And I'm old enough, I look like an old priest, so I totally pull it off. And you can park anywhere and do whatever the hell you want. I go to Italy a lot, and so with my friends in Italy I put on the Father Paul act and of course in Italy, it's like you can do anything, you could commit murder as a priest and get away with it. I forget its name, and they ordain you as a minister, right? You get a certificate and you can perform marriages and any religious ceremony that a priest can. For $50 you can write to this thing called the Church of.

PAUL: Well, the whole thing about religion in America is very different than elsewhere. I assume you weren't ordained by the Catholic Church, so who is Father Paul? There's a picture of you on your website dressed in a priest's uniform with the cross and collar. You're quite diverse, going so far as to inhabit different personalities. I don't knock it, but of course, as anybody else, I've moved on. But I'm associated with a good, enduring band.

If I'd been associated with a shitty band, it would be something else. I mean, I don't have anything bad to say about it. It represented 3 years of my life in the 70s. Although like you said earlier, that was 50 years ago. ME: Is Peter Gabriel the reason you come back to the band? It's because people wanted the nostalgia thing. I did a poster and a T-shirt for their 2008 tour (actually, 2007's Turn It On Again: The Tour - ed.) and my products sold 10 to 1 of theirs and that pissed them off as well (laughs). I'm okay with the band, particularly Peter, we're great friends, but the other guys, you know. So he's always labelled me as arsty fartsy. And he didn't believe that record covers sold records. And the manager thought the album covers were artsy fartsy. The other guys in the band really didn't have much to say in it.

When I did those three records for them, it was only days, right? And it was basically Peter Gabriel and I that collaborated and we did the covers. For some reason their manager never liked me. Here's part 1 of 3 of my Zoom interview with Paul: Turned out that Paul has two alter egos and is musical director of sorts of the Borg Symphony, a mostly improvisational collective in terms of music and musicians, the latter ' assimilated' members dressed up in Borg attire. Then he added: ' Did you know he has an alter ego called Trisha Van Cleef ? You could talk about her.' People keep asking him about Genesis.' ' Pffft. I set things up with Paul's agent, Dan Shapiro, who, at one point while I was mulling over what Genesis questions I could throw at Paul, gave me this advice: 'You know, if you could talk to Paul about other things than Genesis that would be great. Michel thought it'd be a good idea to interview Paul for PMA Media, and I agreed. I'd heard about Paul Whiteheadfrom my colleague Michel Plante, who clued me in that Paul is a California-based artist who paints wonderfully complex, spiritual, surrealistic art, who also did the artwork on three Peter Gabriel-era Genesis albums: Trespass, Nursery Cryme, and Foxtrot.

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