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"Matt
is a wordsmith-railer. He is a genius of language."
"He
is a fork-tongued half-wit. I don't know how he roped me into this project
but he'll be paying for it with his soul in hell"
"You've rocked harder than you ever thought you could, and you sang higher than you thought you could, and now you can play guitar better than you thought you ever could, and you realize that it's all down to getting some soul across and saying something meaningful"
"Fool-Killer" (Rookie Card)
"I'm not rich and I play the drums, that's pretty much me"
A Trip Shakespeare Highlight: "In Milwaukee we met John Paul Jones who plays in Led Zeppelin, and it was just good to meet him"
Any Favorite
songs? "Spirit moves me the most"
"John
is like an 8 foot bear, except 6 1/2 feet."
"Very large rough and tumble fingers for playing the bass"
"Collossus"
"St. Paul Dandy, he was 6 1/2 feet tall"
"When we make music, that's like the greatest joy you can have in life. You're expressing to each other and to the audience, there's just no other joy I've experienced in life...."
"She does the drumming"
"You
could never understand her"
"Dazzler"
"I'm a drummer, percussionist, a rhythmist, time divider, and that's all there is for me. Drums. I feel like drums came first"
"Drums
are loud and powerful and some people think that that's not what women
should be, but they're wrong, I play with power."
"I always
played the drums standing up.... I can get a lot of energy flowing throughout
and doing it sitting down never made any sense to me"
"Dan is an artist"
"We make
music in the motel rooms, in the bar before the show, you never know when
something beautiful is going to happen"
"Professor X"
"Dan sings like a canary"
"Dignified brother"
"Dan invents melodies"
A Trip Shakespeare Highlight: "My favorite moment at Paisley Park, I was complaining about Barry Manilow, and I was moaning and everyone was trying to get me to shut up, and then a door slammed and everyone cracked up and The Man was standing behind me, probably thinking "Who is this pipsqueak?"
A Favorite
Song: Snow Days