MUSIC INTERVIEW

1. Are you into music?
- yeah fo sho! listen to that shit 24/7, tappin my fingers and feet every second, always thinking of a song or lyrics or beat in my head. shit keeps me going, besides art.

2. What music instruments have you played?
- taught myself how to play drums, took band in 5th grade and played the trumpet, piano lessons from kinder or 1st grade - 4th grade. taught myself a little bit guitar, its sketchy tho.

3. What made you want to learn how to play the drums?
- shows. seeing bands and watching the drummers bang away is always good. that nice live sound and everything. since everythings so loud the drums caught my ear the most and i wanted to try it out. so i stuck to it and bought my drumset a few years back at sam ash with my own moola.

4. How was your experience playing the trumpet in the school band?
- it was aight. i wasnt really into it but i made sure i wasnt the worst of the trumpet group. i sailed through the whole thing.

5. Did you decided to play the trumpet?
- naw naw naw... it was my parents. they heard about some band exhibit just before the whole band class started and they wanted to check it out. so we went and the wanted my to try out the trumpet. thought itd be a good experience and all that stuff. id say it was a good experience. i just wish id rememeber the stuff i learned. i think all i can play now is mary had a little lamb. cant get bitches with that.

6. Have you taken any music classes in school?
- sure have. got the trumpet/band in 5th grade. history of music in freshman year. talked about the beginning of music - elvis. shit was tight. fall semester of college i took history of classical music. everything from old baroque music - 19th century opera - early jazz and now history of rock and roll. everything from slave songs - blues & jazz - country and gospel - R&B and rock adn roll.

7. Do you plan on moving forward in music?
- i plan on buying a new drum set. probably a 6 piece one. ive always wanted to get back in playing the piano but when i try and play it doesnt flow like how it used to when i was younger. so i usually end up stopping and coming back to it after a few months.

8. Do you think youll play music for the rest of yur life?
- mmm probably. yeah probably because im really into it and theres always room for improvement and its coo trying new shit. seeing what beats work with what and all that. music is a great way to squeeze out those creative juices. talkin bout endless possibilities.

9. What bands do you find highly inspirational?
- mmm lots of them. a big mix of what my brother and my dad listened to. so probably the beatles, sex pistols, glassjaw, ramones, old weezer, like the stuff from their blue album and pinkerton. shits always good to listen to. cat stevens, radiohead, elvis, the rat pack, jim croce, explosions in the sky, mogwai and more. i dunno. theres a lot of bands that i listened to that lead to more and more bands and different genres.

10. What musicians do you find highly inspirational?
- thom yorke, questlove, daryl palumbo, john lennon, elvis, buddy rich, jamie foxx, soulja boy, MOZART! cmon... foo was a kid prodigy! read up on that foo. i highly recommend it. or watch AMADEUS. do it. Johannes Brahms, franz listz, frederic chopin and beethoven... gotta have beethoven. nigga played the piano a bit deaf and memorized the keys by their vibrations... too crazy.

11. Anything you advice others?
- take music classes. learn about the history of genres and read up on musicians. shits interesting.