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A-6:
That's a hard one because there are so many different tracks on so many albums! But I guess in terms of my reputation with Frank I'm known best for having played his drum solo composition, "The Black Page" which was written for me and in consideration of my style and potential abilities. It is on "Live in New York". (You can link to it and get it from amazon.com from my Discography page.)
But I have to say that I'm also very proud of "The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution" on "Sleep Dirt", "Orchestral Favorites" for his classical stuff, and "Sheik Yerbouti" or "Baby Snakes" & "Zoot Allures" for all-around-classic-Bozzio w/Zappa stuff.

A-7:
Most of the credit goes to Leif Masses the engineer/co-producer (of ABBA ,Led Zeppelin &Jimmy Page fame). He had done a lot of custom modifications to the dolby cards, MCI board & tape machines and the AMS reverbs that we used. Plus the guy has wonderful ears!!

But in general I can tell you that we used high quality mic's (AKG-Neumann & Sennheiser) , ambiently as well as close, vintage compressors & EQ , and a dbx "Boom Box"(sub harmonic generator) on the bass drums.

Funnily enough the great gated reverb sound came primarily from a cheap(under $100) Alesis MidiVerb!

On tracks like "Stand On It" & "Guitar Shop" the kick & snare were recorded alone on one take and the tom & cymbal fills were overdubbed to take advantage of the gated room sound. This way the fills won't open the gates on the kick & snare and vice versa (which washes everything out).

Aside from that a good drummer (in my humble opinion), well tuned good sounding drums, a great sounding room, and a great engineer = a great drum sound!!

A-8a:
Yes, that's where I first heard of Stravinsky - I remember a friend telling me when he died around 1970? or so, and I hadn't really heard his music yet.
I studied at College of Marin and received an A.A. degree as a commercial music major. This included theory, ear training, analysis, masterworks, piano, composition and some woodwind instrument studies, as well as band, orchestra, jazz, choral, and chamber ensembles. I studied concurrently with Chuck Brown on drumset and Roland Kohloff & Lloyd Davies from the S.F.Symphony on percussion.
I was exposed to many classical composers and soon was playing some of my favorites, like Bartok, Dahl, Cowell, and Milhaud, among others.
I really developed my interests in Stravinsky and others more on my own by reading and listening, at a later point in time (mid 80's or so).

A-8b:
I believe my friend Cathy Anderson first told me about Joseph Campbell, and I've since read many of his books and seen several of his videos.
I think he has done more to clear up a lot of the mystical / magical / psuedo religious / new age / psycho-babble that we're poisoned with. (in my own humble opinion, of course!)
I don't know anything about Carlos Castenada - except that I have heard of him, and I could be wrong but I think he is affiliated with psychedelics, which I am not interested in at all.