A few weeks ago my brother Ethan found this long interview with my dad from 1974, on Youtube. It's a great interview from KQED. But what was most interesting to the family was how different this Herbert Gold seemed from the man we know now. He was always smart and quick, but there's something cocky and hyperactive in the interview that seemed more like Hugh Hefner than our dad - especially given that I now know he was right in the middle of having his heart broken. His voice also sounded younger, higher.<br /><br />I decided to download the interview onto my laptop and slow it down by 5%. It was amazing: suddenly he sounded like himself: deep voice, thoughtful pauses, and more interestingly, I could feel the pain of the impending divorce, in a way that wasn't apparent in the Youtube original. <br /><br />I suspect the tape was transferred at the wrong speed, somewhere along the way, and that my version (this one) is accurate. But who knows? Was he changed by the divorce into the man I now know?<br /><br />(And: when US movies were switched from 24fps to 25fps in their export to Europe, what happened to the soul between the frames?)<br /><br />The original interview:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arowWLchRDQ&feature=share<br /><br />His latest book:<br />http://amzn.to/xSCGUg<br />"Worth its weight in gold" - New York Times
