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REMEMBERING DUSTY, An Interview with Rebekah Radisch
- By Nicole Blizzard 
N: So, about how long from start to finish did it take from the conception of the idea until you finally released it? R: I don't know. We did like little plans where we wrote up basically a whole business plan on the project and the I sent off to Amazon.com for copies of this Dusty Springfield video called "Full Circle", which is brilliant. And so we sent this whole package to the artists we either knew or who we thought we wanted to be on the record. So that process took from August '98 to February of this year. So just over two years for the actual thing to happen. But conceptually, we've probably been thinking about it and plotting it for a year prior to that, so over three and less than four years probably. N: Okay, the full title of this is "Forever Dusty, Homage To An Icon". Why do you consider her an icon? R: Well, she is personally for me, because when I was on that island at seven years old, without TV, her songs just really became kind of iconic for me. I would act them out for my little girlfriends and things. And then when we returned to the states, I became a big variety show junkie. And when Dusty was on them, I mean, it was always like she was just larger than life even though she was just five-two. She was just amazing to me. But to my little child mind, she was like this huge icon, a mysterious kind of accessibility and inaccessibility. She was kind of like adult contemporary, you know, kind of the stuff your parents liked. A lot of people my (older) sister's age didn't really care for Dusty because they were cooler than that. They were digging the Stones and the Doors and Hendrix but when they see "Full Circle", they see Dusty with Jimi Hendix. Then they're like, "Hmmm, maybe she was cooler than I thought." But anyway, for me she was always kind of there but never there. Drag queens loved to imitate her because she was just a totally kind of an in excess person. I mean her hair was in excess, her wigs, her famous eyeliner.
Nicole Blizzard's first love is poetry. Her sixth poem to be published is titled "In Transit" appears in the new Canadian anthology, "Open Windows II" (Hidden Brook Press). Contact: nicole_b92@hotmail.com
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