A little game with our favorite rockers. And it works like that: In front of us is a hat filled with little papers with questions or unfinished sentences on them. Each one of the participants draws one at random and has to answer it for the other two band members or in the other case finish the sentence for the other two. Itās very interesting what that can revealā¦
Matt (draws): āMy biggest material wish.ā Hmm for Dom it would be a kite and for Chris it has to be a beautiful fishing boat that is located outside Plymouth.
Dom: Well you have to know something like that. (draws the next paper) āThere was a day on which I wanted to leave Muse and that wasā¦ā
Matt: (almost laughs himself to death)
Chris: Oh Shit, that is a difficult oneā¦
Dom: To find a name a specific day would be really hard, but Iād say that there were moments for Matt when everything went above his head. That was short after the release of āOrigin of Symmetryā, when we partied all night and had to do 8-10 interviews the next day. For Chris: Every time when he got another kid. That happens all the time. He asks himself and us again and again: āHow can I manage this all with so little time? What about the family? What about me?ā
Matt: Well I never wanted to leave the band but the lifestyle we used to have. Sometimes Iād loved to change my common life to ātwenty-something-existenceā. Sometimes this all is too much for me.
Chris (draws): āIt makes me sad to seeā¦ā Jesus, what can I say here?
Matt: Remember the last interview. We had this question back then.
Chris: Correct. But do you think I can remember what you said there? Well weāre not different than everybody else when it comes to this: As example the things you do and youāre not sure anymore whether they are good or bad. I remember a moment when we were halfway through with recording and the three of us had the feeling that we just produced bullocks. We were not able to see a good thing in that what weāve produced. This self-doubt is a very sad thing.
Matt (draws): āThe simple things I love. Exampleā¦ā For Chris: Kids. Dom: ālook, a fishā (wild laughter)
Matt: Dom loves fishing. But only because of the fishing part. When he catches something he just says: āLook a fish!ā, then he throws āem back into the water. He used to be a animal rights campaigner. He also likes watching ducks.
Dom (draws): āWhat I like the most on the other twoā¦ā (big laughter) For Matt: My occasional funny jokes.
Chris: Dom can, if he wants to, be a little David Brandon. A real comedy-guy.
Dom: What Chris has to like on me would be my easy-going attitude. I think that he wants to take life as easy as I do.
Chris (draws): āWhen we argue, Iām the guy whoā¦ā Okay thatās not hard. For Matt Iād say that he is very convincing - he wins almost every argument because he talks as long as it takes for us that there is simply no other way than accept what he thinks is right. On the other hand Dom doesnāt argue. Heās more the guy, whoā¦ whoā¦ what was that word again?
Chris: No, never mind. He thinks that arguing is wasted time. He tries to avoid it wherever it is possible. Matt is more the guy who goes for confrontation.
Matt (he has read all the papers from the hat in the meantime and the ones that he likes the most set aside on his side): āMy three records to take on a lonely island.ā For Chris: āPet Soundsā from Beach Boys, āAftertasteā from Helmet and Nirvana āIn Uteroā. For Dom: Box Car Racer - everything, Blink 182 - everything, and Sum 41 - the new one. (heavy laughter)
VISIONS: You are not serious, are you?
Dom: What he wants to say: He doesnāt like it that I enjoy Poppunk. What in fact is true besides like 2000 other bands that I like.
Matt: Really, you listen to something different? To what? When did you do that the last time? 1997?
Chris: (beats on his thighs while laughing)
Dom: Lick my ass. I donāt bully you over your classic stuff. (draws the next paper from Matts special-pile, who shows him his middle finger) āMy big loveā For Chris: Music and family. And for Matt? (thinks) His fingernails! Else he wouldnāt chew on them all the time.
Matt: Dumbass. Iām currently trying to get out of that habit!
Dom: Yeah rightā¦ Since when? 1997? No seriously: His guitar and his girlfriend. In that order. And his piano somewhere in the middle of those two.
Chris (draws): āWhen I am 35, then I will beā¦ā Jesus Christ, Iāve never thought about that one could become that old.
Dom: Oh god, now he has to think. Thatās destined to fail, Chris! (huge laughter)
Chris: For Matt that is pretty sure. He wants the usual: A big house with a built in studio, two or maybe three kids and release every few years a new album. For Dom: When heās a grown up until then what is very unlikely, perhaps the same. At the moment Iād say: He will drive around with a fleet of of expensive cars, a new girl on the co-driverās seat every evening, and an invitation to every after-show party on this planet in his glove box.
Dom: Something wrong with that? All this is not really important. I just hope that still someone wants to play some music with me then. Everything else doesnāt really matter.
Matt (draws): āThe perfect sex.ā Does it really mean THAT? You mean sex? Making love?
Matt: Okay. For Chris that is very simple: On a homy, comfortable couch in the living room, next to him a few cans of beer, some salty crackers. Best would be during a commercial break between two parts of āWho wants to be a millionaire?ā and not when Iām in the tour bus trying to read! Most importantly the kids are asleep. For once!
Chris (laughs himself almost to death, falls almost off his chair) When youāve got such a big family you think of things other than sex!
Matt: Dom: In his car. Best would be he drives and the girl on him with her back facing him. (everyone laughs)
VISIONS: Thank you very much. That was very interesting.
Dom: Yes. Very informative for everyone.
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