in the '70s was Lynx. Their guitarist, Jimmy Wallace, is still active in The Stratoblasters. I also saw Stevie Ray Vaughan play to about 15 people in a club called St. Christopher's on Greenville Avenue in 1978. Also, about that time I was catching all the great punk and new wave bands in Dallas, like The Toys, The Nervebreakers, Bobby Soxx, Quad Pi. I worked at the glorious Peaches Records in Dallas and knew about all the great bands back then. And before that? Were there strong ties to music and art in your school days? I went to Mark Twain Elementary in Oak Cliff. In fifth grade, some friends and I in science class started a band called The Sea Urchins. We would draw album covers in science class. We didn't know how to play, we just wanted to be in a band. Music and art, as today, were/are all I think about. I always wanted to be in a band but never was, until my 30s. My first album came out in 1998. We called ourselves The Volares and recorded in England. Take us inside the museums nowadays. Are they a hang for artists? Is there a "regular crowd" like you'd see at, say, Bill's Records? Oh hells no. I try to keep people OUT of the Eight Track Museum. Having no one there but me makes it feel more exclusive. We had over 100 people at the opening of the new one in Roxbury, New York on