Name Greg Dulli
Best known for The quarterback of the Ross Broncos junior-pro football team.
Current city Los Angeles, CA.
Really want to be in I’ve never been to the Caribbean, so I would pick somewhere there. And because I haven’t been there, I don’t know where to pick. But it would be somewhere in that vicinity.
Excited about Excited to play shows with my friends.
My current music collection has a lot of Omnivorous listening.
And a little bit of Swedish reggae.
Preferred format I prefer streaming because it’s clean and easy, and I’m trying to listen to music, not collect it.
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without:
1
Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, Miles Davis
It translates to “Elevator to the Gallows,” and it’s a slept-on Miles Davis record, and I just love the mood it puts me in, and I would definitely want to have that.
2
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, Sinead O’Connor
When The Lion and the Cobra came out, I really loved it, and I really loved “Mandinka,” the single. The Whigs used to play it. I heard she was doing the song by The Family, which I already knew, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” I was excited to hear her version of that, which I loved, but not my favorite song on the record. I have so many favorites. “Black Boys on Mopeds” might be my favorite song on the record. “I Am Stretched on Your Grave,” also an amazing song. “Jump in the River” I also love. So just really a solid, wall-to-wall, great album.
3
Street Survivors, Lynyrd Skynyrd
I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, and I love all their incarnations. They had two drummers and four guitar players, and when Ed King left the band, they lost that three-guitar thing, and they brought in Steve Gaines, who was Cassie Gaines’ brother. To me, he reinvigorated the band. Street Survivors is maybe their finest hour because of the injection of vitality that Steve Gaines brought to the band, and because of that, it triggered Allen Collins to co-write “That Smell” and Gary Rossington to co-write “What’s Your Name” (both with Ronnie Van Zant). Even though the new guy came in and got most of the slots, the two hits were by the perennials. Such an amazing album.
4
Healing, Todd Rundgren
I’m a huge Todd Rundgren fan. There’s “Healing, Part I,” “Healing, Part II,” and “Healing, Part III.” “Healing, Part I” obviously is the first of the three and it was used very exquisitely in a great scene, a transitional scene in the movie The Worst Person in the World which, if you haven’t seen, you should see it. I’ve met him a couple of times in two interesting ways. I saw Todd Rundgren in (his band) Utopia probably 10 times, and the Whigs were playing on David Letterman, and Todd Rundgren was sitting in with the band. I broke my string as soon as the song started, and I as I was walking back to the green room, Todd Rundgren was sitting on a road case, and he laughed at me, and he goes, “Hey, you broke a string on the first hit.” There I was finally meeting Todd Rundgren, and he said that to me. All I could think of to say was, “No shit, Todd,” and I kept on walking.
Fast forward to last summer, I was in New Orleans, and I was flying back to L.A. and I was in the Delta Lounge at Louis Armstrong Airport, and I saw Todd Rundgren in the lounge, and I thought to myself, “I bet you I’m sitting next to Todd Rundgren on the plane,” and that’s exactly what happened. I did not engage with him, but the TV screens on the back of the seats weren’t working, and he was getting very frustrated and tapping on his screen like Woody Woodpecker. I had my headphones on and was watching it. The lady in front of him turned around and said something to him. He stopped for a minute, and then he started again. Then she turned around and let him have it, and it was all pretty comical. Regardless of all of that, this is a beautiful and meditative album about spirituality and self, and it’s a wonderful record.
5
Purple Rain, Prince
Really, what can be said except for it’s one of the greatest albums ever made in any genre, top to bottom, no fat on it. Every song’s a banger, and he was the best to ever do it. Writer, singer, player, performer. He had all the tools, and he used them with impunity.
