Outlier Fan Profile - Chris Polvere
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Chris is a long-time fan, confidant, guest musician and friend of The Outliers. Chris has been a valuable friend in helping refine The Outlier's sound and provide suggestions for new tunes. Stop down to a gig and chances are you'll catch Chris joining the band for a few tunes. | |
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Name | |
Chris Polvere | |
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Primary Instrument | |
Acoustic Guitar | |
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Other instruments you can play | |
electrified acoustic guitar | |
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Other instruments you've ever played, but would be afraid to pick up today | |
piano (because it's so heavy) | |
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Your gear | |
Ovation | |
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Top 5 Most Important Musical Influences: | |
#1 stones and beatles | |
#2 dylan | |
#3 dead | |
#4 black crowes | |
#5 neil young | |
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Age began playing music | |
piano = 10; guitar = 19 | |
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Most thrilling personal musical experience | |
piano in band Soul Survivor in high school variety show | |
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Favorite musical artist | |
see "top 5 musical influences" | |
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Musical genre you identify with the most | |
Rock and Roll | |
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Your all-time favorite album (your 'desert island disc') | |
Exile on Southern Harmony on the Tracks (I bet you won't get that one) | |
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Favorite guitar player | |
Mick Taylor | |
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Favorite bass player | |
McCartney (he should just play and not write anymore) | |
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Favorite singer | |
Jagger and Chris Robinson | |
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Favorite harp player | |
Joel Rubinson | |
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Favorite drummer | |
Ringo Watts | |
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Favorite tune performed by The Outliers | |
I've Never Been to Spain | |
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Favorite Elvis song | |
Little Less Conversation | |
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Favorite Beatle | |
The Quiet One | |
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Favorite movie | |
Midnight Run | |
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Favorite magazine | |
don't read much anymore | |
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Favorite web site | |
blackcrowes.net | |
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Favorite newspaper | |
the post and newsday | |
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Favorite food | |
101 ways to eat chicken | |
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Shoe Size | |
I don't want to mislead, there's really no proof of a correlation | |
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Your day job | |
Market Research | |
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Your least favorite word | |
sexyedgytrendy | |
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Will a little dab really do ya? | |
not at all | |
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Favorite all-time TV show | |
Honeymooners | |
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Favorite all-time TV show theme song | |
Well we're movin on up... | |
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Favorite drink | |
cold beer | |
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Favorite accent | |
ones that aren't British and arrogant | |
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"Less Filling" or "Tastes Great"? | |
Tastes filling | |
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Your worst vice | |
myob | |
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Favorite decade | |
67-75 | |
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Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? | |
you'll have to ask one | |
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Favorite capital punishment device | |
bad gin | |
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Favorite quote | |
You don't really know what you don't really know, you know? | |
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Favorite comedian | |
Richard Pryor | |
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Favorite radio program | |
ones that play music | |
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Mantle or Mays? | |
say hey (that's an easy one) | |
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What the hell does "NPD" stand for anyway? | |
Nothing. Anymore. It's a long story. How 'bout that snowstorm huh? | |
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The 1st thing you'd buy if you won $10 million | |
I'd buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright | |
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Ben & Jerry or Haagen Dazs | |
Ben & Jerry easily | |
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Tom & Jerry or Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner | |
Jerry and Roadrunner should team up and make Tom and Wile E's life a living hell | |
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Ben & Jerry or Tom & Jerry | |
Ben & Jerry easily | |
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The Beatles or The Stones | |
depends on what point I want to make | |
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Cats or Dogs? | |
no cats allowed | |
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Do you think UFO's really exist? | |
yes, but just because they're unidentifiable doesn't mean they come from another universe, does it? | |
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Favorite geo-political figure | |
don't understand the question | |
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Stock picks | |
all bad | |
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1st concert you ever saw | |
1st 4 = Queen, Grateful Dead, Queen, Grateful Dead. Weird huh? | |
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If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? | |
can't tell ya because then everyone else would show up and ruin it for me | |
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Domino's or Pizza Hut? | |
Pizza Hut in Penn Station | |
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Dylan "electric" or Dylan "acoustic" | |
oohh, so much to discuss on this one. Set 1 is acoustic, Set 2 is electric, encore is both | |
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Who currently isn't, but in your opinion, should be, on a postage stamp? | |
Stevie Ray Vaughan absolutely- though I wish he were alive and ineligible | |
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Coke or Pepsi? | |
diet coke | |
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Carpet or wood floors? | |
wood floors with an area carpet | |
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Favorite dead rock star | |
See postage stamp | |
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Favorite analgesic | |
Chocolate Friendly Fribble | |
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Crackling fire or sandy beach? | |
crackling fire on a sandy beach | |
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Favorite member of ABBA | |
the t-shirt merchandiser | |
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Who do you think was really behind Kennedy's assasination? | |
prejudiced, racist, intimidated, closed minded, inferior blowhards | |
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Favorite condiment | |
ketchup mixed with Franks Red Hot | |
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Favorite bimbo who ended a politican's/evangelist's/CEO's career | |
Gary Hart's gal...forget her name | |
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Most humbling experience | |
what're you gonna do with this information? | |
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If you could play a different instrument in the band it would be | |
Mark's new guitar | |
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