{"id":17969,"date":"2010-02-01T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2015-01-17T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:45:58","slug":"never-before-heard-george-carlin-interview-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/never-before-heard-george-carlin-interview-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Never-before-heard George Carlin interview … maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you like to hear an interview I did with George Carlin when I was 16? Well, so would I. And after a discovery I made last week, we both might.<\/p>\n

I was going through a file cabinet last week, came across an old 3″ tape recorder reel, and suddenly thought—could this really be what I think it is?<\/p>\n

Back on June 23, 2008<\/a>, I told you about an interview I did with Carlin either in 1971 or 1972, and showed off a picture I had my father take of the two of us. There’s a tape recorder in my hand, and I always intended to transcribe that tape and publish the interview, but never did. Holding the reel, I had a sense that it might not be too late. The problem is, I no longer own a tape recorder.<\/p>\n

So I put out a call on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> for someone with an ancient tape recorder who could check whether the tape was indeed my Carlin interview, and Analog<\/i> writer Tom Ligon<\/a> stepped up. I shipped it off to him this morning, and who knows, a never-before-heard George Carlin interview from the early ’70s may suddenly appear.<\/p>\n

As for where I’d intended to publish the interview, check out the images below.<\/p>\n

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I’ve already told you about my early ’70s fanzine Call It … Fate<\/i><\/a> and shared the covers to issues #2-#4. That’s the cover of issue #1 to the left, and as you can see to the right, in an ad for the fourth issue, which was never published, I promised that George Carlin interview as a highlight.<\/p>\n

And if you’d like to see how my high-school friend Doron Ben-Ami’s artwork has improved over the decades, visit his site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would you like to hear an interview I did with George Carlin when I was 16? Well, so would I. And after a discovery I made last week, we both might. I was going through a file cabinet last week, came across an old 3″ tape recorder reel, and suddenly thought—could this really be what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-17969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-carlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17974,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions\/17974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}