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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?

Gerre: Oh, I don´t have any children, so I really can´t give you a 100% answer. I like to say, that they would have the chance to do what they want!!!!! But I want to be their manager……of course!!!!!

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

Gerre: "Heavy Metal Maniac" from Exciter. This was one of my first all time fave songs I was grown up with. The song is full of aggression, speed and it´s got a famous hookline!!!!!!!!

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

Gerre: I bought the new Machine Head album and I like it very much. Total aggression, a famous sound and very brutal vocals, the kind of music I listen to has to be like that!!!!!

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?

Gerre: I would still do my regular job as a social worker and would love to dream from the old times standing on stage and producing a fuckin` lot of noise!!!!!!!

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?

Gerre: I think first of all it is quite good to learn to know the specific sound of a band. The prices for cds must go down, they are much too high!!! It´s the fault of the whole industry that the sales go back so much! A lot of people would buy more cds by lower prices.

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

Gerre: Watching football, supporting my favourite team Eintracht Frankfurt, working as a metal dj and answering fan questions.

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

Gerre: When I was young I really would have love to play bagpipers (doodle-sack)!!! but nowadays I would need a lot of training to do it……………to get old it´s fucking hard!!!!!

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

Gerre: Beer of course for the kings of beer!!!! (Perhaps not the most unexpected answer from the frontman of the band that has created their own genre: Beer Metal. //Tommy)

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?

Gerre: That I never drank alcohol, it is only pure image of Tankard to sell millions of records!!!!

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?

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, Jan. 2004

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