I googled myself and found an interview that is reallllllly old. I got a kick out of it.

Some of these questions might confuse you all as they are about musicians local to my hometown in Kentucky but anyway.. thought I would share...

ps. this is like 4 years old.

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Chris Stahl of the band East 146 was quick to reply when I asked him to do 20 Questions, plus I thought I might could get him into trouble with his girlfriend, so here goes nothin'...




1. When did East 146 form and what is the first song you played together ?

October 2001. Devin (our drummer) and I were in a previous band where I was not the singer. We weren't really happy with how it was going and we had just ordered a p.a. system. Our fall break was just starting and my parents were leaving for Florida for a week so we told the other 2 members in the band (the singer and bass player) that I was going to Florida with my parents, even though I wasn't and we got Chris Cross (our rhythm guitarist now) to play bass, making us a trio. The 2nd day, we wrote our first song "Don't Leave" which is on our current mp3.com site to download. It's the 5th time we recorded it. It was the first song we played.


2. Where are you going to college and what degree are you going for ?

I attend JCC in Shelbyville. was accepted to Bellarmine and Middle Tennessee State University to pursue a music business or music technology degree but I stayed @ home to 1st pursue a music career. its worth every second. I'm only 18 and I have time to make a mistake, or make the greatest choice of my life. At JCC I'm just taking classes to stay on parents health insurance and getting core classes out of the way. I'd like to be an entertainment attorney though.

3. What inspired you to play guitar and and who are your influences ?

Well, I wouldn't be playing guitar if my grandmother didn't bring my grandfather's acoustic guitar to my house during Easter when I was 12. As for influences, I always loved The Offspring and I thought how cool it would be to play guitar. The first song I learned all the way through, I think was, " Kid's Aren't Alright" off The Offspring's "Americana" album. I like their old stuff mostly though. My dad is a musician too. He played guitar too... (sold his 59' gold top Les Paul for 300 bucks to buy a keyboard when he was 18. Arg !!!). So, I guess my parents and just bands I listened to. I have 2 older sisters, One is 33 and lives in Manhattan, and the other is 24 and lives in Nashville, and they wouldn't let me listen to anything dumb. I listened to Green Day, Offspring, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Gin Blossoms, the band that had that song "I'm Going to Disney Land" ha ha (Da Da) I think. So those are my influences.

4. You have a new bass player. What happened to the old one ?

Our old bass player just wasn't able to support our growth as a band. Various comments he would make that showed his lack of dedication. Not helping out financially (a band is a business). that's really about it.

5. Would you give us a run-down of your gear ?

My first electric was a usa fender strat which i played forever. Then when Teague started working with us he had me play a les paul in the studio and i loved it so i went and bought a white les paul studio. I still have my strat and I have a black epiphone les paul covered in stickers as a backup. I have never played it live yet. I'd like to get an SG Standard though after playing Rahul's of Breckinridge. My first amp was a Line 6 Spyder series combo which was great but wasn't powerful enough so I up'ed to a Single rectifier which our other guitarist uses now. I use a 3-channel Dual rectifier through the mesa 4x12 recitifer cab. I haven't gotten into effects yet though I might experiment. I use AKG Airbug wireless system as well.

6. Have you ever worked a part-time job and if so, where ?

A lumber yard for 2 summers and Kroger. I live on a farm so the past 3 months my grandfather hired our band to work on the farm cleaning it up for 9 bucks an hour, whenever we wanted to work.


7. I will list some bands and you rank them from 1 - 10. 1 being the lowest, 10 being the highest.

1.) New Found Glory - 1

2.) Blink 182 - 10

3.) Metallica - 6

4.) Journey - 10 (steve perry can sing like no other, laugh it up)

5.) Black Sabbath - 1

6.) Jimmy Eat World - 8

7.) Cheap Trick - who ? :)

8.) Smashing Pumpkins - 8

9.) Good Charlotte - 1

10.) Beastie Boys - 7

11.) Poison The Well - 7

12.) Pearl Jam - 6

13.) Nirvana - 7

14.) Sum 41 - 9

15.) SR 71 - 1

8. In the last year, has Chris Stahl...

1.) Lied to a girl ? Nothing Devastating, but probably.

2.) Lied to a band member ? Yes.

3.) Seen BJ Abner naked ? Yes.

4.) Watched a "chick flick" ? Just watched Serendipity, its my favorite movie and John Cusack is my favorite actor.


