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neo_trinity
11-28-2014, 09:00 PM
When Stephen was in London in 1983, promoting Christine, he was staying at Brown Hotel. While he did a large interview for Martin Anderson on May 13, it was on May 12 that he did a rather intimate 70 minute interview with Edwin Pouncey ("Sounds" magazine) in the hotel dining room. This interview was published on May 21, 1983 and later republished in "Bare Bones". During this interview Stephen discussed Pet Sematary (where he confirmed what he really thought about the story in regards to Doubleday's marketing claim), a new disease called AIDS, Kubrick's interpretation of The Shining and his children, that I don't believe were ever printed.

This tape was part of a set that included an inscribed copy of UK Christine to Edwin - thanking him for a pleasant interview, an inscribed ticket to a promotional talk, as well as a signed copy of the tape cassette and a letter confirming it was the only certified unedited copy. The set was originally purchased by George Locke of Ferret Fantasy booksellers in London, and later purchased by myself in 2005.

The first clip I have digitized is from the 13:35 - 15:52 interval. It is entitled: "What frightens Stephen King?". I hope you enjoy

Part 1: What frightens Stephen King? (http://www.geraldwinters.com/king/christine_1983/What_frightens_SK.wav)


Note. Gerald removed the tapes. Please go to post #31 for new links.
http://www.geraldwinters.com/king/christine_1983/tape_sm.jpg

Ari_Racing
11-28-2014, 09:24 PM
You HAVE to post more often! :) THANKS for sharing this info!

I'm opening the file right now.

idlewarnings
11-28-2014, 10:40 PM
That's great, neo_trinity. Thanks for sharing.

herbertwest
11-29-2014, 01:26 AM
Wow, very interesting!
Thanks for the backstory and the sharing !

Mr. Rabbit Trick
11-29-2014, 02:01 AM
Thanks G, for the story and for sharing the recording.

carlosdetweiller
11-29-2014, 04:38 AM
Very interesting! Thanks, Gerald.

mae
11-29-2014, 05:12 AM
Thank you. Would love to hear the entire thing.

Ben Mears
11-29-2014, 05:17 AM
Thanks for sharing that. Not surprised by SK's answer to the question of what really scares him; cancer weaves its way into many of his novels. The way his mother died understandably had a major impact on him.

Randall Flagg
11-29-2014, 05:38 AM
Marvelous. Thanks.

neo_trinity
11-29-2014, 09:23 AM
I am glad you like. I will share more short segments as I separate them with sound editing software, but unfortunately the entire interview is over 2 GB in size and would not make for a possible download. Another interesting story was his flight over on the Concorde and his concerns over what could happen at 56,000 feet.

mae
11-29-2014, 11:10 AM
Encoded as MP3 instead of WAV, it should be much smaller.

neo_trinity
11-29-2014, 11:51 AM
Hi Pablo. The original cassette was transferred to digital by recording it at 16 bit, 44.1 kHz Wav, in a recording studio, to try and preserve the original details as close as possible. Unfortunately, being 30 years old and recorded with a standard Sony cassette recorder in a noisy, active dining room, the background noise was less than perfect. At one point you can hear the waiter telling the interviewer that his credit card was declined, and asking him for another payment card. This was then encoded to lossless with WavPack. The file was then tagged, and transcoded to LAME 3.99 MP3, to see if the quality would hold, but it didn't. Even though the MP3 files were smaller, I chose to keep it in WAV because it was the clearest. I may try again in the future, but for now, this is the best option.

Scoogs
11-29-2014, 12:55 PM
Try the FLAC file format.
It's an open source, lossless compression format so there is no quality loss. You'll still have a larger file than MP3, but much smaller than a WAV file.
My home music server is entirely FLAC based.

Alternatively, you could try a 320 MP3 to see if that would help. Most people cannot hear a difference at that bitrate.

Absolutely keep the original WAV files as your archival copy.

Scoogs
11-29-2014, 12:55 PM
And thanks a lot for posting this!

The Library Policeman
11-29-2014, 01:02 PM
Thanks for posting this, Gerald. Great stuff!

neo_trinity
11-29-2014, 01:04 PM
Thank you Scoogs. I had heard of FLAC but never tried it. I am continually learning about recording formats as it is very interesting. I will try this when I am back in L.A. Yes I have the master copy kept in WAV, and will try to experiment with these smaller segments.

Pasiuk57
11-29-2014, 01:38 PM
GREAT STUFF!!
Another King rarity!

herbertwest
11-29-2014, 01:46 PM
Thank you Scoogs. I had heard of FLAC but never tried it. I am continually learning about recording formats as it is very interesting. I will try this when I am back in L.A. Yes I have the master copy kept in WAV, and will try to experiment with these smaller segments.

I used to se the free software DBPowerAMP to convert audio files. It works quite well, and you can choose / add different formats.

neo_trinity
11-29-2014, 09:31 PM
In 1983, the world had a new virus called AIDS, Ronald Reagan was the U.S. President, and unlike the vampires of Salem's Lot, you couldn't just dismiss him when the movie was over. He was real.

Part 2: AIDS, The Stand and Reagan (http://www.geraldwinters.com/king/christine_1983/AIDS_Stand_Reagan.wav)

east-tennessee
11-29-2014, 09:54 PM
Nice stuff, thanks for posting it.........:cool:

Mr. Rabbit Trick
11-30-2014, 09:01 AM
Thanks for the second part G.

Ari_Racing
06-06-2016, 12:44 PM
Bumping. Let's hope Gerald has subscription to this thread and gets the alert.

And, of course, starts posting more often! :)

Randall Flagg
08-19-2018, 09:27 AM
Winters killed the links to the tapes, so unless someone else is willing to share the tapes, this thread will be archived.

Mr. Rabbit Trick
08-19-2018, 09:40 AM
I still have the original WAV file, "What frightens Stephen King." It is 45.6 Mb so I cannot post it here.

If only I was not about to have a few glasses of 40% alcohol, I might've got round to making it smaller and posting it somewhere. Aw well! Sighhhhh.

I've just noticed my UK Christine was inscribed on May 11 1983, the day before this interview.

mae
08-19-2018, 10:46 AM
Just upload it to YouTube.

Randall Flagg
08-19-2018, 12:38 PM
I manged to obtain Part 1-What scares SK.
Still looking for Part 2-AIDS, The Stand and Reagan


As soon as I have both, I'll host them on the site's server and post the links.

Mr. Rabbit Trick
08-19-2018, 10:20 PM
Just upload it to YouTube.

What's YouTube?

The Library Policeman
08-19-2018, 11:18 PM
Just upload it to YouTube.


What's YouTube?

It’s a Scottish insult.

herbertwest
08-20-2018, 12:47 AM
@Jerome : sending it to you in PMs

Randall Flagg
08-20-2018, 05:58 AM
Thanks. I have them both now. I'll be uploading them to our server soon, and I'm archiving this thread.

Randall Flagg
08-23-2018, 11:09 AM
Here are working links to the 2 excerpts. As long as I don't get petulant, or close the site, they should be available for quite some time.


www.thedarktower.org/palaver/audio/What_frightens_SK.mp3 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/audio/What_frightens_SK.mp3)


http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...and_Reagan.mp3 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/audio/AIDS_Stand_Reagan.mp3)