First, I wanted to be a historian, then a drummer, and after that I just wanted to be employed. And I still do.
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That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
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