This week's summit: the immortal author, publicist, musician, music expert, activist, DJ, badass: Nathan Carson of Nanotear.

Topics and quotes:

• Any art that I appreciate, I like knowing where it comes from and what those people's influences are, and so I think it's just a natural curiosity for me to trace all those roots
• Hole in the Sky, to me, is very much a better Black Sabbath song.
• You've got people saying, “Well, concerts should be free, or $5. I grew up going to $5 shows, why isn't it $5?”
• You can see I've got a pretty good, scar across my neck. It looks like I came out of a Highlander movie, successfully.
• I didn't want to have to wrap up my affairs and sell my records and finish my novel in 6 months.
• Making a list, or making a call, or making a plan.

Lyrics reference: Korn

Topics and Quotes:

• You have to speak a very, very great language, very intellectual, to sing in French.
• I needed to tell many things that I kept very… for a long, very long time, inside my body, inside myself, my brain.
• Try to understand that no one will come to knock to your door to save you.
• Because many people can't understand that, and they don't want to understand, because maybe they're afraid, we don't know.

All-Star panel: Kevin J. Anderson (Bestselling novelist behind the Terra Incognita trilogy, plus the Clockwork Angels series with Neil Peart of RUSH, and numerous other titles in major franchises, including Dune and Star Wars). Michael Sadler - Founding member of iconic prog band: Saga. Bob Madsen - of The Highlander Company Records, also known for “flippity-flappity bass”

• Lyrics reference: Rush
• Quotes:
• -The record business is broken. We don't know what we're doing.
• -I really know how to write books, but I don't play any instruments.

-I'm quite willing to sing outside of my comfort zone, as it were, with Saga. In fact, I invite it, because I really enjoy doing that and expanding my range.

https://wordfirepress.com/collections/terra-incognita

https://sagagen.com/

https://thehighlanderco.com/