What is your first musical memory?
Piano lessons at age 6 (I can’t remember much of anything before that, anyway…)
What was the first album you owned?
Humble Pie - As Safe as Yesterday Is/Town and Country double set
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
Professional Cynic
What song do you wish you had written?
“When in Rome” by Phil Ochs
What was the first concert you attended?
Humble Pie/J. Geils Band
What three bands or artists, dead or alive, would be part of your ultimate one-night concert performance?
Joy Division, Big Star (with Chris Bell), Bob Dylan (with the Band, circa 1966)
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
Oboe
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Van Dyke Parks
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
“Island”
What one album can you not live without?
Pink Flag (Wire)
Who was (or is) your biggest influence as a musician?
Iggy Pop
Compiled by Bob Ham
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