What are three things you can’t live without while on tour?
My MacBook, my cell phone and phone calls to my wife, Annie.
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What’s your favorite candy?
Toblerone White Chocolate |
What’s your favorite Starbucks drink?
The one I always get is a grande Bold drip coffee with about an inch of half-and-half, but the one I like is the grande Vanilla Latte. I like how strong the coffee is, the more bitter the better.
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Favorite Stryper memory?
I have to say it would be playing at Disney World under the castle back in the “In God We Trust” days.
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Looking back, what’s the most important thing you’ve learned?
The most important thing in life is to trust God for everything.
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Most recent funniest moment while on tour?
(laughs) Funniest moments? It would have to be when Michael made a reference at a meet and great and said something like, ‘Everything’s cool, until somebody loses an arm,’ and then a guy with no arms was standing there. He walked up and embarrassed Michael after he just said this. Later on the guy was good about it, though.
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Tours require a lot of travel time… what’s your favorite thing to do to pass the time on the bus?
Probably just watching movies. I enjoy watching movies. We just watched one today that I’ve never seen before. We’re sometimes forced to watch a movie if someone puts one on. It was “Sweet November.” It was a good movie, a really good movie. It’s a chick flick, but I didn’t pick it out. It was just on.
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Favorite movie? Favorite TV show?
I’m going to have to pick a recent one that just surprised me, and I thought it was one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. It’s the newest “Star Trek” movie. I’m a huge trekkie. So that right there just blew my mind. They couldn’t come out with a better movie if they tried. If you’re a trekkie, you have been for years, you’ve seen most of the series, all the movies and the newest series, when you see this, the way they match up the characters, you’re floored at how well they put it together, and how it kept you going. The characters themselves, they matched them up really well as far as the personalities go, pretty incredible. I don’t watch much TV, but for now my favorite is “Unwrapped” on the Food Channel.
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The greatest band of all time is?
I’m going to have to go with, I’m going to be hated for this by so many people, but I’m going to have to go with Journey.
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Tell us something interesting about the guitar you’re playing now?
Well, a friend of mine gave me a GMW Guitar. This guitar is just really amazing. It plays well; it feels good in my hands. The guy that made it took very, very intricate specs off of what he knew was my favorite, the Jackson Soloist that was custom made by Jackson himself. I’ve been playing the GMW because I don’t want to have to play it [Jackson Soloist] all the time. It’s worth too much money and getting to the point where I need to retire it. The GMW guitar has turned out to be one of my favorites of all times, besides the Jackson. It’s just a masterpiece guitar. When someone makes a masterpiece guitar and it’s given to you, it has a special place in your heart because it was an appreciation gift. I think that’s awesome that people really believed in me enough as a person to just give me the guitar. I played the guitar and because it’s such an awesome guitar, I kept playing it. It looks like a Jackson. It’s a GMW SS. |
Favorite food?
Guess what it’s going to be? Sushi. My favorite is from a place in Henderson, Nev. called I Love Sushi. They have what’s called a Cherry Blossom, which consists of a spicy minced crab meat surrounded by avocado leaves made from avocado, and it’s in a ball.
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Favorite Stryper song to play live?
It would have to be, “To Hell with the Devil.” It’s just, to me, it’s been the best song to jump around and have fun with. It has all of the elements of Stryper in it so we can really get into it. It makes a huge statement about what I feel, in general, with my walk of God: the Devil’s out of here.
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