Tim Trivia:
*Tim began his career in 1969, releasing an album on Faraday Records. He calls the music "a period piece," in that it was full of psychadelic rock and had an angry sense of unrest in it.
*Tim freely admits today that he only married his first wife, Nancy, to win points with his then-boss (and Nancy's uncle) John Faraday. The tactic worked. A few years into the marriage, Tim was given a managerial position at the label and had worked his way up to Vice President by the time it folded in 1984.
*He began seeing fellow Faraday artist Victoria Grant in 1976, while still married to his first wife. Tim and Vicky moved in together in 1978 and he adopted her two sons by a previous relationship, Keith and Jake. The couple was married in December, 1988, after a decade of cohabitating. When asked why, Tim shrugged, "We figured it was time to finally make it legal."
*Tim has always been a bit flighty - some would even say spacey - but he insists that a lot of that is an act and that he's actually very together.
*He became very close friends with Tony, when the JLN artists were using the Faraday building in the early 1980s. The duo would often spend hours on end in Tim's office, listening to classic rock and reminiscing about their lost youth.
*Tim has never been a big fan of Joel and vice versa. While Tim was at Faraday, Joel coined him the "Do Nothing Exec," while Tim perfected a wicked Joel impersonation that became infamous around the Faraday (later to become JLN) building. When Joel purchased Faraday in 1984, Tim was the very first person he fired and rumor has it that when Joel called Tim into his office to break the news, Tim beat him to the punch, asking in his dead-on Joel voice, "You're gonna fire me, right?"
*While at Faraday, Tim had a penchant for giving every other person he knew a job at the label. He would often hire waitresses in coffee shops to be secretaries and even appointed an elderly man whom he routinely walked his dog with as the "Director of Elevator Safety," a job that basically entailed riding in the elevator all day long.
*The meetings he insists the Vyro artists attend were actually something routinely done at Faraday Records. Interestingly, Tim hated the meetings at the time and would duck out of them whatever way he could. In the instances where he could not, he would often act as comic relief for the artists present, hopping up on the boardroom table and doing his Elvis impression to 'warm the crowd up' for his former boss John.
*While he often comes off to his employees as somewhat of an ogre, Tim is actually a very nice, free spirited person.
*Tim freely admits today that he only married his first wife, Nancy, to win points with his then-boss (and Nancy's uncle) John Faraday. The tactic worked. A few years into the marriage, Tim was given a managerial position at the label and had worked his way up to Vice President by the time it folded in 1984.
*He began seeing fellow Faraday artist Victoria Grant in 1976, while still married to his first wife. Tim and Vicky moved in together in 1978 and he adopted her two sons by a previous relationship, Keith and Jake. The couple was married in December, 1988, after a decade of cohabitating. When asked why, Tim shrugged, "We figured it was time to finally make it legal."
*Tim has always been a bit flighty - some would even say spacey - but he insists that a lot of that is an act and that he's actually very together.
*He became very close friends with Tony, when the JLN artists were using the Faraday building in the early 1980s. The duo would often spend hours on end in Tim's office, listening to classic rock and reminiscing about their lost youth.
*Tim has never been a big fan of Joel and vice versa. While Tim was at Faraday, Joel coined him the "Do Nothing Exec," while Tim perfected a wicked Joel impersonation that became infamous around the Faraday (later to become JLN) building. When Joel purchased Faraday in 1984, Tim was the very first person he fired and rumor has it that when Joel called Tim into his office to break the news, Tim beat him to the punch, asking in his dead-on Joel voice, "You're gonna fire me, right?"
*While at Faraday, Tim had a penchant for giving every other person he knew a job at the label. He would often hire waitresses in coffee shops to be secretaries and even appointed an elderly man whom he routinely walked his dog with as the "Director of Elevator Safety," a job that basically entailed riding in the elevator all day long.
*The meetings he insists the Vyro artists attend were actually something routinely done at Faraday Records. Interestingly, Tim hated the meetings at the time and would duck out of them whatever way he could. In the instances where he could not, he would often act as comic relief for the artists present, hopping up on the boardroom table and doing his Elvis impression to 'warm the crowd up' for his former boss John.
*While he often comes off to his employees as somewhat of an ogre, Tim is actually a very nice, free spirited person.