Let’s not get too lengthy with the preludes here and just cut right to the Q & A we were lucky enough to collect from recent poll winners The Tiny Tin Hearts. Take it away, Hearts…
You can travel back to 1955 and teach a local band one song: what do you teach them?
Assuming this would be a Tiny Tin Hearts song, perhaps, "Love and Jet Engines". I think that it could shake up some suburbia folks that felt like 1955 was the golden age of America. Maybe confuse the rebels who knew better, a little, too…
Best compliment you’ve ever gotten, on your music or otherwise?
Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top) once said in his Billy Gibbons voice, "Man, that’s a dirty guitar." He didn’t mean "dirty", as in a distorted tone, but dirty as in filthy. It needed to be cleaned, so I’ve been making more of an effort to clean the thing, once in a while. I guess that’s more of a comment…
If you could get one local guest star on your next album, who would you pick?
Doug Sahm, without a doubt! Of course, if that were to happen, we might be pretty frightened, as well…
Best breakfast in Austin?
That’s asking for a full-out fist fight within the band! There’s a great place way East on Burleson Rd, called El Meson. It’s well overlooked, but if you do stop, you won’t regret it.
This set of questions made me:
…even more neurotic than I was before this set of questions.
…The Tiny Tin Hearts’ debut The Last Flight of the Martyr Aviator is available now. They are currently at work on new songs & plan to return to the studio in spring (when the world is mud-luscious, as some say).