An Interview with "Angry" Alan Ten-Hoeve, Part 2

By Jim Teacher

JT: I hear you are living up in the wilds of Connecticut now and are getting acquainted with the lay of the land and the local lore. Tell us about that.

AT: Country living has been good to us, though I could do without the whole churning your own butter thing. By the way, that goat you gave us isn't producing milk and chewed holes through my good pair of overalls. Joan Rivers is our neighbor and she's been super cool, helps with babysitting when me and the wife want a night out. I feel most places have an interesting history if your into that sort of thing. A major point of interest for me has been a person who was known as the Old Leatherman, a vagabond who wandered NY state and Connecticut during the second half of the 1800's. He got his name from the suit of leather he wore and that is literally all anybody truely knows of him. A real human mystery. Something that no longer seems to exist.

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.

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An Interview with Stephen Mejias, Part 3

By Jim Teacher

JT: What projects are you working on?

SM: We just redesigned the Stereophile website, and that’s been taking up most of my time and energy. I am just starting a monthly column for the magazine, and I’m very excited about that. The column is called “The Entry Level,” and will focus on lower-priced hi-fi components, while also attempting to explore how and why people become audiophiles. My blog on Stereophile.com, “Elements of Our Enthusiasm,” continues to do very well, also.

I find that if I’m listening to music, I’m not playing it. And the case is now that I’m listening to tons of music, but I haven’t picked up my guitar in weeks. That’s okay, though. I’m generally happy and feel extremely fortunate to be doing what I’m doing. I get paid to listen to music and write about it. How awesome is that?