KLSX Interview With Jim Ladd - Street Angel

[David]

I put up another Street Angel interview, using SaveFile.com, which Romy recommended. I hope the files are more available this way than with YouSend.

This interview is with Jim Ladd on KLSX in Los Angeles, while Stevie was on tour for Street Angel -- August 23, 1994. I know it's fashionable these days to minimize Jim Ladd's importance to Stevie & usefulness to fans, but for my money there's just no comparison between him & anyone else in radio in terms of getting the best Stevie possible at the microphone. For example, that 1987 Tampa thing from the other day. The DJ was a typically annoying, yapping motor-mouth, the way they all are. Those guys are there to hear themselves yap--they get off on it--not to let their guests be heard. They have absolutely nothing to add to our understanding of Stevie--or even of music in general. But Jim is vastly different. He lets Stevie talk & she talks. He pulls out of her, virtually every time he talks to her, a rounded, complete conversation, a meaningful exchange of deep ideas, passing thoughts & surprising emotions, & she delivers, too. Every one of her interviews with him is a dramatic, emotional experience that is comparable to any one of her albums. You feel as if you had spent serious time with Stevie, when Jim is at the helm, & she lives it all with you. Jim interviewing Stevie is like a radical Stevie movie.

Part 01
http://www.savefile.com/files/1946069

Part 02
http://www.savefile.com/files/2422462

Part 03
http://www.savefile.com/files/8348698

Part 04
http://www.savefile.com/files/9081971

Part 05
http://www.savefile.com/files/3743245

Part 06
http://www.savefile.com/files/5006496