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The Place For All Your Fall Planting Needs
A lot of the women in our office listen to the Ticket, and they were excited that I’m interviewing you. Do you think you have many female fans?
Not as many women as guys. We don’t have as many women as we would like. We love all, and we serve all. Or at least we try to. We’re delighted to have you on board.
Do you talk to your co-hosts before every show or do you just kind of wing it?
We meet an hour before show time, and its not real detailed. It’s more of a taking of everybody’s internal temperature to get what everyone’s thinking about. Then we determine what we’re going to talk about. But we just hit on the topics. The first time we really talk about it is what you hear on air. You’re hearing it for the first time, and so am I.
We find it entertaining when you Hardline guys get testy with each other. Is that real, or is it schtick?
We’re around each other an awful lot. We do this five days a week for all but three weeks out of the year. We’re around each other a lot, and it’s not impossible to make somebody a little bit crazy. Sometimes someone will catch onto something and keep going with it, and it can get under your skin. There’s not too much fake or staged going on in our show. Usually what you think you’re getting is what’s going on.
How long have you been playing music? Tell us about your band. I got out of music in 1982, and I thought I was done with it. I thought it was over for me and I’d never do it again, and I was OK with that. Then lo and behold, Petty Theft sprang up in 2003. Ten years of Petty Theft and 20 years of the Ticket are my immediate goals. If I can do something with those, I will feel like I did a little something with this stage of life. I also just started the Nyrds, a Byrds cover band. We’re trying to get that up and running, and it’s going well. We like it. It sounds nice, and I hope people will come hear it sometime.
—Rachel Stone
