Re: The Well 69: ImmortalSix
#1 Ace, Gene, Peter, or Paul - and WHY?
Peter Criss, fo sho --- listen all the way 'til the end of
this song to find out why, starts at about 5:15.
#2 If you found yourself thrown back in time, what band would you go and help make what album? (To improve junk, or make a bajillion dollars just because you can already play it!)
I would make He Is Legend follow up "I Am Hollywood" with a proper "He Is Legend" album --- as soon as I heard their follow-up "Suck Out the Poison," my buddy and I looked at each other and said "They either had 1) a lineup change or 2) a label change." Sure as the sunrise, they had a label change. Their "
I Am Hollywood" album was so incredible, and they really fell flat after that. I wouldn't play, I would just do the production. Not everyone knows this, but I have 3 years' university education in audio technology and music production. I was close to a double major, but didn't have the money to stay in school one more semester.
#3 One moment you would like to relive? One moment you would like to forget?
Relive: my sophomore year of college --- I know it's not a moment, but man --- it was such a hard year, but the most fun year of my whole life. I was having such a good time and working so hard, I was like superman. That was the year my Jeep exploded, I lost my job, I was on academic probation, and I partied hard and hung out with crazy babes, and was really just a highly functioning college ass-kicking machine.
Forget: The moment that I ran from my classroom on April 16, 2007 --- we were 2 buildings away from the mass-murder and we were told to run faster than fast outta there by a SWAT team --- I was scared. Truly scared. We had been watching on CNN, it was so surreal, seeing the building we were in on live TV, it was awful. We were watching the death tally rise and rise, up to the 30s before SWAT got in and sprung us. There was a moment there, where I thought about my family, my girl, my life, and thought, if I'm ever going to get a bullet in the brain, it's going to be in the next 60 seconds. We didn't know it was just one killer --- we all assumed it was dozens because the death toll was so high. We figured they were on rooftops, in windows everywhere.
SWAT got into our building and ordered us to run to the commuter parking lot as fast as we could.
I fully accepted there was a chance of getting shot.
I had this black Hurley hat that I had had since my freshman year, and I was a senior at the time, 3 weeks away from graduation, and no-****, I ran so fast my hat blew off my head --- I paused to turn around, just out of habit or reflex, and felt this pulse of, I don't know, not emotion, not fear, just a pulse of "Oh ****," like I was a moving target and I had stopped and now I was going to get shot and die.
I made it home, here I am.
I could have gone my whole life without that moment.
#4 As no one else has touched this, and it is Well #69 - top three positions in the sack!
You wish!
#5 Greatest guitsr poser of all time? Most unnappreciated guitarist of all time?
Greatest poser:
THE ENTIRE 80'S
Most underappreciated: Trey Anastasio. People see him as a hippie icon, but really he is just a kick-ass-and-take-names guitar player, from the floor up. I recognized this when I heard Phish do covers --- he is better than the original guitar player on every single cover!
#6 Guilty pleasure snack food that you could eat until you expoded, if necessary?
Pork ribs, pork ribs, pork ribs. No sweet sauce for me, give me that dry rub!