Breiti's questionary
1. Childhood hero?
Flipper, the dolphin from the (american) TV series
2. What did you want to grow up to be?
King, or something similar.
3. What do you associate with the word "Home"?
A dog crapping on the pavement.
4. What were you like at school?
More the reserved type.
5. What was the first record you ever bought?
A bootleg Beatles album, which I bought from my brother for 5 marks.
6. What was the first concert you went to?
A blues band at the local youth club.
7. What was your first car (that you bought yourself)?
A Renault 4, which my brother passed on to me (the one with the Beatles record).
8. Which natural gift or talent would you like to have?
Tact (musical, that is).
9. Your favourite pastime?
Travelling by coach, particularly in South America.
10. Do you have a motto?
No.
11. What is your favourite method of wasting time?
Watching football matches in stadiums, whatever part of the globe I happen to be in, be they first, second or third division fixtures.
12. Would you rather have 500 or 5,000 sound carriers at home?
Somewhere between the two.
13. Do you ever record cassettes for other people?
Sometimes. I often do it for myself for the times when I'm out and about.
14. What would you describe as the most personal object in your flat?
My toothbrush.
15. What calms you down the most?
Staring at the illuminated picture of a moving waterfall on my wall.
16. Your secret passion?
Going to the cinema in the afternoon.
17. Where would you like to live (that is, where would you prefer to live other than Germany)?
I always ever wanted to live in Brazil, above all in Rio de Janeiro.
18. What would you miss about Duesseldorf if you were elsewhere?
The people that I know here, the river Rhine, and, as unbelievable as it sounds, Fortuna and the DEG.
19. What do you consider to be paradise on Earth?
Fortuna playing amazingly brilliant attacking football, the DEG winning the Carnival Sunday fixture away to the Cologne Sharks, The Toten Hosen on a long tour and afterwards, going on vacation to South America with my girlfriend.
20. Which male characteristics do you value the most?
Not taking yourself too seriously.
21. Which female characteristics do you value the most?
See above.
22. Describe yourself in words!
Handsome, intelligent, gifted, witty, modest.
23. What do value most about your friends?
Handsomeness, intelligence, talent, wit, modesty.
24. Your worst flaw?
My modesty.
25. Your favourite colour?
Black and red.
26. Your favourite beach?
Unterbacher See, resort in South Duesseldorf.
27. The best dish you prepared yourself?
Caipirinha.
28. Your favourite drug?
That depends on the situation and relative state of mind.
29. Your favourite author?
Douglas Adams, Nick Hornby.
30. Your favourite fictional character?
Arthur Dent (Hitch-hikers'Guide To The Galaxy).
31. Your favourite film?
Do the right thing, Million Dollar Hotel, Delicatessen, Once upon a Time in the West.
32. Your favourite historical figure?
Mahatma Ghandi, Che Guevara, Diego Maradonna.
33. Your favourite phrase from the Bible?
"And the last will be the first". Not much of a consolation, mind you every time Fortuna gets relegated, but even this saying is beginning to wear a little thin.
34. Your favourite composers?
Strummer/ Jones
35. What's your favourite website?
www.blutgraetsche.de
36. Your worst nightmare?
That someone asks me to look after his or her pet whilst they are on holiday.
37. Your neighbours go on holiday and ask you to look after their hamster. After three days it's lying dead in its cage. What do you do?
Bury it, buy a new one and pretend nothing has happened.
38. To what extent are the Hosen different from other bands?
The name is different, for example.
39. Is it pleasing to think that someone might cry about a Hosen song?
If it affects him or her emotionally, then yes; if it's because it sounds so terrible, then no.
40. What is the worst record that you have been in part responsible for?
Battle of the Bands
41. The best piece of heckling from an audience?
"Go back to Duesseldorf!" (in Cologne)
42. What's it really like backstage?
Tons of drugs, the world's most attractive women, gallons of champagne, Jacuzzis, billiard tables, luxurious sofas . . . at least that's what you sometimes dream about when you're cooped up yet again with ten people in the same neon-lit container with a couple of chairs and a table, or squashed into the 3 sq meters of dressing room you get at typical municipal concert hall.
43. Have you ever felt lonely whilst on a big tour?
No, but because you're together with people round the clock, I would rather prefer to be alone. Besides, I like hotels.
44. Do rock stars grow up with time?
Whatever "growing up" might mean... On the one hand when you are a young band you lose a lot of your illusions very quickly, amongst other things because there's always someone trying to rip you off. On the other hand, you are allowed to be the way you are, that way puberty can be stretched out over ten, twenty years.
45. The high point of your career so far?
Our 1,000th concert in the Rhine Stadium.
46. And the low point?
That 1,000th concert too.
47. Do you feel you've been at it for a long time?
19 years, seems hard to believe.
48. Is it conceivable that you might quit the band and that you'll never be seen or heard of again?
I can't quite imagine leaving a band before it splits up itself sort of naturally. If it should ever come to that, then I'll most certainly do something that doesn't take place so publicly.
49. Name the 10 most influential records in your life:
Ramones, It's Alive
The Clash, The Clash
The Clash, London Calling
AC/DC, Highway to Hell
Faith No More, King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Chelsea, Evacuate
Nirvana, Nevermind
Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
Manu Chao, Clandestino
The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
50. Name the top five concerts you've ever been to:
The Clash, Duesseldorf 1983
Ramones, Buenos Aires 1996
Faith No More, Dortmund 19?
Chelsea, Glasgow 1982
Mr. Bungle, Cologne 2000
51. What would your last words be?
"What, over already?"
52. What music would you have playing at your funeral?
See above.
53. Your current state of mind?
Confused to stable.
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