Thursday 4 September 2008

Rockin' With the Sox: Tim Wakefield

As the senior appendage of the Red Sox [team stats], knuckleball ewer Tim Wakefield [stats] maintains a practiced sense of humor. He says his first musical purchase was AC/DC�s �Back In Black.�


�On vinyl,� he added. �Yeah, I�m that old.�


Wakefield, who latterly turned 42, is non totally old school. He has embraced online music.




�Most of my music is stuff on my iPod that I get through everybody else�s computers,� he aforesaid. �I don�t think I�ve bought any music in probably 10 years.�


His iPod is filled, Wakefield says, �with country to rock to heavy metal to jazz. Whatever�s available. I just load it up with everything.�


When it comes to lively music, he remembers his first concert was �Styx - the Mr. Roboto Tour in Orlando. I was 17, I think.�


His most memorable live show?


�The best concert I�ve ever seen was Harry Connick Jr.,� Wake recalled sky-high. �I byword his Christmas show and - from him playing the piano and singing, to his band - everybody was top-notch.�


And what musician would Wakefield, world Health Organization has performed at the Hot Stove, Cool Music charity concert, most like to meet?


�I love playing guitar,� he said, �so Eric Clapton comes to mind.�





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