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LISTENERS OF THE WEEK: HANS & BRITTANY REES
Let's make it another Year of the Muffin!
 We live … just outside of Lafayette IN.
We work as … Hans: retail manager by day, rock star by night. … Brittany: library circulation supervisor and audio engineer.
Our favorite artists are … Hans: Kiss, Cheap Trick, Beatles (grade school); Adam Ant, U2, Police, Doors (middle school); Motley Crue, Ozzy, Van Halen (high school); R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Pixies (college). … Brittany: Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Pixies, and early U2.
The most prized record in our collection is … autographed Richie Havens’ Mixed Bag.
The first records we ever bought were … Hans: Kiss’ Dressed to Kill (my mom let me get it because they were wearing suits and didn’t look so much like devil worshippers), Cheap Trick’s At Budokan and the Beatles’ Love Songs (all purchased at the Gary IN K-mart). … Brittany: Either Weird Al’s Bad Hair Day or Garbage.
The last records we bought were … Bob Mould’s Blue Hearts and Matthew Sweet’s 180-gram, expanded edition of Girlfriend.
The first concerts we went to were … Hans: Shawn Phillips (a kinda folk-hippie-viking looking dude). It was at a bar in the late 70’s. A friend and I went with my mom and my sister. It was loud, and we were up front so I was hooked on live music immediately. … Brittany: My folks weren’t really excited about me going to rock concerts when I was in high school (they had no interest, and didn’t trust teenagers to go to the “big city” alone), so I was already out of school when I finally went to my first major concert: Styx, Journey and REO Speedwagon in Indianapolis. And my folks only let me go because our friend’s dad came along anyway.
The best concerts we have seen were … Hans: David Bowie, Sound and Vision tour. …Brittany: I am blown away by the sound engineering and production that happens at huge arena shows. One of the stand-out experiences for audio quality was The Who Hits 50! at the United Center in Chicago in 2016. We indulged in some great seats near the front of house, and it sounded incredible.
Our favorite song lyrics are … Hans: “The smell of hospitals in winter—And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls. All at once you look across a crowded room, to see the way that light attaches to a girl.” … Brittany: “So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.”
We play instruments … in fact, our band Frank Muffin plays the Rockin’ the Suburbs theme music.
We are drinking … People’s Brewing Company Farmer’s Daughter.
Our philosophy of life is … Hans: Life. Is there a meaning? Will we know it? Let’s find out. … Brittany: Be excellent to each other.
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