Monday, June 4, 2007

Bill Power


We interviewed Bill at the Zambooie offices in Nashville last year during GMA week. I am in no way a fan of GMA and I’m usually pretty miserable most of the time I’m there so it was really nice getting to hang out with friends for a while.
I think the first time I met Bill was one year at the Where-House’s new band tournament. We always tried to make the NBT something that would not only be cool for the bands but would actually help them to make it to the next level. This included flying in “celebrity” judges for the final round. This was almost always record labels, booking agents, magazines, things of that nature. So naturally Tooth and Nail would be first on our list. And as one of the higher ups at Tooth and Nail, Bill was lucky enough to be the one to make the trip one year.
A little bit of background on Bill, he’s kind of the Henry Rollins of the scene. Aside from being in on the ground floor of Tooth and Nail he was in one of their first bands, Blenderhead, and then went on to found Zambooie merch with Bruce Fitzhugh and Mike Lewis. No kidding. I still don’t know when this guy sleeps.
We hooked up with Bill about ten minutes after we finished up with Bruce’s interview. Bill’s office was really cool, he’s really into punk and had these cool Jawbox, and Rollins posters along with a string of hot pepper lights so we just shot him at his desk.
Bill was as usual really cool, very insightful and totally honest. At one point we were talking about the scene becoming cool and Bill said that anytime whenever whatever it is that you are into becomes the cool thing to do it’s in danger. Good advice for anyone not just Christians, I think that’s why Tooth and Nail and everything Bill has been involved in has been so relevant. I honestly wish more people in our scene could be as much of a mover and a shaker as Bill.

1 comment:

Richard Hoover said...

My joke is to refer to GMA week as "God and Mammon Association Week"