  [1]WP: So, Eddie––if you could have any toy in the world that you wanted, what would it be? EC: A perforated schnizzle. WP:Eddie, you and Walking Oliver artist Paul Austin Kelly have something in common, right? You both started your careers as opera singers. How in the world did you manage to go from opera to children’s pop? Are there things you miss about singing opera? EC: From a performer standpoint, I probably owe the transition most to Gilbert & Sullivan. Comic timing is key in G&S and I had the opportunity to work with some of the world's best interpreters of their works. The majority of those artists were from the U.K. A flare for comedy is key in the type of show I put on.Since opera is so BIG, and kids love BIG, it was actually quite an easy transition. I don't miss the opera world one bit. I miss my friends, but not the horrors of being on the road and living in hotels. WP:How do you write those great songs? Do you have to be in the bathtub or some special place? Do you need to be chewing on your favorite bone, or something? What’s your secret? EC: Writing is my favorite. I can write anywhere. Bathtub, tree, stool, car, dreams. Dreams are fun! Especially with micro-dictaters. No more getting up in the middle of the night and looking for paper. Just roll over, which I am sure you'll appreciate Woofle, and record.  WP:You have a very special reputation as a dynamic performer. Tell me what makes you so special? And, do you have a bad back yet from lugging around all your electronic equipment? EC: "Dynamic performer" might have to take a back seat as I continue on. 200+ shows a year averaging 6 and 1/2 pounds of water weight per show lost equals almost 1,300 pounds total annually. You can imagine all the food I have to eat Master Pootkins just to merely exist. As far as lugging equipment, it's a good workout. WP: You do over 200 concerts a year! How do you ever have time to do anything else? Like chase cats or pee on fire hydrants, for instance. EC: Actually it's quite easy. The way I have manipulated the universe allows me to go cross-town, sing, come back home and take a nap. Get up the next day, drive a hair farther, sing, come home, nap, eat, shampoo, then play with my children. It's the way a singing career should be, don't you think? Kind of how they do it in the opera houses in Germany. Instead of the house baritone, I am the region's crazy kids entertainer. WP: Do you ever get nervous facing a big crowd of kids who are expecting you to entertain them? EC: Kids want you to be yourself. You give them authentic, they are yours! Easy as that. You give 'em what you think you "should" give them according to the dictates of x, y or z "authority" or the prevailing opinion that is blowing in the wind as to the best methodolgy to educate and entertain, and they'll eat your lunch. Did I just write that sentence? WP: If you could have a real job––I mean like a normal person who can’t sing––what would you do? EC: Hermit. WP: What’s your most favorite song in the whole world at this very moment? EC: "Still Fighting It" by Ben Folds. Check him out. He'll be in London and other cities in England at the end of May and early June. Amazing songs that boy writes. WP: What’s “Woo-Woo!” all about? EC: I'll answer with a quote from Sir W.S. Gilbert. "Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream..." WP:If I really worked on my howl would you ever consider having a dog like me guest star in one of your shows? Is there a duet could we sing together? EC: Having already had the pleasure of hearing your fine tenor, it would be me, down on a knee, requesting that I bark along with thee! Visit Eddie on his fab website at http://www.eddiecoker.com [2] Woo! Woo! And if you enjoyed reading about Eddie we think you'd also like to hear how the Roofless Interrogator fared with–– Fred Penner [3] Sho, Mo & The Monkey Bunch [4] Marla Lewis [5] Richard Durrant [6] |
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This article is from Walking Oliver http://www.walkingoliver.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.walkingoliver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=173 Links in this article [1] http://www.walkingoliver.com/ddload-get-145,the+happy+one+MP3 [2] http://www.eddiecoker.com [3] http://www.walkingoliver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=246&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 [4] http://www.walkingoliver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=193&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 [5] http://www.walkingoliver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=191&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 [6] http://www.walkingoliver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=96&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 |
