What is your first musical memory?
Discovering my parents' vinyl collection in the back of some cabinets
in our living room when I was 9. I think I listened to the Neil
Diamond album Tap Root Manuscript like a billion times.
What was the first album you owned?
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
Architect? Sommelier? Octogenarian?
What song do you wish you had written, and why?
“The Way Young Lovers Do� - Van Morrison. Why? Erm, ‘cause it's the
greatest song of all time?
What was the first concert you attended?
My parents DRAGGED me to Michael Jackson on the Thriller tour. I was
too cool to even care then (idiot). Two weeks later my and my punk
friends went to see Kiss - Animalize. Queensryche opened, natch.
Who would be in your ultimate three-band, live performance lineup, dead or alive?
Levon Helm, Otis Redding and Prince.
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
Jew’s harp.
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Dudes from Underworld and George Harrison. I mean, I know he's dead,
but it's a wish list isn't it?
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
“Ruby Falls.�
What album can you not live without?
Love and Rockets - Earth, Sun, Moon.
What was your first pop star romantic crush/fantasy?
Lita Ford. Holy Fucking shit she was hott.
Guster's Ganging Up on the Sun is released June 20, 2006 on Reprise Records.
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