Stuhan.

Stuhan. It's good to see you. It's good to see you. It's good to see you, too. Do you need a ride back up to the bay? I'm going next week. I don't know. We'll see how this goes. Pleasure having you, man. It's an honor. You know, we've been looking forward to this for a long time. This is a chance, you know, to people get to know you who may not.

It's Stuart Hamm, folks.

You're born New Orleans.

I was.

My father was a musicologist.

He ended up being the president of the American Musicology Association.

Wrote a number of books about the history of popular music in America.

I was an editor of the Grove's Dictionary, was the first person to teach a college course on popular music.

It started this international society for the study of property music.

And my mom was an opera singer, and I had a brother who was six years older than me, who now lives in Fremont. He ran the Aaliyak Parkon School of Indian Music for years. He played Sorod. Bruce Am. Yeah. Yeah. He's in Fremont now. But he ran, he lived in India, studied with Aliqqq. Sarod is like a fretless sitar.

Satar is southern Indian.

Sarod is northern Indian.

Very cool.

Classical music.

He's a great musician.

But the cool thing was that being a kid, you know, I was in choir.

My mom was in operas.

And, you know, one of my dad's poker playing buddies was John Cage.

So I used to take my little plastic army men and put him between the piano.

Wow.

So we was exposed to that.

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