Crush On Econoline Crush

Trevor Speaks

The Vancouver Province

Q: You've had one of your songs on Melrose Place, so that makes you as expert by association. So, what do you think will happen with Amanda and Kyle?

A: An emotionally weak Kyle will be sucked into the twisted vortex of deception, created by the obsessive Taylor, leaving Amanda bitchy, bitter and well, relatively the same.

Q: What was the name of your first band?

A: Red X- a herbicide banned due to its dangerous toxic side effects.

Q: Where did the name Econoline Crush come from? Did you make out in the back of a van or what?

A: My parent's owned an Econoline (van) when I was in high school, and the band was named in honor. I will neither confirm or deny any or all involvement in acts involving sex, drinking or drugs, concerning said van. No, I will not submit to a urine test.

Q: Are you a cat person or a dog person?

A: I'm a dog person, although I met a cool cat named Murray that is endearing me to cats.

Q: What is a favourite thing to do on a day off?

A: No, I will not sumit to a urine test.

Q: Do you get recognized on the bus?

A: No, I blend in well with all the other residents of East VanHalen!

Q: Do girls go crazy for you?

A: Only after I took Raven the Impossibllist's spiritually hypnotic path to the super-conscious worlds was I able to make women swoon. Look deep into my eyes...

Q: You're a small town prairie boy, right? What do the folks in your hometown (Verdin, Manitoba) think about your hair?

A: "Ah, you still like girls, right?" "Still not making any money in the music biz, eh?"

Q: Mousse or gel?

A: Pomade, it even sounds stylish!

Q: What are you wearing to the Junos?

A: The tea coloured polyester suit I purchased but never got to wear to grad!

Q: If you sell a gizzillon records what will you do with the money?

A: Buy that doublewide I've always had my eye on.

Q: Time for some road stories. What's the weirdest place you ever played?

A: Yucatan's Taco Stand, Calgary.

Q: Finish this sentence: Left by myself I would...?

A:... be alone.

Q: If you were stranded on some remote island somewhere and you had only three CD's what would they be?

A: Prince, Purple Rain; Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen; Rolling Stones, Black and Blue.

Q: What did you play over and over again when you were 16?

A: The Cult, Love.

Q: What music did you pretend to like to get girls?

A: The Grease soundtrack.

Q: What has been the best gig you have ever seen and why?

A: Beck, the OK Hotel in Seattle, 200 people. The then little-known artist rocked the house.

Q: You most embarrasing moment?

A: Admitting earlier in this questionaire that I actually know what's happening on Melrose Place.

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