Drummer for legendary rock group Jethro Tull—Doane Perry Full Transcription - Creative Futurism

How music has changed from when Doane Perry started with Jethro Tull to today.

John Best, Kevin J. Anderson, Doane Perry

Kevin: Welcome to the Creative Futurism podcast, bringing together the worlds

of business, technology, and creativity. This is Kevin J. Anderson.

John: And this is John Best. You’ll look at the world and the future in a whole new way.

Kevin: Welcome to the very first episode of the Creative Futurism podcast. I am here with my co-host John Best from Best Innovation Group. John tell us a little about yourself so we can introduce to our listeners.

John: Sure. My name’s John Best and I’m a Fin Tech guy, I do technology stufffor banks. It’s somewhat interesting. It can be interesting now and then. I’m also big into security and things like that. And I met this amazing guy named Kevin J. Anderson who he came on my show to talk about the world, and how it’s changing, and how it’s transformative, and how the things he’s written about have come true. And I was fascinated. And we just got to talking and here I am.

Kevin: And for my own background I’m a number one international best-selling author. I’ve written 140 books and 56 of them have been national or international bestsellers. I’ve worked for Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe with his son Brian. I’ve worked on Star Wars, and X-files, and Star Trek, and Batman, and Superman, and a whole bunch of my own novels. I also wrote two of my own novels called Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives with Neil Peart, the drummer from legendary rock group Rush. And I’m a mountain climber and a reader and I love movies and just all kinds of stuff.

John: You are a renaissance man, that’s what you are.

Kevin: Renaissance men lived in the 1500’s or something like that. Anyway, John and I, when we talk it’s just all kinds of ideas bouncing back and forth. It’s almost like a crossfire, I’m the creative guy and he’s the business guy. But we both have skills in both of those sets as well, and we just thought it’d be a really interesting podcast to do-to discuss things like culture and creativity and business and the future. And how new technologies are changing the arts and business. And a lot of times its great stuff. A lot of times there is devastating unforeseen consequences. And we just want to discuss some of the that-the topic, and see where it goes, and make you the audience think about stuff you haven’t thought about before. And we will have some really interesting guests who are your innovators in the field or people who have gone through major C changes and major creative things in the arts and the business. To that end, we’ve got our first guest on today. Who is-I’m very excited to bring him on board, he’s a fascinating guy. He’s a good friend of mine named Doane Perry, who’s been the drummer of Jethro Tull since 1984. And I met Doane several years ago and it was one of these nuclear meltdowns of just conversation. Just every time we’re on the phone it’s like ‘Oh boy, another hour and a half just passed.’ The first time we met Doane, he flew into Denver. And he wanted to just-because he had read one of my books, Terra Incognita trilogy, and he enjoyed it and I got a letter from him. And we corresponded and we had never met but he was coming to Denver to play with Jethro Tull at the Red Rocks Amphitheater, one of our beautiful amphitheaters. And we wanted to meet and we were trying to figure out our schedules. And somewhere along the line I just said, ‘Doane why don’t I just pick you up at the airport and we’ll go out to dinner?’ And my wife and I met him at the airport and we drove him to a Brazilian steakhouse in downtown Denver. We got there when they opened for dinner and we closed out the place because we just talked so much. And then we dropped him off at this hotel. And then the next day we went to the concert at Red Rocks,