| name: |
Ra McGuire (pronounced
Ray) |
| personal website: |
http://www.ramcguire.com |
| band website: |
http://www.trooper.ca |
| birth date: |
June 13, 1950 |
| with Trooper: |
since the beginning;
singer/songwriter |
| musical interests: |
Changes all the time – as of 05/02:
Weezer, (just saw them last week) Bill Frisell, Joe Henry,
Cozy Bones (from White Rock – my home town), Frank Sinatra
(tons on my playlist right now), King’s X, Radiohead, Soulive,
Victor Wooten (yo Victa!!), the Weakerthans, and last but not
least Wilco. My current iTunes playlist contains 3 days, 12
hours and 32 minutes worth of listening pleasure so the above
is a SHORT list! BTW, random access listening only became a
possibility maybe five years ago – random access to any of
thousands of songs is much more recent ... And something I
couldn’t live without!
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| other interests/hobbies: |
Macs, photography, Macs, Connor,
comic books, Macs, Debbie, Macs, Graphic Arts, Macs, anything
new and interesting, my powerbook (oops, that’s a Mac
...)
|
| favourite foods: |
Thai food!! anything at Hungry
Heart Café in White Rock, Japanese
|
| favourite authors/books: |
Anything by Russell Hoban, House of
Leaves by Mark Danielewski, Geek Love by Katherine Dunne, The
Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, some of Iain Banks, anything by
David Adams Richards – Last book read: Hard Boiled Wonderland
(and the End of the World) by Haruki Murakami. Currently
reading: Girl in Ladscape by Jonathon Lethem (just read
Motherless Brooklyn by him (thanks Scott) and loved it) next
on the shelf: Graham Joyce-Requiem.
|
| favourite
actors/movies: |
Movies: Fargo, Snatch, Sling Blade,
Tender Mercies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Actors: Johnny
Depp, Billy-Bob Thornton, Sandra
|
| idea of a great day: |
Waking up in Portaferry, Northern
Ireland with nothing to do for three months.
|
| memorable moment(s): |
My son Connor’s first gig, Our family trip
to Ireland (longer than a moment, I guess), The first (of two)
sold out Trooper shows at the Pacific Coliseum in
Vancouver.
|
| favourite
quote: |
Experience is what you get when you
don’t get what you want
|
| misc. stuff: |
- first name is actually Ramon -
named after an uncle who was named for an old movie star Ra's
grandmother had a crush on
- has a collection of over 400
Christmas albums and CDs |
Ra McGuire sings with
DOG eat DOGMA
"Don't Like Bein' Told What To Do!"
