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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?

David: If they had the desire I would certainly encourage it and try to help them along. I know I couldn't discourage them...my Parents couldn't discourage me. I would let them understand some of my errors so that they....hopefully would not make the same mistakes. In the end...hey there is no Business like Show-business, and there is nothing better in Life than Music!!! It is the most sublime of all the Arts...for me.

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

David: None! I enjoy Music by all sorts of Metal Artists, but I never say that. I simply enjoy what they do and I enjoy what I do.

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

David: The album "THE DREAMING" by KATE BUSH. For years I had the cassette, but it wore out. This is a beautifully crafted atmospheric, emotionally charged album. Interesting lyrics, weird moody ambience. I love it! Whatever happened to her??? I always wanted to spend a Dark, Gloomy, Rainy afternoon in the attic of an old Victorian house with her.

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?

David: If I stopped playing Music I would either be a cook/owner of a bed & breakfast type place(preferably on the Sea), or a Mortician/funeral home director. I would enjoy the peace & tranquility of a job like that.

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?

David: Go out to Montauk(that's the eastern most end of the Island I live on), be by the Sea, drink even more Wine, and indulge in all the fine pleasures of Barbaric-Romanticism with my Raven haired Goddess.

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

David: A double edged Sword like most things concerning the Internet. It is a bit like tape trading in the early Metal days I suppose. Hopefully people will eventually use it somewhat honestly, if not...sign me up for that Mortician's course.

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

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

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

David: I do enjoy the Wine and often I do enjoy the Scotch/Whiskey before the Wine and sometimes...after the Wine. As Wines go I'm partial to the Reds...your Merlot, Chianti, etc., with Scotch....hmmm...John Begg, Chivas, Johnny Walker, Dewars, etc.

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?

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?

David: I don't know! Hmmm...someone a bit weird/off center like Johnny Depp, or Val Kilmer or perhaps a genetic cross between Richard Gere & Dudley Moore!

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

David: The commitment to cultivating extreme Passion in Sound. To go beyond notes into the Realm of Pure Emotion, and Spirit. To try to capture all of your feelings about Life, Death & the Pursuit of All Things, within your Musical Landscape.

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

David: First make sure that you're in this business for the right reasons,... a serious Passion for the Music! Then...Never surrender, never compromise your ideals for "flavor of the month success", and never, ever, NEVER, give up your Publishing Rights!!!

~ Asked by Tommy, Jan. 2004

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