Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with New Years Day lead guitarist Austin Ingerman.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
I’ve been great, actually busier than ever. Being off of the road has allowed me to write and record a lot of new music. I’m really excited about this solo project, and getting this stuff out to people.
Have you been working on new music?
My drummer James and I have been pretty much non stop writing since the beginning of quarantine. It’s been fun to take a step back and focus on some things that I normally wouldn’t get the time to do.
5 albums that changed your life
Appetite for Destruction– Guns n Roses, Boston– Boston, Back n Black– ACDC, Avenged Sevenfold– Avenged Sevenfold, Blizzard of Ozz– Ozzy Osbourne
5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Slash, Randy Rhoads, Paul Gilbert, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tom Sholtz
Your 5 favorite live albums
Pat Travers- Go For What You Know, Stranger- We Be Live, Bob Marley and the Wailers Live, Cheap Trick- Budokan, Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
1. Shooting fireworks in the middle of Walmart parking lots, always a good time.
2. Going to the Enchanted Forest in Oregon, if you’ve ever been to this place you’ll know that it’s definitely a crazy, funny, AND scary time.
3. Our bus AC going out in the middle of summer in Texas, a scary time to say the least.
4. There was this water slide behind one of the venues that we played in Ohio, on tour you get entertained by the little things.
5. Walmart shopping at 2am is just plain ridiculous in our camp haha!
Your 5 favorite movies.
Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, School of Rock, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Wolf of Wall Street
What’s the best and worst advice you ever heard?
Best advice- Stay the course, and keep going no matter how many times you hear “no”. Worst Advice- Play in a rock n roll band haha!
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A mustard bottle (yes this actually happened)
If wrestling was over today and you had to go into professional wrerstling, what would your wrestling name be?
AI Breezy
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