Martin Newman

Martin Newman - Bass

Bass player Martin Newman only stops playing and spinning the bass long enough each day to take 4936 photographs of our travels … and vice versa. His artistic taste in movies has caused the Band to name him Person Least Likely to EVER BE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE A BUS MOVIE AGAIN.

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

A sad person

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

Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, and...maybe Dean Martin as moderator.

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

"The Future" You know, with hovercars and people on Mars and such.

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

An X-wing fighter would be cool.

5. Favourite movie?

Today, I'm leaning towards Wings of Desire.

6. Favourite book or author?

Salman Rushdie, or Arthur C. Clarke, or Douglas Adams

7. What is your most treasured possession?

My bass

8. What is your motto?

Let me check my coat of arms...

9. Favourite word?

Gig

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

Steadiness

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

The Tortoise

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Chocolate

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

Apollo 11

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

Indestructability

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

Gregory Peck

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

That's my Life, and I'm Sticking to It

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

Chocolate

18. Favourite season?

They're all good

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

Billy Higgins, Bill Frisell, and Dewey Redman, or maybe Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, and Topper Headon, or maybe Zigaboo Modeliste, Maceo Parker, and Keith Richards, or...

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

A maple leaf, a bass clef, the colours red, white, and black, a tree

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

Night Music

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

Why, Rolling Stone, of course. Headline: Everybody's favourite bass player.

23. What is your best childhood memory?

Summer holidays, no particular year, just the feeling of being free from school.

24. Pet peeve?

People who cut off oncoming traffic when making a left turn.

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?

An assortment of records I've played on, a picture of my wife, some travel pictures, and something with an Ottawa Senators logo.