Richard O'Brien.

What would Rocky Horror be without it's bald-headed, walking fashion
statement of a creator? Not a whole hell of a lot.

And so it is particularly fitting that not only did Richard contribute his
thoughts and rememberances of Rocky to the piece, but also hosted
and introduced the other speakers on the show.

This seems very fitting indeed to me. If there was one thought that has
always recurred in my mind, it is that Richard possesses the smooth
voice of a radio announcer. And he showed it in this context.

And without further ado . . . Richard O'Brien.

Richard Discusses his guitar playing skills

RO'B: We were kind of locked into a kind of fifties kind of feel, there's no
doubt about that, but that wasn't because we were parodying the fifties, it
was  actually where I was FROM . . . it was all I KNEW . . . I only
knew three chords, I STILL only know about five or six chords, my
guitar playing hasn't improved.

Richard on Frank N Furter

RO'B: In my imagination, Frank N. Furter was a kind of hybrid creature.
There's a little bit of Cruella DeVille, from 101 Dalmatians, definitely, I was
aware of that when I was writing it, and it was also-it was a little bit of Ivan
the Terrible Part 1.

Richard and guitars, part two

RO'B: The guitar to me, as far as I'm concerned, is a drum. A drum that's
basically in tune. When I first got my first guitar, I didn't know how to tune 
it, so I just used to dampen down the strings and do that (chugs on the 
guitar) it's a drum. And that's alright . . . and after a while someone showed
me how to tune it and get a chord, and it's STILL a drum. I rather like it.

The Time Warp

Richard's thoughts on Oklahoma! Go Ritz!!

RO'B: One thing I didn't EVER like about musicals,  was that they always
SOUNDED like musicals. Perfect example, of course, is Oklahoma! and
now here we have cowboys in Western America singing show songs and not
Country and Western songs. And it ALWAYS annoyed me. I don't
understand why a cowboy should be singing "The corn is as high as an
elephant's eye" for instance. That's a very strange kind of reference point, an
elephant's eye . . . a sodbuster's eye?  I don't know . .  A Cherokee Indian's
eye? I don't know, something Western would have been good . . .

So, I wanted a rock-n-roll show.

Discussing when the script was written

RO'B: I was talking to a friend later, and I said "Do you know what I'd like to
do- I'd like to see a rock-n-roll musical. I'd love to be in one, or see one,
or be part of it" and my friend said "Ok, let's write it together" and I said "Fine"
and I sat down with a piece of paper and a pencil, and he went off and opened up
recording studio.By the time he came back from doing that, he said, "Let's
write the musical" and I said, "Well, actually, I've written it, and it's going on
at the Royal Court theatre in about two weeks time".