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» 15 questions to Karl Willetts

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1. Now when you have insight in the business - would you encourage your daughter or son to become a professional musician, or advice against it?

Karl: Yeah I would encourage my children to do whatever pleases them the most in life, being a musician is most rewarding creatively.

2. A metalsong you think "Man - I wish I'd written that one...." when you hear it?

3. The last album you bought/acquired, and your brief opinion about it?

Karl: The Flaming Lips - at war with the mystics. Great album, especially track 11 which has a bass line like Black Sabbath.

4. If someone told you tomorrow that you can't be involved in music anymore, what do you see yourself doing in 5 years from now?

Karl: I don't really ever tend to look that far forward! Haven't got a clue. I refuse to go and get a normal job. I hated and was crap at it when I tried.

5. Myself as a privat person in a few sentences?

6. Unexpectedly and out of the blue you get a whole week totally off from music and work - what would you most of all want to do?

7. Mp3 - an abomination or a good way to make your name and music heard?

8. What do you treasure most in your life, except metal and family?

Karl: I'm not really that materialistic, although I am rather partial to my snowstorm collection.

9. An instrument you always wish that you started playing/learning, but never did?

Karl: I really wish that I could play the guitar…I've got all the moves and facial expressions sorted but I haven't got the patience to learn.

10. Beer, whisky, wine or a cocktail in the tv sofa on a relaxed at-home-saturday night? Brand of the beverage?

Karl: A few beers with the lads - Stella or Becks, bottle of wine with the missus - nice red.

11. Which historical person do you feel would fit best as a description on you as a person?

12. What most people don't know, never have known, and probably never would know about me if they don't read this?

Karl: I was the deputy head choirboy at my local child till I was 12, I also have internationally recognised qualifications in donkey handling.

13. If a famous actor were to play the part as you in a motion picture - who would be best suitable for that purpose, you think?

Karl: It would have to be Brad Pitt obviously. For the stunning visual similarity!

14. What ingredient is the most important and vital of them all when making good music, according to you?

15. Your best advice to a person determined to make it in the metalbusiness?

~ Asked by Tommy, May 2006

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