15 questions to Erik Ravn - Wuthering Heights

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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?

• Erik: I wouldn´t advice against it, ´cause if young musicians knew what awaited them noone would ever try to make it, and we wouldn´t have any new music.

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

• Erik: "The Final Countdown"

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

• Erik: Jethro Tull: "J-Tull dot com". Amazing how these guys can still keep it up. I would like to be as cool as them when I´m a geezer.

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?

• Erik: Still trying to catch up on fifteen years of missing out on other stuff in life than music.

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

• Erik: Relatively simple but dedicated.

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?

• Erik: Relax, preferably getting out of the city to have some fresh air.

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

• Erik: A problem for the pop industry, not for serious music.

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

• Erik: My friends.

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

• Erik: Tin whistle.

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

• Erik: "Highlander Finest Whisky Malt Beer" and then a "Talisker" single malt for a nightcap.

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

• Erik: I don´t know if Professor Tolkien qualifies as a historical person, but we have a lot in common.

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

• Erik: I was in a rather succesful local comedy duo.
  

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?

• Erik: Viggo Mortensen.

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

• Erik: Emotion.

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

• Erik: Make sure you have fun while you´re trying.

  Cheers!
  Erik Ravn/Wuthering Heights

~ Asked by Tommy, June. 2004

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