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BIRTHDAY: August 10, 1965
ORIGINALLY FROM: Aberdeen, Washington
INSTRUMENT: Guitar
ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: Working real hard at pedal steel; a little harmonica.
PERSON WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR MUSIC CAREER: "Larry Behm and Wes Bakken, two fantastic Oregon steel players (and patient teachers).
FAVORITE SONG: “Whenever You’re on My Mind,” by Marshall Crenshaw
FAVORITE ARTIST: The Beatles, Buck Owens, Marshall Crenshaw, NRBQ, John Prine, Fleetwood Mac, The Derailers.
FIRST ALBUM PURCHASED: “Dreamboat Annie,” by Heart
WEBSITE: http://www.myspace.com/lorendeppingmusic
When approaching catering & asking yourself "What am I going to have for dinner" what do you always hope won't be the answer? Leftover fish
What have you lost on the road that you would most like to retrieve? A few brain cells here and there. I’d really like them back, too—I just can’t remember why.
Your name spelled backwards? A man a plan a canal panama.
Were you ever in a school play? I played a cheerleader (in drag) with three other guys during a high school version of “Saturday Night Live.” We shook it to “Oh Mickey, You’re So Fine.”
What type of music do you dislike the most? Stuff assembled by record companies to “move product.”
Favorite pizza topping? The lid of the box…without it, the pizza gets cold.
All time favorite Saturday Night Live character? Jorge and Yortuk Festrunk, the Czechoslovakian brothers played by Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd.
File your taxes at the beginning of the year or wait until April 15th? Taxes?
Do you have a pre-show ritual and if so what is it? Yes, but I’m not supposed to say.
Favorite song to karaoke to? “Conjunction Junction.”
Dance halls or County Fairs/Festival? Dance halls.
If you were to rename the band, what would you name them? The Shirelles.
If you were to choose another profession what would it be? A letter carrier.
Jessica Simpson or Britney Spears? Debbie Gibson.
Who makes the best hamburger in the Willamette Valley? My nephew.
If you could choose the TV channel on the bus – what channel would everyone else be watching? C-SPAN or maybe PBS.
If you could star in a movie who would your female (or male if you're a girl ;) co-star be? Isabella Rossellini.
If they were to make a movie about your life who would wish they would cast as you? Guy Pearce—but only in his nerdier incarnations.
Biography
Loren Depping began playing guitar when he was 19—mostly because he wanted to write songs and found that he was a lousy poet. A guitar seemed helpful. It took him another three years to discover that he could play songs if he strummed chords. He was sort of a slow learner.
Loren has played both solo and with various bands in Oregon and in his previous home of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The most notable of these was Partly Dave, a pop-rock four-piece based in Corvallis, Oregon, between 2003-07.
He has five recordings to his credit—one with Partly Dave. Loren steadfastly believes he was born in Canada and switched at birth. As yet, he has no documented proof of this.
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