What is your favorite t.v. show? Ever or Currently?

Hall of Famers: Dr. Who, Star Trek, Sharpe series, The Young Ones, Monty Python, Black Adder, Northern Exposure, Monarch of the Glen, Paddington, and those loveable crappy BBC sitcoms. I guess I don't like American shows.

Currently: I dig LOST. Provided the story has an "ending", I think it is well written. Every week I wind up asking "What's going on?", and I think thats the point. And it stars that hobbit...but I think he died now. Maybe the Island can do something about that???

What is your favorite type of drinking establishment?

Arrg, it be a fyne pub with a fiddler playing by the fire, Smithwicks & Magners on tap, and whiskey flowing for the Leprechauns.

Name some places you'd like to visit.

Scotland is a bonny land. Canada, France, Germany, Hawaii. You gotta like Amsterdam. Anywhere cool, really.

Name a treasured piece of clothing.

My kilts, Renaissance faire clothes, pirate boots, and a Solviet Colonel's winter cap.

What is your favorite sport?

Televised? Hard to say, as I think most pro-sports are rigged. I suppose the Olympics.
I enjoy learning the way of the intercepting fist through the Filipino arts; Eskrima and Kali.

If you could choose to be successful in one profession besides music, what would it be?

Halogen lightbulb company owner. Have you ever flown at night? There are billions of those things, and they are made to break! Brilliant!. ... or Muppeteer.

What person do you personally know most inspires you to play music.

My big brother. Someday I will be better than him.
People I don't know: Yngwie Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth, Cacophony, Rush, Yes, Iron Maiden, Symphony X, Adagio

What was the worst show you ever played?

Once while playing at Renaissance Faire, my pennywhistlist and I simultaneously played two completely different songs, in different keys to a festival audience. That was not fun.

What is the hardest thing about playing live?

Getting started. By your second song your body temp goes up, the juices start flowing, and all your apprehension is laid aside as you realise there is nowhere else you would rather be.
Oh yeah, and when your amp decides to crap-out / rectifier blows / speaker short curcuits / string breaks mid solo / pants rip / battery dies / losing shit / luggage is lost / opening for kareoke midgets. (actually that was kinda cool, in a Spinal Tap sorta way!) / playing in monsoon like rains when your cords are under water and your setlist is smudged and floating away / etc...

What bands do you love that some metalheads may consider to be lame?

In what order?...alphabetical?Abba, B-52s, Corvus Corax, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, Foreigner, the Great Kat, Heart, Iron Butterfly, John Denver, Kansas, Libach, Mahavishnu Orchestra, No Doubt, the Osmonds (Crazy Horses album), the Pogues, Queen, Rainbow, Scooter, Tom Petty, Uli Jon Roth, Vivaldi, Wolgemüt, X, YES, and ZZ Top...for a start. Then again some metalheads need to pull their heads out of their arses and listen.

What have you learned about being on the road since you started playing in Beatallica?

I have learned that Edgar Allen Poe grew up in the slums of Baltimore, Parking lots are locked up at night in Manhattan, also there are Streets AND Avenues there. (sorry Ringo!, but hey, we got to see Flatbush), some girls in Amsterdam ride bicycles in miniskirts, a Rickenbacker bass can be used as a vorpal weapon, Europe outdistances America in the production of renewable energy, there is no such thing as a "Korean" T-shirt, 50 German and 12 Korean words!, and the more they drink the better we sound.

Songs from Kliff's Other Projects

The Crusties - Ratz Revenge
schizogods - Unauthorized Movement