WHAT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY? DECEMBER 31 WHAT IS YOUR STAR SIGN? CAPRICORN DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS? AN OLDER SISTER - PERRY, AND AN OLDER BROTHER - SCOTT, AND A YOUNGER SISTER - CECILY WHAT IS YOUR PARENTS' OCCUPATION? MY FATHER WAS IN THE AIR FORCE AND A CORPORATE EXECUTIVE. MY MOTHER IS A HOUSEWIFE. WHEN DID YOU FIRST PLAY BASS? I FIRST PLAYED GUITAR AT THE AGE OF TWELVE. HOWEVER, THERE WAS ONLY ONE BAND IN THE TOWN I LIVED IN AND THEY NEEDED A BASS PLAYER SO I TOOK UP THE BASS. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST BAND? MY FIRST BAND WAS SAM CITRUS AND THE MERCILESS TANGERINE. I WAS AGED 14 YEARS AND WE PLAYED STONES AND BEATLES COVERS. DO YOU PLAY OTHER INSTRUMENTS:? I CAN PLAY THE KEYBOARDS - A LITTLE. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST BASS? MY FIRST BASS WAS A FENDER PRECISION. I BORROWED IT FROM A FRIEND AND THEN BOUGHT IT. WHEN DID YOU MOVE TO BOSTON? I WAS GOING TO GO TO DRAMA SCHOOL AND HAD BEEN ACCEPTED INTO TWO DRAMA SCHOOLS. HOWEVER, I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE IN A BAND SO I DECIDED TO GO TO BOSTON WITH JOE PERRY. WHAT BANDS WERE YOU IN PRIOR TO AEROSMITH? I WAS IN FOUR BANDS BEFORE AEROSMITH: SAM CITRUS AND THE MERCILESS TANGERINE, PIPEDREAM, PLASTIC GLASS, AND THE JAM BAND, ALL WITH DRUMMER DAVE SCOTT AND JOE PERRY. HOW DID YOU COME TO FORM AEROSMITH? I HAD BEEN IN BANDS WITH JOE PERRY FOR FOUR SUMMERS BEFORE. THE BANDS WERE PIPEDREAM, PLASTIC GLASS, AND THE JAM BAND. WE SAW STEVEN PLAYING AT THE BARN AND IN THE SUMMER OF 1970 THE JAM BAND BROKE UP AND MOVED TO BOSTON. STEVEN'S BAND AT THE TIME ALSO BROKE UP AND WE JOINED TOGETHER. WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU CUT SOMETHING IN THE STUDIO? WITH AEROSMITH AT INTERMEDIA IN BOSTON WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU WENT ON TOUR? WITH AEROSMITH WHAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS YOU LEARNED ON TOUR THAT SURPRISED YOU? I LEARNED THAT MY AMPLIFIER WAS TOO SMALL. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST GIG? AT A THEATER IN BUFFALO WHICH WAS WHEN I LEARNED THAT MY AMPLIFIER WAS TOO SMALL WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST AEROSMITH GIG? AT NIPMUC REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. NAME FIVE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT YOU? I LIKE TO LEARN LANGUAGES - I CAN SPEAK SOME FRENCH AND SPANISH WHEN I WAS YOUNGER JOE PERRY USED TO CALL ME TOM HAMBONELTAN I CAN MAKE MY EYEBALLS VIBRATE I COLLECT WWII PARAPHERNALIA SOMETHING I DON’T EVEN KNOW MYSELF WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD? HOME AND PARIS WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? ANYTHING FRIED WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CAR? FERRARI 275 GTB WHAT IS YOU FAVORITE AEROSMITH SONG? "THE FARM" WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? MOVIES AT THE SWEDISH HOTEL WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO AT HOME? U2, OASIS, THE SHADOWS, THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES, THE WHO, AND SOUNDGARDEN WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE? "BLADERUNNER" WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? ‘THE ARMS OF KRUPP’ BY WILLIAM MANCHESTER WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION? 1974 FERRARI DINO IF THERE WERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU COULD BE IN THE WORLD WHAT WOULD THAT BE? AN ACTOR WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT? TENNIS IF THERE IS ANY OTHER TALENT YOU WOULD LIKE TO POSSESS WHAT WOULD THAT BE? THE SKILL OF PERSUASION IF YOU HAD TO DESCRIBE YOURSELF AS AN ANIMAL WHAT ANIMAL WOULD THAT BE? TODAY I FEEL LIKE A PORCUPINE - ANYONE THAT GETS NEAR ME IS IN TROUBLE.