5.) Wrote a song that sounds like a Blink 182 song ? Ah we had one called "I'll see you soon" It was insanely fast. We don't play it anymore but I like to think if we wrote a song that sounded like a Blink 182 song we would not be writing at our full potential so I'd say I haven't.

6.) Asked Teague Ridge to buy you beer ? Don't Drink/Do Drugs so Never.

7.) Looked at Teague's girlfriend's boobs for more than two seconds without stopping ? Ex and Current... Hah

9. I will list a few people and you rank how "stoked" you would be to meet them and why...

1.) Tom Delonge (Blink 182) - Met him, Look up to him, very talented and cool person, huge influence.


2.) Jack Black - Be very fun to have a conversation with him. He's hilarious and random.

3.) Robert Smith (of The Cure) - I remember loving the song "its friday i'm in love" One of my sisters had it on a cassette tape. It'd be cool to meet but I wouldn't have anything special to ask or say.


4.) Brittany Murphy - Who ?

5.) Christina Aquilera - She's a drooled over celebrity. I wouldn't push through a crowd to catch a glimpse of her.

6.) Travis Barker - Met him, Very nice, amazing drummer and musician.

7.) Travis Meeks - Never heard anything from him that was stuck in my head later. Wouldn't care to meet him. O.K I'll say it, Don't like his voice.

8.) Stephen King - Very interesting person, would like to meet and beg him to actually create a scary movie worth sitting through.

9. ) Devohn Moore 322 la salle place Algonquin parkway - Who ?

10.) Tom Petty - He's great and all if your my mom.

11.) Eminem - Ah, Would like to meet but I wouldn't feel special if I got the chance to.


12.) Billy Corgan - I'd meet him based on the Pumpkins. Not ZWAN. ah ah what Is he thinking.

10. You are chosen for a new reality show. You will spend 30 days on a cruise ship. You must choose some people to go with you. I list some people that want to go. You decide who is going with you.

1.) Teague Ridge - Can Go.

2.) Bukshot - Can Go.

3.) Butch Walker - Who ?

4.) Jennifer Love Hewitt - Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Trojan War, or in Can't Hardly Wait .... :)

5.) Dylan (GGGG G-Unit) - No.

6.) Mike Winbun - Yeah, he can come, he has always been cool.

7.) Axl Rose - No.

8.) Kris 502 - Yes.

9.) Andrew WK - Yes.

10.) Fred Durst - Yes.

11.) Chris Cross - Yes.

12.) Chris Kattan - YES.



11. Not including your girlfriend, who is the hottest girl in the 502 scene ? Hah... see Question 8 (# 7) Which was... 7.) Looked at Teague's girlfriend's boobs for more than two seconds without stopping ? Ex and Current... Hah


12. What band would you most like to play guitar with for one tour ? I played Guitar with the Ataris for one song @ the 2003 Cincinnati Warped tour. It was amazing, so... The Ataris. I'd Like to see East 146 do a tour and I hope I'd be playing guitar for them too :)

13. Your guitarist goes by the name Chris Cross. Did his parents really name him Chris Cross ? Were they fans of the singer Christopher Cross who sang the 70s hits "Ride Like The Wind" and "Sailing" ? Yes his name is Christopher Wayne Cross. I don't know if they knew what they were doing. Hell my parents named me after an expensive champagne hah. Crystal.

14. Speaking of Christopher Cross and famous people, are you related or have any ties to anyone really famous ? My uncle managed Tim McGraw for about 6 years, that is my only claim to famous relations. My Great great great grandmothers sister was Abraham Lincoln's mom so that would make him a very close cousin. My dad was asked to play keyboard for Billy Dean, a country star in the past that had hits like Billy the Kid. That's about it.

Then he added this, which is really cool...

Believe it or not, but one of our new bass player's friends went on a cruise several years ago and she and 1 other girl her age was on the boat. That other girl happens to be Hillary Duff or Lizzie McGuire. They became good friends and kept in touch. Nathan's friend told Nathan she wanted him to meet somebody so they got on the phone line and did a 3-way thing and dialed a number and a man answered who asked 3 off the wall questions and Nathan's friend gave 3 off the wall answers and he put them through to Hillary Duff. Nathan didn't believe it, so Hillary said to turn on Disney Channel and she talked along with the Lizzie McGuire show for several scenes and then told Nathan to go to her website which she has some control over and at the bottom she added a text that said "hi nathan" then deleted it. She loves our song "Unopened Letters" and said depending on copyrights and that sort of stuff she can possibly have it playing in her CD player during a scene on the show or if we send her a poster of our band she can put it in her room. How cool is that.

