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July 6, 2009
Q&A with DAG at Rams Head Lounge
Check out this Q & A with David Alan Grier from Rams Head Tavern where DAG will be performing this Friday night, July 10th:
"RHL: You have a book coming out this October, called “Barack Like Me”. If you could spend the day with our 44th president what would you guys be doing?
DAG: We would play No limit Texas Hold’em all day long.
RHL: Have you ever been to Baltimore Before?
DAG: Yeah…been there many times. A friend of mine took me to this underground club years ago in a Sushi Restaurant. These two guys were making music with one turntable and portable key board…I had the best time!
RHL: You got your start in the theater. What would a Broadway show written and cast by you be called?
DAG: It would be called “Everything’s Coming Up David!” The poster would be a pic of me in a field of giant sunflowers…With my face in every flower
RHL: Who would you really like to get stuck in an elevator with?
DAG: Myself as a very young child.RHL: Rams Head Live normally hosts music performances. What is the best concert you’ve seen?
DAG: Rolling Stones, Detroit Mich. 1972. Cobo Hall. I was 16 years old, and high on acid. Stevie Wonder opened for them with Martha and the Vandella’s as backup singers. They did an encore and sang Uptight/Satisfaction with Stevie Wonder, the Motown House band and the Stones…Damn that show was gooooood!
Close 2nd: Bob Marley and The Wailers in Ann Arbor Michigan, 1977
RHL: What is the one thing that makes you laugh the hardest?
DAG: Very funny people
RHL: What is the most exciting thing about performing comedy in front of a live audience?
DAG: Being able to completely control an audience’s response to me.
RHL: What comedians or public figures did you look up to as a kid?
DAG: Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor"Source: Rams Head Tavern
