What is your first musical memory?
Songs from the Free to Be... You and Me record.
What was the first album you owned?
The Stranger by Billy Joel. On vinyl. My mom bought it for me in the early 80's. Followed shortly by the Beat Street soundtrack, which is the first time I ever heard scratching, and freaked out.
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
A chiroptologist - one who studies bats.
What song do you wish you had written?
"St. Ides Heaven"
What was the first concert you attended?
Steel Pulse, The Orpheum Theatre, Boston MA
What artists, dead or alive, would be part of your ultimate one-night concert performance?
ABBA, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Prince, and The Meters
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
the spoons
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Tchad Blake and/or Jon Brion for production (they don't work together as far as I know, but that *would* be a hell of a team), and Low for musicians.
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
"Baby Ruth"
What albums can you not live without?
Morphine's Good, Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, King Tubby Meets
Rockers Uptown, Robert Johnson complete
Who was (or is) your biggest influence as a musician?
John Bonham
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