Here's the (unedited) Nine Questions column from the Tucson Weekly that came out today...
(
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/music/Content?oid=oid:68243 for the finished version.)
Matt Brown, originally from Alaska, moved here from Seattle a few years back, and occasionally does some writing for Seattle online music magazine Nada Mucho.
1. What was the first concert you ever saw?Chicago at the Tacoma Dome in 1985. I was seated in the nosebleed section behind the stage and nearly fell asleep. A few months later I saw Motley Crue on their "Theatre Of Pain" tour... a completely different story! It was all downhill from there...
2. What CDs are in your changer right now?My stereo equipment and most of my music collection is sitting in my friend John's garage while I look for a new home, but I've been listening to the new Maktub album,
Fireproof Your TV by Music Video, and DJ Karlito's
Success In Life mixtape quite a bit lately.
3. How many total albums do you own?I honestly can't keep track. Most of my vinyl is back in Seattle at my brother's house... a few hundred albums. I have well over a thousand CDs, and I was dedicated to cassettes as a teenager - five or six hundred tapes, at least. Never enough...
4. Do you download music, and if so, illegally?Thanks to the trend of posting MP3s on MySpace and indie label/band websites, I can satisfy my curiosity about new music without guilt before I purchase. I've certainly done quite a bit of file sharing, but my primary interest there is live recordings and out-of-print material. I have no qualms taking money out of the hands of bootleggers.
5. What was the first album you owned?Country Is by Tom T. Hall. My Uncle Robbie bought it for me when I was about six or seven. The first record I saved my allowance for and bought was
Crimes Of Passion by Pat Benatar.
6. What song would you like played at your funeral?"Ornery" by Nowhere Man... an old live version with Beth Holub on bass and Merritt Jacob playing the guitar solo! If you can't track that down, play James Brown's "Superbad (parts 1 and 2)" and let everyone dance on my grave until the sun comes up.
7. Musically speaking, what do you love that your friends don't know about? What are your guilty pleasures?I have no shame, but I've learned to downplay my love for Journey and the
Grease soundtrack in certain circles. I'm still the hardest rocking Hall and Oates fan you know.
8. What band or artist changed your life, and how?Seeing Soundgarden at an all-ages show in September of 1988 showed me that exploring your local music scene can turn out to be the most enriching musical experience of your life. I had no idea beforehand and, after witnessing that show, I'll certainly believe it until I die. Instead of wasting my time waiting for the Soundgarden reunion tour, I'm looking for a new band to impress me the way Chris, Kim, Hiro and Matt did way back then. Any takers?
9. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?Figurative? It would take an actual firearm to make me seriously ponder such a ludicrously hard question, but I can say that I never get tired of
Young, Loud and Snotty by Dead Boys, even though I've been listening to it regularly since I was nine. That's one hell of a cool record.
