My parents chose it. I let them choose everything for me.

Well I play live and I also play dead especially on Saturday mornings. I play all sorts of places, mainly coffee shops at the moment and sometimes small clubs. I love it. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. Of course some shows are better than others. It's definitely difficult to get through a gig where not everyone is paying attention or if I have to compete with the espresso machine or if not many people show up. On the other hand, none of that really ends up mattering if even one person comes up to me afterwards and tells me that a certain song I played meant something to them or likes it enough to buy a CD. The most special moments for me are when I get to debut a new song I've just written.

It allows the self-employed artist to be able to get their music heard all over the world without even having to leave their bedroom. It also requires an artist to have a whole skill set independent from music such as marketing tactics, web design savvy, and that sort of thing in order to compete and fill in for what a label would otherwise be doing or not doing as the case may be for them.

It would depend on if I found the right contract. Would you ever get married? Depends on if you find the right person.

Adrian Bourgeois has been making waves on the California scene since early 2003 with instantly memorable songs that have the unique ability to appeal to both the smallest child and the most high brow art critic and everything in between all at once. He has received a Sammie (Sacramento Area Music Awards) nomination for best pop act in 2006 and won the 2007 critics choice Sammie award for best songwriter. In May of last year, Bourgeois picked up the grand prize for music in the national OurStage contest which led to features in CMJ Magazine and Relix Magazine. Bourgeois’ self-titled debut album, released on the east-coast label C-Side Records, has been called “absolutely brilliant” by Sacramento News and Review music columnist Jackson Griffith. John Meyer of Boston, MA’s WERS, one of the top indie music stations in the country, writes, “There's as much C.S. Lewis as there is Simon and Garfunkel in this Californian's airy, dreamy folk-laced sound....He's a wide-eyed six-year-old boy trapped inside an twenty-something pop-genius's body.” Following in the footsteps of musical predecessors such as Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, and Ben Folds, Bourgeois played and sang most of the parts on the album himself, with a little help from some notable friends such as 77's and Lost Dogs front man and lead guitarist Mike Roe, Agent Ribbons chanteuse Natalie Gordon, and Sammie award winning folk artist Justin Farren. Bourgeois also co-produced and arranged the album along with David Houston (Jackie Greene, Public Nuisance), Ralph Stover (Chris Webster), and Brent Bourgeois (Bourgeois Tagg, and Adrian's dad). “Simply put [Bourgeois’ songs]…are among the finest post-Beatles pop tunes I’ve ever heard,” raved Griffith. “One day, in the not-too-distant future, Adrian Bourgeois will be an influential force in pop music…"

Oh gosh...who do I rip off the most....? Most of the music I listen to came out years before I was born. I guess I just wasn't made for these time...as Brian Wilson (or I guess Tony Asher) once so eloquently stated! The Beatles and the Beach Boys are definitely my two pillars upon which I've built everything else. It's hard to imagine that human beings can create anything so beautiful and timeless as those two bands have. After them the short list probably goes something like Neil Young, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, U2, Tom Waits, Ben Folds, Eisley, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Elliott Smith, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, The Who, Todd Rundgren, and so on and so forth.

Probably Santa Cruz. Or London. Or Grandma's house in Sacramento

I haven't the slightest.

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