'The Clash'

The Clash are pretty seminal for me. Which isn't very odd or unusual.

My seminal bands: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Clash, Queen and The Get Up Kids.

Not exactly imaginative.

Most of all, I wanted to be Paul Simonon. Joe Strummer was cool and all, but he worked at it. He was kinda cool because he was the lead singer and looked like a communist. Simonon was cool because he looked like an extra from "Grease" and stood back and laid down some fantastic basslines for a band ultimately carried by their rhythm section.

The only other people I've wanted to be were 1969 Paul McCartney (with the beard) and Jack Kerouac.