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Q&A – TOM CARTER

 1: Analog or Digital?
digital with a judicious helping of vacuum tubes.

2: What time did you wake up today?
9AM

3: Last thing you read?
past master by r. a. lafferty

4: Whats your first memory?
Waking up in my crib surrounded by weird 70s cutout corkboard animals
& next to a puddle of my own vomit

5: Tea Or Coffee?
both, and lots of it

6: Last thing you cooked?
baked balsamic/tamari marinated tofu with steamed kale, walnut rice
pilaf & caramelized onions

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
a hunter/ gatherer in an isolated land of plenty

8: What inspires you?
people who know no other way than their own

9: Last record you played?
suzanne langille/ neil murgai _wild & foolish heart_ LP

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
my lone axe, ’78 ibanez pf200 alpine white les paul copy

11: Last movie you saw?
T:O:U:C:H:I:N:G by paul sharits

12: Who do you love?
family, friends, bo diddley; roughly in that order

13: Do you have any pets?
nope

14: Are you useful?
i hope not

15: Biggest fear?
becoming trapped in someone else’s nightmare

16: What do you value the most?
stillness

17: Famous last words?
safe as milk & twice as nice

Tom Carter has a blazing new tape out on Root Strata that you can see, hear & order here.

  1. weis on April 4th, 2011

    “8: What inspires you?
    people who know no other way than their own”

    I love this.

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