You’ve done production work for Shaquille O’Neal in the past. What was that like?
That was definitely for something to pay the bills, no question. Shaq was pretty funny. He had a four-feet-tall assistant named Uzi who he wanted to have rap on his record and was also the wackest rapper. Of course, because Shaq said so, we had to record him and work him into it. EM: Funky Sole has moved across several venues over the years. How do you go about selecting the right place for events? It’s hard to find the right home. For events like that, even the right home after a while needs to get reinvented. The Echo is not quite as intimate, but overall it’s good if not better. It’s a better area in Los Angeles for what we’re doing, and it’s got the best sound system of any place we’ve been. You have to sacrifice having us right in the midst of people and not being up on a stage. EM: You’re a big fan of mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell. Do any of his ideas make their way into your work? I don’t know. I’d like to think that it would translate at some level, as far as expressin
