An Interview with "Angry" Alan Ten-Hoeve, Part 1

By Jim Teacher

JT: What influenced your musical stylings?

AT: Well, after an injury during a grade school ping pong tournament put an end to my pro-wrestling aspirations I decided to give music a shot. I wanted to play the drums. Unfortunately I couldn't afford a kit. So guitar it was. After a few months I decided 6 strings was too much to deal with and switched to bass. Initially I wanted to be Cliff Burton, Lemmy, but ultimately what influenced my "musical stylings" was the acceptance of the fact that I was far too lazy to play like Cliff and nobody could be as cool as Lemmy. So why bother trying. In short I'd have to say Bukowski.

In case you're wondering about the tournament, I played through that injury like the trooper I am and finished in 4th place.

A better way of explaining my musical stylings would be to give you a list of people I try to rip off. And they would be Cliff and Lemmy obviously, Larry Graham, Steve Harris, Mike Watt, Donald Dunn, Eerie Von, Kelly Packard, Chris Ethridge, Paul Simonon, Paul McCartney, Chuck Dukowski, and the guy from KISS.

JT: What about Flea?

AT: I just wasn't funky enough. I have two white feet.

JT: It would be amusing if your feet were actually whitewashed a pure white.