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MusiquePlus Interview

September 15, 1996
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
by Geneviève Borne

(NOTE: The following is only an excerpt from a very long interview.)

Geneviève: Hello guys! Welcome to MusiquePlus!

Joe: Thank you.

Fan Question: What are your hobbies when you have a bit of time off. What do you like to do?

Phil: Time off? What's that?

Sav: We never get time off!

Geneviève: But when you do?

Sav: We all kinda do different things, some of us play golf. Phil likes to do... what... karate do you call it?

Phil: Martial arts.

Geneviève: How about you Joe?

Joe: I sleep on my time off.

Geneviève: And you Rick?

Rick: Ehm...Actually, I really like to drive. I drive pro karts. We actually have our own soccer team as well.

Joe: Tell her about your budding photography career.

Rick: Oh yeah!

Joe: He takes pictures.

Rick: I've got some pictures of the rest of the band in compromising sort of situations.

Geneviève: You could make a lot of money with that.

Joe: He makes more money than we do. All the money we earn... He's now taking offers!

Phil: Only problem is, there's only four people when he takes the photos, cos he's always not in the photos.

Rick: Or I'm standing in front of a mirror with a camera growing out of my face.

Geneviève: How about you Vivian?

Viv: I play soccer.

Question: I was wondering, after being together for more than fifteen years, how do you guys keep the show fun for yourselves when you're playing Foolin' or Photograph for the millionth time?

Phil: It's always different I think. I mean on this tour, Rick's playing a regular drum kit which he hasn't done for like twelve years or something and that's made it sound completely different. Also, when you're in a different city, there's a different reaction. Every single night, a different sound... So that's what kinda keeps it fresh for us.

Joe: It depends on the audience, some nights it ain't so good but most of the time it's fine.

Question: If you weren't rock stars, what would you choose in life to make a living?

Sav: Well first of all, we don't really consider ourselves rock stars anyway. I don't really know what that term means...

Geneviève: Okay, if you weren't rock musicians?

Sav: (laughing) Probably out of work!

Geneviève: What do you think Phil?

Phil: Gee... I don't know... I mean all we ever do is this. So it's very hard and we've been kind of trying to do this for years before we even succeeded at it. So ehm... it's very hard, I mean that's all we've been doing.

Sav: Well, Phil used to be an electrician but there was one drawback... he's color-blind!

Phil: So ehm, yeah, that wasn't good!

Geneviève: And what about you Joe?

Joe: I would be a sad 80's rock star if I wasn't a rock star.

Geneviève: How about you Rick?

Rick: I actually came straight out of school...

Joe: You could be a good shoe salesman!

Rick: I think so, I think I could do that!

Joe: Yeah, you could do that. What size do you take madam?

Rick: Yeah! I could do that! So ehm, I guess...I joined these lads on my fifteenth birthday and I've been playing drums from the age of about maybe nine or ten. That was really all I was gonna do anyway. You know, if I wasn't a successful drummer, then I'd be a really...

Rick and Joe together: Unsuccessful drummer!

Geneviève: And you Vivian?

Viv: Oh I don't know, I never had a real job either. I fell out of school and learn to play guitar. I suppose I could be a successful housewife and mother.

Joe: Or an Elvis impersonator!

Viv: (singing like Elvis) "Love me tender... "

Geneviève: Oh, you sing well!

Joe: Pretty good!

Viv: (impersonating Elvis) "Thank you very much, baby!"

Question: What's the best advice you could give to a young guitar player who wants to write songs?

Phil: Actually Rick's got this sumed up, I know he's not a guitarist but...

Rick: Keep your brow dry and your underwear moist!

Geneviève: Is there actually a good advice you could give to a young guitar player?

Joe: (laughing) Well, that wasn't good enough?

Rick: That was actually advice for a young drummer.

Geneviève: Never any lessons? No advices from somebody?

Phil: No. I just used to listen to records.

Rick: He probably should have taken some lessons.

Fan: From all the years you've been doing concert, which one do you remember most or have the fondest memories of?

Phil: First of all, in England when Rick, after he got is accident, was the first kinda real show we've done.

Geneviève: Thank you very much! Thank you a lot for being here today! Have a good show tonight!

Band: Thank you! Thanks guys!