silly question.

I play at coffee shops if I find time - I don't have a lot of time. At home in Fort Wayne, I play with my friend Brooks Frederickson. At school I play by myself (or with the Fuzzicians).

I think it's important that we respect artists' opinions on downloaded music. I also think that many artists' opinions are based on incomplete facts and assumptions. My personal policy on downloading music is that I download the music and buy the disc if I like it. This is obviously a good thing, because I would have never discovered MANY artists whom I consider as main influences without the internet.
The mp3 has a lot of power, positive and negative. It's a huge balancing act between what's practical and illegal.

Not major... not unless they ask and don't expect much. I'm currently dealing with my good friend Tom and his new company Pretty All Right Records (http://www.prettyallright.com). I usually just put out my own stuff - hand it out for free. Pretty much everything is up on this website.

I have always been playing music since I was very small. On the way to preschool my mom would put on a Beatles tape and we'd sing, eventually learning to take certain harmonies and hold them together even without the tape. Eventually when I was 7 I took up piano. Since then, I've taken up the guitar, bass, and the theremin, becoming semi-proficient in all of them. In high school I was involved in a couple bands: in my sophomore and junior years, I was in The Asian Gang (http://www.soundclick.com/theasiangang) and in the spring of senior year I was in the Schmatch Machine Collective (http://www.soundclick.com/theschmatchmachinecollective). I am currently majoring in jazz piano at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, but I intend on releasing plenty of free music in the future, on top of the two albums I did solo in high school.

I'll go in the order that I discovered these artists:
The Beatles, Todd Rundgren, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Steely Dan, Neil Young, Beck, Frank Zappa, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, The Flaming Lips, The Boredoms, The Microphones, Can, John Coltrane, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens

not yet..

Fostex 16 track, Yamaha P120 digital piano, two Yamamha guitars, a crappy Crate guitar amp, a monster of a Peavey keyboard/everything amp, Korg MS2000R synth, Big Briar theremin, ProCo Rat, Hammond Cougar Organ (Koogie)

I have been pretty fortunate.