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Wölli

Wölli's questionary

1. Childhood hero?
My father

2. What did you want to grow up to be?
Professional footballer

3. What do you associate with the word "Home"?
The Baltic Sea

4. What were you like at school?
Every teacher's worst nightmare

5. What was the first record you ever bought?
Beatles - I feel fine

6. The first concert you ever saw?
Kinks, Lords and Liverbirds - Kiel Ostseehalle

7. Your first band?
"Barrita"

8. Your first time: What was she called? How was it?
Julia - pretty damn quick!

9. Your first car (that you paid for yourself)?
1954 VW Beetle

10. Who are you?
Woelli

11. Which character traits have you inherited from your parents?
Staying power and tolerance

12. Which natural gift or talent would you like to have?
The ability to write

13. Your favourite pastime?
Making music, listing to music, playing with kids, computers and TV

14. Your biggest mistake?
What mistake would that be?

15. Do you have a motto for life?
"Things are happening" and "If you don't make a start, you'll never finish"

16. What is your favourite method of wasting time?
Sleeping

17. Would you rather have 500 or 5,000 sound carriers at home?
763

18. Do you ever record cassettes for other people?
Seldom

19. What would you describe as the most personal object in your flat?
My toilet

20. What calms you down the most?
Valerian tea

21. Your secret passion?
If I tell you that, then it wouldn't be a secret any more, would it?

22. Which polite gestures are you particularly good at?
Just about all of them

23. Define your utopia in regard to relationships between human beings?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

24. When was the last time you cried and why?
At Campino's mother's funeral

25. What do you consider to be the worst thing that could ever befall you?
If anything were to happen to my children

26. Where would you like to live (that is, where would you prefer to live other than Germany)?
Where there's more sun

27. What would you miss about Duesseldorf if you were elsewhere?
Altbier (traditional Duesseldorf beer)

28. What do you consider to be paradise on Earth?
Does it actually exist?

29. Which faults are you most willing to excuse?
I don't excuse anything!

30. Which male characteristics do you value the most?
The ability to hold your drink

31. Which female characteristics do you value the most?
The ability to hold your drink

32. Describe yourself using four words only.
I only need the one: Brilliant!

33. What do value most about your friends?
That they are my friends

34. Your worst flaw?
The ability to hold my drink

35. Your favourite colour?
Blue

36. Your favourite flower?
Gentian

37. Your favourite beach?
Duesselstrand

38. Your favourite food?
Pasta

39. The best dish you prepared yourself?
Pasta

40. Your favourite drug?
A clear head

41. Your favourite writer?
Hermann Hesse

42. Your favourite fictional character?
Jerry Cotton

43. Your favourite film?
Jungle Book

44. Your favourite historical figure?
Ghandi

45. Your favourite sentence from the Bible?
Go forth, be plentiful and multiply

46. Can you recite a verse from a poem?
"Beneath the tree's outer rind, lives the maggot with its child"

47. Your favourite painter?
Egmont Doehler

48. Your favourite composers?
Kuddel and Campino

49. What's your favourite website?
www.lachen.de

50. Your greatest fear?
A devil of a fellow is afraid of nothing

51. 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?
I don't look after hamsters

52. To what extent are the Hosen different from other bands?
Simply five mates together

53. Is it pleasing to think that someone might cry about a Hosen song?
It's a nice feeling to think that a Hosen song might touch somebody's emotionally, but to make someone cry about it? That's a bit over the top

54. With what can you be seduced?
I can't be seduced

55. What is the worst record that you have been in part responsible for?
TBK - Stadtmensch

56. The best piece of heckling from an audience?
"Cool, you old bastard!"

57. What's it really like backstage?
A lot of hanging around and waiting

58. Have you ever felt lonely whilst on a big tour?
Yes

59. Which other occupation other than musician would you consider?
Gynecologist

60. The high point of your career so far?
Our 1,000th concert. But also the saddest

61. And the low point?
The last concert

62. Do you feel you've been at it for a long time?
Yes

63. Name the 10 most influential records in your life:
· The Beatles - all the albums
· Ramones - Too Tough To Die
· Sex Pistols - Never Mind...
· Led Zeppelin - I and II
· The Clash - Sandinista + The Story of the Clash
· Lou Reed - New York + Live
· Lots of Reggae CD by a lot of different artists
· Metallica - the black Album
· Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
· Ravi Shankar - various CD's
· Die Toten Hosen - Learning English
I've probably forgotten the most important

64. Name the top five concerts you've ever been to?
Die Toten Hosen
AC/DC
Ramones
Robbie Williams
And just about all the concerts by my favourite bands

65. What would your last words be?
"That'd be the day!"

66. What music would you have playing at your funeral?
Something that will get people's toes tapping...

67. Your current state of mind?
Same as it ever was!

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