Steve Guerin

Steve Guerin - Bass Trombone

Trombonist Steve “Uncle Steve” Guerin is the philosopher in the Big Band. Stevisms to live by include “Twenty four hours in a day, twenty four beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not” and the ever thought provoking “Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a naked lady spittoon”. When the gospel according to the Big Band is published, it will be authored by Steve.

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

I always wanted to be a dentist

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

Pierre Trudeau, Frank Zappa, Buddy Rich & Steve McQueen

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

The 40's & %0's Big Band Era

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

Steve McQueens baseball glove from The Great Escape

5. Favourite movie?

The Great Escape

6. Favourite book or author?

Anything by Stephen King or John Wyndham

7. What is your most treasured possession?

My Bass Trombone

8. What is your motto?

Hey, that's my beer

9. Favourite word?

Beer

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

Rugged good looks

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

Pierre Trudeau

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Beer

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

To be in the grassy knoll where the CIA men hid as they shot JFK

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

Be able to make overly talkative bus drivers SHUT UP!

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

Steve McQueen

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

Hey, that's my beer

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

Lobster

18. Favourite season?

All 4

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

JJ Johnson, Jim Pugh and George Roberts

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

A Bass Trombone crossing a Tenor Trombone

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

Seinfeld

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

Mad - Hey, that's my beer

23. What is your best childhood memory?

Fishing

24. Pet peeve?

Whicker furniture

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?

My DVD of The Great Escape, a beer and my mouthpiece