wasn't until I started year 12 that I studied music with mind to perhaps teach and play gigs on weekends. That didn't work out so I just ran away with rock and roll bands during the 70?s and early 80?s. I remember waking up one day in my mid-twenties and freaking out a bit that I was a saxophone player and wasn't sure how it had happened. These days I play jazz and golf until the money runs out." CDV: "We've all heard the Hollywood stories of stars who started as bus boys, car wash attendants of insurance salesmen.  Where did Wilbur Wilde start out? WW: "I dropped out of monash after 6 months and joined a band playing at the rosebud hotel on Saturday nights,  one thing led to another and after spending most of '74 on the gold coast I began studying at the Sydney conservatorium but ran away with another rock and roll band (ol'55) after 6 months. CDV: "Given that you musically came of age in the 1970's, what is the significance of the name  Ol' 55 for you? WW: "By coincidence it's my birth year and on the 5th of the 10th too, funny yeah?" CDV: "One of our readers contacted us to say their dad was the president of the Maquarie Towns Hot Rod club and booked Ol' 55 to play as the rockabilly band in 1984/85.  Given that you rose to fame about the same time as the Stray Cats, who were your