Word: tr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TR: I started way back when in college [Ryan attended the University of Maine in Orono] in the '80s. It actually wasn't called electronic back then; it was called industrial, and house music was just starting. I had a radio show on my college station, and I became obsessed with music from then. What became of that was me, from my obsession, trying to get other people into what I was hearing, which has brought me to this point. That's where I started, just college radio...
...TR: Actually, classically trained--all through high school and part of college, I was a violist. It gave me a very important appreciation for many important styles of music. I really have listened to everything; the only thing I have not really listened to is anything that is purely mainstream. I seem to like things that are more underground...
...TR: They have no idea what it's all about. They think that I'm playing weddings and bar mitzvahs and things like that...it's a far cry from that...
...TR: This is it. The DJing is a small part of what makes the night happen. The rest of the time I'm setting up promotions. I try to keep different things happening every week--a different promotion, promoting a new album or a new artist, or different DJs coming in to showcase what they have. That keeps me busy during the day. One or two days a week I'm at FNX taking phone calls from record labels and doing that side of the business. I also do a little bit of studio work where I produce...
...narrator is rather unlike me, he's mathematical and Germanic, I am neither of those things. Also well-born and elitist, which I am not. The musical part is me--I couldn't help that because I think in terms of music. I only incorporate things like the TR book because it's directly related to how I became Reagan's biographer, and when I do talk about myself it is for structural reasons. And you are absolutely right about Reagan representing all aspects of America. Indeed, what draws me to people like him and Theodore Roosevelt, as an immigrant...