VERMONT VOICES : JOSIAH GLUCK
“ When you ’ re sitting behind the console , you ’ re 1 / 3 technician , 1 / 3 musician , 1 / 3 politician .”
I ’ ve been doing some teaching down at Appalachian State and Peabody . A couple of weeks ago , I was asked to sub at The Tonight Show .
JS : When you were 17 or 18 , did you ever think , “ I ’ m gonna end up at Saturday Night Live ?”
JG :: Oh , no ! I didn ’ t even know what I was gonna do . Actually , working at the radio station at Hopkins , I felt like , “ Well , you know , I could possibly do something in radio . This might be fun .” And I actually was the classical music director for WJHU for a moment or two there . It was also back in the day , when you could go up to New York and come back laden down with cartons of Deutsche Grammophon and RCA and Columbia Records . I would play these various records , pop records , jazz records , and fusion stuff . And you ’ d start to see , “ Oh … all of these records have these musicians that I really like , have these producers , and these engineers in common , and these studios are in common . Okay … these are the guys who are doing the stuff that I like . Maybe I ’ d like to try to figure out how to do that .” It all ballooned from there . I also think in some ways , I was like a punch-drunk fighter who just didn ’ t know to stay down on the canvas . I don ’ t want to say this to be blasé or have false modesty , but sometimes I can look back and be like , “ I don ’ t know how this happened .” I think it ’ s just paying attention . And if you ’ re handed an opportunity , if someone walks out of the chair , or if someone says , “ Hey — you do this or that ,” you just do it . n
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