Fred Schmidt:  

So let me address the "hair" business straight off...have had a lot of questions about that. You see, it was never about the hair in the first place. It was all about the expression of individuality - an understandable response to 9 years of repression and persecution over at St. Anne's before a mutual parting of the ways and moving full time over to WHS. Before the current look (almost 2 years now) I actually still sported a good 6-inch pony tail but got tired of it. My daughter challenged me to get an ear pierced when she did hers on her 12th birthday so, of course, I did. That led to shaving the head (first time) for that CIA look -- love it; quite hassle free. Then I painted my beard afro jet black. (I wanted blue but my daughter said jet black would be cooler. What do I know, I'm partially color blind anyway! LOL.) So for the rest of the particulars... Been living in Austin, TX for most of the past 20 years, but also have a home in LA and spend a lot of time there. Life is heavily work focused - everything still in the entertainment business, following my lifelong career adventure. Continue to do occasional radio and TV talent work, but mostly in support of my primary businesses. I am a principal in two companies: Co-Founder & President of WILD ABOUT MUSIC Art & Gift Galleries, a unique music lifestyle store and website based in Austin. Also am President/CEO of my 4th computer games company, Thriller New Media, also Austin-based, which focuses on military/spy/action online multiplayer games developed from original books and, eventually, made into film projects. On the personal side, I have a wonderful life and business partner in Shelley Meyer who runs the day-to-day operations of Wild About Music. I have a terrific son who is 26 and a college grad with a poly-sci degree looking for a career in politics or government. And an amazing 14-year-old daughter who came into our lives from South Korea as a baby who is about ...Expand for more