BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I’m Bill Holland and I’m here with Mr. Bonzai who is releasing his new book, “Faces of Music: 25 Years of Lunching with Legends”, and it shares with us a little bit of his background with musicians and tips and information on how to kind of stay afloat within the industry, and you were just telling me about Frank Zappa. What about this chapter -- It seems really interesting, the chapter with Frank Zappa.

MR. BONZAI: Well, you know, I was a big fan of Frank’s for many years. In fact, I first met him in 1971 when he was playing in Montreal, Canada, and I spent a day with him from morning to night while he was writing a new song for The Mothers to perform on the radio. I was working on radio that night. It’s called Magdalena. And then I -- It was many years later, ’85, that I met with Frank again to interview him, and, you know, the questions that I ask people are kind of quirky, a little bit off the wall sometimes, maybe their very heartfelt stuff. “Do you have ideas about, you know, business?” “Can you share something that would...?” you know, like I think one of the artists in the book said, “Keep your publishing,” simple things like that, you know, that would help you later on in life to keep your income flowing.

And it’s lighthearted too. There’s -- And Frank is a pretty serious guy but let’s see. You know, here’s -- I said, “Who’s your best musical friend?” and it’s a question that I’ve asked many people and gotten very different answers from people. Frank says, “I don’t have any friends in any category. I try to avoid them.” [LAUGHING] And let’s see. “If you were to star in a film, what would your dream role be?” and Frank, he’s so candid. He says, “I never liked the idea of acting. I have trouble identifying with things that are make believe where people pretend,” and I asked him how he’d like to be remembered in the distant future and he’s no longer with us. He says, “I would rather not. I’d rather just skip it. I think that people who build an aspect of remembrance into their work habits like, ‘If I don’t do this then how will I be remembered?’ that’s really bad. You should just plan for the big blotch.”