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Greg Trout, Editor & Founder
Trout@MagnaPhoneMagazine.com

Trout's Compelling Answers to the MagnaPhone Questionnaire

What's your favorite genre of music?
I love it all

Favorite Solo Artist?
Nick Cave, Blind Willie Johnson

Favorite Band?
The Kinks, of course

Favorite Record?
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society followed very closely by The Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses and The Gun Club's The Las Vegas Story

Where is your favorite place to see live music?
Kung Fu Necktie

What was the last record you bought?
The Secret-Solve et Coagula

What was the last record you listened to?
Comus-First Utterence

What was the last artist you saw live?
Retribution Gospel Choir

What is your favorite Saturday night record?
Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello or Pair of Kings by Stan Getz & Horace Silver

What's your favorite Sunday morning record?
The Quintessential Billie Holiday on Columbia Vol.3

What was the first concert you went to?
The Grateful Dead, Hershey, Pa, June 1984

What was the first record you ever bought?
Rubber Soul-The Beatles

What is your favorite driving song?
"Black Sunshine" by White Zombie or "Pipeline" by the Chantays

What is the best break-up song?
"It Ain't Me Babe" by Bob Dylan

What's your favorite rainy day record?
This is Our Music-Galaxie 500

What was the best record of 2010?
Tindersticks-Falling Down a Mountain

What was the best record the year you were born?
Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround pt.1-The Kinks

What is the best dance song ever?
"Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells, "Get on the Good Foot" by James Brown, and "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order or possibly "Underdog-Sly & the Family Stone"