Nachgefragt… bei Dearly Beloved

I am… DEARLY BELOVED. SO ARE YOU, AND WE’RE NOT ALONE. LIFE, LOVE, DEATH IS OUR STORY.

I would never ever… VOTE FOR STEPHEN HARPER, THE CURRENT PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA.

I would instantly… FILL WITH RAGE, AS WOULD MANY OF MY FELLOW CANADIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF BILL C-51, PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACT BY THE STEPHEN HARPER ADMINISTRATION, BECOME REALITY.

In my next life… I’D LIKE TO BE BETTER AT EVERYTHING.

If only I had known… NIKOLA TESLA.

It is long overdue… THAT THE KEYS TO CANADA BE TAKEN AWAY FROM PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER. GO HOME . STEPHEN, YOU’VE HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK.

Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’Roll… ARE ALL WONDERFUL THINGS AND IT CAN BE SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO RELATE TO OTHER HUMANS THAT CAN’T APPRECIATE ALL THREE. BUT, HEY, WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT.

The first record in my collection… COMBAT ROCK BY THE CLASH.

A band worth seeing live… IS NOMEANSNO. THEY ARE NOT TO BE MISSED AND IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM ROLL THROUGH YOUR TOWN DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND GET TO THE SHOW. BUY THE ALBUM, ‘WRONG’, AS SOON AS YOU’RE DONE READING THIS, SHOULD YOU NOT OWN IT, AND ENJOY WHAT JUST MIGHT BE THE GREATEST ALBUM, FRONT TO BACK, TOP TO BOTTOM, OF ALL TIME.

A band I would have loved to see… BAD BRAINS.

The best show we ever played… WE OPENED FOR MIKE WATT AND THE MISSINGMEN IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK AT THE JOINERS … WE’VE PLAYED BIGGER SHOWS THAN THAT ONE BUT THAT NIGHT WAS TRULY SPECIAL. MIKE WATT STOOD DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME FOR OUR ENTIRE SET WITH THIS GREAT BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE. HE WAS RIGHT THERE AT MY FEET, RIGHT IN FRONT MY WEDGE, AND IT FELT LIKE TIME SLOWED A BIT AND WE WERE ALL ABLE TO SPEND MORE OF IT WITH EACH AND EVERY NOTE AND WITH EACH AND EVERY BEAT. GREAT MEMORY.

The worst show we ever played… WAS SHOWCASING FOR OUR MANAGEMENT COMPANY’S OWNER. OH MAN, WHAT A NIGHTMARE. OUR GUITAR PLAYER AT THE TIME HAD A BIT OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN RIGHT ON STAGE DURING OUR SET. LONG STORY BUT JUST IMAGINE A BAND DOING THEIR THING AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE OF THEM DEVELOPS A STRANGE FORM OF TURRETS WHILE FLOPPING ON THE GROUND, SORT OF LIKE A FISH, IN A POOL OF THEIR OWN BEER AND SUFFERING. (HE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER SO WE CAN LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW. SORT OF.)

The best thing in our band history … TOURING, ALWAYS, WE’VE PLAYED NINE COUNTRIES NOW AND THAT RULES. BUT OTHER THAN THAT I’M HAPPY THAT MAKING EACH RECORD HAS BEEN PURE MADNESS, AND THE RESULT IS THAT EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE BEFORE IT. THAT IS NOT PREMEDITATED, IT’S JUST HOW THINGS HAVE WORKED OUT. A FLOW, IF YOU WILL. WE’VE MADE CHOICES TO PUT OURSELVES IN SITUATIONS THAT PROMOTE THE REQUISITE CHAOS FOR US TO DO OUR THING BUT EACH RECORDING PROCESS HAS HAD SOME DEGREE OF SYNCHRONICITY AT WORK. AND WE STILL LOVE TO PLAY SONGS FROM OUR FIRST ALBUM, ‘YOU ARE THE JAGUAR’, I’M GLAD WE DONT HATE THAT RECORD, QUITE THE CONTRARY, ACTUALLY.

The worst thing in our band history … AN 18 MONTH PERIOD OF NOT PLAYING SHOWS DUE TO LEGAL BULLSHIT THAT WAS A RESULT OF A CHOICE WE MADE TO LEAVE ONE LABEL FOR ANOTHER. LIVE AND LEARN. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR BECAUSE YOU MIGHT JUST GET IT.

Looking back… CANADA USED TO BE A MUCH DIFFERENT COUNTRY THAN IT IS NOW, AND I CAN’T STAND WHAT STPHEN HARPER HAS DONE TO IT, AND IS STILL DOING TO IT.

In 10 years… EXPRESSING MYSELF FREELY IN A FORUM LIKE THIS COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR ME AND OUR BAND WITH OUR CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IF PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER HAS HIS WAY.

 
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