CRASH KELLY

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CRASH KELLY
Q&A by: Rikki Rampage
Date: 12/03/04




1. NAME? Allister Thompson

2. PLACE OF BIRTH? Leicester, United Kingdom

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
Visiting my grandparents in Wales...they were great people.

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
First album I ever owned was the White Album by the Beatles. When I got my first guitar, I was going through a goth stage and was listening to The Cure.

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Guitar, and I still play it as well as I can.

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
I was a sports kid...that changed when I hit puberty. I've always liked to read.

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
Stole money off my parents once...my conscience is still smarting from that one! Sorry Mum!

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
Drama room, age 16, high school, playing in my first band, the horribly-named Feudal System. It went poorly, but I bounced back eventually.

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
In my second band, Toronto, 1994, Ultrasound Showbar. Broke two strings, had no backup guitar, slammed a car door on my bass player's hand (sorry, Craig). I can't remember if I played well.

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
Try to get out of the city and camp as much as possible. Read books...about music. Hang out with my lady.

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK? Drink: Newcastle Brown
Food: Anything I actually cooked myself.

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
Movie: Blade Runner
TV show: Seinfeld

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
Red by King Crimson, Thunder and Consolation by New Model Army, The Band (by The Band!), Black Rose by Thin Lizzy

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
I have no particular desire to meet anybody...anybody friendly will do!

15. MAKE 3 WISHES.
1) World peace, of course
2) I'd like to visit another galaxy, please. Can you arrange it?
3) Newcastle Brown for life

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
Well, I just bought some milk...

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
The whole damn state of the world...corporate globalization sucks! Also rude people, of which there are many on this planet.

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
Bovine Sex Club, Toronto

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
Someone took a dump once...you just DON'T do that!

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?
At this exact moment, I am listening to Forget Yourself by The Church, an awesome album.

[IRON BALLS]

1. NAME?
Sean Kelly

2. PLACE OF BIRTH?
North Bay, ON

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
Getting my first electric guitar

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
Kiss, Sweet, Bowie, T-Rex (my siter's 70's record collection), Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Ratt, Quiet Riot (early 80's sunset strip)

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Guitar was my first, I now play Guitar and sing with Crash Kelly. I also play bass and piano

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
Rock N Roll, Playing Hockey and anything to do with Star Wars

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
I got kicked out of school for a week when I went to a school trip in Paris, France for drinking and for sneaking out of my room to meet some Italian girls.

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
St. Jospeh-Scollard Hall Talent Show, we played Born To Be Wild, Takin Care of Business and Wild Thing...and I took a guitar solo!!

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
Outdoor concert in my hometown, playing dreadful versions of Van Halen tunes with a band that included two brothers who broke into a fight on stage over a missed note...ouch!

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
Read when I can, spend time hanging out with my wife, cooking.

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK?
Steak and Beer!!

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
Spinal Tap/ Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, Coronation Street

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
Appetite For Destruction, Too Fast For Love, Electric Warrior, Ziggy Stardust, LIve and Dangerous (Thin Lizzy), Shout At The Devil, Desolation Boulevard (Sweet), Van Halen (ST), Electric Ladyland, ....the list goes on and on....

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
The people who will be buying Penny Pills on January 25th in North America!!!

15. MAKE 3 WISHES.
I wish for- A new approach to US foreign relations (same thing as asking for world peace, in my opinion), the abililty to make my wife happy, becuase she deserves the best, and the ability to meet The Maker on the day I die and tell Him that I lived my life the best way that I could

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
The latest issue of Classic Rock Magaizne from the UK

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
Children who are hurting because of something an adult did, people who harp on the faults of others without looking at their own faults, people who teard down the beliefs and dreams of others in order to make themselves feel more important.

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
I'm a sucker for the big stage, outdoor festivals in the summer time. I also love playing the Underground in London, UK . It was also an honour to play the mainstage at Rock City in Nottingham, UK!

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
Robin Black trying to blame me for the crap he took on our tour bus during the Enuff Z'Nuff/Crash Kelly/Robin Black tour in Ireland!

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?
Wildhearts - The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed!

[IRON BALLS]

1. NAME?
Eric 'Hurricane' Herrmann

2. PLACE OF BIRTH?
Cleveland, Ohio USA

3. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
[let's just say it involved 'Cousin Ruthie']

4. FIRST MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
The Beatles

5. FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY NOW?
Drums, drums and more drums

6. YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES GROWING UP?
[let's just say it also involved 'Cousin Ruthie']

7. WORST THING YOU DID AS A TEENAGER?
['Cousin Ruthie', again]

8. YOUR FIRST GIG EVER AS A MUSICIAN?
A cover band called 'Crystal Rain'. I started playing club gigs with them when i was just 17.

9. YOUR WORST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER?
Spring Concert, Riverside High School Symphonic Band, Painesville Township, Ohio. I had just been released from the hospital that afternoon, after having been operated on for a deviated septum. My face was all bandaged up and I was so miserable that I could barely play. Halfway through the performance, I coughed up a huge bloody loogie that landed smack-dab in the middle of the timpani head with a resounding 'BOING', as if to punctuate the entire experience.

10. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO OTHER THAN MUSIC NOW DAYS?
[not 'Cousin Ruthie' anymore]

11. FAVORITE FOOD AND DRINK?
Pizza and Jameson Irish Whiskey. Not together.

12. FAVORITE MOVIE / TV SHOWS?
Movies: Wings of Desire, Raising Arizona, The Fisher King, any of the classic Universal horror films, anything with the Marx Brothers; TV: The Daily Show, Trailer Park Boys, Reno 911, re-runs of The Young Ones and The Avengers (Emma Peel was my first crush: Diana Rigg in a leather catsuit = grrrrrrrrr...)

13. NAME A FEW OF YOUR MOST FAVORITE ALBUMS.
You're kidding, right? OK, top five, off the top of my head, at this particular moment and in no particular order: The Rolling Stones 'Some Girls', Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Fever to Tell', Led Zeppelin 'Physical Graffiti', Jeff Buckley 'Grace', Radiohead 'OK Computer', Rod Stewart 'Every Picture Tells a Story', Echo and the Bunnymen 'Heaven Up Here', Three Dog Night 'Greatest Hits', Freedy Johnston 'This Perfect World', anything by The Beatles, AC/DC 'Highway to Hell', The Who 'Live at Leeds.' Is that five yet?

14. PEOPLE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET?
The person who came up with this questionnaire

15. MAKE 3 WISHES.
I wish I could meet the person who came up with this questionnaire; I wish my 'Cousin Ruthie' would stop calling me; I wish I had Bianca back

16. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
A porn DVD

17. WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD?
Filling out this questionnaire is pretty high on the list right now

18. YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PERFORM AT?
Bed

19. WORST TOUR BUS STORY?
I have never ridden on a tour bus, but once when I was playing in The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, our van broke down at the side of a highway about 40 miles outside Cleveland in a blinding snowstorm. We called a tow-truck to pick up the van, but only two of us could ride in the truck, so I had to call my best friend Keith to come pick up the other two. Keith owned a Mazda Miata at the time. Let's just say it was a very uncomfortable ride.

20. WHAT IS IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?
The porn DVD I bought somehow got stuck in there.

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