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AMERICAN DOG
Q&A by: Rikki Rampage
Date: 1/03/05






1. NAME?
Michael Hannon

2. PLACE OF BIRTH?
Columbus, Ohio

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
none

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
probably the brass flavored music my parents were listening to, "Chase", Blood, Sweat and Tears","Chicago Transit Authority" ect.

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Trumpet was my first instrument, I played it from jr. high to High School
My Senior year I played Trumpet in Concert band, Tim -Toms in Marching band and bass in Jazz band.

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
Tryingt to get laid, and Rock-n-Roll

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
Not get Laid

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
At a club called "Swallows"!! in Zanesville, Ohio

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
Lancaster , Ohio after an employee of the bar decided to spike our drinks (an asshole thing to do!)

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
Sex and Alcohol, I enjoy long bicycle rides as well, I do 15 miles a day when the weather permits, I'm also a die-hard Cleveland Browns fan.

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK?
Best Meal: Steak (Medium Rare) Baked Potato and Green Beans with a big glass of Milk
Favorite Drink: Beer, my Brand "Milwaukees Best Light"

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
Movies:
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Pulp Fiction
Natural Born Killers
Henry: Portrai of...
Street Trash (Troma)
Patton

TV:
Seinfeld
Bugs Bunny
Simpsons
Family Guy

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
Ted Nugent - S/T
Aerosmith - Rocks
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Nazareth - Razamanaz
AC/DC - Powerage
KISS - Alive
Motorhead - Another Perfect Day
Rose Tattoo - Rock-n-Roll Outlaw
Hank 3 - Rising Outlaw
Alice Cooper - Killer

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
Ted Nugent
Quentin Tarantino
Bruce Campbell

15. IF YOU WAS ON AMERICAN IDOL, WHAT COVER TUNE WOULD YOU SING?
"More Beer" by FEAR

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
Two 15 packs of Strohs Beer

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
Running out of Strohs

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
Directly below a sweat covered super model

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
When I was in Dangerous Toys, the bus lost power in the middle of Colorado, yep you guessed it right in the middle of the Rockies. We had to push the bastard up a hill , til we could get it started by coasting down a hill!

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?
Ted Nugent's "Free for All"

21. WHATS NEXT FOR YOU IN THE NEW?
We'll have the new cd, so it'll be tons of press in January, February and March are booked solid with gigs, the last week of April will be in Germany, then it's on to France, Holland and Belgium

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1. NAME?
Keith Pickens

2. PLACE OF BIRTH?
Cow-lumbus

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
Playing along to Kiss, ZZ TOP and Deep Purple records, driving my parents to drink, ect...

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
See above

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Started on Guitar, moved on to the drum kit after seeing a Rush concert at the age of ten

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
Riding dirt bikes, blowing shit up, all the regular crap delinquents do

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
I plead the Fifth(don't want to incriminate myself)

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
At the Charlie Horse in Lancaster, Ohio at the age of 14

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
See above

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
Ride my motorcycle, fly small aircraft, Listen to Stern

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK?
Pepsi and Hotfries

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
TV--Law and Order
Movie---Dawn of the Dead

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
Motorhead---We are Motorhead, Bastards, Inferno, Sacrifice, Snakebite Love
Deep Purple---Machine Head
Zepplin--All
ZZ Top-- All the old stuff(before the electronic drums and the fucking sampling bullshit)
Kiss-- Everything pre-Love Gun
Stevie Ray Vaughn--ALL
Iron Maiden--All(before Blaze Bailey)
The list goes on...........

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
John Bohnam, Keith Moon, Jonn F. Kennedy(was Monroe really a good lay?), Lemmy,

15. IF YOU WAS ON AMERICAN IDOL, WHAT COVER TUNE WOULD YOU SING?
( please be silly here ) Super Freak by Rick James(I'm dead bitch!!)

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
10 gallons of gas

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
The price of ten gallons of gas

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
Spirit of 66(Belgium-Francis ROCKS!), LeeDogs in Marysville, Clarks bar in Coshocton, Anywhere in France, Really, just about anywhere is cool.

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
Two tours ago, France, with the Brain Surgeons, all of it(shows were fantastic, trips in-between were nearly homicidal from a sober point-of-view)

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW? Salty Dog

21. WHATS NEXT FOR YOU IN THE NEW?
Work, more sex than last year, work, more sex than last year ect.....

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1. NAME?
Steve"piggy"Theado

2. PLACE OF BIRTH?
Cumblowus Oh.

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
1st drag race!

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
Elton John(no comments please!!!!)Then I really got into Thin Lizzy,UFO,and Sweet

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Drums, now I slop through guitar.

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
Building model cars and drawing.

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
I was the kid that got in touble when my friends f*cked up. Always an innocent
bystander!! yeah that's it!!!

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
Me and my high school buddies rented a huge American Legion hall and threw a party, it was packed, it was great, we really sucked!!!!

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
Finding my favorite guitar broken in southern France,having cord problems,breaking a string on my back up and having to borrow a guitar from the opener. The strap locks were'nt the same so I had to play with the guitar up around my throat till they could fix my strap, all the while the drummer was setting off this decibal meter they had in the club which really f*cked with the sound!! It was a nightmare (But the BEEER was good!!)

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
Drink BEEER and collect baseball cards.

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK?
Samual Smith's Taddy Porter and a hot chile con carne' or any ole' BEEER and Pizza

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
No TV unless there is a football game on. Any Godzilla movie will do.

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
Tommy Bolin-private eyes, Alice Cooper-killers, Elton-goodbye yellow brick road,Thin Lizzy-live and dangerous,Temple of the Dog, Kiss-alive, Steve Vai-sex and religion, and anything by Lyle Lovett!!! Oh yeah,and Reverend Horton Heat-liquor up front

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
The guy that brews Stone's Smoke Porter, he's got to be an arrogant bastard!

15. IF YOU WAS ON AMERICAN IDOL, WHAT COVER TUNE WOULD YOU SING?
How dry I am...

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
BEEER and power tools, what a combo!!!

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
Acclaimed mediocrity

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
Spirit of 66,Vervier Belgium
and the Newport Music Hall right here at home.

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
White castles and the bus are the worst story every time.

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?
Tori Amos' new one,was Brides of Destruction

21. WHATS NEXT FOR YOU IN THE NEW?
Working the hell out of the band and new CD! I'm hyped about
the record,it's gonna be the year of the Dog!!!!!!

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