A conservatoire-trained classical musician, he attempted to ply his trade as guitarist and vocalist in a garagey Parisian band called the Dustbins – they were, he says, "quite punk" – but was more interested in recording the band's instruments on to a reel-to-reel tape recorder bequeathed to him by his grandfather, then speeding them up, slowing them down or playing them backwards.
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"I'm not as interested in doing records for records' sake these days, I'm more curious about musical storytelling and entertainment," she says.
Portable watches of the time were "rare, costly, and relatively unreliable devices", but perhaps just as importantly "nobody in Dover's time was much interested in sports record-keeping or record-breaking".
They were interested in selling records.
Mr. Geerken, who estimates the trip will take six weeks or so, underscores that he is not interested in speed records.
Julie Greenwald, the president of Atlantic, T.I.'s record company, said August can be a strategic release date despite the industry's conventional wisdom that consumers are less interested in buying records in the summer.
Many elite climbers, he said, are not interested in speed — records are often reported on an honor system and are hardly official — but he understands the draw to push boundaries.
I was fairly certain that they of all people would be especially interested in the records he was trying to do away with.
I would be very interested in their records of protest about these circumstances since they are so dedicated to "honoring our soldiers" that they would caustically criticize him for sitting during the national anthem.
