What is your first musical memory?
Stumbling into a neighbor’s party on my street where older kids were playing spin the bottle and Purple Rain was blaring… so these were two things I’d never experienced before…I think maybe my musical memory was born that day.
What was the first album you owned?
I played a lot of my parents’ old 45’s (Buddy Holly, Elvis, etc.), but the first album (cassette!) I remember going out to buy was Men At Work’s Business As Usual.
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
I suppose I’d be a reclusive book peddler in some sweet little book shop teetering on the brink of bankruptcy at every moment (oh, wait…I’ve done that a few times already).
What song do you wish you had written?
“The Big Ship” by Brian Eno (on Another Green World)
What was the first concert you attended?
Hall and Oates/’Till Tuesday at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center -- My parents bought nosebleed tickets, but I was mesmerized by the fact that human beings congregated this way…I was hooked!
What three bands or artists, dead or alive, would be part of your ultimate one-night concert performance?
The Band, The Velvet Underground, and The Beatles…in that order and in their prime.
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
Drums!
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Daniel Lanois, Joseph Arthur, Broken Social Scene…(or even if I could just stand in one of BSS’s photos…)
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
Oooh...that’s a hard one. “Over and Over” from our new record if the time capsule is mine, “American Prehistoric” (title track) if it’s for the time capsule at the county fair.
What one album can you not live without?
The Jesus and Mary Chain's Stoned and Dethroned. This record has traveled with me to more places than anything else I own.
Who was (or is) your biggest influence as a musician?
I’ll have to take the easy out on this one and say my band mates, of course. We’ve known each other long enough to say that with all certainty.
Compiled by Bob Ham
Photo: Joshua Black Williams
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Warm In The Wake 's American Prehistoric is released August 28, 2007 on Livewire Records.
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