Last question round with John Thanks for your good questions and your honest answers John. 10. It sounds like the Ryan Adams concert was excellent. What is the best live music experience you've had and why? My favourite concert was Yo La Tengo in Berlin in 1997. It was a small club in East Berlin. It was very crowded and hot. Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo's guitarist played himself into ecstasy. It was absolutely mesmerising. I came out of the concert as out of a purgatory. 11. What do you think would have become of the career of Nick Drake had he lived? He would have become popular one day. And probably would have become even sadder as he would have realised that success is not the only thing in life. And he would have written even more melancholic songs. 12. Have you traveled to America? If so, where did you visit and what were your impressions? If not, do you plan to do so? Yes. I've been to the East coast and the West coast. I loved San Francisco for the atmosphere and Cape Cod for the landscape. Another great place was Sonoma County for the wine, especially the red Zinfandel. I like America as a country a lot (or is it just a myth?). though I am not sure if I like Americans as people (I mean in general). Many Germans have the prejudice that most Americans are quite superficial people. Open and nice in the beginning but without much depth behind. Ignorant of almost everything outside of the US. I guess there is some truth hidden in this prejudice. 13. What words would you choose as your epitaph? There is life before death.

• I started a thread on Ryan Adams. Uninspired copycat or the Future of rockn'roll? at I Love Music. The answers were quite disappointing as most of them were off-topic and/or cynical.
• I will participate in the third anniversary special of Freaky Trigger, the pop music fanzine of Tom Ewing and friends in March. The task is to write 100 words on an album I'd like others to know more about and another 100 words on an album another participant has chosen which will be selected randomly. Up to now there are already about 50 potential contributors. Everyone interested can take part in this. So come on join us.