A quick way to calibrate people's tastes on here and maybe get some discussions going...
(I'll answer separately so it's easier to cut and paste the questions)
1) First album you owned/purchased?
The Offspring - americana
2) Most recent album you purchased?
Eric Clapton collection
3) First live show?
Pittsburgh Blues Festival
4) Most recent live show?
X-Fest- Featuring Disturbed
5) Most overrated musician?
any recent rap "artist"
6) Most underrated musician?
Stevie Ray Vaughan (for this generation)
7) What's your musical guilty pleasure (i.e. name a musician/group that your gut tells you you shouldn't like, but you do anyway)?
Ted Nugent
8 ) Let's say you could go back in time and bring any one dead musician into present times? Who would you pick?
Stevie Ray Vaughan, he kicked his drug addiction then died in a helicopter crash a year later
9) What's your poster-child "band that broke up too soon"?
Rage against the machine, as much as i like audioslave i wish i could've seen these guys live
10) Pick your dream band -- at the very least, vocalist, guitar, bass, drums. If you want to include a second guitarist, keyboards, theremin, lute, xylophone, whatnot... live it up, but you gotta start with the basics.
vocals- jim morrison; Guitar- stevie ray; bass- flea; drums- the guy from rush
11) Name one cover version of a song that whups the ass of the original.
stevie ray vaughan- little wing
12) Speaking of covers, name a song that always struck you as a great song if done by someone else.
john lee hooker- boom boom
13) Pick a dream collaboration, i.e. artist A working with artist B.
see # 10
14) Best album cover art? (No Spinal Tap references)
The Deep End, Vol. 2
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00006JOFK/ref=dp_image_0/104-5411718-2991126?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=5174&s=music15) Fat Elvis or skinny Elvis?
skinny, fat elvis isn't really the same guy
16) If all four Beatles were still alive, would they have cashed in on a Millenium reunion concert?
no, they would be too busy ruling the world
17) Will there EVER be a more unrealistic movie moment than Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees beating up Aerosmith in the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie?
yes... assault on precinct 13 (i was over-ruled)
18) Bono has been mentioned as a candidate to head the World Bank. Would you let Bono manage YOUR finances?
Bono?19) Would you let MC Hammer manage your finances?
only if it was opposite day
20) Lastly, the infamous "desert island" question -- pick five CDs you'd take with you to a desert island. To add to degree of difficulty, no Greatest Hits allowed.
red hot chili peppers- live in hyde park
jimi hendrix- electric lady land
neil young- freedom
prince- musicology
eric clapton- Me & Mr. Johnson