Moe Wosniak

Moe Wosniak - Trombone

Trombonist Moe “King Maurice” Wozniak is the band’s royal connection and the man who built a kingdom on a cardboard Burger King crown. King Moe is responsible for all onboard executive announcements on the tour bus and has been known to convince a fan or two that he is actually the King of Canada.

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

lost in space

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

Elvis Presley, Lady Godiva, Henry VIII, Greta Garbo

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

2200

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

The Batmobile

5. Favourite movie?

Mad Max 2

6. Favourite book or author?

The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders) - Robertson Davies

7. What is your most treasured possession?

Conn 5G valve trombone

8. What is your motto?

It's great to be alive!

9. Favourite word?

You know - starts with F and ends with K and it's not firetruck

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

Hedonism

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

Ferris Bueller

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Beer, any good beer

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

Watching the aliens build the pyramids.

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

Ability to play electric guitar.

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

Ethel Merman

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

Never Ask a Trombone Player to Sing

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

humble pie with beer

18. Favourite season?

Thyme

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

Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius

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

phallic symbol and a canoe

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

Gilligan's Island

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

The Economist: The King Declares All Debts Null and Void

23. What is your best childhood memory?

Pulling the fire alarm in Kindergarten

24. Pet peeve?

Conservatism

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?

Pictures of my kids and a Genie bottle