Matthias Schuler
Instrument:
Guitar
Day of birth:
Oktober 20th
Place of residence:
Remstal
Hobbie:
Music, (including festivals and concerts), reading, drawing/painting, so-called "film-", "wine-" and "culture-"evenings :-D
Vices:
Probably too less sports (because no sports at all).
Musical Background:
First guitar and following five years of guitar lessons since I'm fifteen. In the following time there were jam sessions with friends and some one- to three-man-hobby-projects with smaller gigs.
Equipment:
Laboga Mr. Hector Duo Master
Marshall JCM 800 Cabinet
Boss GT-8
Preparing for a show:
Waiting for setting up the equipment, cracking with the ankles of my fingers. If available: Eating peppered peanuts. Tuning the guitar and strumming a little. Then setting up the equipment.
What is your biggest joy when playing live:
Seeing the reactions in the audience, playing guitar with headbanging. Also nice: No more waiting to for setting up the equipment :-D
First record you bought:
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
All time Top 5 Albums:
Motörhead – 1916
Blind Guardian – A Night At The Opera
Die apokalyptischen Reiter – All You Need is Love
Opeth – Still Life
Dornenreich – Her Von Welken Nächten
Best attended concert:
Motörhead – Stuttgart, Messe Congresscentrum B, 2004
The best long-time-effects yet had the Paganfest 2008 @ Rockfabrik, Ludwigsburg and In Extremo 2005 @ Römerkastell, Stuttgart.
Favorite drink:
Water, coffee, wheat beer, whisky-coke
Favorite food:
4-cheese-pizza, 4-cheese-crêpe, 4-cheese-pasta, 4-Käse-whatever, peppered peanuts, curry rice, stewed Kohlrabi with fish fingers and und remoulade sauce.
Favorite book:
Walter Moers – Ensel und Krete (actually everything of Walter Moers, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Helge Schneider)
Favorite movie/TV show:
Eat the Rich/Schtonk!/Alles von Monty Python/Texas – Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem/Die Simpsons
Philosophy of life/ Slogan/ Statement:
Cheese bread is a good bread!
Place you would like to visit:
Venedig, Hammerfest, Stoke-on-Trent
Favoured season:
Actually each – as soon as the current is getting exhausting, the next is coming.
Life's dream:
I'm actually satisfied. Okay, getting a cajón as a gift for my 80th birthday-party would still be great somehow! :-D