What People You Like, Like

Marvelous 3, Butch Walker

By- Like.com 2001

Marvelous 3 contributed a cover of "People Are Strange" to the 2000 tribute album "Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors." The album also features contributions from the Stone Temple Pilots, Smash Mouth, Aerosmith and Creed among others. Marvelous 3 is comprised of Butch, Slug and Jayce Fincher. Their 2000 full-length "ReadySexGo" is an excellent follow-up to their 1998 smash "Hey! Album," which spawned the anthem "Freak Of The Week."

Music

Current albums you like?

 Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed

Incubus: Make Yourself

Fiona Apple: When the Pawn...

Macy Gray: On How Life Is

 On The Ego Has Landed: "He ended up using decent lyrics with the old kind of pop boy band thing and took it a step further. That's what's cool about it. It's like a not-so-mature Elvis Costello if you would."

Classic albums you like?

Queen: News of the World

Cheap Trick: Dream Police

AC/DC: Back in Black

Kiss: Alive

 On Alive: "It was the one that really rocked me the most. Nothing has topped it as far as its heaviness, but cheekiness as well."

Soundtracks you like?

 Grease

On Grease: "That's one of the best soundtracks I've ever had. There's something really corny about that but you don't think about that when you're a kid."

Favorite record store?

 Tower Records

Your biggest musical influences?

Motley Crue

Cheap Trick

Queen

Kiss

 On Kiss: "My parents took me to see them when I was eight years old. I saw all these stoners go nuts when Ace blew his guitar up. I was like, that's all I need. I'll do that for the rest of my life. For some reason, Paul Stanley was able to bridge the gap and make it cool to play in front of testosterone-filled, knuckle-dragging mulletheads, and be up there prancing around with makeup, lipstick and heels. It was always interesting to me how guys like that could like a guy like that."

Best concert you ever saw?

Prince at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in the early '90s

First concert you ever saw?

Kiss in Atlanta at the Omni when I was 8 years old

Performance that stands out for you?

It was Rockfest 1999 in our hometown, Atlanta. We played in front of 150,000 people. Hearing everyone sing the words to our songs was kind of weird. Then the next night we played a small town in South Carolina to about 200 people, just to keep it in perspective.

Moment in studio that stands out for you?

 Probably one of the coolest things was when I was younger and recorded a guitar solo on a Desmond Child solo album that tanked pretty hard. I lived in Los Angeles and I was a little hot studio guitar player. I got to play along side Richie Sambora. He was actually one of the coolest guys I ever met.

Books

Books you like?

 Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

 On The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: "It puts into perspective that giving is more important than taking. It makes me wonder why I was given the gift to half-way sing and play the guitar; maybe that was to entertain people and give them something instead of always giving me something."

Bookstore you like?

Barnes & Noble

Magazines you like?

Maxim

 Film

Movies you like?

Being John Malkovich

But I'm a Cheerleader

Cecil B. DeMented

 On But I'm a Cheerleader: "It's funny as shit. RuPaul is in it playing a man."

Movie director you like?

Paul Thomas Anderson

People

A person you were excited to meet ?

 LL Cool J, Chuck D

A person you would like to meet?

 Prince

Artist you would most like to spend a night with?

 Shelby Lynne

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Sex

Favorite music to make out to?

Macy Gray: On How Life Is