Don Paterson

Don Paterson - Trumpet

Don “Donald Trumpet” Paterson dazzles us with his musical pyrotechnics onstage and with his technological know how behind the scenes. Don owns every piece of technological equipment ever invented … and some that have not yet been invented. If ever the Big Band needs to videotape itself time travelling via computer through a black hole with GPS guidance, Don is our man.

1. If you were not a musician what would you be?

Wealthy. Actually architecture and engineering have always been an interest

2. If you could have a dinner party with any four figures from history whom would you invite?

Ben Franklin, Jesus Christ, Henry VIII, Leonardo Da Vinci

3. If you could live during any time period at all what would it be?

Now or 200 years in the future.

4. If you could have one movie prop for your very own what would you choose?

The Spaceship Enterprise

5. Favourite movie?

Same time next year; any Indiana Jones movie

6. Favourite book or author?

The Sleeping Prophet

7. What is your most treasured possession?

My memories. Treasured mostly because they're getting fainter.

8. What is your motto?

"Enjoy the trip"

9. Favourite word?

cornucopia

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

indecision, (or maybe not...)

11. Which historical or fictional figure do you most identify with?

Sci-fi characters.

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Procrastination

13.If you could have personally witnessed any one event in history what would you like it to have been?

There are so many.... Birth of Christianity, Building of the Pyramids......

14. If you could possess one supernatural ability what would it be?

Be indestructible Ha!

15. If you were to cast any actor, living or dead, to play you in a film, who would you select?

James Garner, Harrison Ford

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

Enjoy the Trip

17. If you could eat as much as you want of any one food with absolutely no ill effect, what food would you choose?

Nacho's/Dorito's (must be zesty-cheese)

18. Favourite season?

Fall, but it's much too short.

19. If you could have a jam session with any three musicians in history who would you choose?

Since we would probably do more talking than playing, It would be Satchmo, Ella, and Louis Prima

20. If you were to have a family crest what symbols would it bear?

Trumpet on wheels

21. What television show, past or present, best represents your life?

Lost in Space

22. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which one would it be and what would the headline be?

MacLeans - Headline.... 50 million dollar lottery winner still travelling with Holly Larocque and the Big Band Broadcast

23. What is your best childhood memory?

Summers at the cottage

24. Pet peeve?

Being held up in traffic or at 2:00 am at the Border.

25. If you were to fill a time capsule the size of a shoe box, to be opened hundreds of years from now, what would you put inside it to represent your life?

. Holly Larocque and the Big Band Broadcast CD.
. Nachos (zesty cheese)
. Family & Friend Pictures
. Trumpet mouthpiece
. 250 gig hard drive full of songs and videos