Commence the 'philoso-jam'

So yeah, it's great. I just love what I do. I think it's amazing that after over 30 years I'm still this popular. It's a blessing to be able to do this out there.

TT: How did it feel to have a plaque with your name installed in the Bronx Walk of Fame at 161st and Grand Concourse?

Flash: Oh man. When the mayor came with that proposal I was like, "Wow." It is such an honor! It's even in a popular part of town. After pounding that pavement for so long, to get honored in your own neighborhood, that's a really a great thing.

TT: Was it better than being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Flash: Yes.

TT: Do they still have block parties in that

neighborhood?

Flash: No they don't. But when I perform, that is what I try to emulate. I try to tell people that we used to do these wonderful things. We'd bring out these makeshift sound systems and then we'd beg the person who lived on the first floor to put our extension cord in there, or we would break the lamppost of the nearest streetlight. And then we would just jam till whenever.

TT: What are some of your other ongoing projects?

Flash: Right now I'm putting together a record label called Adrenaline City Entertainment. So once I slow down the touring I wanna go into the recording studio that I just built in my new house. I'm doing my satellite radio hosting gig. I'm getting ready to write this book as well, you know, on the story of my life. I just closed a deal with Doubleday (Publishers) for that.

TT: And what can we expect to hear you play in Taipei?

Flash: I think the theme for the night is going to be pandemonium in a joyful sort of way. I'm going to start, chronologically speaking, playing jams from I think 1973 all the way up to 2005. I've got all my "dusties" from like 20 years ago all scratched to hell. I'll be playing those. I'm gonna be basically dropping science and teaching the people.