[Brian Krashpad]

Thanks for the responses Jug. Now give us some details on who you've played with and the circumstances!

Here's some more answers for myself to bump the thread:

Had your photo on the cover of a magazine?

Yep. Now that I think of it, a few times. A couple of them were for the UF student-run newspaper (The Alligator), which has long had weekly entertainment mnagazine inside every Thursday. The first one was the most impressive, they'd done a story on the band I was then in (Camp 7), and our three mugs filled up the whole cover. A little scary! Another time, same mag, they did a story on an upcoming local showcase-type festival Crash Pad was playing, and they put the pictures of 6 or 7 of the bands playing, including ours. It was pretty small and I could recognize myself (DeArmond Jet Stars have a pretty unique shape) though I doubt anyone else could, although it did have a caption with the band name over it. The third time was on the cover of an "alternative newsmonthly" magazine called Moon (called that because it was seen as an alternative to the local NY Times-owned paper, the Sun) when they did a story about the "Hogtown Music Awards," which they were a sponsor of. The entire cover was a montage of the bands who were up for awards, and Crash Pad was in there along with dozens of others.

Had your photo on a pull-out center poster or calendar in a magazine?

Funny as it sounds, I can answer "yes" to that one! I used to write for a regional (southeast USA) music mag called Ink 19. While it was still a print mag, it had a two-page monthly calendar of bands playing in Florida and up in Atlanta. One month my band was actually playing twice in a month, and I pulled some strings to get listed on the calendar. Our band and a couple others that had shows on the calendar had thier photos on the calendar, just a little 2"x3" photo.

Written about music in a magazine/newspaper?

Yes, both as author (which was how the question was intended) and subject (how some here or elsewhere have interpreted it). I've written for several local, and one regional, mags over the years, as have several of my frineds and acquaintances from the local band scene, so my bands tended to get ink somewhat out of proportion to our popularity.

Written a book about music?

Nope, though it'd be fun to do.

Been interviewed on radio?

Yes, several times. One was for a pirate radio station with a secret location at someone's house (they were later raided and shut down by the Feds), the other two times for the 2 stations that were/are at the time (the first station was sold and changed formats to "talk radio") the leading local alternative rock (as opposed to the big local mainstream rock) radio stations.

Here's me, with DJ, at the latter:



Been interviewed on TV/webcast?

Yeah, a band I was in during the 90's was on a local cable TV show that showed "alternative" music band videos. They came out to the garage at Casa Krashpad, and filmed little snippets of us playing, and asked us some questions, which they used as content between showing the videos.

Performed (live) on radio?

Nope, I've never done the solo thing and setting up a full band in the studio was too much hassle.

Performed on TV/webcast?

In addition to the cable TV thing mentioned above, one of the other bands I played with on a bill recently, in one of my side bands, did a webcast of the whole bill's performances.

Had your recorded music played on the radio?

Yes, on the 3 stations mentioned previously and on the local music show on the mainstream rock radio station, and on another free-form radio station that no longer exists. Except for the pirate station, this was almost always in the context of a show featuring local music.