15. I forgot two questions, so I caught Chris online before he signed off and added the next two questions, here is the post directly from our online conversation...


KevinClarkHarley [1:11 AM]: ok, you are recording in LA and meet Dave Navarro, he thinks you are super cool and asks you to be in his newest video which they are filming the next day...
KevinClarkHarley [1:12 AM]: nah, scratch that question
East 146 Band [1:12 AM]: hah
KevinClarkHarley [1:13 AM]: nah lets go on with it
KevinClarkHarley [1:13 AM]: you get to play guitar in one scene
KevinClarkHarley [1:14 AM]: but in one scene the director asks you to do a make-out scene with Jennifer Love Hewitt (Jennifer Love Hewitt from Heartbreakers)
KevinClarkHarley [1:14 AM]: you know your girlfriend will see it, and its a long kiss that will take a couple of hours to shoot, will you do it or pass ? you still get to be in the video if you say no
East 146 Band [1:15 AM]: am i getting paid for the video
KevinClarkHarley [1:15 AM]: yeah, sure
KevinClarkHarley [1:16 AM]: and get a free guitar, les paul
East 146 Band [1:16 AM]: Yeah, my girlfriend is understanding
East 146 Band [1:16 AM]: your trying to get me in trouble hahahah
KevinClarkHarley [1:16 AM]: hey its just a question
KevinClarkHarley [1:17 AM]: hypothetical one anyways right ? right !

16. Next question...

KevinClarkHarley [1:27 AM]: You are on a cruise ship with your band, Chris Cross comes up and says...
KevinClarkHarley [1:27 AM]: "Man, Chris you are gonna freak out when I tell you what hott celebrity babe is on this ship with us"
KevinClarkHarley [1:28 AM]: your girlfriend isn't on the ship. What girl do you really hope its NOT, cause you might get into trouble ?
East 146 Band [1:28 AM]: Kate Beckinsale
KevinClarkHarley [1:28 AM]: who is that ?
East 146 Band [1:28 AM]: serendipity
KevinClarkHarley [1:29 AM]: oh ok
East 146 Band [1:29 AM]: her accent
East 146 Band [1:29 AM]: its killer
East 146 Band [1:29 AM]: make sure you add that
East 146 Band [1:29 AM]: hah


17. Last of Chris Stahl -

1.) Last good movie you have seen ? The one w/ George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones (I'm sorry I'm a sucker for Chick Flicks)

2.) Last CD you bought ? Story Of the Year - Page Avenue

3.) Last girl you have seen naked ? Some chic showing it all off in the Jillian's parking lot... Don't know who or name.

4.) Last person you pissed off ? Probably someone in my band hahah

5.) Last really good concert you have seen ? Matchbook Romance/Yellowcard @ the Muse in Nashville.

6.) Last really bad concert you have seen ? Don't Know. Don't waste my time going to see bad bands.

7.) Last time you signed an autograph ? I think I signed 37 @ our video shoot @ twice told. I got off stage and 1 girl asked me and I thought it was cool so I just kept count and It was 37 If I remember correctly. So the last autograph I signed was @ our video shoot.

18. Who has been the biggest influence on you as a person ? My Mom.

19. Who are your favorite 502 bands ? Breckinridge, Blyss, Nemesis, Apogee, Thank You Jade, Tornacade.


20. What person in the 502 scene do you have the most respect for and why ? Teague Ridge. We wrote our songs and have worked our ass off but without him and his guidance and advice we would be no where near where we are today. Thanks bro, really.

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Let's recap...

Chris likes chick flicks and his favorite actor is John Cusack. He has a girlfriend, but would make-out with Jennifer Love Hewitt in a music video if he was asked to. He also would probably say yes to making out with Kate Beckinsale (From the chick flick "Serendipity"). He has admired the chests of two of Teague Ridge's girlfriends. (ex and current). Not including his own girlfriend, he also thinks one of them is the hottest chick in the 502.

He has seen BJ Abner naked.

Chris did a great job and stayed up to help me finish the last 2 questions. He risked getting in trouble with his girlfriend for the sake of being honest.


Thanks Chris !

I give Chris 5 out of 5 stars. êêêêê