the mud shark interview

and wives and lovers as background music]

what's your name?

i'm martin tickman

and what is your position here?

front office manager

the name of this stablishment is.?

this is the edgewater inn

in seattle

washington. can you tell me

uh

how some rock'n'roll groups have taken advantage of this unique situation?

they've taken advantage in different ways

and we do encourage

uh

and advertise that you can fish from your room and we are glad to have our guests fish from 'em

do you supply them with fishing equipment?

no

but we have a shop in the hotel that does rent the equipment as well as bait

what sort of bait do they usually use?

uh

it's a preserved minnow of some variety

i don't know exactly what the fish is

well

what do they do after they fish from the window?

well

rock'n'roll bands and other guests as well often catch shark and squid and octopus and usually we

it lands up either in the bath tub or dribbled on the floor on the way to the bath tub

mm-mmh. but it's not reserved to

uh

to any rock'n'roll bands

i mean

other guests do it too

mm-mmh

but how frequently do you find squids and sharks and octopuses in the bath tubs of the rooms here at the hotel?

after almost any good weekend of pretty heavy occupancy

say like over half the house filled

if you have over the. way

way. over half house filled you'd find one

say?

yeah

say

one or something like that

so how often would you say that is each week? twice a week you'd find a.?

well

i would

i don't know that i would say that it would average to anything like that

you may find on four or five rooms with fish from various places

you know

around. but there's not much you can do with the shark after you've caught him

you know

some of these things are pretty big

what would you imagine is done with these

uh

sharks after they've been caught before they are left

uh

for you to be cleaned up?

sometimes the guest calls the houseman or housekeeper to haul it away because there's nothing that they can do with it

yeah

well. have you ever heard of any other things that were done with them before they were hauled away?

yes

a lot of

some people like to

uh

perform vivisection on 'em

or something like that. occasionally you find that little bit of mess. yeah

i'll say that the

the

the blood on the carpet" syndrome is rather